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| In Kansas City, Kansas, an improbable hoops renaissance BY DAVID MARTIN Eric King, the boys' basketball coach at Washington High School, has removed his suit coat and is bent at the waist, clapping his huge hands together. He looks, for the moment, like an obstetrician in a hurry to get to the next delivery room. Standing in a corner of the gym, Nancy Browne, Washington's athletic director, watches as the sweat spreads across the back of King's red shirt. She's thinking about the ways football teams keep cool on the sidelines. "We need one of those misters," she says. Washington is a grueling place to play, even when the gym is half-empty. Sound explodes in the barrel-vaulted ceiling; air loses its flow. Tonight, the noise and heat are on full blast. The Kans... more >> | | | | Das Racist, the Internet's favorite prankster, is stronger and smarter than you'd think BY CORBAN GOBLE Das Racist is a multimedia art project, formed in 2008 by visual artist and fiction writer Victor Vazquez and business entrepreneur Himanshu Suri," Das Racist mastermind Himanshu Suri begins. "And joined by spiritual adviser ó " Suri stops quickly. "Fuck, dude, don't touch my guap! Sorry. Victor's being a dick because I make more money than him." Indie rap's most rambunctious trio sits i... more >> | | | | | Chapala is east of downtown, south of expensive and north of delicious BY CHARLES FERRUZZA There's something about Kansas City's East Side that frightens off some diners. If I start extolling the virtues of a restaurant on this side of the metro, most people unfamiliar with the area get this strange glazed look in their eyes, as if I'm describing a restaurant in another galaxy instead of a 10-minute drive ó if even that ó from the Power & Light District. Case in point: a l... more >> | | | | Wayward Blog Yesterday Zane Lowe of BBC Radio 1 unveiled a new Fleet Foxes track, "Battery Kinzie," which is part of their forthcoming sophomore album, Helplessness Blues, out May 3 on SubPop. The track is t... Fat City Outside the village of Carignan, France, a winemaker extracts a crumpled piece of aluminum foil from his pocket. He slowly pulls back the foil, and chef Ted Habiger is shocked to see a pound of ... Plog Cincinnati Bengals wide receiver Chad Ochocinco had his first day of a four-day tryout with Sporting Kansas City. Frankly, it was a light day for the six-time Pro Bowler. While the majority of ... | | | | | |
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