Feb

28

Secret lives of TV reporters

February 28, 2006 | 16 Comments

Update 3/1/2006: Channel 4 has now fired Shauna because of her appearance in this film.
The local Internets are a’twitter over a short film starring Shauna Thomas, a new reporter on the morning news at WDAF/Fox 4. It’s not quite the soft porn that some are claiming, just a dark comedy about sex and fantasy.So, [...]

Feb

28

Roundup

February 28, 2006 | Comments Off

Anti-science groups have formed Missourians Against Human Cloning to defeat the proposed constitutional amendment that not only protect stem cell research but actually ban reproductive human cloning… www.nocloning.org
Two prominent Missourians announce breast cancer diagnoses this week, Secretary of State Robin Carnahan and rocker Sheryl Crow.
Tonight’s Crossroads Mardi Gras bash expands east to include 18th & [...]

Feb

27

Jason Klumb running for Wheeler’s state Senate seat

February 27, 2006 | 12 Comments

Democrat Jason Klumb is the first announced candidate for the 10th District seat in the Missouri Senate, the seat that Charlie Wheeler is vacating to run for Jackson County Executive. Klumb most recently ran for State Treasurer in 2004, raising a record amount of money but ultimately losing the Democratic nomination. Before that, the [...]

Feb

27

City Council Roundtable

February 27, 2006 | Comments Off

Steve Kraske is holding a roundtable today with City Councilmembers Bonnie Sue Cooper, Chuck Eddy, and Al Brooks.  11:00 a.m. on KCUR 89.3 FM or kcur.org.

Feb

24

CSA makes KC debut

February 24, 2006 | 3 Comments

C.S.A.: Confederate States of America is a film by a KU professor that imagines what the country would look like today if the South had won the Civil War and slavery was still legal in the 21st century. The 2004 Sundance film has been shown a few times around town, but it’s just now [...]

Feb

23

Harpers – new restaurant at 18th & Vine

February 23, 2006 | 9 Comments

Myra Harper seems to have prevailed in her years-long struggle with the mess of overlapping fiefdoms that dominate the 18th & Vine jazz district.  She’ll be opening her Harper’s 18th & Vine Restaurant in the Lincoln Building this spring.  The new venue will have a heavy focust on local jazz musicians and feature a Sunday [...]

Feb

22

Nelson from the air

February 22, 2006 | Comments Off

Now is your chance to get a bird’s eye view of the world’s most expensive ($200 million) Butler buildings. Local blog Three O’Clock in the Morning has some good aerial photos of the new expansion going up at the Nelson-Atkins Museum.

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