Exploitation goes a long way in ‘Machete’
Make no mistake: Just because Robert Rodriguez’s “Machete” revolves around timely issues like anti-immigrant xenophobia and Hispanic stereotyping doesn’t mean he gives them the respect ...
Cliff’s Notes: Turner Gill press conference, 8/31/10
Here is the Cliff's Notes version of Kansas football coach Turner Gill's comments at his weekly press conference today. If you want to get live ...
Texas in Kansas: green tomato relish
My friend Dave has a fish fry every summer. Except this summer, because he is off travelling around the country preparing himself for a new ...
Get comfortable with Fourth of July
I love a good party. Especially when it comes in the form of a CD release show. On Friday, Downtown Lawrence was in full swing, ...
Spider man
I like spiders. I really do. I marvel at their webs, refuse to free squirming food from their sticky homes and scoop ’em up and ...
Cycling villainy
An item in the police blotter the other day caught my eye. According to Lawrence police, an 18-year-old woman said she was sitting in her ...
Duvall and cast elevate ‘Get Low’
Robert Duvall is an actor who can do stoic Southern characters in his sleep. He has always had a knack for playing the down-home philosopher ...
KU fans: Meet your new basketball anthem
The Newell Post usually doesn't dabble in music, but this will be an exception. A song by Krizz Kaliko will probably be one most KU ...
‘Cat Scratch Theatre’ proves both wild and tame
The Grim Reaper is shamed, graves are being filled back in, and everyone gets one question before they’re sent to heaven or hell. Such are ...
A trip down memory lane
I recently found a goldmine stuffed into a purse in my closet. Six tapes containing performances and interviews of bands in the Lawrence music scene ...
Wherein I eat my words, and my chicken
Because I am a ridiculous control freak, I plan our meals for two weeks at a time, in advance. I'm not sayin' I always actually ...
Put a lid on it
I was riding home from work Saturday night/Sunday morning and rolled to a stop at the light at Sixth and Kentucky. A car had been ...
Here’s a chance to win a Pachamama’s gift card — just for checking our work
I love to give stuff away. Books, shirts, coffee mugs and concert tickets. You name it, if we get it, I want to give it ...
Ride. Of. The. Year.
We were sitting around the breakfast table earlier this week, discussing the unseasonably cool forecast for the day, when my son chimed in. “Dad,” he ...
Scott Pilgrim vs. The World Movie Review
Eric Melin from Scene-Stealers and Aaron Weber from DadsBigPlan review Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, starring Michael Cera and directed by Edgar Wright. Will the ...
Superfoods, super easy
At work, on Fridays, our on-staff painter and I like to splurge and have a pancake. Pancake Friday! It helps me get out of bed ...
Boris
So, Boris came to melt my face with experimental rock this weekend. I've been begging and pleading my friends to come watch the show, and ...
Blatant bike bias
As a middle-aged, middle-class, white male of average height and weight, I’m fortunate to be among the least discriminated-against people in the history of, well, ...
A feast from our neighbors’ gardens
It is two billion degrees outside. It is far too hot to cook. I was too sweaty and tired on Sunday night to think about ...
I’ve seen the light(ning)!
The other night, I was working away in the office when things took a turn for the slow. I thought I caught a flash out ...
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