AltWeeklies Wire
Car Stereo Geeks Turn Kansas City Into Giant Boomboxnew
Stereo aficionados from around the country converge once a year at the Tuner Jam, morphing their cars into the world's most powerful portable boomboxes, pitting sound system against sound system to find out whose is loudest.
The Pitch |
Ben Paynter |
01-04-2005 |
Recreation
Behind the Veil: What's Up With Gay Marriage?new
Aside from a few deluded lovebirds who were inexplicably driven to imitate the most overrated institution in heterosexual culture and the do-gooder attorneys who then felt compelled to represent them, no gay person I know well has ever wanted to get married.
The Pitch |
C.J. Janovy |
11-24-2004 |
Commentary
For a Once Dry State, Kansas Makes Good Winenew
Kansas winemakers face three obstacles: lingering attitudes that wine is evil, harsh state laws that prevent most people outside Kansas from trying the state's varieties, and the widespread consumer perception that wine just doesn't come from Kansas.
The Pitch |
Allie Johnson |
10-04-2004 |
Food+Drink
Tags: a Leavenworth Democrat, Adrian Polansky, announced that he had formed a Kansas Grape and Wine Industry Advisory Council, Attorney Kenneth Starr, Holyfield Winery, Kansas Farm Winery Law, Kansas secretary of agriculture, Les and Michelle Meyer, Sen. Don Biggs, wineries, Women's Christian Temperance Union member Frances Wood
Test How Much Toxicity You Absorbed From Swift Boat Adsnew
Does John Kerry's expressed concern for those killed in combat reflect his humanity or a long-range plan to falsely aggrandize himself as a war hero? Take this quiz to see what impact commercials put out by Swift Boat Veterans for Truth have had on you.
What If Rock Stars Had Their Own Olympics?new
In the Rock Star Olympics, celebrity smack addicts would have to escape Betty Ford, evade drug-sniffing police dogs and run through back-alley water hazards in pursuit of a syringe filled with Mr. Brownstone.
Tags: humor & satire
Queer Abatement: No More Gay Ol' Times in Missourinew
Gays who gripe that they can't get married in Missouri missed the true magnitude of the vote endorsing a state constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage. For once, Missouri had made national news.
