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Joe Miller Flashback: The Steve Glorioso Files

The following story ran in the KC Downtowner and is reprinted with the permission of author Joe Miller:

The Glorioso Emails: Portrait of a City Hall Troublemaker

The overwhelming majority of Kansas Citians think the politicos at City Hall fight too much and that it Continue reading

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Glazer Guest Shot: Love/Hate Affair with King of Kings, Johnny Dare

Nobody has ever ruled this city’s air waves like the crowned king of radio and all media, Johnny Dare.

There is no argument on this one. Kevin Kietzman, Larry Moore, Jason Whitlock – none of them have even close to the insane following of the Rock 98.9 FM’s Pied Piper of the Masses. Dare’s been No. 1 in morning radio (and for that matter all radio) for ten years now. He’s got monster ratings and has always been number one in the market here. Continue reading

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Glazer Guest Shot: Society Spoils Studs

We all admire the amazing ability of today’s great sports figures.

They are our modern day heros, warriors, gladiators. And of course, football rules the roost as the number one sport in the nation. Followed by basketball.

Why?

Young boys and men, fantasize about being quarterback in the super bowl or sinking a buzzer beater in the NCAA Tourney during a March Madness final. We want to be them. Women see the athletes as super studs, often handsome and built like Greek gods. In them we see ourselves as the best we can be.

Is that really true? In many ways no, but it’s our dream, our vision of greatness and fame. And with success in these sports comes money, fame and tons of sex with hotties. That’s the real reason young men want to be a sports star. Continue reading

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Guest Shot: Glazer re Rise & Fall of KC Nightlife

Seems like just a few years back I was a young night life dude, cruising hot bars owned by high-profile club owners…

The first was the most controversial; Butch Carmen Civella’s club Continue reading

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Craig Glazer: Tiger Not Jackson, Jordan

So why is Tiger Woods held to a higher standard then any other celebrity?

Simple.

That said, White America accepted him as…”WHITE”. I know he is of mixed ethnicity like the president, but for the most part he is considered black. Like the president. Continue reading

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Glazer: Comments King Weighs in on Tiger, Cheech, DUI

The truth is fairly simple: Tiger Woods will be bigger and richer than ever before – no doubt about it…

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Adam: Michael Chabon’s ‘Manhood for Amateurs’

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Adam: Blitzen Trapper at Jackpot Saloon – Last Waltz Revisited

All the reviews I Continue reading

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Logan’s Run: Ditch Talking Teens at AMC’s Fork & Screen Cinema Suites

Looking for an excuse to kill some quality time in the burbs?

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Logan’s Run: Review; Kill Hannah Kills headliner She Wants Revenge

Girls really do dig boys who look like girls. Continue reading

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Logan’s (sex) Run: ‘My First Time’ at the Unicorn Theatre, Take Two

I lost my virginity in a dirty basement apartment during senior year of college…

Admittedly, not a very interesting story, so I’ll spare you the details to protect the, um, innocent. Continue reading

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Logan’s Run: Jim Jeffries Does MJ, Chaplin, Tiger & Kansas City

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Logan’s Run: Ladyhawke

Walking in late to the indie rock tour sponsored by internet gossip celebrity Perez Hilton Wednesday at the Beaumont Club in Westport was the biggest favor I could have done myself.

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Logan’s Run: Take a Number; Roman Numerals / Record Bar Winning Combination

Not many have what it takes to run a successful music venue and tour nationwide with a band. The men of Roman Numerals have figured out how to do it, and do it well.

Two of its founding members, Steve Tulipana and Shawn Sherrill, opened the Record Bar in the summer of 2005, concurrent with recording their self-titled debut album out of state (later released in 2006). Continue reading

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Adam: Dan Brown Groupies of the World Unite!

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Adam: The 2009 PEN/ O. Henry Prize Stories

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Adam: Edward Sharpe & the Magnetic Zeros at the Jackpot

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Adam: Fordlandia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford

Hello friends. I do hope you’ve missed me. I’ve returned this week with a mammoth of a book, Greg Grandin’s Fordlandia: The Rise and Fall of Henry Ford’s Forgotten Jungle City. It Continue reading

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Adam: ‘How I Became a Famous Novelist’ by Steve Hely

It usually seems like a cop-out for a writer to write about writing, because there Continue reading

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Adam: Dead Beat- Art by William S. Burroughs on Display in Lawrence

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