Former magazine editor and award-winning columnist Mike Harrington has written hundreds of feature articles on a variety of topics. A native New Yorker, Mike has lived in the Kansas City area since 1992. Please click here to contact Mike.
Presented as a “one night only” screening in movie theaters nationwide on Tuesday evening, the never-before-seen 1978 Rolling Stones concert movie Some Girls Live in Texas offers a captivating time capsule of the seventies rock era...
“Some Girls Live in Texas,” a 1978 Rolling Stones concert film recorded in Fort Worth, is scheduled to hit theaters nationwide on Tuesday, October 18, 2011. Three Kansas City theaters are scheduled to screen the never-before-released...
Twenty years ago, a national business magazine headquartered in New York City described Kansas City’s suburbs as being rife with shopping malls, a landscape where “consumerism has run amok.”This examiner, then a first-time...
There’s something about Kansas City’s Wild West legacy, faraway “home on the range” setting, and jazz-Mecca mystique that inspires songwriters.
Doleful cowboy and country songs, jumping jazz, rhythm and blues and rock...
Kansas Citians have long harbored a collective inferiority complex.
This sense of inadequacy prevails even when Kansas City is in the national spotlight—as it was recently when first lady Michelle Obama spoke eloquently at the national NAACP conference...
Every city has its claims to fame, its celebrities and its scandals. Kansas City seems richer than most Midwest metropolises in pop-culture significance. In the spirit of “Thirty Two Short Films About Glenn Gould” (which...
The best public place in the Kansas City metro area to hear great old rhythm and blues music on a Saturday night is…a Hy-Vee supermarket in Overland Park. (Huh? What the?)
Maybe this KC pop-culture...
The springtime Kansas City weather stayed warm and wonderful all week—until Saturday morning. And now the forecast calls for heavy rain all through the weekend. Luckily, no hailstorms are forecast, so it’s safe to back out...
Every man faces the prospect of spending time alone sometime—whether his wife or girlfriend is away or he’s just “in between” relationships. Sometimes these lonesome days force a man to face the abyss of...
A long bone of contention between Kansas City and New York chefs is about whether a certain cut of meat should be called New York Strip or Kansas City Strip. Both cities can rightfully lay claim to the strip...