Bring Afentra back…read more In an era where companies are increasingly focused on diversity, equity and inclusion, the syndicated Elliot show in the morning reeks of the same old tired, somewhat scripted, masculine focused, Joe Dirt style rhetoric, that is frankly a little uncreative and boring. Tuned in this morning to hear what might be described as an old school Porky's locker room talk about "rub and tugs" going on at a new, local (not KC mind you, this show is ported out of a more major metropolitan area, likely east coast) massage parlor. While Elliot drones on over his colleagues and makes easy, targeted "jokes" (nothing is *that* funny) about the clientele, nearby school, and the female staff at this establishment, one can't help but be just outright bored at the same knock-off style humor from the early morning DJs of the world. I personally am somewhat entertained by Howard Stern, but we already have a homegrown version of this - his name is Johnny Dare and he is a long times success on the competitor 98.9 The Rock. These guys have their built in audience of middle aged, hair band loving dudes, listening from construction sites around the city. Elliot's show where he dominates 90% of the conversation, often talking over his two cohosts, just rings of boredom and unoriginality and plain laziness by the executives running the station. We have the female version of this genre - her name is Afentra. I, like many other radio listeners, were delighted when she and her equally talented husband Lazlo were brought back locally from Seattle, where they were originally lured (with hefty raises, no doubt) away from the Kansas City market years ago. When listening to her show, she not only shares the spotlight to have an actual conversation with her cohosts, there is no question she is sharing original and thoughtful content. There is nothing about the Elliot show in the morning that makes me want to tune in again - absolutely nothing. It's a complete insult to my intelligence - I actually like the originality of the music on this station and happen to love Slimfast and Lazlo's afternoon broadcast. One can only hope that today's male executives that certainly roam the halls of the station's ownership are eventually replaced by an actual diverse group of thought leaders and that they BRING BACK AFENTRA.

I love listening to Lazlo, Slimfast and Snowcone on their talk show. Unfortunately I work in the…read moreafternoons but my thirty minute drive to and from work is made so much more enjoyable by the podcasts! I may not be as complementary as Ronald Penis is but these guys are pretty awesome! If you're not a dick, you can take a joke, you don't blindly bow to white supremacy and you have a slightly indescribable uneasy feeling about Mr. Rogers ...boy is this the podcast for you!

I love this station! The mix of classic and contemporary artists is perfectly up my alley. They…read moreplay everything from classic rock like Van Morrison, to classic punk with the Clash, to Elvis Costello, to Adele, to Mumford and Sons... Great variety and a deep music library. The on air staff is knowledgeable about all types of music and interesting to listen to. They never simply prattle on for the sake of talking and the morning show is laid back and enjoyable, not a shock fest of stupid sound effects. One of the coolest things they offer is the Alice Lounge. Members of their Alice Nation listeners club can win 2 seats at small acoustic shows, in studio, by artists performing in the area. I was lucky enough to win tickets to Michael Kiwanuka. He was phenomenal. He played three songs in front of a room of maybe 24 people. Then he signed photos and posed with fans. This is one of the best kept music secrets in town and so worth trying to get into.

102.5 is a new radio station to the KC area, that is "All Comedy All the Time"…read more If you enjoy stand ups then this is the station for you. Since I was introduced to this staion a little over a month ago, it's only been changed once and that is because I went out of town and lost signal. As soon as I was in range again it was back on. They have everyone on this station ranging from Monty Python, George Carlon, Lopez, Steve Harvey, Chris Rock and so on... Take the time to listen for a few minutes, and hopefully you will get as hooked as I am.

It's true. Newspaper has cut its rates in half. To match its massive decline in circulation.read more

Ergh. I'll…read moreparaphrase what a friend of mine (who works in the newspaper biz) had to say about Ink, which summed up my feelings exactly: -"Ink is really a half baked idea...its just trying to position itself as a classier, hipper version of the Pitch but the result is this vanilla product." -"Ya gotta have enough talent to deliver a big proposition like that and their editorial comes up short." I'm no copy editor (though I am a former English major) but the first couple times I gave Ink a try, I was astounded by the amount of simple grammatical errors littered throughout the whole publication. Perhaps their editing has stepped it up a notch but...I wouldn't know. I don't feel the need to pick it up anymore. *edit* Now that I think about it, I know they messed up quotations a friend of mine gave about a fashion show he styled AND Ink staff took credit for the photo he took and submitted for the article. No thanks.

Ink KC is a weekly press that seems on the heels of competing with the Pitch for KC's alternative…read morepress audience. I'm going to leave the politics out of this because we all know that mixing media and criticism can be a dangerous game. So this review is really to bring about attention to the folks who are behind Ink. So far I'm pretty pleased with their offering and even feel like their story generation and content is a departure from local competing media. For me to actually sit and read papers like this takes a focus on content, not spam ads on every other page. I like to actually see local news and community insiders or professionals giving insights on various topics. Ink has done a pretty good job so far in my opinion with bringing some locality to their stories and steering clear of just being a reviews paper. Right now, their headlining stories have been great and their event picks are always fun to glance out, especially the design of the weeklong layout in the center of the paper. Love that.