KC Strip trolleys provide nightlife transportation

On your marks, get set, Confession Cam!

This just in from Metropolitan Transportation Group head Bill George: Come March 5, George will unleash a fleet of weekend transports to be called the Kansas City Strip. The trolleys will ferry locals to restaurants and bars from downtown Kansas City to Waldo and party points in between. Including Martini Corner, 18th and Vine, Westport, the Plaza and Brookside.

“It will run on Friday and Saturday nights from 7 p.m. to 3 a.m.,” George says. “Fifteen dollars gets you a wristband for the evening, and participating bars and restaurants will offer hourly specials that will be more than enough to recoup the cost of the bands.”

The rationale for the KC Strip is threefold:

“To encourage people to get out and about in Kansas City. There’s a real issue with people staying home and it’s a fun way to get people to come out and try some new places.

“Number two, the fear of getting a DUI is keeping a lot of people at home or very close to home. And this is an opportunity to get out without worrying about driving or parking.

“Third, there are lots of people in hotels and conventioneers in town that would like to experience Kansas City nightlife.”

One more detail…

“All of the drivers will be skilled tour guides and will have a wealth of information and fun facts about Kansas City,” George says. “And all of the trolleys will be equipped with a Confession Cam. On one of the benches towards the back will be a button you can press and it will record whatever message or shout out anybody wants. Then we’ll upload it the next day to our Web site kansas
citystrip.com.”

Judge, jury,
executioner

Kansas City musical expatriate Joe “Guido Toledo” Welsh – now of Nashville – was literally stunned by the results of Sunday night’s Grammy Awards. The former 4 Sknns front man was not about to let the awards outrages of the night go un-hammered.

“There are no real ‘artists’ any more. Only commerce-driven junk that zeros in on the lowest common denominator for a quick buck,” Guido says.

A few highlights from Guido’s Facebook mockumentary:

• Lady Gaga is up first: I have two words. Please stop. The faux crowd loves it. Oops. That’s their gig tonight.

• And song of the year is.... Beyonce “Single Ladies.” Cool. Songs of the year no longer have to have choruses or chord changes. Nice!

• Best country album is ... Taylor Swift. I will refrain from comment (for now) on her as I still live in Nashville.

• Pink!!!!! I really dig her music these days. A true exception to the norm out there now, IMHO. Nice cat suit! Who else can sing upside down? Loved it! Pink rules.

• Best new artist.... Zac Brown. Hell, yeah! I like his stuff!

• Miley Cyrus up to introduce Black Eyed Peas ... Lemme say right up front ...Can’t stand these guys. I DON’T get it. Boring, repetitive, looped, melodically challenged, watered down hip hop lameness. Zzzzzzz ... another chorus-less piece of poo.

• Urgh. Now Stevie Nicks, who apparently has not changed her outfit since ’83. Wow. What ... never mind. No comment.

Guido’s bottom line: “Tweeners rule, I suppose ... the only demographic that still buys music.”

Hearne on the street…

Super Sunday, be there or else. K.C. Confidential is looking for a few good men and women to party with some of K.C.’s top celebs and watch the Super Bowl this Sunday at Jardine’s on the Plaza. The hottest young guns in local jazz, the Steve Lambert Quartet, will perform before and after the big game.