Martini Wine & Trivia Night
%{}% E! Entertainment Television is filming a scene for its reality show Split-Ends at the Drop and owner Eddie Crane needs some extras. So if you’re reading this between 3-4 p.m. on Tuesday and you’re near Martini Corner, get over there for your chance at TV-extra stardom. If you can’t make it Tuesday, there’s an extended shoot this Saturday, August…
Diedre Hayes is the bar manager and bartender-extraordinaire at The Oak Room, in the Intercontinental Hotel south of the Plaza. One hot, humid night, I asked her about her favorite drink. She calls it The Bulliet Swizzle. I came up with the Bulliet Swizzle last summer. The vodka tonics, vodka sodas — all the flavored vodkas get old and tired…
By Justin Kendall Johnson County Sheriff Frank Denning faces a primary challenge from Ken Smith today and a fight to renewal a quarter-cent tax to pay for jails and public safety. That’s all important, but damn, check out this photo of Denning from his campaign Web site. Denning’s shirt looks like it just threw up American iconography. Judging from other…
Our office received the following, ahem, ambitious new plan for the restoration of El Torreon today. Here it is, in its entirety, with certain phrases highlighted by us. By the way, you will not believe it. Mother and Daughter to Restore El Torreon into Cultural Arts Center KANSAS CITY – July 21, 2008. Jeanne Bojarski and her daughter, Alexandra Jeanne…
Let us reminisce friends, to happier times, when St. Ides High Gravity Malt Liquor was the spokesberrrrrage of rap. Exhibit A: Ice Cube Get your girl in the mood quicker/Get your jimmy thicker/With St. Ides Malt Liquor — Cube Categories: Music Tags: commercials, hip-hop, malt liquor
By Justin Kendall Topeka’s fag-hating Westboro Baptist Church has crosstown competition. The Eastboro Baptist Church says “God hates everyone except us.” Most of all, Eastboro says, “there is no greater Hatred than his Hatred of the Westboro Baptist Church!” Why? Because Westboro’s single focus on hating “fags” doesn’t encompass God’s hatred for everything else in the universe. “Thus, God hates…
%{}% By CHRIS PACKHAM It’s primary election day! So it’s important to get out and vote against your own best interests at the high school or retirement community of your choice. Seriously: If the City Council passed a ballot measure proposing that all Kansas Citians be doused with gasoline and set on fire, I honestly believe a slim majority of…
by NADIA PFLAUM More faces, this time stenciled on a door in the alley behind the Arts Incubator on 18th Street in the Crossroads. Categories: News
By ANDY VIHSTADT As a fan of Little Brother, I’m looking forward to Rapper Big Pooh’s forthcoming Dirty Pretty Things LP. No release date has been set as of yet, but it looks like we’ve got something to look forward to in the near future. He had this to say on his MySpace blog about his new track, “With You,”…
%{}% BY OWEN MORRIS An in-depth article (with video!) of two of the country’s top chocolatiers talking in Lenexa, Kansas, recently. (Making of a Foodie) Gas prices aren’t the only thing receding this week. Lobster is down in demand and cost almost a dollar per pound from last year. (Boston Globe) Chipotle, for all its talk of being a fair…
BY OWEN MORRIS Rob Dalzell owns four downtown restaurants. He splits his time between the kitchens of his newest restaurant, the Power & Light District’s Chef Burger, and his flagship 1924 Main. He also owns Pizza Bella and Souperman. I caught up with Dalzell at 1924 and asked him what he eats when no one is watching. There will be…
By JEN CHEN On a miserably hot Sunday, I spotted Rosalind Armstrong on the Plaza. She and her husband, Rahn, were heading into Urban Outfitters when I accosted her for a quick Clothes Whores interview. I thought Rosalind looked absolutely beautiful – she’s tall and stylish, and she looked elegant in her bold black-and-white patterned dress. Categories: News Tags: Halls,…
By CHARLES FERRUZZA As readers of Fat City know, I’ve been on a mission to find the last remaining drug stores that still have soda fountains. So far, I’ve had excellent chocolate malts and cheeseburgers at the Fox Drug Store in Raytown and ice cream sodas at the Corner Pharmacy in Leavenworth. I recently discovered the Georgetown Pharmacy, located in…
By CHRIS PACKHAM Keeping America safe from your “ROAD TRIP!!!!” playlist: So I guess I won’t be traveling with any laptops, now that the DHS has disclosed a border policy whereby they can seize your computer or any other electronic device without probable cause, keep it indefinitely and release any personal information, such as the “short films” you hide in…
By NADIA PFLAUM Daniel was wearing his signature macadamia nut shell necklace with a Marc Ecko shirt last Sunday at the Peanut for Hip Hop and Hot Wings, shattering my previous assumption that men look terrible in jewelry. “It was a gift from my homegirl,” he says of the necklace. His style? “To be honest, it’s like a New York…
By CHRIS RASMUSSEN Hang loose, Chiefs fans, Ari’s on the job. The NFL hired a genius as a consultant. Ari Fleischer, the most infamous White House press secretary since Ron Ziegler, is bringing his special brand of verbal gymnastics to professional sports players, providing seminars as president of Ari Fleischer Sports Communications. His first tip — “be honest” — is…
By ANDY VIHSTADT Following up his random “Ellen Disingenuous” single from a few months ago, Los Angeles wordsmith Busdriver recently teamed up with producer Antimc for another new one that has no album affiliation. Download “Pennyaire” below, thanks to So Much Silence. MP3: Busdriver and Antimc, “Pennyaire” Categories: Music
BY OWEN MORRIS The Wyandotte County Fair was this weekend, which meant wrecking cars and lots of junk food. Wait, that’s different from any weekend in Wyandotte how? (M.Toast Hivemind) Knowledgeable opinions about some of the better beer selections at The Foundry. I believe seven beers are mentioned which means only 100 more to go. (NoodleTown) In a move that’s…
