By DAVID MARTIN A judge has ruled in favor of the Ivanhoe Neighborhood Council’s effort to redevelop the old Horace Mann School on East 39th Street. Earlier this week, Judge Justine Del Muro dismissed a city agency’s petition for eminent domain. The agency, the Planned Industrial Expansion Authority, had condemned the Mann building and awarded the development rights to a…
By JUSTIN KENDALL Baby Mangino. Categories: News Tags: Kansas Jayhawks, Mark Mangino
By JUSTIN KENDALL The black sheep of Fred Phelps’ flock, Nate Phelps, recently gave an interview to a student newspaper in Western Canada. The Ubyssey recaps Nate Phelps’ alleged beatings at the hands of his father and his exile from the church. The younger Phelps is now a cab-driving atheist living in Cranbrook, British Columbia. The most intriguing nugget in…
By CHARLES FERRUZZA Tomorrow night, Saturday, will be the final curtain for 14-year-old Shiraz, the cozy and cosmpolitan bistro at 320 Southwest Boulevard. After a long run, owners Ali and Stephanie Shirazi decided the time had come to sell the business. “It was a combination of a lot of things,” says Stephanie Shirazi. “The Power & Light District, the economy….
By CAROLYN SZCZEPANSKI After years of endless meetings and technical negotiations it basically comes down to this: If Kansas City wants a bike path on the new Paseo Bridge it’s going to cost more than 4 million bucks. And the Missouri Department of Transportation isn’t going to pay a dime of it. This fall, construction started on the $215 million…
By CHRIS PACKHAM Happy Halloween, y’all, ’tis the spooky season to be terrifyingly jolly, if you’re into that kind of thing. I’m more of a “Fourth of July”-type guy, myself, what with my Uncle Sam beard and the soaring apple-pie spangled eagles tattooed upon my magnificent biceps, but hey, man, whatever “fries your burger,” y’know? I think I’m going to…
By CHARLES FERRUZZA I’ll never forget the terrifying moment in Whatever Happened To Baby Jane when Bette Davis, as the lunatic former child star Baby Jane Hudson, serves a dead rat — under a silver salver, no less — to her invalid sister Blanche, played by former Kansas City resident Joan Crawford. I had nightmares about this meal for days….
By JUSTIN KENDALL Planned Parenthood thinks nothing is scarier than John McCain and Sarah Palin haunting the White House. This afternoon at 4, Planned Parenthood advocates will let everyone on Plaza know just how frightening a McCain-Palin presidency would be for the pro-choice movement by throwing an anti-Palin themed party at the J.C. Nichols Fountain. “While Sarah Palin was mayor…
By OWEN MORRIS As the newest beer in Boulevard’s Smokestack Series and the one named after the city’s most iconic sports figure (sorry Len Dawson) Saison-Brett has high expectations on its shoulders. Of course, any beer that costs $12 and change for 25 ounces should have high expectations. But Saison-Brett has been declared by those in the know as Boulevard’s…
By ANDY VIHSTADT A.C. Newman isn’t wasting any time between New Pornographers albums. His second solo effort is slated for a January release. Download one of the tracks below (thank you, Stereogum), or get it as part of Matador’s Free Intended Play: Fall 2008, which also includes tracks from Belle & Sebastian’s upcoming BBC Sessions and a B-side from Pavement’s…
Illustration for Daytrotter by Johnnie Cluney LINK: The Republic Tigers’ Daytrotter Session For those not familiar with Daytrotter, it’s a Web site that centers around a studio in Rock Island, Illinois, where up-and-coming indie (usually) bands stop in while on tour to record a few off-the-cuff tracks for posting on the site. Previous KC-Lawrence bands to have trotted through are…
By ANDY VIHSTADT Every weekday, our exclusive Pitch Wayward Blog science men spotlight fresh, hot and legal free downloads from around the Web. But in constantly trolling for the best free music, there are always a few things that don’t make the DL cut. Here are this week’s second stringers and late additions. MP3: Ryan Adams, “Like a Virgin (live…
By CHARLES FERRUZZA Last year I wrote a Pitch feature on my lifelong love for candy, partly reminiscing on the childhood sugar orgy better known as Halloween. I’m old enough to have trick-or-treated, back when neighbors still gave out shiny red apples as a treat — before the big razor blade scare of the 1960s made handing out fruit and…
%{}% By OWEN MORRIS The British Military is now offering its personnel a 62-page book of recipes, with an introduction by Gordon Ramsey, to spruce up meals in the field. (AP) If this isn’t an infomercial already, it will be soon. Would you like to earn extra cash? $2,000 or even $5,000 a month all without leaving the comfort of…
