Speaking of Good Morning America, let the piling on begin. So far, the Funkhouser-Squitiro icky love story has generated 81 comments. A few supportive. More negative. Some wondering why GMA neglected to mention Funk’s party affiliation (Democrat) or his new home office. Categories: News, Politics Tags: Detroit, Gloria Squitiro, Good Morning America, Kansas City, kansas city, Mark Funkhouser
Good Morning America returns to Kansas City tomorrow morning. This time, they’re not here to broadcast our embarrassment — codependent Mayor Mark Funkhouser and his sexual-innuendo spewing wife, Gloria Squitiro — to the rest of the nation. Tomorrow’s GMA unveils Kansas City’s holiday window display at the morning show’s Times Square studio. Kansas City’s Convention & Visitors Association buddied up…
GWAR, Kingdom of Sorrow, Toxic Holocaust Sunday, November 30 The Beaumont Club Better than: Being eaten by a giant snake When I was 13 years old, I had a Sega Genesis video-game system. I treasured this for several reasons. One of these was the Beavis and Butthead game, which was a quest to reassemble your shredded GWAR tickets, make it…
Today Fox News, tomorrow the world. After yesterday’s belated Good Morning America visit with an unfortunately spasmodic Diane Sawyer, Mayor Funkhouser and wife Mary Todd Lincoln Gloria Squitiro showed up this morning on Fox News’ Fox & Friends. (Co-host Gretchen Carlson called Squitiro “a trailblazer,” causing Bella Abzug’s ghost to spit out her Boo Berry. Other stops this week on…
Even when America was at its most British-obsessed in the mid-1960s — the Fab Four, Carnaby Street fashions, Julie Christie, Twiggy, Vidal Sassoon hairdos! — the very British tradition of high tea didn’t catch on in the States the way other concepts (fish and chips, Cadbury chocolates) did. But during the holiday season, a proper sit-down tea — with…
I swear Johnny Rowlands was helicopter stalking a white truck this morning. In the 1994 flashback (see Simpson, O.J.), Rowlands in NewsChopper 9 hovered above the truck as it made “unusual turns,” and Rowlands wondered whether he should call the cops. Let’s see, Johnny. You think the truck is stolen. You’re in a helicopter chasing it. I don’t know. Seriously,…
Click here to see a slide show. The hulking Texas flag that spanned nearly the entire length of the stage behind Willie Nelson at the Midland last week aptly figured Nelson’s longtime defiance of the mainstream. Over the course of his career, the outlaw troubadour has recorded in genres as far-reaching as jazz, blues and rock, defying expectation at every…
%{}% Today’s the last culinary diary. Last night’s class was the de facto final. It was the practical exam that, unlike our written exams, was based on our individual skills in the kitchen. Top Chef without the cameras — or drama. The menu wasn’t difficult: arroz con pollo with a Waldorf salad and roasted zucchini. The toughest part was making…
While much of the media’s attention on Leawood has been focused on the growth of the 119th Street corridor and its high-end restaurants like North and Sullivan’s, it’s 15 blocks away at 105th and Mission where many of the local restaurateurs are staking their claims. New development Mission Farms is slowly building up a number of local outposts such as…
%{}% Today, the editorial page of The Kansas City Star expresses civic embarrassment, the only remaining emotion we have in our reserved Midwestern hayseed hearts, on behalf of the city for the Funkhouser/Squitiro appearance on Good Morning, America yesterday. And then there were depositions from Squitiro and Funkhouser in which they asserted their victimization at the hands of everyone else…
%{}% Could be tough to grab a Bud in downtown Kansas City soon. The drivers who distribute Budweiser to the area just went on strike. KC Beer Blog publishes the first review of the new Goose Island Mild Winter beer and for some reason, includes Wayne Brady’s picture. Is that a sign the beer is good or bad? Classic cocktails…
Big things are happening for the brothers Thornton. Along with getting their major label debut ready, the Virginia duo behind Clipse (and half of the Re-Up Gang) are introducing their own Play Cloths fashion line. To celebrate, they’ve posted a free mixtape via Mark Ecko’s Complex magazine site. Download the 12-track mix for free below and watch for Till the…
Dear Mr. Zieman: In 1929, I published these words in my novel A Farewell to Arms: “We won’t talk about losing. There is enough talk about losing. What has been done this summer cannot have been done in vain.” Zieman, you talk too much about losing. Winners don’t beg for love the way you did in your front-page letter to…
Missouri state Sen. Delbert Scott must be a blast on float trips. The Lowry City Republican wants to ban beer bongs, Jell-O shots, kegs and Mardi Gras beads from Missouri’s rivers, the Associated Press reports. The kind of debauchery that went on in our story Party Cove Pimps. Scott filed the bill today, momentarily taking his attention away unconstitutional voter…
%{}% Hotline reports that Kansas Rep. Dennis Moore’s sixth term may be his last. “Sources close to” the congressman say he won’t run for the seat in 2010, although he may run for U.S. Sen. Sam Brownback’s Senate seat, since Pious Sam is expected to run for governor. Moore, a Democrat, looked tired and, at times, disinterested in his last…
The 40th-annual Thanksgiving Breakfast Dance was all about dancing, drinking and wearing your finest threads. Make plans next year to leave the kids at home and bust out the alligator shoes and Crown Royal for this awesome event. Photos by Berry Anderson and Pete Liebert.
As darkness descended on Black Friday and a few thousand obliging traditionalists gathered outside Crown Center to wait for the mayor to light his 100-foot Oregon fir tree, a cold breeze carried choral music and other sounds of the season. A tired-looking man in a jacket pocked with the Royals’ logo turned from his perch along a rail near the…
Crime Scene KC is right. This mock press release from interim Columbia Chief of Police Tom Dresner is a pretty great follow up to his hometown Missouri Tigers falling to the Kansas Jayhawks. Dresner wrote the note to Lawrence Chief of Police W. Ronald Olin, saying he was issuing warrants for first-degree robbery against the entire Jayhawk football team. “Not…
The 2-10 Chiefs are a bad team. But are the Chiefs a bad franchise? The question came to mind during the telecast of yesterday’s Raiders game. As the Chiefs struggled to score an offensive touchdown, the stats for Baltimore’s quarterback, Joe Flacco, appeared on the crawl. Flacco, a rookie from the University of Delaware, led the Ravens past Cincinnati, 34-3….
Why can’t Kansas City have a delicatessen like Shapiro’s Delicatessen in my hometown of Indianapolis? When it comes to barbecue, Kansas City has it all over Indianapolis, which never really embraced smoked meats the way this river city has over the decades. And Kansas City has better steakhouses, too. But as far as delicatessens go, Kansas City comes up short-handed….
Codependent, oversized novelty Mayor Mark Funkhouser (as blog roommate Chris Packham would identify him) and his conjoined wife, Gloria Squitiro, made Kansas City the capitol city of “love in the workplace” (ew) when they appeared on Good Morning America this morning. An animated Diane Sawyer quizzed Funkhouser and Squitiro via satellite from their Brookside home. Funkhouser gave the usual answers…
Saturday night I was out on the town with a friend and we stopped by a swanky (for me at least) club for a couple of drinks. My friend ordered a gin and tonic and I ordered a scotch. The waiter asked me how I liked my scotch and I said on the rocks. Both drinks arrived and were good…
The Chiefs won! It wasn’t pretty, but today lacks the usual stink of failure. “Thanks to luck and horrid coaching on the part of the Raiders or this one might have turned out different,” Arrowhead Addict writes. “As long as the Chiefs find a way to beat the Donkey’s and the Raiders at least once during the season I can…
