Union Station is cutting 40 jobs. The Pitch’s Peter Rugg wrote an in-depth story on Union Station’s woes back in August. Categories: News Tags: layoffs, union station
Here in the Killa City, we got news this week of how the $12 million in cuts proposed in City Manager Wayne Cauthen’s budget would affect the Kansas City Police Department. The police say they’d have to give 225 police officers pink slips. Kinda scary when the city had more murders last year than the Royals had wins and the…
%{}% First, they say dating sucks in KC. They they say we’re fat. Now, Pew says no one wants to live here. No shit. If you can’t get a date, and everyone is a bunch of fat asses, then who’s going to want to live here? OK, maybe 15 percent of people do. Still, beats living in Detroit, Cleveland or…
%{}% Quotable Herm Edwards won’t have to go to the unemployment office. ESPN has hired the now former coach of the Kansas City Chiefs to be an NFL studio analyst. In a statement, Edwards said: “I’m excited about the opportunity to join the ESPN team and offer my insight as a former player and head coach. I’m going to be…
As promised earlier, here’s the Army’s official release confirming reports that the number of solider suicides reached a three-decade high in 2008. “We want the families who have lost loved ones to suicide to understand how deeply we feel their loss and that we are committed to doing everything possible to prevent this tragedy in our Army,” Secretary of the…
Starting February 4, Dwight Frizzell will help enlighten KKFI listeners about his favorite subject — Sun Ra. Local expert/Sun Ra super fanboy Frizzell and Jay Mandeville co-produced four episodes about the cosmic jazz master for the award-winning radio series From Ark to Microchip. To hear the spacey tunes and commentary by and about Sun Ra, tune in to the KKFI…
Oh my my my, how I would love to put the band’s full name in the headline. But for the sake of our tender-hearted RSS and Twitter subscribers, I chose to censor it. But I didn’t want to leave fans of … nope, still can’t do it … AxCx in the dark about this show, either. So, without further a(ss)do:…
When music bloggers started fawning over Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin in 2005, the first suitable reaction was Who? and the second, Why? While it was exciting to see a band from Springfield, Missouri, cause a stir, the group’s debut LP, Broom, overall lacked the consistency of tasty bites like its single, “Oregon Girl.” That all changed on SSLYBY’s…
You know how so many of the corporate CEOs and bankers and just about anyone else who got bailout money used a chunk of it for pygmy giraffes small enough to keep as pets and ride around the house, or whatever it is you spend money on when you’ve got more of it than God, and how this righteously pissed off every taxpayer? We’re not…
The Peanut Butter Panic of 09 has caused the recall of many packaged products, not to mention several deaths. The FDA believes it has the one and only cause in Peanut Corporation of America (I’m not so sure) and they’re working on containing products. That leaves the question, after the peanut butter panic passes, what potential foods might lead to…
Independence City Manager Robert Heacock’s pants were down around his thighs when a Lee’s Summit police officer caught him and a companion in his idling Lincoln LS with the lights off in an alley. The Independence Examiner has also the dirty details from the Lee’s Summit PD’s report, such as catching Heacock and friend hurrying to put their clothes back…
Damn. John Martyn has died. The rough-and-tumble Scottish folk-rock songwriter and musician, whose influence reached much further than his name, was 60. No cause of death has been announced yet, but Martyn had suffered a number of health calamities in his last decade. After a couple of records spent as an earnest folk troubadour in the late 1960s, Martyn unleashed…
Warning — this post starts with possibly the nine most pretentious words in the English language! As I was thumbing through the New Yorker yesterday, I got to the back page and couldn’t help noticing a familiar face staring back at me. It was Arnold Schwarzenegger’s twin Danny DeVito, now best known as Frank from It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia….
We knew the New York Times’ Bacon Explosion story was big — that’s why we blogged about it yesterday on Fat City. But two days after the Times’ story, The Kansas City Star still thinks it’s really, really, really big. In today’s Star, the Bacon Explosion is an above-the-fold, A-1 story! Hey, I love bacon more than I love my…
One of the rites of teenage passage is working in a fast-food restaurant. I did it, many of my friends did it, and even Rahm Emanuel did it. Charlie Bell climbed the rungs at McDonald’s from a teenage fry cook to CEO by the time he was 42. As in the Army, if you get in young and stay long…
I find myself behind the punk curve yet again. In addition to being all revamped, with a comprehensive calendar of underground events and a forum, KCDIY.org offers a hardcore punk podcast that is totally, unequivocally kick ass. KC DIY Radio is the same broadcast that hosts Ben Smith of the band Dark Ages and Justin Betterton of BBS Records play…
The fundraiser/remembrance for former Kansas City Star food critic Lauren Chapin has sold out. If you didn’t buy tickets in time, there’s another event tonight you can go to instead. Extra Virgin’s opening was moved back a couple of times, but since owner Michael Smith opened the tapas bar in December, he’s kept the events coming. Tonight he hosts an…
In November, local anti-war activists and concerned members of the armed forces organized a grim exhibition at Avila University, calling attention to the rising rate of soldier suicide. “The War Within” featured pairs of ghostly white combat boots, displaying in stark imagery the 48 soldiers from Kansas and Missouri who committed suicide after serving in the Iraq and Afghanistan conflicts. The…
I have friends who are always pressing old cookbooks upon me as gifts. “You can never have too many cookbooks,” says Bernita, who found this little treasure — a pamphlet, really — in some dusty old thrift store. Actually, you can have too many cookbooks and I have to occasionally weed out my groaning bookshelves and give away some of…
This past Friday was National Pie Day, which I celebrated by making a blackberry cobbler. (Confession: I actually had no idea it was National Pie Day, I just love cobbler and blackberries were on sale.) One day doesn’t seem like enough to celebrate pies. America needs at least a weekend. Maybe that’s why the Great American Pie Show lasts two…
%{}% If you’ve ever passed the gigantic pummelo oranges at the grocery store and wondered how they taste, wonder no more. Beer geeks rejoice — a special treat will be arriving in a couple of weeks. Speaking of beer, if you drink it you are a “loser” and a “sadsack.” That is if this wine-promoting author is to be believed….
For her upcoming third album, The Mountain, Erika Wennerstrom’s Heartless Bastards vehicle got a tune-up and a new garage/carport to rock in. From the one-sheet: “After years with the same basic power trio lineup, Erika made both a life and artistic change. In 2007 she moved to Austin, Texas for a change of inspirational scenery, a new recording project, and…
By RICHARD GINTOWT Look out Robert Pollard – Justin Ripley is hot on your tail. The moppy-haired Lawrence expatriate is releasing a 28-song solo album called Vowels, and it’s got at least as many keepers as Standard Gargoyle Decisions (or any other substandard Pollard opus of late). Recorded mostly at his pad in Seattle (where Ripley’s been hanging out since…
%{}% Kansas City Star columnist Jason Whitlock made some big-boobied friends recently. Our friends at Deadspin linked to this photo of “Big Sexy” on Lot D’s public gallery. It’s a shocker … or else this lady was in an unfortunate meat-slicing accident. Categories: News Tags: boobies, Deadspin, Jason Whitlock, Lot D
