As part of this week’s feature, “True True Blood,” about real vampires in Kansas City, we asked our vamps to write their own sections expressing what it’s like to be a Nosferatu while pop culture fetishizes the myth. Unfortunately, we had to cut some of their responses down for space. In the case of Lisa, the blood-drinker pictured here, we…
Crime Scene KC reminds us that yesterday was missing teenager Kara Kopetsky’s 19th birthday. Kopetsky disappeared on May 4, 2007. Crime Scene KC reported that an anonymous donor had offered $50,000 for Kopetsky’s safe return, but yesterday’s deadline came and went without any news. Check out this site for more on Kopetsky’s disappearance. Categories: News Tags: Crime Scene KC, Kara…
Hey booze lovers. There are some happenings around town you may be interested in. First, ODV Social Club has its monthly meet-and- greet tonight at Czar Bar from 6 to 8 p.m. ODV is open to any lover of wine, no matter the level of expertise, experience or budget. In addition to meeting lots of people, you also get to…
Running approximately 1,000 times per hour, the new Pizza Hut Tuscani commercial follows the classic example of Hardee’s and Folgers Crystals commercials by having hidden cameras record customer reactions to food that is unknown to them comes from a chain, in this case Pizza Hut’s lasagna. Never mind what it says about your food when you have to trick people…
Not being Catholic or southern, I’m not too familiar with King Cake. But since it’s Mardi Gras time and King Cake is a subspecies of my favorite thing in the entire world — cake — I knew I had to have my own this year. That and I’ve always wanted a naked baby Jesus. But seriously, why the plastic baby?…
Though Miles Bonny’s Dre Day party appears to be canceled, we can still celebrate the 44th birthday of the man who brought us landmark records like Straight Outta Compton and The Chronic with this classic jam. Stay off the ‘roids, Dre. You are a a beacon of hope to doughy men everywhere. You and James Murphy, who, in this picture,…
Considering how this morning, those bloody Cassandras on NPR talked about how Dennis Blair, the National Intelligence Director, is saying that the biggest threat to national security right now is the global economic crisis, I thought I’d take a dip in the soothing waters of childhood remembered. Nothing takes me back quite like those gently instructional, quaint and oh-so catchy…
Flickr: Rex Roof Just a year ago Oregon was the coolest state in the union. Home of beaches, dunes, Portland, lenient pot laws and legal euthanasia it is a smelly hippy free thinker’s paradise. But now Oregon is acting like a buzz-kill goober dad and threatening to raise the tax on its nearly 100 breweries by 1900 percent. In fairness…
In the Red Records’ back catalogue is littered with artists like the Dirtbombs, Jay Reatard and the King Kong & BBQ Show, so it’s no surprise that the label’s latest act has a garage-rock feel to it. Hailing from Austin, the Strange Boys are gearing up for their debut LP, The Strange Boys and Girls Club, out March 3. Download…
It’s a move as much on paper as anything (only 10 jobs will leave Kansas City) but it’s still a psychological blow that IBC is relocating its headquarters to Dallas. Why, it was just last week that Fat City was talking about the problems IBC had faced, the new bread it was releasing and how we were rooting for it….
%{}% The More You Know about toxic arsenic lakes: A scientist at a conference in Chicago got all fancy and proposed the idea that alien life is right here among the species of Earth, in one of those “stop and really think about it” moments scientists like evoking, such as when they say things like, “The human brain is the…
%{}% Starbucks founder Howard Schultz insists that of course instant coffee is the logical extension for Starbucks and promises it will be better than other instants. But it’s not just going to have to be better, it will have to blow other instants out of the water. Busking — the art of street performing — is harder than it looks,…
Bill Houlehan stores millions of Atari games in a limestone cave in Independence. And he’s selling them for $5 a pop. I read a story about Bill Houlehan, who bought up Atari’s inventory in the ’90s in The Escapist yesterday. It brought back a lot of memories for me; my first video-gaming system was an Atari 7800. So I called…
There’s no rest for justice seekers. In March 2006, we profiled Kansas City’s Alvin Sykes, who has spent years methodically working to create a way for the U.S. Justice Department to address one of our country’s most shameful legacies: countless unsolved murders from the Civil Rights era. Last fall, Sykes saw one of his main efforts rewarded when the Senate…
Twinkie The Kid is saddling up and leaving Kansas City for Dallas. The news came yesterday and only a few weeks after Twinkie’s parent company, Interstate Bakeries, emerged from bankruptcy. The Star says that about 20 execs will move to Texas, leaving the rest of the employees at IBC’s former headquarters at 12 East Armour Blvd. Happy trails, Kid. Categories:…
Wild story out of Blue Springs. A man allegedly attacked his teenage ex-girlfriend Monday night at the Autumn Place Apartments. Fox 4 has all the details, including the man supposedly stabbing his ex-‘s mother in the shoulder after she hit him with a frying pan. The man allegedly held his ex-girlfriend, a nine-month-old child and the ex-‘s new boyfriend hostage….
A former internal auditor is suing the Kansas City, Kansas, Board of Public Utilities for wrongful termination, the Kansas City Kansan reported this morning. The lawsuit was filed by Rick Yarnell, a former director of the utility’s internal audit department. The BPU eliminated and outsourced the internal audit department last year. The lawsuit follows the indictment of the BPU’s chief…
When was the last time you went to Blayney’s? Last week, kansascity.com and KMBC-TV reported that Blayney’s was having some troubles keeping up with the game in Westport. We hooked up with Dick Schulte, owner and proprietor of the two-story blues joint down on Westport Road and got his comment. The Pitch: What’s going on? Schulte: “I’m not closed. Blayney’s…
