While you were sitting on the couch with your hand in a bag of donuts and a bottle of Ranch wedged in your double-chin, someone at MTV was actually hard at work live blogging the show you were both watching. Said live-blogger writes: 8:22 pm – “Backstage at the Kodak Theater, Von Smith is preparing for his performance.” Which means…
You know that small type on nearly every bottle of vitamins and weight-loss pills and health food. Buy enough of them and you can say it from memory: “This statements has not been evaluated by the FDA.” What if the FDA did evaluate these claims? Every last one of them, from the outrageous “lose 30 pounds in two days!” pills…
By GAVIN SNIDER With a little persistence and a little luck, Los Campesinos! could do for Wales what Flight of the Conchords is doing for New Zealand. That is, they could remind Americans of their country’s existence, and maybe even make us aware of its general location on a map. This is what I knew about Wales before checking Wikipedia:…
For a few years now, Raekwon has been promising a sequel to his classic 1995 solo LP, Only Built 4 Cuban Linx, and it looks like he might finally make good in March. No word on what record label will sponsor it since his split from Dr. Dre’s Aftermath imprint, but a couple of new tracks have recently surfaced, including…
%{}% A video of the bacon explosion in its full, unadulterated shape from a Super Bowl party. Groundhogs are overrated. Meesha knows the true way to tell spring is near. Hey, Kansas City restaurateurs: Somebody put the three little pigs sandwich on their menu and now! I’m not going to tell you that paying more than $20 for vodka…
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Thanks to PrimeBuzz, we learned of Kansas House Bill 2082, which, basically, makes it illegal for a musical group to assume the identity of another group in order to sell tickets or recordings or the like. In other words, if little Neddy of Roeland Park and his friends form a band and call it, say, Sha Na Na, and go…
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints announced in October that a new temple would be built in the Kansas City area in Shoal Creek. It’s supposed to look like the temple (pictured) in Twin Falls, Idaho. Today, we found out who’s going to build the temple: JE Dunn. We’ve come along way since 1838. But I still want…
Goddamn, this is a plan gone awry. A federal grand jury indicted a couple of Kansas City guys this afternoon for stealing $225 from the ATF. D’oh. The U.S. Attorney’s Office says a confidential informant gave 27-year-old Johnny L. Bell $225 to buy a chrome-plated .38-caliber handgun from 23-year-old Leron L. Morris. Bell took an informant and an undercover police…
Finally, Interstate Bakeries emerges from bankruptcy. CEO Craig Jung called today a “new beginning.” No more Dumpster diving for you, Twinkie the Kid. Categories: News Tags: Interstate Bakeries, Twinkie The Kid
The Ferrel family couldn’t have picked a more difficult time to open their little pizza parlor, Pizza Oven, in the stone strip center at 80th and State Line. The economy stinks and the national pizza chains keep cutting their prices. But Kevin and Chris Ferrel are optimists. They leased a storefront that hasn’t had a great track record: It was…
Kansas City Star reader representative Derek Donovan says no one in the newsroom at 18th and Grand knew that former columnist Rhonda Chriss Lokeman had been arrested for drunken driving. “It was news to me,” Donovan wrote. “And as I discovered when I asked editors in the newsroom, nobody there knew about it there either, from the police/justice assistant city…
Maybe it’s ’cause they live so close to Hollywood now, but those ex-Warrensburg punks Super Black Market sure are video happy lately. Last week, they released a music video. Now, the band has unearthed an old promotional video for Bed|Stu shoes that features the boys and their band-aid Rudolph Wohlegemuth. According to a blog on SBM’s Myspace profile, the band…
I’m really impressed with how plugged-in Missouri state Sen. Jolie Justus is. Not only does Justus blog about the legislative session, she also checks in via Facebook and Twitter throughout the day. It helps constituents like me keep tabs on what’s happening in Jeff City, which isn’t so easy in KC. Yesterday on Facebook, Justus kept us posted on discussions…
Last week, I checked in on Trampled Under Foot, who is leaving tomorrow morning for Memphis to perform at the 25th Annual International Blues Competition. They are set to perform at the opening kick-off show Wednesday night at the New Daisy Theater on Beale Street with previous IBC winners. As previously mentioned, the Kansas City Blues Society entrant is King…
Earlier this morning, McClatchy Watch broke the news about Rhonda Chriss Lokeman’s arrest for allegedly driving drunk in January. In the case McClatchy Watch cites, Lokeman is the plaintiff. The defendant is the Director of Revenue for the state of Missouri. The civil case was filed on January 7, 2009. Lokeman is fighting the revocation of her license after refusing…
If you want to follow Fat City’s shenanigans 24 hours a day, one option is our new Twitter feed. There we post links to our stories, ideas and maybe even invite followers to a drink or two. Follow Fat City here. Categories: Dining, Food & Drink Tags: Fat City, online, Twitter
To show the plight of the people, CNN reporter Sean Callebs is living off of food stamps for a month. Not actual food stamps, because he makes way too much money for that. “The most a single person can qualify for each month is $176. couldn’t give me the food stamp funds, that would be fraud, even though I offered…
That sexy couple of Kate Moss-dating, death-blues wailers Jamie “Hotel” Hince and Alison “VV” Mosshart are headed our way. The Kills come to the Bottleneck on April 23, backed by the Horrors and the Magic Wands. Full tour list after the jump. “Tape Song” by the Kills, from Magic Boom (Domino) Categories: Music Tags: blues, Horrors, incoming, Kills, Magic Wands
