Errrrrybody welcome a brand-new arrival to the local podcast krewe (“krewe” because it’s Mardi Gras, y’all): GoodButta Radio Hosted by Kansas City hip-hop artist and Soul Providers Krewe affiliate Reach and featuring lots of music and personality local and nationwide, GoodButta posted its third edition on February 15 (about a week before the big man’s birthday bash). I’ve only listened…
Since the explosion at the Hereford House restaurant at 20th and Main last October, breaks in the case have been scarce as a vegan in a butcher shop. Anyway, thanks to every business at that intersection videotaping every other business and surrounding parking lot, we finally have a picture of the suspected arsonist. After the jump, more photos of the suspect and…
%{}% There was a mini-blizzard of responses to this week’s Fat City “Where Is It?” question. Where is this particular Dairy Queen? Only commentor jchgh shrewdly chose the correct location on Independence Avenue. This venerable Dairy Queen, which has been at 2635 Independence Avenue for over a half century, is reportedly the oldest DQ in town. (The company dates back…
Truckstop Honeymoon Great Big Family (Binky Records/Squirrel Records) Eclipsing the blue-collar sass that often characterizes Truckstop Honeymoon is a melancholy sense of settling in Great Big Family, the latest album from the Lawrence, Kansas (via New Orleans), duo of Katie Euliss and Mike West. Weighing heavily on Truckstop’s fifth release are themes of rekindling the fire of tragedy (We talked…
A great Fat City tipster spotted a (the?) banana phone while at Muddy’s Coffeehouse yesterday. Naturally, when you see the banana phone, you get this feeling, so appealing … and have to buy it. Fortunately, she took a picture of it, too. To answer some questions readers are sure to have: Contrary to popular opinion, banana phones do not grow…
Tonight is Fat Tuesday, the last time to par-tay for 40 days … if you’re a practicing Catholic and have given up drinking for Lent. If not, then it’s just another reason to drink on a weeknight (as if I needed one of those). Our wonderful sister Plog did the grunt work and rounded up all the wild happenings going…
Jerry Seps was a tenured professor of history at Stanford University when he decided to quit and buy an 80-acre parcel of neglected vineyard in Napa Valley. That was in 1976, right before the Judgment of Paris, when the rest of the world regarded Napa Valley wines as somewhere between jug wine and white lightning. Because the price per acre…
Bo Jackson knows baseball. Bo knows football. But does Bo know banking? The former Kansas City Royal (and Los Angeles Raider) is investing in a bank in Illinois. Check out Burr Ridge Bank and Trust’s Web site for “banking done right.” Uh, good luck with that Bo. Categories: News Tags: bo jackson, Burr Ridge Bank and Trust, kansas city royals,…
The new edition of Natural Home magazine lists KC Community Farm among the top 10 urban farms in the nation. “I just heard that news. We think it’s wonderful. We love our farms and we’re pretty pleased to get that national attention,” said Katherine Kelly, executive farmer for the Kansas City Center for Urban Agriculture (KCCUA), which runs the KC…
Last night, parents with children in Shawnee Mission high schools received a scary phone call. Principals left a recorded message saying their schools had received a possibly salmonella-tainted product from one of its suppliers, US Food Services. As soon as the schools received word, they threw away all of their Wells’ Blue Bunny Nutty Sunday ice cream cones, which had…
Today has religious significance not just for Catholics, but also for people who worship pancakes. It’s their national day and to celebrate, IHOP is giving away free pancakes from 7 a.m. to 10 p.m. Stop by any IHOP and receive a short stack of buttermilk pancakes for free. A short stack is three pancakes, no sides. All IHOP asks is…
%{}% Another day, any small burger joint closes for “circumstances beyond our control.” Things got interesting on KCPT’s show Check, Please! last week. Is the super-flu supervaccine that will solve every sniffle and sneeze finally a reality? Also, what happens when it mutates and becomes the stuff of sci-fi movies? Even in these crappy times, McDonald’s can do no wrong….
%{}% MY OTHER CAR IS A MANDATORY CONVERTIBLE PREFERRED SHARE: Welp, ahead of his big economic prime-time special tonight, a majority of people surveyed say they’re feeling optimistic about President Barack Obama’s approach to the econocalyptic rapture in which all the money has been raptured up into credit default swap heaven, and leaving all the collateralized debt vehicles “unmanned.” Because…
The sophomore LP from sugergroup Swan Lake (comprised of Spencer Krug (Wolf Parade, Sunset Rubdown), Dan Bejar (New Pornographers, Destroyer) and Frog Eyes’ Carey Mercer), hits retailers on March 24, and the trio is looking to make history. From the one-sheet: It is the band’s contention that this is the first known use of a “court painting” as a record…
The animal activists didn’t get much love from the locals when their cave(wo)men came to town to protest Armani Exchange earlier this month. But last week PETA gave a Kansas City institution second place in its annual recognition of TV ads. So congratulations, KCI: You’ve been shitboxed! Categories: News Tags: Kansas City International Airport, litterbox, PETA
If you’re not feeling all that Mardi Gras craziness tonight and want something more down home, head to the Record Bar for modern acoustic ramblers the O’s. Comprising two guys, a guitar, a banjo and a bass drum the Dallas duo comes to KC with critical acclaim (The Alternative Press named the O’s one of 100 bands know in ’09)…
Layoffs suck. Take it from my friend Mike Parker, who’s been laid off three times in four years. Parker started working at a major telecommunications company based in Overland Park back in 1996. (We’ve agreed to use thinly veiled euphemisms for Parker’s former employers.) He started in Bethesda, Maryland, but bought a house in Lee’s Summit when the company moved…
May 23 will mark the 10th anniversary of pro wrestler Owen Hart’s death. Hart died in the ring during a WWE pay-per-view event in Kansas City at Kemper Arena. He plunged 78 feet after the quick-release mechanism opened as he was being used lowered from a catwalk into the ring. The Calgary Sun talked with Martha Hart, Owen Hart’s widow,…
