While nutritional information must be present on packaged food and beverages, until recently there were no laws requiring restaurant chains to disclose the same information. Most chains released information voluntarily but several did not. Darden Restaurants, the holding company for Olive Garden and Red Lobster, gave out virtually no nutritional information. Quietly, it’s finally changed that policy. Categories: Dining, Food…
%{}% California, Australia, Chile, France, South Africa. Five places on five different continents putting out amazing wine. Each with its own idiosyncrasies. That’s the point behind the third World Wine Tour in Kansas City, which features nearly every wine-producing area on the globe. The event allows non-wine-experts one night of access to a library of wines — chardonnay from all…
Kansas City Police say they are investigating a homicide after the body of a black female was found in a yard in the 1600 block of East 40th Street. View Larger Map The Police arrived on the scene at 7:30 a.m. This is Kansas City’s 26th homicide. Categories: News Tags: homicides
Seasoned Omaha indie rockers Little Brazil celebrated the release of their new album, Son, on Kansas City’s Anodyne Records with a rock blowout at Czar Bar.
%{}% Shopping for the perfect keg to keep at the office. Damn, some people have all the luck. More drinking at the office! This time on starting a beer-club there. I smell a meme. Creating your own doughnut is almost as fun as eating one. I’ve made several of my own and that’s before I knew about Dunkin’ Donuts’ contest….
If anyone ever tells you Kansas City isn’t weird enough, direct them to jazz saxophonist and horn sculptor Mark Southerland. The winner of a 2008 Charlotte Street Foundation doesn’t just toot his horn. Actually, the leader of perennially popular jazz combo Snuff Jazz builds his horns: curling, ivylike structures meant to be mounted on people, usually, women in shiny bodysuits….
I wrote recently about J.E. Dunn Construction’s questionable commitment to hiring minority subcontractors. Last December, the city’s Human Relations Department determined that a minority electrician Dunn listed as a sub on the H&R Block headquarters did not actually perform the work. Dunn, at least, attempted to appear to comply with the policy, which is more than a site development company…
I can’t say the same for Roy Williams. Categories: News Tags: Bill Self, Kansas Jayhawks, Metallica, NCAA Basketball, North Carolina Tar Heels, Roy Williams
This week: Films for Action is back with radical inspiration for economic survival, car-free commuters get revved up about bus cuts, Planned Parenthood delves into “Sex and the Media” and radio host Amy Goodman fires up the indy masses against evil news conglomerates. Categories: News Tags: bus funding, Constitution Party, Films for Action, Lawrence general election, New Tools, Planned Parenthood
Vintage Cereal Collection When I was putting up today’s Fat City post about the potential rice problem in Japan, I was thinking back on when I first started eating rice. It wasn’t ever a staple in our home (unless someone brought carry-out Chinese food over), but I’ve always loved it. Even as the ingredient in a breakfast cereal. Suddenly I flashed on…
Flickr: mquest foto Earlier this month, I posted a piece about the latest culinary innovation in Italy: a vending machine that creates a pizza pie from scratch in three minutes. The most recent update on this story: Italian chefs are highly insulted by the machine. Reuters reports that Pino Morelli, the representative for the Association of Italian Pizzerias, calls the…
Flickr: FormosaSavage You don’t have to have actually travelled to the Land of the Rising Sun — or even be a fan of Midwestern Japanese steakhouses or sushi restaurants — to know that rice is a major staple of the Japanese diet. But this story in today’s New York Times reveals an unexpected truth: Japan’s rice farmers are aging — most…
Flickr: mringlein We’re thinking these were the top stories posted on Fat City this week: Bluestem owner Colby Garrelts is a James Beard Award finalist Young inventor creates beer-flavored popcorn Sheridan’s Frozen Custard an official tenant of Kauffman Stadium Chef Linda Duerr, laid off at J.J.’s Restaurant, looks for a new job. Smitten by Campo Lindo Farms Categories: Dining, Food…
Busy day in the courts. A jury acquitted Wichita abortion doctor George Tiller on 19 misdemeanor charges that he didn’t get an independent second opinion on some abortions that he performed. How did I know Operation Rescue was going to cry that justice wasn’t served? A Wyandotte County judge sentenced Brandon Hulett to life in prison (with no parole for…
Yesterday, the Wyandotte County coroner confirmed that BPU official Marc Conklin committed suicide. An autopsy revealed that the 44-year-old former chief administrative officer of the utility had died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound on Wednesday. In the last couple of years, I’ve written quite a bit about Conklin. Every story a negative one, starting with an expose on credit card…
Bill Broderick, an inspector with the city’s Dangerous Buildings division, was driving in the Pendleton Heights neighborhood of northeast Kansas City a week ago when he noticed a vacant building at 308 Brooklyn that people in the neighborhood refer to as “the Chateau.” Part of the roof was missing, leaving the building exposed to the elements. The inspector went inside…
Because the snowpocalypse is gonna knock the shit out of the progress we’ve made so far into Spring, I thought today would be a good day to post this shot I took last weekend of the Bradford pears in bloom outside Dave’s Stagecoach Inn. Have a safe weekend, one and all. Categories: Music Tags: Dave’s Stagecoach Inn, spring, Tits
I’ll be on Jasper Mirabile’s radio show Live From Jasper’s Kitchen tomorrow at 11 a.m. on KCMO 710 AM. I’ll try to touch on a couple of subjects including new state and federal food laws that actually affect people’s everyday lives and comings and goings in the Crossroads and Power & Light District. There will probably be lots of tangents,…
Betcha didn’t even know Wichita had a soul scene in the ’70s, much less one worth revisiting in reissue. Mad props are due once again to the Numero Group, for keeping us hip to the sounds of our region’s history. They’re the same people, you remember, who brought us the fabulous Titan: It’s All Pop! package. From the press release…
On February 6, Drell D. Fisher and Reginald L. Barnes, both 33, were found shot to death outside Gerry’s Silver Slipper, a strip club at 4704 Independence Avenue. The untimely deaths of Fisher and Barnes attracted 237 comments (and counting) on this post. Today, police say, the Jackson County Prosecutor’s Office has issued a warrant for Deonta R. Taylor for…
We’ve heard talk from Tech N9ne’s Strange Music camp the past half-year or so about the sleek new facility the label has been building from the ground up. It seems that it’s finished. The building was designed by label prez and CEO Travis O’Guin, and there are tons of pictures of the inside and out here. It’s like freakin’ Versailles….
If you believe Gary Amble, you’ll need one of these to get to Planet Comicon tomorrow. This was actually shot in Goodland, Kansas. And there’s more. Categories: News Tags: Snow, trains
