GLC, aka Gangsta L. Crisis, came to town Sunday and Monday to promote the release of True to the Game, a hip-hop compilation album featuring industry giants like Ludacris, Snoop Dogg, T-Pain and Kanye West. A portion of the proceeds from sales of the album benefit Kansas City’s Negro Leagues Baseball Museum. I met with GLC, whose song with Kanye…
Flickr: Ttstam Is it true? Can barbecue actually be healthy for you? Yes and no. New research shows that the fat in a certain cut of barbecue may be the good monounsaturated type. The research is by a team at Texas A&M, and thus the focus is on Texas-style barbecue and the famous Texas brisket. According to “meat scientist” Dr….
Last week, Alan “Your Crap Archivist” Scherstuhl seduced not just us but a nation (Salon and Gawker) with Bill O’Reilly-narrated clips from his erotically charged political thriller Those Who Trespass. The dirty clips even caught Jimmy Kimmel’s attention (thanks, Huffington Post!). Anyone know where Scherstuhl can lay his hands on audio of Ann Coulter reading from Anais Nin’s diaries? And…
Recently, 4:20 enthusiasts Shanin & Parks have begun fobbing off T-shirts to anyone willing to whisper “cooter” to them. We were shocked to see these shirts turning up everywhere. For example, we never expected to see a Shanin & Parks shirt … at a Piss Conference. Categories: News Tags: KMBZ, Shanin & Parks
Food photographers are good at guarding the secrets of their trade, but the normally academic photography blog Photocritic is spilling the beans on a variety of different photo-food tricks. The article notes that for most assignments — including all advertisements — real food must be used. So if you’re shooting a hamburger for McDonald’s, it must be the same patty…
Flickr: Monaz Sometimes it seems like food holidays are chosen on a purely arbitrary basis. I mean, is there a historical reason to celebrate today as National Chocolate-Covered Raisin Day? But tomorrow is International Waffle Day — National Waffle Day is in August, in case you’d like to note it on your calendar — and there’s a legitimate reason to…
Lathrop, Missouri, is a small town a half-hour north of Kansas City and just to the west of Interstate 35. Its most famous residents aren’t humans but the chickens and other animals at Campo Lindo Farms. My carton of Campo Lindo eggs the other day included this note: Hi from Campo Lindo Farms. The ladies are being a little finicky…
Those sharp-eyed commenters Karen Geary and Realist weren’t wearing rose-colored glasses when they correctly envisioned You Say Tomato as the location of this week’s “Where Is It?” question. Categories: Dining, Food & Drink
No sooner did I finish writing about the controversy surrounding a Fusion Center report linking Libertarians to extremist groups, the issue has apparently been resolved. According to a new release from the Missouri Libertarian Party this morning, the director of the Department of Public Safety issued a contrite statement apologizing for the political group’s inclusion in a law enforcement backgrounder…
We’ve been posting an increasing number of law- and litigation-related items on Fat City. Whether that’s simply because legislatures are in session, or due to a busy new administration or several food movements reaching maturity I do not know. The latest comes not from law but from academia, where Kelly Brownell and Kenneth Warner, Yale and Michigan professors respectively, argue…
The James Beard Foundation Award Finalists were announced yesterday at Frontera Grill in Chicago, and one Kansas City chef made the list. Colby Garrelts is one of the five finalists in the category “Best Chef: Midwest.” Three of the other finalists are from Minneapolis, and one is from St. Louis. Garrelts, along with his wife, Megan, own Bluestem in Westport….
When Mike Ferguson got a late-night alert about a report linking the Libertarian Party to domestic terrorism he thought it was the work of an overzealous blogger with bad information and a penchant for conspiracy. An official publication distributed to Missouri law enforcement agencies associating his party’s 2008 presidential candidate, Bob Barr, with violent extremists? Surely not. Well, the leaked…
%{}% Wedding cakes are a surprisingly good barometer of how culture changes over time. Still this wedding cake from the mid-’90s hold up today. Bottled water sales aren’t just declining — they’re plummeting. They were down 9 percent this past year. Team Obama orders up new greener coffee cups. Every little bit helps. Coffee purists warn customers to stay away…
The mother of a missing Northland woman is seeking custody of her daughter’s two young sons. KMBC Channel 9 reported last night that Linda Lockwood, the mother of Renee Pernice, is trying to wrest custody of her daughters 9- and 6-year old sons from Shon Pernice, calling him an unfit parent and referencing an incident last month in which Pernice…
TWA is a distant memory now, and Kansas City’s fountains sit dry today, but yesteryear’s come-hither tourism advertising is ready to jump-start the economy. The economy of an eBay seller in Shawnee who has listed this memento in an auction ending tomorrow. The good news: According to the signature on the print (also pictured with the listing), the poster is…
%{}% Slumdog Hundredaire: Tata Motors of India is introducing the WORLD’S CHEAPEST CAR, the Tata Nano, which maxes out at its top price-point around $3,800 Americos. For your money, you get 47 miles to the gallon, a single windshield wiper and the tightest turning-radius of any vehicle except your mom, HONK! Because I hear your mom’s turning radius is really…
Hank Aaron and Jackie Rob/Cool Papa Bell and Hank Leonard/Yeah, they set the stage/But the baddest of them all was prob’ly Satchel Paige/Yeah, clear as the air you breathe/This beat is ballin’ like the Negro League That isn’t the rap of your usual children’s entertainer – some kind of square, after-school-special hip-hop dabbler. Far from it. That verse is intoned…
Five years ago, when Robert F. Kennedy Jr. stood in the parking lot near Kaw Point Park, an overgrown spit at the confluence of the Missouri and Kaw rivers littered with debris and wafting the odor of dead fish, someone in the crowd asked him what he saw. The noted clean-water activist said simply: “A squandered resource.” Mike Calwell was…
This seems to be the best time to share the above photo of former WWE women’s champion Mickie James wearing a Missouri Tigers basketball jersey. Professional wrestling’s biggest weekly television show, WWE’s Monday Night Raw, broadcasts live from the Sprint Center tonight starting at 8 p.m. on USA. Not sure if we’ll get to see James in her Mizzou jersey…
%{}% Ever since recombinant bovine-growth hormone was approved by the FDA, there’s been so much backlash that the nation’s top retail stores — Wal-Mart, Costco, Kroger’s, Safeway — refuse to carry milk from cows on rBGH. The public has spoken — people don’t like the idea of steroid cows — and normally the public gets its way. Just not in…
