Earlier this month, we told you about a dog fight between Paw Prints The Magazine and Three Dog Bakery. In an article titled “Three Dog Bakery Screws the Pooch,” Paw Prints growled at Three Dog Bakery for peeing on a fundraiser for area animal shelters. In the past, the fundraiser was known as “Dog’s Night Out.” Dog owners would take…
The Missouri Supreme Court has disbarred a man who once oversaw a memorial fund for two murdered children. Partly because the man, former Independence attorney Kent Desselle, took $20,000 donated to the Sam and Lindsey Porter Memorial Fund — money given to build a playground in honor of the children murdered by their father in June 2004 — and invested…
Jackson County prosecutors charged Michael G. Gunn, Larry Marshall and Eria L. Doss with second-degree murder in the killings of Justin K. Budreau and Andrew J. Eli. Prosecutors also charged Gunn, Marshall and Doss with armed criminal action and first-degree robbery. Court records say officers found the door to Eli’s apartment building wide open when they arrived at the scene…
Thanks to TKC for shouting out this new video of Tech N9ne, Krizz Kalico and Kutt Calhoun talking about their favorite drinks. It seems that Tech’s own cocoction, KC Tea has replaced Caribou Lou at the top of the Strange Music Cocktail Pantheon. “Super Dew” (Mt. Dew and vodka) is also popular. For his part, Kaliko prefers milk. Made with…
Kansas City has a, uh, colorful history. And it’s easily accessible thanks to Google’s News Timeline. Simply searching “Kansas City” by the decade turned up lots of interesting stories, including the rise and fall of infamous political boss Tom Pendergast. Take a look. I wont’ tell your boss. Categories: News Tags: Google News Timeline
Kansas City Mayor Mark Funkhouser’s torturous relationship with the Kansas City press is now part of an advice book for other embattled government types. In Good Press, Bad Press, De-Pressed: Governing’s Media Survival Guide for Public Officials, Funkhouser joins Eliot Spitzer and other less-infamous politicians in providing textbook examples on how to — or how not to — deal with…
Every time America talks about getting in shape and cutting down on obesity, some negative Nancy has to come along with data showing that we’re actually eating at fast-food restaurants more. This time that naysayer is a research company called Experian Simmons which just released a study (pdf) of the fast-food industry covering a mammoth five-year time period. Sadly the…
It’s not like these women got busted smuggling a prisoner out the pen in a dog crates and going on a Tennessee sexcapade, but this is a no-no. Leavenworth County prosecutors allege that a trio of former prison guards — Michela Murray, Jamea Henry and Sharon Seltzer — smuggled contraband (letters and photos) to inmates at the Lansing correctional facility…
Against my better judgment, I’ll sometimes thumb through Travel + Leisure magazine to get a better sense of all the exotic islands and wild destinations I’ll never visit. But Travel + Leisure has been making me mad. Like most magazines, it puts together annual lists ranking this or declaring the best of that. This month, it put together a list…
Kansas Lt. Gov. Mark Parkinson might want to start measuring the drapes in the governor’s office. Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius passed the first test on her road to becoming Health and Human Services secretary, getting a thumbs up from the Senate Finance Committee, which voted 15 to 8 in favor of sending her nomination to the Senate for a full…
JJ’s Restaurant on the west edge of the Plaza (910 West 48th Street) hosts a wine dinner tonight with Adam Sbragia, whose family owns vineyards all over California. His family’s wine is called appropriately Sbragia Family Vineyards. The dinner will take place in JJ’s Saber Room starting at 7 p.m. The five-course menu is heavy on game and seafood. The…
We told you about the Facebook tribute to homicide victims Andrew J. Eli and Justin K. Budreau here yesterday. Today, The Kansas City Star picks up on the tribute and fills in some of the blanks on Eli and Budreau, although police don’t have many leads (call the TIPS Hotline 816-474-8477 if you do). Eli and Budreau were friends from…
%{}% HAHA, you’re stupid: Inasmuch as signing the occasional internet petition, belching, and then clicking over to 4chan to look for torrents of Wolverine constitutes “affirmation,” I affirmatively support the rights of gay people to get married. But you guys, the homophobic Miss California, Carrie Prejean, vs. Perez Hilton is a two-way tie for last place. Prejean lost the Miss…
I went to the Mainstreet Theater and its restaurant The Marquee for a second time yesterday. Previously I had only been in the restaurant area, which opened for business at the beginning of this month. The theater part, which is the in the south end of the building, is nearly done and officially opens for business May 1. (Although you…
%{}% Five more red-light cameras go live on May 4, so it’s best to stop blowing through the lights at: West 79th and Wornall East 63rd and Prospect 39th and Main East 19th and Walnut 27th and Southwest Trafficway Or check out this handy dandy map. Those cameras will be in addition to the cameras that are already live at…
Last night at the Pistol Social Club in the West Bottoms, a crowd gathered to watch the final night of this weekend’s locally produced staged reading of This Is Spinal Tap. Our pal Todd Zimmer was there, and he sent along a few photos. Thanks, Todd! View them all at his Flickr. In the photo below: from left, Pete Leibert…
Coincidence or symbolism? Yesterday, on 4/20, Jorge Belisario-Ruiz was sentenced to 10 years in federal prison for smuggling truck loads of marijuana from El Paso, Texas, to Kansas City, Kansas, the Kansan reported. In January, Ruiz pleaded guilty to smuggling more than 6,000 pounds of weed into the KC area between December 2006 and August 2007. Bummer. Categories: News Tags:…
Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius has been busy lately. She signed 12 new bills into law yesterday. Hidden in the middle of the press release her office sent out was Senate Bill 212, “an act concerning alcoholic beverages” and more specifically, “concerning shipment of wines.” Let’s take a closer look at the eight-page bill (PDF), which significantly changes the wine-law landscape…
Mac Lethal and his Black Clover agents just brought it to a whole ‘nother level with this, the Prohibition-boogaloo-themed video for “Undertow” off Love Potion Collection #5, directed by Kyle Harbaugh. It’s got dames dancin’, fighters fightin’, G-men chasing gangsters and a creepy silver-faced guy looking on and either approving it or hating every minute. Categories: Music Tags: Black Clover,…
%{}% Home brewers take note: The Aussies might have invented a way to make brewing beer easier. An invention a million times better than Vegemite. Even on the Internet, people get picked on for their weight. For all you blues and barbecue fans, the Rhythm & Bibs festival has been canceled this year. For you night owls, here are some…
Trust isn’t what it used to be. So if you just don’t believe that your boyfriend is clean, there’s STDCarriers.com, which promises to out those infected with STDs. On the Internet. For everyone to see. The database includes info such as whether the infected person has failed to tell a partner about a STD, how the person who reported it…
%{}% As the Star reported Friday, the paper’s corporate parent, the McClatchy Company, is in trouble with the New York Stock Exchange. You can buy three shares of stock in the nation’s third-largest newspaper publisher for less than the cost of a Sunday edition of the Star. McClatchy has less than 45 days to avoid delisting of its stock by…
