Driving along highways such as I-35 South or 70 West or 29 North, you’re bound to see billboards for Lay’s potato chips looking like this: The billboard is part of Lay’s new nationwide ad campaign to promote itself as local. It’s putting up specialized billboards and ads for every state in the union. Whether you’re in Alaska or Florida, Lay’s…
On Tuesday, Kansas U.S. Sen. Sam Brownback gushed about how Guantanamo Bay is a special snowflake of a maximum security prison and scoffed at the mere thought that Fort Leavenworth could hold back detainees. These prisoners must be like Wolverine times ten. Anyway, Brownback must have been reeling from Monday night’s ripping by Stephen Colbert, who ripped Brownback’s arguments against…
Kansas Sen. Sam Brownback’s been on an all-out media tour recently, talking about how Gitmo detainees should stay in Gitmo. Here’s his most recent video, on location: Which just makes me want to keep pointing out that Brownback and other politicians keep harping on the fact that “to keep America safe” we need to keep our prisoners of war offshore,…
Grand St. Coffee owners Scott Mullins and Nathan Anderson admit not knowing much about the coffee — or restaurant — business before opening their new store at 2015 Grand last Friday. But they do know what their built-in customers want. “We own the building and this space was just a shell. So we surveyed the loft owners and asked them…
To celebrate the completion of their documentary Cowtown Ballroom…Sweet Jesus!, filmmakers Joe Heyen and Anthony Ladesich opened the doors of the Ballroom for a hippie reunion that was unexpectedly cut short.
%{}% The first review of Two Jokers — the new Boulevard Smokestack. It looks to be a winner though still not available everywhere. Presenting Longboards, which serves sandwich-style wraps. The best part is that the menu has been taken over by Chuck Norris, as evidenced by the Ranger Chuck and Delta Force. The various flavors produced by different coffeemakers using…
Kansas City police say the man stabbed to death in a domestic disturbance Monday night in the 400 block of West 87th Place was 31-year-old Dalon Harness. Witnesses told police that Harness was arguing about the custody of a child with his ex-girlfriend and another man. Then Harness was stabbed. Harness was taken to a local hospital where he died….
Working under the moniker Horse Feathers, singer Justin Ringle and multi-instrumentalist Peter Broderick have crafted two albums of whispery folk, soft compositions that center on Ringle’s high voice surrounded by spiralling strings, acoustic guitar and banjo. The two albums, 2006’s Words Are Dead and 2008’s House With No Home, have been quiet, subdued affairs. Ringle’s words break and stall as…
%{}% WEDNESDAY ADORABLE PICTURES OF THE DAY: A little kid visiting the White House wanted to know if President Barack Obama’s haircut felt like his own. So Obama bent over and let the kid pat his head. SO ADORABLE! And this is absolutely going to slay my coworker Nadia. When she gets distracted by this photo and starts making the…
Every homicide victim has a mother. Brenda Willingham sits at her dining room table before a spread of photos of her son, Nick Emory. Emory was 23 when he was gunned down a year ago, April 25, 2008, in the Chili’s parking lot in Westport — the same spot where shots rang out earlier this month. As soon as Emory…
Kansas City police found a black male in his mid-20s fatally shot in a a parking lot in the 9300 block of Bales Avenue around 8:35 p.m. Tuesday. View Larger Map Police say witnesses saw a silver SUV flee the scene after the shooting. Anyone with info should call, 816.474.8477.Update (6:10 p.m. Wednesday, May 20): Crime Scene KC reports that…
Go ahead and wince at this screengrab from The New York Times’ Web site: (Via Gawker) Categories: News Tags: Dennis Skillicorn, Gawker, Kansas City Star, Mac and PC, NYTimes.com, St. Louis Post-Dispatch
This just in: Today at 7 p.m. at Crown Center, four local bands with members aged under 18 will face off, battle-of-the-bands style for a 30-minute, 11 a.m. slot at Jiggle Jam this Sunday, May 24, and we know what that means. It means they’ll get to skip church in the name of rock. It also means the winning band…
Big fight between a handful of parents near a playground at the K on Sunday. Parents threw punches, hurled racial epithets (or so one claimed), spit in each others’ faces and bled on the playground equipment. Oh, and kids got knocked over but no one seemed to bother much with that. At least the first 10,000 kids got Build-A-Bear lions….
The subject of this week’s feature story is Lake Lotawana, a community with a high level of drama on a per-capita basis.
Kansas City Mayor Mark Funkhouser tells the Portland Oregonian that the Power & Light District is never going to make any money. With the NBA’s Portland Trail Blazers huddling with Cordish Co. on a plan to revitalize the Rose Quarter, the Oregonian dispatched reporter Ted Sickinger to Kansas City to experience the downtown entertainment district. Sickinger concludes the “carefully programmed…
… after Nadia Pflaum’s awesome “Dead Man” feature last week and The Kansas City Star’s Sunday cover story, The New York Times weighs in at the eleventh hour. Skillicorn is still slated for execution at 12:01 a.m. Wednesday. Categories: News Tags: death row, Dennis Skillicorn
Tomorrow, best-selling author and former Harper’s editor Michael Pollan speak at Unity Temple on the Plaza. He’ll talk about his book In Defense of Food: An Eater’s Manifesto, which was released in paperback late last month. Pollan will also be answering audience questions and signing copies of the book. The $15 tickets for the event include a copy for Pollan…
Just got the police report, and Betsy Webster was more than cited for suspicion of driving under the influence Friday morning. She was arrested. The report says Webster’s silver 2001 Honda Civic rear-ended a parked Lincoln Town Car at 39th and Baltimore, injuring two people. Webster told police that she was driving east on 39th Street when she saw a…
