The god fearing people of Linwood, Kansas, get to be closer to the Lord than Kansas City’s heathens. The founders of GOD TV are moving into a mansion near the tiny Leavenworth County town. Not familiar with GOD TV, the international Christian television network broadcast on DirecTV, sort of a fresher TBN (or not). Then you’re missing out on GOD…
PHOTOS AND REVIEW BY ABBIE STUTZER I have always thought The Bottleneck is a great place to go for shows. There’s plenty of dance floor for the skinny-pant-wearing dance crowd, enough seating for the slightly anti-social crowd, and enough extra space for everyone else. The venue was pretty empty early in the night. One club kid in leopard spandex and…
%{}% Quite an interesting and surprising find by Chimpotle at the liquor store: Brett-Saison is back! A blogger gets into American Craft Brew week in a very personal way. Thirteen steps to ensuring getting the most out of a famers’ market, from planning for one to bargaining at it. Fish and nuts aren’t only good for the body, they’re easy…
%{}% Closed captioning for my inner monologue: “Two of Kansas City’s iconic fountains are coming off the grid — the electric grid,” says this story in The Kansas City Star. Midway through the wet and exciting water flume ride of that sentence, I tapped my chin and said to myself, “Off the grid??? What grid could they possibly be referring…
This video is made up of interviews from people who knew Dennis Skillicorn (the subject of this week’s feature story, “Dead Man”) at Potosi Correctional Center, including Rick Secoy, former Potosi guard, and volunteers from Set Free Ministries and other organizations within the prison. It’s part of the clemency petition, which is now in the hands of Missouri’s Gov. Jay…
A Kansas City police officer found an 18-year-old man suffering from gunshot wounds at 54th and Wabash just before 8 p.m. Tuesday. View Larger Map The man was taken to a local hospital but wasn’t expected to survive. He didn’t. KSHB Channel 41 reports that the man was pronounced dead at the hospital. The victim’s name has yet to be…
This help-wanted sign is posted in the window at Mama’s 39th Street Diner, on the corner of 39th Street and Southwest Trafficway, 816-531-6422. Categories: News Tags: help-wanted, Mama’s 39th Street Diner, Now Hiring
Quick update on the power outage in Jefferson City. The Associated Press says a black snake caused the outage. And Captiol Calling’s Jason Rosenbaum takes us on a strange trip through the unlit halls of the Capitol. Hope you’re not afraid of the dark. Categories: News, Politics Tags: missouri legislature, power outage
The ravishing Ms. Maja Ivarsson and her band from Skåne län, Sweden, the Sounds are playing the Bottleneck tonight with Hey Camp. Here’s a live shot of the band’s new single, “No One Sleeps When I’m Awake,” from Crossing the Rubicon, out June 2. I don’t know much about the new album, but I do remember that the cover of…
One of Kansas City’s best and crankiest bloggers, Midtown Miscreant Mark Smith, is calling it quits. Here’s a snip from his farewell address: I started doing this thing because I had some shit to say, I had some stories to tell. I feel like I’ve said everything worth saying, and I’ve run out of stories. So I’m done, at least…
Yeah, there’s not much to do in Shawnee at 3:30 a.m. But huffing in Wal-Mart bathroom? Really low on the list. Not for Joshua Scott Kielman. KSHB Channel 41 says Shawnee Police arrested the 27-year-old for a third time for huffing at the Wal-Mart at 16100 W. 65th St. You got arrested three times for huffing at the same Wal-Mart…
And now, for no good reason at all, a funny story about a cat. Told by Pitch clubs editor Berry Anderson: In the spring of ’94, I got a kitten from my 10th-grade history teacher. She was all white with a big gray smudge on her head, so I named her Smudge. Smudge stayed in Long Beach when I moved…
News stands in Lawrence are becoming a little bit emptier. Editor Phil Cauthon announced in a blog today that Lawrence.com will no longer publish its print, er, Deadwood Edition. “It’s sad to become the latest casualty of a dying medium,” he wrote, “but we’re thrilled to be able to continue covering Lawrence arts and culture via our original medium —…
If you see this guy lying in your bed, don’t wake him. He’ll probably be naked and you might want to run a blacklight near your computer. Monday, Kansas City police arrested 25-year-old Travis Baum for breaking into a West Plaza home. Baum apparently told police that he was cold, hungry and tired … but he was going to clean…
Whoa! The lights go off in Jefferson City, but that doesn’t stop our legislators from Tweeting! Read from the bottom up. Categories: News, Politics Tags: missouri legislature, power outage, Twitter
Richard Buckner’s show last night at Davey’s Uptown had no opening act. There was no stage banter. He simply took the stage and played continuously, his set clocking in at a little under two hours. Armed with four guitars and a looping pedal, each song bled into the next, and with the chords from the previous song still ringing out…
%{}% Just when the battle of Roquefort tariffs appeared to be at its ultimate low — when connoisseurs of the French cheese were about to be charged more per ounce than if they’d been buying gold topped with cocaine served with Kenny Chesney tickets — the United States and Europe have reached an agreement sparing Roquefort. The more than 300…
%{}% Here comes the Pulitzer Prize Patrol with a balloon bouquet and a giant novelty check: KMBC Channel 9 scored quite a journalistic coup with this interview of KMBC Channel 9 anchor Larry Moore, in which he absolutely blows the lid off tomato gardening. How did they manage to get that interview? Journalism! YOU HAVE NO IDEA how deep this…
KCTV promised police brutality last night and delivered a knee to the throat. KCTV-5’s annual police brutality story aired last night with Jedi investigator Ash-har Quraishi bringing us the story of Tim Gilio, who was driving home from his girlfriend’s house when he saw cherries. With prior arrests for marijuana possession, DWI and resisting arrest, he knew the drill. He…
The wonderful blog Consumerist makes great points about the recent snafus in “free” coupon giveaways by restaurants like KFC and Arby’s. It only manages to generate consumer mistrust and cause long-term damage to their reputation. I’ve identified four rules that chains should follow before giving out something for free (consumers can also check these rules to see whether a certain…
