Archives: May 2009
New Leonard Dstroy Mix + Future Funk Wednesdays at Scion Lab
Lenny D has something to show your eardrums. It’s a brand-new mix that was originally featured on Miles Bonny’s INnatesounds podcast, which you can follow via iTunes. Download Dstroy’s mix below, and skip over to www.innatesounds.com for a wealth of audio-visual material, including video blogs, downloads, albums for sale, gardening tips and clown porn. (Just kidding — there are no…
The ultimate guilt trip: Sugar Stacks
When it comes to eating food that’s bad for you, many people like to keep blissfully in the dark. After all, who wants to go around all day feeling like a lard-ass? After browsing the Web site Sugar Stacks, it’s hard not to feel that way no matter what you eat. The premise of the site is simple: Take a…
Which fish is the best fish?
Is it tilapia? Salmon? Good old fried cod? Which fish is the healthiest? Katherine Hobson’s article about fish in the U.S. News & World Report tries to answer some of the questions that come up when looking at a menu at, say, the Bristol Seafood Grill or at the refrigerated seafood case at the supermarket. “You come with an array of…
Slow news day?
On Drudge Report currently. Yep, it’s a animal story not titled “house of filth.” It’s about David Crupper’s mission to raise chickens in Overland Park. Not that Crupper’s idea is a bad one (or a new one), but widespread attention for articles like this don’t exactly help Kansas City’s urban-professional image. And the exact same argument happened in the Milwaukee-area…
Aziz Ansari wants you to boycott AMC for running ‘fake IMAX’ theaters
AMC and IMAX are on Aziz Ansari’s shit list. Ansari (the guy from The Office knockoff Parks and Rec) ripped AMC and IMAX on his blog after seeing Star Trek (by the way, it’s awesome) at an AMC theater in Burbank. He dropped an extra $5 to see the flick on IMAX, but the screen was barely bigger than a…
The More You Know: KU edition
When you’re out there boozing with your friends, resist the urge to climb residence halls or 10-foot retaining walls. There’s a good chance your drunk ass will fall off and you’ll hit your head — and die. You are not a golden god. Stick with drunken hook-ups. Then you’ll only wish that you were dead the next morning. Categories: News…
Danica Pollard wows at the James Beard Awards
Amidst all the excitement of the James Beard Awards last week, I somehow overlooked that Kansas City was represented by more than just Colby Garrelts and Debbie Gold. Lidia’s pastry chef Danica Pollard was also there, serving a toasted almond rose bonet with strawberry and rhubarb sauce and candied rose petals. Her dish was one of the highlights of the…
Breakfast Buffet: Tuesday, 5/12
%{}% Help solve the Westport First Watch robbery. If you saw a couple of guys in hooded sweatshirts running near 43rd Street and Westport Road yesterday morning, call 816-474-8477. Milder, young garlic is now at farmers’ markets. With young garlic which you can eat the leaves, bulbs and all. Bat Mitzvahs are always an awkward exciting time, especially when kugel…
Is Westport too dangerous for dining?
“Westport’s over,” said a friend of mine this morning, after hearing about yesterday morning’s 7 a.m. robbery at the First Watch restaurant in Westport. (It was reported on the Plog too). “If you can’t feel safe eating a pancake at 7 in the morning,” said my friend, “where can you feel safe?” I’ve been hearing rumors of Westport’s demise as…
Fictional right-hander aspires to pitch in KC
The feature film Sugar — opening Friday at the Tivoli — depicts a baseball player who aspires to pitch for the Kansas City Knights, a fictional big-league team whose logo and colors resemble those of the Royals. The movie begins with 19-year-old Miguel “Sugar” Santos pitching at a baseball academy near his home in San Pedro de Macoris. This is…
Bikers will save Troost
This afternoon, Nadia Pflaum and I stopped by the best-looking new store on Troost, which happens to be a motorcycle shop. If you ride, this is our new pick for where you need to take your bike when the engine needs work. Located at 5508 Troost, Blue Star Motorcycle Co. opened in January as a motorcycle repair, customization and resale store. Co-owners…
If only Kit Bond really spoke Spanish…
… then maybe the Missouri Senator would make more sense than when he talks about any issue in English. Senate Republicans were proud enough to post this on YouTube: Sen. Kit Bond delivering the weekly Republican radio address, on Gitmo, with audio in Spanish. Note that says “with audio in Spanish.” Not that he’s actually speaking it. Better than a…
A big helping of worry at the dinner table
This excellent story in today’s New York Times poses a thought-provoking question: Is it becoming more dangerous to eat? America supposedly has one of the safest food supplies in the world, yet NYT writers Andrew Martin and Gardiner Harris point out that in the past few weeks, a college coed in Washington State “became gravely ill after eating a salad…
Where is it? It’s here!
Last Friday, I posted this tantalizing photograph, taken from the side of a good ol’ Stuckey’s. But which good ol’ Stuckey’s? No, not in Lone Jack, as one commenter guessed, but in beautiful Saline County, as commenter “Bob” guessed correctly. That’s right, in the heart of Nelson, Missouri (a city populated by 212 people and two registered sex offenders), just off…
Video: Wayward in the Green Room with Antennas Up
After disco-funkin’ space-truckin’ KC band Antennas Up opened for Ha Ha Tonka on Saturday, May 9, at the Record Bar, I convinced Antennas bassist and lead singer Kyle Akers to retreat with me after the show to the venue’s basement green room, where we marveled at some penis drawings, rejected a salad, talked about “antennas” vs. “antennae” and birthed the…
Wayward Weekender: Stay Tuned at Davey’s, Fiesta Kansas City, Antennas Up and Ha Ha Tonka
With Spring has come renewal on the Kansas City music scene. I started out this past Friday with a hearty, bolstering meal at Stroud’s, followed by a quick drink at Jazz on 39th (where the full moon had its best company of the evening, I swear), and then on to Davey’s Uptown Ramblers Club for the first installment of the…
Man pulls the plug on Fox 4
Fox 4’s meteorologists — and a bunch of Red Sox fans — are pissed off at the guy in this video. Saturday afternoon around 2:30 he cut the cables that beam network programming from Fox’s mothership to the KC affiliate, which caused and outage during the BoSox game and stopped the weather watchers from creating blobby graphics during the evening…
Leroy Green III pleads guilty to raping children
Leroy Green III pleaded guilty today to three counts of aggravated indecent liberties with a child and one count of rape. Green is the son of a former Wyandotte County Sheriff Leroy Green Jr.Last December, Green was arrested and accused of sexually assaulting four children, all younger than 14, between October 2001 and August 2008. He was charged with nine…
In-N-Out going national?
%{}% Considering that Fat City is mainly about Kansas City cuisine and there isn’t an In-N-Out Burger within 1,000 miles of here, I sure do mention the chain a lot. That’s because in my short time on the West Coast I became obsessed with the joint’s high quality. Yes, there are many good burger places in town and we do…
First Watch in Westport robbed, manager pistol-whipped
A couple of guys in hooded sweatshirts robbed the First Watch on Westport Road around 7 a.m. View Larger Map Not a lot of details right now, but KSHB Channel 41 reports that the suspected robbers “pistol-whipped” the manager (who was taken to a hospital with minor injuries). If you saw a couple of guys in hooded sweatshirts running near…
Chris Isaak, Toad the Wet Sprocket presales
You ever love Chris Isaak so much you thought your little heart was gonna break in two? I thought so. Do yourself a good, good thing and get presale tickets now for his July 16 show at VooDoo Lounge. Password: WAITING. Or, if all you want is to feel this way, take advantage of the presale going on now for…
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