Whatever happened to Stuckey’s? Before there was such a thing as a convenience store, there were Stuckey’s — a welcome relief along the major highways: clean bathrooms, cold drinks, tasty snacks, weird knick-knacks (I still cherish my salt-and-pepper set in the shape of two adorable little outhouses) and pecan logs! At the height of the Stuckey’s empire, there were 350 distinctive…
The rather polarizing modern rock hitmaking band Incubus is coming to KC, playing City Market on July 19. The group is preparing to release a two-CD greatest hits set called Why Do You Hate Us, KC Hipsters? on June 16. Actually, it’s called Monuments and Melodies, and will include the group’s 12 top ten hits, four of which were no….
Now that the downtown’s so new and shiny we’re supposed to look much better to big companies and employers, right? Right? I guess not, since we can’t even beat out San Antonio. According to this story in the Memphis Business Journal, the world’s largest medical device company, Medtronic, will be bringing roughly 1,300 jobs to the Texas site after carefully…
Clancy Martin is a professor of philosophy at the University of Missouri, Kansas City. He’s also one-half of the Ethics Professors, a regular feature on Walt Bodine’s morning radio show. And according to an interesting piece in this week’s Newsweek, the prof just published a novel stuffed with true-crime called How to Sell, the meat of which is somewhat autobiographical….
For those of you looking for a friend, or who just want to help someone through a rough spot in their life, check out lostvault.com. The Web site is sort of a match.com for the lonely and incarcerated, but in this case you know the worst about them upfront. The juxtaposition among the pleas for friendship, the mug shots and…
I do love my mother, though she’s a terrible cook. Even she admits it. I became interested in food at a very young age because she actively encouraged my brothers and I to make our own meals so she wouldn’t have to. Maybe it was just smart long-term thinking on her part, because now that we’re grown up, my brothers…
Did you party on Tuesday? Chances are you didn’t. That’s the problem with holidays that fall in the middle of the week. But fear not, because the largest Cinco de Mayo party — the 10th annual Fiesta Kansas City — starts tonight at Crown Center. The three-day celebration features a number of events for the whole family, such as a…
Yesterday at 10 p.m. KSHB-TV ran a report saying that after 40 years, the Marching Cobras might come to an end. As with most local TV news stories, it’s not as bad as the hook makes it sound. According to the report, which is summed up in this writeup on KSHB’s site, the Cobras need a new building — and…
Don’t leave your wallet at the scene, m’kay? Albert Vincent Perkins, 39, of Kansas City, allegedly walked into the First Federal Bank at 4227 Blue Ridge Blvd. around 9 a.m. yesterday, May 7. He placed a checking brochure and a wallet on the counter, gave the teller a plastic bag, and told her to give him all the $100…
Playing with food has evolved from something that gets you smacked at the dinner table to possibly the next great art movement. Just take a look at this massive gallery of art made from food or food-related products like the coke bottle in the scorpion above. Looking through more than two dozen photos, the one thing that strikes my untrained…
Since opening Crosstown Station in December of ’07, 30-year-old Chip Mitchell has upped the bar on quality local music venues and added fresh competition to the game. In the still new-seeming Crossroads venue, I talked with Mitchell about running a “destination bar,” the shitty economy and the mantra, “predict, plan, promote.” The Pitch: Did you grow up in KC? Chip…
Call me pessimistic but I’ve never understood the big deal with absinthe. It’s supposed to contain wormwood and thujone and other hallucinogenics. Problem is, it never did. The real late-19th century stuff — the Van Gogh-chopping-off-his-ear stuff — contained barely a trace of thujone, not nearly enough to make a person go crazy. Researchers experimenting on old Absinthe bottles and…
You already know, Miss Mary Mack was a ho… The 3rd Annual Double Dutch Competition is already underway at the Manual Career and Technical Center. Teams from metro public schools have been practicing their routines all year, thanks to a teensy bit of prodding by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, which sponsors the program as a way…
1. Almost all performance art is weird, especially when it involves someone in a virtually catatonic state for hours at a time. The performance artist Jason Dixon, AKA Tito, will do a little bit of that during his 24-hour show The Most Performative Piece Ever. While we can’t guarantee that what Tito does will be entertaining, it’s bound to incite…
Lots of people buy burgers every week without creating a controversy. It’s hard to see how you could create controversy by ordering a burger. But Barack Obama has managed to. First people griped that he ordered his Hell Burger medium-well. But now there’s a true outcry because he ordered mustard on the hamburger he got with Joe Biden last week….
Do not forget, little birds, that the Midwest Musicians Foundation is debuting its Stay Tuned series tonight at 7 p.m. at Davey’s, featuring the Mr. Marco’s V7, the Afterparty, Hipshot Killer, Thee Water Moccasins and American Catastrophe. Also tonight, Fleetwood Mac at Sprint Center. But no way can you afford that. So you’re going to Everywhere: A Tribute to Fleetwood…
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%{}% A garden report in photos from Just Me. Looks like we’re in for a good year of green. Has this person accidentally reinvented instant coffee or should they just wash the damn mug? A new study shows people are eating out on the weekends more than they did a year ago. It’s just they’re drastically cutting back on eating…
Local journos — including all you citizen journalists out there in the blogosphere — are invited to a Saturday morning session in which a panel of “newsmakers” and reporters will talk about some hypothetical yet ethically dicey news events and how they might be covered. On the newsmakin’ side are former FBI agent Jeff Lanza, attorney Eric Vernon and retired…
Former Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius made her first appearance before Congress as U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary this week. For those of you who are wondering how the Obama administration’s health-care reform effort will play out (or are just interested in following Sebelius’ progress), the House Ways and Means Committee’s home-page has an intriguing synopsis of how it went,…
%{}% I miss the old, stupider Funkhouser: So, the petition effort to recall Kansas City Big & Tall Mayor Mark Funkhouser came up short by something like 5,000 signatures. That’s pretty good! On the other hand, now that there’s a serious recall effort underway, Funkhouser’s political profile, largely defined by doing or saying dumb things in public, has been a…
