A man in his 20s was shot to death outside of Grand Slam Liquors, 631 Grand Boulevard, Sunday morning. View Larger Map Kansas City police arrived on the scene at around 10 a.m. and found a black man with a gunshot wound lying in the east parking lot. The man was pronounced dead at the scene. Witnesses saw a vehicle…
This week: A stark conversation piece exposes the War Within for U.S. soldiers and veterans, the city’s cycling guru gets you ready for Bike to Work Week, and a possible reason why your mom thinks you’re missing the point when you buy her a dumb card from Walgreens in honor of Mothers Day. Categories: News Tags: Bike KC, Earth Fest,…
Dan Deacon’s current tour, in support of his new album, Bromst, is to electronica what a live performance by the Roots is to hip hop. Times ten. Rather than turning knobs and tickling a keyboard over only a programmed drum loop, Deacon employed a guy pounding furiously on a drum kit. And another guy on a drum kit. Not content…
Charles Ferruzza and Owen Morris do an excellent job with The Pitch’s food blog, Fat City. It’s a great read. Every week, Ferruzza recaps the week’s best posts — and we’re going to start posting them on the Plog, starting this week. So here’s this week’s “Best of Fat City.” Charging for bread and butter Guilty Pleasures: The Burger Joint…
%{}% We’re thinking these were the top stories posted on Fat City this week: Charging for bread and butter Guilty Pleasures: The Burger Joint Cool Hand Luke can eat six saltines in a minute Weekend vegetarian? Weekend hippie? Tasting wine the Riedel way (Image from Flicker: Roboppy) Categories: Dining, Food & Drink Tags: The best of Fat City this week
Kim Noble Yesterday, I was in the merry old town of Lawrence and stopped in to see what English delicacies I could find at Brits, the purveyor of British goods at 929 Massachusetts Street. I was looking primarily for Cadbury chocolates (I have a weakness for Cadbury’s Coffee Crisp bars) for myself, and since I was scheduled to appear on…
The Washington Post continues to face criticism of its handling of a George Will column about climate change. Will’s column, which appeared in The Kansas City Star, was roundly criticized for distorting climate science. The column was so bad, Will’s colleagues have made attempts to point out its flaws. Will stands by the column, as does his boss, Fred Hiatt,…
Those who cut comic books from their monthly (or weekly) budgets will welcome tomorrow. Saturday is Free Comic Book Day and here’s a list of participating local comic book shops giving away comics: B Bop Comics, 3940 Main St., KCMO Clint’s Comic Books, 3941 Main St., KCMO Brute Squad Entertainment, 307 N.E. 58th St., Gladstone, Missouri B Bop South, 5336…
Don’t hold your breath, Iron & Wine fans. (Get it!?). Sam Beam, he of the breathy voice (aw, now you get it), and the man behind I&W, is not releasing a new album, per se. But on May 19, he’s dropping a double-CD (three LP) collection of rare and unreleased tracks titled Around the Well. Several of the songs on…
Have you noticed a lot of wealthy dudes in Tommy Bahama shorts aimlessly shuffling around the Plaza like zombies since the Sharper Image closed? Without a retailer willing to sell them novelty, high-end, status symbols at four-figure prices, their lives have no meaning. What will become of them if they can’t buy a toilet seat from a decommissioned Soviet Union submarine?! Fear…
Are you experienced? Hands-on? A trouble shooter? A journalist? Then The Kansas City Star has an exciting opportunity for you. Join the Star’s shrinking workforce and run the business department. Among the requirements: Has a vision for covering the biggest story in the world right now but can bring those economic issues back home to Kansas City. Understands, embraces and…
Turn up this song from Tech N9ne’s just-released, second collaborative album, Sickology 101. It features rappers Cash Image and D Locc Da Chop, and if you’ve been out of the house at all this year, you’ll likely hear the name of a club or two that you recognize. I’m still laughing at “NV stands for ‘No Vaginas’ anyway.” Categories: Music…
Normally I’d leave this to Jason over at the Wayward Blog, but Tech N9ne’s rapping about the Power & Light District’s dress code. So here’s “Let Me In.” C’mon, Mosaic. Let Tech in. Categories: News Tags: dress codes, Power & Light District, Power& Light District, Tech N9ne
April sure did bring its showers these past couple of days but now it’s May which means flowers Famers’ Markets. After holding a special winter market into January, Bad Seed starts its organic farmers’ market tonight from 4:30 to 9 p.m. Ten or so vendors will be on hand selling organic cheese, bread, coffee, jams and, of course, produce. The…
Between the years 2005 and 2008, the masterful, low-budget viral video series Yacht Rock, made by a bunch of 20-something dudes out in California, had music geeks glued to their Channel 101 bookmark hoping for a new episode like farmers praying for rain for their thirsty crops. Beginning with episode 1 — in which the collaboration between Kenny Loggins and…
Here’s the best quote I’ve read all day: “I’m on a kick, devouring every occult book that I can find. It’s bad enough I’m gay, but I’m on this occult thing. What is left to alienate me from mainstream culture?” Those are the words of Nashville blues harmonica player Jason Ricci as quoted in the latest issue of Camp magazine….
A pint or two is the perfect way to celebrate this May Day weekend, and Saturday has two events for beer lovers to pick from. Saturday is the sixth-annual Microbrewfest 2009 in underrated Parkville, with more than 25 breweries celebrating the best the Midwest has to offer. A microbrewer is pretty much any place making beer not owned by InBEV…
AMC Theaters certainly got their money’s worth out of this gimmick. The theater chain celebrated the opening of the new, downtown location, AMC Mainstreet, by giving away 52 free movie passes to the first 100 people to show up at the theater’s doors before 8 a.m. today, costumed as their favorite actor or movie character. More than a hundred people…
