The U.S. Supreme Court has announced that it doesn’t want anything to do with the legal arguments over whether Missouri can pass state laws to keep vile famewhore psychopaths from picketing soldiers’ funerals to get attention. I’m not naming names, but if you live here I think you know who I’m talking about. This is disappointing. You would think that the legal…
Update: KCPD identified the victim as 24-year-old Anthony Barnett, adding that the address his body was dumped in front of was indeed his home. An unidentified man was shot in the abdomen, then pushed out of a vehicle at the corner of 20th Street and Kensington Avenue Monday afternoon. View Larger Map According to Capt. Richard Lockhart of the KCPD,…
This weekend the highly anticipated film Public Enemies opens. It’s the story of outlaw John Dillinger and stars Johnny Depp and Christian Bale, so you know it’ll probably make a shit-ton of cash. Plus, it was directed by Michael Mann, and that guy knows his way around cops and robbers and bullets (ahem, Heat, everyone?). But without Kansas City, there’d be no badass…
Richard J. Oflyng, 32, of Ottawa, Kansas, pled guilty Monday to attempted sex trafficking of a child. According to the U.S. Attorney’s Office, Oflyng was busted by an undercover law www.dalhartpolice.com enforcement operation called Operation Guardian Angel, specifically targeting demand for child prositutes in the metro. This terrible, terrible, fuck-face, responded to an ad that advertised “little girls available” and…
The continued exploits of Anarchy Tour-ists James Christos, PL and Rockwell … PL: Well… First off, let me say “rest in peace” to Michael Jackson. His passing marks the end of an era. I don’t believe that I’ll see an entertainer/performer with as much to offer the world in my lifetime. I’m not saying this because he passed. If you…
Adam Wagner of the bands the Good Foot and Fairbanks and Gnarly Dan of gonzo film and promotions co. Gnarly Enterprises have built a cozy, little living room and, beginning tomorrow night, Wednesday, July 1, they’ll be inviting local musicians to come play in it. The Shadowbox @ the Sidecar from Gnarly Enterprises on Vimeo. The wee parlor, officially dubbed…
Do you have a good Internet connection and a healthy amount of time on your hands? If so, you should check out the exhaustive, thorough, and above all entertaining series of photos the Ssion posted on their MySpace blog. All the photos are from their recent tour with Fischerspooner. Even if you have no idea what’s going, who anyone is,…
Kansas’ adult stores and strip clubs were ready to take down their roadside signs this week, but thanks to a federal judge’s intervention, they can keep their ads up for a little while longer, at least. Scheduled to take effect Wednesday, a 2006 Kansas law put restrictions on signs within one mile of a highway if they advertised adult businesses….
OK, not really. That’s just the premise behind the new Onion Network video that shows just how the fast food chain is doing its part for the planet: In case you’re wondering, Taco Bell doesn’t really use gluten filler as the first ingredient in its seasoned beef. Its first ingredient is beef, followed by water and then by the seasonings….
U2 starts its 360° Tour today in Barcelona, in front of a sold-out crowd of 90,000 fans. Here’s how the band and their crew created a way to make the stadium setting intimate for both performers and audience, courtesy of Wired. You can check out further details on the tour page. Sadly, the nearest this is coming is Norman, Oklahoma,…
Kansas City, Kansas, police are investigating a homicide in the 400 block of North 10th Street. View Larger Map Police report that at around 6:38 p.m. Monday, KCK officers responded to North 10th Street on a shooting call. Upon arrival, they found a Hispanic male juvenile victim – today identified as Edgar Carmona – suffering from a gunshot wound. Carmona…
Earlier today, Fat City mentioned that Hardee’s is hiring an attractive female for its ads. Assuming that position is out of reach, there are still more than 380,000 more jobs to be had this summer in the food industry, according to the National Restaurant Association. Nationally, eating and drinking places are projected to add 381,800 jobs during the 2009 summer…
Flickr user toddius has created a set of the worst possible 33 1/3 book covers, which piggybacks off an idea originally done by this user, jima. My personal favorites include Prince’s Purple Rain, by Tipper Gore. Her book, Raising PG Kids In An X-Rated Society, spoke of Purple Rain thusly: “I couldn’t believe my ears! The vulgar lyrics embarrassed both…
Last night, Jonathan Richman came to Kansas City, wide-eyed and inscrutably eccentric, and the good-sized, mostly older crowd that gathered at the Record Bar seemed to return his guileless stare and revel in his eccentricity. I’ve seen performers take over a space and “make it their own,” but never quite like Richman did last night. The lights were down. The…
As a food blogger, I get to eat and drink a lot of really great things. But then there are days that involve Domino’s and a three-cheese mac-n-cheese that looks like this: KC Beer Blog and Fat City recently conducted a semi-tasting of new Domino’s products. “Semi” in the sense we didn’t try all of Domino’s six new “American Legends”…
If you’re interested in how bad the HIV rate is in KC – and it’s pretty fucking bad, let me tell you – there’s a new tool online to help you compare. Last week the National HIV/AIDS Atlas was launched as a sort of relief map of suffering. The atlas shows counties in different hues from yellow to red to…
Hardee’s, a.k.a. Carl’s Jr., has gotten into some hot water over a series of commercials called “Hot Chicks Eating Burgers” that depict hot chicks … eating burgers. After featuring celebrities such as Paris Hilton and Padma Lakshmi, it’s now looking to the masses for its next burger-loving yet tight-stomached bombshell to appear in television ads. It’s asking women to submit…
Terrorizer Magazine talks with Coalesce frontman Sean Ingram at Hellfest Open Air (in France, not to be confused with the New York state festival that ran from 1998-2005) regarding the band’s return to the world, their new album OX, and assorted other things. Seriously, though—go buy OX. It is immense, which is like being monster, but bigger. “In My Wake,…
