Every year the group Crawl for Cancer holds a pub crawl in Westport and a dozen other cities around the country. Teams of 10-12 people pay $500 to party for the day, all ostensibly in the name of raising money for charity. But Crawl for Cancer is not listed as a non-profit business and as Fat City reported last week,…
You wanted a larger reproduction of the photo posted in Monday’s “Where Is It?” quiz? Well, here it is! Commenter Stacy N. got it right, however. This is the menu at the Georgetown Pharmacy’s Old Time Soda Fountain & Espresso Shop at 5605 Merriam Drive in Kansas City, Kansas. They cook the burgers and hot dogs on a little grill…
You know from reading this week’s Wayward Son that Mac Lethal is a grown-ass man with an impressively growing label. But one thing that slipped past my watchful eye, and probably yours as well, was that Mac dropped by the Daytrotter studios in Rock Island, Illinois, for a live-in-studio sesh nearly a month ago. Click this link or on the…
No, this particular delicacy isn’t actually of German heritage and it’s not a pastry you’ll find in many German restaurants — although Margo at the Rheinland Restaurant in Independence just baked one today! — since the name of the cake wasn’t inspired by the country that gave us strudel, lebkuchen (gingerbread) and Gummi Bears…but an American man named Sam German. And who,…
Get ready to fork over more cash on your monthly electric bill. The Missouri Public Service Commission approved a rate hike for KCP&L on Wednesday that will cost residential customers an average of $12.82 a month starting in September. The total increase will be about $95 million for KCP&L. And another rate increase may be on the way. The concurring…
Love it or hate it, genetically-modified crops are here to stay. You probably eat them all the time but since companies aren’t required to state which foods are made with GM seeds instead of natural seeds, it’s impossible to know . Now comes ML01, a GM yeast that its creator, a professor at the University of British Columbia named Hennie…
Fat City has received an e-mail from Celina Tio, the former chef at The American Restaurant, announcing that she has signed the lease for the restaurant space at 6227 Brookside Plaza — last occupied by Joe D’s Wine Bar. Tio, who plans to make a more formal announcement tomorrow, writes that her new restaurant will be called Julia(n) and will…
Breaking non-news in a statement from Sen. Sam Brownback, who met with Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor yesterday: I asked for and appreciated my meeting with Judge Sotormayor today. I wanted to hear more from her as I have serious concerns about her philosophy as it relates to an activist judiciary. Unfortunately I did not hear anything in our meeting…
Think driving to work is bad. More than one billion people have to commute each day just for drinking water, and contaminated water kills more than a million children per year. Living in a culture with perfectly drinkable tap water and bottled water in every store, it can be easy to forget this fact, which was the problem John January…
Speeding the wrong way on Volker Boulevard is never a good idea unless you want your car to cannonball in Brush Creek. KMBC Channel 9 has a great slideshow of yesterday’s SUV dip. The driver wasn’t hurt, but she was arrested. As for the SUV, KMBC reports that it’ll stay in Brush Creek with the turds and dead bodies until…
Canada has more than just draft-dodgers and affordable health care. It has a food regulation system that works better than ours. That’s according to Campbell Soup CEO Doug Conant, a Jersey native. In a speech he gave at the Canadian Embassy in Washington D.C., Conant said the Canadian Food Inspection Agency is more efficient than similar agencies in the United…
REVIEW BY LAUREN LOYA A glance to the left reveals a gentleman with a sudden urge to robot dance. To the right, a 40-something woman clad in leopard print squeezes her massive tits and bobs around happily. A vampire wannabe in a trenchcoat lurks near the bar, thirsty for victims but distracted by pulsating beats emanating from the stage. Not…
%{}% The Mission Farms Farmers’ Market is every Thursday beginning at 4 p.m. Here is a list of vendors. What’s the matter with Ireland? Alcohol sales are down so much that the government might have to encourage people to drink. In the melt-your-heart cute category come these pictures of the unique dining couple: a baby rat and leopard. Hey, Justus…
REVIEW BY IAN HRABE Dear touring punk rock bands. If you decide to come through Lawrence, please do not play at the Granada. Despite what you may have heard about the place getting a new sound system, based on last night’s show, your mix will sound muddled and your vocals will be practically inaudible. Though quieter acts can manage, any…
Kansas City, Kansas, police are investigating a homicide in the 3100 block of Lathrop Avenue. View Larger Map Police were called to the residence around 11:41 p.m. Wednesday. The found a black man possibly in his 30s dead from a gunshot wound. The victim’s name has yet to be released. If you know anything about this shooting, call 913-573-6020 or…
Kansas City Rep. Jason Kander had an expectation of progress on health-care reform when he took his seat in the Missouri House of Representatives earlier this year. The freshman Democrat thought a landslide victory for Gov. Jay Nixon, who put health care at the forefront of his campaign, would translate into a mandate to provide coverage for more low-income Missourians….
Each Thursday, your Crap Archivist brings you the finest in forgotten and bewildering crap culled from area basements, thrift stores, estate sales and flea markets. I do this for one reason: Knowledge is power. Going Places: How America’s Best and Brightest Got Started Down the Road of Life Author: E.D. Hill, former host of Fox News’ “I Have Nothing Else…
Kids Agriculture Learning Fest Days feature many different hands-on learning experiences that the whole family can enjoy from learning all about farm animals and agriculture through cowboys and trivia. Kevin Hartman, Kansas City Wizards soccer player, will participate in the ‘Reading Roundup’ with his children’s novel, Boots Saves the Day. Kids can participate at many different learning stations and will…
Free outdoor entertainment — it’s one of the awesome things about summer. And in Kansas City, the Heart of America Shakespeare Festival always delivers. This year’s production is the Merry Wives of Windsor. Pre-show entertainments begins at 6:30 p.m. and includes a pre-show talk about Shakespeare and the play, and performances by Paul Mesner Puppets, performing a 20-minute puppet version…
Few people might realize this, but 40-year-old Jamaican reggae singer-songwriter Ziggy Marley is a dad to five young children, which makes his latest disc, Family Time, more than appropriate. Marley brings an impressive array of guests on several tracks, including his mother, Rita Marley; Willie Nelson, who duets with him on the sweet-sounding “This Train”; Jamie Lee Curtis; Jack Johnson;…
Dreamhouse Art artists Tyler Larson and Hanz Bronze present a musical performance in conjunction with Thumbs to the Heavens, Wonder Fair’s current art exhibit. Sat., June 13, 6-9 p.m., 2009 Tags: Night & Day, Tyler Larson
Celebrate Slavic heritage in Sugar Creek! The festival is two nights of intense traditional dancing, squeezebox mastery, confectionary delights and killer Kielbasa. See http://www.slavicfest.com/directions.html for a complete schedule of events. Fri., June 12; Sat., June 13, 2009 Tags: Night & Day
