A man was fatally shot in the 1500 block of N. 23rd Street early Monday morning. View Larger Map Kansas City, Kansas, police found a black man shot to death. Police believe the man is in his 40s. The man’s name won’t be released until family members have been contacted. If you have a tip, call 913-573-6020 or 816-474-8477. Update:…
Kansas City recorded its 50th homicide on Saturday. Around 11:41 p.m., Kansas City police found 52-year-old Ronald E. Whitley suffering from gunshot wounds in the 3200 block of Agnes. View Larger Map Whitley, of KCMO, was taken to a hospital where he died from his injuries. Family members told police that they thought they hear gunshots coming from the…
This week: Support the Healthy Hawks by donating old bikes and play equipment for kids in a pediatric unit; get some real facts, instead of protest-sign slogans, about Mexican immigrants’ impact in the Midwest; recycle bunny-ear TVs instead of sending them to the landfill when the digital shift finally happens; and celebrate Juneteenth in a KCK neighborhood with a proud…
Here’s a video shot after DJ Jazzy Jeff’s set was cut short in the Power & Light District Saturday night. Skillz claims Cordish cut off DJ Jazzy Jeff set because he played top 40 hip hop. Cordish claims that DJ Jazzy Jeff’s set was shut down because they feared he’d blow the system. Categories: News Tags: DJ Jazzy Jeff, Power…
Earlier today, I spoke with Kansas City Power & Light District President Jon D. Stephens about why DJ Jazzy Jeff was asked to leave in the middle of his set last night in the district. Read his explanation on the Plog. Categories: News Tags: Cordish, DJ Jazzy Jeff, Jon Stephens
Backlash continues to rise surrounding DJ Jazzy Jeff’s sudden dismissal in the middle of his DJ set last night at Power & Light. Barely 12 hours out, and it’s all over the blogosphere. Lots of people, including prominent local hip-hop scenesters, feel that it was clear-cut case of P&L’s bias against hip-hop music and those who follow it (by extension:…
As my colleague Justin Kendall reported early this morning on the Plog, DJ Jazzy Jeff had his set cut short last night at Power and Light for, I was told by witnesses, “playing hip-hop.” I was at the show, but at the moment Jazzy and his MC, Skillz, allegedly got escorted out, I was inside of Raglan freakin’ Road, buying…
DJ Jazzy Jeff was supposed to play a free show at the Power & Light District Saturday night, but after a half hour of playing clean, radio edits of popular hip hop songs (we’re told) the folks running P&L shut him down and sent him packing. Here’s what DJ Jazzy Jeff has been saying about it on his Twitter feed:…
We’re thinking these were the Top Stories on Fat City this week: Owen Morris has grainy thoughts about Grape Nuts cereal Miss Cinerama of 1957 is ready for her close-up, 52 years later Love ’em or hate ’em: Domino’s Bread Bowls Farmers Market and Dunkin’ Donuts in St. Joseph Was Coors ever really good? Categories: Dining, Food & Drink
Courtesy of Deadspin’s “deleted scenes,” KU coach Bill Self gets photographed … in a bar … on Mass Street … with a Mizzou fan. And Self ain’t happy. The Mizzou fan tried to talk Self into the picture, but no dice. Self wasn’t interested. Understandable. Nobody in the coaching ranks wants to be caught in a Larry Eustachy (this hurts…
They say that on St. Patrick’s Day in Kansas City, everyone is Irish for at least a day. The planners of the annual Festa Italiana, the three-day “celebration of Italian tradition and Italian-American culture” would prefer all Kansas Citians be Italian for the whole damn weekend. This festival was held, for many years, at Crown Center, but, several years ago, moved…
Approaching my favorite coffee shop this morning, eager to down a working-for-the-weekend triple-shot, I saw that finding a place to park wasn’t going to be easy. One groggy three-point turnabout later, I saw the reason for the traffic jam: George Brett.There, on the patio in front of Westwood Hills’ Hi-Hat, taking his morning cup of pine tar with a posse…
May 16 was the Crawl for Cancer in Westport. It’s an annual event that takes place all over the country (in 2006, The Pitch’s Night Ranger wondered what type of charity would have people “passing out midcrawl in a Westport gutter?”). Fat City has learned that shortly after this year’s event, the Kansas City Better Business Bureau suspended Crawl for…
Jackson County Executive Mike Sanders might run for mayor. Kansas City Star political reporter Steve Kraske has the dirt on Sanders’ potential mayoral run and the rumors that started circulating last week. Here’s the money clip: Suddenly, there was Sanders’ spokesman Calvin Williford on the phone with The Kansas City Star’s Mike Mansur, telling him that Sanders might run if…
…to bring you the following announcement: We are looking for another Fat City blogger. This is a part-time job that requires several hours a week not just eating and writing but also reporting. If you think you can keep up with Ferruzza and Morris, send a cover letter, a resume and three writing samples here. (Warning: Don’t call.) OK, back…
Just found out that the Justice Department is now investigating whether George Tiller’s alleged killer, Scott P. Roeder, acted alone. Here’s a snip from the Associated Press story: “The Department of Justice will work tirelessly to determine the full involvement of any and all actors in this horrible crime,” said Loretta King, head of the department’s civil rights division. Anyone…
Things blew up at the Kansas City City Council meeting yesterday afternoon, when talk turned to resolution 090436. I swear Deb Hermann was ready to eat Sharon Sanders Brooks’ face at one point. At issue was economic stimulus money for Destiny Towers, a Northland senior housing project of the Harvest Church. Hermann wanted to amend the resolution and give the…
Print this out, duct-tape it to your ribs, and hit the pit this weekend at the Beaumont for American Waste. This is an updated version of the schedule that appeared in our Q&A with Waste founder Terry Taylor. THIS is the correct schedule, as far as we know. Saturday Main Stage Diskreet 3:15 – 3:45 Hammerlord 4:00 – 4:30 The…
Maybe it’s better if you didn’t know how competitive eater Tim Brown acquired his nickname “Gravy.” But here it goes anyway: “I was given the name by Ryan Nerz because when I eat, after about five minutes I start to sweat. Like a lot. And snot comes pouring down my nose and the combination of the snot and sweat looks…
%{}% The man charged with killing Wichita abortion doctor George Tiller made a jailhouse phone call yesterday to the Associated Press, and he’s so not enjoying this whole jail thing. Scott Roeder dialed up AP reporter Roxana Hegeman for a few minutes Thursday, and he didn’t want to discuss the Tiller shooting. He wanted to talk about his feelings: “I…
REVIEW BY IAN HRABE While the Flaming Lips may have cornered the market on progressive Oklahoman music, on Thursday night, Norman, Oklahoma’s Evangelicals and the Starlight Mints set out to prove that there is more going on in that pan-handled state to the south. I entered the Record Bar with a battle of the bands mindset, equally excited to see…
