Archives: June 2009
Now Hiring: Dollar Tree and Pride Cleaners
This big “Now Hiring” sign is up at the new Dollar Tree in the Old Westport Shopping Center at Westport Road and Southwest Trafficway. Maybe this funky urban strip mall is a harbinger of economic recovery. Pride Cleaners has had a sign up in the window for awhile now. The clerk there told us the company has opened some new…
More on the death of doctor George Tiller and suspect Scott Roeder
%{}% Prosecutors have yet to file charges against Scott P. Roeder, the man suspected of shooting and killing abortion doctor George Tiller at a Wichita church Sunday morning. They won’t be filed Monday. Tiller, serving as an usher at Reformation Lutheran Church, died from a single gunshot wound. Roeder was arrested on I-35 yesterday afternoon. Roeder’s 1993 powder-blue Ford Taurus…
St. Louis band releases free Randy Newman covers EP
Lou soul-rockers Jon Hardy & the Public, who have graced our blog in the past, have just dropped an all Randy EP that features covers of “You Can Leave Your Hat On,” “Little Criminals,” “Memo to My Son,” and “Short People.” Download the whole thing as a zip below or as individual tracks at A to Z. ZIP (18.3 MB):…
Dump the Funk crew makes recount request official
For those interested in the minutiae of recalling oversized novelty Mayor Mark Funkhouser, I’ve posted the letter from Harris Wilder asking City Clerk Vickie Thompson to recount the more than 21,000 signatures — they came up just 129 signatures short. After the jump, the letter. Categories: News, Politics Tags: Harris Wilder, Mark Funkhouser, Recall Mayor Funkhouser
Rockfest Backwash: Tweets, tats, tits and randomness from the show.
We reviewed the experience, now its time to see what has washed up on the Web since hard rock hooligans took over Liberty Memorial Park this past Saturday. But first, check out this amazing and oddly MO-centric (apparent) prison tat. Viral video-wise, I haven’t found anything to compare with last year’s video of a hooligan taking on the cops, but…
Incoming: Stull at Love Garden, June 9
Joel and Shawn of Lawrence doom metal group Stull were kind enough to post a MySpace bulletin alerting everyone to their upcoming show at Lawrence’s Love Garden Sounds next week. They’ll be playing their rip roaring guttural anger spewing into decadent stoner apathy with Florida’s Dark Castle, who are touring in support of their recent Spirited Migration release on At…
Tonight: Adam Lee & the Dead Horse Sound Co. at Knuckleheads (+MP3)
Breaking news: Today, after work and after whacking the parrot or feeding the wife or whatever it is you do between getting off work and heading out ‘n carousing, you, sir or madam, are going to Knuckleheads. Here’s why. Those two charming bastards are Johnny Kenepaske (left) and Adam Lee who comprise one of KC’s coolest new bands, Adam Lee…
Go to the zoo, and get a snack for 100 cents.
This blog has been updated — it contained some misinformation before because I misread a press release from the Zoo. Sorry! Feel like going to the zoo? Starting today, Mondays are a cheap time to mingle with the animals refresh yourself at the Kansas City Zoo. In honor of the Zoo’s 100th anniversary, admission is only $1 certain snacks are…
KC vigil for slain abortion doctor Monday night
A candlelight vigil for George Tiller — the Wichita abortion doctor killed while serving as an usher at church Sunday — is scheduled at the J.C. Nichols fountain, 47th and Main, for 8 p.m. Monday, Blog KC says. There’s more on Facebook. Join the ACLU, Planned Parenthood, NOW and other pro-choice advocates in Kansas City TONIGHT to honor the life…
Which day should be national wine day?
Name a food and chances are it has its own “national” day. Granola bars — January 20. Cheese fondue — April 11. Spumoni — August 22. Last Friday Fat City featured coq au vin Day. You may not have realized it when you woke up but today is National Hazelnut Cake Day and Friday is National Doughnut Day (more on…
Dump the Funk crew wants a recount
%{}% This afternoon, the group pushing the recall of oversized novelty Mayor Mark Funkhouser will ask the city clerk to recount the more than 21,000 signatures — and after an exhausted sigh, she’ll probably agree — and then they’ll pray that 129 more valid signatures. Spokesman Harris Wilder says: “The City Clerk and her office have been wonderful throughout this…
Was Coors ever really good?
I’m not bragging but I’ve probably seen Smokey and the Bandit 20 times* but it wasn’t until reading this article in GQ that I put two and two together and realized that the beer Smokey is transporting — the point on which the plot begins and turns — is Coors! Coors might not have much cache today but that wasn’t…
Phone number found inside car of man suspected of killing George Tiller belongs to woman who plotted 1988 clinic bombing
KMBC Channel 9 captured this shot of a phone number to anti-abortion group Operation Rescue inside the car of Scott Roeder, the man suspected of shooting and killing Wichita abortion doctor George Tiller Sunday morning at a Wichita church. The phone number is written on an envelope with the name “Cheryl” and “Op Rescue.” Cheryl is Cheryl Sullenger, Operation Rescue’s…
FDA about to get “smack-down” power
After the peanut recall, the spinach recall and the swine flu, it looks as if members of Congress are finally serious about overhauling the FDA. The Food Safety Enhancement Act of 2009, introduced by powerful Congressmen Henry Waxman and John Dingell, would fix many of the problems that have plagued the agency for the past eight years. Among other things,…
Concert Review: Rockfest 2009. Saturday, May 30, at Liberty Memorial
Did you know that Rockfest has its own set of rules? That’s right. The (allegedly) largest one-day music festival in the country, sponsored by KQRC 98.9 The Rock had screens set up in the back of the venue stating the rules of decorum for the sold-out crowd, which was supposedly 50,000 deep. The Ten Commandments of Rockfest: 1. Thou shalt…
Rounding up some summer cookbooks
As this weekend’s weather proves, things are already starting to get unbearably hot. With the summer season come roughly 1,000 reading lists, including several focused on cookbooks. According to both NPR and the New York Time’s list, the majority of cookbooks this summer will focus on basics, comfort food and growing your own food. Gone are the hedonistic days of…
Fox News’ Bill O’Reilly really didn’t like George Tiller
Categories: News Tags: abortion, Bill O’Reilly, George Tiller
Crash photo from 20th and Main post-Rockfest
Ooh. Someone’s insurance agent was busy Saturday night. Snapped this photo at 20th and Main following Rockfest: . Categories: News Tags: 20th and Main, rockfest
An evening of Har-B-Q
It was just after 6 p.m. and the centerpiece of this year’s Har-B-Q — an ice sculpture weighing more than 300 pounds — had just been set in place. Like most objects at the event, it didn’t take long for the sculpture to be put to use involving alcohol. Attendees lined up for liberal pours of Cactus Juice, Hot Damn…
Breakfast Buffet: Monday, 6/01
%{}% Coming face to face with a wheat allergy is scary when you realize just how many things you have to give up. Several interesting places to eat lunch in central Johnson County. Yes, such places do exist. Some brazen $2 rule-breaking is going on at Power & Light District, committed by none other than the Kansas City Police. How…
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