Just after they moved into their new place near the intersection of Brush Creek Boulevard and Gillham Road last summer, Nate Charlson and Tami Meccan were unloading some groceries from their car. Their infant daughter was still strapped in as they hoisted out the Costco bags. All of a sudden, in jumped a giant raccoon. “It had to be 50…
Virtual moonwalk to whoever can name the location of this awesome, stopped-me-in-my-tracks-from-the-other-side-of-the-street Michael Jackson memorial. Categories: News Tags: Michael Jackson
Everyone just needs to smoke a little more weed. This was my conclusion once Damian Marley took the stage last night at the Beaumont Club with his incredible band, two military-green-clad backup singers and a guy who tirelessly waved a red, gold and green Rastafarian flag at center stage. Though there’s no smoking allowed anywhere inside (not owner Bill Nigro’s…
Howell’s Grand Opening
March Of Dimes Event
Live Music Saturday Nights
Thanks again to everyone for dropping by chez Plog this week. It’s time to crown the “Comment of the Week,” and we’re giving this crack by Emily on “KC can keep banning smoking in bars and restaurants” the win: I’ll take stale beer and piss over smoke any day. Hell, you can even throw in some vomit and expired milk….
Our friend Amy from the Wort Hog Beer Blog read this week’s “Where Is It?” quiz and correctly guessed the location of this enticing sign: The China Town Super Buffet in Waldo, which offers both Mexican and Chinese cuisine. Amy will receive a complimentary pair of bamboo chopsticks for recognizing this as no ordinary buffet, but a Super Buffet. Categories:…
Jaime Warren We’re thinking these were the Top Stories this week in Fat City: The fast food industry girds itself for next month’s minimum wage hike. We look for the Top Ten cinnamon rolls in Kansas City and learn from Fat City visitors that there are more than ten… Owen Morris sips the new Boulevard Pilsner and wonders if it’s…
Remember when Kansas City Royals general manager Dayton Moore talked about bringing character guys into his clubhouse? The Associated Press reports that pitcher Sidney Ponson tested positive for Phentermine, a stimulant and an appetite suppressant, at the World Baseball Classic. Now, Ponson’s been banned from international competition for two years. As my colleague David Martin wrote in March: Ponson is…
HOLYFUCKINGSHIT Motorhead’s coming back to KC on September 24, at the Midland Theater with Reverend Horton Heat and Nashville Pussy. If you haven’t seen Motorhead you need to see Motorhead. The Rev and Nashville Pussy are OK, too, but they’re not Motorhead. Any attempt to describe their live show will only, at best, dissolve into the type of mad surrealism…
Editor’s Note: Due to a missed connection, this entry of the Anarchy Tour Diary, which was sent on Friday, is being posted on Monday, June 29. It will be dated to the day it was sent for continuity’s sake. James Christos: What up KC?!!! We pulled in to L.A. yesterday. Got to my peoples’ crib, turned on the TV and…
Yesterday, we posted a video from the Jacksons’ 1984 Victory Tour, which started at Arrowhead Stadium. Newsweek dipped into its archives and dug up this cover story on the Michael Jackson phenomenon in the ’80s. Here’s how crazy people were for the King of Pop back then: In Kansas City, the hoopla began in June. When newspapers containing the first…
Earlier today, Fat City got its first taste of Boulevard’s new Pilsner, but neglected to reflect on lagers and lawn mowing. There’s no consensus on the perfect lawn-mowing beer, but it should be crisp, light and most-of-all thirst-quenching — a great beer to drink after a couple of hours in the heat. Porters are definitely not lawn-mowing beers; Pabst Blue…
My prayers have finally been answered and Swedish psych-rockers Dungen return to the US this summer to headline a tour with supporters Woods and Kurt Vile, as well as a selection of dates opening up for Fleet Foxes (see tour dates after the jump). Of course, I should have been more specific in my prayers, because the closest Dungen are…
If you’re still parsing your feelings about the death of Michael Jackson, these readings may help. At the RFT, Annie Zaleski remembers how when she was a kid, Michael just was. As a child growing up in the ’80s, there was no question that you liked Michael Jackson. It was just a given, a constant, something that was assumed. His…
%{}% David Glass’ golden goose Zack Grienke isn’t going anywhere. But you other guys might not be so unlucky to remain in the American League’s cellar. An unnamed AL exec told Fox Sports that “Kansas City will talk about anyone outside of their core players.” Making the list of untouchables with Greinke: Gil Meche, Joakim Soria, Alex Gordon and Billy…
The man charged with killing abortion provider George Tiller won’t be back in court until July 28. The Sedgwick County District Attorney’s Office just issued a press release saying that Scott P. Roeder’s preliminary hearing has been continued from June 30 to July 28 at 9:30 a.m. before Judge Warren Wilbert. Speaking of shooters, Operation Rescue sent out this e-mail…
The eyes staring back from the walls of the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art’s current featured exhibit are not pleading for your help. Rather, most of the Indian women and girls photographed by artist-activist Fazal Sheikh for the exhibit Beloved Daughters appear resigned to their fates, however harrowing. Some of the women don’t look into the camera at all, the outline…
Schlitz has recently had a rather successful comeback by reintroducing its original recipe and playing up its retro-chic factor. Light, simple and All-American, it represents the classic beer of a simpler time. Boulevard clearly intended to go this direction with its new American lager called Boulevard Pilsner. It’s the cheapest beer the company makes ($5.99 for a six-pack) and the…
