Archives: July 2009
City Manager Wayne Cauthen sued for age, race discrimination
Now Vulcan Mayor Mark Funkhouser has someone to commiserate with over the racial discrimination and sexual harassment lawsuit against him. A couple of older, white women fired earlier this month from their jobs as budget analysts are claiming reverse discrimination and suing City Manager Wayne Cauthen. The lawsuit brought by 61-year-old Jordan Griffin and 53-year-old Colleen Low alleges racial and…
Sorry, Charles, Padma’s in charge
Variety broke the news yesterday that Padma Lakshmi, model and host of the cooking reality show Top Chef, is on the way to starring in her own sitcom. She apparently has signed a development deal with NBC for a half-hour show, in which she stars as “a woman working in the culinary world.” The working title is thought to be…
Concert Review: Incubus, the Duke Spirit at City Market
PHOTOS & REVIEW BY SCOTT SPYCHALSKI Warning. This review is written by a non-professional writer. I apologize in advance. But I am, however, a professional photographer, who brings you images from the battle zone known as the pit, and the pit was brutal for Incubus, with many crowd surfers, police taking action and a few fists thrown from men and…
He who walks behind the rows … in Colby, Kansas
This billboard of Jesus is supposed to be comforting, but I can’t help but be creeped out by the disembodied head of the savior floating in a field. It’s all a little too Children of the Corn for me. Let’s just hope the fate of Colby, Kansas, is better than that of Gatlin, Nebraska. If the kids in Colby start…
999 Drops Off Old Skars & Upstarts Tour
999 has dropped off the Midwest portion of “The Old Skars and Upstarts Tour.” The rest of the package, including Duane Peters Gunfight, is still touring, and will be playing at recordBar on July 26. This is the second act to leave the tour, as Everybody Out!, featuring former Dropkick Murphys guitarist Rick Barton ended up getting kicked off before…
Someone with an ax robbed a Comfort Inn this morning
%{}% A man with an ax robbed a Comfort Inn (7300 N.E. Parvin Road) near Worlds of Fun early Tuesday morning. The robber was described as ripped with muscles but having blue skin with a skeleton face. He was wearing a loin cloth and escaped on a giant battle panther. Here’s the police sketch. Or he was a white guy…
Tonight: Jon Yeager @ Record Bar
Of course you remember Jon Yeager. Skinny dude, longish hair and beard? Was always out at local shows? Remember or no, the former Daybird turned solo songwriter released an EP and a full-length and did some touring between 2005 and his move to Nashville in August of 2008. Yeager returns to his old stomping grounds for a show tonight at…
Found on Baltimore: Men’s dirty briefs
Would whomever left their dirty underwear on Baltimore between 17th and 18th streets please come pick them up? You’re skeeving us out. Categories: News Tags: Kansas City Date
Toddy coffee comes to Waldo
The Coffee Girls has relocated from the Crossroads to Waldo, bringing toddy coffee and an updated menu to its new neighborhood. The coffee shop, which opened two weeks ago, sits adjacent to Kennedy’s Bar. Both venues have the attractive feature of sliding glass windows that can be opened when the weather is nice. Coffee Girls also has a wraparound patio….
Breakfast Buffet: Tuesday, July 21
%{}% KC Beer Blog sits down for a Brewmaster’s Luncheon at the Boulevard Brewery and finds that beer is good for everything from poaching to braising. A look at some predictions for this year’s food trends in Kansas City shows that pig-centric and farm-to-table meals are on the rise. Sunday was National Daiquiri Day, but you can still celebrate with…
Download an 8-Bit Tribute to Weezer
Internet label Pterodactyl Squad specializes in chiptune, bitcore, 8-bit, and other music that is usually best described by the phrase “it sounds like it came from a Nintendo game.” Thus, it should come as no surprise that the label is behind Weezer – The 8 Bit Album, an 8-bit tribute to Weezer. The tracks run the gamut from mediocre covers…
New releases, Tuesday, July 21
There are so many things coming out that interest someone, I feel obligated to mention most of them. So, rather than have this post be two pages long, I’ll group them by genre, and give them a couple sentences each. If something you think is worthwhile got ignored, drop a message in the comments. Susanna Hoffs (formerly of the Bangles)…
Diary of a Madwoman: Gloria Squitiro’s tell-all diary indexed
The publishing event of the season in Kansas City has never seen official publication. We refer, of course, to It All Started When I Was Born, the fiery, ribald journal maintained by Funkhouser-keeper Gloria Squitiro from July of 2008 to January of 2009. While the 35-page diary has been debated and giggled over ever since it first turned up on…
Incubus and Duke Spirit at City Market
Around 8,500 souls streamed out to the River Market Sunday night for a KRBZ 96.5-sponsored show featuring multi-platinum rockers Incubus and lesser-known Brits the Duke Spirit.
Killa City: This is the man accused of killing the mother of his two children in Belton …
The guy on above is Michael S. Adams Jr. He’s accused of shooting and killing 36-year-old Amber Hartwig, the mother of his two children. Neighbors reportedly said Adams was in the midst of a sex change — taking hormones, using a woman’s name, wearing women’s clothing, painting his fingernails, wearing his hair in a ponytail and “growing breasts.” Adams shot…
KMBC shows you how to stalk your spouse
Loving isn’t easy, especially with all of this insecurity. Last night, KMBC Channel 9’s Kris Ketz (with the help of Tailgaters GPS) showed us how to stalk track our lovers’ whereabouts by hiding GPS devices in their cars. Ketz even suggests where to hide the device (underneath a wheel well, under a car seat, in the glove compartment). Nothing creepy…
Killa City: Odell Nelson charged with killing his brother, Dominique Nelson
Jackson County prosecutors charged 27-year-old Odell Nelson with second-degree murder Monday in the death of Nelson’s younger brother, Dominique Nelson. Witnesses and family members told police that Odell and Dominique Nelson were in an argument at a home at 5915 Indiana when Odell Nelson pulled out a gun and shot Dominique Nelson “multiple” times. Odell Nelson allegedly didn’t stop shooting…
Mayhem Festival
Mayhem Festival w/ Marilyn Manson, Slayer & more
How to win tickets to Reverend Horton Heat this Friday
As if our big, insane 496th annual (yes, the first on was in the year 1513) Pitch Music Showcase wasn’t enough late summer live concert mania, this Friday, July 24, we’re holding our First Annual Pitch Block Party. A straight-up, no-bullshit concert featuring the one and only Reverend Horton Heat, plus former Drive-By Trucker Jason Isbell & the 400 Unit,…
Renee Pernice’s mother gets custody of children
A judge granted temporary custody of Renee Pernice’s children to the mother of the missing Northland woman, KMBC Channel 9 reports. Renee Pernice disappeared in early January, and authorities believe she is dead. Pernice’s husband, Shon Pernice, has been arrested several times since his wife’s disappearance. Last week, a grand jury indicted Shon Pernice in connection with a dispute on…
New York Times profiles Kris Kobach’s fight against illegal immigration
The New York Times ran a big profile on University of Missouri-Kansas City law professor (and Kansas Secretary of State candidate) Kris Kobach’s state-by-state, city-by-city approach to fighting illegal immigration. But barnstorming the cities and states is leaving a patchwork of laws that opponents say, if he’s successful, would “cover the country in a patchwork of local immigration rules that…
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