A grand jury indicted Shon Pernice on Tuesday for two felony counts of witness tampering and two misdemeanor counts of endangering the welfare of a child in connection to an run-in with his neighbors on the Fourth of July (Pernice claims he was the victim). Police arrested Pernice, the husband of Renee Pernice, a missing and presumed dead North Kansas…
ODV’s monthly get-together is tonight. In December Fat City attended the unpretentious wine-group’s event at The Drop and was amazed at the people’s hospitality and willingness to guzzle wine on a Thursday night. For this month, the group has chosen relatively new bakery/chocolatier The Sweet Guy in Waldo. Tickets for the event are $21 in advance and $25 at the…
Once the domain of high-end restaurants and the super-rich, many food delicacies are not only now for sale online, they’re in abundance. Some of the fanciest foods are available at plebeian prices. Witness the price-slashing at Amazon’s Gourmet Food Store which acts as a middleman for high-end retailers to sell chocolates, coffee, steaks, cheeses and other items. For its summer…
Can’t wait for the music showcase on August 6? Neither can we, and that’s why we’re throwing a little pre-party tonight that’ll give everyone a small but potent taste of the eclectic awesomeness that is the Pitch Music Awards (and, by extension, our town’s music scene). Actually, I’m not sure whether this party was planned by our savvy marketing people…
%{}% An informative explanation of the bond between mother cow and calf, including the different milk the cow produces after birth. Community supported agriculture is great but sometimes it can be a challenge to eat all of the vegetables a CSA provides. Much to scientists’ chagrin, the ubiquitous 5-Hour Energy drink probably works and is probably not dangerous. What’s the…
Chicago punk rock legends (and one of my most favorite bands ever omg) Naked Raygun announced that they’ll be recording new music. As an added bonus, they’ll release it as a series of seven inch singles. “The band will be headed into Transient Sound Studios in Chicago, Illinois to lay down tracks that will eventually be pressed on a series…
Before I get started, I’d like to say that I had no idea the Onion’s AV Club had a column of the same name. I’m a badly informed geek, evidently. So, if you’ve a name you’d like to suggest for the feature, drop a note in the comments. This week’s book, King Dork was written by Frank Portman, better known…
ESPN’s Outside the Lines has a massive feature story on the fall of former Royal Willie Mays Aikens, who was sentenced to 20 years and eight months in federal prison for drug and gun charges. The story, by former Star sports reporter Elizabeth Merrill, follows Aikens’ life post-prison, and it all reads like The Wrestler (estranged daughters, unsure of what…
A double dose of bad news from Harley-Davidson. This fall, the motorcycle maker’s Kansas City plant will lay off 400 people and shut down for 14 weeks this fall. Sorry, easy riders. Categories: News Tags: Harley-Davidson
McSweeny’s imagines the ’77 Kansas City Royals holding the Sonia Sotomayor confirmation hearing, and the boys in powder blue want to know her thoughts on the in-field fly rule, how strictly she construes the rule about pine tar on bats, and if it”s OK to waterboard Tim McCllelland. Of course, Hal McRae throws shit, George Brett screams about his ass…
Summer isn’t quite over, yet. The good news for folks in KCK is the Schlitterbahn Vacation Village waterpark finally opened Wednesday evening. The Schlitterblog says the waterpark’s official “sneak peek” opening of “13 signature Schlitterbahn attractions encompassing more than 24 slides and chutes” for a discount price starts at 10 a.m. Thursday. Oceans of Fun just got a powerful enemy.Image…
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. Public Health and Social Security in the USSR Author: Either an upbeat cadre of Soviet propagandists or, for you FOX viewers, Obama with a time machine….
The movie Wilson is the summer feature in the National World War I Museum’s The Great War, The Great Movies film series. Wed., July 22, 2 p.m., 2009 Tags: 690, Night & Day
The Mystery Train rolls into Westport this evening when Californos (4124 Pennsylvania, 816-531-7878) hosts the murder-mystery dinner-theater event Drawn to Murder. The show is loosely based on Laugh-O-Grams, the creative animated workings that the young Walter Elias Disney created for Kansas City moviegoers in the early 1920s. Theatergoers receive a four-course meal during the show and instructions on how to…
Kids are notorious traders, swapping baseball cards, toys, video games and even candy in serious prepubescent deal making. But the trade-off at today’s Backpack BBQ is that area children get backpacks filled with school supplies; the grown-up donors get a hot dog, chips, a cold drink and the satisfaction of having helped the community. The second-annual Backpack BBQ, from 3:30…
The free performance is the culmination of StoneLion Puppet Theatre’s 2009 series of Green Day festivals throughout the region. The performance will feature giant ant puppets, a sixteen foot tall picnic basket, enormous dancing flowers, acrobats, a children’s chorus and an appearance by Mother Earth. Also featured is a giant picnic blanket constructed from quilt squares decorated by Kansas City…
Documentary photographers must be detached from — yet connected to — their subjects. This is accomplished by Fazal Sheikh with his Beloved Daughters, approximately 70 black-and-white photos organized by the Princeton University Art Museum and on display at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art. The exhibition is composed of two projects: Ladli examines prejudices against young women and girls; Moksha looks…
No discounts are available for this last home game of the season for the Kansas City Explorers. Watch the Bryan Brothers, the number one men’s double’s team, in action on the side of Kansas City. See kcexplorers.com for more information. Sat., July 18, 7:35 p.m., 2009 Tags: Kansas City, Kansas City Explorers, Night & Day
Lovers of legitimate musical theater and lovers of Adam Sandler: We come to you today to heal the bitter wounds that divide you. To the former: We understand that there is a certain poetic beauty in a world where feelings are expressed in rapturous song, and, yes, urinating on oneself is stooping a bit low for a joke. To the…
Jon Reep, the star of the ABC series Rodney and winner of NBC’s Last Comic Standing, does a two-night stand at Stanford and Sons. Prepare for down home jokes about being a hick from the guy who played one (in a trailer) in the movie Harold and Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay. Fri., July 17, 7:45 & 9:45 p.m.; Sat.,…
Black-and-white images of people and technology — an uneasy combination — peer out of 10 windows around the intersection of 14th Street and Baltimore starting today. Lawrence artist David Loewenstein has installed 10 paintings in the ground-floor windows at BNIM Architecture (106 West 14th Street, 816-783-1500). Large enough to be viewed from the street, the graphics look like giant woodcuts,…
National Bestselling Author ReShonda Tate Billingsley will be in Kansas City on her national tour for her latest book, The Devil is a Lie. Her first book, Let the Church Say Amen, is currently being made into a movie,with actress Regina King as the director and the author acting as the executive producer. Wed., July 22, 7 p.m., 2009 Tags:…
Get a little crafty at Californo’s during Design & Wine. $17 gets you appetizers, wine and a relaxed setting in which to create your own 1154 Lill Studio Handbag. Tue., July 28, 6 p.m., 2009 Tags: Night & Day
It’s impossible to think about Chris Isaak without getting the refrain of “Somebody’s Crying” stuck in your head — the prototype for all his best mournful, brokenhearted yowls about the women who’ve done him wrong. Alternately, you might picture the chisel-faced singer rolling in the sand with Helena Christensen in the clip for “Wicked Game,” a perpetual favorite on VH1…
