A foul odor coming from a van parked at 40th and Norton led to the discovery of a decomposing body on Monday morning around 8:46. View Larger Map The race and sex of the person couldn’t be determined, and the cause of death is still under investigation. Categories: News Tags: death investigation
I don’t have a gun, a trucker hat or any cutoff denim clothing. I refuse to drink PBR, I drive a Japanese car and honestly, motorcycles kind of freak me out. Despite all of this, I thought that to turn down tickets to see Kid Rock and Lynyrd Skynyrd on the Fourth of July would be decidedly unpatriotic. Sandstone was…
The Power & Light District won’t be the only place to drink outdoors this fall. Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon signed a bill last week to allow festival drinking permits in entertainment districts such as Westport, whose business leaders had been fighting for the permit for a long, long time. Fat City’s Owen Morris has more details, but here’s a primer:…
The Black Heart Procession are no longer on Chicago indie Touch & Go. Actually, very few artists are now on Touch & Go, considering they’re not releasing new music anymore. Thus, it stands to reason that the Black Heart Procession have a new label, Temporary Residence, and their forthcoming album, Six, will be on it. When you figure that Temporary…
Shon Pernice is suddenly talkative, and he’s telling the local TV news stations that he’s a victim. Pernice told KCTV 5 and Fox 4 that he wasn’t drunk (contrary to the story neighbors are telling) and the neighbor he allegedly stole a gun from threw a grain-alcohol-like liquor into his car, splashing into his eyes and hitting his children. He…
The New York Post spoiled the surprise for a victim of Bruno aka Sacha Baron Cohen. The Post talked with Paul Cameron, the chairman of the Family Research Institute, who isn’t a fan of homosexuality and appears in Cohen’s latest guerrilla comedy, Bruno, which opens this Friday. The scene goes this way: A very gay Bruno doesn’t want to be…
In the past few days, both the LA Times and San Francisco Chronicle published pieces wherein they discuss recent moves by ASCAP and other music publishers to try and gather even more money from ringtone downloads. Essentially, the argument made by the music publishing agencies is that songwriters are due two payments for ringtones. See, when ringtones are downloaded, then…
In normal times, restaurants serving normal food and charging normal prices hope to keep food costs hovering around 30 percent of their menu prices. But these aren’t normal times, and fast food chains long ago gave up the 30 percent rule on some items. Although McDonald’s doesn’t reveal its wholesale food costs, it’s safe to say that the McDouble —…
Sometime in the 1940s, right here in America, the world’s first beer commercial was televised. Now, 60-some years later, North Korea has decided to get into the game with a three-minute opus on the wonders of Taedonggang beer. To classic slogans such as “Great taste, less filling” and “Hey Mabel, black label,” you can now add “Reminds of the pure and beautiful…
Once again, the best hot dog eater in the world is an American. More than 40,000 people came to Coney Island to see Joey “Jaws” Chestnut obliterate the competition with 68 hot dogs in 10 minutes. His main rival, Kobayashi, placed second with 64 dogs. Two contenders from the Kansas City regional were in the competition. Gravy Brown, who won…
Stephen Hale’s biography lists his former occupations as a chimney sweep and an urchin diver (among other things). The Maine native also started brewing beer 30 years ago when he was 19. He put aside his other occupations when, as an assistant brewer, he helped launch Schalfly Beer in 1991. Aside from a short leave in the early ’90s, Hale…
Kansas City Star political writer Steve Kraske did a damn fine job profiling former Congresswoman Karen McCarthy in Sunday’s paper. The profile walked a delicate line — McCarthy has Alzheimer’s disease, but her past as a once shining star of the Missouri Democratic Party was marred by ethics violations (dipping into campaign money to pay for a trip to the…
Charles Ferruzza Collection Well, you can’t get a fried chicken dinner at the long-razed Green Parrot restaurant (right) which once stood at Highway 50 and State Line and didn’t serve liquor and catered “only to connoisseurs of selected foods, well-prepared.” But if you’re in a chicken-eating mood tonight, there’s alway’s Stroud’s, one of the Peachtree restaurants, Lew’s Soul Delicious Buffet and dozens…
Bizarre death in Kansas City, Kansas. KCK police found the body of a man and several explosive devices in a residence in the 4400 block of Eaton Street around 11:30 p.m. on July 3. View Larger Map Explosive devices? A body? What’s going on in KCK? The KCK PD’s appropriately named Explosive Ordinance Disposal Unit disposed of the devices. The…
Last week Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon signed House Bill 132 into law. The most publicized piece of the bill allows Kansas City “festival districts” to obtain outdoor liquor permits for special events. Previously, only entertainment districts were able to obtain such permits, and the wording on what constitutes an “entertainment district” was so narrow that the Power & Light District…
Cue that shitty Smash Mouth song — or not. David Glass’ golden goose is an all star. Zack Greinke’s peers voted him on the team — more than any other player. They should have given his record (10-4) and his ERA (2.00) and a whole bunch of other things that stat geeks would freak over. Oh, and the Royals won…
This past July 4 in Kansas City, one of the busiest street corners in Kansas City was 76th and Troost — the parking lot of 7th Heaven — where from early afternoon to about 8 o’clock, rappers, bands and herds of neighborhood people held court at the second annual Taste of Troost festival. The fest had been about seven or…
This is probably old news, considering it got hyped on Woot! last week, but we felt it worth sharing with you all. A gentleman has been kind enough to rate the saxophone solos in innumerable songs from the 1980s. Rating songs on ABCDF scale, along with notations such as appropriateness, continuity, and length, everything from Eric Carmen’s “Hungry Eyes” to…
When Scott Lin opened his stylish Asian restaurant Mandarinism at 4800 West 135th Street last year, he seemed to be doing everything right. But then, according to servers who work in restaurants in the same neighborhood, everything went wrong. “The food quality slipped and the service got really sloppy,” a Leawood waiter confided to me. “I think people just stopped…
Whistling Swedish indie poppers Peter Bjorn & John are coming to Lawrence on August 28. It’s an off-date from their tour with Depeche Mode, so we don’t get graced with Dave Gahan or some super-amazing duet on “Enjoy the Silence.” PB&J’s newest album, Living Thing, didn’t get nearly the acclaim given Writer’s Block, but it’s still a pretty solid release….
