Did you know there was such a thing as a Kansas City hot dog? No, it doesn’t involve barbecue sauce. According to a report on this morning’s CBS Early Show featuring Real Simple magazine editor Sarah Humphries, there is such a thing as a “Kansas City Dog.” The dog is described at cbsnews.com as a “take on the Ruben” —…
We posted that Tee Pee Records sampler earlier this week, and no sooner does that go up than we discover that Tee Pee band Nebula is coming to town. With a penchant for Fuzz-wah pedals, wild drums and debauchery, Nebula plays feedback-heavy, guitar-driven psychedelic rock in the tradition of The Stooges, MC5, Jimi Hendrix, and Cream— laced with the spaced…
Dolce, the upscale dance club and tapas restaurant at 1520 Grand Avenue, is being taken over by new owners. “We are processing an application now for a sale of an existing business,” says Gary Majors of the city’s Regulated Industries Division. Jay McNamara is taking over the space and turning it into a club called 15Twenty. Joe Simone, Dolce’s former…
Charged last week with four counts of first-degree murder for his alleged role in a quadruple homicide in KCK, Adrian Burks is now also being investigated in connection to a 2005 Adrian Burks homicide in California. Burks, 37, was arrested by San Diego County sheriff’s deputies in 2005 after the murder of Chaleta Robertson, 29. Robertson’s relatives told police she…
Last week, an astute reader e-mailed Fat City with an idea we’ll call the Change Pub Crawl. The idea is to see how long and how far you can drink using only as many quarters as you can fit in your pants pockets. When you run out of quarters, you stop drinking. The perfect for starting such an endeavor is Stables…
Once a week, Wayward Blog brings to you an MP3 of music from the area’s musical past. Since Danger Bob has decided to grace Lawrence with their first show in over six years this fall, they seemed to be the logical choice for this week’s Throwback MP3. Danger Bob holds a special place in my heart, because they were the…
The RecruitMilitary Career Fair is coming to the Uptown Theater in Kansas City on Thursday, July 23, according to Karen Galvin of RecruitMilitary, LLC. The event is free for veterans and their spouses, who are invited to interview with national, regional and local employers from 11:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. A list of the companies confirmed to attend so far…
We’re all about hooking you up with free tunes this week, huh? Once summer hits, all the record labels want you pumping their jams through the car stereo, the front porch, and the beach, so they offer up a slew of sampler downloads. For the most part, these sampler comps take the place of the CDs you used to grab…
I received an e-mail from C.B., a Fat City reader, today with an unusual request. He wants a bialy, the chewy yeast roll that was once a staple of Jewish-American delicatessens. The Food Lover’s Companion describes the roll as “round and flat with a depression in the center…sprinkled with sauteed onion before baking. The name comes from the Polish city…
For years, researchers and psychiatrists and psychologists have been performing studies to show that we consumers aren’t a very bright bunch. How they loved to laugh when subjects were all given the same wine but told it cost different amounts and, surprise, the price affected what people thought of it. Or when people were able to resist more pain because they…
Dave Helling of The Kansas City Star today reports that the Kansas City Police Department spent $2.1 million in the last fiscal year on more than 100 vehicles that aren’t ready for the road. Most of the new cars and vans are being warehoused at the overhaul base at the Kansas City International Airport, waiting to be fitted with radios,…
Meet Bingo Bob. Bingo Bob takes his job — calling the bingo games in the tiny dining room adjacent to the salad bar at the Hy-Vee at 1525 E. 23rd Street in Independence — very seriously. Bingo Bob sings, tells jokes and calls those bingo numbers every Tuesday, from 1:30 to 2:30 p.m. and his weekly appearance always draws a…
Rep. Paul LeVota is the Minority Leader for the Missouri House. His brother, lawyer Phil, apparently aspires to be Kansas City’s Dave Coulier. Phil and co-host Jennifer Plas (who, according to her Web site, was Topeka’s Holly Starr back when Starr was in diapers) are launching The Power of KC, a Saturday morning show that is expected to debut July…
Fat City turns one year old next week. Birthdays are always a fun time, and if you play your cards right, they can be a perfect opportunity to get free stuff from restaurants. The blog Rambling Hussies has put together a list of metro-area chains that honor birthday boys and girls. For lunch, you could have a free sandwich from Planet…
Here’s some new stuff from Datura Music: Smoov Confusion’s release Stan’s Boy. Smoov’s part of the Soulservers, so it’s not surprising that this release is equal parts singing and rapping. Approach, who put it out, has the following to say about Stan’s Boy: “Ya’ll ain’t ready! It’s so raw, it’s so right, it’s so damn SMOOV!” There’s a review of…
In the culinary world, new terms are constantly being added. Culinary writer Josh Friedland has been gathering up interesting ones he’s come across in articles and blogs and has compiled them into a handy reference guide on his blog The Food Section. One word that’s started to pop up in conversation, and which the Food Network has popularized, is recessipes:…
Kansas Congressman Todd Tiahrt and his perfectly coiffed hair want to repeal the federal economic stimulus plan. Last week, Tiahrt started running TV commercials (did you know he’s running for U.S. Senate?) saying so. We’ve mentioned that maybe Tiahrt would like to try to balance Kansas’ budget without those funds, which got us thinking: How hard would it have been…
The problem with learning about wine is that there is so much to learn. People will make the mistake of trying to learn everything from one book or over the course of a special dinner, and come away with their slightly tipsy head overloaded with information. Which brings up another reason why it’s hard to learn — it’s only fun…
The second video from the Midwest Music Foundation’s first “Stay Tuned” Concert at Davey’s Uptown is up. Check out the The Afterparty below. Look for the next Stay Tuned video of Hipshot Killer in a couple of weeks. And mark your calendars for their next Stay Tuned Concert at the Record Bar on Saturday, August 15th with Making Movies, Expassionates,…
I ran into Rocky Varela in the parking lot of scionLAB, the auto-sponsored event space in the alley behind 19th and Locust. His Bob Berdella shirt just begged for an explanation, which, of course, is the point. Varela, it turns out, designed the shirt to promote a movie about the Kansas City killer, Berdella, set to premiere September 10th at…
%{}% The fallout from the Domino’s mac-n-cheese bread bowl continues as people talk about it in life-altering terms. A little tip on making wontons — they continue to brown even after you take them out of the oil. KC Irish Fest volunteer numbers are down. And the festival is pretty much run by volunteers this isn’t good. So if you or somebody…
