Anticipating increased traffic when industry in the area expands and the NNSA/Honeywell facility comes online, officials from Missouri Department of Transportation and City of Kansas City are pushing a $28.9 million road project to improve the interchange of Botts Road and Missouri 150 in Grandview. MoDot officials say the “diverging diamond” configuration is suited to handle additional car traffic, which…
Ever wish you could go back to an easier time when a man could have his hot-dog-shaped automobile flown across the Pacific Ocean in order to bring processed-meat joy to the citizens of a far-off land? Well, friends, that time may have come and gone. The Outdoor Circle, a nonprofit organization founded in 1912 “to protect and preserve the scenic…
Scott Roeder, the man accused of shooting and killing Wichita abortion provider George Tiller, pleaded not guilty at a hearing Tuesday. Excellent coverage from the Wichita Eagle’s Ron Sylvester, who tweeted the hearing. Witnesses described seeing Roeder walk up to Tiller, put a gun to his forehead and fire. The Eagle story recalls Keith Martin, who was ushering that day,…
It’s time to take your place among the greats. Many of us have always wanted to hold a Guinness World Record — but a lot of those require some amount of training and the proper certification from Guinness. Enter The Universal Record Database, which bills itself as “the definitive site for human achievement.” It’s essentially a combination of Wikipedia and…
This year’s looking bad for bikers. Already the Kansas City Police Department has recorded 10 motorcycle-related fatalities, which ties this year with 2003 for the highest number of deaths in the past decade, and we’re barely half-way through. On his blog, Kansas City Police Chief Jim Corwin says that speed has been a factor in five crashes; in two instances…
I remember when the city of Morrison, Colorado, banned Phish from performing in the mountain town for 10 years, thus barring the band from Red Rocks Amphitheater, because of the legions of patchouli-scented, dog-toting, brownie-selling hoards that descended upon the town and its limited resources in 1996. That’s why I was surprised to hear that the deputy sheriff of Shannon…
%{}% While battling cravings and gout, one customer of Popeye’s asks just how many ounces of soda does man need with his fast food? A review of Mudbug Mondays — beer and crawfish — at Jazz on 39th Street. A Fuddruckers and Buffalo Wild Wings in Overland Park have been scammed by a caller claiming that bail money needs to…
Lawrence’s Cocknoose is the most dangerous band in the world. Seriously, the band has been known for everything from starting fistfights in the crowd at their shows to a notorious incident at the Replay where a deer’s head was tossed into the crowd. Not a fake one, mind you. We’re talkin an honest-to-what-the-fuck deer’s head that had been removed from…
We featured the book Fast Geek Reader here on Wayward Blog a couple weeks back (rather lovingly, I might add) Well, the man who put the whole thing together, Charly “the City Mouse” Fasano has a reading at Prospero’s Bookstore on August 23 at 7pm. The event is called OffBeatPulp : The Pulp/Pit at Prospero’s Books. He’s still waiting for…
Fat City received a phone call yesterday morning from the concerned father of a young woman who had been employed at the original KC Masterpiece Restaurant & Grill at 109th and Metcalf. The woman, a recent college graduate, had apparently shown up for her shift at the 22-year-old restaurant — once the flagship for a collection of four “upscale” barbecue…
A man was found shot to death in an apartment hallway in the 2300 block of East 29th Street around 10:15 p.m. Tuesday. View Larger Map Kansas City police described the victim as a black man, approximately 30-years-old. Witnesses told police that they saw a white man flee the scene in a white Ford Taurus just after the shooting. In…
If you’ve ever been through Colorado’s mountains you know that elevation sickness can be a real bitch. It’s like the hangover you get from a particularly nasty weekend bender. Now imagine having to worry about it after riding riding a bike 800 miles in a week. That’s exactly what Skyler Myers is doing. And he’s torturing himself for the students of…
In July 1995, temperatures in Chicago sizzled above 90 degrees for seven straight days and hospitals were overrun with so many patients overwhelmed by heat-induced conditions that emergency rooms at 23 facilities had to shut their doors. More than 700 people died that week because of the scorching weather, according to the Center for Disease Control, and hundreds of other…
National Book Award-winning writer and literary fussbudget Jonathan Franzen, who looked a $1.5 million gift horse in the mouth by dissing Oprah Winfrey in 2001 when she picked his novel The Corrections for her book club, has now helpfully outlined the geographic and emotional boundaries of the Midwest. In an interview printed in the summer issue of Duke University’s literary…
It is with a combination of pride and regret that we announce the imminent departure from our midst of local DJ and scene-uplifter Kiko De Gallo. After moving to town three years ago and dropping beats on every dance floor in town that mattered, Kiko (real name: Francisco Asis Morillo Otero, b. Cadiz, Spain) is bound for the sunny beaches…
Last we heard from Jeffrey S. Sauerbry, he was telling then-Pitch reporter Kendrick Blackwood to stay off his property. That was four years ago. Blackwood was working on a story about the disappearance of Summer Shipp and there were a lot of fingers pointing at Sauerbry. Yesterday, a grand jury indicted Sauerbry, 36, for murder in the stabbing death of…
Newt Gingrich, former speaker of the U.S. House and the rare conservative who likes to promote new ideas, was in St. Louis today to commend state Rep. Brian Yates (R-Lee’s Summit) and two other Missouri lawmakers for a bill that targets Medicare and Medicaid fraud. One of Gingrich’s gigs these days is the Center for Health Transformation, a for-profit association…
In a guest post today that’s the top story on the sports-photography site Sports Shooter, Kansas City Star Chiefs lenser David Eulitt explains why the layoffs-beleaguered daily really, really needs him: In fact, due to the advertising downturn and the Chiefs 2-14 season last year, our paper reluctantly decided to skip sending me on the road to the final two…
When the weather heats up, you need to solve two problems: how to cool down and what to do with all those limes you bought at the City Market (it’s hard to resist when they’re six for a dollar). The answer to both dilemmas lies in one simple drink with a number of alcoholic and non-alcoholic variations — the Rickey…
Chris Milbourn of Demencha Magazine sent Wayward Blog a missive about a recent post over at the mag’s Web site regarding a piece of local hip-hop history: the missing album from Qui Lo, The Enemy: Qui Lo was a group in the mid-late 90’s consisting of Godemis (currently of Ces Cru), Joe Good (who back then went by “Dr. Who”)…
This was the second of 28 songs Black Francis, a.k.a. Frank Black, a.k.a. Brocktoon, played last night at the Riot Room in Kansas City. Check out my comprehensive and hi-larious review. For footage of the exact same moment from a different angle (ahem, farther away) but with better sound, go here. Categories: Music Tags: Black Francis, Doolittle, Frank Black, pixies,…
