The Kansas City Police Department gets to keep recruiting class that graduates next month after all. The department scored an $8.3 million federal grant through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act that will pay for 28 recruits (dubbed the department’s “most diverse class ever” by Chief Jim Corwin) and 22 additional officers. In May, Corwin wrote on his blog: “The…
When ice cream and climate control technology are combined, the results are slightly controversial and unexpectedly delicious. Inhabitat recently featured The Cloud Project — an ice cream van that has been retrofitted with industrial water sprayers that release a mixture of liquid nitrogen and ice cream. The van was the graduation project of artists Zoe Papadopulou and Cat Kramer and…
OK, here’s a mea culpa. The crazy ax-wielding guy apparently wasn’t ripped with blue skin and a skeleton face (or wearing a loin cloth and riding a giant panther). Independence police say this is the guy, Vincent W. Williams, and Jackson County prosecutors have charged the 54-year-old with first-degree robbery and armed criminal action. According to court records, Williams went…
James Barnes, professor of music theory and music composition at the University of Kansas, received a 2009 Teaching Music Award from the MENC: The National Association for Music Education. Barnes was formally recognized in a June 22 ceremony during MENC’s Music Education Week in Washington, D.C. Members of the MENC leadership nominated the recipients, who received trips to Washington, D.C.,…
A few members of the Scarritt Renaissance Neighborhood Association are peeved that Parks Board commissioners failed to seek their input when they decided to rename Benton Circle in honor of the late Ruthanne Harper at their June 23 board meeting. The traffic circle at St. John Avenue and Benton Boulevard, which lies within the boundaries of the Scarritt Renaissance Neighborhood,…
There are differences, sometimes barely noticeable, between two dishes that look exactly alike. Egg rolls, come to mind. Or a slice of apple pie. Today we taste and consider frozen custard. Not the ne plus ultra of local frozen custard, the independently owned and revered Foo’s Frozen Custard, which is in a category all its own, but the two national chains —…
Somewhere along the way, man forgot that nature is his biggest foe and decided that we needed to conquer food in a match of wills. The eating competition is taking on a revered place in society. Earlier this month, thousands came to Coney Island, and millions tuned in on ESPN, to watch Nathan’s Famous Hot Dog Eating Contest, where professional…
The trick to saving money in Kansas City turns out to be asking for deals and doing a bit of advance planning. The KC Penny Pinchin’ Mama, aka Tracie Fobes, laid out some of the simple ways you can keep more money in your pocket while shopping and eating in the City of Fountains. The first place to look for…
%{}% Expect a lot of coverage in the papers and TV newscasts today, tonight and tomorrow on the court hearing for Scott Roeder, the man accused of assassinating Wichita late-term abortion provider George Tiller while he was ushering church. The Wichita Eagle’s Ron Sylvester is Tweeting the crap out of the pretrial hearing so you can follow along in real…
KCTV 5 investigative reporter Ash-har Quraishi used Jedi mind tricks to get to the bottom of why Kansas City police were staking out Chief Corwin’s pad around the clock June 15-19. Police spokesman Rich Lockhart told Obi-Wan Quraishi that Corwin was on the other side of the world at an FBI conference in Australia, and one of Corwin’s underlings made…
%{}% You can’t complain about not being able to find a decent drink within a few hundred miles of Kansas City after reading Scoot Utopia’s list of 101 libations. Just Me transforms a surplus of cucumbers into pickled cucumber curls. Lawns across the city are turning into vegetable gardens as people are considering the cost of food in light of…
There’s nothing coming out today. Seriously, I scoured pretty much every list I use to put this thing together: Categories: Music Tags: Blur, new releases, rolling stones, RX Bandits
Right after Black Francis took the stage at the Riot Room before a packed-in, wet, sweaty, capacity crowd last night at the Riot Room, I had a sweatlodge vision. Lo, I looked above the auxiliary bar and saw a floating bench, and upon that bench, clad in towels wrapped around their waists, were seated D. Boon, Elvis and Johnny Cash….
Virgin Mobile USA is going to get some Sprint Nextel stink on it. The Overland Park-based telecom is buying Virgin Mobile USA for $483 million. Hope this merger goes smoother than the last one. Categories: News Tags: sprint nextel, Virgin Mobile USA
John Doe & the Sadies are basically the world’s greatest country cover band. Last night’s show at the Bottleneck proved that. From the opening strains of “Stop the World (And Let Me Off),” made famous by Ms. Patsy Cline, through numbers such as Marty Robbins’ “Big Iron” (which has “El Paso” beat all to shit — I don’t care which…
Oh, my god, did you hear how much money we’re going to spend on socialized health care? It’s going to bankrupt the nation! The Democratic Party’s in chaos! Moderate “Blue Dog” Dems in the House are wavering! If Congress doesn’t vote on health-care reform by the August recess, then Barack Obama’s done! Talking points courtesy of the Republican National Committee….
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. Tackle, Block, Stop Author: Charlotte Graeber and Joe BoddyPublisher: Thomas Nelson PublishersDate: 1985 Discovered at: Actually, this was a Christmas gift a decade ago The Cover Promises: Get…
But it’s the almost-forgotten “Mr. T & Me” books series that marks T’s greatest achievement in goodhearted strangeness. Just check the titles and dream: Why didn’t’ your parents love you enough to treat you to The Muscle Tussle?
Word has been spreading around the metro that Wilco has booked a show at the Crossroads KC at Grinders on October 6. But did you know that you can send your request to Tweedy and co. now? That’s right, you don’t have to wait until you’re plowed at the show to begin yelling out … um … wait. What songs…
Well, these were the five most horrible questions I heard during my years as a waiter — and, to the best of my memory, my immediate responses. 1) “Um, there’s a mouse under our table, it just ran over my shoe. Can you catch it?” My answer: “Yes, but let me move you to a different table first.” (You know,…
We see some odd stuff through the floor-to-ceiling windows of The Pitch office. But today at about 3:45 p.m., we saw the world roll by. It was tethered to a man named Erik Bendl, who was tethered to a big, tan dog. The dog, Nice, wore boots, and seemed unenthusiastic about hoofing it down Main Street in the heat of…
A creamy soft-serve shout-out to Fat City commenters fikedogg and Karen Geary for correctly figuring out the location of last week’s Where Is It? photo. Reader fikedogg correctly guessed that the sign stood in front of what used to be a Dairy Queen at 15902 East 24 Highway. But — as Karen Geary knew — nearly a year ago, the building…
