Uncommon Goods is a great place to find interesting gifts that step outside the usual. While not quite band merch, these cufflinks present a stellar opportunity to display your musical fandom in a manner suitable for high-class events. Once you reach a certain level in your career (or, let’s be fair — your significant other’s career), it’s no longer OK…
This slid under my radar until I spotted it yesterday morning on MySpace. Punk rock legends Sloppy Seconds will play their only area show with Iron Guts Kelly at the Brass Rail Tavern in Topeka. It’s a full-bore punk show in a pub owned by a punk rocker (namely, Robert “Boj” Stevens, frontman for Iron Guts Kelly). The show is…
Scott P. Roeder The Kansas City Star splashed the thoughts of Scott Roeder on the front of the Sunday paper just days before the man accused of killing Wichita late-term abortion provider George Tiller is scheduled for a pretrial hearing on Tuesday. Reporter Judy L. Thomas tried to get to the bottom of Roeder’s relationship with Operation Rescue, and Roeder…
This weekend, area film-making types team up for 48 hours of hyper-speed action, ‘cept with less Nolte and Murphy. This is KC’s second year hosting the 48 Hour Film Project, in which teams of 10 or 11 directors, writers, actors and other assorted production personnel draw a genre from a hat and then work like fiends to integrate the competition’s…
They could have named their book something sexier, but we won’t hold that against the folks at the Kansas Geological Survey, because the photos in their new book kick ass. Kansas Physiographic Regions: Bird’s-eye Views, by James S. Aber and Susan W. Aber of the Emporia State University earth science department, includes 60 photographs taken from a rarely seen vantage…
Kansas City police found a man in his mid-30s shot to death in a vehicle near 31st and Agnes around 3 a.m. Sunday. View Larger Map The man was pronounced dead at the scenes. Witnesses told police that a black man was seen running south on Agnes. If you have info about this shooting, call 816-474-8477. Categories: News Tags: homicide,…
The Pitch Presents: Supersuckers
The Wailers+Toots & The Maytals
Pitch Music Showcase Preparty
Kevin Costner & Modern West
Rock n Roll Dream Concert
We know we’re privileged, here in Plogland. Few people can say they actually get paid to do things like take a picture of a skimpy pink bathing suit and a pair of high heels lying in the street near 17th and Baltimore, make up a quiz to go along with it, then sit back and wait to see what you…
Taco Bell’s beloved, iconic Gidget These are the posts we think were the top stories this week in Fat City. Gidget dies! No, no, not Sandra Dee from the 1959 movie Gidget (Dee died in 2005) or the very-much-alive Sally Field from the 1965 Gidget TV series. Tragically, unexpectedly, the “semi-retired” former spokesdog for the Taco Bell chain went to…
The rumors are true. The one and singular David Wayne Reed will return to the Podium of Power for the second year in a row as host of this year’s Pitch Music Awards Ceremony on Sunday, August 16, at the Uptown! David Wayne will explicate sexyback. He will discourse upon the ontology of membrane insanity. He will interpret the Lacanian…
Tomorrow, the ladies of the KC Tribe Independent Women’s Football League will attempt to beat up on the D.C. Divas and claim their spot as the best women’s tackle football team in the land. Last time out, the Tribe, which finished its season 9-1 (including post-season), vindicated that one blemish in a 40-16 blowout against the only team that beat…
Back and forth across MySpace and Facebook this week has been this “is this the worst thing ever?” series of links and vids between Eric Melin of Scene-Stealers and Aaron Weber of Transbuddha. I present to you the three worst offenders. You judge as to which is the most horrible thing ever created. Is it Brokencyde’s auto-tuned crunk-core anthem “Freaxxx”?…
It’s time to log another week of work in the books. Accordingly, Fat City will look to provide you with a drink or cocktail to help you celebrate properly. The kick-off will be one of my favorites, but in the following weeks, we’ll try to leave the heavy lifting to the professionals — the bartenders in this city. In light…
Now that we’ve had a few hours to think about the city’s $550,000 settlement offer in Ruth Bates’ discrimination suit against Mayor Mark Funkhouser and the city, we couldn’t help but wonder what else we taxpayers might have done with that kind of money. Off the top of our heads, we coulda… 10. Paid for one study to help us…
It sounds like an old fratboy’s tale — just stick to vodka and you might be able to avoid a hangover. Washington Post writer Jason Wilson sadly didn’t heed his own advice and discusses waking up with the “mother of all hangovers,” following a five-day foray into the Tales of the Cocktail convention in New Orleans. When a spirits writer…
%{}% In what’s becoming a clear case of Shon Pernice v. The World, the Star reports the embattled (presumably) single father pleaded not guilty in Clay Superior Court today to two misdemeanor counts of child endangerment and two felony counts of witness tampering following an alleged night of drunken belligerence on the Fourth of July. Mon dieu! What won’t he…
