%{}% A straightforward but tasty-looking recipe for eggplant-tomato sandwiches. A visit to Swagger (8431 Wornall Road) yields perfect onion rings and a great beer selection — including Boulevard’s Tank 7. The Booze Death Calculator for those pondering their theoretical limit in appletinis. A peek at what former chef contestants on reality television shows are doing now. Categories: Dining, Food &…
Right now, on Amazon, you can look through 1,120 songs for free download. Seriously — go to this page, and you can sort through enough free songs to fill an iPod…well, my iPod, at least. Barsuk Records offers up tracks from the majority of their artists, from Death Cab For Cutie to Say Hi, and Def Jux does the same…
If either the Avett Brothers or Railroad Earth had covered “Five Feet High & Rising” on Saturday night, it certainly would have been appropriate. As it was, the crowd that was at the Crossroads showed an amazing amount of fanatical dedication. Through not one or two, but repeated torrential downpours and lightning scares, the crowd never wavered or thinned. They…
During an interview with CBS’ 60 Minutes last night, dogfighting impresario and Philadelphia Eagles footballer Michael Vick never named the federal penitentiary he was locked up in for eight months. In the video below, which appears to be an outtake from the the TV interview, Vick is talking about crying in Fort Leavenworth. Watch CBS Videos Online After the jump,…
Missouri’s first two-time governor, Warren E. Hearnes, died Sunday night at his home in Charleston. Hearnes, 86, served as governor of Missouri from 1965 to 1973, during the civil rights era and fought for — and won — more money for education and mental health services. More:Prime Buzz: Former Gov. Warren Hearnes dies at 86KMBC Channel 9: Former Missouri Gov….
You’d never know it from watching the news, but there has been some actual town-hall-style dialogue about the complicated medical, economic and policy issues surrounding healthcare reform. When Congressman Emanuel Cleaver tried to hold one of his regular meetings with constituents last week, protesters converged on the Lee’s Summit coffeehouse with a vengeance, demanding that their voices be heard. Why…
When I was 15, my friend Lindsey and I would sneak out of summer camp to smoke skinny, leaf-wrapped cigarettes called bidis. They came in exotic-looking, triangular packages decorated with pictures of whatever they were supposed to taste like — vanilla beans, strawberries — though they mostly just tasted like burning. We felt satisfyingly rebellious, even though I’m sure we…
1. The slurping sound coming from the West Bottoms is Kemper Arena sucking up about a million taxpayer dollars. 2. The Kansas City Chiefs still suck. Long season ahead for Matt Cassel. 3. U.S. Sen. Kit Bond feels “like a mosquito in a nudist colony” trying to pick his battles. Despite e-mails to the contrary, he’s still denying getting the…
More bloodshed in Kansas City this weekend with two homicides in Kansas City, Missouri. The first homicide victim was an employee at a Cricket Wireless store in the 5100 block of Bristol. The employee — a white man in his thirties — was found dead in the backroom of the store on Saturday around 1:43 p.m. A witness told police…
Since one of this week’s Top Stories from the Fat City is our list of the Top Ten Cafes to write a Novel, we thought it was time to take a more literary approach to this weekly list of potent past posts. Some critics of blogging insist that this mode of internet communication is driving readers away from reading the…
Like Morrissey, the more we ignore Phill Kline, the closer he gets. When Justin Kendall pointed out yesterday that Kline’s August 11 blog attack on “Obamacare” put the ex-Kansas attorney general just a little to the right of David Koresh’s Branch Davidians, fur flew in the comments. Take, for example, “Allen”: When government says,”thou shalt have an hysterectomy or vasectomy…
I’m pretty sure the words strange tang have never showed up in a Kansas City Star column by noted fitness expert and horticulturalist Jason Whitlock. But “strange tang” does make a cameo in his latest Fox Sports column, in which the things on his mind include Pussy Galore, “General Custer at the Battle of Little Bighorny,” and Barack and Hillary…
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The Kansas City Police Department is getting even more stimulus money. Kansas City’s share of the Barack bucks is $2.55 million, which a release says will go to keep police on the streets and “civilian support positions.” Other stimulus lottery winners: Jackson County: $1,130,734 Independence: $416,746 Grandview: $90,600 Lee’s Summit: $62,699 Blue Springs: $43,276 Raytown: $41,572 Sugar Creek: $10,050 Add…
In news sure to warm the hearts of cocaine aficionados and strip club patrons everywhere, Buckcherry comes to the Beaumont Club on September 19. In even greater news, it’s all ages and doors are at 6:30pm, meaning you can bring the kids to hear such lyrics as: “Hey! You’re a crazy bitch But you fuck so good I’m on top…
Hey, I found something just as bizarre as those Geoffrey Crozier videos from yesterday. It’s a gentleman by the name of Medan auditioning for Indonesian Idol. Instead of the usual audition material here in the States (where Miley Cyrus’ “The Climb” is most popular), they get a little weird in Indonesia. Below, you can watch Medan audition with an amazingly…
It never fails to amaze me when record labels give up their stuff for free. Similar to what Magic Bullet Records did, but not to such an extent, it’s starting to become the norm for smaller labels to offer the occasional release for free, if only for a limited time. Well, it appears Dangerbird Records offers up the bonus disc…
