Scott and Mark Wyckoff allegedly played Fritz and David Von Erich against a couple of police officers in the Power & Light District last week. Jackson County prosecutors charged 21-year-old Scott Wyckoff with first-degree assault on a law enforcement officer and 46-year-old Mark Wyckoff with felony interference for shoving a police officer who was trying to pull the younger Wyckoff…
A black man in his late teens 30s was found shot to death in the 3700 block of Olive Monday evening. The teen’s body was found in the street around 11 p.m. View Larger Map Police are still looking for suspects, so if you have a tip, call 816-474-8477. Update (3:29 p.m. Tuesday, August 11): Kansas City police say the…
Robot Chicken’s creators roller skated through Riverside last week — hawking their latest Star Wars spoof DVD. Seth Green and company even met Riverside Mayor Kathleen Rose and commandeered a firetruck. Bizarre but that’s expected with Green and friends. There’s more silliness from the RiverRoll stop on tour blog. By the way, Peter Rugg is right. Robot Chicken is the…
A man was fatally shot inside Tina’s Hair Salon Monday evening. Kansas City police say three men robbed the salon and shot a Hispanic man in his mid-30s who was working at the salon in the 900 block of West 24th Street around 6:45 p.m. View Larger Map The man was taken to a local hospital where he later died….
Eric “Mean” Melin isn’t the U.S. Air Guitar Champion. But Melin made an impression with the crowd — a couple of judges even commented that they’d see him next year (despite giving him shitty scores) — and the front page of Yahoo. Here’s his first-round performance below (thanks to JurisRocktor). I caught up with Melin, who was a little frazzled…
This just in from Kansas Congresswoman Lynn Jenkins: a schedule of town hall meetings! Jenkins is a Republican who represents the 2nd District (mostly the entire eastern edge of the state, except for Johnson County). What do you bet she’s not expecting any anti-health-care-reform disrupters? Actually, it sounds like she supports the obnoxiousness that’s been going on at Democrats’ town…
I’ll say this up front: I’m not a fan of I-hate-my-girlfriend hip-hop. I’m not much of a fan of personalizing concert reviews, either. But in bringing myself to write a positive review of Atmosphere, an underground rap group from Minneapolis who flawlessly rocked a small crowd at the Beaumont Club Friday night, I’ve had to ditch a few of my…
This so-called dessert, a camp — and kind of campy, too — concoction of graham crackers, a piece of chocolate and a marshmallow has had mixed success sneaking its way onto modern dessert menus. The late Saddle Ranch Chop House, which didn’t last very long out at the Legends complex in Wyandotte County, offered the ingredients as a dessert, but…
Yes, it did flash though my mind, shortly before I walked up to the order counter at this imacculate venue, that $3.33 was — gulp! — half of the notorious Satanic sum of 666. I tried not to let that bit of numerical trivia ruin my appetite, though. The two junior cheeseburgers were pretty big and were served on really…
Driving distracted? Not so good. Distracting drivers? Better. Distracting drivers about the dangers of driving distracted? Blog! We spotted this array of illustrations wrapping BNIM Architects at Baltimore and 14th. The 14th Street three-panel, by local artist Dave Lowenstein, depicts two drivers on cell phone approaching a central deer from opposite directions. It gets gory around the corner, where a…
I know we’ve been all kinds of video-heavy today, but there’s just so much goddamn great stuff today. Think of it as the best MTV substitute ever. Just in time to get the kids revved up for the last week of Warped Tour dates comes the video for the Architects’ “Bastards At the Gate.” It’s fresh off their Skeleton Crew…
With apologies to Alan Scherstuhl, Pitch archivist of the brilliant and the bizarre, I must share with all of Fat City my own recent historical find, a hardbound book titled Household Equipment, which I discovered over the weekend in the FleaMart. You haven’t heard of the new-ish FleaMart? It’s the clean and shiny flea emporium at 14300 E. Highway 40, in…
%{}% A toddler gets shot, and the father doesn’t want to talk. And even though 40 people were in the yard when the shooting happened, few are talking. The young girl — police say she’s either 2 or 3 years old — was reportedly shot in the spine but is now in stable condition. Who knows if it’s fear of…
We’re not shedding any tears over Carl Peterson’s exit from Kansas City’s front office. But damn, the guy knows how to play the role of father-figure in situations like Saturday night’s induction of Chiefs legend Derrick Thomas into the Pro Football Hall of Fame. Just listen to Peterson’s classy tribute (not that we expected anything less) to the late Chiefs…
Two tours hitting the area in coming months have opening acts just as entertaining as the headliners. The Dandy Warhols have a show on September 3 at Beaumont Club. They are touring in support of The Dandy Warhols ARE Sound, which is the “Director’s Cut” of 2003’s Welcome To The Monkey House. Prior to the release of Monkey House, The…
No, no, this marvelous wall painting is not from Sea World! It’s part of the exterior decor of the El Camaroncito Restaurant at 1022 Central in Kansas City, Kansas. One of our food-loving friends in Fat City visited the restaurant for big plates of garlic-grilled shrimp, noting that the camerones were the whole darn crustacean: “The whole shrimp,” she wrote…
Everyone has a dream job. Hardy Wallace just happens to have a lot of people’s dream job. The social media expert (and blogger at Atlanta’s Dirty South Wine) was recently named the new lifestyle correspondent for Murphy-Goode Winery. As one of his first stops on a barn-storming tour, Wallace hosts a cocktail hour at The American tomorrow night. Attendees will…
William Shatner was once tasked with going back in time to rescue a humpback whale — albeit to save the planet because those whales could communicate with a hostile alien race hellbent on destroying Earth. It’s not like he would later tie global warming into a public service announcement for the Sierra Club to save the whales that live off…
