A new Web site, People of Walmart, documents the wonderful creatures who inhabit the world’s largest retailer at any given moment. Today’s featured shopper visited a Wal-Mart in Cameron, Missouri, on Wednesday. This cart-pushing adventurer is letting the world know that his scissors have found an awesome loophole in the “No shirt, no service” policy. Categories: News Tags: Cameron, Walmart
Update (3:03 p.m. Friday, August 28): KCK police say the victim is 31-year-old Willie I. Washington III. Update (3:55 p.m. Friday, August 28): KCK police are looking for 18-year-old Denzel D. Jones. They’re calling him a person of interest. KCK police are investigating a homicide in the 200 block of Edgerton Avenue. View Larger Map KCK police say the victim…
My Milky Way Arms has a forthcoming album entitled Lightsaber Circuit Breaker. Chase Hill, recording under the name “Space Kill,” is the one-man force behind My Milky Way Arms. The record is a bunch of Star Wars-ian “crystal operas.” Space Kill stumbled upon a pile of elaborate glistening crystals, each one producing a specific frequency. To Space Kill’s utter surprise,…
From Mitch Clem comes the news that he “decided to finally pull my head out of my ass and finish this MSL book. I’ve set a deadline for myself to have it 100% finished in the next two weeks. Currently scanning some unpublished strips from MSL and SARC to slip in and see if anyone notices.” The strips will be…
So far, in our August-recess series of reports on local politicians’ campaign contributions from the medical industry, we’ve counted up contributions to Sen. Pat Roberts and Rep. Dennis Moore of Kansas and Rep. Sam Graves from Missouri. We couldn’t let Missouri Sen. Claire McCaskill’s week of difficult town hall meetings end without adding up her totals, too. According to Federal…
%{}% There won’t be direct deposit for employees of the Kansas City, Missouri, School District in September because the district doesn’t know how many people it employs. So they want to do a head count and have everyone getting paid by the district physically pick up their paychecks to “verify the size of its workforce and ultimately reduce waste.” The…
Don’t get too excited. The future looks like nothing but exhibition games (basketball and hockey) at the Sprint Center. But basketball magazine/Web site Dime lists nine cities that deserve NBA franchises, and yeah, Kansas City made the list. Here’s what Dime says are the pros and cons of pro hoops returning to KC: Pros: Decades ago, Kansas City was home…
Funny how things work out sometimes. I hadn’t seen the Bouncing Souls since 1999 until this past March, and by the time the year is over, I’ll have seen them three times in nine months. They’re playing the Beaumont on November 4 with Bayside and Broadway Calls. It’s their 20th anniversary tour, and so maybe they’ll continue to dig into…
10) “I don’t drink water. Fish fuck in it.” — W.C. Fields. 9) “A gourmet who thinks about calories is like a tart who looks at her watch.” — James Beard 8) “Ask your child what he wants for dinner only if he’s buying.” — Fran Lebowitz 7) “I judge a restaurant by the bread and by the coffee.” —…
Ready for something completely nuevo? ‘Cause I doubt you’ve heard anything like Minimal. The Spanish-singing Miami band fuses acoustic guitars, electronic sounds and massive drum escapades into charging, near-epic brews that call to mind bands like Gomez and Muse. Check out the videos for the intricate but hefty “El Cubo” and the riff-slugging “No Sonar.” and see if you aren’t…
Today is octogenarian radio icon Walt Bodine’s 89th birthday. We didn’t get Walt anything, but we’d like to wish him a good one anyway. Bodine is broadcasting live on KCUR 89.3 from 10 to 11 a.m., talking today about “coming of age” tales in literature. Feel free to call in (816-235-2888) and wish him well. Earlier this year, Bodine donated…
Jason Smith’s time-lapse video of Kansas City, Chicago and Oklahoma is pretty sweet. Meh, on the Coldplay song but cool video. Timelapse from Chicago Kansas City and Oklahoma from Jason Smith on Vimeo. Categories: News Tags: Coldplay, Jason Smith
Frank Bruni leaves his post as the powerful restaurant critic of the New York Times with yesterday’s column, which answers many questions, including: “Where can I get great value?” The surprise answer? Some of New York’s most expensive dining venues. Who knew? (Image via Flickr: eater_ny) Categories: Dining, Food & Drink Tags: Frank Bruni, New York Times, restaurant critic, value
Let’s party like it was 2012, okay? No, they’re not selling copies of the Mayan Calendar — you know, the one that ends in 2012, which some people (but not everyone) believe heralds the end of the world — in local stores, next to the hunky New York City firefighters calendar or the Kim Kardashian calendar. But the prophesies of the…
%{}% Spaghetti tacos are apparently better than you might imagine. A guide to which beers to bring to your fantasy football drafts and a suggestion for how to avoid drafting drunk. A list of the off-menu items at fast food and quick serve chains, including Starbucks and Jamba Juice. Nestle Toll House returns to the shelves with a new warning…
On Tuesday, I was complaining that the Japanese release of the new Arctic Monkeys’ album, Humbug, got a cover of the Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds’ classic song, “Red Right Hand.” Even though terribly overused in movies and television shows — it worked in Scream and The X-Files, now it’s just tired — “Red Right Hand” is still pretty…
As Paste reported yesterday, Huntsville, Alabama band Thomas Function is set to release In the Valley Of Sickness, its second full-length and Fat Possum debut, on October 13. They’re Goner faves, having released an album on Alive that’s nearly impossible to find on vinyl anymore, and I’ve been hearing that I need to see them for the past year. I…
This is not the way to get away from police. KMBC Channel 9 has video of a suspected drunken driver leading police on a “slow-speed chase” on Interstate 35 last night. Did you think the cops were just going to get bored and give up? They didn’t, arresting the guy at Mission and Tremont. This is not Hazzard County. Categories:…
Earlier this week, U.S. Sen. Claire “Bear” McCaskill was (mostly) able to diffuse the crowd at her town-hall meeting at the University of Missouri-Kansas City like a CTU agent. And her meeting in Warrensburg seemed like a breeze. But McCaskill’s luck ran out in Jefferson City, where good manners were lacking. Capital Calling’s Jason Rosenbaum captured the rancor and talked…
