Is this a question to ask Dear Abby, Miss Manners, Dan Savage, or the readers of Fat City? A friend of mine called today to say he walked out of a restaurant before the food arrived because he had been waiting for over 40 minutes for a simple lunch, the service was lousy, and the music played over the sound…
There’s been some concern percolating in the media and blogosphere — and Wall Street! — lately about the decision by Starbucks to raise the prices of some of their products — you know, those “complex” drinks like fancy, Venti-sized lattes and such. Other, less complicated coffee drinks will see a slight price decline. Will loyal Starbucks patrons stay loyal if…
If you’ve seen a dark green 1995 Chevy Monte Carlo with Missouri plates KD4-R1L, then Kansas City police want to talk with you. Kansas City police say the car, occupied by several black men, is suspected to be involved in the death of Robert Moran at 3021 N.E. 37th Street. If you’ve seen the car, call 816-474-8477. Update: Police found…
…and it’s my own damn fault. A friend and I went to the annual festival celebrating Kansas City’s cultural diversity through music, food and imported gift items. We stopped by the festival, held at Swope Park, on the last day — Sunday afternoon — and it was very hot, but the festival wasn’t uncomfortably jam-packed. There were, however lines at…
“Fill ‘er up” means something else here — but gas may result You can’t get leaded, unleaded or Ethyl at this station. But you can get a catfish sandwich. Where is it? Categories: Dining, Food & Drink Tags: Where is it?
I once read an article in Rolling Stone where they called Collective Soul this generation’s 38 Special. Rabbit is the name of their new album. “Weird Al” Yankovic’s Internet Leaks EP hits iTunes today. Yes, it’s a digital-only release previewing the next “Weird Al” full-length, which will hopefully see release sometime next year. The five-song EP has “Whatever You Like,”…
Thanks, KCTV Channel 5, for never letting the facts get in the way of some good, scary hearsay. After teasing Monday’s 10 p.m. newscast with the onscreen graphic “Overland Park woman raped in parking lot” (that’s a paraphrase, but consider the CSI: Miami audience hooked), Channel 5 opened its broadcast not with that or with coverage of Sen. Claire McCaskill’s…
Kansas state Sen. Chris Steineger showed up at a committee meeting Monday with a black eye, sources tell The Pitch. Sources also confirm that on Friday night, Steineger got into an argument about health care at Breit’s Stein and Deli, a bar in Kansas City, Kansas. Steineger, a Democrat who is considering a run for governor, didn’t return a phone…
If November comes and Jesse “Opie” Ross hasn’t been found, it’ll mark the third year since he vanished on a model UN trip to Chicago. His brothers in UMKC’s Lambda Chi Alpha are trying to keep his memory alive, and they’ll keep trying tonight at the Lambdapalooza concert and food drive at the University Playhouse. Part of the night’s events…
The King Khan & BBQ Show officially announced their next album, Invisible Girl, due out in November 3 on In the Red. It’s the follow-up to their fucking awesome 2006 release, What’s For Dinner?, also on In the Red. The only thing that the duo has released since then has been a couple singles — a holiday split with the…
“Wanna do music with a positive Jesus message, but go on about dying & whatnot,” asks a recent, Northland-based Craigslist ad : “maybe sing about getting saved, then turn around and do a song about mutilation, maybe go old testemant on them; the eye for an eye, tooth for a tooth business.” If any of that strikes a chord, then…
The condition of the man shot by two gunmen outside of a building at 6301 Rockhill Road yesterday afternoon has been upgraded to “serious but stable,” Kansas City police spokesman Darin Snapp tells The Pitch. View Larger Map Two men shot the 30-year-old as he left the building, which houses “probation and parole offices, rehabilitation services and the Boys and…
It’s the slurping. Or that sound like somebody’s eating pretzels despite the absence of anything crunchy on their plate. Everybody is annoyed by the eating habits of family members, friends or dinner guests. The Word of Mouth Blog on The Guardian’s Web site has an essay on why we’re driven crazy by certain sounds and the lengths to which some…
Last week, KISS announced that its new album, Sonic Boom, is to be sold exclusively at Wal-Mart. Is this further evidence of what the Chicago Tribune’s Mark Caro referred to as “the death of the record store”? Caro also asked if a rock band selling an album exclusively at a big box store counted as a sell-out. I think it’s…
Ten years after the death of fiendishly soulful frontman Mark Sandman, the people still steering Morphine’s ship are doing us all a service. This October 6, Rhino/Ryko is not releasing a bloated, repackaged boxed set of hits that have been deep-fat fried and cooled on paper towels for devouring. (Though, admittedly, I’d gobble that up.) Instead, they will roll out…
The story of the man who threatened to shoot up a Northland Wal-Mart went from scary to sad real fast. The guy’s neighbor told KSHB Channel 41 that the 35-year-old man is harmless, depressed and coming to grips with having terminal cancer and only two months left to live. “He’s not a threat to anybody,” Kyle Barousse told 41. “He…
It’s time to go where you’ve never gone before: your pantry or that cupboard that’s filled with dry goods that you haven’t touched since you moved in. Tonight you are not going to eat out. You’re going to make a meal from what you’ve got on hand — and it’s going to be good. Recession Wire has 10 tips on…
This past Friday night at the Granada was a series of surprises large and small. Large: The headliner, Chicago-duo the Cool Kids, gave a decidedly un-cool performance. Small: Kansas City artist Steddy P. is far more beastly onstage than he is on wax. Sadly stricken from the formal record of the evening’s festivities is Topeka’s Stik Figa, who reportedly got…
Master plumber and Republican National Committee chairman Michael Steele knows that you gotta clean out the crapper but doesn’t know how to stop his verbal diarrhea. After agreeing wholesale with Springfield conservative talker Vincent David Jericho’s assessment of Congressman Roy Blunt as an adulterer and that the Republican Party needs new leaders in a radio interview Friday, Steele is back…
We’re trying something new here at the Wayward Blog. In an effort to reach out to and make bridges between us and other media outlets, we’ll post playlists and charts from various area radio outlets that are making tastes. For this first edition, we’ll focus on KJHK’s weekly charts (since they’re back in the swing of things after their summer…
Thanks to some savvy cross-promotion between Pepsi and MTV, a bunch of KU students are going to the Pepsi website and watching videos, all while thinking about drinking sweet, sweet pop. MTV’s got the Video Music Awards coming up next month, and as if the near-constant West Side Story themed ads weren’t enough, they’ve got a contest going, where viewers…
The health-care town-hall meeting yesterday at UMKC’s Swinney Rec Center was classic Claire “Bear” McCaskill. The senator from Missouri, having already stood through enough angry town-hall meetings to witness a white hillbilly tear up a black woman’s Rosa Parks poster, knew how to handle the crowd. Signs weren’t allowed inside the gym, so at first glance it was a little…
Thanks to the very sweet comedy, Julie & Julia, the late Julia Child is finally at the top of the bestseller list, 48 years after Mastering the Art of French Cooking was first published. Have you seen the film yet? It’s very endearing and Meryl Streep is amazing as the indominable Mrs. Child. The biggest laugh during the film,…
Leonard DStroy ain’t been lazin’ this summer. The local DJ who built his rep alongside Brother of Moses in Deep Thinkers and collaborates with just about everybody in the scene from his roost high up in the INnatesounds Crew barn has a slew of sounds for you to right-click on, starting with an unreleased DTs track. It’s from the Thinkers’…
