“How you doing?” Judge Joseph Locascio asks a drooped-faced defendant on a Thursday afternoon in Part G of the Municipal Court building. In most other courtrooms, he’d of asked, “How do you plead?” But this is drug court, one of the city’s newest tools in its fight against drug-related crime and recidivism, and Locascio presides over the courtroom not only…
If you’re like me, you’ve thought, “I’d go to church once and awhile, sure — IF THEY SERVED BEER.” Then Pastor Timmy Gibson’s got our number. He’s the head of Mercy Church (formerly the Olathe Life Fellowship), and starting Wednesday, September 16, he’ll be hosting services at Abe & Jake’s Landing on 8 E. Sixth Street in Lawrence at 9…
Fat City’s Jonathan Bender forwarded a question from reader Valerie, who is looking for a kind of restaurant that hardly exists anymore: “I’m in search of a restaurant,” she wrote, “where a couple can have a romantic dinner and then dance afterwards.” And not just any kind of dancing, but romantic post-dinner dancing. So, is there such a restaurant? Well, the…
West Bottoms haunted houses The Beast and Edge of Hell opened last weekend. But Full Moon Productions, the organization behind the frights, needs volunteers for a pair of charity spook houses — The Macabre Cinema and the Chambers of Edgar Allan Poe — that raise money for The Dream Factory. Auditions and interviews take place today and tomorrow (September 10)…
If you lived in Lawrence at the end of the ’90s and attended a benefit or house show, you saw the Sugaddies. The band, which featured a full-blown horn section, played some serious deep-down funk, was sort of the collegiate version of the Band That Saved the World. The Sugadaddies played the Bottleneck, but I’d say the majority of the…
The concept of molecular mixology is not as well known as molecular gastronomy — likely because of some combination of a non-equivalent marketing push (think what Top Chef did for molecular gastronomy), the public’s resistance to double-digit prices on cocktails and a bunch of bartenders who choose to make drinks without labeling the process. Tales of the Cocktail 2009 explores…
%{}% O’Fallon loon (and, more important, Missouri state rep) Cynthia Davis traveled to Orange County, California, for a hearing in Orly Taitz’ civil lawsuit against President Barack Obama because Davis still believes that the president wasn’t born in this country. That’s fine because I don’t believe that Davis was born on this planet. There’s even video! Skip to the 7-minute…
Whether you’re tailgating or parked on the couch, food goes with football. There is something satisfying about overeating while watching someone else operating at peak physical efficiency. With college football headed for its second weekend and the National Football League slated for kickoff tomorrow night, you need to get serious about your snacks. The preseason is over, so it’s time…
The award-winning chef, who oversees the kitchen at the family-owned Jasper’s Restaurant and is one of the official Cheese Ambassadors for Wisconsin Milk Marketing Board and continues to host his popular Saturday morning radio show, Live From Jasper’s Kitchen on KCMO-AM has added a few more responsibilities to his already overflowing platter. That includes promoting his newest cookbook, Jasper’s Kitchen…
It’s about time spirit drinkers got a new goal. The idea of mug clubs is well established. You get a discount for having a membership at a brewery or a card that is stamped as you try each of the beers on draft or in bottles at a given bar. This is often a laudable goal for beer enthusiasts —…
The Kinks’ frontman and primary songwriter, Ray Davies, had the ambitious idea to collaborate with the 65-strong Crouch End Festival Chorus at the 2007 BBC Electric Proms in London to create The Kinks Choral Collection. The album is due out November 10 on Decca. The BBC’s already heard it, and their reviewer Sid Smith didn’t like it one bit, saying…
Never read Elizabeth Gilbert’s Eat, Pray, Love, but I’m told it’s a big deal. Something about getting divorced and traveling around the world and working out issues. Good for her. So I’m guessing that it’s an even bigger deal that Gilbert is coming to Unity Village in Lee’s Summit on October 6 for a lecture and VIP reception. If you…
Richard Melville Hall, alias Moby is taking a night off from his current tour to drop by the Beaumont Club for a DJ set on Friday, October 2, courtesy of the Buzz and U:Move. $20.65 pre-sale tickets are available now through 10 p.m. this Friday, September 11, via Ticketmaster. (Password: MOBYGO) Moby’s ninth and latest, Wait for Me, has been…
After addressing schoolchildren yesterday, President Obama will address a group that only acts like children tonight in the prime-time hour when he tells Congress about his plans for health-care reform. In anticipation of the president’s speech, Health and Human Services Secretary — and former Kansas Governor — Kathleen Sebelius released an audio preview. Listen to Sebelius’ monotone delivery yourself or…
The AdHoc Group Against Crime hosted its second meeting on gangs last night, which was designed to let the two dozen or so folks in attendance how gangs work. Gangs in Kansas City are cut up by blocks and the mish-mash sounds like a drawing for PowerBall. There’s 43, 33, 39, 51, 12, and when those last two combine, Five…
You figure cows wake up screaming to images of Rocky punching sides of beef in a freezer. But people, well, we struggle with an entirely different kind of meatmare. The Food Section considers vegetarians’ “horrifying visions of meat or the (troubling) experience of eating meat” with tales culled from an online forum called Veggie Boards: “I had one a few…
Perhaps running a “complete” CMF 5 schedule in the print Pitch this week wasn’t such a good idea. Heh. After the paper went to press, festival organizer Bill Sundahl found out that one of the venues, Madrigal, won’t even be open on the day of the festival due to “liquor control issues.” So, ignore the schedule on page 28 this…
Kevin Smith’s next film might just be his horror flick inspired by Topeka’s anti-gay preacher Fred Phelps. In an interview with Sci-Fi Wire, Smith says his long-anticipated first horror film Red State might just be up next. Sounds like there was a communication breakdown between Smith and producer Jon Gordon. Smith wanted to secure the money for the film first….
You probably haven’t thought about Wheaties recently — you haven’t thought about the 1984 Olympics either, which was when Wheaties probably peaked. But General Mills is hoping to change all that with today’s introduction (at 1 p.m., according to the Facebook page) of Wheaties Fuel — an athlete-tested, souped-up version of the standard cereal. It’s a radical move for “The…
%{}% After a rowdy family ruined a quiet dinner out at Stroud’s, this blogger is tired of children roaming wild in restaurants. A round-up of Tweets, blog posts, and photos covering the KC Irish Fest this past weekend. Ever wish we could go back to a more innocent time — like the days in which Robocop was used to sell…
The Kansas City Wizards have called Community/America Ballpark in KCK home for two years. The soccer franchise may just be making KCK its permanent home in Village West. The Kansas City Kansan reports that the Wizards are working on a deal with Wyandotte County’s Unified Government and the state of Kansas to move to KCK. So much for the billion…
