America’s raunchiest comic Bob Saget is coming to the AMC Midland on November 19, and it’s not going to be all G-rated golf-ball-to-the-nuts humor. If you’ve never seen him do stand-up, here’s what you’re in for (NSFW and all that): Tickets go on sale Friday at 10 a.m. For good measure, here’s Saget’s Aristocrats joke (again, NSFW). Categories: News Tags:…
Matt Fraction moved to Portland? Didn’t know that until I read this Los Angeles Times interview with Fraction, the author of Marvel, er, Disney’s(?) Invincible Iron Man and Uncanny X-Men. It’s a good interview in which Fraction talks about writing dialogue for the Iron Man 2 video game, dropping out of school and finding inspiration in the U.S. invasion of…
Independence’s annual festival celebrating its unique place in history — the starting point for the Santa Fe, California and Oregon trails — as seen through the lens of Pitch Clubs Editor Berry Anderson.
While some people were up to Irish shenanigans or drunken tomfoolery at one of the various festivals happening across the metro this past holiday weekend, many Christian kids engaged in sober fun at Starlight Theater last Friday and Saturday. Mostly out of curiosity, I trekked out to the tenth annual Rock the Light Christian music festival on its second, sunny…
Okra is like politics — you’ve probably got a strong opinion, whether you’re willing to share it or not. But before you cast your vote, consider the possibilities for this shopping-cart candidate. Most okra is green, but right now you can get purple okra at farmer’s markets. The color change might help win over some folks who think of it…
%{}% Roy Edroso’s Rightbloggers: Exploring the right Wing Blogosphere appears courtesy of our sister paper in New York City, Village Voice. Several days ago, the White House announced that President Obama would address kids returning to school via the internet. As he told an 11-year-old in a press opportunity, his September 8 speech would be about “the importance of education,…
%{}% A tutorial on how to brew wheat: Boulevard starred on a segment of the Discovery Channel’s How Stuff Works. A review of Dortmunder Gold — a golden lager that’ll make you want to get in the car and get to Cleveland, Ohio as fast as possible. Forget those cheese-filled chocolate Easter eggs. Cadbury PLC has rejected a $16.7 billion…
Horror rocker, horror film director, and now horror fashion model — Rob Zombie is a multi-talented individual. Now this is news at its softest, but there is something inherently hilarious in seeing a man who’s written songs like “Superbeast” and “Black Sunshine” dressed up and making up with the sad model face. Add in the work he’s done on the…
Danko Jones’ Never Too Loud is more of the same from the Canadian three-piece. It’s good, but after listening to the album a couple times, it’s become clear that Jones’ sexual braggadocio is starting to wear a little thin. KISS did it to death with stuff like “Love Gun” and “Dr. Love” nearly 30 years ago. Listening to Never Too…
Here’s this year’s Kowtown Custom Greaserama, as seen through the lens of photographer Scott Spychalski.
Late last week, City Auditor Gary White released his latest Citizen Satisfaction Survey. These documents say a lot about our city, and Mark Funkhouser has said the surveys will be one of the significant ways in which he judges his performance as mayor.The new survey shows that, compared to how they felt in 2008, Kansas Citians are slightly happier in…
Blink-182, Weezer, Taking Back Sunday, the Republic Tigers and others descended upon Sandstone on Friday, September 4 for the KRBZ-sponsored Buzz Beach Ball.
Watching what I think was TMZ The Anton Chekhov Hour, I came across this spot for Kansas City, Kansas, Community College. (Sorry for less than Cinemascopic quality.) What makes this spot strange and creepy? The slow pace and wide radius of the head turns, maybe. Also, the turns need to end in bigger smiles — only Phoung didn’t need another take….
“Be a pro,” former Chiefs head coach Herm Edwards liked to say. But it’s hard to be a professional football player when a team coming off of a dreadful season thinks you can’t play. The Chiefs cut down the roster to 53 players on Friday. Among those to feel the ax on their thick necks were 2008 starters Damion McIntosh…
A black woman in her early thirties was shot to death at the intersection of Admiral and Tracy on Monday evening. View Larger Map The woman was found suffering from a gunshot wound around 8:27 p.m. She was taken to a local hospital and died hours later. Detectives were interviewing “a possible suspect,” police say. If you know anything about…
After this, just eat something No one likes a hangover, particularly in Fat City, where food and drink are celebrated 24 hours a day. That means, unfortunately, that hangovers are inevitable for some of the merrier residents here. Inspired by this, Jonathan Bender and Charles Ferruzza created a list of the Top Ten Places to Dine While Hungover. Poet John…
This meal is all about peace, not peas Deb McLaren wants to change the world or, at least, talk about changing the world. McLaren, who sells fresh fruit to local restaurants from Fieldstone, her father’s orchard in Overbrook, Kansas, recently returned from a trip to San Francisco where she hung out at the Peace Cafe, the meeting place at the…
A couple of Fat City readers have written to say how much they like the little Middle Eastern carry-out joint, Gyro House at 240 E. Linwood, tucked into half of the building that was once occupied by the original Lamar’s Doughnuts location on Linwood Boulevard (the eastern side of the building, where Ray Lamar sold his iconic doughnuts for decades,…
Want to worry about humanity? Drop 12-inch action figures from the roof of a hotel. Kansas City recently host an international G.I. Joe convention, and Peter Rugg was there to document the Cobra chest tattoos, the sailor outfits and the power of one-sixth-scale military items to make a child of divorce feel a little less sad. Rugg’s piece begins with…
