Ooh. Check this sucker out. It’s a very simple drawing, and is still kind of badass, thanks in part to the fact that it’s got a green monster/dinosaur-type thing holding a beer. This flier was dead smack in the middle of a bunch of your usual photocopied “band image with text” fliers in front of Henry’s in downtown Lawrence, and…
%{}% Interfere with Kansas City residents’ ability to drink in public until the wee hours, and opinions will flow. Peter Rugg’s post about a proposed ordinance restricting 3 a.m. liquor licenses to areas of the city “more synonymous with convention and tourism” spun a long comment thread. There were vodka-flecked howls of disapproval as well as arguments that Westport, which…
The Walkmen, authors of one of our favorite albums/charity causes of last year, You & Me are coming to Mojo’s in Columbia, MO, on October 4. They recently premiered a weird new CGI video on Pitchfork . Here they are performing the same song in the back of Vincent Moon’s van. The Walkmen – On the Water from La Blogotheque…
Now that the August of hellish town hall meetings is over, most political junkies I know are glad that our senators and representatives are actually getting the hell out of their districts. I still don’t know what to say about Congresswoman Lynn Jenkins’ town hall meeting at the Dole Institute in Lawrence on Tuesday, but a KU political science major…
In the second free show we’re telling you about today, Mark Chesnutt will perform a free acoustic performance at the Legends on October 3rd. Chesnutt is best known for “I Don’t Want To Miss A Thing,” as well as my personal favorite, “Bubba Shot The Jukebox.” Kansas City’s hot rod country act John Joiner Band, is the opening act at…
They’ve lived parts of their lives caught in the clutches of homelessness and drug addiction, but they’re through with all that now. Men who participate in a residential program at the Kansas City Rescue Mission have teamed up with artist Richard Fritz of Storytellers Inc. to create a series of photo-collage panels that represent the journey of the homeless from…
To dickens with work! Local garage crew Bleachbloodz is playing a free show today from 3 to 5 p.m. at the Firehouse, which is either at 19th and Wyandotte or 19th and Central, depending on whether you look at MySpace or at a recent Facebook status update from guitarist Matt Erickson (who, full disclosure, occasionally writes music stuff for The…
President Barack Obama plans to speak to high school students nationwide Tuesday in a speech simulcast in U.S. classrooms. The message: Stay in school. Work hard. Oh, and stay in school. Pretty much what you’d expect, right? And pretty much unimpeachable as a reasonable concept. You tell your teenage kid to have a good day, then send her off to…
You need plans. Fat City has a recycle bin full of event listings. In this post, all of our problems are solved. You’ll need the long weekend to enjoy all of the festivals going on around Kansas City. First on your list should be the seventh annual Kansas City Irish Fest, which runs Friday to Sunday at Crown Center. Munch…
Sheriff’s deputies and Olathe police went outlaw hunting on Wednesday. The “warrant sweep” resulted in 40 arrests. The press release announcing the fruitful show of force says 24 men and 16 women were arrested. The warrant arrests included three felonies, 13 misdemeanor arrests, 14 civil violations, 12 municipal warrants, two uvenile cases and two out of state warrants, one from…
Move over Sonoma County — the latest destination spot for oenophiles is right here in Missouri. Budget Travel recently profiled four up-and-coming wine country locales and the area between Hermann and New Haven, Missouri, was on the list of getaways: What the Hermann Wine Trail lacks in size — there are only six wineries along the 20-mile stretch — it…
And once again, we bring you Friday Freebies, wherein we present things to do this weekend that won’t cost you any more than the gas it takes to get to ’em. It appears the KC Parks and Rec department is getting Labor Day weekend confused with Halloween. Both of the movies they’re presenting would work just as well a two…
I became a fan of the Ssion between the cowsuits and the stripped-down punk. Prior the 2005 World’s Worth 7-inch, the band (which began ten years ago in the mind and in the crotch of lead singer and auteur Cody Critcheloe, then in high school in his native Kentucky) had dressed in animal costumes and performed its songs karaoke-style in…
Freeway approaches are popular places from which panhandlers solicit money for gauze, chewing gum and pints of booze. The Downtown Council has decided to make some of these access points less conducive to begging. Two Downtown Community Improvement District team members held “Have a Great Day” signs near the Broadway Bridge this morning. Motorists who made contact with the yellow…
If you find yourself in a pie-eating contest at any of this weekend’s festivals, Fat City wants to give you the best chance of surviving with your dignity intact. You don’t want to end up like this blogger — hoping that your love of food is enough to get you through the competition. So here are your top five strategies…
You’ve got friends over for dinner or you’re out for drinks. When you look around the table, what do you see? The odds suggest a lot of people the same basic size and shape as you. Time examined a recent study published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, which suggests that tweens’ and teens’ eating habits might be related…
Melon soccer, anyone? The City Market, 20 E. 5th Street, hosts a Melon Festival tomorrow from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. with the regular vendors offering melons “in all sizes, shapes, flavors and colors” according to the City Market’s spokesperson Stephanie Spatz-Ornburn. The scheduled activities include melon bowling (from 10-11 a.m.) and melon soccer — from 11 a.m. to…
Gummy bears are like college roommates — they come in and out of your life with no advance notice. But even if it’s been a few years, you’re still glad to see them. It’s been a big week for gummy bears, actually. And that’s in large part to Vat 19’s introduction of the five-pound gummy bear. The mildly deformed blue,…
