KMBC Channel 9 has the saddest story you’ll read today. Angela Stuteville, a 31-year-old Northland woman, started showing signs of the H1N1 flu before giving birth to a baby boy. A month later, Stuteville died. From KMBC: She developed acute respiratory distress syndrome, which has a high mortality rate and is a condition that can be brought about by the…
Saturday night’s nostalgia-fest at the Scottish Rite Temple was meant to draw out all the “grown ‘n’ sexy people,” which, as it turns out, is a dwindling cohort in KC. Maybe some ran into trouble scoring a babysitter on a Saturday night in order to check out the lineup of Shock G (of Digital Underground), Naughty By Nature, Slick Rick…
%{}% Art Modell once joked that NFL owners were Republicans who acted like socialists. Yet conservative talk-show host Chris Stigall insists that liberals can’t be true football fans. Dissecting the most recent Chiefs’ debacle with play-by-play man Mitch Holthus on KCMO 710-AM, Stigall described spending the weekend in Chicago. Being around so many Bears fans and so many Democrats put…
Use the other sink to wash your hands before breakfast… Every restaurant patio needs a festive re-thinking of the lowly bathroom sink, don’t you think? Where is this one? Categories: Dining, Food & Drink Tags: Where is it?
Old Mozzer’s of the old school: when you release a single, you put a b-side on it. Thus, because Morrissey’s released 13 singles off his last 4 albums, he’s got an album’s worth of b-sides. That means that those of not into collecting a bunch of songs that we already own on albums just to get a bonus song can…
At times, it seems that only pirates would be comfortable in the world of beer sales. It’s a cut-throat, competitive marketplace, in which the major breweries duke it out from the moment a bottle leaves on the delivery truck to the time it arrives on store shelves and in refrigerated cases. But is the cost of competing distribution networks ultimately…
If you’ve ever heard a promo for an upcoming KCTV Channel 5 investigation — especially during sweeps months — you’ve heard the voice, urging you to watch tonight’s story at 10, because it will change your life. It goes something like, “Tonight on KCTV 5, we reveal an investigation that will blow … you … away.” The voice belongs to…
As stadiums have developed into architectural marvels, granting people incredible 360 degree views and changing the skylines of cities, expectations for concessions have dramatically increased alongside the number of seats. So when the Dallas Cowboys unveiled their $1.15 billion stadium, it’s fair to say that excitement about the food being offered was fairly oversized. But when the Dallas Morning News…
The American Royal’s celebration of “agrarian values” paraded through the streets of downtown Kansas City on Saturday. Photographer Scott Spychalski captured the action, including parade winners (congratulations to the Schlagle, Gardener-Edgerton and Kearney high school marching bands!). Here’s a curb-side close-up of what you might have missed. Categories: News Tags: parade, The American Royal
We’re right at the cusp of cold and flu season — and normally you’d be stocking up on chicken soup and orange juice. But you might consider shelving your grocery staples in favor of something that seems like it came straight out of the apothecary — electuaries. Alison Stein Wellner, a writer for The Atlantic, decided to look into the…
Want to see some folks just get up on stage and blow? KKFI’s Blues Harmonica Showcase comes to Knucklehead’s on October 4 at 8pm. Levee Town will host a blues harp blow-out concert featuring some of KC’s finest blues harp players. There will be Jimmie Meade, Levee Town’s own harp player, as well as Texas bluesman Lewis Cowdrey, who Real…
No one erased the address books, phone numbers and text message before selling Missouri Tigers basketball coach Mike Anderson’s cell phone, and now a guy who bought 25 cell phones from MU for $190 is holding them for a $3,000 ransom, the Columbia Daily Tribune reports. The info on the phones doesn’t sound scandalous … so far. One cell phone,…
Strawberry Cream … a nice pie, if you can find one Yes, Monday, September 28 is National Strawberry Cream Pie Day. There are lots of places in town to find cheesecake with strawberry sauce (including Winstead’s) or baked berry pies, but strawberry cream pie? I feel fairly confident that the Village Inn Family Restaurant in Mission — that great cream…
It was supposed to be a standard guest appearance. Chef/television personality appears on morning talk show to promote her last cookbook. Piece of cake, right? Well, that was the problem last week when Paula Deen stopped in at The View. Barbara Walters forgot for a minute that the insipid roundtable was not 20/20 and laid into Deen for her Cookbook…
Last Friday, police chased a stolen flat-bed truck hauling John Deere Gator from Overland Park to the Kansas City International Airport. Kansas City police say these three are now charged in Platte County with resisting arrest (William L. Wards Jr is charged with a felony and Nancy L. Delaval and Gregory C. Bullock are charged with misdemeanors). The Johnson County…
Roy Edroso’s Rightbloggers: Exploring the right Wing Blogosphere appears courtesy of our sister paper in New York City, Village Voice. Over the nine months of his Presidency, Obama has taken fewer hits from rightbloggers on foreign than on domestic issues. For one thing, despite a timetable for withdrawal in Iraq, he hasn’t changed much from the Bush era (to the…
After a successful soft opening this weekend, Brookside’s new Julian (6227 Brookside Plaza) is up and open for all comers to check out food “that won’t break the bank, monetarily or calorically,” according to Chef Celina Tio. “I wanted to create a restaurant that I would want to eat at. It needed to have the right price point, a chef-driven…
REVIEW BY ELGIN SMITH Booker T. Jones is a name that has become synonymous with things like soul music, the Hammond B3 organ and Stax Records. It’s a name that people recognize, not only because of the man’s playing but also because of his songwriting, his arranging, his producing and his contribution to American music as we know it. Mr….
The American Royal brought its annual celebration of “agrarian values” to the streets of downtown Kansas City on Saturday, April 26. Photographer Scott Spychalski caught some of the action (parade winners are now listed at americanroyal.com — congratulations to the Schlagle, Gardener-Edgerton and Kearney high school marching bands!). Here’s a curb-side close-up of what you missed.
%{}% A toast to Boulevard for capturing a gold medal with Zon at the Great American Beer Festival. Hot Blog on a Stick discovers the White Trash Burger in Minneapolis — and orders a particularly well-named beer. If you got customer service representatives from Oscar Meyer and Wonder Bread on the phone, could you solve the hot dog bun/hot dog…
This Friday, Union Station will open the doors on its Andy Warhol exhibit. The traveling review of the pop art king’s work is the largest collection of Warhol’s prints to ever be exhibited. But it remains to be seen how many people will buy tickets for the show, no matter how good it is. “Out initial estimate was 25,000 but…
Saturday was kind of a downhome sort of day at the Spacek household. We’d made homemade chili and cornbread and then listened to A Prairie Home Companion while we canned homemade pickled peppers. What other way do you end an evening like that but by going to see some Southern Culture on the Skids? Evidently, this was a popular thought,…
