Categories: Music Tags: halloween, Shane MacGowan
The Great Cannibal Pumpkin Haunts, horrors and things that go bump in the night were only a few of the topics that we covered in Fat City this week, including Jonathan Bender’s recollection of serving an abnormal pizza and Charles Ferruzza’s many memories of horrific Halloweens in the past, perhaps all caused by his refusal to wear a Halloween costume….
The Wichita Eagle reports that authorities in Newton, Kansas, are investigating the “very suspicious” death of Richard Schroeder, a retired former U.S. marshal. Schroeder’s wife discovered him lying in their driveway with head injuries this morning; he was later pronounced dead at a hospital. According to the Eagle: During his career as a U.S. marshal, Schroeder provided court-ordered protection for…
LeDion D. Brown, 19, was the man found shot to death in the 1300 block of North 4th Street in KCK just after midnight, KCK police say. View Larger Map KCK police found Brown shot to death inside a vehicle around 12:14 a.m. If you have any info about this man’s death, call the Major Case Unit at 913-573-6020 or…
Kansas City police are investigating a homicide at 31st and Prospect. View Larger Map Police say officers were called on a shooting and found a man shot in the parking lot near Cash America Pawn. The man was later pronounced dead at a local hospital. Police say another shooting victim was found at another hospital. Detectives are trying to determine…
Yeah, yeah. We know Pellom McDaniels is a former Kansas City Chief. But there’s more to the man than his time on the gridiron, as Casey Lyons shows us in this week’s feature story, where the ghosts of Kansas City’s past come to life. Also in this week’s issue, Martin looks at the latest tiff involving the TIF Commission —…
For the last four days, a multi-jurisdictional police dragnet has resulted in 110 arrests relating to prostitution, according to Sgt. Brad Dumit of KCPD’s Vice Squad. “It’s everything,” he tells us. “We’re going after johns, girls, guys, in-calls, out-calls, we’re going to them, they’re coming to us, in streets, apartments on the Kansas side and Missouri side.” Dumit says local…
If ever there were a man who could claim to “keep Halloween alive, honey, 365,” it’d be Alice Cooper. I’d no idea the man had anything new out, much less a perfectly suited song such as this. It’s available for download on iTunes. If you download the song off iTunes, you get a “Cooperoke” version. Record a video of yourself…
You need plans. Fat City has a recycle bin full of listings. In this post, all our problems are solved. Dust off your costume. With Halloween falling on a Saturday night, this weekend has the potential for greatness. Quaff Bar & Grill has a Night of Mayhem, with drink specials and a costume contest from 7 p.m. to 3 a.m….
Larry Johnson week is officially over. We think. We’ll keep checking the Larry Johnson Outrage-o-Meter, but unless something big happens to King Pink — like say, he gets traded or released or breastfeeds a cat — then we’re probably not touching it. But we gotta give “Comment of the Week” to a reader of this post: “Chiefs’ Larry Johnson says…
My colleague, Casey Lyons, told me about this trailer for an upcoming horror movie set in Kansas City. The plot is familiar. An idealistic couple played by Nikki and Dennis Dupont move here only to have their dreams destroyed and sink into despair and mediocrity. Happy Halloween, folks! Categories: News Tags: Kansas City Horror Movie
Over at the Woot! blog, they’ve got a mixtape made up of YouTube videos for Halloween. It’s “a bunch of really cool songs with monsters in them which never ever get played on the radio.” More than just “Monster Mash,” there’s tunes from Oingo Boingo and the Guess Who. Never thought I’d see those acts next to each other, but…
A great dive bar obeys a number of principles, walking a fine line between a standing health code violation and the place you want to be on any given night. It’s time to elucidate some of those principles in this space, so you can know if your favorite spot can be classified as a dive. A dive bar always has…
Sure, you could go as a zombie (played-out), a sexy (not as empowering as you think), or dude without a costume, but what’s the use? You’re just fooling yourself into thinking anyone will care or think anything other than “that person is amazingly lame.” Save yourself. Go as the manliest man who ever was a man, the late, great, Fred…
The final battle of the dishes for Halloween candy is a test of Brach’s new line of alternative candy corn flavors — Caramel Candy Corn and Chocolate Caramel Candy Corn. In one sense, this follows up our sampling of caramel apple candy corn just a few weeks ago — it’s taken that long for to forget what a bad idea…
It’s hard to imagine that there was a time when Americans didn’t know what to do with oil — or that it was just 150 years ago. But when oil was discovered in Titusville, Pennsylvania, in 1859, one oil-based product was “advertised as a cure for coughs, colds, and rheumatism.” A Pittsburgh entrepreneur sold Rock-Oil, ‘grease that could be burned…
A vampire doctor is central to the plot of Twilight and now life is imitating art as Dr. C.W. Smith-Burton offers the self-published The Vampire’s Guide to Good Cooking. The chiropractor/erotica author released her recipe collection in September 2008 and at first glance it would seem to fit right into the current vampire craze. The cover depicts an uncorked bottle…
Some servers love to dress up … I wasn’t one of them I did a lot of things as a waiter that I’m not particularly proud to confess. I threw tip trays at stingy customers (prom kids were the worst), I once used a foreign accent when working in a Greek restaurant (I was bored!) and more than a few…
Ingredient opened its fourth location on Monday at 1111 Main Street, in the downtown space formerly occupied by the Mango Room. The fast-casual restaurant’s concept is defined in the “formulate satisfaction” slogan from the sign: In addition to an expansive menu of salads, sandwiches, soups and pizza, Ingredient offers salads and pizzas made-to-order from a bevy of options. Salads on…
Kansas City, Missouri’s tax-increment financing (TIF) program gets criticized for enriching developers. TIF’s defenders point to projects like the “Glover plan,” which, in addition to delivering a Costco and a Home Depot, provided money for midtown homeowners to fix up their property. Housing programs have become a popular add-on to various TIF plans. The TIF plan featured in this week’s…
