I expected something a lot dirtier when I saw the name “Santorum” linked to Congressman Todd Tiahrt. Alas, the e-mail was about the man, not the “frothy mix.” Rick Santorum — the former Republican senator from Pennsylvania who believes there’s no constitutional right to privacy in your bedroom and compared gay sex to incest, polygamy and beastiality — is lending…
A few weeks ago, Kansas City Star political reporter Steve Kraske wondered when heads would start rolling after Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon’s administration failed to tell the public in May about dangerously high levels of E. coli at the Lake of the Ozarks. The throat slashing began about a week ago when Nixon fired long-time aide Joe Bindbeutel, who is…
Why order a short stack when you can have the whole stack? Pancakes are good for the soul. It’s why everybody loves them. And so Fat City set out to discover the Top 10 pancakes in the Kansas City area. What follows is the result of a carb-laden conversation between Jonathan Bender and Charles Ferruzza. The secret to a perfect…
According to local activists, the deer in Shawnee Mission Park aren’t the only animals in need of saving — monkeys at the University of Kansas Medical Center are in danger, too. Sunday marked the start of National Primate Liberation Week, a nationwide series of protests organized by Stop Animal Exploitation Now, a non-profit based in Ohio. On Saturday, local supporters…
The confrontation this past July 7 between Lena Hess and the family of her deceased husband, Dennis Hess, was an alternately awkward and heartbreaking scene. View Larger Map The hearing, which took place before Circuit Judge Abe Shafer, was to determine whether to grant orders of protection filed by Lena against Dennis’ daughters, Michelle Cerruti and Audra Wyatt, and his…
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We’ve got a soft spot for awesome musicians in need at the Wayward Blog, and few are as awesome or as in need as Ian MacDougall, guitarist for the Riverboat Gamblers, a band from Austin that’s a favorite here in KC. Ian was hit by a car while riding his bike last Saturday and spent two days in the ICU….
That asterisk in the header for this post isn’t some way around your place of employment’s filters (works pretty well, though, right?). That’s what it says on the cover, so it’s the title of the book. If Titan Books wanted it to be called Shootin’ the Shit with Kevin Smith, they should’ve put “shit” on the cover. Whatever — semantics….
%{}% Kansas City Star and Fox Sports columnist and noted fitness expert and master gardener Jason Whitlock apologized to Rush Limbaugh for last week’s column in which he used a couple of unsourced quotes attributed to Limbaugh by Jack Huberman in his book 101 People Who Are Really Screwing America. These two to be exact: “You know who deserves…
Bands across the Internet have evidently decided that they’d like to post web-exclusive one-off cover MP3s this week. Fine by me. This is way more fun than digging through eighteen tracks of no-name indie bands to find something interesting. This MP3 is courtesy of no-name Gainesville punk band the Enablers. The do a laid-back, Drag the River style cover of…
Next week, the Kansas Supreme Court is scheduled to hear an appeal from Charles Hollingsworth III, the man serving a life sentence for hanging self-appointed homeless lobbyist David Owen in 2006. A press release from the state’s highest court says Hollingsworth is appealing on these grounds: “Whether defendant’s statements to police were voluntarily and intelligently made and whether the court…
The world of pranks has come to jelly beans with Bean Boozled Jelly Beans — the latest product from the Jelly Belly Candy Company. It’s a clever repackaging of the Bertie Bott’s Every Flavor Beans — a licensed Harry Potter candy that featured ear wax, vomit and bacon flavors. (The bacon was kind of tasty in an artificially bacon sort…
On March 15, 2010, beautiful-man rock band Bon Jovi returns to the Sprint Center as part of a nearly two-year, 135-show, 30-country and four-planet (counting Jupiter’s moon Europa) tour that is being billed as The Circle World Tour. The East Rutherford, NJ, band played the same stage in April of 2008, where they were joined by opener, Levi-filling cueball Chris…
First, a disclosure, my wife and I are one of the four community supported agriculture (CSA) members at Bad Seed Farm. As such, we have a vested interest in seeing Bad Seed succeed. Jonathan Bender wrote this post on Fat City earlier today. Since it updates Carolyn Szczepanski’s post from earlier this week, we’re cross posting. Urban farmers, community leaders…
You might love pizza, but you’re no Craig Scharoff. The Chicago Tribune has the story of the man from the Chicago area, who is 22 days into a bet that he will eat only sausage pizza in October. There’s a “low four-figure sum,” on the line as one of Scharoff’s co-workers, Ronnie Kaplan, is documenting the challenge on the LTHForum…
Anthony Glise, adjunct faculty member at Missouri Western State University and head of the guitar department at the University of Missouri, Columbia, speaks at Café Acoustic in St. Jospeh on Thursday, November 5, at 7:00pm. The title of his free talk will be “Performance Rights and Copyrights – Making Royalties in the Music Industry,” which is sure to be of…
Thirty days in jail is a steep price to pay for telling another driver that you fucked his daughter doggy style. But that’s what 43-year-old Mike Shahrokhi of Leawood (pictured on the right) is facing after a incident of road rage in Johnson County, according to Fox 4. Shahrokhi told Fox 4: “I pull up along side him, and essentially…
%{}% First, a disclosure, my wife and I are one of the four community supported agriculture (CSA) members at Bad Seed Farm. As such, we have a vested interest in seeing Bad Seed succeed. Urban farmers, community leaders and city officials gathered before a crowd of close to 100 people at Bad Seed Farm’s downtown market space on Tuesday night…
Once you get an idea of how things ought to be, it’s hard to stop thinking about it. And as documentary filmmaker Walker Lamond started to think about the kind of son he would want to raise, he began to offer pithy advice via a blog he called “1001 Rules For My Unborn Son.” The blog — a collection of…
In journalism, beginning a story with a reference to the season is clichéd. But if you’re a rapper named Stik Figa and you’re spilling reports of everyday life in the barren midwest, setting it to sublime verse over a zephyrlike D/Will beat, you can talk about the weather all you damn well want. It falls: Rain Hail Sleet Snow But…
For most of us the morning begins and ends with coffee — it is the drink that signals our animal brain that it’s time to wake up. But what would happen if you gave up coffee — especially if you’d been drinking it since the age of 10. That was the question asked by Robin Barooah, a coffee addict who…
