Kansas City, Kansas, police are investigating a homicide in the 1500 block of Georgia Avenue. View Larger Map Around 12:55 a.m., KCK police were dispatched on “armed disturbance” call. When officers arrived, they found a black man dead inside a residence. Police have yet to release the man’s identity or manor of death. They also haven’t released any suspect information….
%{}% Whether it was the light drizzle, crisp temperatures or their military training, the veterans on the big, blue biodiesel bus got right to the point when they stopped at Liberty Memorial last week. “Climate disruption is a clear and present national security threat,” Rafael Noboa, a former Army sergeant from Colorado, said. “The U.S. cannot afford to wait.” The…
The big story of the weekend was the Kansas City Star’s look into one of the most powerful men in Missouri politics: political consultant and former lawmaker Rod Jetton. It’s a must-read story that looks into campaign donations to Jetton’s clients, especially those coming after controversial votes and allegations that Jetton is more of a lobbyist than a consultant, thus…
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Carva Lee White, an itinerant preacher and convicted felon, has been implicated by federal authorities in an arson scheme. An indictment unsealed in U.S. District Court in Kansas City, Kansas, says White set fire to a church in Leavenworth where he was working as a music director. White intended to embezzle the insurance money, according to the indictment. White, the…
I listen to the radio when I drive around town, and I flip between Hot 103.3 Jamz and 95.7 The Vibe because they both play “urban” music (though The Vibe has always been more on the lighter side of things — Lady Gaga and Black Eyed Peas — than, say, KPRS’s Lil Wayne and Drake). But yesterday, The Vibe played…
Pitch writer Carolyn Szczepanski traveled every inch of 63rd Street to tell the stories of the people and businesses on the historic stretch. Also in this week’s issue, Martin examined the claims that Kansas City needs another hotel to capture convention business. Harper gave the new Flaming Lips disc a spin. Ferruzza tasted Ra Sushi. And Scott Wilson tries to…
You need plans. Fat City has a recycle bin full of event listings. In this post, all of our problems are solved. It takes some time to make a good batch of chili and that’s why the Lenexa Chili Challenge starts on Friday night at 5 p.m. More than 100 teams are expected to compete in this year’s event, with…
A-Ha announced yesterday that they were calling it quits after 25 years as a band: The group have announced they will mount a farewell tour before disbanding. Only the final date, in Oslo on 4 December 2010, has so far been confirmed. “We are retiring as a band, not as individuals,” the band reassured fans in their statement. “Change is…
Score. Har Mar Superstar is coming to the Brick on November 11. For those not familiar with the sex-jam homunculus who out-Timberlakes Justin by out-Jeremying Ron on the dancefloor, well, your life is about to change ever so subtly but oh-so permanently. Famous for strutting on stage in nothing but briefs while kicking out catchy, clever, R&B-flavored bangers (“Power Lunch”…
Kansas City’s downtown renaissance was on display again with last night’s NBA preseason game. It came a week after KCPT-TV aired The Next American Dream, which our David Martin called “part history lesson, part infomercial” after watching the doc’s premiere. Martin wrote: Funded by the Greater Kansas City Area Development Council, Dream paints a portrait of a city a bit…
Do the teppanyaki chefs still put on a show at GoJo? Larry and Barb from Lake Waukomis, Missouri, e-mailed us this week with an intriguing question. “We’ve gone to GoJo’s since it opened and still enjoy the food. But there’s no show anymore,” wrote Larry, noting that when teppanyaki steakhouses like GoJo were all the rage in Kansas City, “most…
Never mind what we said earlier. From the Crossroads at Grinders Web site. Unfortunately, due to unseasonable weather and a deteriorating forecast for this evening, tonight’s Ghostland Observatory and Glitch Mob concert at Crossroads KC has been postponed until a later date. Tickets originally purchased for tonight’s concert will be honored at the rescheduled date; however, if you wish to…
%{}% Earlier this week, ex-Missourite and transit wonk Clay Chastain lit up Union Station with some memorable oratorical fireworks to promote the newest version of his old idea: Kansas City can only be saved from itself and propelled into the future if its people are carried around by light rail. The whole press conference reminded me of the famous Monorail…
It’s not often that party animals and families are both excited about the arrival of a new restaurant, but Fran’s Restaurant — a 24-hour diner opening in the Power & Light District today — has something for everybody. “It doesn’t matter who you are, you are going to like something on this menu, it’s huge,” says general manager Kandice Jenkins….
Even though Friday Freebies this week was a great big bust, that doesn’t mean there’s not a bunch of cool events at which to make an appearance. Here are a couple shows we’ve neglected to clue you in to, and which deserve your consideration for a night out. First up is Popfreeradio’s Third Birthday Party. It takes over the Riot…
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. There isn’t much in the way of free stuff this weekend. I’d recommend hitting one of the many pumpkin patches around the area. I went with a large gathering…
Union Station celebrates the art of chocolate Everyone loves chocolate — right? That’s what the management of Kansas City’s Union Station is counting on as it opens Chocolate The Exhibition (the show and the tour were developed by Chicago’s Field Museum), a family-friendly educational experience that runs today through January 3 and will lure, hopefully, plenty of ticket-buying tourists through…
Over the summer, when the U.S. government said it would take a trillion dollars to cover 30 million people who don’t have health insurance, lots of Americans complained loudly. Too much money! We’ve heard a lot less noise about spending a trillion dollars to kill thousands of people — including our own citizens — in wars we didn’t need to…
