If you’re looking for the future of barbecue, you might just head out to Blue Springs, Missouri. That’s the hometown of Plowboys BBQ, the newly crowned American Royal Invitational Grand Champion. The team of Todd Johns and his brother-in-law Randy Hinck (who compete as the Pork Pullin Plowboys) bested 123 past grand champions to capture the overall crown. And they…
The Riot Before released Fists Buried In Pockets last year, and it made a whole bunch of year-end lists. Since then, they’ve signed to Paper + Plastick, the digital and vinyl only label launched by Vinnie Fiorello from Less Than Jake. He convinced them they needed to rework some of the songs on Fists Buried In Pockets as acoustic numbers,…
If you’re one of those people who sits around contemplating the demographics of the Jackson County jail, the Ad Hoc Group Against Crime has a treat for you. At tonight’s monthly meeting, the group will host an officer from the Jackson County Detention Center who will discuss the ins and outs of the general population from 7 to 8:30 p.m….
Chalk up one food win for global warming — it’s apparently producing large and abundant scallops off the coast of Britain. A study published in Marine Biology noted an increase in the great scallop Pecten maximus over the course of 20 years of research by scientists at Bangor University and the University of York and Liverpool in England. “It’s great…
Two days before Clay Chastain’s light rail campaign kickoff, Jackson County Exec Mike Sanders announced a regional commuter rail plan that would run from Kansas City International Airport to Union Station and the ‘burbs. Hmm. Sounds a bit familiar. The Kansas City Star breaks down the details of the 144-mile, $1.03 billion plan. Sanders said the rail plan could be…
You can’t escape the frozen yogurt trend, so you just have to join it. As long as you’re giving in, you might as well really sell out. And TCBY — the forgotten ancestor that gave birth to this nationwide movement with the first swirl cone — wants to help you make a change. The Country’s Best Yogurt is sponsoring a…
Get ready for the locavore movement to move right on into your house. The Daily Mail looks at how future home cooks will use biospheres to raise everything from their own seafood to their own produce. The biosphere farm from Philips (the company that might have made your television) is a series of stacked compartments that act in a symbiotic…
Two rapes in two weeks have Kansas City police believing the same man is responsible, The Kansas City Star reports. In each case, the rapist tied up the victim using clothing and forced her to bathe after the sexual assault. The first assault occurred Sept. 29 in the 7500 block of Summit Street in Waldo. The second occurred Sunday in…
If there’s any band that needs no introduction on any planet or in dimension, it’s the Flaming Lips. The Oklahoma City legends’ new album, Embryonic, comes out today: a hefty, 18-track double album full of some of the most daring and schizoid music the band has produced in years. The band plays The Late Show with Conan O’Brien tonight as…
%{}% Thoughts on U-Gene’s Deli & Pizza being reviewed on Check, Please! Cooking with pumpkin is apparently a lot like having sex — instructions for one of those included in this blog post. It’s never too early to pre-game for Thanksgiving — here’s more than you’ve ever wanted to know about the history of cranberries. If you’ve ever imagined a…
Really — does anyone need a four-disc Hall & Oates box set? Evidently, as Do What You Want, Be What You Are: The Music of Daryl Hall & John Oates sees release today. It has live performances, 16 unreleased tracks, all the hits, and a book with track-by-track breakdowns from the duo. For a box set, it’s actually pretty decently…
Every year, the FEST in Gainesville is the biggest punk rock show in the country, if not the world. It’s featured reunions of bands, exclusive one-off supergroups, and is a three-day weekend that every person I know vows to attend at least once. This year is the eighth iteration, and Blue Elephant Media is hoping to premiere their documentary about…
Kansas City, Kansas, police say 32-year-old Steven Allen was the homicide victim in last Thursday’s double shooting in the 3000 block of North 11th Street. Allen, a resident of KCK, was shot and killed on October 8, three days after his birthday. KCK police found Allen and another man suffering from gunshot wounds at the scene. Allen was pronounced dead….
I don’t want to sound like Phill Kline, but check out the teen costume in the middle (click on the photo to make it larger). Saw it in a Party America ad in yesterday’s Kansas City Star. No daughter of mine would ever show up at her Johnson County junior high Halloween cotillion in fishnets and a short skirt. Am…
According to the Princeton Review, students aren’t just thinking about frat parties and sports teams when choosing a college. A recent survey showed that nearly 70 percent of high school graduates want information about universities’ commitment to the environment. To track campus eco-activity, the Sustainable Endowments Institute, an off-shoot of Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors, puts out an annual Sustainability Report Card…
West Bottoms haunted house, The Beast, has topped the Best Haunted House list at Haunted House Ratings.com. The site names the top 31 haunted houses in the country based on user reviews. Another KC haunted house, The Edge of Hell, came in at number 13. Kendall and I visited both last year. Full-disclosure: I was three sheets to the wind,…
Dead Girl Derby
There are times when I wonder if the Runaway Sons are being purposefully ignored around Kansas City (not by us — we love ’em). They’ve managed to weather the loss of singers and drummers several times over, in addition to a name and style change (they were formerly the Graveyard Nightmares), yet still come back rocking just as hard each…
We’re not sure what to think about this, but here’s the latest bit of insanity from Kansas state Rep. Bill Otto. He calls it his “Redneck Rap.” Yeah. But hey … I sense a battle rap brewing. Your move, Obama. Via Daily Kos. Categories: News, Politics Tags: Bill Otto, kansas, opossum
The man shot in the 2000 block of North First Street has died from his injuries. Kansas City, Kansas, police identified the man as 36-year-old William V. Williams of Kansas City, Kansas. KCK police found Williams suffering from a gunshot wound near an apartment complex around 10:35 p.m. Sunday. If you have any information about Williams’ death, please call the…
