Stealing ambulances is popular in Kansas City. The trend popped up again in Lawrence over the weekend. A 21-year-old jacked an ambulance from 10th and Mass. Street early Sunday morning, the Lawrence Journal-World reported. Why take the ambulance? The guy needed a ride home: The man, whom Hadl said believed he had no other means of transportation home, led police…
Metalocalypse: Dethklok & Mastodon
It takes balls to get a job these days In today’s New York Times, two Ohio twins living in The Big Apple — Kristy and Katie Barry — are profiled because they’re young, pretty and can’t find jobs. They send homemade gifts to potential employers: those chocolate-covered peanut butter balls called Buckeyes. Competition is particularly intense in NYC right now:…
Parktoberfest
%{}% The divisiveness of the Shawnee Mission Park deer hunt is bringing out the worst in people, with readers praying for “hunting accidents” and others suggesting that vegan activist Jason Miller should dress up like a deer and go grazing during the harvest and some hoping the deer protesters hit deer while driving this winter. But there was one comment…
The deer kill could start today in Shawnee Mission Park, and this weeks’ cover story — “There Will Be Blood” — profiles animal rights activist Jason Miller’s quest to keep sharpshooters from killing Bambi, which includes him toting around a blood-dripping deer head. The deer cull isn’t over with Miller promising more surprises. We’ll keep you updated. Also inside this…
Update: Mohua Roychowdry has been located. ***The KCK police are looking for Mohua Roychowdry, a 28-year-old woman of Asian descent. She was last heard from on September 25. Roychowdry is described as 5-foot-5, 140 pounds with black hair and brown eyes. She is reportedly undergoing treatment for bipolar disorder. Police say Roychowdry’s car, a silver 2001 Ford Focus with Kansas…
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. If you’ve listened to KCUR for longer than an hour or two this past couple of weeks, then you’ve heard of the Shawnee Indian Mission’s Fall Festival. This Saturday…
You need plans. Fat City has a recycle bin full of event listings. In this post, all of our problems are solved. Let’s start the weekend right: with free beer. Boulevard offers free samples of its fall beer, Bob’s 47, paired with free offerings from the Fork & Screen at AMC Studio 30 in Olathe. The event (from 5 to…
Candy corn is one of those seasonal items that appears well before the holiday to which it’s attached. We wanted to sample candy corn weeks ahead of Halloween — before it had time to age on grocery store shelves. Today’s battle of the dishes pits two new candy corn alternatives against one another. In one corner, we have Brach’s Milk…
Well, to be completely honest, members of the University of Kansas’ Marching Jayhawks have been playing indoors for decades as part of the Bar Band, wherein marching band members get together and play fight songs in bars for drinks. This, however, is the first time the entire band has ever played an indoor concert, and officially. So, if you’re unlike…
Jackson County prosecutors charged Clifford E. Harris today with the murder of Travis T. McGaugh. McGaugh, 18, was killed in a drive-by shooting on April 8. McGaugh and another man were sitting in a Ford Explorer near 5921 Walrond Ave. around 5:28 p.m. when they were shot by a man in a red Ford truck. The surviving shooting victim told…
It’s no surprise to anyone in Fat City that our town’s best-known wine expert Doug Frost — Master Sommelier and America’s eighth Master of Wine — has become a television star. In addition to lecturing and writing about wine, Frost is the host of KCPT-TV’s locally produced Check Please! and a featured judge on the newest PBS reality program, The…
The H1N1 vaccine has arrived in the metro, thus staving off the spread of the zombie flu virus. Or so former Kansas Gov. and current Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius tells us. Wait, what if screamy John Cusack is right? Sebelius isn’t just leaning on Elmo and Jay Leno to stop the spread of the flu. The silver-haired…
The Wise Guy Burger at Red Robin is a smorgasbord of Italian ingredients surrounding a hamburger patty. Before we get into the mouth-stretching, genre-bending meal that is the Wise Guy Burger, I think it’s important to acknowledge one small fact: The burger served in the restaurant bears a striking resemblance to the one in its advertisements, which is not always…
As Back to Rockville reported yesterday, KISS is coming to the Sprint Center on December 10, as part of their Alive 35 Tour. That news was confirmed shortly afterward on the Sprint Center’s website, with dates for tickets sales forthcoming. I’m tired of looking at KISS videos, so here’s the Mighty Mighty Bosstones’ video for their cover of “Detroit Rock…
Part history lesson, part infomerical, a 60-minute program about downtown Kansas City’s rebirth aired for the first time on KCPT-TV last night.The Next American Dream is essentially a story about suburban sprawl, peppered with pretty images of the Sprint Center and First Fridays. Funded by the Greater Kansas City Area Development Council, Dream paints a portrait of a city a…
Salvatore DiFatta puts raw sausage on his pizza and…it works Salvatore DiFatta sells pizza at the lunch-only venues he owns in Chicago and Washington, D.C., but he’s actually from Baltimore, where he began working at a pizzeria as a teenager. DiFatta was hired by the Cordish Company to re-vamp the Power & Light District’s failed Vinino Bistro — an Italian…
Former Kansas City Times reporter Richard Serrano’s new book, My Grandfather’s Prison: A Story of Death and Deceit in 1940s Kansas City, never quite lives up to its opening scene. But those first paragraphs are a tough act to follow. The book opens with a guard at the Municipal Farm, then the Kansas City jail, finding Serrano’s grandfather in solitary…
A cardboard box containing a 12-pack of Boulevard Wheat was returned to the Boulevard Brewery on Wednesday. That wouldn’t be breaking news except the cardboard box Eric Henry brought to the brewery was a sealed 12-pack of Boulevard’s earliest beer. “My office is pretty close to Boulevard and they’re a real admirable company. I just thought they might be interested…
