Archives: November 2009
About that penis-shaped Florida firing …
%{}% The Shawnee Mission School District says notorious artist of phallic Florida and ex-teacher Ryan Haraughty isn’t offering a full disclosure on the reason he was axed. The district issued a long-winded statement about taking education seriously and taking appropriate action and how this wasn’t a personality conflict between Mr. H and the principal and lots of blah, blah, blah….
Neurosis to Reissue Back Catalog
Thanks to the folks over at Suspended In Light, there are details regarding the first two reissues coming from Neurosis. The reissues, as listed at Suspended In Light, are 1996’s Through Silver in Blood and 1999’s Times of Grace. They’re due out sometime before the end of the year on the band’s own Neurot Recordings. There will be booklets to…
Concert Review: Har Mar Superstar
Let’s get one thing straight. This is sexy: I’m not kidding. Har Mar Superstar is a pudgy, balding 31—year-old, yes. But it’s all in the mind. Which is why, when the Minnesota-born R&B rocker purrs sex-laced lyrics while shedding layers of clothing like a sweaty, sequined snake, he believes that every girl in the audience wants to rip off his…
Attn Colby Garrelts: Here’s your new name for the amuse bouche
When local chefs have questions, Fat City has answers. Chef Colby Garrelts of Bluestem posted the following to his Twitter account yesterday: I hate the term / word / name amuse bouche…..It’s a passe and I’m not french 😀 Any suggestions for a new name? I know, tough one! The amuse bouche is the small bite of food a chef…
Goodbye to salt?
Salt alternatives aren’t common yet, but three new salt substitutes have been launched in an attempt to take advantage of several major food corporations’ announced intentions to reduce sodium in their products. NutraSalt 66, SaltPro and SaltWise are all being billed as salt alternatives — the kind that may be needed by Unilever and ConAgra if they are to meet…
Friday is Buck O’Neil’s birthday
Tomorrow would have been Buck O’Neil’s 98th birthday. In honor of the true Kansas City legend, all 10 local First Watch breakfast spots are donating all — all — of Friday’s profits to the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum. Pretty sweet deal. Several old ballplayers will be signing autographs at the First Watches around the city. The NLBM knows who and…
Download the Barbecuties’ Scared the Shit Outta Me
Germany’s Barbecuties combine surf, pop, and punk into an addictive mix not unlike the Queers. Their new album, Scared the Shit Outta Me, is available now on Bubblegum Attack Records, a net-based download label out of Brazil. In a business model much like that of Quote Unquote Records, the downloads are free. However, the label relies on you, the listener,…
Killa City: Darrell Rodgers arrested for allegedly killing Richard Sanders and Kevin E. Todd
Kansas City police chased down homicide suspect Darrell Rodgers yesterday afternoon. Police say Rodgers, 20, was wanted for a double homicide near 1022 Garfield on July 17. The victims were 19-year-old Richard Sanders and 20-year-old Kevin E. Todd of Kansas City, Missouri. On July 17, Kansas City police received a complaint just after midnight of loud music coming from a…
Crispy soft potato taco meet Cheesy Gordita Crunch
With the Cheesy Gordita Crunch officially returning to Taco Bell menus today — the hard taco inside the fried shell seems to disappear and reappear like the Loch Ness Monster — it only seemed right to put it up against one of the other new menu items. The crispy potato soft taco (crispy potato bites, Pepper Jack sauce, shredded lettuce…
Shocking but not surprising: Father and sons accused of raping family women
%{}% I’d like to say that I was shocked by this week’s story of five men charged with sexually abusing young girls and a boy in their own family. But after what we learned in January about Danial Rinehart and the allegations that he impregnated one of his daughters four times (only one of the children survived), I’m not surprised…
Killa City: Woman’s death suspicious in 1200 block of Askew, police say
Update: Kansas City police say the victim is 49-year-old Halimo Ahmed of Kansas City, Missouri. ***Kansas City police are investigating the death of a woman in the 1200 block of Askew. View Larger Map Police were called to the residence around 7:11 a.m. Thursday morning after receiving a call of a possible dead body. Officers met two children — ages…
The Top 5 chains we wish were in Kansas City
Everybody has irrational love for a particular fast food establishment or chain restaurant — witness the 2,484 fans on the ‘I Love the Taco Via!!!’ Facebook group. And so I decided to think about what chains could improve the lives of the residents in the city of fountains. Dunkin’ Donuts would have been a natural fit for this list —…
How to be cool when Guy Fieri comes to town
If you’re worried about being starstruck when The Guy Fieri Road Show comes to Kansas City on December 7, fear not. The Atlantic has put together a list of what you should and shouldn’t do in front of celebrity chefs. As a tie-in with the upcoming etiquette book, What To Do When No One Has a Clue, this month’s entry…
Breakfast Buffet: Thursday, November 12
%{}% A bowl of stout and frozen yogurt somehow doesn’t add up to a beer float — adjust your dessert plans accordingly. A tutorial on how to make Yorkshire pudding — the traditional English accompaniment to a roast. A bacon-inspired manicure that makes biting your fingernails seem eminently reasonable. The history of the Sidecar — a forgotten, classic cocktail that…
Tonight’s protest: Animal rights activists to rally against Shrine circus
When Jason Miller started Bite Club of KC, the group’s focus was squarely on saving the deer in Shawnee Mission Park. But the Lenexa resident is making good on his promise that the organization will target other forms of animal cruelty manifesting in Kansas City. Last month, a band of demonstrators gathered near the University of Kansas Medical Center to…
Rock of Pages: The Stooges: The Authorized and Illustrated Story
Beware the book in whose title lurks the words “official” or “authorized.” They usually sound the death knell of anything that might be interesting in a band’s story. Those two simple words mean that anything negative about a band is going to be far outweighed by undeserved plaudits and revisionist history. Robert Matheu’s The Stooges: The Authorized and Illustrated Story…
Tonight: The Runaway Sons’ Soy España Listening Party
The Runaway Sons have a new album out, entitled Soy España, and they’d like you to hear it. Rather than just listening to rockers like “Jerk and Gyrate” or “Kathleen Turner Overdrive” via the tinny speakers on your laptop, the band would like you to get a taste of the album the way it was meant to be heard —…
Tony Gonzalez wasn’t really naked in PETA ad
Lies, lies, it was all lies. Former Kansas City Chief Tony Gonzalez and his wife, October, didn’t really take it all off for PETA’s “Rather Go Naked Than Wear Fur” ad campaign. Gonzalez told The Atlanta Journal-Constitution: “We had clothes on. My wife is a pretty woman. She’s like a flower. It’s nice to be looked at.” Sounds like a…
Ripple isn’t the only company spinning garbage into goods
When I spoke to Steve Russell for my story about Ripple Glass this week, he seemed to confirm my — and many recyclers’ — fears about the fate of the bottles, cans and paper products we toss in our curbside bins each week. Russell is the St. Louis-area manager for Strategic Materials, one of the largest recycling companies in the…
Train-set tragedy at Union Station
One of the best free things to do during the holidays in Kansas City is wander around Union Station. Workers there haven’t put up any decorations yet, so it’s too early to tell whether this year of financial distress means the Grand Hall will be less-decked. But one thing we can always count on is a giant train set. This…
The family that makes together: Studies in Crap keeps regular with Kelloggs’ Keep on the Sunny Side of Life
Each Thursday, your Crap Archivist brings you the finest in forgotten and bewildering crap culled from basements, thrift stores, estate sales and flea markets. I do this for one reason: Knowledge is power. Keep on the Sunny Side of Life: A New Way of Living Date: 1933 Publisher: Kellogg, Battle Creek, Michigan Discovered at: Sentimental Journey Antiques, Olathe Representative…
Poet Mary Jo Bang
Mary Jo Bang is an English professor and director of the Creative Writing Program at Washington University. A 6 p.m. reception will precede the reading, which is part of the Midwest Poets Series. Mon., Nov. 16, 7 p.m., 2009 Tags: Mary Jo Bang, Night & Day, Washington University in St. Louis
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