Let’s pick up where we left off last week. Incest porn isn’t enough to ding the Mohler family’s reputation in the eyes of their friends and family. The Kansas City Star asked allies of the Mohler men what they thought of the charges of sexual abuse against the six family members and found a chorus of people questioning the credibility…
Much like the role the conservative David Brooks plays at The New York Times, Thomas Frank provides Wall Street Journal readers with a liberal perspective. In his most recent column, the author of What’s the Matter With Kansas? and The Wrecking Crew calls Sarah Palin’s new book a “prolonged, keening wail, larded with petty vindictiveness.” In addition to being a…
Update (9:24 a.m. Monday, November 23): Kansas City police say the victim is 27-year-old Wilfredo M. Melgar of Kansas City, Missouri. Update II (11:16 a.m. Monday, November 23): Court docs allege Knott shot Melgar four times. When police arrested Knott and Clifford V. Jackson, they found a pack of Newport cigarettes, which the robbers demanded, and $83. Knott confessed to…
Kansas City police say 25-year-old Ashley D. Thomas was the pregnant woman who was shot and killed Friday evening. Police found Thomas, who was nine-months pregnant, and her unnamed boyfriend shot inside a car outside an apartment building in the 1300 block of East Armor around 5:18 p.m. Friday. View Larger Map Thomas was pronounced dead at a local hospital….
Kansas City police found the body of a man in near a retaining wall in the 4400 block of Jarboe around 9:30 a.m. Saturday. View Larger Map Police say there were no obvious signs of foul play. They’re waiting for a ruling from the Jackson County Medical Examiner to learn the cause of death. Categories: News
Former Honeywell workers are experiencing major health problems. This week’s Pitch feature, “Kansas City’s Nuclear Fallout,” talks to the people suffering from the after effects of exposure to beryllium at the soon-to-be-shuttered plant. Also this week, Martin looks at Go Invest Wisely’s “piss-poor attempts at property management” in Kansas City. Ferruzza reviews the new hot restaurant Julian. Harper has a…
Jackson County prosecutors charged Nathaniel Brown today with second-degree murder in the September 13 shooting death of 20-year-old Taylor Holman. At about 5:30 p.m. on that September day, police responded to East Armour and Cherry on reports of shots fired. They found Holman lying in the street with a .22 caliber gunshot wound to his chest and a spent shell…
Macramae brings many horrible memories flooding back to me. Not this bad (allegedly), but bad nonetheless. This week, the Crap Archivist relived his own tortured memories while getting tangled up in Creating With Macrame. Damn if the guy on the right doesn’t look like he’s wearing one of Chewbacca’s relatives. Here comes some Star Wars nerdery courtesy of one of…
A federal judge sentenced the three pea brains sexual assault scammers who cooked up — and botched — a scheme to defraud a local car dealership. Julie Bernet, 39, of Bacyrus, Kansas, and Lindsey Crawford, 24, of KCMO, hatched a bizarre plan to gold-dig a big sexual assault settlement out of a former employer by staging an assault/sexual assault (want…
You need plans. Fat City has a recycle bin full of listings. In this post, all our problems are solved. Get Your Sugar Fix at The JCCC Pastry Shop If you need an eclair stat, you have just a few more minutes to get over to the Johnson County Community College Pastry Shop. Every Friday from 3 to 6 p.m….
We’ve decided here in Fat City that eggnog season starts a few weeks after Walgreen’s and CVS pharmacies put out their Christmas merchandise — you know, mid-October — and that no one needs to make the concoction at home anymore (using those cute punch sets that you can find at flea markets and estate sales) since it’s easier to have…
Picture the young artist, dreaming of becoming an editorial cartoonist. He’s working hard: drawing for a weekly newspaper in the Omaha suburb of Bellevue, placing his pieces in a few small-town papers around Nebraska, constantly submitting his work to the Omaha World-Herald, only to be rejected. With encouragement from Kansas City Star cartoonist Lee Judge, at the time practically just…
This just in, courtesy Ruth Bigus, publicist for the Jewish Community Center’s CenterSeason: Due to an illness of one of the performers, the concert at the Jewish Community Center featuring Richard Cass and Tiberius Klaunser will not be held this Sunday, November 22. It will be rescheduled at a later date. Categories: Music Tags: canceled shows, Richard Cass, Tiberius Klausner
If you want to see some holiday lights kick on, and want to avoid the hell of the traffic, crowds, and general insanity that is the Plaza lighting ceremony on Thanksgiving, hit up the Zona Rosa Shopping Center at 7 p.m. on Saturday night. There will the arrival of the Fairy Princess (a Kansas City tradition, revived from the days…
Pull your tractor into the barn (or your Civic into your garage) and get ready to celebrate this year’s crop. Boulevard Brewery’s Harvest Dance Wheat Wine Style Ale (750 ml bottle, $10.76 with tax at Royal Liquors on 103rd and State Line) is now on shelves. The latest entry in the Smokestack Series lets you know what to expect from…
Given that it’s now in its seventh edition Donald S. Passman’s All You Need to Know About the Music Business looks like a pretty safe investment, . The music landscape has certainly changed since All You Need to Know… was first released in 1991. However, what hasn’t changed is the fact that many artists go into the music industry as…
The Kansas Supreme Court ruled today that the man convicted of murdering Ali Kemp, a 19-year-old University of Kansas student from Johnson County, in a public swimming pool pump room in 2002 could not also be guilty of attempted rape without violating the “double jeopardy” protection of the Fifth Amendment. In 2005, Kemp’s murderer, Benjamin Appleby (aka Teddy Hoover), was…
Who makes it at home anymore? Plenty of restaurants will be open on Thanksgiving Day this year. The holiday wasn’t always a big business day for the restaurant industry; until the late 1980s, Thanksgiving was considered a holiday when most people preferred eating — and cooking — at home. But anyone who has ever hosted a Thanksgiving dinner for the…
Two things we love that are all too rare in this world: local zines and Murderbots. Get both tomorrow night at Balanca’s (1809 Grand) when Chrissy Murderbot returns home from Chicago to beatslap KC in the face in honor of the Fall/Winter issue of hip-hop/DJ-scene ‘zine Demencha Magazine. Demencha founder Chris Milbourn, who used to write the Spin Cycle column…
As we’ve thoroughly documented here, last night Kansas City’s favorite performers gathered to declaim from Sarah Palin’s new book, Amelia Bedelia Runs For Office. This time, Amelia’s literal-mindedness accidentally destroys the Republican Party for a whole generation! Also, she tries to teach herself to fly and goes kerplump on an Alaskan boardwalk full of Alaskan history and decency. Here are…
mlb.com It looks like the K is all but announced as the site of the 2012 All-Star Game. The MLB Owner’s meeting just wrapped in Chicago, and Commissioner Bud Selig hinted that Kauffman Stadium’s recent renovation has impressed a lot of people. As a small digression, can you think of a better name for commissioner of baseball than “Bud.” For…
