Whoever these thirsty, underage kids are who go undercover for the city’s Regulated Industries Division, they are good. Employees at Kennedy’s Bar & Grill, in Waldo at 500 West 75th Street, are the latest to fall for their tricks. Because someone sold liquor to a minor, the bar’s managing officer and Regulated Industries have agreed that Kennedy’s will close for…
In a new salmonella warning, officials in Scott County, Missouri, are asking people who purchased head cheese in New Hamburg to discard it — raising the very real issue of whether it’s worth keeping one of the oldest residents of the deli counter in the rotation. You could sell me that the reward is worth the risk if we were…
Clothes Whores: Enthusiastically examining Kansas City’s sartorial shenanigansA million years ago (or in 2005, which is the same thing), I wrote about a “precious snowflake” of a guy named Ricardo Mejia. Back then, he was showing off his muscular legs beneath cheerleading skirts while dancing enthusiastically at the Hurricane, earning the role as the bar’s unofficial mascot. Mejia has since…
Even new technology is not always sure how to deal with archaic laws, as evidenced by the recent criticism of Facebook for banning any promotions involving dairy products. Facebook has lumped dairy in with gambling, tobacco, firearms, prescription drugs and gasoline, in order to avoid running afoul of state laws. Dairy wasn’t singled out; it was just a question of…
%{}% A list of the anniversaries, closings and bright spots in the Kansas City culinary scene. Bad Seed Farmer’s Market is open tonight from 4 to 8 p.m. in the Crossroads, and it’s a holiday party with coffee, sheep’s milk cheese and an abundance of produce. When you combine the principle of Russian nesting dolls with artisan chocolate, the result…
Crown Center remade 85 acres of Kansas City in Hallmark’s image. It also provided competition for real-estate developers. The subject of this week’s feature, Crown Center introduced significant new hotel, residential, retail and office space. Upon its completion in 1971, the five-section, seven-story building that unfolds alongside Pershing Road added 660,000 square feet to the commercial real-estate market. City boosters…
Being as how the response to the Wayward Blog Halloween mix was so positive, we’ve decided to bring you our mix for the holiday season, entitled “Corrupted Christmas.” It’s a two and a half hour mix spanning genres and times. Basically, it’s got some classics, some rarities, some happy Christmas songs, and there’s the possibility that some of you with…
1. Celebrate KISSmas. Tribute band KISS Alive plays a benefit for Harvesters tonight at Crosstown Station. 2. Revel in a little bloodsport. Memorial Hall hosts a Titan Fighting Championship tonight. 3. Catch a perfect wave — or at least admire the efforts of Keanu Reeves and Patrick Swayze. Point Break is the “midnight movie” (it actually starts at 11:30 p.m.)…
Edward D. Shockey, 35, was sentenced yesterday to 25 years in prison for videotaping himself having sex with a 16-year-old girl. The sentence came after Shockey pleaded guilty to exploitation of a minor, statutory sodomy and promoting child pornography. Shockey’s acts were discovered when he sent a stack of DVDs to the victim’s boyfriend, according to Platte County Prosecutor Eric…
Oh no he did NOT. It’s been a long time a song has made us say that. And damn does it feel good. Striking somewhere between Jay-Z’s coolly brutal “Threat” and unhinged Albert Finney from Network, the latest single from James Christos is a magazine full of teflon-tipped lyrical bullets aimed at one thing and one thing only: Kansas City…
Worlds of Fun will go from being owned by a large, faceless, out-of-town company to being owned by an even larger out-of-town conglomerate with somehow even less face. Until now, the metro amusement park was owned by Cedar Fair L.P. — a Sandusky, Ohio, company specializing in amusement and water parks. Coast to coast, the company owned 11 amusement parks, six outdoor water parks,…
In the summer of 2004, Matthew Davis wrapped a sheet around the dead body of 22-year-old Amber McGathey and used a shopping cart to dump her into the back of his Jeep Cherokee. Then he drove it from his River Market apartment to West 39th Street to pick up another girl, intent on continuing his night of partying. When his…
Depending on how much you want to spend, you have a lot of options for how where to eat out on New Year’s Eve. Michael Smith has six seatings. The first three are at 6, 6:30, and 7 p.m., with a four-course meal costing $75 per person. The second set is at 8, 8:30, and 9 p.m., with a five-course…
Domino Records is offering all their 2009 releases for ten bucks a pop, and several box sets for ten bucks off. Head over to their special offers page, and you can get Animal Collective’s Meriweather Post Pavillion, or Dirty Projectors’ Bitte Orca, amongst others, for dirty cheap. Vinyl Collective paired with a bunch of different labels to make some of…
You should occasionally be rewarded for procrastination and the Wine, Spirits, Champagne and Craft Beer Extravaganza at Berbiglia will make you glad you waited to pick out a bottle to bring to Christmas. Berbiglia Wine and Spirits (1114 West 103rd Street) has a free wine tasting tonight from 6 to 8 p.m. The wines available for tasting will range in…
%{}% We return to the Rock of Pages bookshelf this week to bring you the classic history of Norwegian black metal by Michael Moynihan and Didrik Søderlind, Lords of Chaos: The Bloody Rise of the Satanic Metal Underground. Have you ever seen that episode of Metalocalypse, “Birthdayface,” where the band gets Murderface the most brutal birthday present ever — the…
If you were a pop star in the late 1960s, man, it wasn’t groovy enough for you to simply soar to the top of the Billboard charts or appear on Hullabaloo or American Bandstand. You needed to cook too! In 1967, all hottest stars of TV, movies and the jukebox were featured in the 96-page paperback cookbook called Singers and…
No charges will be filed against two University of Missouri women’s basketball players accused of beating up a male cheerleader during a late-night scuffle, according to a report citing a Boone County assistant prosecutor. Senior forwards Amanda Hanneman and Jessra Johnson have been suspended for a week now after news of the fight. Since then, the cheerleader, Justin Short (also…
If you are tiring of bacon, there’s a reason. A new survey from market researcher Mintel shows that, compared to how much it was showing up in quick-serve menu offerings in 2005, bacon is now found in 26.5 percent more items. And as BurgerBusiness.com discovered, it’s the burger that opened the door for bacon to take over: Mintel finds that…
Future Kansas Gov. and current U.S. Sen. Sam Brownback prayed yesterday to kill health-care reform. For real. Brownback got a seat at the Family Research Council’s table during yesterday’s 60-minute “prayercast” (Brownback is introduced at the 17:47 mark). Even as pornstached Lou Engle called on the people in the room to stand and pray, Brownback clung to his seat like…
Bored? Trying to fake your way through your workday? Here’s a way to kill some time: read nearly every 2009 “Best Of” list, courtesy of Largeheartedboy. It’s got everything: albums, singles, books, movies — totally ridiculous. And, also in there are the “Best of the Decade” lists. I believe this decade is going to be referred to as the “Naughts,”…
I’m starting to think bears know more than we do. When the weather gets cold, I just want a hot bowl of chili, followed by an extended nap. If you’re making your own, the base is pretty straightforward. Chop onion and garlic and saute them in a saucepan, then add a can of crushed tomatoes and several kinds of beans…
The men busted in a multi-state, multi-agency dog-fighting raid back in July continue to plead guilty to federal charges. The latest: Zachary R. Connelly, 32, of Ogden, Iowa Ryan J. Tasler, 42, of Woodward, Iowa Julio Reyes, 29, of Tecumseh, Nebraska Reyes admitted to transporting some of his fighting pit bulls to dog-fighting impresario Cris E. Bottcher’s farm in rural…
