Chris Chambers has learned the value of fidelity In the months following the murder of former Tennessee Titans quarterback Steve McNair, CBS Sports has interviewed NFL players to see if the circumstances that led to McNair’s death in a murder-suicide have scared other players from cheating on their wives. Even Chiefs wide receiver Chris Chambers is having his personal life dissected….
There’s a ghost living at 2601 Holmes. He has a name — Radar — and a distinctive aroma. “You know he’s in the room when you smell a lit cigarello. That’s what he used to smoke when he was alive and hanging out at the Dutch Hill Bar & Grill,” says restaurateur Beth Barden, who has spent the last six…
Local officials met yesterday to mull a plan to overlay Interstate 670 with open, green space, stitch together two disparate areas of downtown — the Crossroads and the Power & Light District — and eliminate one of downtown’s least pedestrian-friendly walkways. Bob Langenkamp, assistant director of city planning, reported results of an 18-month feasibility study, which made it’s pro-cap recommendation…
The bubble tea invasion is about to hit downtown Kansas City thanks to the recently opened Tea Drops. “We make the boba every day. We’re ready for people to come on in,” says Janet Bloom. The sister spot of the popular tea shop in Westport is in the former Starbucks space inside H&R Block Headquarters at 13th and Main. Bloom…
%{}% In the eternal struggle between man and a 20-pound ham, the ham is always going to win. Swagger, with its hand-made burgers, might be the perfect place for a guy’s night out. A visit to the newly opened Cheddar’s in Overland Park leaves one diner with a Monte Cristo that looks too serious to tackle. One shopper is starting…
%{}% Don’t expect to hear Mark Mangino bad mouth the University of Kansas any time soon. Part of Kansas’ $3 million settlement to the now former football coach went to buying his silence. Mangino and the university agreed to play nice and “not disparage one another, or officials or employees or agents,” blah, blah, blah. You get the idea. The…
If I didn’t dip into the rich, strangely-flavored stew that is , the Advent Calendar would be lacking something. It’s hard to find the words to describe just what Aqua Teen Hunger Force’s Carl Brutananadilewski brings to the holiday table. Wait, no — I’ve got it. He brings the ability to turn a sweet song about Christmas into an ode…
Pop-rockers Bowling For Soup hit the Record Bar on February 13 for their first local club show in ages. Once upon a time, Bowling For Soup played the Bottleneck on a semi-regular basis, double-billing Wednesday nights with the Feds when they were still local. Fun fact: I saw Bowling For Soup play a Wednesday night show to something like 20…
For the past 10 years, the St. Louis chapter of Jobs with Justice has raised thousands of dollars on the backs of misers. Each Christmas, during its “Scrooge of the Year” awards, labor unions and social justice groups nominate CEOs, media personalities and local politicians who screwed over working people during the past 365 days. Then, during an animated campaign…
The Kansas City Star’s Missouri Tigers cheerleader beat writer Mike DeArmond has been banging the secession drum, saying Mizzou might leave the Big 12 for the Big 11 Ten ever since the Insight and Independence bowls took a pass on the 8-4 Tigers, sending them to Houston to play in the Texas Bowl. The story in yesterday’s edition of the…
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. St. Nicholas for Boys and Girls Date: December, 1932 The Cover Promises: Exactly the kind of joyous, old-fashioned Christmas liberals elected Obama to destroy. Representative Quote: “Fat…
Chiefs fans: If you think you are watching the worst franchise in the NFL, consider the Cleveland Browns. Yes, Todd Haley has struggled in his coaching debut. But Browns coach Eric Mangini is worse, having now proved his incompetence at his second NFL franchise. The Chiefs fired their offensive coordinator, but the Browns went one better, firing their general manager….
Every artist has a method. Every artist has a medium. Every artist has a canvas. And in Kansas City this week, several artists have their own personal filmmakers — artists themselves with particular methods, media and canvases. For its sixth-annual “Every Picture Tells a Story” contest, the Independent Filmmakers Coalition of Kansas City has invited local filmmakers to team up…
The annual eye-popping festivities at Longview Lake Campground opened the night before Thanksgiving with Christmas songs carried by hundreds of voices and even more color exploding in the skies overhead. It was a grand kickoff, and Christmas in the Park is still far from over. More than 300,000 lights continue to twinkle, and some 175 animatronic characters — including, of…
Fifty-five years ago, downtown Kansas City was wild for Christmas. The department-store windows were all beautifully decorated, and White Christmas was the featured attraction at the Paramount. Over in suburban Johnson County, civilization pretty much ended at 90th Street, but most of those snazzy new postwar ranch homes had big picture windows, perfect for showing off the latest in revolving…
What could be more innocent than a walk in the woods? But, lo, the opportunity to get out in nature carries with it a suggestion of things, well, natural. So the Overland Park Arboretum and Botanical Gardens, with its acres of fragrant flowers and almost six miles of hiking trails — varying from a smooth flat path to a rocky…
In the attention-span showdown between the big screen and every other screen — your computer monitor at work, your flat panel at home, the little glass teat in your hip pocket — the place where you queue up to watch a movie in hamthrax-passing proximity to strangers looks to be on its way out. But hang on. You weren’t really…
KISS Alive and Perfect Vision will perform at this KISS tribute concert, which is also a fundraiser for Harvesters. Fri., Dec. 18, 2009 Tags: KISS (Band), Night & Day
