Seems like just the other day the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s annual report on food stamp enrollment named Missouri the No. 1 state in the country (PDF here). Almost 100 percent of Missourians eligible for food assistance had received government aid, according to the report (which drew from 2007 data). No wonder. Monday, the Department of Social Services announced that…
Copycat recipes are a time-honored tradition. As soon as someone claimed to have a secret recipe, someone else claimed to have cracked the code. Cooking With Carrie has joined the copycat craze, offering a recipe for the bowtie chicken pasta at Paulo and Bill’s, the Italian restaurant in Shawnee that produces straightforward red and cream sauces. The recipe re-created in…
Your Wayward Blogger lives in Lawrence, meaning every time there’s something needed downtown, there’s a line of buskers asking for change. We’ve a young woman who shakes maracas arrhythmically, a gentleman who plays classic rock covers on an acoustic, and there used to be a lovely young woman who would play songs on a ukulele — this is to say…
Is it politically incorrect to hate cupcakes? They are, after all, a visual delight. Who could pass up one of those pretty little pastries? Me for one. You might think of cupcakes as miniature versions of a full-sized cake, but they aren’t. Cupcakes are really all about the sugary frosting, which can sometimes be as high and wide as the…
A 3-year-old girl was shot to death in a late-June quadruple homicide in Kansas City, Kansas. The girl’s body was found on a sidewalk outside of a home at 5234 Muncie Drive. That’s just one of the horrible details coming out of Adrian W. Burks’ preliminary hearing yesterday as reported in today’s edition of The Kansas City Star. Burks is…
Expect the eclectic tonight at the Riot Room, when the Westport club that books metal bands, hip-hop acts, Americana poets, punk rockers and Dinosaur Jr.’s opens its doors for free to any and every musician who’s played there in the past year. It’s called Artist Appreciation Night, and we’re thinking it’s a good time to meet (and begin a black-out…
The two Mizzou lady basketballers who were suspended indefinitely following an alleged assault against a male cheerleader last week claim they were protecting a friend, the Associated Press is reporting. Jessra Johnson and Amanda Hanneman, both senior forwards on the 7-2 Tigers, allege that the cheerleader, identified as Justin Short, showed violence toward his female roommate, by pushing her to…
If it’s possible to binge-eat fruits, then that’s my approach to clementines. They’re typically sold by the mini-crate, which I can empty myself over the course of a few days. They are tiny, mostly seedless oranges, with peels that require very little effort to remove. Since the skin is soft, they’ll have significantly more give than a typical orange. When…
This Friday, December 18, the reggae band SeedLove, the funk band Mouth and the emcee known as Reach are hosting the Funk & Reggae Dance Summit at the Beaumont, and they’ve made this video to tell you about it. Don’t be deterred by the guy in the tie-dyed shirt hot-steppin’ at 0:32, nor by the Thriftway production values. It’s pretty…
Israel Mireles is charged with raping, sodomizing and killing Emily Sander, an 18-year-old Kansas college student who was also known as Internet porn model Zoey Zane. Mireles is scheduled to go on trial February 8, but his defense attorney has reportedly filed a motion to get the charges dismissed, and a Kansas judge is slated to hear oral arguments today….
I will let it be known publicly that I’m a sucker for infomercials. I’ve been a QVC member for close to a decade. I have bought the Egg Wave — a plastic basket for microwaving eggs — and the shammy. I’ve even watched PitchMen, the reality show based on the life of the late Billy Mays. The irony in the…
%{}% One blogger suggests you shouldn’t believe the hype when it comes to Five Guys Burgers & Fries. The Kansas City Food Circle has set the dates for its Eat Local Expo! Mark your calendars for March 27 and April 3. A quick look at Christmas ales, Free State Brewery and the beer-tasting schools at Barley’s Brewhaus. The process for…
%{}% Two of the men in the Missouri family accused of sexually abusing children are still in need of legal representation, and they’ll be in Lafayette County court at 10 a.m. today to sort it out. A Missouri judge has asked Burrell Mohler Jr. and Roland Mohler to lawyer up, but the men have yet to hire their defense attorneys,…
L.A. streetpunk act the Briggs have posted their take on the holiday classic “Silent Night.” Entitling the track “Silent Night (Not So Silent),” as well as the fact that the Briggs are, well, a punk band, might give you some indication as to the direction the guys go with the tune. It’s pretty rocking, but the definitive take on the…
Experience Hendrix features enough musicians of note to make ticket purchase nearly mandatory, and the music being played — music written and inspired by Jimi Hendrix — remove the “nearly” altogether. Those artists include Joe Satriani, Jonny Lang, Eric Johnson, Kenny Wayne Shepherd, Brad Whitford of Aerosmith, Doyle Bramhall II, Ernie Isley, Living Colour, Double Trouble’s Chris Layton, along with…
Matt Bartle Missouri state Sen. Matt Bartle (R-Lee’s Summit) sure hates porn. As the 2010 legislative session draws near, the occasionally bow-tied lawmaker is again putting adult-entertainment businesses on notice. Bartle has filed a bill restricting the time, manner and place that “purveyors of pornography” can operate. Citing the proliferation of sex-related businesses alongside I-70, Bartle says his bill will…
%{}% During his crusade to save the deer in Shawnee Mission Park, Jason Miller’s protest tactics have often prompted a gallery of police officers. In fact, when a battery of Bite Club of KC activists tried to block traffic into the Johnson County park in October, Miller fully expected to get arrested. (Despite his best efforts, Miller left in his…
%{}% Kevin P. Tasler, 51, pleaded guilty yesterday to his role in a dog fighting ring that spanned several Midwestern states and involved over 350 dogs. Tasler, who hails from Jefferson, Iowa, admitted to transporting a pit bull terrier from Iowa to Missouri for use in an animal fighting venture at Cris E. Bottcher’s place in Gilman City, Missouri. On…
JaRon Rush may be the best basketball player to ever come out of Kansas City, but for all of his God-given talents, Rush never made it in the NBA. Tonight at 7 p.m., the aptly titled Effortless: The JaRon Rush Story premieres on Metro Sports and looks back at Rush’s controversial high school years and catches up with a humbled…
moral crusader Carrie Prejean Last month’s public reading of Sarah Palin’s Going Rogue at the Fishtank Performance Studio was so successful that producer Lisa Cordes knew it could be the start of an ongoing series. The problem was finding a timely book written by someone who’d created great political theater or a media spectacle. Lucky for Cordes, Miss USA runner-up,…
The KCPD released the identities of two men who were shot to death in separate incidents this weekend. William L. Payton, 22, of KCMO, was found shot to death in the 5400 block of Bellefontaine on Saturday morning. Rakim Gonzales, 19, also of KCMO, was found fatally shot at 68th and Myrtle on Friday evening. Police haven’t taken any suspects…
