You had a good run, sample ladies. Your ability to slice up frozen pizza or gently stack potato chips in the mini paper cups will not be forgotten. However, the window on your ability to bring bites of meatballs to wholesale club members may be closing rapidly. Gizmodo brings news of the latest vending machine being test-marketed in Japan, and…
Organizers expected 2,000 people to come and get free health care during the two-day clinic. Most had delayed coverage owing to a lack of insurance coverage. Over 100 local physicians joined the effort, which including screenings for STDs, breast cancer, dental problems, hypertension, high cholesterol, diabetes and just about any other type of malady.
Want some head-nodding, down-tempo grooves to chill to? Look no further than Splitface’s The Autumn EP. Described as “one of a kind, laced with light hearted down tempo tracks and others with intriguing dirty drums, lost samples, and film scores,” it’s the sort of thing that you throw on when you’ve just gotten home from a long day of work,…
The next time you need to decorate your tree because world leaders are coming over for Christmas dinner, you should call Kodi Malott. Malott, of Kodi’s Cakes in Kansas City, Kansas, was recently asked to create a series of cookie ornaments for the Christmas tree at the Blair House — the President’s guest house, across the street from the White…
That may have been an unnecessarily long headline. But, still — how flipping cool is this? The Winston Calling benefit concert benefited Winston’s Village, a charity started by the family of Winston Bertrand, this kid who was born with two amazingly rare disorders. There were scads of performances, with the usual odd team-ups and covers this sort of thing inspires,…
In 2008, tobacco companies spent nearly $420 million dollars pushing their products — in the Show Me State alone. How much did Missouri spend to counter that marketing bonanza and prevent kids from picking up the habit that kills 9,500 state residents and costs $2.1 billion in health-care bills each year? Just $2.4 million. But times are tough and state…
Christian crunk-core act Family Force 5 released a Christmas album back in October. It’s called Family Force 5’s Christmas Pageant, and has the dubious distinction of being despised by both my wife and my cats. My wife, upon entering our house while it was playing, wrinkled her nose and asked what was playing in the same tone one asks “who…
Like catching a glimpse of the mating ritual of a rare breed of kingfisher in the wild, seeing rappers practicing the art of the cipher (or “cypher”) — spontaneous rhyming in the round — is rare for most outsiders. Brought to you by the Soul Providers of KC, these two home vids show some the crew’s resident MCs bringing the…
Hot cocoa is a cure-all. It’s one of the few things to look forward to when it comes to winter in Kansas City. Charles Ferruzza and Jonathan Bender were in their cups, so to speak, in order to find the finest examples of hot chocolate around the city. So grab a pack of overstuffed marshmallows and find out which mugs…
Being a cop in Kansas City isn’t all traffic tickets and DUI checkpoints, sometimes it gets pretty hairy. Take this dashboard video of an officer responding to a single-car crash with no injuries, that KCPD Chief James Corwin posted on his blog yesterday. It starts out normal enough with the officer locating the motorist near 113th and Sycamore Terrace. Then,…
%{}% As I prepared this week’s feature story on KMBZ 980’s 6 to 8 p.m. conservative talker Darla Jaye, the biggest surprise for me was how often Jaye is not quite doctrinaire with what I’ve come to think of as Kansas conservatism. Turns out, she got some theater in her early, and all the tea parties in the world haven’t…
If you have to think about whether your knives are sharp, then they are not sharp. You can improve you prep time and find cooking a lot more enjoyable if you sharpen your knives once a year. Consider this your annual reminder. Clark Stone from Wustof — one of the preeminent knife makers — will pay a visit to Pryde’s…
Juan Delgado, the 35-year-old co-owner of Super Pollo, was sentenced to 30 years in federal prison yesterday for his involvement in a heavy-weight plot to traffic cocaine from somewhere in Mexico to the Paris of the Plains. View Larger Map It all started back in 2006, when federal agents noticed something hooey about Super Pollo’s balance sheet. The restaurant was…
%{}% Thoughts on what makes a great Bock beer and how a homebrewer might achieve that goal. A few words on drinking raw milk and food safety from someone who gets her milk right from the cow. Not everyone is a fan of the trash carts associated with Olathe’s new recycling program. A printable guide for what to freeze, how…
Robin “Scott” Roggenbuck, 57, perennial molester of children, was convicted (again) on December 8 of five counts of possession of child pornography. Roggenbuck is a registered sex offender, according to a statement from Platte County Prosecutor Eric Zahnd. In 1981, Roggenbuck was convicted of statutory sodomy; in 1992, he was convicted on multiple charges of child molestation. In February, 2008,…
Robert Moore, host of Sonic Spectrum on 96.5 The Buzz sent us his Best of 2009 list! The following are in no particular order. The Dø/A Mouthful/Ministry of Sound The xx/XX/XL Recordings Malcolm Middleton/Waxing Gibbous/Full Time Hobby The Black Heart Procession/Six/Temporary Residence Jay Reatard/Watch Me Fall/Matador Bat For Lashes/Two Suns/Astralwerks Blitzen Trapper/Black River Killer/Sub Pop The Black Lips/200 Million Thousand/Vice…
There are two songs that get me all teary-eyed at Christmas. One is the Pogues’ “Fairytale of New York,” just because it’s so pretty and ugly and mean all at once. The other is this song, by John McCutcheon, “Christmas In the Trenches.” The song is based on a true story, the 1914 Christmas Truce between British and German forces…
Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon announced proposed legislation Wednesday that would change the way Missouri deals with DWI cases and keep repeat drunk-drivers off the road. Most of the proposals deal with increased penalties and methods to track DWI records. They also include outlawing the one thing every lawyer will tell you to do if you’re pulled over on the way…
