Kansas Gov. Mark Parkinson says the state faces its worst economic crisis since the Great Depression — and it’s not over. “The cuts we are making now are to basic services,” Parkinson said last week. While we’re waiting to see how the math whizzes in the state legislature try to solve the problem without doing anything that could hurt their…
An old lunch box favorite is popping up on menus and in grocery stores around town. Pretzel bread — the chewy, yeasty version of a traditional hard pretzel — is the basis for the pretzel chicken sando (grilled chicken, pepper jack cheese, grilled sweet onions, tomato, spinach, garlic aioli on toasted pretzel bread, $8.95) at The Mixx downtown. Paddy O’Quigleys…
%{}% This recipe for spaghetti calls for cream cheese — but I’m not convinced that it’s just like alfredo. An out-of-towner’s guide to Kansas City, based on the atmosphere and fare at each establishment. Ingredient will apparently open up a franchise in Fort Collins, Colorado, early this summer. Taco Bell Founder Glen Bell Jr. died Sunday. He was 86. Categories:…
Lincoln, Nebraska. An unlikely setting for a band that sounds like Dance Hall Crashers, but there you are. The Heat Machine plays sunny, two-tone styled ska with dual female vocals that are pure and sweet. Formerly the Incredible Heat Machine, the band’s passed through this area a couple of times. On their various tours, they caught the attention of Asbestos…
Dear record labels: Pick a goddamn release date and stick with it. We find difficult enough not to cave into the deliriously rampant piracy inherent in broadband and BitTorrent without expecting to be able to pick up a record on one day, only to find it pushed back a week or two. Sincerely, the music-buying public Spoon’s Transference does, in…
The three men charged with first-degree murder in the death of Keighley Ann Alyea are scheduled to be in Johnson County District Court Tuesday morning. A preliminary hearing is scheduled for 9 a.m. for Dustin Hilt, 18; Gerald Calbeck, 18; and Joseph Mattox, 21, who are also accused of aggravated kidnapping and aggravated robbery in Alyea’s death. Alyea, an 18-year-old…
You better believe the Kansas State Wildcats are for real. The Wildcats knocked off the No. 1-ranked Texas Longhorns 71-62 in last night’s ESPN “Big Monday” match up. Frank Martin chewed some ass on national TV. He also shut the mouths of those of us who thought he’d have a decent season with Michael Beasley and then sink to the…
%{}% Ever since Scott Roeder allegedly killed abortion doctor George Tiller, the liberal elite have been wringing their hands, and prissy media types have been mincing about. Oh, no — what’s going to happen during the trial? God, you people are such babies. In the good old days — the days of men and sweat and the hot steel of…
In 2009, lawmakers in Jefferson City passed legislation charging a panel of House and Senate members to look into Missouri’s Energy Future. The 10-member committee was given a clear task: “Determine the best strategy to ensure a plentiful, affordable and clean supply of electricity that will meet the needs of the people and businesses of Missouri for the next twenty-five…
Want a way to combine listening to records and drinking good beer that doesn’t make you look like a total wanker? First of all, don’t but the shirt pictured below. I love Vinyl Collective, and Virgil is a super-friendly, super-enthusiastic supporter of both good beer and independent music. This shirt, however, does nothing but make the wearer look like a…
Kathy — a Fat City reader in Fort Wayne, Indiana — wrote us to ask about a restaurant that she remembered from her childhood in Kansas City: “My parents took us to Maranzino’s on Wornall at least once a week in the 1950s … wonderful memories. And my glands still water 50 years later when I recall a relish they served….
%{}% Don’t let anyone tell you that Missouri’s threats to jump to the Big Eleven Ten are about anything other than money. Lots and lots of money. A story in last Friday’s St. Louis Business Journal says Missouri’s athletic department would rake in an additional $10 million annually. The St. Louis Biz Journal reports that Missouri collected $8.4 million from…
For some reason, we’ve never mentioned KJHK’s award-winning talk program, “Good Evening.” Ostensibly a chat program, it is in fact so much more. Frequently featuring live, in-studio performances from the Lawrence musical community, as well as interviews that go way beyond the norm, George McGovernn and Richard Dickens consistently bring the most bizarre and entertaining things to the radio every…
Tonight, Flying Saucer Draught Emporium taps two casks of Bell’s Brewery’s Hopslam, an American Double/Imperial India Pale Ale. January and February are a beer drinker’s version of Beaujolais Nouveau. A limited release of Hopslam began shipping from Bell’s in Kalamazoo, Michigan, on January 7 and is only available through February. Because it’s a limited batch, the cases that will arrive…
Seasonal work beats no work at all. The U.S. Census Bureau is putting out the call for workers in the Kansas City area. The bureau says it will need approximately 1,000 workers at peak times. “This is the largest civilian mobilization of workers in the history of the United States” regional director Dennis Johnson says. In addition to being a…
It might be an American’s version of zen — but can you still call something sushi without the raw fish? That’s the plan for chef Tracy Griffith — author of Sushi American Style — who will be at Dean & Deluca (4700 W. 119th Street in Leawood) on Wednesday from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. to demonstrate her fish-less version…
Rockabilly isn’t necessarily the best word to describe what Dan Sartain does. “Go cat go” does not enter into his musical vocabulary, but he does have that hiccuping style of delivery that defined artists like Charlie Feathers and Warren Smith. The video of “Atheist Funeral” comes from last month’s tour with the Night Marchers. The song comes from Sartain’s last…
Raysa Williams posted a warning on her Twitter page yesterday: “Just so my followers know.. I’m gonna keep blasting haitirelief all day, I don’t give $0.02 about any games 2day people need help there!!!” True to her word, Williams’ next dozen Tweets urged people to stop by the ScionLab at 18th and Oak between 3 and 5:30 p.m. to drop…
Devotees of deep dish pizza can be as thick as the pounds of cheese and sauce that fill the oversized crusts. They’ll speak lovingly of a pie they had a long time ago in another city. But when it comes to finding Chicago-style pizza in Kansas City, the purists will say that what you’re getting is not the real deal….
Candy is becoming too much like blockbuster movies — a successful idea diluted through the introduction of spin-offs and sequels. And sadly, Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups are turning into a shell of themselves. There’s white chocolate and peanut butter; milk chocolate, peanut butter and nuts; a crispy crunchy Reese’s (like the sad offspring of a Nestle’s Crunch and a peanut…
