%{}% Here’s a guide to finding local organic produce and a quick overview of the Fresh Connect produce, milk and meat delivery service. A big thumbs up for the buffet at KC Grill and Kabob — and yes, it includes kabobs for $10.99. Cooking eggs has never been as entertaining! The new Web site Egg Watchers syncs YouTube videos with…
%{}% Kansas Congressman (and would-be senator) Jerry Moran agrees with you, America. The stimulus was a big, giant waste of money. A new CNN poll finds that 63 percent of 1,021 adults think most of the stimulus money went to projects chosen for political reasons. On his Twitter feed, Moran says he agrees with the 74 percent of those polled…
Eddie Money sang the National Anthem at Monday night’s KU/MU game at the University of Kansas’ Allen Fieldhouse. The general consensus? Not positive. Read all about it on the KU Sports board. Categories: Music Tags: Eddie Money, ku, MU, national anthem, video
Photos by FORESTER MICHAEL Stepping into the Granada was like stepping into the Twilight Zone: What I saw was effectively a show I saw roughly three years ago in the spring of 2007. But this isn’t a jab to imply that Yo La Tengo played the same set – it was literally the same damn show! That is, Times New…
We’re posting nothing but videos today. Why? Well, the Supreme Court granted corporations the right to fund political campaigns without limit, thus removing from them all pretense of being anything other than glorified ad campaigns, bereft of any actual political discourse. Then, the Department of Justice granted Live Nation and Ticketmaster their merger request. While Ticketmaster has to hand over…
%{}% A report issued by the Violence Policy Center ranks Missouri second in the nation per capita in black homicides, The Associated Press reports (via KCTV 5). The dubious distinction coming from the Washington, D.C.-based non-profit organization says the Show-Me State recorded 235 black homicide victims (or 34.82 per 100,000 black residents) in 2007. The average age of victims in…
Teddy is just one of the dogs that needs a home. If you’ve been thinking about getting your sweetheart a pet for Valentine’s Day, there are some dogs that would really appreciate it if you’d get on that today. Halfway Homes, the facility that handles all abandoned and captured pets, is reporting that they’re reaching capacity and will be euthanizing animals…
Kansas City, Kansas police are conducting a “death investigation” after two bodies were discovered in the 2500 block of Junction Road Tuesday. View Larger Map Police say a person discovered the bodies while checking on the welfare of a friend and found the two people — a white male and white female. Their cause of death is unknown at this…
Kansas City police are investigating a homicide after a teenager was fatally shot in the 7100 block of Indiana Tuesday around 9:45 p.m. View Larger Map Officers found a black male in his late teens in the front yard of a residence. The teen was pronounced dead at the scene. Two witnesses told police that a dog was chasing them…
Michael T. Cowley was sentenced yesterday to 210 months — or 17 and a half years — in federal prison on child pornography charges. Cowley pleaded guilty to producing child porn last October, the charges stemming from Cowley’s hobby of pretending to be a 19-year-old girl named “Ashley” on the internet and using the identity to get underage boys to send him…
Despite the fact that I hoped and hoped, there is no song on Sex Wing Starfighter’s Same Old Hope entitled “Rebel Scum” and set to the tune of Descendents’ “Suburban Home.” I wanna be a Jedi Knight I wanna be like Quigon I wanna fight with clones I want to be Rebel Scum Rebel Scum Rebel Scum Rebel Scum What…
Lafayette County authorities identified Annicka Marie Martinez as the woman found in a burning car on January 12. Detectives there are now investigating Martinez’ death as a homicide. Kansas City, Kansas, police had been looking for the 31-year-old Martinez. They wanted to talk to her about the death of Javier Reynoza. Reynoza, 37, was shot to death in the 1700…
This is the time of year for pie and soup — and pie-flavored cocktails can combine delicious taste with the ease of consumption offered by soup. It turns out pie-inspired booze is as American as you-know-what. There’s the Baked Apple Pie Cocktail (coconut rum, apple juice and Pucker liqueur) and an Apple Pie Shooter (apple brandy, apple cider, whipped cream…
“Weird Al” Yankovic’s blog had all sorts of great news yesterday. First of all comes news that Yankovic’s going to be making a live-action film for the cable network: Without going into too much detail, the good folks at Cartoon Network decided that they liked me and wanted me to provide some content for them – series, features, animation, live-action……
Gamers who play the Madden football games are becoming smarter football players. That’s the premise of a recent Wired story. Former Kansas City Chief and current Bishop Miege football coach Tim Grunhard is quoted calling the games “a learning tool.” “Back when I was playing football, we didn’t realize what a near or a far formation was, we didn’t really…
The Kansas City Zoo likes to boast that it offers “the most affordable fun in Kansas City.” And at $10.50 for an adult ticket and $7 for kids ages 3 to 11, the chance to see exotic animals from all over the globe — year round, in Kansas City — does come pretty cheap. But for an even cheaper —…
The man accused of killing Wichita abortion provider George Tiller spoke in extensive detail with GQ writer Devin Friedman. Among the newsworthy points. Roeder almost missed the May 31 church service. Roeder had went to the previous Sunday’s church service “to kill Dr. George Tiller” but he wasn’t in church that Sunday. Roeder had long thought of killing Tiller, dating…
Spinner debuted a download of the new single from Alkaline Trio’s forthcoming This Addiction. The song’s the title track from the band’s Epitaph debut, due out February 23. The song’s been streaming on the band’s MySpace page for a couple weeks now, but here’s you chance to start figuring out how to work it into that new mix you’ve been…
I had to move to Kansas City to eat less meat. If you had told me close to three years ago that, in the land of the corner burger store and more ribs than the Flintstones, I’d be eating beet and goat cheese pasta on a regular basis, I’d have slapped the A-1 from your hand and saved it for…
Last time we checked in with former Hadacol singer and guitarist Fred Wickham, he was the proud new owner of Waylon Jennings’ old and notorious tour bus. Having bought the large, rolling piece of Americana on eBay and piloted it to his mother’s land in Warrensburg, Wickham wasn’t sure what he was going to do with the enormous 1973 Silver…
The students of Mission Valley Middle School have not forgotten about notorious phallic Florida artist and ex-teacher Ryan Haraughty. Students protested last night’s school board meeting, again trying to get Haraughty reinstated, according to KSHB Channel 41. The Shawnee Mission School District fired Haraughty last November after he drew a map of the United States with a plump, penis-like Florida…
There’s physical attraction, ease of conversation, any number of things that can either elevate or ruin a date — but what if your date only wants classic American fare? Over on Serious Eats, there’s a lively discussion as to whether a date’s ordering habits could be enough to ruin the evening. “It would certainly be a hindrance early on,” says…
