More than 4,000 costumed attendees invaded the Hyatt Regency Crown Center for the annual Naka-Kon Anime Convention February 19-21. We spent an hour snapping photos of everyone from The Joker and Harley Quinn to Carol from Where The Wild Things Are and Bleach. If you know the characters, tell us in the comments.
72 Musicians Screening
Kansas City police have identified the man shot and killed by a police sniper yesterday following a standoff and hostage situation. Police identified the man as 18-year-old Blake Bowman. Several news reports gave the same story. Bowman, who police considered a suspect in an armed carjacking from last week, was spotted near 46th Street and Sterling Avenue Thursday. So Bowman…
%{}% Two more men have pleaded guilty to taking part in an illegal gambling operation. Brothers Michael C. Sansone, 30, and Anthony V. Sansone, 27, both pleaded guilty in federal court to transmitting wagering information over the Internet. The story is pretty much the same as the two before them, except the Sansones admitted using a laptop to access the…
Earlier this week, KCK police arrested Earl W. West, who has reportedly been charged in the death of Javier Reynoza and who authorities wanted to question about the death of Annicka Martinez. Reynoza, 37, was shot to death in the 1700 block of Central Avenue on January 2. Wyandotte County prosecutors have also charged 35-year-old Ruben Richardson with second-degree murder…
Let me see if I can accurately sum this up so it makes sense, because this project is both intensely interesting, and obscenely complicated. Import/Export has teamed up with filmmaker Jon Duran for a project called “Silent Film Redux” from Garage. As near as I can tell, it involves the filmmaker picking a silent short film — in this case,…
You need plans. Fat City has a recycle bin full of listings. In this post, all our problems are solved. There are some nights that you wish would become traditions because they hold so much promise, such as Empanadas and Malbec night at Cellar Rat. Tonight, you can sample three housemade empanadas, five Malbecs and a glass of whichever one…
Ex-Kanakuk Kamp director Pete Newman pleaded guilty Thursday to two counts of first-degree statutory sodomy and one count of second-degree statutory sodomy for abusing teenage boys, according to Case Net. An investigative report gave this account of what the 35-year-old Newman did with the young boys: “Between 2005 and 2008, Pete Newman became a close friend of his by attending…
If you enjoyed yesterday’s interview with Vedera frontwoman Kristen May, but can’t make it out to tonight’s show at the Beaumont, fear not! They recently recorded a live performance for the website Baeblemusic. Even better — it’s acoustic, so you can hear some alternate versions of Vedera songs. It’s like having a concert in your living room. Or office. Or…
Since I’ve learned to expect excellence from the theater department at UMKC, I felt little surprise that last night’s performance of Slammed!: KC Speaks Out on the Recession was lively, engaging theater acted, designed and directed by some of this town’s finest. What did surprise, however, was the depth of its reporting. Boiling over with local voices, stories and concerns, with tales of…
That whole going-to-New-York-to-get-DISCOVERED thing doesn’t happen anymore … unless you’re Alicia Solo. The Beautiful Bodies frontgal went to New York on a whim last year and ended up adding her vocals to a Joan Jett/Gary Glitter cover of “Do You Want To Touch Me” by singer/songwriter and producer Brad Walsh. Walsh’s boyfriend, past Project Runway winner Christian Siriano, used the…
Good street food is a work of art and both will be on display tonight in front of the Urban Culture Project’s Paragraph Gallery. Between 6 and 9 p.m., the S’mores Cart raises funds and awareness for artists who want to help the community through public and interactive pieces. The brainchild of Kurt Flecksing and Sean Starovitz, who met as…
The recession has done a number on state budgets across the country. In Topeka, the balance sheet looks especially tattered. A report by the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities indicates that the gap in the Kansas budget is proportionally larger than the budget holes that confront surrounding states. Kansas’ shortfall, priced at $1.8 billion, represents 30 percent of the…
Tomorrow afternoon at 12:30 p.m., Andy McKee will make an in-store appearance at Lawrence’s Mass Street Music. In addition to a performance, McKee will be giving a clinic and meet-and-greet. Topeka native McKee’s specialty is fingerstyle guitar playing, which he gained international fame for through videos posted to YouTube. The event is free, but donations are appreciated. All proceeds will…
The Jackson County Sheriff’s Office says the human skeletal remains found in a wooded area earlier this week belong to 33-year-old Matthew A. Johnston. A citizen found the bones on Tuesday in the woods northwest of 18th Street and Sedweek in Blue Summit. The Jackson County Medical Examiner’s Office positively ID’ed the remains. However, the cause of death has not…
What the Body Requires (Jaded Ibis Press, $16.99) is to the mind what chocolate is to the tongue — rich and decadent. In her 2009 novel, Debra Di Blasi aims to indulge. As the title suggests, this is a work focused on the flesh. The sensual Italian landscape of the setting is as much a character as the people who…
Great chefs started out cooking with a light bulb James Beard Award-winning chef Debbie Gold recently told me that she started out cooking on the Easy-Bake Oven she got when she was six years old: “Everyone had one! You have to learn to cook on a light bulb sometime!” Lots of future boy chefs started cooking on Easy Bake ovens…
Keith Buchanan, the co-owner and operator of the new Teahouse & Coffeepot in Westport, knows a few things about scones. For one thing, the British-born Buchanan insists that the word scone be pronounced correctly. True, the Food Lover’s Companion gives the pronunciation as SKOHN, like stone, but Buchanan and most Brits prefer SKUN — like skunk without the k. The…
This weekend, the Jewish Community Center puts on a second week of a locally cast production of the musical sensation Rent. As an added bonus, actor Anthony Rapp, who played Marc Cohen on Broadway and in the movie Rent, will give a talk at the Center on Sunday afternoon. Earlier this week, we asked readers: What is Rent based on,…
