Update: Want to see a holy shit moment? Just wait until 36 seconds into this video. Chief Jim Corwin posted it on his blog today, and it shows the officer flying when a suspected drunk driver slams into the back of a car involved in a traffic stop. Corwin writes: It was a little after 3:45 a.m. Friday, March 12….
Kansas City’s Vehicle Impound Facility (7750 East Front Street) is the place to be tomorrow morning (March 16) if you want a “premium” automobile “at prices below retail.” All vehicles must go. But beware: The vehicles are sold “as is” and there are no warranties and a whole lot of rules of who can bid. Registration starts at 8 a.m….
Apparently, Quixotic is so cool that, when they throw a party, there’s no need to show up fashionably late. Even before the doors opened for the uber-popular dance troupe’s fund-raiser on Saturday night, there was a line of eager ticket-holders, 100 deep, outside Foundation in the West Bottoms. Inside, the industrial loft was awash with floating jelly fish, projected onto…
%{}%Eating at the bar doesn’t always mean you have to have soggy peanuts or a package of Chex Mix. The Drop recently started serving a new menu exclusive to the bar, with $4 and $8 plates that are making the stools a hot commodity. “It’s food you eat with your fingers that goes with libations of any kind,” says chef…
Irish punk band Flogging Molly brought their Guinness-flavored rock punch to the Uptown on Sunday night, along with local rockers (and openers) the Architects.
“Beware the Ides of March.” -Soothsayer, Julius Caesar, Act I, Scene II Actually, with apologies to Billy the Bard, one should actually be aware of the Ides of March. With that awkward bit of phrasing, we’re trying to tell you that Tut Tut’s show at Czar Bar tonight is an Ides of March special. As Tut Tut frontman Alex Abnos…
Kansas City’s Vehicle Impound Facility (7750 East Front Street) is the place to be March 16 if you want a “premium” automobile “at prices below retail.” But buyer beware: The vehicles are sold “as is” and there are no warranties (plus, you gotta be at least 18 years old and pay by 4:30 p.m. March 16) and a whole lot…
Truth: John Mayer is kind of a skeezy bastard. Exhibit A: John Mayer, looking like a dick. Between his recent racist comments in his raw, controversial Playboy interview (“My dick is sort of like a white supremacist”) and his self-described “quest for the Joshua tree of vaginas,” people are generally fed up with the pop-rock crooner’s arrogant ranting. Unbeknownst to us,…
Money runs Missouri politics. Just ask the parade of past and current lawmakers who have been called in to the federal courthouse in recent weeks to chat about shady pay-to-play tactics controlling bills down in Jefferson City. Everyone is talking ethics reform at the state capitol, but Rep. Jason Kander, a Democrat from Kansas City, has made it his main…
Chimps are expensive, and having a monkey for a butler raises a number of logistical and ethical concerns. But I think I’ve figured out how to avoid missing a minute of March Madness this week. Making the Internet rounds is “The Wheelie,” an autonomous Japanese waiter robot designed by Toshiba. It looks like a cross between a Segway and a…
Foundation in the West Bottoms was awash with floating jelly fish, projected onto white fabric fluttering from the ceiling and walls. At one end, a barely-clad acrobat undulated in a black net, displaying her super-human strength and barely believable flexibility. Up on podiums, dancers dressed in costumes that evoked futuristic bondage models jerked and gyrated to a friendly music battle…
This should be an easy one. The menu description goes like this: ”A wood-grilled split Maine lobster tail, paired with skewered garlic-grilled jumbo shrimp topped with creamy lobster butter sauce. Served over rice pilaf. $19.99.” Which restaurant is serving this dish? Categories: Dining, News Tags: grilled lobster tail, Where am I eating?
Gary Blair, the women’s basketball coach at Texas A&M, left town with a trophy and a grudge. Texas A&M beat Oklahoma 74-67 at Municipal Auditorium yesterday to capture the Big 12 women’s tournament title. Victory tasted bitter to Blair, who spoke after the game about the lack of spectators (attendance: 3,120) and media coverage. Blair told reporters he’d like to…
“Where We Pee” is a weekly excursion into a local music venue’s excretory facilities, with a premium on the witticisms scrawled onto the walls. The poetry attached to the big-ass marker tag in the Jackpot men’s room (above the right-hand urinal, just to the right of the flush mechanism) informs the reader that Ratt: “is a foxx in a boxx…
Rejoice, fellow pop-culture addicts. The Gaga has deigned to grace us with her presence. In a newly expanded leg of her Monster Ball Tour (you can check out my review of January’s Gaga show in the ‘Lou here), Lady Gaga is hitting up Kansas City at the Sprint Center on August 3, 2010. Word isn’t out when the tickets will be…
%{}% The Texas Board of Education accepted this week, on a preliminary basis, the recommendations of conservative advisers to make the state’s textbooks read more like Glenn Beck transcripts. They’d been working at this awhile. Earlier this year, conservatives had advised changing the Texas science curriculum so that the theory of evolution would be treated with greater skepticism, just like…
I only heard that Rob Dalzell — who recently saw his high-profile restaurant empire crumble — was having an estate sale when I ran into the wife of another local chef who had been to the sale on opening day. “I bought a lot of cute clothes,” she said. “Good stuff, expensive labels. It was all $2.” The Dalzell house…
Not content to duel it out over double cheeseburgers, Burger King is taking aim at another McDonald’s staple — the Egg McMuffin. Burger King announced plans last week to introduce a $1 BK Breakfast Muffin: egg, sausage and American cheese on an English muffin. The company’s memo indicated that this is the first of several changes to the breakfast menu:…
%{}%Kansas will elect a new U.S. senator in November. The real action takes place in August, however, when Republicans decide which white, conservative congressman they want to see drub a hapless Democrat in the general election. Jerry Moran and Todd Tiahrt, the two congressmen, are pretty much the same guy. But that’s not what they want Republican primary voters to…
A note to Dave King, frontman for Flogging Molly: Scott Spychalski Hey, Dave. I’ve been a fan of your band since Swagger. I saw Flogging Molly the first time they came through the area, and you all played the Bottleneck with River City High and the Blue Meanies. Every show’s been entertaining as hell (especially that tour with Andrew WK),…
