The Rs and Ds in the Missouri Legislature weren’t playing nice today. Prime Buzz reports that a couple of Missouri lawmakers had to be restrained today during a budget debate. Lawmakers reportedly had to hold by Rep. Jeff Roorda, a Barnhart Democrat, and Rep. Tim Jones, a Eureka Republican. Roorda was speaking before the House, raising his voice (Fired Up!…
Those demanding video proof of Congressman Emanuel Cleaver II getting spit on by tea party protesters now have it. This video showed up today on the 24th State to debunk Cleaver’s spit story. Actually, the video seems to back up Cleaver (watch starting at the 1:25 mark). Cleaver clearly reacts as if he’s getting hit and then wipes his face…
University of Kansas lecturer in English, and author of Rebels Wit Attitude: Subversive Rock Humor, Iain Ellis, is working on the follow-up to his debut book. Entitled Brit Wits, it is a continuation of Rebels Wit Attitude’s contention that “have been the truth-tellers of the culture, mirroring and commenting upon the ideological tensions and oscillations of society” (from Ellis’ proposal…
Republicans in Topeka are trying to look busy in the eyes of their God-fearing constituents. That means bills dealing with abortion, guns and nudity. State Rep. Joe Patton of Topeka told The Kansas City Star the sexually oriented businesses need to be regulated because they foster criminal behavior. “Prostitution. … Homicide. Sexual trafficking. Rape. We are a better people than…
Kansas State is scheduled to tip off against Xavier at 8:37 p.m. And while it’s probably not proper to be rooting for anything Kentucky-related (they play in the final game of the evening against Cornell), you might want to make an exception for an oak barrel aged stout that’s a fair bet to be gone by the Elite Eight. The…
Too rich for Lee’s Summit? Restaurateur Ernesto Peralto Jr. — who recently opened his newest location of Blanc Burgers + Bottles on the Country Club Plaza — will open his new burger concept restaurant, to be called B:2, in the Summit Fair shopping center in Lee’s Summit this summer. But that venue won’t be serving one of the hot new items…
Missouri state Rep. Roman LeBlanc abused his position as a mentor to have sex with a college freshman (as detailed in this week’s Pitch feature story). LeBlanc, a married man with a pregnant wife, had known the girl since she was 15. The then-18-year-old woman told authorities that LeBlanc raped her; Platte County prosecutors believed there wasn’t enough physical evidence to…
A man is in police custody as Raytown police investigate the homicide of a woman in the 6700 block of Raytown Road. Police are calling the man in custody a possible suspect. View Larger Map The woman’s identity has not been released. More details are expected to come out this afternoon. What is known is the police responded to the…
Former Bad Manners drummer Steve DiFranco lives in Leawood. Did you know that? We certainly didn’t, although that might explain as to how Justin Warring came to tour with the ska band last year. You also probably didn’t know that his wife’s great-uncle founded a medical mission hospital in Haiti called Hopital Sacre Couer. In an effort to raise money…
Missourians have a mean hunger for nicotine. According to a study released today by the Missouri Foundation for Health, residents of the Show-Me State light up at a higher rate than the rest of the nation. Based on a survey of 55,000 people, Missourians start young, smoke furiously and don’t give a damn if their income is barely enough to…
Last night’s Black Eyed Peas show at the Sprint Center was a spectacle of Las Vegasean proportions. The set was equipped with a raised orchestra stand for the band and backed by LED screens flashing circuit board designs straight out of Tron. An emblem of metal and LED lights periodically raised and lowered, resembling something the Mayans would have created…
Before Fat City reader Julie from Rosedale wrote to say that she has a new name for the still-uncompleted Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts — designed by noted architect Moshe Safdie — in downtown Kansas City: The Croissant! Julie writes: “The thing looks like a pair of giant glass croissants! I’ve been calling it the Croissant for months and everybody…
Kansas City’s great teacher purge of 2010 is just beginning. Last night, the Kansas City, Missouri, School Board approved a list of teachers to fire due to “poor performance” and also set aside $4 million to offer retirement incentives to about 500 teachers and employees, according to KSHB Channel 41. This is on the heels of the district closing 26…
Peanut butter is to lunch what that last clean pair of underwear is to your wardrobe. You’re glad it’s there when you need it, but it leaves you wishing you’d left yourself some other option. Recently I set out to discover if I had too harshly judged peanut butter over the past three decades. And I uncovered two sandwiches that…
Clearly, I need to lay off the sauce. Kansas City, I apologize: Our print edition this week says that 2Mex’s stop at the RecordBar on his Serve and Protect Tour is on Friday. But it’s tonight. The Los Angeles rapper, famous in underground circles for his quick wit and twist of phrase, can be found in Westport this evening with DJ…
In the 1960s, long after the glory days of the St. Regis Hotel — the 96-year-old former residential hotel at the corner of the Linwood and the Paseo — but well before its unsavory current incarnation, the building was home to a local celebrity: Butch Ellis. Yes, that was his given name, but Ellis was known as Miss Butch Ellis when he slipped…
Kansas City isn’t really big 12 country. The expert researchers Condomania, an online condom store, ranked U.S. cities by penis size, and KC didn’t rise to the occasion. We didn’t even crack the top 20. Go figure the nation’s tenth-biggest dicks come from St. Louis — and the biggest dicks of them all are in New Orleans and Washington, D.C….
Grinders West is literally selling the tables off the floor. Don’t worry, the pizza shop and deli isn’t going anywhere. The restaurant is holding an art table auction tonight — selling the tables that feature commissioned pieces from Kansas City artists across a variety of media. Proceeds from the auction benefit the artists and are used by Grinders West to…
%{}% Fat City is a sucker for macaroni and cheese — here’s a recipe for a three-cheese version that sounds like a contender. A modern take on a wine decanter made from hand-blown glass, which could make any wine shine. The International Banana Club and Museum has lost its space in Hesperia, California. Shockingly, nobody wants to take in the…
In Antonino D’Ambrosio’s book, A Heartbeat And A Guitar: Johnny Cash and the Making of Bitter Tears, the author weaves three stories together to create one grand tale. Taking Johnny Cash’s interest in Native peoples, the story of singer-songwriter Peter La Farge, and (perhaps most importantly) the battle for Native rights, D’Ambrosio combines three histories to place Bitter Tears in…
Update: The worst part of waking up, is Folgers Coffee Co. shutting down its Kansas City plant in June 2012. The news broke Wednesday, and the first thing many people have talked about is losing the aroma downtown. But the real loss is a company that’s been in KC for more than century and the 180 jobs that will be…
