%{}% Billy J. Webb has been identified as the victim of Tuesday’s homicide in the 8800 block of Evanston Way. Police describe Webb as a 58-year-old black male. Officers found Webb with no signs of life in his driveway around 8:12 p.m.Tuesday. Witnesses told police that Webb was in a fight with an unknown black man before collapsing. The other…
%{}% Lee’s Summit police have released the names of the two people found dead in the 25000 block of Milton Thompson Road near Lake Lotawana Wednesday evening. Police say 12-year-old Gabrielle Morejon is the victim of a homicide and her 58-year-old father, George Morejon, is dead from an apparent suicide. A death investigation is being conducted by the Jackson County…
The allure of a ripe peach is that when you bite into it, you’re rewarded with a gush of sweet juice. If you substitute that juice for beer, now we’re talking about a peach that adults might like. Springtime brings all manner of ales and lagers, but it also is marked by the appearance of straw-colored sunshine in a pint…
Kansas City’s reigning air guitar champion, Eric “Mean” Melin, won’t get to defend his regional crown in 2010. The U.S. Air Guitar Championships are skipping Kansas City. But Melin hasn’t given up on his quest to join air guitar’s elites at the U.S. championships. He’s dropped $270 on four plane tickets, and his five city U.S. air guitar tour starts…
In our never-ending quest for new music, we come across websites here and there that bear mentioning. Our current favorite is Besides Asides, dedicated to b-sides, rarities, and bootlegs. We came across it while trying to track down stuff that wasn’t included on the Ergs’ b-sides compilation on Dirtnap, Hindsight Is 20-20, My Friend. The kind folks over at Besides…
The Dinosaurs Unearthed exhibit opens at Union Station on May 1. Judging by this early look, it’s the kind of thing we would’ve loved when we were kids. Then again, what age group doesn’t yearn to embrace the Triassic period? Along with fossil collections and models, visitors will be able to control the dinosaur’s movement through interactive exhibits. Check it…
%{}% I’ll have a meringue…and a cigarette, please Kansas City has a long, sweet history when it comes to dessert, dating back to the amazing selection of pies and puddings served at the old Harvey House restaurant in Union Station before World War I. In the 1900s, the legendary Unity Inn — a vegetarian restaurant at Ninth and Tracy — was…
Last August, we introduced Fat City readers to Mike Elder, the former auto mechanic who is now “King of Cakes” in Clinton, Missouri. Elder, who co-owns the pastry business Cakes by Cheri & Mike, is a two-time winner on the popular TLC series Ultimate Cake Off (and a graduate of KC’s Hickman Mills High School). Elder returns to the TV…
Reginald R. Collier found out the hard way that you don’t pirate Oliver Stone’s movies. A federal judge sentenced the 26-year-old Collier on Wednesday to two years in federal prison without parole for trafficking thousands of counterfeited DVDs and CDs. Collier was also slapped with a $41,361, which will be split by the Motion Picture Association of America, Inc., and…
Dave Tompkins has written a book that is far more than the history of a piece of equipment. While How to Wreck a Nice Beach is, as its subtitle says, the history of “The Vocoder from World War II to Hip-Hop ,” it is more accurately summed up in the subtitle to the subtitle: “The Machine Speaks.” Tompkins follows a…
The Temper Trap is stopping by Crossroads KC on June 8. You’ll recognize their hit, “Sweet Disposition,” from the derivative slop that is 500 Days of Summer (and because 96.5 The Buzz is currently playing the shit out of it). The Aussie band crafts grandiose anthems aimed at Coldplay and Snow Patrol fans. Frontman Dougie Mandagi’s voice is a ruthlessly airbrushed…
%{}% Don’t tell Kansas City’s James Beard Award-winning chefs, but apparently our town is still flying under the radar when it comes to attracting foodies. Livability — a site that continually generates lists in an effort to tell readers the best places to live — has named Kansas City fourth on its list of “Foodie Finds: 10 Surprising Cities.” With…
An Overland Park hypnotist (no, really) has been indicted for selling human growth hormone and steroids. Scott Lofquist, 50, was named in a 20-count indictment along with his business partners Anthony Forgione, a 45-year-old ex-Boca Raton police officer, and Rodney Baltazar, a 47-year-old Delaware physician, for selling the banned supplements. Lofquist was arrested in Kansas on March 30. The indictment…
Tax Day is always slightly traumatic, but restaurants and coffee shops across the city are doing their best to lessen the pain. Starbucks gives a free cup of coffee to anyone who brings in a reusable cup on Thursday. Even better, bring an empty Starbucks’ cup to the Roasterie Cafe in Brookside and get a free coffee of that size….
Money Shots is a glimpse of random happenings when we’re out and about on Kansas City’s music scene. Adam Green has a penchant for lyrics that border on the obscene. While his newest release, Minor Love, has a heft that demonstrates the former Moldy Peach’s slow creep toward adulthood, Green’s sense of humor is as campy and charming as ever…
Two people were found dead Wednesday evening near Lake Lotawana. Jackson County Sheriff’s deputies responded to a 911 call reporting two bodies in the 25000 block of Milton Thompson Road around 6:10 p.m. View Larger Map Authorities found a girl dead inside a residence and a man dead inside a vehicle behind the home. The investigation is ongoing. KCTV 5…
After months of “breathless buzz,” as Pitchfork calls it, you can finally hear LCD Soundsystem’s rabidly anticipated third album, This Is Happening, in its entirety. Taking a cue from the buzz-heavy peers MGMT, the dance-punks have posted a legal stream of the album to their website a full month before its May 18 release date. You’ve already checked out their…
%{}% Finding a piece of sandwich on your shirt well after lunch isn’t as exciting as finding $20 in your jeans pocket. A collection of photos from Brew to Brew — the relay race between Free State and Boulevard Brewing Co. Million-dollar ideas come in all shapes and sizes, like Pillsbury Bake-Off winner Sue Compton’s mini ice cream cookie cups….
At first, it was all flowers and back slaps and standing ovations at the Kansas City, Missouri, School Board meeting last night. Supporters of Crispin Rea, Joseph Jackson and Kyleen Carroll filled the auditorium and cheered loudly as the winners in the April 6 election were sworn in. But the first act of business for the new board — selecting…
Best Coast (also known as Bethany Cosentino) shows her L.A. roots in her fuzzy brand of chilled out garage-rock. Her simplistic lo-fi tunes — which charmed the pants off of critics at SXSW this year — are perfectly fit for lounging on the beach in a red sundress; and that’s exactly what Best Coast does in her new video for…
This weekend’s Spring Invitational being put on by Recycled Rockstar Industries promises to be chock-full of rock and/or roll music. For nearly nine hours both Friday and Saturday, the Riot Room will play host to bands featured on the second installment of the company’s Fountains of Folly compilation series. The Invitational will serve as a release show for the compilation,…
