Update: Holy crap. Didn’t realize this was the same Matthew Davis who in 2004 wrapped 22-year-old Amber McGathey’s dead body in a sheet, loaded her in his Jeep Cherokee and left her there for four days. In July 2005, Davis pleaded guilty to felony and a pair of drug charges (McGathey died of a drug overdose). Davis was sentenced to…
The Kansas City Chiefs nailed down the dates and times for their four preseason games today. The Chiefs open the preseason with a pair of road games, playing the Atlanta Falcons August 13 and then traveling to Tampa Bay to meet the Buccaneers on August 21. You’ll just have to wait until August 27 when the Chiefs meet the Philadelphia…
Fat City reader Larry — a self-proclaimed cheapskate — wrote to say that he had used a coupon for a reduced-price meal at a local restaurant but had been taxed on the full amount. In other words, he had been taxed on the coupon. In Missouri, he said, that isn’t legal. A little research from Pitch investigative reporter David Martin…
It’s hard to get worked up over “suspicious packages” any more. They almost always (thankfully) turn out to be a box full of fliers or a cooler of phone books. Take the package at the Charles Evans Whittaker Federal Courthouse at 9th and Locust on Monday. A mesh cooler was found with a note referencing “C-4” and claiming it would…
If Food Inc. was about making people aware of the industrialized food system, Fresh is meant to encourage people to take action to change that system. It’s the farm-to-table concept on the big screen. The documentary focuses on small batch, local agricultural producers in the hopes of creating a literal grassroots movement. Instead of distributing the film, the producers have…
Not that we would ever insinuate Ticketmaster or Livenation are anything other than fine, upstanding companies that have anything but their customers’ best interests at heart. (Courtesy Jim DeRogatis) Categories: Music Tags: Art, art, Jim DeRogatis, Live Nation, Ticketmaster
Yesterday, Bicycling magazine released its list of the nation’s Top 50 Bike-Friendly Cities. Kansas City didn’t rank with the likes of Minneapolis or Portland, but we did slide into the No. 33 slot. Among its criteria, the magazine looked for cities with “segregated bike lanes, municipal bike racks and bike boulevards.” Kansas City isn’t exactly the head of the pack…
Crawfish Festival co-founder Brock Exline cooks up some crawdads Who knew? The hamlet of Prairie Village is the headquarters for the Secret Order of Crawdaddies, an organization devoted to children’s charities and crawfish. The organization hosts the ninth annual Village Crawfish Festival from 6 to 11 p.m. on April 24 as a benefit for Head Start of Shawnee Mission, Inc….
A friend of mine has a great story about buying wine in rural Kansas. When he went up to the bar and asked for a glass of white wine for his wife, the bartender paused. He didn’t have any white, the bartender said to my friend, “but you’re welcome to some of the yella stuff.” These days, I feel like…
James Phillip “Phil” Edwards was indicted — for a second time — yesterday for allegedly drugging several children with soda and ice cream laced with sleeping pills to make child pornography. The feds allege that the 60-year-old Edwards used 13 children in his videos between July 21, 2001, and June 23, 2005. The 21-count indictment was issued by a…
%{}% This delightful teardown of the KFC Double Down includes the words “meat pile.” Bacon is still going strong as the inventors of the Bacon Explosion discovered. They were among the bacon items featured on a recent Nightline segment. Pictures from McCoy’s Brewmaster Dinner in April — the Momofuku glazed chicken wing looks particularly droolworthy. A throwaway sentence with big…
Ed Venerable’s routine as a 30-something I.T. guy was disrupted in February by a summons for jury duty. Rather than troubleshooting at a keyboard, Venerable spent five weeks in a Jackson County courtroom, listening to testimony about pig shit. As this week’s feature describes, Venerable and his fellow jurors ultimately found Premium Standard Farms liable for causing a prolonged nuisance…
Camera Obscura took the stage Wednesday night before an enthusiastic and seemingly epic crowd that stretched beneath the Bottleneck’s low ceilings to the pool tables near the bar’s end. For those unfamiliar, the band defies that forlorn moodiness which seems to typify so many other Glaswegian acts in favor of a more jangly, Belle & Sebastian-like approach (another Glasgow act). Despite an…
96.5 the Buzz’s annual “Buzz Under the Stars” concerts are a fairly cheap way to see some old favorites and new up-and-comers for a decent price. This year’s first concert is no exception. Weezer is back in Kansas City, touring in support of Raditude. If I could be guaranteed that Rivers Cuomo would do the entire show like his February…
Kansas City radio icon Walt Bodine only works Fridays nowadays, giving the lucky duck a coveted six-day weekend. Good for him, but KCUR-FM 89.3 has a Monday through Thursday hole in its programming schedule to fill. What’s a public radio station to do? Ask the Internets what they want to hear in the time slot. KCUR posted a message on…
Raymond Florio wants you to know he’s more than a writer of erotic fiction Raymond Florio spent 13 years on the Ford assembly line reading “Street Lit” novels — stories of violent outbursts and hardcore porno-style sexual encounters — during his shift. The books were a great way to pass the time between bolting together Fiestas, but like so many authors before…
Is it wrong that I found this video of Finn Riggins performing “We’ll Miss You More” creepier after I found out it was a Chattanooga YMCA? Something about the fact that it’s abandoned and in the South just lends a further air of “ooh…spooky” to the proceeding. I imagine the song will seem far less creepy and wrong when Riggins…
Each Thursday, your Crap Archivist brings you the finest in forgotten and bewildering crap culled from basements, thrift stores, estate sales and flea markets. I do this for one reason: Knowledge is power. Doll Baby Pattern Book Author: Martha Nelson Thomas with Marla Strecker Date: 1984 Publisher: Fibre-Craft Materials, Niles, IL Discovered at: Turnstyles Thrift Store, Overland Park The…
Halcyon presents the first side by side showing of Jon Freeman’s photo and paint works. Freeman’s creativity travels fluidly between media, using rich colors and textures, real world imagery and bold ethereal suggestions. The evening will also feature live music by Thommy Vincent Hoskins. Fri., April 9, 7-10 p.m., 2010 Tags: jon freeman, Night & Day
Enter the tallest man (or woman) in the room contest or partake in a can stacking contest. Winners will each receive $160 — ten dollars for every ounce in a Schlitz tall boy can. Thu., April 8, 8-11 p.m., 2010 Tags: Night & Day
Approaching four decades of high-profile commissions, crossover success and avant-garde overachievement, the genre-busting Kronos Quartet still hasn’t figured it out. “Nobody knows anything about music,” says David Harrington, the group’s founder and artistic director. “It’s a total mystery. I don’t feel like I know more than the next guy. My thing is, at a certain point I decided I was…
Kansas City is the kind of place that visiting European musicians tend to skip in favor of bigger middle-country destinations such as Chicago or Denver. Not SvenSson. The French sonic auteur brings his band and its ethereal hybrid of Britpop and French art rock to the Foundation Room (1221 Union, 816-283-8990) tonight at 9. The gig is one of only…
