The Black Lips’ shows approach mythological proportions. Stripping, spitting, bleeding, drinking one’s own piss – nothing is out of line for these southern garage rockers. The Lips are also famous for rockabilly-flavored punk that’s refracted through an avalanche of eardrum-bursting noise. (It’s what early-era Beatles records would sound like, if the Beatles were from Georgia, had a death wish, and…
Martinous Woods has been identified as the man fatally shot Sunday evening after a rolling gun battle that ended in the 700 block of Monroe. Woods, 29, was from from Kansas City, Missouri. He died at a local hospital after police discovered him wounded near 7th and Monroe Sunday around 7:18 p.m. Witnesses told police that the gun battle began…
On Monday we reported that City Tavern will close on April 17 and that three members of the Grunauer family — New York-based chef Peter and his children Nicholas and Elizabeth — will immediately take over the location for a new restaurant serving Viennese food: Grunauer, scheduled to open on May 7. Nicholas Grunauer The general manager of the new…
%{}% The Travel Channel’s Man v. Food — part travelogue, part eating competition — might be coming to Kansas City in May. On the show, host Adam Richman walks viewers through a city’s best-known restaurants before ultimately attempting the city’s most serious food eating challenge, such as 180 oysters in New Orleans or the hottest curry in New York City. …
The day before the Kansas City Missouri School Board election Joseph Jackson didn’t quit door-knocking once the sun set. The candidate for Subdistrict Four was determined to get campaign literature in the hands of every single area resident who had voted in the last election. On Monday, he walked six different routes through his subdistrict neighborhoods. Once it got dark,…
%{}% A quick rant on the packaging and slightly elitist nature of Pepperidge Farms cookies. A trip to BRGR includes dessert: a chocolate patty between two halves of a donut bun. Shatto Milk Company is using social media to connect with fans and customers. Christopher Elbow has introduced two new chocolate bar flavors: Macademia with Hawaiian Sea Salt and Toasted…
Update: Eleven people in Levasy voted for registered sex offender Michael Cole Sr. for mayor. But it wasn’t enough to beat Phyllis Dieckmann, who won the race with 38 votes. ***Michael Cole Sr. is on Missouri’s sex-offender registry. Cole is also running for mayor of Levasy against incumbent Phyllis Dieckmann. The sex-offender registry says the 58-year-old Cole was convicted of first-degree…
The concept behind Horror Remix is simple: take several slasher flicks, horror movies, and gore pictures, then remove all of the extraneous plot-forwarding and pointless dialogue. What you’re left with is all the gore and nudity — the fun parts, essentially. It’s been popular as hell down at Austin’s Alamo Drafthouse, and we’re now lucky enough to be blessed with…
The head honchos at Smithfield Foods, meat manufacturers and owners of Premium Standard Farms (PSF), weren’t too happy about the $11 million judgment against them that a jury handed down in Jackson County Circuit Court last month (as described in this week’s feature). Some of the lawmakers in northern Missouri, where Smithfield and PSF own 11 confined animal feeding operations,…
%{}% The Omaha Royals, the KC Royals’ top affiliate, begin their season on Thursday. The team’s first baseman is an on-base machine named Kila Ka’aihue, who drew 102 walks as an O-Royal in 2009. Ka’aihue is Hawaiian. So is Barack Obama, who, it turns out, would probably receive a warmer reception at Rosenblatt Stadium than at the K. A Republican…
Kansas City, Missouri, recorded two homicides Tuesday evening. The first occurred around 6:07 p.m. in the 2400 block of Chelsea. Police responded to a call of gunshots and discovered a black man (approximately 20 years old) dead in the backyard of a home. View Larger Map Two black males were seen fleeing the scene in a red minivan headed northbound…
Independence police say Randy E. Stone’s death has been ruled a homicide. The body of the 42-year-old Independence man was discovered at his Farmer’s Insurance office, 13912 East Noland Court, around 5 p.m. March 31. View Larger Map Police say they believe a witness may have information that could lead to identifying a “person of interest” in Stone’s death. If…
Kansas City, Kansas, police want to ask Qion D. Tatum some questions about the homicide of Keith Ingram. Tatum is described as a black male, with black hair and brown eyes. He stand 5-foot-7inches tall and weighs 150 pounds. Tuesday was his 23rd birthday. Ingram, a 23-year-old KCK man, was found shot to death inside a residence in the 1800…
In the past few weeks, I’ve received three records, all of which are one-sided releases: two LPs, and one 7-inch, to be specific. It’s incredibly bizarre, especially when you consider one LP has an etching on the reverse, another has a silk-screened skull, and the 7-inch has, well — nothing. Nevertheless, the music’s what we’re all about here, even if…
Courthouse News has a sordid story of hiring, firing and sex at KSHB Channel 41. Former KSHB reporter Leeah Brennan claims she was fired so her boss, Richard Iler, could give her job to a woman who had sex with him. Gawker has picked up on the story and quotes the complaint: “Defendant Iler expressly told this subordinate employee via…
%{}% Let them eat steak Now here’s a pretty good deal: A nine-ounce USDA Prime grilled sirloin basted with red wine butter and served with mashed potatoes and grilled asparagus. The restaurant serving this meal doesn’t offer it every day, but when the deal is available, it also includes a choice of soup or salad and a choice of dessert…
In a scene right out of Stuff White People Like, RecordBar was jam-packed with pleasant drunkards last night. While patrons sucked down pints waiting for headliners Fanfarlo (hailing from the U.K.), we were serenaded by Robert Francis from Los Angeles, and Lawrence of Arabia from Christchurch, New Zealand. Robert Francis casually laughed off the only two fuckers in the bar…
Dear Twinkie: I’m sorry I missed your birthday yesterday. I just got busy and … what? No, I wasn’t busy getting my organic produce delivered — that happens on Wednesdays. Nevermind. Of course, I have time for you, Twinkie — you’re not outdated at 80. You’re still totally cool. You had central product placement in Zombieland. You’re hip — you’ve…
While the name Bill Goffrier might not immediately mean anything to you, the names of the bands the man has been involved with certainly will. He was not only in the Embarrassment, but he also went on to front Big Dipper. If there were ever a band from this area to have impact on a national scale, the Embarrassment would…
%{}% Update: Fox 4 interviewed a man who claims that refusing to give a DNA sample to police may have cost him his job at a Verizon store. Reggie Smith told Fox 4’s Tess Koppelman that a customer thought he looked like the sketch of the Waldo rapist. Smith said he agreed to talk with police but wouldn’t give a…
