Napoleon has marched out of Westport Two weeks ago, pastry chef and restaurateur James Holmes opened a new Napoleon Bakery in Overland Park. He took over a long-vacant location at 6759 W. 119th Street that had most recently been occupied by the excellent Artisan Francais: A French Bakery. Holmes also closed the old Napoleon Bakery, the iconic cafe in Westport that…
Matthew Davis’ reentry into society doesn’t appear to be going smoothly. Davis spent five years in prison for abandoning the corpse of his 22-year-old girlfriend, but the 44-year-old man was released in February 2009 after his conviction was overturned. Since becoming a free man, Davis has had three run-ins with Johnny Law. The latest came Saturday, when Davis allegedly led…
I spend time in lines every day. It’s one of the few occupational hazards of being a food blogger. And because most lines end with a single cashier (except for the multi-headed cashier monster at QuikTrip that is the single most efficient checkout in the universe) that means I have a lot of time to think about how things might…
Update (9:41 a.m. May 20): Shon Pernice has pleaded not guilty to charges that he murdered his missing wife, Renee Pernice. Renee Pernice has been missing since January 2009. A grand jury indicted Shon Pernice on Tuesday. Shon Pernice still has one supporter — his mother. Masha Pernice told Fox 4 that her son is innocent and claimed Renee Pernice…
%{}% In honor of Craft Beer Week, a history lesson about American Brown Ale. A visit to Genghis Khan makes a happy diner, but one who still wishes there was single-plate pricing rather than an all-you-can-eat approach. A battle of O’Fallon Wheach and Schlafly Helles-Style Summer Lager — both of which are now available in cans . The Photoshopped future…
%{}% Japan’s experimental doom three-piece Boris will blow minds when they hit the Granada this summer. They’re playing there on Sunday, August 15, in support of the North American release of their split with Torche, Chapter Ahead Being Fake. That album should see release June 29, on Hydra Head Records. They’ve got a live album coming out this summer, as…
Scene & Heard — wherein local music scene makers give you the lowdown on the soundtrack to their lives. Danny Spence, aka Spence, recently released his Planet Pluto album. In addition, Spence also recently graduated from the University of Kansas. So, he’s a man with a lot to celebrate. He also DJ’d with the Unknown Souldier at Harbour Lights last…
U.S. Sen. Sam Brownback is going to have a tough time distancing himself from nutty apocalyptic evangelical Lou Engle. Kansas Democrats are making a campaign issue out of the homophobic preacher’s creepiness (like traveling to Uganda to support laws against homosexuality). You could make a drinking game out of Engle playing pocket pool and rocking like a maniac. Categories: News,…
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. Natural Bust Enlargement With Total Mind Power Author:Donald L. Wilson, MD Date: 1979 Publisher: Total Mind Power Institute, Larkspur, CA The Cover Promises: “How to use the…
This is getting awkward. Big Ten expansion is still “months away” if not a year, according to an ESPN report on Tuesday, leaving Missouri hanging and the Big 12 feeling bitter. Big Ten commissioner Jim Delany — the most popular (and hated) man in college sports — broke hearts in Columbia when he announced that the conference wouldn’t be extending…
Lawrence’s annual comic book convention will feature special guest comic book creators and cartoonists from Lawrence, Topeka, Baldwin, Manhattan, and the greater Kansas City area. Sat., May 22, 10 a.m.-5 p.m., 2010 Tags: Baldwin, Kansas City, Lawrence (New York), manhattan, Night & Day
RA Lifestyles Group’s latest event, Goddess, isn’t a fashion show. It’s not a DJ showcase or an art exhibit, either. Rather, it’s a fusion of all of these, a multimedia nightlife experience designed to open Kansas City’s eyes to a new brand of style. “It’s going to be a lot that people have never seen before,” says marketing coordinator Pamela…
If fiction flowers from seeds of fact, then best-selling author Yann Martel’s latest offering is a thin and twisty vine that clearly sprouted from his own life. The protagonist of Beatrice and Virgil is a Canadian novelist famous for a book with animal characters. In 2001, Martel (who is also Canadian) published Life of Pi, which features a boatful of…
Dread Zeppelin’s 1990 debut, Un-Led-Ed, introduced the world to the group’s singular take on Led Zeppelin songs. Since then, Dread has seen success beyond the norm for a cover band, earning Robert Plant’s seal of approval along the way. Twenty years later, Dread has added Bob Marley, Elvis, the Yardbirds and others to its repertoire, but it also still belts…
About the Mattie Rhodes Center’s exhibit ¡Viva!, which commemorates both Mexican independence and the Mexican revolution, Jenny Mendez, director of cultural arts, says, “A lot of the artwork is very serious and related to the revolution and to the artists’ personal revolutions,” so for the center’s Chicano Cinema Series, “we’re just trying to have fun.” Hence the selection of illuminating,…
