After a recent stunt, U.S. Sen. Sam Brownback has lost the ability to complain that his words were taken out of context. Ever. On Monday, the head of a think tank sent a letter to the Pentagon in response to a suspect piece of correspondence that Brownback sent on Friday. Brownback is leading an effort in the Senate to exempt…
Straight from the Jump Up Records e-mail list comes the news that the label is releasing the debut full-length from the Bullets. The Bullets were formed by the Aggrolites’ organ player, Roger Rivas, and play what they describe as “Chicano soul meets Jamaican early reggae.” The album, Sweet Misery, is available now through the band’s website. If the band’s early…
Alea Looney shot this footage at the release party for the Noise FM’s new EP, The Enclave, this past Friday night at the Granada. The song used in the video is “The Vault,” which can be found on said new release. Read Chance Dibben’s review of The Enclave here. The NoiseFM Live Music Video // The Vault from AleaLovely on…
Frank Sinatra had the summer wind — Kansas City gets a new summer variety pack courtesy of the Magic Hat Brewing Company. The craft brewer out of Vermont has been expanding its presence in Kansas City since introducing its signature Apricot Ale, Magic Hat #9, at the end of last year. In December, Fat City had a chance to talk…
Original story (10:55 a.m. May 18): Parks Board Commissioner Aggie Stackhaus is weeping like Iron Eyes Cody after Rockfest destroyed 14 acres of Penn Valley Park. AEG is paying for the repairs, but Stackhaus doesn’t want the annual rock festival to return to the park (The Pitch’s Berry Anderson filed a dispatch from the scene). I stopped out this morning…
Empty Glass is a weekly post devoted to furthering the alcoholic rock star image and mythos. That’s right, kids — drinking has no negative side effects and makes you look cool, to boot. While out wandering on Sunday evening after a graduation party in Lawrence’s student ghetto, I popped into the Replay Lounge just in time to catch the F-Holes…
Flushing a toilet is about to get really expensive. Finalizing an agreement with the Justice Department and the Environmental Protection Agency, the City of Kansas City, Missouri, has agreed to spend $2.5 billion upgrading its sewer system. The work will begin in 2014.Karl Brooks, the regional administrator of the EPA, announced the consent decree on Tuesday at the Anita B….
The old Bear needs a new tenant For decades, this unassuming storefront at 7815 Wornall Road was the home of the Berliner Bear, a popular German restaurant owned and operated by Joel and Nettie Womack — and, years later, by their son Bill. They served very good sausages, potato salad and apple strudel. The popularity of German food has always waxed…
Controversial animal rights activist Jason Miller’s crusade last year to save the deer in Shawnee Mission Park has landed him on probation for a year. Miller pleaded guilty Monday to violating a protection from-stalking order — taken out by Johnson County Parks and Rec director Michael Meadors after Miller delivered a protest letter against the deer harvest by Meadors’ home…
Richard LaMotta, the inventor of the Chipwich, died at his home in Chappaqua, New York, last Tuesday. He was 67. The Chipwich — vanilla ice cream ringed with chocolate chips between two chocolate chip cookies — was said to have been born from LaMotta’s love of dunking cookies in milk. In 1981, LaMotta employed street cart vendors in pith helmets…
For those of you who missed Kid Congo Powers & the Pink Monkey Birds when they played the Jackpot back in March, you have a chance to alleviate the massive amount of shame you ought to feel. The Harveyville Project in Harveyville, Kansas, is dedicated “to provide an inspiring, energizing environment to foster creative output.” They’ve taken over two buildings…
Bobbie Jo Geveshausen liked to videotape her boyfriend, Edward D. Shockey, sexually abusing her 16-year-old daughter. And sometimes, the 43-year-old woman liked to join in. For that, she’ll be serving 58 years in prison — a sentence that ignores the Missouri Sentencing Advisory Commission’s recommendation of probation. “It is difficult to imagine the depravity of a mother who would willingly…
With a weekend of rain behind us and more rain slated for mid-week, I stopped into One More Cup (7408 Wornall Road) hoping to find an antidote. Manager George Magers was only too happy to oblige when I asked him for what he’d recommend to brighten my spirits. “Most folks will order something hot, but our diehard ice drinkers, they’ll…
Rockfest has come and gone, but we have pictures capturing the crowds and weather conditions that destroyed 14 acres of Penn Valley Park.
Mayor Mark Funkhouser’s town hall meeting at the Sprint Center last night was bizarre, sad and sparsely attended. The 18,000 seat arena looked cavernous with maybe 300 people attending (and that might be generous). Many of the attendees were students and school officials there to collect awards. Take a look at the town hall, which on the outside looked more…
Update (9:54, 5/18): Here’s the answer to this week’s Where Am I Eating? quiz. Here were the clues: The restaurant that serves the featured plate of Eggs Benedict does a very nice Sunday brunch and, even better, has some of the most attractive servers in Kansas City bringing out the plates. That includes former local stage actress Kirsten Carver (does…
Last week, I couldn’t help but notice the giant spider emblazoned on the side of this truck driving along Main Street into the Crossroads. The truck’s windows were tinted, so I never got a look at the driver, who flipped a U-turn on Main and parked in front of Tootsies. I tried to double back fast, but by the time…
%{}% Meet-up for Duck Funkin Donuts at John’s Space Age Donuts in Shawnee Mission on Wednesday morning, when Dunkin’ Donuts opens at 75h and Metcalf. Arthur Bryant’s still has the best meat in town. A guide to making chocolate LEGO men out of ice cube molds. A look at using cachaca — a Brazilian spirit made from sugar cane —…
Parks Board Commissioner Aggie Stackhaus is weeping like Iron Eyes Cody after Rockfest partiers destroyed 14 acres of Penn Valley Park. Concert promoter AEG has said it will pay for the repairs, but Stackhaus doesn’t want the annual rock festival to return to the park. I stopped out this morning — and just three days removed from Rockfest — the…
While Jackyl still might be more into northern strippers more than those here in the metro, they’re now coming through Kansas City on the tour for When Moonshine and Dynamite Collide. As an added bonus, the show at Worth Harley-Davidson on Saturday, June 5, is free! You’ll also get the Federation of Horsepower and the Nigel Dupree Band for a…
Mayor Mark Funkhouser’s town hall meeting at the Sprint Center last night was bizarre, sad and sparsely attended. The 18,000 seat arena looked cavernous with maybe 300 people attending (and that might be generous). Many of the attendees were students and school officials there to collect awards. Take a look at the town hall with dancers, Ren Festers and a…
After finding a man suffering from life-threatening gunshot wounds in the 2900 block of East 21st Street around 1:31 a.m., police discovered a woman’s body inside the home. View Larger Map The woman, who is described as black and possibly in her twenties, is KCMO’s 39th homicide victim of 2010. Her cause of death hasn’t be revealed. Neither has her…
