Despite the fact that their new single, “She’s Not A Drug,” is getting some serious spins on 98.9 the Rock, Jackyl is favoring “gentlemen’s clubs” in Madison, Rockford, and Lexington to shoot the video for the song. Understanding that using strip clubs in your song means that you will achieve immortality wherever young ladies take off their clothes for money…
I’ve met a lot of pie bakers in Kansas City — just not a lot who are making pies for restaurants. Even the folks at Pryde’s Old Westport were stumped when I asked where I could get a slice of pie in the middle of the week — the Upper Crust Bakery at Prydes is only open on Fridays and…
Restaurateur Gary Worden admits it: Some people are going to be confused about the new Piropos Grille in Parkville. Gary and Christina Worden For one thing, the restaurant isn’t really new. It’s the old Piropos, the classy Argentinian steakhouse that Worden and his wife Christina, a native of Buenos Aires, opened in April 2001 in what was then a new…
Yet another great show isn’t happening. Straight from Cam at No Idea comes this sad missive: Hey dude, Bad news… Leatherface didn’t get into the country! They got denied at customs and sent home. Tour is cancelled. SHIT! To Cam’s “SHIT!”, I would like to add a “GODDAMMIT!” and “FUCK!” that this show isn’t happening. As the tour is canceled,…
As frontman for the Locust and owner of the Three One G record label, Justin Pearson would seem to be just the sort of person from whom you’d want to read an autobiography. Despite the fact that he’s still under the age of 35, the man has had a fascinating life. It’s shame that From the Graveyard of the Arousal…
One of Kansas City Mayor Mark Funkhouser’s major initiatives met the sound of crickets chirping on Wednesday morning. Funk presented Schools First, his idea to issue $100 million in bonds to pay for sidewalks and other infrastructure around school buildings, to the Transportation & Infrastructure committee. No one on the committee made a motion to pass the ordinance, putting its…
Kansas City Mayor Mark Funkhouser says he’s running for re-election, and challengers are already lining up. From Mike Burke and his sinking ship billboards to Sly James and his fat campaign stash to Jim Rowland and his pinstriped suit, checkered shirt combo, there is no shortage of folks wanting to dethrone the Funk. But there’s one candidate that might just…
It’s creamy, but isn’t cream Fat City reader Lorraine likes cream with her coffee. Real cream, she says, not the little containers of unrefrigerated God-only-knows-what. She was particularly irked about a restaurant such as Eggtc. at 51st and Main, which aspires to be a high-quality breakfast joint but wouldn’t give Lorraine the real stuff — you know, from a cow….
Update (10:34 a.m. May 13): KCK police and the FBI are now saying the reported kidnapping of 20-year-old Gabriella Birelas was a hoax. The case is being turned over to the Wyandotte County District Attorney’s office, which could decide to file charges. ***Original story (7:52 a.m. May 13): Gabriella Birelas, the 20-year-old KCK mother of two who was reportedly kidnapped by…
The Kansas City Royals are off to another tough start. The 2010 season has looked especially grim to starting pitcher Zack Greinke, the American League’s reigning Cy Young Award winner. Greinke has made seven starts and pitched pretty well in most of them. Yet his record is 0-4. Greinke has not been able to scratch out a win for several…
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This bumper sticker was on a taxicab heading through the Plaza. The effort to save downtown’s Folgers plant has gone from a Facebook campaign to bumper stickers. Next stop, City Hall? Categories: A&E, Dining Tags: bumper sticker, Facebook, folgers, plaza, SaveFolgersKC, taxi
The Canadian circus franchise that has entertained more than 100 million spectators since its inception in 1984 brings its Alegria show to the Sprint Center this week. It’s a family-friendly affair, complete with farting clowns and eye-popping costumes. But cover the kids’ ears. The flying, contorting and balancing performers accomplish nothing less than holy-shit, WTF feats of acrobatics. The show…
%{}% A review of Samuel Smith Organic English Ale and what it means to have an organic beer. A look at furniture maker Emeco partnering with Coca-Cola to produce plastic chairs from 111 bottles. One of the most popular bar games in Boston is the lobster crane game — it’s included in this round-up of the world’s strangest vending machines….
Foul play is suspected in the shooting death of a clerk at Grovenburg’s Retail Liquor Store, 7635 Quivira Road in Shawnee, on Wednesday night. View Larger Map Multiple reports (here, here, here and here) say the clerk was found shot behind the counter of the store around 10:25 p.m. Police are waiting for autopsy results before releasing the clerk’s cause…
UK-based breakbeat artist Rude Corps has an EP due out soon from 5 Finger Discount Productions, entitled The Horror EP. With song titles such as “Lycanthropic Metamorphisis” and “The Dead Arising,” you can expect an eerily atmospheric — and altogether modern — take on horror movie music. Enjoy “Theme For A Vampire” until you can get your hands on The…
Have $6,000 laying around? Kansas City Mayor Mark Funkhouser thinks you should buy a house. This weekend. Hizzoner set up a microphone in Ruskin Heights on Wednesday and talked about an auction of 200 foreclosed homes taking place later this week. Funkhouser asked local buyers to step up and keep the properties out of the hands of out-of-town investors. The…
Sensible Missouri — a group dedicated to bringing legal medical weed to the chronically and terminally ill in Missouri — has scheduled a patient conference at All Souls Unitarian Church for May 29. The conference is to educate people on the effectiveness of cannabis as a medical treatment, and learn how you can help lobby in Jefferson City to legalize…
We’ve been talking a lot about Approach’s new album, Aloe Park, as well as Spence’s upcoming Planet Pluto. Therefor, it should be unsurprising that that the two rappers’ worlds would collide at some point, which they do on “Bang,” this track from Planet Pluto. While Steddy P actually drops most of the rhymes on this track, Approach’s verse is the…
The Canadian circus franchise that has entertained more than 100 million spectators since its inception in 1984 brings its Alegria show to the Sprint Center this week. It’s a family-friendly affair, complete with farting clowns and eye-popping costumes. But cover the kids’ ears. The flying, contorting and balancing performers accomplish nothing less than holy-shit, WTF feats of acrobatics.
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. Hell Over Hollywood: The Truth About the Movies! Author: Jitterbug-hating revival preacher Dan GilbertDate: 1945 Publisher: Zondervan Publishing, Grand Rapids, Michigan Representative Quotes: “Hollywood is the nearest…
