Topeka and Des Moines ranked in a top 10 alongside Austin, Seattle, Boulder and D.C.? Believe it. Topeka cracked Kiplinger’s Personal Finance Magazine’s “10 Best Cities for the Next Decade.” “In its reserved, midwestern way, Topeka has engineered a prosperity that most cities of similar size would envy,” writes Kathryn A. Watson. “As the capital city of Kansas, nearly 25%…
The great surf-punk act Agent Orange is making their return to the area after two and a half years. Granted, the only original member of the band is frontman Mike Palm, but the band still knocks out hit after hit and puts on a show that will leave you knocked silly. Seeing them at Czar Bar on Thursday, June 24,…
I snapped this picture Friday afternoon as I was headed out of town. My only guess is that this Ford Taurus belongs to a Kansas plastic surgeon or to a driver who can’t furrow her brow at you, no matter how badly you piss her off. Categories: News Tags: botox, botulism, Kansas City International Airport, plastic surgeon
Anyone who’s been as obsessed with sex for as long as Missouri state Sen. Matt Bartle must be into some freaky shit. Earlier this month, the Missouri Legislature finally passed the Lee’s Summit Republican’s anti-strip-club bill. It was a last, desperate gasp of a man haunted by mammaries. As far back as 2005, Bartle was trying to regulate Missouri’s adult…
Last night’s two-hour season premiere of ABC’s The Bachelorette featured 25 hopeful suitors and “America’s newest sweetheart” Ali Fedotowsky, who reminded viewers ad nauseam that she quit her job (at Facebook) and gave up her apartment to find love. It takes sacrifice, Ali! Two Kansas City bachelors — Jesse and John N. — weakly represented the 816 last night. Categories:…
%{}% Nobody has 80 days to go around the world, but could you spare six? Around the globe in six days is the theme this week as Barley’s Brewhaus celebrates its 14th anniversary. “The idea was to have a food, entertainment, and drink feature each day that focused on a different country,” says General Manager Angelo Gangai. Tonight is German…
The city of Lawrence released the bands that will play this summer’s Brown Bag Concert series. Every Thursday from June 10 through July 29, there will be a free concert from noon-1:00 p.m. in front of U.S. Bank at the corner of 9th and Massachusetts. You can read the list of all the bands at the city’s website. In addition,…
Hearty drinking on the 30th floor Now that Grunauer — the Viennese restaurant owned and operated by chef Peter Grunauer and his two children, Nicholas and Elizabeth — is officially open in the old City Tavern location in the Crossroads, it’s a good time to look back at another venue serving Viennese cuisine in the metro. Yes, there was one. But…
Kansas City police uncovered a cache of stolen goods — including 56 guns, TVs, tires, construction equipment and comic books — while investigating an armed robbery in the 200 block of West 78th Terrace in the Waldo area Saturday morning. Police are calling the victim of the armed robbery a “person of interest” in the investigation of the stolen goods….
Hell, kids — this is so technologically advanced, you don’t even have to leave this blog. Just hit up the embedded player below, and you can rock all nine tracks of thrash-laden goodness that Hammerlord has to offer on their new album, Wolves At War’s End. If you really like it, you can buy the album for $5 at their…
Chef and television personality Sara Moulton returns to Kansas City next month to help inspire diners by showing them how to make recipes from her new cookbook, Everyday Family Dinners. During the June 4 weekend, Moulton leads two master classes at The Culinary Center of Kansas City and gives a cooking demonstration as part of a dinner featuring recipes from…
Kansans, the ban on texting while driving is closer. Kansas Gov. Mark Parkinson signed the bill banning texting while driving (S.B. 300). The law goes into effect as soon as it’s published in the Kansas Register. Reading your texts is also not cool with the state of Kansas. Warning tickets will be issued up until the new year. After that,…
Kansas City police uncovered a cache of stolen goods — including 56 guns, TVs, tires, construction equipment and comic books while investigating an armed robbery in the 200 block of West 78th Terrace in the Waldo area Saturday morning. One of the items was an $80,000 piece of construction equipment. Police are calling the victim of the armed robbery a…
A new study from Bundle.com ranks Kansas 51st out of U.S. cities when it comes to the amount we spent on dining out and buying groceries in 2009. According to the 2010 Bundle Report, the average Kansas Citian spent $3,484 to dine out and $2,835 on groceries for a total of $6,319 ($195 below the U.S. average). While the average…
A 2004 double homicide in Raytown continues to be notable for reasons apart from the appalling nature of the crime. John and Mildred Caylor were stabbed to death inside the Bible store they operated on East 63rd Street. Believing that a robbery had turned deadly, investigators used DNA found at the crime scene to identify an ex-con named Kellen McKinney…
Even if you’re not into nerdcore hip hop, today is absolutely the one day you should take a listen to Antisoc’s new album, Futurehop. That’s because today is Towel Day, the annual tribute to the passing of author Douglas Adams, author of the Dirk Gently novels, as well as this underground thing called the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. Specifically,…
%{}% There’s a lot to like at B:2 A Burger Boutique (smoked gouda fries, patty melt), along with some items that might need a bit of tweaking. Tuna noodle salad is a classic dish that still works for lunch. The New York Times’ decision to noting wines’ alcohol content could start a fierce debate over whether the percentage of alcohol…
A man’s body was discovered inside an apartment complex in the 4400 Northwest D’Mons Drive Monday evening, sparking a homicide investigation. View Larger Map The man’s co-workers had become concerned about him after he missed several days of work, leading to Riverside police discovering the man’s body inside his apartment around 8:30 p.m. The victim’s name has not been released,…
Classic East Bay punk act MDC comes to the Jackpot again tonight. They’re touring in support of their Mobocracy split with London’s the Restarts on No Label Records. As Ian MacKaye noted in Jack Boulware and Silke Tudor’s Gimme Something Better, “MDC stood for lots of different things — obviously, Millions of Dead Cops. The second most notable one was…
Speaking of kidnappings, KMBC Channel 9 reports that a Leawood woman claimed that she was jogging near Roe Avenue and Tomahawk Creek Parkway around 10 p.m. when a man in a baby blue pickup attempted to pull her into his vehicle. The woman in her twenties gave police an odd detail: The man had four dogs in the bed of…
We don’t usually preview upcoming First Friday stuff, preferring to leave it in the capable hands of Ms. Wiebe and her crack team in their monthly hit list. However, this event popped up on Facebook, and it just begged to get pointed out. On Friday, June 4, at the Hemingway Gallery (19th and Baltimore), there will be a blacklight art…
