Your plane is leaving in 15 minutes. You skipped lunch. You can only buy trail mix for $4 on board. And that trail mix is in a bag just large enough to fully awaken your hunger. What do you do, hot shot? What do you do? I grab a teeny chicken panini from Argo Tea in O’Hare Airport. The miniature…
Today: Get re-acquainted with your old crush. The Backstreet Boys are back and playing the Midland tonight. Tuesday: Yearn for a simpler time. Little House on the Prairie, starring Melissa Gilbert, opens at the Starlight Theatre. Wednesday: Support local food and fashion. The third issue of Faction magazine is dedicated to food and available during a party at Farmhouse. Thursday:…
See Charles in person, unedited and commercial-free In the autumn of 2008, I was given the opportunity to put on a pair of stain-resistant linen gloves so I could carefully investigate the different historical items in the Kansas City Museum’s collection of vintage menus — mostly from the Union Station restaurants and the actual railroad dining cars — and asked to…
Update (11:15 a.m. June 21): Kansas City police have found the parents of the little girl found wandering alone near Independence Avenue and Wilson earlier this morning. Police say the little girl’s father said she must have gone outside to play while he was sleeping. He contacted police when he couldn’t find her (the family lives in the 6400 block…
The All-Star Game is coming to Kauffman Stadium. Yay! The All-Star Game is coming to Kauffman Stadium. Boo! Bud Selig, Major League Baseball’s charisma-allergic commissioner, came to town last week to reveal the poorly kept secret that Kansas City was getting the 2012 midsummer classic. The game will return to Kansas City for the first time since 1973, when President…
Last week Nation’s Restaurant News reported that the McDonald’s fast food empire had dropped by 4.3 percent in customer satisfaction, according to the American Satisfaction Index — from 70 out of 100 in 2009 to this year’s 67. The big winners in customer satisfaction, according to the report, include Papa John’s, Pizza Hut, Little Caesar’s, and Starbucks in the fast-food category;…
%{}% You’ve heard that old fable — favored by Orson Welles, among others — about a frog whom a scorpion asks for a ride across a stream. The frog reasons that the scorpion won’t sting him while they’re both in the water, because then they would both drown. So he consents. But the scorpion stings him anyway, explaining as they…
Sometimes a man needs a mini-oven. Coffee Break was that place for me. The quirky coffee shop at 5400 Troost looks like it still could be open. And if it were, I’d walk in and order a cup of drip coffee made with beans from PT’s Coffee Roasting Co. in Topeka. I’d also order a cinnamon roll. Here’s where the…
Suliana Tonga is accused of killing Jennifer L. McGinty by hitting the 54 year old eight to 10 times in the head with a nearly full gallon bottle of vodka. What did McGinty do to allegedly set off the 31-year-old Tonga? McGinty urinated and defecated on Tonga’s couch, a witness told Independence police. Categories: News Tags: homicide, Jennifer McGinty, Killa…
%{}% The goober burger may have some competition in the form of the peanut butter hot dog. A metrowide pub crawl that spans nearly 200 miles and a few paper cups of beer. Twilight star Taylor Lautner apparently loves Olive Garden. He is just like us. An exploration of South African food discovers a world of influences in the “rainbow…
Much as we here at Wayward suspected, Saturday’s show at the Brick was a ridiculously fun showcase of some of the city’s best rock acts. Pink Socks, who hadn’t played around town for over a year, sounded hungry and tight as hell, and Bleach Bloodz turned the night into a celebration of sorts, bringing friends on stage for different songs and…
The trouble with having a religion founded by a crazy writer is that crazy writers tend to write crazy shit. Traditionally, the Church of Scientology has handled this by making access to the craziest of L. Ron Hubbard’s jabberings a reward you might earn in exchange for having blown thousands of hours and dollars. (Scientology is to religion what Farmville…
For too long, Kansas City bikers had to ride out of state for a decent weekend of burnouts, classic rock tribute bands and a reasonable conversion rate of plastic beads to bare breasts. No more. This year, the first ever Grand River Rally in Urich attracted bikers not just from the metro but from all around the Midwest. Rallies like…
In case you missed it, our pics from last week’s mixed martial arts fights in the Power & Light District went live on the site late Friday afternoon. We blame sympathy pains for those on the wrong end of a beat down. So, in case you missed it, here’s a look back at Olympian, two-time National Champion and shaggy-haired Missouri…
For too long, Kansas City bikers have had to ride out of state for a decent weekend of burnouts, classic rock tribute bands and a reasonable conversion rate of plastic beads to bare breasts. No more. This year, the first ever Grand River Rally in Urich attracted bikers not just from the metro but from all around the Midwest. Come…
As you fitfully wait for the day to end, we’re sure you have something to look forward to this Father’s Day weekend. Tell us about it! Whether you’re witnessing front-end car collisions or eating cupcakes, we want to know how you spent your weekend. Categories: News Tags: Flickr, pictures, Twitter, weekend
Olympian, two-time National Champion and shaggy-haired Missouri Tiger Ben Askren put a beat down on Dan Hornbuckle last night during Bellator 22 in the center of Kansas City’s Power & Light District. Pitch photographer Emily Henson was cageside to shoot the action.
How about the weather? It is currently very hot outside! I have to mow the grass after I write this blog post, and I AM DREADING IT. Well, we could continue to discuss the weather, and my chores, or I suppose we could talk about music to see this weekend. Music it is! FRIDAY In KC, yacht-rock cover band Summer Breeze is…
Did you miss out on meeting Ginuwine, checking out the hair show and seeing models strut the runway at last night’s Arabian Nights Under the Stars event at The Jones? Sorry — for that, you had to be there. (My favorite part: the MC’s live updates of the Lakers/Celtics score.) If you want to know who you’d have been rubbing…
”Paix Reveuse” is the latest installment from Quixotic, and it’s a toned-down, more musically-focused show compared to last year’s “Lux Esalare” and 2008’s “Esoterra.” On the continuum of Quixotic’s in-your-face, hard-rock ballet, a less punk, more classical move added a live singer and streamlined the production. Even with a considerably smaller cast of characters, a much smaller stage and a…
Says Daniel: There is a flavor of goofy nostalgia to much of the footage, but the images are also haunting—- rock and roll ghosts, still singing, pogoing, sneaking hits on cigarettes, making direct eye contact. Some of these scenes have audio, but some of the reels were long ago separated from their soundtracks before they ever had a chance to…
Kansas City Mayor Mark Funkhouser made a populist, combative, defiant, fireworks-lacking and allusive State of the City speech on Thursday.The Kansas City Star’s coverage emphasized the position the mayor took against the “well-connected few” and the manner in which he challenged his rep for being a doofus. KMBC’s account played up Funkhouser’s poor relationship with the City Council. A writer…
