Google, you’ve got mail. Specifically, you’ve got a letter from Missouri Attorney General Chris Koster. He’s asking the company to detail what personal information may have been collected from citizens while Googlers cruised the streets, recording images to use in the search engine’s Street View mapping function. People have sued Google over privacy concerns in other states, including a federal…
This weekend we asked you to share how you unwind after the work whistle blows on Friday. We got your pictures via our Flickr pool and Twitter accounts and shared some of our own.
Scary things can happen in your own backyard. Or in our case, in our parking lot. On Friday, zombies staggered to the Cross Roads Art District for the Kansas City Zombie Walk for Hunger. The living dead brought food donations to the east alley of the Pitch’s parking lot to benefit Central Avenue Center of Hope in Kansas. According to…
FRIDAY The Black Keys are doing their neo-blues thing at the Crossroads at Grinders. But it’s sold out. You could maybe lurk around on the street outside and listen to the show. First Fridays is tonight, too, so that should be a happenin’ part of town. Weezer is playing the Buzz Under the Stars concert at City Market. But that…
Another week, another comment under last week’s recap of Kansas’ move to outlaw text-messaging for drivers. The careful observer — someone not texting while reading this blog — will note that our previous Comment of the Week was under the same post. There’s a good reason for this: Omnipotence. As commenter “Lady in Tights” says: More than 6,697,254,041 people exist…
Somehow The Human Centipede has crawled to Kansas City without the kind of hype you’d expect from a work of “definitive psychological horror” (as Karina Longworth puts it in The Village Voice). Which is to say, we only just heard the good news. The plot: A German doctor has captured some luckless tourists with the goal of surgically attaching them,…
You need plans. Fat City has a recycle bin full of listings. In this post, all our problems are solved. Fat City tested it for you yesterday, but you can try the Schlafly Raspberry Hefeweizen for yourself — along with the Kolsch, Summer Lager, American IPA and Bourbon Imperial Stout — during a free walk-through tasting at Gomer’s South (9902…
Still Life with Tray The A&W root beer chain — currently owned by Yum! Brands, operators of Pizza Hut, Taco Bell and Kentucky Fried Chicken — has long claimed to have opened the first drive-in restaurant in America. That was in the early 1920s, when A&W founder Roy Allen opened his second root beer stand in Sacramento. He hired “tray…
Now, you guys are lucky I’m not snagging these myself, because you know I want to see my boy Stephan Jenkins. The man is an inspiration. I digress. We have two tickets to the show, and here’s how to win them: Categories: Music Tags: all time low, bamboozle, boys like girls, contests, good charlotte, simple plan, third eye blind
Homosexuals eat hamburgers too In Kansas City, the gayest burger joint in town is Hamburger Mary’s. But a new ad for McDonald’s — airing only in France — is so gay-friendly that it’s causing international controversy. That includes ridicule from right-wing radio personality Bill O’Reilly, who asked whether an al-Qaida ad was next.The French ad features a young man and his…
There’s a hole in the downtown dining scene. It’s a perfectly round hole about the size of a quarter. It’s there. We just don’t talk about it. Well, that ends today, on National Doughnut Day. Kansas City needs a downtown doughnut shop. Now go grab your free doughnut. I’ll wait. You’re going to need some energy for this one. In…
This is the best chocolate malt in the city, can you guess where it’s from? I have a long family history with malts. It’s not I that have looked for one in every city, hoping to discover the finest malt in the country. It’s my dad that stepped up to the malt-shop counter each time searching for an elusive recipe…
The question you must ask yourself when you are buying tickets to a concert like last night’s United We Rock Tour stop at Starlight with Foreigner, Styx and special guest Kansas: Am I actually getting tickets to a glorified tribute band show? And then: Do I even care? An alarming amount of legacy acts from the vinyl era possess only…
Lonell Hayes has been accused of burning the car of muder victims John and Joseph Hooker Lonell Hayes, the brother of the man charged with murdering John and Joseph Hooker and stuffing their bodies in a shopping cart, has been charged with burning the victim’s car. Jackson County Circuit Court prosecutors are charging Hayes with one felony count of knowingly…
Categories: Music Tags: CES Cru, riot room, the ACBs
Peregrine Honig, one of the busy bees of West 18th Street, is among the 14 people — Bravo calls them “aspiring artists” — competing on the cable network’s new reality show Work of Art: The Next Great Artist. Which is funny, considering Honig is already an artist, and a very established one at that: she is the youngest living artist…
Lew Perkins, the Shrek-eared athletic director at the University of Kansas, recently noted the Big 12’s conference’s relative youth. Perkins seemed to want to suggest that exciting times lie ahead, much like a “Go forth”-minded commencement speaker. But with two conferences looking to pick off members, the Big 12 is looking like one of those ’60s pop songs that ends…
Kelly Hagan is the new Sugar Mamma The restaurant critics’ topic today on the the Walt Bodine Show, at 10 a.m. on KCUR, 89.3 FM, is bakeries. I’ll be co-hosting the show with Walt and guests Mary Bloch and Chris Becicka. We’ll be talking about many of the new bakeries that have opened around town, including Bloom, Sugar Mamma’s and…
Wait, wait! Do you have a lonely sister aged 22-35? Nice – well, this is just a guess, but might she be interested in free tickets to the show? Do you have any divorced aunts? Gay cousins? Just because you’re not into hot hunks like Brian Littrell — God dammit can he wear the heck out of a scarf —…
%{}% The best places can’t always be seen on Google Streetview — case in point, Ortega’s Mini-Market and Restaurant. Sandwich shopping in the Northland leads to stops at Longboards and In A Tub. Sadly, Kansas City is not the only city to suffer from a dearth of food trucks. Add Chicago to the list. Maybe it’s not the camera that…
Or more accurately, we want to know what you did this weekend. Did you go to the movies? Grill with your friends? Take advantage of any of our weekend suggestions? From the mundane to the epic, we’d love to see how you spent those days before the drudgery of Monday calls us all back to the grind. We’ll take our…
Jeff Eubank Flesh is served at the Off Center Theater. 1. Hit the galleries. It’s First Friday again, which means art shows fill the Crossroads. 2. Ride a skateboard where it’s normally prohibited. Organizers for tonight’s Red Bull Manny Mania contest secured special permission for alley oops on Barney Allis Plaza. 3. Wave a rainbow flag. Kansas City Pride Week…
