Archives: July 2010
Now you have plans for the weekend
You need plans. Fat City has a recycle bin full of listings. In this post, all our problems are solved. Even if your fantasy doesn’t involve chocolate, it should now. KKFI’s Third Chocolate Fantasy Night is at Californos (4124 Pennsylvania) tonight. The night of chocolate and live music — the proceeds benefit the radio station — starts at 7:30 p.m….
Pro-life groups want you to boycott these companies
The first thing I got when I joined Kansans For Life was a list of companies to boycott (see this week’s feature, “A Day in the Right to Life”). The list — compiled by Life Decisions International in Front Royal, Virginia — was supposed to tell me every company that supported Planned Parenthood. It turns out, that’s a lot of…
Kansas City police investigating ‘suspicious death’ on East 32nd Street (updated)
%{}% Update (11:20 a.m. July 16): Word from the police is the medical examiner has officially ruled the woman’s death a suicide. Original Story (7:30 a.m. July 15): A woman shot to death Wednesday night may be Kansas City’s 60th homicide victim of 2010. Family members found the woman’s body in a home in the 8600 block of East 32nd…
This weekend’s beach closures won’t stop everyone from swimming in dookie
Public beaches at Pomme de Terre, Harry S. Truman and Wakonda state parks will be closed this weekend due to high levels of E. coli, a bacterial marker for other dangerous, waste-borne pathogens. The Department of Natural Resources measured E. coli colonies at Wakonda State Park at three times the limit for a single, 100-milliliter water sample. But some people…
A thin Lilith Fair shakes down at Sandstone
Though it was one of the most successful package tours of the late ’90s, 2010 hasn’t been especially kind to Lilith Fair so far. After an 11-year-break, Sarah McLachlan’s festival devoted to women in music has encountered trouble on the summer concert circuit, resulting in multiple canceled dates and artists, like Norah Jones and Kelly Clarkson. (Clarkson’s dropout stung especially:…
Larry Schnackenberg still missing. Have you seen him? (updated)
Update II (10:35 a.m. July 16): Divers searched Shawnee Mission Lake late into the night for Larry Schnackenberg, but ended their search without finding a trace of the missing Lenexa man. Meanwhile, Schnackenberg’s daughter has postponed her wedding — which was originally scheduled for Saturday — as the search continues for her father, KMBC Channel 9 reported. Not surprising news…
Celebrate National Ice Cream Day…without farting
Poppy’s Teresa Poppinga wants you to become a conehead ”Life is like an ice cream cone,” said Charles M. Schulz, creator of the Peanuts comic strip. “You have to lick it one day at a time.” The official licking day for the cold, creamy concoction is Sunday. You can even eat it in bed — no less a celebrity than…
‘Gunny and his gal’: The Pitch Flickr Pool Pic of the Week
Kansas City is home to the official national World War I Museum located at Liberty Memorial. The limestone obelisk and twin sphinx shielding their eyes draws in tourists from all over the country, like the couple in our Pic of the Week. Pitch Flickr Pool member Denzil Burriss caught this moment while trying to get a photo of Union Station…
P.F. Chang’s debuts new Yum Cha menu in Kansas City
Eat you heart out, New York City and Los Angeles. Kansas City was picked as the test market by P.F. Chang’s for a new menu featuring soybean-paper hand rolls and flat breads. “We want to test it here and see how it goes,” says Mark Kirke, market partner with P.F. Chang’s. The Yum Cha menu debuted Tuesday; look for it…
Rusko Shows KC How to Move
Mosaic was packed with an odd but enthusiastic assortment of revelers on Thursday night, sweating and dancing their asses off to the dubstep and house sounds of Rusko and an awesome assortment of DJs.
Party with The Pitch and three more things to do this weekend
1. Party with us. The Pitch just turned 30, and so to prove our everlasting youth, we will first dance our asses off tonight, then lounge by the pool on Saturday and finally rock out to kickass band the Gaslight Anthem on Saturday night. It’s all part of The Pitch Lost Weekend. 2. Laugh through the tears. Local comedian Jus…
Mountain Goats-inspired play showing at this year’s Fringe Fest
Tallahassee — “The story of a married couple. Drinking. Laughing. Dying. But mostly drinking.” — features Vanessa Severo and Patrick Du Laney in the cast, and local musicians Cody Wyoming and Kasey Rausch singing and providing musical accompaniment. Sounds promising; I’m crossing my fingers for a follow-up next year based on The Sunset Tree. Showtimes after the jump. Categories: Music Tags:…
KC vegetarians should move to Topeka
%{}% Thumbs up for the new Amber Ale from Boulevard. The revival of white whiskey is like discovering a lost American art form. Topeka was ranked the sixth-friendliest vegetarian city among small cities in America by the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals. British scientists believe they’ve cracked the mystery of whether the chicken or the egg came first….
Drinking vodka through your eye trend — or eyeballing as the kids call it — coming to KC
The new trendy way to drink vodka is to pour it directly into your eye socket — and the trend has penetrated our borders and corrupted our youth (sort of). Categories: News Tags: drinking, Eyeballing, idiots, vodka
Tech N9ne and Strange Music featured in this month’s XXL magazine
If you need any more convincing, we strongly encourage you to check out the feature on Tech and Strange in this month’s XXL. Categories: Music Tags: strange music, Tech N9ne, xxl
Ted Leo and the Pharmacists coming to Jackpot and Blue Note
Quite the contrary: yesterday he announced a tour that’ll bring him to the Blue Note in Columbia on Sunday, September 26, and the Jackpot in Lawrence on Tuesday, September 28. Tickets on sale now. Categories: Music Tags: Ted Leo
Karen Pletz, disgraced university president, describes a life in exile
Karen Pletz is accused of looting the Kansas City University of Medicine and Biosciences. Pletz presided over the osteopathic school for 14 years before being sacked last December. In a subsequent lawsuit, the university accuses Pletz of mishandling $2.3 million, including a $4,000 cash advance for a trip to a plastic surgeon. Pletz denies wrongdoing. The gist of her argument…
Can a candy bar wrapper help solve a homicide?
Kansas City, Kansas, police are still trying to figure out who the bones found in a 55-gallon barrel in May belong to and they’ve released the picture of a candy wrapper hoping it’ll help. KCK police released the photo on the right yesterday of a 1995 King Size Reese’s peanut butter cup candy wrapper. In May, they released a photo…
Double shooting kills teen at 58th and Michigan
%{}% The killing in Kansas City continues — in broad daylight. A double shooting Thursday afternoon ended with a teenager dead and another injured. The teen’s body was found on a sidewalk in the 5800 block of Michigan Avenue around 4:30 p.m. Categories: News Tags: double shooting, homicide, Killa City
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