The last thing I want to do when I’m drinking is pedal 15 of my drunk friends around. I’ll pass. So I can’t imagine wanting to pedal their asses around sober. But that’s what’s going on in Lawrence (and will be for the next year). Luke Stone borrowed the idea after seeing the Pedal Pub in Minneapolis and decided to…
Before you head downtown tonight, there are a few Biebs-related pieces of information you should know. Categories: Music Tags: justin bieber
This is going to help Mayor Mark Funkhouser’s case for hiring 100 patrol officers and upgrading the KCPD’s resources. A man was shot to death in the parking lot of a northeast Kansas City apartment complex near Lexington and Garfield around 2 a.m., the Star reports. Police are looking for a dark colored Sedan. Not a lot of information out…
I share only one true quality with my dog. You can put down any size glass in front of us and we will drink until it is empty. One of us will then make horrible retching noises while rolling around on the carpet under the ottoman. And so when I hear that free refills could be heading the way of…
I thought Sam Brownback was going to have an easy road to the Republican nomination for Kansas governor. That was until I heard about Joan Heffington, who runs a nonprofit called the Association for Honest Attorneys. Guess who sits on the board? God! Beat that, Brownback! Oh, you can’t. And here comes the Topeka Capital-Journal (saw it on Wonkette) with…
There are deplorable human beings and then there is Todd Barkau, who trained a 14-year-old girl to be a dominatrix. Not only did he teach her, he also raped and prostituted her on the Internet as a 19- to 20-year-old dominatrix named “Evil Mistress Alisha.” The name was a hand-me-down from mom, who used it in her stripping days. Mom,…
Not quite like it looks in Springfield Such great guesses as to the restaurant that serves this good — but not great — version of Springfield Cashew Chicken! It needed to be a lot crunchier.And which restaurant served the dish? The Master Wok Chinese Restaurant at 3757 SW Raintree Drive in Lee’s Summit. ————————————————————————— I’m just wondering: Do Chinese restaurants…
Portland’s Archeology has an acoustic, melodic, percussive sound that calls to mind a slightly more twee Local Natives. The band is at RecordBar tonight, joined by the Caves and the Matt Damon Experience. And as we mentioned earlier today, Cheyenne Marie Mize folks out at Czar Bar. With Brian Frame and John Keck. That’s an early one — starts at 7 p.m. What…
“Society” met at Pusateri’s back in the 1930s Alan Scherstuhl, Pitch “Studies in Crap” archivist, found a fabulous vintage advertisement for a long-forgotten Italian restaurant, Pusateri’s, in the program for the 1934 edition of the Junior League Follies. At that time, the restaurant was located at 1213 Baltimore in the very heart of what was then Kansas City’s theater district….
The city’s Regulated Industries Division isn’t sticking to temporarily shuttering businesses for serving to minors. The service industry’s most hated government entity announced a couple of violations last week, including a five-day suspension for Surrey’s, a horse-drawn carriage company that ferries people around the Plaza. Categories: News Tags: country club plaza, Gary Majors, regulated industries, Surrey’s
%{}% My nascent trivia career is about to be snuffed out before it even has a chance to blossom into a proper Facebook status update. My team at the Record Bar’s regular Trivia Clash on Tuesday Thursday nights has been “clashed,” and must name the River Phoenix film where he plays a character nicknamed Birdlace that is headed to Vietnam….
Sitting on the Raymore City Council is probably the dullest job you can do because you spend hours talking about sewer lines or listening to people ask for a noise variance so they can have a prayer revival in a city park. My god, it is boring. So to make it a little more tolerable, the council’s members decided they…
The Justin Bieber show at the Sprint Center is far and away the biggest event happening in Kansas City this summer, and that’s just a fact whether you like it or not. It is such a big deal that the promoter won’t even give me, an important member of the press, a free ticket to review it! Imagine! Anyway. Are…
Can these rims help solve Norris Avery’s homicide? Kansas, City, Kansas, police released images of Avery’s 20-inch chrome “Player” rims, hoping they’ll help answer the question of who killed the 52 year old earlier this month. Police say the rims — with the word “Player” appearing five times around the lip of the rim and once in the center cap…
Chaz lost its Peter We received an e-mail here in Fat City last week from former Kansas City chef Tim Doolittle — his local resume included stints at City Tavern, EBT and the Stolen Grill — who now works for celebrity chef Wolfgang Puck in Las Vegas. Doolittle had read our conversation with young Jason Wiggins, the newest executive chef at…
Big 12 media days are this week in Dallas, and today was the Missouri Tigers’ turn to meet the press. But it sounds like the Tigers were a little late to the party. ESPN’s Pat Forde wondered if the Tigers went to the wrong media day: Categories: News Tags: Big 12, Missouri Tigers
The office refrigerator is like a bad practical joke. At first, you can get enjoyment out of watching a new employee stagger from the yawning mouth of the stench box. But all too quickly that smell can pervade the often tiny lunchroom and turn your guffaws into gags. The Wall Street Journal reports that as more employees bring brown-bag lunches,…
%{}% Lazy (also known around town as Lazy K) recently signed to the indie label extraordinaire the Record Machine, which has scooped up talented local bands like Cowboy Indian Bear, Max Justus, Soft Reeds, Capybara and Sam Billen. Lazy will be frolicking about on a western tour in Denver and beyond until August 12 (balls). Keeping one’s eyes peeled for…
%{}% Secretary of State candidate and anti-illegal folk hero Kris Kobach, desperate to convince voters that illegal immigrants and other scary people are stealing Kansas’ elections, will unveil some sort of election reforms this afternoon in Topeka. Most likely he’ll propose some sort of Voter ID system, which voter-rights advocates say will disenfranchise more legitimate voters than it will stop…
