Archives: September 2010
Shirley Phelps Roper: Westboro Baptist Church will burn Quran and U.S. flag on 9/11
Shirley Phelps-Roper aims to offend. This is one of those times when I hate to be right. As I predicted yesterday, Topeka’s homophobic Westboro Baptist Church will burn a Quran. Shirley Phelps-Roper announced the planned burning in an e-mail yesterday, saying the church will burn a Quran and a U.S. flag on September 11. Categories: News Tags: Quran, Shirley…
While you were stuck in traffic on Interstate 35, someone was dying from stab wounds (updated)
Update II (2:49 p.m. September 9): Remember being stuck on Interstate 35 during the morning rush Tuesday? You can blame Christopher K. Blacklock. Johnson County prosecutors have charged Blacklock with first-degree murder in the stabbing death of 29-year-old Ziahdrick D. Williams, which shut down the the southbound lane a couple of days ago. Blacklock is locked up in the JoCo…
Shirley Phelps-Roper calls out Florida preacher for plans to burn Quran … ’cause she did it first
The attention-starved members of the Westboro Baptist Church don’t like anyone stealing their bible-beating thunder. Not even Civil War-mustachioed Florida preacher man Terry Jones, who is planning to burn the Quran on September 11 while you’re watching college football. Shirley Phelps-Roper is reportedly calling Jones a poseur. Fred Phelps’ daughter told the Star that Westboro’s was burning the Islamic religious…
What do you mean, you’ve never heard of Panhead Billy’s BBQ?
It’s a barbecue joint! It’s a biker bar! No, wait, it’s a barbecue joint and a biker bar! The answer to this week’s “Where Am I Eating?” question is Panhead Billy’s BBQ, a rustic-looking roadhouse in religious-sounding Kingdom City, Missouri. Things can’t be too uptight there, though, because Panhead Billy’s can get pretty wild. There are a line of brassieres…
79 homicides in Kansas City, Missouri, after man shot and killed 12th and Brooklyn bus stop
%{}% A man found dead at an east-side bus stop over the lunch hour is Kansas City’s 79th homicide victim. This marks the sixth person killed in KCMO in the first nine days of September. Police were called to a shooting at the intersection around 12:28 p.m. Officers found the victim, who they described as a black man in his…
Arthur Bryant’s defeats Gates on Food Wars
%{}% I love television that opens with slow motion shots of barbecue sauce being slathered on a rack of ribs. It’s the closest I can come to being a lion devouring an antelope. The Travel Channel’s Food Wars opened with a few mouth-watering shots of barbecue before host Camille Ford informed the audience that she was in “the town that…
Kemper Arena: Dead to spectators, alive to bondholders
Lusting for the new and shiny, government entities across the U.S. have demolished or mothballed sports stadiums and arenas with outstanding debts. The New York Times recently described the phenomenon, focusing on the $110 million debt that New Jersey owes for a football stadium that’s now a parking lot. The story mentioned Kansas City without identifying our albatross: Kemper Arena….
R.I.P., Rich Cronin: alas, “Summer Girls” will live on
Rich Cronin, of LFO, died at age 35 on Wednesday, after fighting Leukemia since 2005. In case you’re unacquainted with the genius of LFO (which stands for Lyte Funky Ones, by the way), the boy band was responsible for the hit “Summer Girls” in 1999, which was one of the first songs to name-drop Abercrombie and Fitch. Check this pure,…
Bieber Watch: Bieber blows up cops in CSI promo!
All you Beliebers in the house: What’s up, yo? Me? Nah, just chillin’. Oh hey, did any of you catch last night’s CSI: Miami? Yeah, it was a rerun, so I wasn’t going to watch it either, but then it turned out that I did end up watching it. During the closing credits, they ran a preview of next week’s CSI, which was…
Cereal marshmallows without all that annoying cereal
Cereal marshmallows are like the gum that used to come in packs of baseball cards. There was always one kid who openly loved it. The rest of us just snatched up pieces when nobody was looking and kept our enjoyment to ourselves. But I bet you used to count yourself fortunate when your cereal-to-marshmallow ratio was higher than normal after…
What’s Poppin’ Off: E-40, GWAR
The original Captain Save-A-Hoe is coming to the Uptown, ya’ll. He’s actually sharing the bill with Tech N9ne, but enough of that guy already. E-40, who’s behind 2008’s The Ball Street Journal, 2006’s My Ghetto Report Card and 1996’s Tha Hall of Game will wrap up his tour supporting his latest album, Revenue Retreivin’ in Kansas City. Tickets will be…
Plan your night at the Crossroads Music Festival
The Crossroads Music Festival is on Saturday, September 11. With a high-quality smattering of local acts playing the Crossroads this weekend, you’d best be planning who’ll you’ll be seeing, where, and at what time. (26 bands, six whole stages, so little time!) “For this festival, it is more about great artists than how many people they can bring,” says organizer…
Adam Clay is still top dog in North Kansas City
Adam Clay is still cooking up hot dogs. We received a phone call a week or so ago informing us that Hot Dog Haven, the little hot dog bistro located in an old Chevy dealership building on Armour Road in North Kansas City, was no more. That was doggone sad news. The proprietor, former hotel chef Adam Clay, really knew…
Terry Kirtley’s skull found in a backyard of a Kansas City home, bones found in wooded area
There’s a mystery afoot after an Oklahoma man’s skull was found in the backyard of a home at 37th and Myrtle. Kansas City police are trying to figure out how 43-year-old Terry Kirtley died. His skull was discovered on August 28. Three days later, detectives found his bones in a wooded area just east of where his skull was discovered….
Pledge Greek this weekend at the annual food festival
Spyros Lagis wants to give you the bird. For 49 years, the congregation of the Annunciation Greek Orthodox Church at 12001 Wornall Road has hosted a fundraising festival that involves music, dancing and — most important — eating. This week, the church hall was filled with volunteers skewering 1,800 pounds of marinated chicken pieces and 500 pounds of pork for…
Issiah Martinez: Missing 2-year-old Garden City boy found
On your way to work this morning, you might have seen the Amber Alert’s for missing 2-year-old Issiah Martinez on the LCD boards on Interstate 35. Don’t worry about him. Martinez has been found and KMBC Channel 9 is now reporting that the boy was found alive. It’s a good outcome for a bad situation. Martinez disappeared after his mother…
ACB’s get professional with new song, video, show Friday at Davey’s
The ACB’s have undergone a lineup reshuffling in recent months: Frontman Konnor Ervin and bassist Bryan McGuire are now joined by Andrew Connor (of Ghosty) on guitar and Kyle Rausch (formerly of Abracadabras) on drums. A supergroup of sorts. Friday night, you can catch the new ACB’s live at Davey’s, with the Claque (formerly Moon Mash) and, um, Pussy…
Top 5 edible bikinis not worn by Lady Gaga
Lady Gaga is once again making headlines for something she’s wearing. And this time, it’s about an outfit you could get from the supermarket. The pop star — who killed it at the Sprint Center last month, according to The Pitch’s Elke Mermis — donned a raw-meat outfit that is something between a dress and a two-piece swimsuit for the…
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