The University of Kansas has placed the Phi Gamma Delta (FIJI) frat on a two-year probation. The move follows an investigation of hazing, after 18-year-old Matt Fritzie was airlifted following his dive into a temporary pool. KU determined that the frat had violated the Code of Student Rights and Responsibilities for hazing. Categories: News Tags: FIJI, Hazing, Matt Fritzie, Phi…
Back in the go-go days of downtown development in Kansas City, a piece of ground at 18th and Broadway was slated to become a condominium tower. But the market became oversaturated, and the project went on the shelf. Rather than just turn the land into a parking lot, the property owner, DST Systems, got creative. What began as a simple…
This ain’t your frat party’s Jell-O shot. We associate Jell-O shots with frat parties, debauchery and the occasional worship of the porcelain throne. But the girls at My Jello Americans have turned this party item into full-blown art. The site was started by Cory and Maureen during a snowstorm a couple of years ago. With little to do, they…
Remember “Dyslexic Heart” that awesome Paul Westerberg song from the ’90s? “Do I love you? Do I hate you? I got a dyslexic heart,” the former Replacements frontman waffled. Somebody should gift Sam Brownback the song on iTunes. The outgoing Kansas senator might find it very inspiring as he tries to explain why he derailed Francis Ricciardone Jr.’s nomination to…
When indie-rock band Oh My God takes the stage at the Crosstown Station’s Press Bar tonight — right after locals Bacon Shoe — expect the unexpected. (Even founding band member Ig admits he has no idea what might happen.) On the road to promote their most recent album, The Night Undoes the Work of the Day, Ig took a few…
Attention boozy nerds, we know you love trivia nights. Get ready because there’s a new trivia night coming soon to Raglan Road. Geeks Who Drink’s weekly Wednesday night trivia contest at the Power & Light pub starts October 27. Is it as good as Best Of winner Sonic Spectrum Music Trivia? You’ll just have to find out for yourself. Categories:…
Would Jeremy Mott still be alive if the doorman at Balanca’s hadn’t let him in? After 20-year-old Jeremy Mott was found dead last weekend outside Balanca’s, at the corner of 18th Street and Grand, his friends and family blamed the club for poor security, allowing underage patrons in the door and being unable to stop fights. Now Balanca’s owner…
Dive bars are refreshingly low-tech. The jukebox can be outdated. Bar-top popcorn machines tend to be properly crusted with grease. And the chairs have seemingly been stolen from all of our grandparent’s houses — one mismatched vinyl seat at a time. Wired recently reimagined the dive bar with robot bouncers capable of tossing a patron flagged by a retinal scan….
Thanks to his wildly popular, lyrically explicit single “Fuck You,” Cee Lo Green has been enjoying a fine second half of 2010. Back in July, Cee Lo covered “No One’s Gonna Love You,” a track off folk-rock superheroes Band of Horses’ 2007 album, Cease to Begin. Today comes word that BOH, who play the Uptown next Thursday, October 14, have…
%{}% Kansans For Life wondered aloud yesterday if one of its followers should buy murdered abortion provider George Tiller’s shuttered clinic and turn it into a memorial for aborted fetuses. “I’ve been to the Auschwitz and some of the other death camps in Poland. They are quite moving and memorable and sad,” KFL’s David Gittrich wrote in an e-mail to…
Bacon is essentially the Terminator. It’s not going to stop until we stop it. And so we continue on this fatty, greasy merry-go-round as our mouths continue to say “yes” long after our insides have succumbed to our diet. The next big step in bacon could be a bit lumpy. In an interview with The Seattle Post-Intelligencer, the founders of…
Expect Kevin Durant to drive past LeBron James a lot tonight. This is why Kevin Durant is better than LeBron James (and Dwyane Wade, but he’s really not in the conversation). This is why Durant is the best basketball player in the world. While King James was partying at The Midland and D-Wade was living it up at Luna…
performed a version of Ozzy Osbourne’s “Crazy Train” in response to a question by the press. And the Prince of Darkness isn’t too happy about it. “I am sickened and disgusted by the use of ‘Crazy Train’ to promote messages of hate and evil by a ‘church,’” said Ozzy in a press release, referring to the iconic song off…
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Even though candy dominates the food at a Halloween party, there’s no reason to neglect the wine. The Missouri Wine and Grape Board has a few suggested wine pairings to help you make sure that your sweet tooth and wine tooth are both satisfied. Categories: Dining, Food & Drink
Remember when every indie-rock band seemed obligated to sneak the word wolf into its name? Well, don’t expect that kind of self-conscious frippery at Wolfstock. Death Valley Wolfriders headline this night of foot-stomping country, rockabilly and hard rock. Categories: Music Tags: Brutally Frank, death valley wolfriders, Last Call Girls, the Tards, Them Damned Young Livers, Vanlade
1. Hear celebrity art critic Jerry Saltz talk about judging art for New York Magazine and Bravo’s Work of Art. He speaks today at 1 p.m. at KCAI. Five bucks says Peregrine Honig introduces him. 2. See some slam dunking. Since it seems that no pro basketball team will ever make Kansas City its permanent home, catch the Miami Heat…
Great food has a rhythm all its own. That’s just one of the things you can learn at the 2010 Rhythm & Ribs Jazz & Blues Festival on Saturday. The event, from 11 a.m. to 11 p.m. in the 18th & Vine District, is organized by the American Jazz Museum. Tickets cost $18 in advance or $25 the day of…
What makes a local restaurant great? Dining patrons all seem to have their own answers to this question, based on their own unique tastes and opinions. The “Restaurant Critics Panel” of The Walt Bodine Show on KCUR 89.3 weighs in on this weighty theme today, beginning at 10 a.m. Categories: Dining, Food & Drink Tags: KCUR-FM, Walt Bodine Show
Strip clubs need you to remember the good times. As the Great Titty Drought of 2010 continues with no end in sight, some of Kansas City’s finer clubs are trying to remind supporters that if they’re going to win this thing in court — and we know they can — they need you to help them stay open long…
The more new material I hear from Lawrence act Baby Birds Don’t Drink Milk, the more the title of the band’s new record — Skeletor & Me — makes sense. BBDDM’s making some downright spooky music these days: less psych-folk ramshackle fun, more eerie ambient haze. And just in time for Halloween! Tonight, the Birds are at the Replay, celebrating the…
Kansas City is known for two things: the soul and the sauce. The American Jazz Museum is celebrating this iconic combination at this year’s jazz and blues festival at 18th Street and Vine. Categories: Music
Randal G. Jennings is a special kind of asshole. The 43-year-old Chillicothe, Missouri, man liked to make children work for him — as prostitutes. During Jennings’ career as a pimp, he prostituted five children between October 1, 2007, and January 29, 2009. He would meet the children in motel rooms, photograph them in sexually explicit poses and post the pictures…
