Director Kevin Smith wraps up filming on his new flick, Red State, this week. He’s been taking questions about the film on Twitter today, and the response to this tweet caught our eye: Categories: Music Tags: Fred Phelps, kevin smith, red state, twitter baby
Charles reviewed the recently opened Westport Cafe & Bar. Check out the photos from this Midtown brasserie here.
Since when is “equality” a negative thing? The Missouri — or should it be Missourah? — Republican Party is reaching deep into its homophobic bag of tricks with the flier above. “Not our values”? “Attack the institution of marriage”? A flag with “peace” printed on it is a bad thing? So what if John Bullard, the Democrat in House District…
%{}% The Amish do not like to be photographed. They believe that we English’s magic lens contraptions violate biblical instructions about graven images. Photography’s sinful connotation is why newspaper and magazine articles about the Amish feature so many buggy shots. The Amish’s reluctance to pose for portraits extends to police booking rooms. In 2009, Johnny A. Schwartz of Seymour, a…
I used to love getting a few packs of candy cigarettes in my Halloween bag as a youngster. Did those pretend-tobacco confections influence my later pack-a-day habit? Probably not as much as old Warner Bros. movies and the Kool-puffing juvenile delinquents I knew in high school did. Hey, everyone seemed to be smoking cigarettes in the 1960s…even Fred Flintstone. These…
This is why I feel bad for the folks working the graveyard shift at convenience and grocery stores. Around midnight, a guy went in the Hy-Vee grocery store at Noland Road and U.S. 40 Highway in Independence and started popping shots at the night manager. Independence police released photos of the guy this afternoon. Check ’em out to see if…
Every grocery store trip seems to be so full of promise. You wander around choosing healthy foods and buying bulk, dreaming of all the wonderful recipes you’re going to create. Soon, though, all of that promise and hope becomes a fridge full of rotten foods and a 5-pound box of raisins bought on sale. You throw it all out in…
John Hughes, the self-professed serial killer/”Antichrist,” told police”: “I don’t mean to be a smart ass about it, but you shouldn’t try to fight with somebody with a gun.” Hughes, 34, was talking about Valentin G. Kirilchuk, a 39-year-old trucker from Springfield. In September 2008, Hughes’ girlfriend allegedly lured Kirilchuk into a rest stop bathroom where Hughes robbed and killed…
The Shawnee Mission School District, which has never been known to overreact about anything, suspended Alyssa Cornish for three months. Cornish must be some kind of delinquent, right? Uh, not exactly. She’s an 11-year-old, straight-A student council member at Santa Fe Elementary. But she did a bad, bad thing. She admitted playing with a toy gun on school grounds on…
We’re getting into holiday pie season, including the traditional Thanksgiving pies: pumpkin, pecan, sweet potato. Fat City reader Deborah is a vegetarian and says she never really thought of pies as an issue until she noticed, at her local supermarket, that frozen pie crusts might be prepared with lard. Lard — rendered or unrendered pig fat — was once the…
Forester Michael Dutch Newman. In this week’s Pitch: Koch hangs out with rapper Dutch Newman and talks about his first full-length, Anderson breaks down your Halloween options, plus we preview shows from Watermelon Slim, Roger Waters, and the Max Weinberg Big Band. Categories: Music Tags: Dutch Newman
The well regarded spreadsheet wizards at FootballOutsiders.com keep a running tally of teams’ chances of making the playoffs, winning their conference and winning the Super Bowl — and the Chiefs’ odds are strangely, almost scarily high. But if you’re worried about tempting the football Gods, don’t be: Vegas disagrees somewhat vehemently, and everyone knows the football Gods have gambling problems….
Ronald McDonald is a friend to all children. Ronald McDonald with an ax? Not so much. Here are five Halloween costume ideas based on fast food mascots. 5. Wendy the Roller Warrior: Rebelling against the wishes of her father, Dave Thomas, Wendy is trading in old-fashioned hamburgers for a life on the track. Who knew she was such a badass?…
Yesterday we reported that the new 2011 Zagat Guide had uncovered this interesting fact: When it comes to texting, tweeting and yammering on one’s cell phone during dinner at a restaurant, 3 percent of Kansas Citians — a higher percentage than many other cities — said it was “perfectly acceptable.” I have witnessed four women sitting together in a restaurant,…
What do, Mel Gibson, Lindsay Lohan and Kevin Yoder have in common? They were all involved in traffic stops? Uh, I’m still not sure, even after watching Stephene Moore’s latest attack ad. But it’s clear in the waning days of her floundering campaign (FiveThirtyEight says she only has a 5.8 percent chance of winning), Moore is going to start flinging…
The Pixies are reunited and in top-fighting form (as you know, if you were at the band’s live show at the Uptown in September). They’re re-launching their website, too. To mark the occasion, the band is offering up it’s triumphant set at Coachella 2004, an early example of the band in post-reunion fighting form, for free. Categories: Music Tags: coachella,…
Market 3 has been open for two weeks, quietly stocking its shelves, but the grand opening happens tomorrow. “Be Happy & Love Life” reads a sign on the deli case. The grocery and deli emphasizes local vendors and farms, and some of them will be at the grand opening — with samples. Samples are always good. Categories: Dining, Food &…
Chris Martin and his band of sleepy balladeers are leading the Brits towards the land of nod. In a recent survey, Britain rated the top ten artists that put them to sleep, and Coldplay tops the list. Popping Taylor Swift, Leona Lewis and Alicia Keys into the CD player helps music-lovers across the pond get in the mood to score…
Congratulations to racist prick Frazier Glenn Miller. I’d almost forgotten about the white supremacist write-in candidate for U.S. Senate, even with the election coming on Tuesday. But Miller has done something his opponents — Roy Blunt and Robin Carnahan — for the retiring Kit Bond’s seat haven’t: He won a Baity. Salon is handing out Baity Awards for Excellence in…
As soon as I saw on the KC Beer Blog yesterday that Boulevard’s Nutcracker Ale was starting to hit shelves, I was off to pick up a six pack for myself. I got rooked one year when I tried to hold out until closer to the holidays, and only managed to get one six-pack before it was all sold out….
Retro kitsch and PBR are perfect fits for the Miss Vixen 2011 pageant, which is on November 18 at Knuckleheads. Hosted by Artemis Vulgaris and Annie Cherry, the pageant will include performances by The Kansas City Society of Burlesque and Little Rachel and the Rhythm Busters. (Score a Vixen Pin-Up Photography’s 2011 Pin-Up calendar while you’re at it.) Here’s what…
Just days before the election, the political baggage is falling from the sky. Roy Blunt might have hired an illegal immigrant! Sam Brownback lived with an quasi-cult on Washington’s C Street! Kevin Yoder wouldn’t blow for a breathalyzer! It’s all so shocking! Enter Jonathan Dine, a convicted felon and Libertarian candidate for Senate. Dine, who lives in Riverside, has served…
