Archives: October 2010

Dining, Food & Drink

Forbes Cross opens his first downtown restaurant

Charles Ferruzza,

Although restaurateur Forbes Cross will always be best-known for his wildly popular 1980s neighborhood grill concept, Michael Forbes Grill in Waldo, he’s opened (and closed) nearly a dozen restaurants since then — mostly in the suburbs. Cross is getting ready to open a new restaurant, his first downtown operation, next month. Categories: Dining, Food & Drink Tags: Forbes Cross, Hickok’s…
Music

Hip-Hop Is Undead celebrates a Dia de los Muertos for rappers

Elke Mermis,

Sike Style — aka Phil Schafer — is curating a tribute to fallen rap heroes called Hip-Hop Is Undead. La Esquina will host the ghosts of rap stars like Tupac Shakur, Notorious B.I.G. and Big Pun on November 5, plus some spinning by DJ Ataxic. Using visual arts to honor hip-hop’s dearly departed, Hip-Hop is Undead — a one night,…
News

It’s a long way to the top if you wanna rock and roll and be AC/DC

Peter Rugg,

Sometimes a story is just too big for one feature, and in the case of this week’s cover story on the quest to build a biker rally in Urich, Missouri, (“Field of Dirty Dreams”) there were some things I just didn’t have the space for. There were some things you shouldn’t know about. Then there was Big Guns, the rally’s…
Dining, Food & Drink

The first rule of E. coli: Don’t talk about E. coli

Mandy Mendon,

Recently, Fresh Express salads compared its new way of washing lettuce to the iPad. While trying to sound cool and trendy (spoiler alert: fail), Fresh Express apparently broke some supersecret business pact not to speak about the 2006 E. coli outbreak in the salad industry. “Food safety should never be a competitive advantage,” Tom Stenzel, president and CEO of the…
Dining, Food & Drink

Gordon Ramsay can see you, future MasterChef contestant

Robert Bishop,

Are you Kansas City’s next cooking-show contestant? If so, your first challenge is to get past the unsettling picture of Gordon Ramsay on the MasterChef casting website. He looks amused, scared, smug, anxious and pleased with himself all at once. MasterChef is billed as a nationwide search for the most talented home cooks in America. The winner gets a cash…
News

Christina Nicole Devine accused of leaving her baby in a Dumpster, charged with attempted intentional first-degree murder

Justin Kendall,

Emporia police have found the mother of a newborn baby found in a Dumpster last week, and she’s accused of trying to kill her son. But the story doesn’t sound black-and-white. KVOE radio reports that 24-year-old Christina Nicole Devine is charged with attempted intentional first-degree murder, but she told police something heartbreaking, if true.  Categories: News Tags: Christina Nicole Devine,…
Dining, Food & Drink

White Castle gets a little garlicky

Robert Bishop,

Clearly, White Castle is in league with the vampires. Why? Because the new garlic cheese sliders are available only until Friday — one day before Halloween. Pretty sneaky. Of course, this a moot point for Kansas City. But, just as some people can’t help looking up exes on Facebook, some of us KC Cravers can’t help checking out the chain’s…

News, Politics

Woody Cozad, cop lobbyist, supports effort to imperil cop funding

David Martin,

%{}% Is lobbyist and pundit Woody Cozad itching for a pay cut? Cozad, a former chairman of the Missouri Republican Party, continues to speak out on behalf of Proposition A, a statewide ballot issue which jeopardizes the earnings tax collected in Kansas City and St. Louis. Officials in Kansas City are mulling doomsday scenarios if the tax goes away, including…
Music

Win tickets to see Free Moral Agents at Czar Bar on November 1

Elke Mermis,

Free Moral Agents is the brainchild of Isaiah Ikey Owens, the Grammy Award-winning keyboardist for the Mars Volta and De Facto. Owens initially started Free Moral Agents as a solo project in 2004. Since then, he’s expanded the project into a group effort. (He’s also collaborated with the likes of Mastodon, Sublime, and Saul Williams.) Categories: Music Tags: Free Moral…
News, Politics

Kevin Yoder pleaded guilty to refusing to take a breath test, refused to answer KMBC bulldog Mike Mahoney’s questions (video)

Justin Kendall,

Congressional candidate Kevin Yoder’s campaign made a misstep over the weekend when answering questions about the Republican’s refusal to take a preliminary breath test during a 2009 traffic stop. A spokeswoman for Yoder initially told the Topeka Capital-Journal that Yoder pleaded guilty to speeding and prosecutors dropped a citation for refusing to take a Breathalyzer test. Not true. Yoder pleaded…
Dining, Food & Drink

Cheesecake Factory tops ‘worst foods’ list

Robert Bishop,

Eat This, Not That, the Men’s Health diet blog, released its list of the 20 worst foods of 2011 last week. It might as well have been called “Don’t Go to the Cheesecake Factory.” The restaurant chain has three spots on the list, including the honor of worst food in America: its bistro shrimp pasta, which comes in at 2,727…
News, Politics

George Clooney professes love for Sam Brownback

Ben Palosaari,

George Clooney: Actor. Director. Humanitarian. Supporter of Sam Brownback for governor? Well, maybe not. But the second worst Batman did defend Brownback a little bit on HBO’s Real Time with Bill Maher Friday night while talking about his work to raise awareness of the problems looming in Sudan’s future.  Categories: News, Politics Tags: Bill Maher, George Clooney, Sam Brownback

News

Robyn R. Hamilton, KCMO homicide No. 89: Woman killed in domestic disturbance

Justin Kendall,

%{}% UPDATE: The victim of this morning’s homicide has been identified as 42-year-old Robyn R. Hamilton. Police say the homicide is “domestic violence related” and the suspect is in custody. An argument between a husband and wife preceded Kansas City, Missouri’s 89th homicide of 2010. Kansas City police say a 42-year-old black woman was shot and killed by her husband…
News

Kemper Foundation donates $250,000 for St. Louis library overhaul

Peter Rugg,

No longer content with only one giant bookshelf in the Midwest, the Kemper Foundation is giving $250,000 to the St. Louis Public Library for a complete overhaul of its Central Library downtown. The William T. Kemper Foundation was started in 1989 after William Kemper passed away. The foundation supports arts education, civic improvements, and health and human services in Kansas,…
Music

Ryan Bingham brings rusty soul to the Granada tonight

Elke Mermis,

There’s a road-weary troubadour for each generation. But who among the current crop of young, raspy-voiced roots singers — Deer Tick, William Elliott Whitmore and Ryan Bingham, to name three — will earn the title? Ryan Bingham certainly has the history to back up his croon. The singer and songwriter was raised in West Texas and worked as a ranch…