At a wet and chilly unveiling ceremony at Kansas City Live last night, the Kansas City Wizards officially became Sporting Kansas City. After Sporting CEO Robb Heineman gave an unusually emotional speech about his team, fans, Missouri and some other stuff, the fans were surprising upbeat. When a wall of soccer balls fell away to reveal the team’s new crest,…
Okay. So Houlihan’s, which is a national chain restaurant that was founded in, and is still based in, Kansas City, is doing a thing with VH1’s Save the Music program where they travel to a bunch of cities, go to big-time concerts there, try to get celebrities to sign musical instruments, and then auction them off to raise money for music education….
Chicago-based GrubHub.com, an online service that organizes restaurant data and creates an easy method for ordering delivery and take-out from restaurants in 13 U.S. markets, received a financial delivery of its own this week. The six-year-old start-up received $11 million in Series C funding from Benchmark Capital. The company is going to need the cash. According to Amy Le, GrubHub’s…
Joseph Wilson and Damon E. Randolph were in a face-to-face argument when the witness was walked into the living room at 5339 Paseo. They’d fought before, but cooler heads always prevailed. Not in the early hours of March 5. The witness tried to separate Wilson and Randolph, who were shoving each other. As the witness pulled on Wilson’s shoulder, Randolph…
The boy was only 12 when he shot and killed his mother, 35-year-old Rachel Duncan, and stepfather, 31-year-old Jaeson Duncan, at the family’s mobile home in Kaiser, Missouri, in July. The boy, now 13, admitted shooting his parents yesterday, the Associated Press reported. Judge Kenneth Hayden ruled that the boy won’t be tried as an adult (which is always on…
%{}% Waldo has several Mexican restaurants within its borders, including Cantina Del Ray, Chelly’s Cafe and Paparico’s. In December, it gets a new cantina: Mike Flaherty, the attorney turned saloon operator, is opening the Taco Factory in the former Sweet Guy location, at 7439 Broadway, in mid-December. The Sweet Guy, a confectionery-coffee shop, closed in June. When Flaherty saw the…
I suspect almost no meth addicts read Plog since they’ve got shit to do, and we’re really more of a weed head publication anyway. If you happen to know a meth addict and you’re still friends for some reason you, might want to let him know that there’s been some damage to the local “illicit drug lab” scene this morning….
%{}% Five former University of Kansas Athletics employees have been indicted on federal charges of conspiring to steal more than $2 million men’s basketball and football tickets. The five indicted include husband and wife Thomas and Charlette Blubaugh, Ben Kirtland, Rodney Dale Jones and Kassie Liebsch. The U.S. Attorney’s Office alleges that the five stole the tickets for ticket brokers…
KCTV5’s anchors sounded appalled when introducing the story of cyber trolls attacking a Facebook memorial page for Mason Adams, the St. Joseph who was run over and killed by a school bus on Monday. Have they not been to the wasteland that is the Internet? You can pretty much figure out how the story goes. The trolls are dicks. People…
You probably don’t bake, but you can definitely bring dessert. Now when it comes to finding the right dessert to pass off as your own, there are lots of ways to fill a pie dish. This week’s battle is meant to prepare you for Thanksgiving or any other dinner where you agree to provide dessert. It’s the oversized lattice apple…
Pin-ups, burlesque and twangy rockabilly style: Robert Folsom has the skinny on tonight’s show at Knuckleheads. Saving the animal kingdom never seemed so saucy. From 7 p.m. to midnight, a dozen classy lasses compete at the Miss Vixen 2011 Pin-Up Pageant, hosted by Artemis Vulgaris and Annie Cherry at Knuckleheads Saloon (2715 Rochester, 816-483-1456). Categories: Music Tags: Miss Vixen…
A Missouri state senator is walking an entertaining line between being a sore loser and a righteous avenger. Kevin Engler, a Republican from Farmington, a city south of St. Louis, thought he was in line to become president pro tem of the Senate. But another senator, Rob Mayer, thought he might like the job, too. The 26 Republicans in the…
This Saturday, the musical guest on Saturday Night Live is Florence and the Machine. (With host Anne Hathaway: Snore.) I kind of like a few Florence and the Machine songs I guess, but I also get the feeling that in a few years I maybe won’t even remember who or what Florence and the Machine was. That they got booked…
I thought the corn dog was safe. There’s only so much you can fit inside a deep-fat fryer and the foot long is really the height of innovation when it comes to the state fair staple. But the boys at Epic Meal Time won’t rest until they’ve destroyed every guilty pleasure we hold dear. Pizza, The Greasiest Sandwich Ever and…
On top of having one of the best trailer-trash band names, Backyard Tire Fire wins points for a ridiculous biography. “Okay, here’s the skinny,” writes No Depression’s Jim Musser, who tells the Georgia band’s story. “The scheming corporate vampires and piggy-bankers have waddled away in a silent-but-deadly cloud after gobbling their fills at the public trough, leaving the rest of…
Ever since the editors of the U-News retracted an issue containing an ill-advised editorial titled “Do I have a booger?” from newsstands, the student newspaper of the University of Missouri-Kansas City has been experiencing backlash. Now, in the November 8 edition of the paper’s Forum section — the section in which the offending article first ran — editor-in-chief Melissa Oribhabor…
For three years back in the 70s, the Cowtown Ballroom — which you may know better as the El Torreon space — hosted some killer parties. The Flying Burrito Brothers played there! They even made a documentary about it. Starting this Sunday, the space will host the Cowtown Mallroom, which sounds like a pretty cool DIY antique mall. Categories: Music…
In every city outside of this one, there is a place with a shining neon sign that has something named Kansas City on the menu. While we likely can’t trademark Kansas City, I think it would be nice to establish some standards. We can’t have people across the country thinking they’ve had a true KC barbecue experience just because somebody…
