Michael Fletcher wants to be a city councilman. First he needs to figure out where City Hall is. Fletcher’s attorney, Michael Yonke, this week filed a defamation lawsuit against Sharon Sanders Brooks, the 3rd District councilwoman Fletcher hopes to unseat. The suit attempted to list City Hall as Sanders Brooks’ address. But the address was wrong. City Hall is located at…
UPDATE: Syah D. Duffey, the 2-year-old who an Amber Alert was issued for on Thursday, has been found safe in Iowa with her father. But the story is definitely a strange one. Read the update after the jump … It’s hard not to feel your heart sink when you hear a story like this one. Syah D. Duffey, a 2-year-old…
%{}% It’s chili season and that means it’s time to “Turn on the Heat.” The annual fundraiser for the Arts Incubator (115 W. 18th St.) brings together dozens of restaurants, all of whom offer their take on chili (including Room 39, Happy Gillis, The American, R Bar). The event is tonight from 7 p.m. to midnight. Tickets are $25, which…
1. Chances are, you’ll be asleep, in the shower or already in your cubicle by the time Temple Grandin finishes her bound-to-be-empowering speech during the Kansas City Autism/Asperger’s Syndrome Conference at the Kansas City Airport Hilton. Grandin is a posterwoman for autism, which hasn’t stopped her from becoming a best-selling author and leader in the animal welfare movement. As an…
Nothing in the entire universe is more aptly named than Schwagstock. It is literally the schwag of hippie festivals. It’s run by the guy in the Grateful Dead cover band the Schwag, and it’s held in the butthole of Missouri. Not to hate on Schwagstock or the idea of schwag. Sometimes it’s nice to know schwag is around, like when…
“I missed a lot of my 20s sitting behind my computer,” says 28-year-old Kansas City novelist Brandon Tietz. “My friends got sick of me saying, ‘I can’t go out tonight, sorry. Gotta work on the book.’” “The book” is Out of Touch, a dark novel whose main character is literally numb to bodily sensation. It took Tietz two years to…
%{}% Kevin Smith wants you to hear the teaser trailer for his Fred Phelps-inspired film Red State, not see it (for now). Smith played the teaser trailer for an audience of 20, recorded it and released a podcast on Red State of the Nation (listen to it here). I’ve listened to it, and I can say this with confidence: Michael…
Aw, man is there some patriotic news out of the Kansas U.S. Attorneys Office this Veterans Day. Mexican illegal alien Inocente Monroy Alcantara, U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom announced, has pleaded guilty to document fraud for using a Marine’s identity to work in the country and open up bank accounts. Alcantara lived and worked in Arkansas City, Kansas, and stole the…
Reuben sandwich and fries for $5.49, plus tax Two of my co-workers came back to the office the other day bragging about their really good, surprisingly cheap lunch in the Power & Light District. Peter had gotten a cheeseburger, fries and a drink for about five bucks. I was, of course, curious. Where had they gotten this good deal? “The…
If you don’t have school age children in Kansas City, count your blessings. It’s stories like KCTV5’s “Sources: Kids Being Paid To Fight In KCMO Schools” that make parents scoff about raising children here. The most surprising thing about the KCTV5 report: No one in a position of authority is denying it. Categories: News
Some guys still haven’t learned that no really does mean no. A 25-year-old Kansas City woman reported to police that she was raped by a man she met at Tom Fooleries Bar and Grill at Zona Rosa and invited back to her apartment early this morning. According to the Star, the man and woman sat together in a booth at…
Since the season to be jolly is fast-approaching, Fat City is looking around for holiday gift ideas, preferably the kind that can be eaten (or used to make something that can be devoured). After all, diamonds may be a girl’s best friend, but everyone else wants a box of good candy or a festive cheese ball. When co-workers Becca Helzer…
On Monday, we served up an abbreviated but tasty list of local restaurants that were hosting Thanksgiving dinners on November 25th Today we have a somewhat more filling platter of possibilities ranging from the inexpensive to the sublime. There’s something on our list for every budget. Tomorrow we’ll have a list of restaurants that are open on Thanksgiving but not…
Last Friday, indie-folk act Breathe Owl Breathe played a set down in the Crossroads at Bridgeport with Continents and Saharan Gazelle Boy. The trio — a printmaker, a geomorphologist, and a classically trained cellist — is now back home in northern Michigan, where they live together in a rural cabin they call “Magic Central,” which also happens to be the…
Film goers are usually at the mercy of movie theaters. Sure, they give us a choice between auditoriums, but rarely do we get to weigh in before buying a ticket. That’s what makes the democratic process offered by AMC Main Street 6 over the next week pretty cool. The restored moviehouse in the Power & Light District is asking movie…
%{}% The days of Zack Greinke wearing Royals blue could be numbered. The Toronto Sun reports that the Blue Jays have “inquired” about Greinke’s availability, and it sounds like the Royals know what they want in return. The Royals are asking for two “can’t-miss prospects” according to the Sun. Good for them. It’s time to cut the cord with 2009’s…
The nation is in the middle of a full-on McRib craze. Whether it’s great brand marketing, a debate over whether it qualifies as barbecue, or offered as an enticement to get former President George W. Bush to appear on The Daily Show, there’s been a lot of buzz since the McDonald’s sandwich returned to menus nationwide on November 2. And…
A noir-themed evening of tragic romance pairs Lawrence’s self-described retro-electro-noir band and Kansas City’s burlesque scene at Crosstown Station tonight. It’s called Love Kills. The Latenight Callers team up with some of the most beguiling beauties of the Kansas City burlesque scene to bring you a tantalizing evening of noir-themed spectacle: Annie Cherry, Eva LeSnatch, Honey Valentine, LaVon Mystere, and…
Norma Reyes’ 4-year-old daughter came home from Pitcher Elementary School with blood behind her ears and on her clothes. Fatima Reyes, a preschooler at Pitcher, told her mother that a teacher grabbed her ears so hard that she was cut and started bleeding. KMBC Channel 9’s Martin Augustine spoke with Norma Reyes, who is understandably upset. “I feel so, so…
Sadly we don’t get a say in which food mascots open their mouths. And with Mr. Peanut and Wendy Thomas both adding their voices to the mix this week, it brought back memories of some of the scarier mascots that have ever assaulted our eardrums at Fat City. And it made us wish for a time machine that would allow…
It’s early but we have three front-runners for stupid criminals of the day. Three men waited until the busiest time of the day to try and steal a battery from a highway sign on Interstate 435 near Stadium Drive. No, no one will notice three guys dressed like the Columbine shooters trying to dismantle an electronic sign around 7 a.m….
If chef Celina Tio’s run on The Next Iron Chef has taught me anything, it’s that Kansas City needs to raise its national profile. And how do you do that? It’s either through homegrown talent or bringing in a high-priced free agent. Yes, Kansas City, I’m talking about luring in a few celebrity chefs. Because sometimes you have to sell…
