Kansas City may be the more desirable city to visit, according to Travel + Leisure readers, but Memphis residents can claim they won the vote that matters most. As part of the 2010 America’s Favorite Cities poll, T+L readers ranked Memphis barbecue first overall in the nation, while KC smoked into second place. Categories: Dining, Food & Drink
David Love was supposedly a man of God. He was a pastor at the New Hope Baptist Church but after a member of his flock was found shot to death, Love became a person of interest. On Tuesday afternoon, Love was arrested in South Carolina on a Jackson County murder warrant. KMBC Channel 9 reported that Love tried to run…
In this week’s Pitch: Kratz profiles Lawrence music collective Team Bear Club, I try not to sound stupid on the phone with Tim Heidecker of Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job, and Berry talks to Adam Lee and Johnny Kenepaske (of Dead Horse Sound Company fame) about honky-tonk drinking songs. But wait, there’s more! Categories: Music Tags: Adam Lee and the…
I’m not one to call for making drugs illegal just because they’re drugs. Actually, in the right circumstances with the right compounds, I’m staunchly pro-fun. But I’m telling you right now, Ivory Wave does not sound like a good drug, so stay away from that shit. If you’re dead, you can’t read The Pitch, and I have no way to…
U.S. Rep-elect and tea party favorite Vicky Hartzler is going to Washington with a promise to cut spending. Of course, she’s not keen on the idea of messing with Medicare, Social Security or the military, the popular programs which pose the country’s long-term deficit problem. Instead, Hartzler proposes that Congress think about freezing its pay and other fiddling-while-Washington-burns gestures. Categories:…
Celina Tio, the chef-owner of Julian, just sent out a tweet to her customers telling them that tonight might be the last balmy, beautiful night to eat outside on the patio of her 13-month-old Brookside restaurant. “Last year we shut down patio service on October 31,” Tio said. “This year we’ve had some wonderful November nights. But it can’t last.”…
AMC announced yesterday that The Walking Dead, the cable network’s adaptation of the zombie-filled survival-horror comic, is getting a 13-episode second season. It’s awesome yet unsurprising news. For one, the show is fantastic (Frank Darabont, you have redeemed yourself; now let’s burn all of the copies of The Mist). Two, it’ll keep former Kansas Citian Tony Moore’s name rolling on…
Back in April 2009, Erin Brockovich helped kick-start a lawsuit claiming sludge from Prime Tanning Corp. of St. Joseph was responsible for causing brain tumors in Cameron, Missouri. Two reports released today refuted that claim. KMBC Channel 9 reported that the Missouri Department of Natural Resources’ report said that tannery sludge used as fertilizer applied to fields in four counties…
Not every town is willing to let the funeral crashers of Topeka’s homophobic church spoil a soldier’s farewell. The people of Weston, Missouri, stood up to the Westboro Baptist Church, which had planned to picket the funeral of Sgt. 1st Class C.J. Sadell on Saturday. Sadell was wounded in an ambush in Afghanistan on October 5; the 34-year-old married father…
Scott Sappington Jr. had just dropped off his siblings at their grandmother’s house when he was gunned down from point-blank on July 23, 2008. The 16-year-old junior at Sumner Academy was on his way to work at a McDonald’s when he was killed by someone trying to steal his car at 10th and Laurel in Kansas City, Kansas. KCK police…
%{}% On March 9, 1996, Dale Helmig was convicted for the 1993 murder of his mother, Norma, and sentenced to life in prison without parole. Now, thanks to UMKC law professor Sean O’Brien, the Midwestern Innocence Project and students from UMKC and Missouri University, Helmig was granted habeus corpus relief. A judge in DeKalb County found that Helmig’s case “presents…
Steddy P and his IndyGround crew are hustlin’, no doubt about that. With events like IndyFest, they’ve succeeded in building some momentum around the hip-hop scene in these parts. We applaud this at Wayward. Today, Steddy passed along a documentary short he made while touring and recording his No Days Off EP. It’s a document of the grind that felt…
We’ve been stuck in Fat City lately (although we did venture out to Blue Springs last night), so we were delighted to hear from restaurateur Nancy Smith, who runs the Michael Smith and Extra Virgin restaurants with her husband, chef Michael Smith. As we reported last week, the Smiths are traveling through Spain to officially kick off Michael Smith’s half-century…
Community radio station 90.1 KKFI is home to a variety of programs that cover our local music scene. But like all broadcasting operations that do good things for society, it’s operating on a modest budget. To upgrade its equipment, the station this year applied for a grant from the Public Telecommunications Facilities Program. And they got it. Categories: Music Tags: KKFI
Menudo, the traditional Mexican soup made from tripe — the lining of beef stomach, if you haven’t tasted it — can be prepared in a clear broth or a spicy red chili base. It’s a legendary hangover cure too. On November 21, the Sunday before Thanksgiving, the non-profit organization Azteca de Greater Kansas City will host a fund-raising menudo breakfast…
%{}%Kansas Citians, count yourself lucky if your ride isn’t a Ford F-150 or a Taurus. They top the Kansas City PD’s list of Kansas City’s 10 most stolen vehicles. KCTV5 reports that car thefts are down but they’re still an issue, especially for folks who like to leave their “cars running and unattended.” But sometimes, you just picked a popular…
One of the reasons people gravitate to rural areas is that they think they will be safer. But a downside of country living is the fact that ambulances take longer to reach people with potentially lethal stab wounds. Donald Shane Sperling stabbed his live-in girlfriend nine times on the front lawn of a house in Hollister, Missouri, which is near…
Little Debbie is more than just an illustration of a cute little girl featured on boxes for a nationally-distributed brand of snack cakes. She’s a diet plan! Who knew? Yesterday’s health report on cnn.com featured a story about Kansas State University’s Mark Haub, professor of human nutrition, losing 27 pounds by going on a ten-week diet of Little Debbie Nutty…
Late night revelers and taco lovers won’t always have to drive to Kansas City, Kansas, for their Jack In The Box fix. The first location in 30 years has only been open eight days, but the Kansas City Star reports that Jack In The Box is getting ready to move forward with a locations on both sides of the state…
The Uptown will be coated in a layer of glitter slime this February. A Kansas City date, February 20, is listed on Ke$ha’s tour — “Get $leazy” — on Ticketmaster. Categories: Music Tags: Ke$ha
According to the latest list of American city rankings put out by a national media organization (in all likelihood to appease web editors), Kansas City is a great place to eat barbecue and get a cheap hotel room. Everything else? Not so much. Fancy-pants magazine Travel + Leisure compared 35 places for its “America’s Favorite Cities” listings with both residents…
