Daniel Collins survived a 90-minute slide through Raymore’s sewer system. On Monday, the 30-year-old father of three was released from St. Luke’s Hospital. Collins was swept away by raw sewage gushing at 3,000 gallons per minute in a Raymore sewer line after somehow becoming untethered October 12. Emergency workers found Collins in a 27-inch sanitary sewer line near the 15th…
UPDATE: KMBC Channel 9 reports that missing 8-year-old boy Jordan Wynn has been found. Jordan Wynn is missing. The 8-year-old left his home in the 15400 block of South Brentwood Street in Olathe around 8 a.m. this morning, likely heading to Madison Place Elementary School. But Wynn never arrived at school. Categories: News Tags: Jordan Wynn
The transformation is complete: One-time campus liberal Kevin Yoder, who long ago ditched the politics of his youth for something a little more electable, is riding the political winds all the way to Washington, where he’ll represent the Johnson County area in Congress. I hope he had fun celebrating with his rented friends and imitation champagne, because his mandate is…
Categories: Music Tags: Biz Markie, jenny owen youngs, john mellencamp, oil boiler, Yo Gabba Gabba, Yo Gabba Gabba!
As just about everybody paying attention expected, Kris Kobach steam-rolled his way into Kansas Secretary of State’s office last night. He kind of humiliated his Democratic rival, Chris Biggs, 59 percent to 37. Kobach certainly deserves credit for knocking off Biggs, the lucid incumbent who flatly refused to engage in fear mongering or interesting campaigning. Kobach, like any crafty politician,…
%{}% Kansas Jayhawk fans, you can stop asking if it’s basketball season yet. It’s here (and just in time to forget about your lousy football season). The Jayhawks dominated last night’s exhibition game in an unsurprising 92-62 blow-out victory over Division II Washburn. The Morris twins dominated the game. Marcus Morris scored 28 points and grabbed seven rebounds while brother…
I’ve heard it all. It’s too much effort. It’s too expensive. I’m likely to set myself or house on fire. It’s all just meaningless gobble once you’ve had a chance to dine on a deep fried turkey. Serious Eats Food Lab contends that cognitive dissonance has led to an inflated vision of fried turkey. I suggest that you could fricassee…
The LA Weekly — our sister paper in LA — has the scoop from Bethany Cosentino on her upcoming collaboration with Weezer. The interview shines a new light on the amazingly fast rise of Best Coast (Bethany was named #4th coolest person in music last month by Britain’s NME!) and it includes many revealing moments about her beginnings, her working…
Rich guy Rex Sinquefield’s game of live-action SimCity will continue with the passage of Proposition A. The lopsided statewide vote means Kansas City and St. Louis will be forced to defend the 1 percent earnings tax they collect. Sinquefield made a pile of money managing funds. He wants lower taxes and fewer regulations, and he’s got the coin and the…
U2 is coming to Busch Stadium in July 2011 in St. Louis. (But you knew that already, right?) Here’s the seating chart with prices for the event. Apparently, 90% of the tickets sold will be in the $32.50, $57.50 and $97.50 price range. Tickets go on sale on Monday morning. Click on the image to make it bigger. Categories: Music…
Whether you believe in zombies or not, it never hurts to consider what you might do in a situation where the undead are suddenly in your living room. And with the huge push around AMC’s new show, The Walking Dead, it’s hard not to think about that possibility. As such, Fat City wants to make sure our readers (and everyone…
UPDATE: The victim of KCK’s Halloween homicide at 3rd and Quindaro has been identified as 38-year-old Dwayne B. Johnson of KCK. Kansas City, Kansas, police are investigating a Halloween homicide after a man’s body was discovered at 3rd Street and Quindaro Boulevard. The victim, described as a black male in his thirties, was discovered outside of a home around 9:30…
A creepy kid is on the loose in the Northland. A 13-year-old girl reported being assaulted on her walk home from school when a boy attempted to sexually assault her. The girl told police that she was walking home from New Mark Middle School around 3:11 p.m. and decided to cut through a wooded area near 805 Northeast 108th Street….
We need to decide if gender matters in the kitchen or not. Because only then can we stop having debates like whether the chef’s gender affects the taste of food. Tejal Rao’s latest piece for The Atlantic asks that very question, and concludes that those who believe they can guess the gender of the chef after eating a meal are…
Ike Skelton’s congressional re-election campaign touted his pro-gun, pro-life and pro-military views while also highlighting how he voted against President Obama’s health-care overhaul. He’s also been a vocal supporter of Don’t Ask Don’t Tell. If you can’t tell, and you probably can’t given that politics is usually a black-and-white game, Skelton is a Democrat. Not exactly a flaming liberal that…
If you ever find yourself staring into the face of an Angry French Canadian, run. The creators of the Worst Pizza Ever (I know, we shouldn’t be encouraging them) are back with what they’re calling the greasiest sandwich in Canada, aka The Angry French Canadian. And yes, it’s covered in maple syrup. Categories: Dining, Food & Drink
For a student newspaper’s editor, nothing could be worse than having to pull an entire week’s issue from the racks. Unless it’s having to apologize with reference to the source of the controversy: an editorial with the headline, “Do I have a booger?” That master work by UNews staffer Nikki Bomgardner ran in the September 27 issue of the University…
I just wrote it, and it goes a little something, uhhlike this… Jk, jk. It was written and performed by some nameless, faceless person affiliated with the campaign of Robin Carnahan, Blunt’s opponent in the Missouri Senate race. Which means that it is negative in tone, although that does not mean that it’s not accurate. You want to hear it….
Kansas City designer Peggy Noland and filmmaker Cody Critcheloe released their music video for punk/soul band Gossip’s single “Men In Love” a few weeks ago, And it was a messy, bodily-fluid-filled school bus ride to Freak High. With singer Beth Ditto, hair in a glorious beehive, at the wheel, Critcheloe, the director, and Noland, the stylist, filmed a visually irresistible,…
Barbaric Merits, the local DJ duo that was crowned champions at the 2010 Beat Battle at RecordBar, have a solid track record of clever remixes. Their “Pants on the Ground” remix from earlier this year comes to mind, albeit in a time-capsule type of way. Yesterday, they released a dubstep remix of the Fleet Foxes tune “Mykonos” that I like better…
