New Year’s Eve is tomorrow,so live it up. And in case you’re considering it, here’s how to open a champagne bottle with a saber. We’re off to prepare cheese balls and mix cocktails, but we’ll be back on Monday. A happy and healthy new year to you all. Categories: Dining, Food & Drink
Happy New Year! Yeah, we know we’re two days early, but we’re taking Friday off. So no new Plog until 2011. There’s a bit of good news, bad news on the safety front this New Year’s Eve. Yellow Cab is no longer doing free cab rides. However, the Kansas City Strip trolley is offering free rides on Friday with stops…
%{}% A janitorial company with contracts to clean Missouri state office buildings cannot be held liable for workers who presented novelty Social Security cards during background checks. In 2007, 25 employees of Sam’s Janitorial Service were arrested or detained on suspicion of having falsified documentation. The sweep made headlines because the undocumented workers were scraping the gum off the floors…
The old standby “cures” for a particularly intense hangover range from a really greasy breakfast (with lots of bacon and buttered toast) to the Mexican tripe soup menudo, which hangover survivors have long maintained is the ultimate relief for a throbbing headache and queasy tummy. There will be places to find menudo in the metro on New Year’s Day, including…
So which person or event would win the honor of the Most Embarrassing Restaurant Story of 2010? Would it be the anonymous “Pizza Bandit” in Boston who pulled a really nasty prank? Or maybe the angry restaurant owner who insisted that the restaurant reviewer for the Los Angeles Times, and her friends, get out of his dining room? Here are…
Early in the morning of July 13, the body of Nigerian-born Oladimeji Oladipo was discovered in his vehicle parked in the lot of a McDonald’s restaurant at 6406 Troost. Oladipo, a student at the University of Missouri-Kansas City who was employed as a corrections officer, had been shot to death. His laptop computer was missing. No one had been charged…
Sports-bar owners and couch potatoes rejoice. Sunday’s Chiefs-Raiders rivalry game won’t be blacked out, according to a tweet from Chiefs beat reporter Kent Babb. The only tickets left for the game apparently are a few club seats, so if you want to go, you still can get a ticket to see the Chiefs try to pay back week nine’s 23-20…
Several Fat City readers have called to report that they’ve heard rumors about Flo’s Cabaret, the 20-month-old restaurant and show bar at 1911 Main, closing after the New Year’s Eve festivities tomorrow night. “That is not true,” says Flo — the drag de plume of entertainer John Koop. “I have no idea where that rumor started.” Well, I have an…
Downtowners, if you’re wondering why there are teens everywhere, it’s time for the annual onething conference put on by IHOP — the prayer group, not the pancake maker. They’re all here to pray and cry and listen to shitty Christian pop music. And Wednesday night, they got an earful of Lou (“sexual insanity will be unleashed upon the earth”) Engle….
The Missouri Department of Mental Health has likely wasted millions of dollars and jeopardized patient care by allowing workers to clock thousands of hours of overtime in recent years, according to a report released this morning by the Missouri State Auditor’s office. The practice has been especially lucrative for certain employees, who in some cases have made more in overtime…
The International House of Pancakes’ trademark-infringement lawsuit against the International House of Prayer is over. The Los Angeles Times reported that IHOP (pancakes) was settling the lawsuit out of court with IHOP (prayer). Pancakes dropped its lawsuit on December 21, citing “ongoing mediation with the defendants.” So is someone getting paid? Hard to tell. Now, no one’s really talking about…
Children of Spy’s interests, according to the band’s Facebook page: “Pickled eggs, beer, space, Kessler, the perpetual motion machine, The El Rancho Truck Plaza and Restaurant in Cabool, Missouri, and grilled tilapia.” If you’re looking to gain insight into the Tennessee band’s sound, you can’t get much more specific than that. But we can gloss it for you if metaphor…
“Hey, Ken, is that a drink I can eat?” “Yup. It’s Tropolis — the new fruit puree in a pouch that you squeeze into your mouth because chewing and popping the top on a can is too much effort.” The ad campaign might go something like that for Tropolis, a new fruit-puree drink-snack hybrid that PepsiCo is rolling out, according…
%{}% Kansas City Chiefs fans, you may want to skip this Xtranormal-style video. The video, titled “Kansas City Chiefs Fan talking with Sane Person,” might just burst your bubble with its aggressive debunking of Chiefs fans’ Super Bowl hopes. Then again, it’s posted on YouTube by someone by the name of ChiefsAreTheWorst. So what do you really expect? (Watch it…
UPDATE, Dec. 30, 11:42 AM: You can win tickets to see Gaga’s date in Omaha. The Omaha Convention and Visitors Bureau will give away two tickets to the March 17 Lady Gaga concert at Qwest Center Omaha. To win, go ‘like’ the official Omaha, NE Facebook page and fill in the entry form between now and Feb. 27. The winner…
UPDATE: Burns was taken back into custody Saturday night, about 15 miles from point of escape, reported the Star. A “dangerous sexually violent predator” has escaped from the sexual predator treatment program at Larned State Hospital. Authorities are looking for 41-year-old Bruce Franklin Burns, who somehow escaped around 4:45 p.m. Wednesday. Categories: News Tags: Bruce Burns, Larned State Hospital, sexual…
By this point, you’re probably so overwhelmed by all of the show-going possibilities on New Year’s Eve that your best plan is to crawl into a fetal position and suck your thumb while watching Snooki the ball drop in Times Square on your TV. But you must persevere, reader! Wayward is here to help! We’ve outlined our favorite NYE choices…
The good news for men is that women fantasize as much as men. The bad news for men is that they’re more likely to be thinking about a chicken parm. A story in Time details a new survey from Shape Smart, which shows that 25 percent of women think about food in a given half-hour. In contrast, only 10 percent…
We thought you’d like to see Enrique Iglesias and lots of naked boobs, and hear an earworm that includes the phrase, Tonight I’m fucking you. (Actually, that’s the refrain. And the title of the song.) After all, your 10 year-old daughter saw Iglesias at Mix 93.3’s Jingle Jam at the Sprint Center about a month ago. Hopefully the pop star…
Mama’s 39th Street Diner had a heyday. It’s over. UPDATE (Thursday, December 30): Fat City finally received a reply, via e-mail, from local developer Del Hedgepath, owner of the building where Mama’s 39th Street Diner is located, verifying that the restaurant — which was rumored to be closed permanently — is in the process of renovation for a spring reopening. Hedgepath…
We’re definitely lovin’ on Reach’s upcoming mixtape Pen Pusha, over here at the Pitch. So we figure we should mention the tape’s release party, which is coming up two weeks from Saturday. It’s January 15 at the Riot Room, and Reach will be joined by Deep Thinkers and jazz ensemble Diverse. Categories: Music Tags: pen pusha mixtape, reach
