The neighbors of CSL Plasma Center want the Broadway cash-for-plasma business and its clients gone. They consider the place a “major source of blight” on the block, especially with the 80-year-old Chatham apartment building on the verge of restoration. But the big question becomes: Where to put CSL? One Anonymous reader has a brilliant idea, worthy of Comment of the…
The man replacing Lew Perkins as athletic director at the University of Kansas is Tulsa A.D. Bubba Cunningham, according to Sports By Brooks. Sports By Brooks cited an unnamed Big 12 athletic director, who claimed the announcement could come as soon as Wednesday. Nothing official from the university, but it’s being reported by just about every media outlet on both…
An accusation of sexual abuse may have led to yesterday’s homicide in Independence. Larry Keith Wilson told Independence police that his son had told him that he had been sexually abused in the past by his step-father, James Matthias. So Wilson made a decision on Saturday to kill Matthias when he came to pick up Wilson’s son. The son told…
It’s been two years since Barbara and Mano Rafael, the owners of Le Fou Frog Restaurant in the River Market, stopped serving lunch. But since customers kept requesting them to bring back lunch service, they toyed with the idea until the restaurant’s chef de cuisine, Justin Cooley, offered to oversee a Thursday-only lunch — during the winter holidays only —…
KSHB reporter Ryan Kath posted this on Twitter: @LindsayShively talking to witness who said gunman started shooting inside church during funeral service… right now on @NBCActionNews The funeral in question is for Marion Denmon, the cousin of Missouri Tigers basketball star Marcus Denmon. KMBC Channel 9 reports that the service was just letting out when someone opened fire. The Star…
Chicago glam-garage punks Smith Westerns turned some heads this past year, touring with Girls and MGMT. They may or may not be a bunch of 20-year-old brats, but they have some jams, which they are bringing to RecordBar on Tuesday, February 22. They’ve also just premiered their video for “Weekend,” which is probably the best song they’ve written so far. It…
The lucky ducks at the MidtwonKCPost have a sneak peek into the future of the midtown Main Street corridor — and it’s pedestrian friendly (and the future includes lots of people hitting up that payday loan store with the green awning). The Post reports that bids are due on December 21 (aka Tuesday) for the streetscape work along Main from…
Every year, there are oodles (nay, scads!) of new releases that score all the news and attention. In the process, there are album reissues which get pushed to the side. These older records are marginalized, even as they bring forgotten or neglected tuneage to new ears. So, in an effort to give these revitalized records some further press — while…
At this point, it seems like all the drama leading up to the Insight Bowl is going to be more exciting than the game itself, as the recent exodus of players from the University of Iowa football team have many people expecting a blowout. Iowa’s sophomore running back Jewel Hampton is off the team after reaching a “mutual” decision with…
He recorded a metal album back in the spring, but otherwise 2010 has been a relatively quiet year by Ryan Adams standards, which typically amount to somewhere between 3 and 49 releases per year. Today, he’s back in the fold with his band, the Cardinals. III/IV, their latest double-album is out today, and you can stream it over at his…
Stoner-doom metal group the Sword canceled its show in Iowa tonight. I know — who cares about Iowa, anyway?! — but according to Eleven Production’s Facebook page, it’s due to illness. Here’s hoping that the band gets well enough to keep its date at the RecordBar tomorrow night, so it can melt faces. (Namely, mine.) It seems like the band…
Chef Howard Hanna feels like a man comfortable at his own grill. Even with a new restaurant opening and his wife expecting twins in April, Hanna found the time to talk up the Rieger Hotel Grill & Exchange’s menu with Fat City. With rabbit pot pie, cioppino, and pappardelle alla bolognese (the sauce takes four days to make), Kansas City…
The first domino has dropped. Cliff Lee has signed with … not the New York Yankees? Or the Texas Rangers? He signed with the Philadelphia Phillies Monday night — almost a year after the franchise traded him because management didn’t think they could afford to resign him. So much for that. The Phillies adding another ace to baseball’s best bullpen…
The neon red anchor is like a beacon steering beer nerds out of the cold and into the warm brick arms of Wichita’s best beer bar. The Anchor has a beer menu as long as its food menu — the brews are as important as the sandwiches and pub appetizers. And that means you’ll be sitting and sipping on either…
Mike Lacey, founder and top editor of Pitch owner Village Voice Media, chimes in this morning with a story about how the media has gone strangely quiet in the wake of corporate America’s assault on WikiLeaks. After Amazon, Visa and other companies moved to cut off funding to the site, Lacey writes, the media went “noticeably silent as web conglomerates…
Looks like Cindy Circo’s going to have find another way to spend half a million dollars. Last month, the 5th District Kansas City, Missouri, councilwoman put in a request to draw down $500,000 from the city’s Capital Improvement Fund. The money was to be used to create a park off 75th Street. But Circo apparently misunderstood the mood of the…
While some dream of a white-chocolate Christmas, others have nightmares about a grandmother’s candy tin filled with the chocolate of yesteryear. White chocolate is one of those candy lightning rods. It’s impossible to be neutral about the chocolate made from cocoa butter, sugar and milk solids. And as Christmas edges closer, every house or office must face the choice of…
Slowly but surely, the Broadway Westport Council is winning the war on blight. The latest victory involves the 80-year-old Chatham apartment building at 3701 Broadway, which has sat vacant for more than 18 years. Last month, developer Tony Krsnich scored a 25-year property tax abatement from the Planned Industrial Expansion Authority for his $9.3 million plan to transform the Chatham…
