A 4-year-old girl is smacking her mother with a piece of wheat toast on the elevated circle that overlooks the main hall at Union Station. A 3-year-old boy with a ketchup-smeared face has rocked his highchair back on two legs in a fight over whether to put on a jacket. And at the table next to mine, a couple in…
%{}% Tham V. Huynh must have had one hell of an electric bill. An 11-month investigation ended Tuesday when authorities executed a search warrant at 427 Lawn Avenue. Officers confiscated 541 marijuana plants, grow equipment and a pound of processed marijuana. Huynh, 47, was arrested on charges of felony possession of a controlled substance with the intent to distribute. Categories:…
What’s up, yo? Been a minute since I rapped at ya here on Bieber Watch. But at the same time, I haven’t heard too much from you guys, so let’s shoulder the blame. Nawwww, juss playin’, juss playin’, it’s on me, it’s on me. Seriously you guys, so much has happened with our boi. Categories: Music Tags: chris brown, justin bieber
Great chocolatiers have always been a bit like mad scientists, and now they might just have the science to begin creating the perfect chocolate bar. Fast Company reports that a team of French scientists has unlocked the genetic code of chocolate. And not just any chocolate, but the DNA of Theobroma cacao, a species of cacao used primarily to make…
After playing the South by Southwest official showcase in Austin last spring, local electro-funk band Antennas Up began recording its second album. Frontman Kyle Akers says the band is now “locked in the basement of the hAUs working on the music we wrote in Maine earlier this year,” with an eye to wrapping things up in the early part of…
There are certain things that a criminal mind should just know. Like, to avoid robbing people when there’s snow on the ground. Or to not keep evidence linked to your crime in your pockets. Perhaps avoid stealing a flashy, brand-new car, especially one equipped with OnStar GPS tracking technology. And if you’re going to use handcuffs on your victim, you…
In the past month, I have bought about ten mp3 albums and haven’t paid a cent over $5 for a single one of them. That’s because I follow Amazon Mp3 on Twitter, which alerts me every time the site is offering a discount on some album. Right now, they’re offering 1,000 albums for $5, and a lot of them are…
The Nanny State’s potentially life-saving technology strikes back! Take that, civil liberties activists! Just as study surfaced in Columbia showing red-light cameras netted the city a meager $18,047, and only 15 fewer crashes happened at camera-monitored intersections after they were installed than before, Kansas City’s use of the cameras won a major battle in court … by losing. Categories: News…
Each Thursday, your Crap Archivist brings you the finest in forgotten and bewildering crap culled from basements, thrift stores, estate sales and flea markets. I do this for one reason: Knowledge is power. Spirit Controlled Family Living Author: Tim & Bev LaHaye Date: 1978 Publisher: Fleming H. Revell Company, Old Tappan, New Jersey Discovered at: Goodwill in Independence, Missouri The…
The National 9/11 Flag is currently traveling around the country as part of a historic restoration effort, sponsored by The New York Says Thank You Foundation, to make the flag whole again by the 10th year Anniversary of 9/11. When complete, the flag will become part of the permanent collection of the National September 11 Memorial Museum being built at…
The metro’s hockey team, the Missouri Mavericks, hit the ice for a battle against the Quad City Mallards. Thu., March 4, 7:05 p.m.; Fri., March 5, 7:05 p.m.; Fri., Dec. 10, 7:05 p.m.; Thu., Dec. 23, 7:05 p.m.; Sat., Jan. 1, 7:05 p.m., 2010 Tags: Night & Day, Quad City Mallards
Want to close the year by watching grown men fight on ice rather than drunkenly in the street? Your wish is but a short drive away. At 7:05 p.m., the Missouri Mavericks play the Colorado Eagles at the Independence Events Center (19100 East Valley View Parkway) in the final sporting event of Kansas City’s 2010 calendar. The hometown Mavericks are…
How long has it been? The last time the Kansas City Chiefs won the AFC West was in 2003, the same year the United States invaded Iraq. The Chiefs (and, inexplicably, the San Diego Chargers) changed that recent dismal history last week, meaning that Sunday’s noon game against the Oakland Raiders at Arrowhead Stadium (1 Arrowhead Drive) provides a useful curtain call for the…
Naomi Wallace’s 2009 Obie-winning play, One Flea Spare (about four people of disparate classes and backgrounds quarantined together in plague-stricken, 17th-century London), gets its title from 17th-century metaphysical poet John Donne’s “The Flea,” which explicates in rhymed iambic meter the dire consequences of love. That is to say, the Metropolitan Ensemble Theatre (3614 Main) is once again throwing itself at…
Take your New Year’s date to one of the most romantic restaurants in Kansas City. New Year’s Eve prices at the Melting Pot vary by time and package. Reservations begin at 3 p.m. Fri., Dec. 31, 3 p.m., 2010 Tags: Kansas City, New Years, Night & Day
New Year’s Eve at the Kansas City Convention Center features adinner buffet, casino tables, live music, champagne toast and balloon drop at midnight. Prices vary by package. Advance reservations are required. Inquire by phone. Fri., Dec. 31, 7 p.m., 2010 Tags: Kansas City, Night & Day
If you’d prefer to waft into the new year with sweetness and light rather than bedlam, consider Musical Theater Heritage’s A Merry Eve. The party begins at 9 p.m. and includes entertainment by two of Kansas City’s most popular and talented musical couples: Nathan Granner, Sony recording artist and star of PBS’ American Tenors, and Laurie Arbore, morning host on…
For a less hedonistic way to ring in the new year, consider listening to the uplifting sound of African children. LifeQuest Church presents a family-friendly concert at Belton High School. Admission is free, although canned good donations are encouraged. Fri., Dec. 31, 7-9 p.m., 2010 Tags: Belton High School, Night & Day
Have a side of terror with your dinner during a Mystery Train dinner theater presentation. The current festive production is Terror on the Toyland Express, a tale of wintertime murder. Sat., Dec. 11; Fri., Dec. 17; Sat., Dec. 18; Thu., Dec. 30; Fri., Dec. 31, 2010 Tags: 275, Night & Day
Painted bodies converge on Hemingway Gallery for a New Year’s Eve party that glows. Art/party coop GLOW helps ring in the new year with humans-turned-works of art that shine under the black lights. Sat., Dec. 31, 8 p.m., 2011 Tags: 1080, Night & Day
New Year’s Day was the opening of the Original Art and Music Show, including paintings, prints, drawings, analog and digital recordings and video created by Bingo Woodhead, a.k.a. Frank Bradley Jr. Jan. 1-Feb. 28, 2011 Tags: Bingo Woodhead, Night & Day
Let’s face it: After a holiday season filled with forced smiles, awkward reunions and a hidden flask of peppermint schnapps, it can be a relief to cut loose and revel in some good, old-fashioned vice. So practice your best poker face, put on your darkest sunglasses, and head to the new Eighteen22 Ultra Lounge (1822 Main, 816-472-8400) for an evening…
A new series dedicated to the serious reader, Salon Sundays explore the terrain of the fertile imagination in the finely focused wordplay of the personal essay. Be ready to have the conversation reading and thinking about the essay or essays featured for each particular Sunday. Sundays, 2-4 p.m. Starts: Dec. 19. Continues through Jan. 30, 2010 Tags: Night & Day
