UPDATE: A jury found ex-Inman, Kansas, Police Chief Mike Akins Jr. guilty of 15 charges that he “molested, inappropriately touched and solicited three girls – now ages 10, 11 and 15,” according to the Hutchinson News. Read the update after the jump …Original Story (January 17): The 15-year-old daughter of former Inman, Kansas, Police Chief Mike Akins Jr. reportedly testified…
This week, we’ve learned that chef Patrick Ryan cut his teeth under Rick Bayless and takes his orange juice pulp-free (parts one and two of Fat City’s interview with Ryan are here and here). Today he walks us through the plans for his 27-foot Airstream trailer (pictured above) and the regional Mexican dishes that will populate the menu at his…
Describing her Chicago roots to the BBC, Melissa Young — better known as Kid Sister — said, “There’s a culture down there that’s very unique. It’s sort of ‘hood, but it’s sort of wholesome.” The conflation of ‘hood and wholesome is a fair description of Kid Sister’s music, which melds electronic hip-hop and Chicago house music. The Kanye West protégée…
UPDATE: The body found under the Interstate 435 overpass has been identified as a missing Smithville, Missouri, woman named Beth McQueen, according to the Kansas City Kansan. Read the update after the jump …Original Story (January 20): We’re still waiting for more information on the body found under the Interstate 435 overpass near the Missouri River on Wednesday. Categories: News…
With a playlist as rich as a block of Stilton, Robert Moore’s Sonic Spectrum broadcast sets the standard for free-form radio in this city every Saturday night. The first installation of his newest project, the Sonic Spectrum Tribute Series, features the work of David Bowie covered by such scene kings as Steve Tulipana, Brodie Rush and Cody Wyoming. We asked…
Repeat after me: If I want to pay homage to a movie, I will not do it by creating a 2,410-calorie burrito. The Riverfront Times’ Gut Check looks at Foodbeast’s decision to honor the film Inception by constructing a massive burrito that consists of levels of cheese, churro and spicy chicken. A thought-provoking movie about the world of dreams has…
More than 20 years ago, Steve Sanders laid his joystick down and left the world of competitive gaming. He was not unlike the weary gunslingers of the Old West who saw one too many boys end their quests for fame dissolving into a puddle of pixels. Much as you might try to change yourself, really you’re only running away. No…
Get your crunk cups clean and ready, ya’ll. The Ying Yang Twins will be at the Granada on Tuesday, February 5. Categories: Music Tags: DeVotchKa, Hellogoodbye, Iration, James McMurtry, Keller Williams, Rebelution, thee oh sees, Ying Yang Twins
Not many women rock as hard as Betty White in their 89th year on this Earth. The Kansas City Star notes that Hallmark threw her a surprise birthday party last night. Her actual birthday was Monday, however, so we thought she might want to go for a whole week of celebration, like her own personal Mardi Gras. So Ms. White,…
Drinking, dominoes and 4 a.m. don’t mix. Two Kansas City men were “drinking heavily” and playing dominoes at 46th and Cleveland Thursday morning when the game took a violent turn, according to the Star. A 49-year-old man allegedly pulled a pistol and threatened to shoot a 33-year-old man, who responded by repeatedly cracking the guy in the cranium with a…
Sick of It All was the first act that I ever saw do “the Braveheart.” (I was at the Bottleneck, and I was 19.) For those unfamiliar with the term, the Braveheart splits the audience into two halves, leaving a large gap in between. Each side must then attempt to wrestle through the opposing group, like an especially aggressive game…
Ordinarily, a man with a chainsaw on the Plaza might be cause for alarm. But on Saturday, a chainsaw is a necessary item to compete in the annual ice carving competition jointly held by the Kansas City Chefs Association and the Kansas City Restaurant Association. The event starts at 11 a.m. at 300 Nichols Road (between Starbucks and MAC Cosmetics)….
This year’s South By Southwest Music Festival will be getting a heavy, rockin’ dose of the Kansas City and Lawrence music scene. The MidCoast Takeover — a huge collaborative effort by local label the Record Machine, the Midwest Music Foundation and local venues such as the RecordBar, the Riot Room and Crosstown Station, among others — will present Austin with…
Wayne Cauthen, the former city manager of Kansas City, Missouri, has resurfaced. He’s a finalist for the same job in Savannah, Georgia. Savannah’s search for a city manager has hit a rough patch, however. A member of the City Council there says the search firm that produced Cauthen and other candidates did a “miserable job.” Among other things, the search…
Decades of touring, suitcases full of blow, and Axl Rose’s L.A.-sized ego would have killed off the rock in most mortals long ago. But when metal courses through one’s veins, these things are mere tribulations. So it is for Ozzy Osbourne, who brings his Ozzy Scream Tour 2011 to the Sprint Center with Slash (longtime buddy, fellow hardcore survivor and…
Sharp rhymes, biting insults and cutting punch lines — for fans in need of a furious lyrical showdown, this year’s Versus Battle at RecordBar won’t disappoint. It’s the fourth incarnation of the local hip-hop and beat battle in which MCs are pitted against one another. At stake: a $600 prize. (DJs have their own sideshow, blowing out sound systems and…
Blues and gospel — two of America’s most beloved art forms — are continually reinvigorated, thanks to fresh takes by innovative musical minds. The latest update arrives courtesy of Robert Randolph, who picks up where Stevie Ray Vaughan left off. Randolph’s riffs aren’t as incendiary as Vaughan’s, but his fluid playing and his smooth, burnished baritone are built for radio….
Two Kansas City-area men have positioned themselves as front-runners for committing the dumbest crime of the year. Oren Gene Gamble Sr. and Vernon Neill Gibson were arrested in Memphis, Missouri, for stealing cash out of gas-station vending machines. According to The Memphis Democrat, the town’s police chief and a “private citizen” were staking out the machines at an MFA station…
This isn’t going to go well. Check out the Facebook status update from Missouri state Rep. Donna Lichtenegger. The Republican from Greedyville Jackson, Missouri, apparently didn’t get the tea party memo about how selling out for a chicken dinner and a T-shirt isn’t cool. Hey, she’s only been on the job for three weeks (via Fired Up! Missouri), so how…
Kansas City, Kansas, police think they know who killed Jorge Esquivel-Ramirez. They’re trying to track down a man called “El Vaca,” also known as Fernando F. Soto, and they have a first-degree murder warrant with Soto’s name on it. Authorities also have warrants for attempted first-degree murder, aggravated battery, aggravated robbery, criminal discharge of a firearm at an occupied dwelling…
Breaking Bad fans won’t be able to forget the death of Spooge, the frustrated junkie who stole an ATM, failed to bust into the machine and called his woman a “skank.” Fellas, you don’t want to say this to your lady when your head is under the machine. She might just tip it over onto your skull, popping it like…
Not every state in the union has an official state beverage. In fact, Kansas and Missouri are among the states that haven’t chosen an official drink … yet. More than 30 states have already done this, and most of them have, unsurprisingly, chosen the same healthy and nourishing drink: milk. Categories: Dining, Food & Drink Tags: Houston Press, kansas, missouri,…
