%{}% You know that restaurant you keep meaning to try? Well, this is the week to do it. The second annual Kansas City Restaurant Week runs from Friday, January 21, through Sunday, January 30. Close to 100 restaurants are offering prix fixe menus for lunch ($15) and dinner ($30) with 10 percent of the cost of each meal being donated…
U.S. Sen. Jerry Moran has mastered the political art of seeming serious without being serious. Though he’s been in Congress for 14 years, Moran likes to talk about Washington as if it’s an alien land, a place where a good-hearted man of the Plains can’t take a breath without his lungs tightening. This point of view prompts Moran to write…
The undead boogied at the Brick this weekend, thanks to tunes from Cuntaloupe, Appropriate Grammar, and Claire and the Bandettas. Here are some shots of the gore (and the rock) from Forester Michael. Categories: Music Tags: Zombie Prom
Thailand Thomas didn’t waste time telling police who killed 19-year-old Sabrina Jones. Court documents say Thomas, who was arrested last week after allegedly leading police on a chase in a stolen car, fingered 32-year-old Howard Harmon in the robbery turned homicide. Thomas told police that he took part in the May robbery and admitted shooting a man, who survived. He…
Until the early 1960s, it was common for neighborhood drugstores to feature a soda fountain selling ice-cream sodas, malts, milkshakes and even lunch. Now the only thing more difficult than finding a neighborhood drugstore is finding one that still offers a soda fountain. The only three left in the metro are Fox’s Drug Store in Raytown, Georgetown Pharmacy in Merriam…
There was a time when being a rapper required you to take on a hardcore persona. As Outkast’s Andre 3000 once rapped, My heart don’t pump no Kool-Aid — and anyone who did have Wild Berry Blast flowing through their veins would get laughed out of any studio. But things have changed — emo crooners have taken over. Now, even…
Zombie Prom The Brick January 15, 2011 Better than: The last prom I was at. Let me begin with an apology to Mom, spell checker, and readers with high degrees of social propriety; I do mean Cuntaloupe, not Cantaloupe. The irreverently named quartet headlined Saturday night’s Zombie Prom at the Brick, with Claire and the Bandettas and Appropriate Grammar. It’s…
%{}% From the pink-painted storefront to the hearts-filled window display, Lawrence’s Pink Box Bakeshop (727 Massachusetts) is frosted in cloying sweetness. But the treats inside temper the visual blood-sugar spike. If I could find an all-carbohydrate diet that wouldn’t shorten my life span, I’d sign up in a healthy heartbeat and let cinnamon rolls have their own food group. So…
I regret a few things from the weekend, but nothing more than missing Twiggy the Water-Skiing Squirrel at the Kansas City Boat and Sportshow. Really, it doesn’t get much better than watching the life-jacket-wearing squirrel motoring around a wading pool behind a remote-controlled boat. (I’m not above getting all yokel here, “Heh, that squirrel is water-skiing!”) Lucky for those of…
Brad Krohe has a review of Saturday evening’s events on Wayward and you can check out Pitch photographer Forester Michael’s pics from the night here/
A video of a popcorn kernel being popped by a pair of hand-held lasers has been making the rounds virally this week . The lasers, which look like mini lightsabers, run $299 apiece and take about a minute and 40 seconds to pop a single kernel. Since Americans consume 17.3 billion quarts of popped popcorn each year, Fat City decided…
%{}% If you’ve quit paying attention to the Tucson shooting case, first of all, congratulations. Here is what you’ve missed: The nearly-assassinated Democratic Congresswoman is getting better, and the public discussion of her shooting is getting worse. There’s just too much nonsense being circulated to cover here, so we’ll focus on a relatively narrow but instructive development: How rightbloggers have…
Robert Black’s next congregation will have to meet inside prison walls. Black, the pastor of New Home Baptist Church in St. Joseph, received a five-year sentence on Friday for trying to entice a 13-year-old girl into meeting for sex via Facebook. Black must not have seen any To Catch a Predator reruns because, as always, the 13-year-old girl of his…
The dark-brick, two-story building at 1513 Grand has been on the market for nearly two years. For many years, it was the site of the Willy Cafe, which served Chinese and Thai food. Most recently, it’s been Thai Paradise. The price tag — $400,000 — is firm. Why? Because the building’s owner, Dale House, is committed to the purchase of…
The feds are quickly mopping up the University of Kansas ticket-scandal mess. Another day, another guilty plea. Friday’s guilty plea comes to us via Rodney Jones, he of spiked hair and formerly of KU’s fundraising branch, the Williams Educational Fund. Jones, 42, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit wire fraud, The Kansas City Star reported. He’d been accused in the…
If you just want to scroll down a few posts, you’ll see that even though Kansas already has a lot of restrictions on abortion, and even though its most well-known providers are gunned down in church services, somehow the state still has one of the country’s higher abortion rates, coming in at No. 13 in the United States. With cisterns…
%{}% The 16-year-old accused of paying his brother an extra $20 for killing Kansas City businessman Michael J. Tutera has pleaded guilty. Joseph Hendrix entered the guilty plea Friday to charges of second-degree murder, first-degree burglary and armed criminal action. The teen entered the plea without a plea agreement, and he’s facing a whole lot of jail time (anywhere from…
No, Marshall Roth and Harry Blasco — owners of the downtown hot-dog restaurant, Dog Nuvo — do not serve Oscar Mayer wieners. But the opportunity to have their photograph taken next to the iconic (and 75-year-old — who knew?) Oscar Mayer Wienermobile was too tempting for the two local frankfurter vendors. “We’re telling people we want to buy it as…
