Super Bowl Sunday is a time when all your guiltiest food pleasures are laid bare to your fellow partygoers. It’s the time to set aside fat content or common sense in order to revel in the gooifying principles of your microwave and crockpot. The Super Bowl is really America’s celebration of our filthiest appetizers — pigs in a blanket, tiny…
%{}% Hordes of citizens stand up to their nation’s hated leader. But observers worry that when the revolution finally comes, religious fundamentalists hostile to democracy will seize power. We’re not talking about the Tea Party this time — we’re talking about the ongoing, massive demonstrations against Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak. Rightbloggers were torn about this one. While many at first…
The king of pop no longer graces the corner of 18th and Troost. Alexander Austin, also known as “Mural Man,” painted a tribute to Michael Jackson after his death in 2009. We spoke to Austin about how his mural no longer exists, and what happened to it: “First of all, thanks for the interest and thanks to The Pitch for…
All photos by Forester Michael.
Hey, look! Some ink-stained wretch at Kansas’ Leader & Times inadvertently made a funny! And someone in New York saw it! The headline: “Hooker overcomes illness, slaps Beaver.” And, yeah, the article was about a high school basketball game. This is how we residents of flyover states confirm our existence. Ahhh. Categories: News Tags: Gawker, Leader & Times
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All photos taken by Allie Mason.
All photos taken by Sami Dowd.
Linkin Park Sprint Center Saturday, January 29, 2011 As we walked up to the Sprint Center Saturday night, there were four different radio stations out front: 99.7 Gen X, 96.5 the Buzz, Mix 93.3, and 98.9 the Rock. That’s crossover success, ladies and gentlemen. Linkin Park’s first success was with “One Step Closer,” sneaking in on the coattails of nu-metal….
%{}% Jerry Moran showed up at the U.S. Senate’s first Tea Party Caucus meeting on Thursday with the political equivalent of lipstick on his collar. Tea-party organizations want Congress to ban earmarks. Moran thinks it’s a good idea, but he’s a relatively recent convert. While in the U.S. House, he regularly made earmark requests. During the 2010 fiscal year, he…
Bristol Palin won’t be getting $20,000 to preach abstinence at Washington University. I really don’t care if she wants to get hypocritical about bumping uglies, even if she doesn’t abide (as the Dude would say). But in all of the controversy, I forgot to think of the children. Thankfully, gbuell didn’t, and his thoughts are totally with Tripp. Gbuell, the…
I have no evidence that a former janitor at Basehor-Linwood High School gave the principal a photo of Bruce Jenner as a resume. Or repeatedly offered to eat an eraser. But authorities believe John Henry Bullock Jr. was stealing iPods, clothes and musical equipment from students, as well as taking laptop computers, soap dispensers, toilet paper and gym equipment, according…
The most bizarre story of the day comes courtesy of KCTV5. Leawood police are trying to piece how a woman there died — one day after police responded to a domestic-violence call. Here’s the deal, via KCTV5: Police get a call about domestic violence on Tuesday. They roll up to the woman’s home on 154th Street in the Hills of…
Vanesha Dillard was wearing just a towel when the Pizza Hut delivery man showed up at a Northland apartment in October 2009. The 62-year-old pizza man probably thought he was about to see a helluva tip — until Devin Wood jumped him from behind and pushed him into the apartment. The driver and 18-year-old Wood fought until Wood pulled a…
Fat City has already reported about next week’s kick-off of the Chinese New Year festivities, including Mayor Funkhouser’s proclamation that the week of January 31 through February 6 is Kansas City’s first official “Chinese Week.” And, yes, we’ve noted that many area Chinese restaurants are celebrating the holiday — which traditionally lasts for two weeks — in some fashion. The…
At the crossroads of fashion and music, one of the most influential elements — for better or worse — is faux-hipster clothing store Urban Outfitters. The seemingly ubiquitous company of “Lifestyle Purveyors” recently gave some international recognition to local pop act Queens Club. Categories: Music Tags: Queens Club, Urban Outfitters
It’s been kind of a high-fat, high-carbohydrate week here in Fat City, thanks to the scandal surrounding the lawsuit filed against Taco Bell. Attorneys for the claimant say the fast-food giant uses a “beef” product in its Tex-Mex creations that’s only 35-percent beef after you take out all the binders and extenders. But why eat at Taco Bell at all?…
Ugandan gay rights activist David Kato was killed in his home Wednesday. If you’re curious, he was bludgeoned and beaten to death. With a hammer. Kato’s death comes as the Ugandan parliament considers a long-lingering bill that would criminalize gay-rights advocacy and add the death penalty as possible punishment for gay people in certain cases. Uganda is not a safe…
It’s been established that the controversy over unreported E. coli levels at the Lake of the Ozarks two summers ago was manufactured for political purposes. Missouri state Sen. Brad Lager (R-Maryville) made a huge stink over poopy bacteria levels in the Ozarks’ waters that were supposedly hidden from the public over the summer of 2009. Lager made it seem as…
So just when, several Fat City readers have asked us, is the new Drunken Fish Sushi Restaurant and Lounge opening in the former Bice Bistro space in the Power & Light District? “It’s very close, just a couple of weeks away,” says Allison Schiller, spokeswoman for the St. Louis-based restaurant group. (It’s too early to really call the company a…
Bacon Shoe walks the very fine line between parody and insult. (And the group does it in costume, too, including a pair of — well, never mind.) This weirdo troupe is among the most absurd local acts ever to hit a stage. The art-performance hip-hop trio — composed of an MC, who waxes unpoetic about sex, and two cohorts revealed…
