Hit the Ice
Like God, this indoor rink rests on Sundays. Instead, hit this ice Monday through Saturday. Admission is $5 per skater; skate rental is $2. Mondays-Saturdays, 2011 Tags: Night & Day
Archives: January 2011
Kansas City Chiefs’ opponents for next season include Packers, Steelers and Patriots
Next season won’t be as easy for the Kansas City Chiefs. Only two playoff teams were on KC’s schedule last season. In 2011, there are six playoff qualifiers on the schedule, including home games with the Pittsburgh Steelers and Green Bay Packers. The road won’t be easy with four games against playoff qualifiers (Chicago, Indianapolis, New England and the New…
Sam Brownback suggests that ungodliness contributed to 9/11
%{}% Does Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback endorse the idea that secularism brought about the events of 9/11? That’s one conclusion to draw from Olathe News reporter Rick Babson’s account of an inauguration-week prayer service at MidAmerica Nazarene University. Babson writes that Brownback quoted Billy Graham’s daughter Anne Graham Lotz, who took the view that the terrorist attacks of September 11,…
Best hot soups for a very cold night
The official topic of yesterday’s Fat City post about “hibernation foods” (you know, when it’s too much trouble to go out to eat or cook at home) was takeout fare. But when one commenter turned the subject to hot soup — a particularly comforting food for the weather we’re having now — other smart commenters followed with equally delicious suggestions….
Westboro Baptist Church: ‘Thank God for the violent shooter’ in Arizona
UPDATE: Fred Phelps’ Westboro Baptist Church has decided not to picket the funeral of 9-year-old Christina Taylor Green, who was killed during the assassination attempt on Arizona Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords. However, don’t think that Westboro is going soft. They’ve decided to swap a funeral picket for radio time in Canada. Read the full update at the jump …Original Story (January…
Vernon Brooks pleads no contest to charges he robbed four KU students at gunpoint
Former University of Kansas football players Jamal Greene and Vernon Brooks were accused of attempting to rob four KU students of drugs and money at gunpoint last May. On Wednesday, the Lawrence Journal-World reported that Brooks pleaded no contest to aggravated-burglary and aggravated-assault charges. Brooks apparently cut a deal to plead guilty to those charges in exchange for prosecutors dumping…
Eat dinner tonight at Boozefish with Chuck and Jon
Chuck and who? Chuck Kreimendahl and Jon Niederbremer. Neither of these local gentleman has any serious connection to the restaurant business, but they both like to cook. Since last September, the two friends have been preparing a special meal on the second Wednesday of every month at Boozefish Wine Bar at 1511 Westport Road. They’re cooking tonight, too. Categories: Dining,…
Icy roads drained Kansas City’s blood supply — time to donate!
For a second there, the press release from the Community Blood Center had me thinking that there were so many bloody accidents on icy KC roadways that the blood bank was tapped dry. But that blood-soaked assumption was grossly inaccurate. The actual scenario: The first major snowstorm of the year forced the cancellation of three-fourths of the CBC’s mobile blood…
The Legends of Hip-Hop tour coming to Municipal Auditorium
It’s been about 25 years since Salt N Pepa met each other at Queensborough Community College and started rapping together, and 1986 was also the same year that they released Hot, Cool & Vicious with their breakthrough hit, “Push It.” (Yes, you are getting old.) Categories: Music Tags: Biz Markie, Doug E. Fresh, Kurtis Blow, Salt N Pepa, Salt-N-Pepa, the…
Scenes and souvlaki from the Athena on Broadway
As I was writing this week’s review (a new venue in Olathe called My Big Fat Greek Restaurant), I couldn’t help sliding into a reverie about another Greek taverna: the Athena on Broadway, which was wildly popular in the 1980s and early ’90s. I know its legend firsthand because I used to work there. I just missed out on the…
Blaine Gabbert the No. 1 pick? Sports Illustrated says so in mock draft
Stanford quarterback Andrew Luck is out of April’s NFL Draft, leaving Missouri’s Blaine Gabbert as supposedly the best available gunslinger. That was confirmed when Sports Illustrated released a mock draft on Wednesday. SI pegs Gabbert as not only the best signal caller in the draft but also the No. 1 overall pick, going to the Carolina Panthers. Yes, even after…
The remnants of the oldest winery in the world discovered in Armenia
The year 4100 B.C. wasn’t just a good one for wines. It might have been the first year for large-scale production. National Geographic reports that the earliest known winery in the world, dating back more than 6,000 years, has been discovered in Armenia. What are believed to be the remains of a fermentation vat and wine press were discovered in…
Aaron Mayberry killed over $45; three men indicted on murder charges
Aaron Mayberry went to a Liberty duplex to collect $45 that he was owed. He ended up getting beaten to death. A grand jury inducted three men on charges of second-degree murder in the August 22 slaying, according to KMBC Channel 9. Those three men are 28-year-old Milton Sparks, 25-year-old Spencer Satterwhite and 24-year-old Zachary Moore. Mayberry was reportedly tied…
KCMO snow-removal poll: Star says it’s improved; what say you?
This is my first winter in Kansas City, but it ain’t my first snow-deo, as they say, “they” being people who use “snow” to make fun new nouns. I spent the previous two winters in snowy Denver and, before that, in Cleveland, where the snow piles up like heartache and abandonment. So while The Kansas City Star is claiming that…
Firehouse Subs is open on the Plaza
Just like at any firehouse, there’s no shortage of people waiting to help you at the newly opened Firehouse Subs (4628 J.C. Nichols Parkway) on the Plaza. Three people shouted a welcome when I walked through the door to the sandwich shop, which opened this past Saturday. But the firehouse spirit doesn’t end with the counter service. It’s everywhere you…
Katrina Childress accused of taking 16-year-old runaway to Texas and sexing him
Good decisions are in short supply these days. Katrina Childress is accused of going to Texas with a 16-year-old runaway and having sex with the boy. Childress, from Fredericktown, Missouri, is a 32-year-old mother of two (ages 7 and 11). Here’s the strangest part of the story: Childress allegedly met the teen by accident. The Fort Worth Star-Telegram reported that…
My Chemical Romance taps the Architects as support for national tour
My Chemical Romance loves Kansas City. The operatic glam-rock band already uses the Get Up Kids’ James Dewees as a keyboardist on tour; now, the band is picking up the Architects as an opening act for the North American leg of its upcoming “World Contamination Tour.” Categories: Music Tags: My Chemical Romance, Neon Trees, the Architects, The Get Up Kids
Sexually explicit photos of Columbia high school students posted on Facebook
I’m glad Facebook didn’t exist when I was in high school. I’m old enough to avoid most stupid photos of myself on the Internet (other than the ones I want out there). Unfortunately for between 15 and 20 Columbia high school students, sexually explicit photos and videos were posted on Facebook and YouTube. And now Columbia cops are investigating. The…
Tales from the Four Loko black market
Yo, man, you got that Four Loko? NBC New York reports on the thriving black market (read: Craigslist) for cans of Four Loko that predate the FDA’s caffeine-additive ban. Leave it to an enterprising group of frat guys to profit from a market inefficiency created by the regulation of a company started by frat guys. Sadly (thankfully?), the Four Loko…
Missouri Tigers finish 18th in AP and USA Today polls, 13th in Harris Poll
The final college football polls were released Tuesday with Auburn finishing No. 1 in the nation in all three polls. (We’ll just have to wait and see how long that lasts.) The Missouri Tigers were the only local team to finish in the top 25. The Tigers finished 18th in the final AP poll, 18th in the USA Today poll…
Choose your own apocalypse soundtrack
With millions of dead animals washing up on shores and falling from the sky, it seems that THE RAPTURE is nearly upon us. And fuck — it’s a little less than two years until December 21, 2012, the date prophesied (OK, “misinterpreted,” but whatever) to be the END OF THE WORLD. But what are you gonna do, cry about it?…
Cloud Nothings play KC with Toro Y Moi
Fuzzed-out rockers Cloud Nothings are opening for the bleached electro sounds of Toro Y Moi on a nationwide tour. One of the dates is at the Riot Room, where local bedroom-pop act Saharan Gazelle Boy will be opening for both bands. The date is April 1. The last time Toro Y Moi was in town, its set was underwhelming —…
Find The Pitch
