Les Izmore, Diverse and Reach will reinterpret A Tribe Called Quest’s seminal album, Low End Theory, tonight at the Blue Room. ATCQ’s sophomore album enlisted the help of various jazz influences, including the jazz bassist Ron Carter. Conceived in part by Glenn North, the American Jazz museum’s poet-in-residence, the event is called a “Vibe Called Fresh,” and a portion of…
The City of Kansas City, Missouri, has to pay $2.1 million to a white lady who wanted to be judge. Melissa Howard sued the city after the City Council rejected a slate of prospective Municipal Court judges because they were all white. Howard, who was on the slate, said it was discrimination. A Platte County jury awarded her $2.1 million…
Reader The DLC took issue with our story about a study released this week contending that area smoking bans are having little impact on the business of bars and restaurants. Those pesky civil liberties, always getting in the way. I would argue that the rhetoric on the pro-ban side has been way “rowdier,” extreme and self-righteous than on the other….
Yesterday in Lindewerra, Germany, local blues chanteuse Samantha Fish signed her first deal with RUF Records, the same label that handles Walter Trout, Robin Trower and Ana Popovic. Since Fish has been overseas, she’s been recording her first album and touring with RUF’s Blues Caravan 2011, which also features British soul musician Dani Wilde and Otis Taylor’s daughter, Cassie Taylor….
Cities around the metropolitan area are reckoning with aging shopping malls. A number of enclosed shopping centers built in the 1960s, ’70s and ’80s — which once were sales-tax machines lubricated by Orange Julius — have been torn down or are begging for demolition. A mall increases its odds of survival if it’s located in an area of town where…
Real ground beef (top), alleged “beef” in Taco Bell taco (bottom) Update: Fat City, like most media outlets, received a written statement from Taco Bell president and chief concept officer Greg Creed defending Taco Bell’s products. Read on to the end of the post to be reassured that a beef taco is not really a “beef” taco. OK, so the…
Sporting Kansas City striker Teal Bunbury is supposed to be good. Pretty freaking good, actually. Like, he could play for a team in England good. But at only 20 years old, Bunbury and his career trajectory are still being branded and molded. This, of course, leaves him vulnerable to being assigned nicknames and having one highlight tattooed to his forehead…
I was saddened, but not particularly surprised, by the closing of the Peachtree Restaurant in the Power & Light District on December 5. When I reviewed that restaurant nearly two years ago, I saw some problems — not insurmountable problems, mind you — that concerned me. But there were bigger problems — unknown to most of us — that the…
This fall, the suicide of St. Joseph man Jarrod Moody was linked to his use of “bath salts” that mimic the effects of methamphetamines on the brain. Moody’s death was just the latest in a series of bodies linked to the products, including at least one case in which the chemical reaction is suspected to have put an English woman…
Fat City reader Linda is celebrating her birthday this weekend and wrote us to ask where she could gather a group of friends together for dessert, coffee and liquor. She was thinking, maybe, of an attractive restaurant lounge with a beautiful bar and a nice assortment of desserts so that her friends could order what they wanted instead of sharing…
As if there wasn’t enough for you to do this Saturday night, there’s a Super Soul Dance Party going down at the Brick. For those of you old enough to remember the wildly popular soul review show Soul Train (or young enough to enjoy some good booty-grinding), DJ Lady Panther will be dusting off old vinyl LPs of artists who…
You’ve read Lewis Carroll’s “Jabberwocky,” right? (C’mon, you remember something from college besides how to make a gravity bong, don’t you?) Well, sound poetry is poetry that’s composed of gibberish — that is, words used for primarily for their sound rather than meaning. Of course, in songs, using nonsense words — or snippets of gibberish — is nothing new. Here’s…
Two courses, one box. That’s the latest idea from DiGiorno, the Nestle-owned brand that is rolling out two new items this week. You can now get Pizza and Boneless Wyngz (three meat or supreme pizza with honey barbecue boneless wyngz or a pepperoni pizza with buffalo-style wyngz) or Pizza and Cookies (pepperoni or cheese pizza and Toll House chocolate-chip cookie…
The WWE’s annual battle royal (not royale — they know their demographic), the Royal Rumble, takes place this Sunday on Pay-Per-View. This year’s Rumble is notable, as it’s the first in the event’s 24-year history to feature 40 entrants, as opposed to the traditional 30. Considering the historical significance of the change, we’d like to present some songs dedicated to…
It always seems like some place very far away when you see images of motorists forced to stop and wait for livestock to clear the road. But don’t tell that to drivers in Claycomo, who were hoping to take the ramp from I-435 N to I-35 N yesterday morning. KMBC has the story of a truck carrying 720 pigs that…
Read our review of the evening’s tribute here.
