So you thought the architects of America’s pro-choice movement were fighting for a woman’s right to terminate a pregnancy in a safe, medical environment? Oh, you gullible sheep. The real goal behind legal abortion, obviously, was to kill black babies. That’s what presenters from Move-On-Up.org hope you’ll glean from tonight’s presentation of Maafa 21: Black Genocide in 21st Century America,…
Update: There won’t be just one display re-creation — historically accurate, but inedible — of the most famous of the wedding cakes created for the 1981 wedding of Prince Charles and the future Princess Diana, but two of them going on exhibition in Kansas City this month. The update follows the original post. Right on the heels of last evening’s…
%{}% Howard Harmon has finally been charged in the slaying of 19-year-old Sabrina Jones. An associate of Harmon’s had fingered him in the May 2010 homicide, which led Jackson County prosecutors today to file charges of first-degree murder, first-degree robbery and two counts of armed criminal action. Harmon, 33, allegedly busted into an East Side home in the early hours…
Casey Brezik won’t be going to trial for stabbing a community-college official, and the Star reported that Brezik has been committed to the Missouri Department of Mental Health. In September, the 23-year-old student allegedly slashed the throat of a dean at Metropolitan Community College. His intended target was Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon, who was scheduled to speak at the Penn…
The campaign to eliminate the earnings tax in Kansas City has put a face on the tax. An East Side face. An image of a grim-looking Emanuel Cleaver II appears on the section of the KC Tax Reform website devoted to the tax’s history. It’s an interesting choice, given that the tax was enacted before Cleaver went into office and…
It’s a fact: Kansas City loves to play dress-up. In a flash of glitz, glamor and old-school N’Awlins pageantry, the Top of the Bottoms at Crosstown Station on Saturday night boasted some of the most captivating costumes that this town has seen in a long time.
Cocktails were more evident than teacups in last night’s Oscar-winning “Best Picture,” The King’s Speech. But the British tradition of afternoon tea — a tradition that never really caught on in America — dates back to the 19th century. “High tea” has come to mean a fancy tea in the United States, but Keith Buchanan, the co-owner of Westport’s Teahouse…
Missourians, you’re on top of the meth world. The Show-Me State is once again No. 1 in meth lab seizures with a whopping 1,960 seizures in 2010. This marks the 10th time that Missouri has led the nation in seizures. That’s also a 10 percent jump from 2009’s 1,774 seizures. The competition wasn’t even close. The next closest state, Tennessee,…
Don’t take our review’s word(s) for it: watch a clip of Kid Rock’s sold-out show at the Sprint Center for yourself. Our photo intern Allie Mason has a video of the concert after the jump. Categories: Music Tags: Jamey Johnson, kid rock, video
Missouri’s strip clubs have been struggling since new laws passed last year banning nude dancing and just about everything else that would make you want to go to a strip club. But one local club may have found a loophole in the law. According to the website of the strip club Your Fantasy Ranch, the club is promising “totally nude…
Sonic Spectrum Presents: A Tribute to Chrissie Hynde and the PretendersSunday, February 28, 2011RecordBar Better than: watching the Oscars. Thanks to the rain and the Oscars, Sonic Spectrum’s second installment of its new tribute series wasn’t as well attended as the first. And though David Bowie, the artist local musicians paid homage to last month, may be more widely known…
Now that Fat City has been made aware of a new, honey-flavored Mexican beer, Purple Hand Beer, that will be marketed to gay consumers, we’re thinking of the best possible savory dishes to accompany the beverage. Salty foods, like sausages or peppery taquitos, come to mind. And if these dishes resemble one of Kansas City’s most iconic landmarks, so much…
The loose collective of hackers known as Anonymous have two new Kansas targets in their cross hairs: billionaire brothers Charles and David Koch of Wichita’s Koch Industries. Last week, Anonymous took on Topeka’s gay-hating Westboro Baptist Church. Anonymous announced on its website the plan to go after the Koch bros as a sign of solidarity with union workers protesting in…
History is best-served cold and in a glass. The Flying Saucer Draught Emporium honors one of the classics with its 2011 Barleywine Week. Each night, beginning tonight, will feature a new barrel of barleywine being tapped at 7 p.m. The strong ale with roots in England is not as popular in America, although you might have had a near cousin…
Kansas City has lost another Chiefs icon. Former announcer Bill Grigsby died at the age of 89. In 2010, Grigsby retired from broadcasting after a 62-year career that included doing play-by-play for Super Bowls I and IV. Chiefs chairman and CEO Clark Hunt said in a statement: “Like all Chiefs fans, our thoughts and prayers are with Fran and the…
If you were at the Sprint Center on Friday night, there’s no way that you could have missed Kid Rock’s gigantic back tattoo. It reads — yes, you guessed it — “American Bad Ass.” Kansas City has its own fair share of USA tats, too, though few of them are as rad as Kid Rock’s. Here are five USA tattoos…
Last week, chef Aaron Confessori told Fat City the story of how a Wichita busboy became a successful restaurateur in Kansas City and confessed his love for the BLT at the Peanut. Today, the owner of the Westport Cafe & Bar shares his thoughts on the restaurants, late-night scene and future of Westport. Categories: Dining, Food & Drink Tags:…
Rick Ross, with Soulja Boy, Monica, and Ron Ron Sprint Center Sunday, February 27, 2011 Better than: This shitty weather, English food, and 50 Cent I never know what to expect from a live hip-hop show. Of course, like with any live show, you want a unique experience that can’t be translated in the thousands of smeary cell-phone videos that…
They tell you to be careful of the white stuff while driving in winter in Missouri. You just never expect the white stuff to be mayonnaise. The Kansas City Star reports that a tractor-trailer crash on Interstate 44 outside Springfield, Missouri, on Saturday left the highway coated in 40,000 pounds of mayo. Nobody was hurt in the crash that saw…
%{}% Last weekend rallies were held in all 50 states in support of the teachers’ union in Wisconsin. And at the Wisconsin state capitol, at least 70,000 people came out on Saturday to protest Governor Walker’s attempt to break the union. Sounds like a big deal, right? Hundreds of thousands of people turned out on behalf of teachers in one…
It’s a fact: Kansas City loves to play dress-up. In a flash of glitz, glamor and old-school N’Awlins pageantry, the Top of the Bottoms at Crosstown Station on Saturday night boasted some of the most captivating costumes that this town has seen in a long time. Categories: Music Tags: Mardi Gras, Top of the Bottoms
Kansas City has apparently caught the attention of a rising food star. Brooklyn chef and cookbook author Aaron Sanchez is eyeing Kansas City for the latest restaurant in his budding food empire. A frequent guest on such Food Network shows as Chopped and Chefs. vs. City, Sanchez currently owns and operates two restaurants, Centrico and Tacombi, in New York City….
