Nobody can see the future of fast food, except the writer of Demolition Man. Assuming that all restaurants don’t morph into Taco Bell, the idea of what we’ll be eating at the drive-through (or hover-through) is a great question. Back in December, I posted about the winner of a contest on Yoxi that strove to answer that very question. The…
Sick and tired of everyone stereotyping Kansas as an anything-goes pansexual pleasure palace, lawmakers are finally taking a stand to regulate strip clubs and adult bookstores. The newly proposed “Community Defense Act” — which makes it sound as if huge rogue titties are rolling over innocent citizens in the street — would restrict new adult businesses from opening within 1,000…
Fat City spoke with Chef and owner of Justus Drugstore, Jonathan Justus, about his desire to save the world through sausage, whether he’d ever be a contestant on a reality cooking show and how to shop locally and ethically. Now take a gander at these pictures taken by Pitch photographer Forester Michael.
We’d hate for you to miss out on all the awesome that happens every weekend, so we’ve decided to run down five of the best shows in one easy-to-swallow post, with video and audio. Tell us — and the rest of the world — what we missed in the comments. This weekend, Ke$ha slops slime and glitter all over the…
Chef Jennifer Maloney has shucked and baked oysters for Keith Richards and seen Italy with chef Mario Batali. But she found her place at Cafe Sebastienne in the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, not that far from her childhood home in midtown. If you missed yesterday’s interview, you can find it here. Today she talks about where she likes to…
Today is Jordy Nelson’s day. No, really. Today is “Jordy Nelson Day” in Kansas. Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback is signing a declaration this morning to name February 17, 2011, after the Kansas native, former Kansas State Wildcat and current Super Bowl Champion with the Green Bay Packers. Categories: News Tags: green bay packers, Jordy Nelson, kansas state wildcats, Sam Brownback,…
The popsicles at Public in New York City are nothing like the Flavor Ice you remember from your childhood. First off, they’re slowly cooked and flash-fried. Secondly, the base isn’t sugar water; it’s pig’s blood. Food writer Josh Ozersky recently received a video tutorial from chef Brad Farmerie on the ingredients and cooking techniques for making the pig’s blood popsicles,…
Last night at the Replay Lounge, Hidden Pictures unveiled its new video for “Anne Apparently,” hot off the presses from Zac Eubank and crew at Aren’t We Clever. For all you kids who didn’t make it out last night (or all you KC scenesters who are short on gas funds), here’s the video for your viewing pleasure. Categories: Music Tags:…
Charles Wheeler dropped out of the Kansas City mayor’s race this week. Did The Kansas City Star eliminate another contestant? Six days before the election, the paper’s readers learned of a 15-year-old allegation that Deb Hermann referred to a Hispanic police officer as “Captain Taco.” The Star is citing police memos from 1996, when Hermann was a neighborhood leader who…
A man in his 50s was found dead in Kansas City, Kansas, Wednesday afternoon. Police have classified the case as a “death investigation” as they determine the man’s cause of death. The unnamed white male was found dead in the 800 block of Manorcrest Drive around 4:14 p.m. Once the man’s family is notified, we should get his name. There…
What became of Dr. Thomas Gill after leaving his post as Jackson County’s medical examiner? Turns out, the beleaguered corpse-cutter is the subject of a recent investigation by the nonprofit journalists at Propublica and a documentary by PBS’ Frontline. It’s a lot of attention, and not the good kind. Categories: News Tags: Frontline, medical examiner, Propublica, Thomas Gill, Thomas Young
Some of the best dumb games are riddled with hyphens: would-you-rather, never-have-I-ever and F-M-K (that’s fuck-marry-kill, for the uninitiated). Making fun of people is always a good way to stave off boredom, so we’ve concocted a would-you-rather poll about the ugly musicians in this world. Click through, view the musicians we’ve chosen, try to hide your horror, and choose which…
Each Thursday, your Crap Archivist brings you the finest in forgotten and bewildering crap culled from basements, thrift stores, estate sales and flea markets. I do this for one reason: Knowledge is power. Companion Magazine Date: July 1966 The Cover Promises: Women’s magazines from 1966 look exactly like men’s strokebooks from 1966. Discovered at: Liberty Antique Mall, Liberty, MO Representative…
Irony supplies the sole spark of humor in Big Mommas: Like Father, Like Son. This moribund second sequel has the audacity to feature Martin Lawrence’s fat-suit-encased FBI agent decrying the very same noxious stereotypes in which this film wallows. John Whitesell’s extraordinarily witless movie operates as a checklist for cultural and racial clichés: Young black men prefer hip-hop dreams to…
Conceived by Oprah-vilified author James Frey as the beginning of a potential blockbuster franchise, I Am Number Four is nothing but a million little pieces from prior superhero series and the Twilight saga. D.J. Caruso’s generic adventure, co-written by Frey under a pseudonym, concerns John Smith (Alex Pettyfer), a hunky blond teen who is actually an alien living life on…
Harriman-Jewell Series presents Cape Town Philharmonic Orchestra on its first United States concert tour at 8 p.m. Friday, February 25, at the Folly Theater (12th and Central Sts.) in downtown Kansas City. The Orchestra is arguably the most active orchestra on the African continent and substantially contributes to making Cape Town part of the global culture. Under the direction of…
Already this has been a great year for women playwrights in Kansas City, with Naomi Wallace’s incendiary One Flea Spare at the Metropolitan Ensemble Theatre and Sarah Ruhl’s clever In the Next Room (or the vibrator play) at the Unicorn. Now the Kansas City Repertory Theatre puts on Circle Mirror Transformation, the 2010 Obie winner by 29-year-old wunderkind Annie Baker,…
Once upon a time, John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John were horny teenagers. That was quite a few years before they played horny teenagers in the 1978 musical nostalgia trip, Grease. Chances are that many of the faces in the cast of the touring production, which slides into the Music Hall (301 West 13th Street, 816-513-5000) at 7:30 p.m., have also…
