A fire that destroyed a Kansas City mosque is now being called “suspicious,” according to KCTV5. The blaze started around 3 a.m. at the mosque on the first floor of a three-story building at 4614 St. John Avenue and was under control about an hour later. KMBC reported that the blaze was a three-alarm fire. Thankfully, no one was injured in the fire. If…
The Metro Squad is trying to piece together why three men were shot and killed Saturday inside a hotel room at a Northland Red Roof Inn. Authorities say the victims are 18-year-olds Dejan Joksimovic and Armin Hamidovic and 22-year-old Delfino Elizondo. The Star reported that no arrests have been made, and detectives are still trying to figure out what led…
Country musician Rodney Crowell has been making music for the better part of his life, going all the way back to playing drums in a band with his father at the age of 11. He has worked with Emmylou Harris as part of her Hot Band, and married into country-music royalty when he wed Rosanne Cash. His 1988 album Diamonds…
Another semitrailer full of Nike Air Jordans has been stolen. This time, the trailer was jacked in Junction City, Kansas. On Christmas Eve, thieves stole a semitrailer packed with 4,716 pairs of Nike Air Jordan Classics 90. The thieves apparently made it to at least Council Bluffs, Iowa, where they ditched the truck. But there was no sign of the…
“You know, my cousins saw Kid Rock at Sandstone around 6 to 8 years ago,” my friend said, shivering in the cold with me outside the sold-out Sprint Center on Friday night before Kid Rock took the stage. At the show he was describing, Kid Rock had been rolling through his set with his usual hard-hitting badassery when something truly…
In Kansas, driving a motorcycle might come with one less annoyance. Lawmakers approved a bill that would allow motorcycle riders to go through red lights if their vehicles aren’t heavy enough to trip the weight sensors under the street that change the signal. It’s a better plan than dropping the kickstand and running over to hit the crosswalk button. Categories:…
Well, this is a funny coincidence. Earlier this week, Missouri’s House Agriculture Committee unanimously agreed on a bill that completely guts the voter-approved Puppy Mill Cruelty Prevention Act. The committee felt that Missouri’s residents just weren’t educated enough to really understand how providing things like “necessary veterinary care” or removing “feces” from drinking water would be bad for dog breeders….
Missouri Attorney General Chris Koster released the top 10 consumer complaints and scams reported to his office in 2010. The leading complaint came against, drum roll, debt collectors! Go figure that in a recession, debt collectors would rank high. The AG’s office received more than 2,200 calls complaining about debt collectors (sorry, unnamed credit-card company). “Even though you may be…
The old Merchant’s Bank Building could become a boutique burger bar? In this week’s Cafe review of Hickok’s Bar & Grill, owner Forbes Cross says he thinks that the River Market neighborhood is “on the edge of a real revival…. We just need a few more restaurants to come in and create a potent destination. The energy is already there.”…
Jamey Johnson’s The Guitar Song isn’t just the best country record of last year. It’s a double album split into two halves — The Black Album and The White Album — so it’s the best two albums.Not to be confused with the works of Jay-Z or the Beatles, the first half of The Guitar Song picks up with Johnson in…
UPDATE, Friday February 25, at 2:06 p.m.: Travis O’Guin, CEO, president and co-founder of Strange Music, has this to say about the lawsuit: “We obviously dispute these accusations and view this as a frivolous lawsuit, and we will deal with this very aggressively.” Klosed Kustody, a local-music label based out of Topeka, is suing the king of Kansas City hip-hop,…
James Noel pleaded guilty Thursday to his role in the disturbing Missouri sex slave case in which a mentally deficient woman was allegedly sexually abused and tortured for several years. Noel told authorities that he and other men used a crank phone to shock the woman with the device wired to some very, very sensitive areas (read about it here)….
Ruben Gallegos told detectives that he was playing around with a friend’s 13-year-old daughter. They chased each other around the apartment, and the girl greeted him by jumping on his back. But when Gallegos and the girl were lying on the floor watching TV, the hangout took a creepy turn. Gallegos admitted that he knew the girl was 13, but…
By now, we’re sure you’ve all listened to, and formed your opinions of, the new Radiohead album, King of Limbs. But just when we thought the alt-rock gods couldn’t get any more popular, Fox News got ahold of the album and, um, listened to it backwards. Apparently, Radiohead is a lot more influential than we originally thought. Categories: Music Tags:…
Former heavyweight boxing champion Tommy Morrison was arrested on a felony charge last week. Sound serious, right? Eh, not really. The Kansas Highway Patrol arrested Morrison on the Kansas Turnpike for … marijuana. Shock! Morrison reportedly had 8 grams of marijuana with him, so he’s facing felony charges for possession with a prior conviction and a misdemeanor charge of possession….
Big hair, big riffs, and even bigger cheesy arena rock: We’re talkin’ Def Leppard, folks. The band is headed our way with throwback lady-rockers Heart, who rocked this year’s Lilith Fair and, according to Elke Mermis, actually kind of kicked ass. Rock’s favorite one-armed drummer and the rest of the crew will be at the Sprint Center on August 27….
We’re a nation of eaters. We also love kitchen gadgets, even if we’re on the fence about cooking. Williams-Sonoma has (smartly) found the sweet spot of kitchen items that will enable us to eat more and more ridiculous foods. And despite a line of products from Curtis Stone, the resident chef on The Biggest Loser, the upscale shop isn’t likely…
A 5-year-old girl believed to have been abducted by a burglary suspect has been found. Independence police say the young girl was found just after 5 p.m. Thursday, KMBC Channel 9 reported. The girl wasn’t harmed but was being checked out as a precautionary measure. However, authorities are still looking for 25-year-old burglary suspect David Martin Jr. Martin allegedly was…
The film Blue Valentine, which stars Ryan Gosling and Michelle Williams as a couple whose marriage is disintegrating, is soundtracked completely by the music of Grizzly Bear. The Brooklyn quartet’s lush sounds are the orchestration behind the dissolution of a once-happy couple. We were lucky enough to speak with Grizzly Bear’s Daniel Rossen by phone about the experience of working…
Now you know. The Kansas City Star got the go-ahead to shoot the inside of the Performing Arts Center, which — as you can see from our skyline — is still a work-in-progress. (According to The Star, the work is 80 percent complete.) Categories: Music Tags: Itzahk Pearlman, the kansas city star, the Kauffman Center
