The story of Justus Drugstore can be told through two books that sit on the shelf of a wooden end table just inside the front door. Great Sausage Recipes is stacked a few titles to the left of Making Great Sausage. Both have creased spines and the typefaces of scientific textbooks. When a chef has multiple books dedicated to making…
Scary story at Brookside Frontier Math and Science charter school: Up to 10 students have been taken to a local hospital after showing symptoms of carbon-monoxide poisoning. KSHB Channel 41 reports that the students, between the ages of 12 and 16, reported nausea, headaches and dizziness. All of them were alert and talking. The school has been evacuated, and KMBC…
Finally some good news about the Kansas City Police Department’s cold-case sex crimes squad The Star reports that officials have a plan to save the unit. The cold-case sex crimes squad lost a $500,000 federal grant that was paying three detectives’ salaries. The cold-case unit had reportedly cleared more than 140 cases since it started in 2008, identified 25 serial…
People in this city love the trivs. And the ladies, they love them some Robert Moore. Get both tonight from 8 to 10 p.m. at Gusto Lounge. Moore’s Q&A game has moved from Fred P. Ott’s on the Plaza to midtown. It’s different from his Sonic Spectrum music trivia night at RecordBar: General trivia instead of strictly music, test-style instead…
It’s Friday in Kansas City. Happy hour has bled into the weekend, steeply discounted beer by steeply discounted beer. You are determined not to spend the night alone, even if your eventual partner is just the glow of a fully charged laptop. How will the night end? Until recently, we had no idea. But now, after reading the responses of…
As we mentioned back in November, Americana folk hero Josh Ritter will be hitting the Liberty Hall stage in Lawrence next week. Ritter’s latest album, So Runs the World Away, has garnered critical acclaim and seen an impressive amount of television and movie soundtrack time. He’s also reissuing his 2006 album, The Animal Years, on vinyl three days before the…
Curtis Kelly is still a member of the Kansas State basketball team. But the question is, for how long? K-State’s athletic department is investigating Kelly for an unspecified violation of the student-athlete handbook, which could get him kicked off the team, the Star reported. Kelly is appealing, but it’s unclear whether he’s eligible to play. But if it’s any consolation,…
‘Tis the season for gigantic, sprawling festival announcements. Kansas City has its own to make this year: 2011 will mark the first Middle of the Map Festival, which will be held April 8 and 9 in Westport at four venues. It’s hosted by Ink — which, apparently, is the only paper produced “by and for” people in their 20s and…
SRO Video is closing up shop. In December, my office mates at the Wayward Blog reported that the video store at 402 East Gregory Boulevard would close its doors “sometime in March or April.” The Kansas City Star confirmed it on Tuesday, writing that the store will close in March when the store’s lease expires. SRO has already started selling…
Any music writer worth his or her chops knows that questions about tour malfunctions can offer some pretty vivid, disgusting and raunchy stories. The best question, though, is simple: What’s your worst gig? A local writer named Jon Niccum has complied 13 years’ worth of interviews on his site, WorstGig.com, featuring tales of the worst shows from artists such as…
Update: Martin Link, 47, died by lethal injection at 12:15 a.m. today. His last meal consisted of sausage and pepperoni pizza, lasagna, garlic bread, a chef’s salad, New-York-style cheesecake, a strawberry shake and Dr. Pepper, according to the Missouri Department of Corrections. His last statement: “The state says killing is wrong, so why do they do it? For revenge. Where…
Former Kansas City restaurateur and novelist Lou Jane Temple has used chocolate as a plot device, if not actually an instrument of death, in her seventh book, Death Is Semisweet. But in real life, sweets — semi and otherwise — have been used as devices of death and as — just this week — the sweet reason that an accused…
As we pulled away from the Holiday Inn Express in Beatrice, Nebraska, recently, my boyfriend, who happens to be a connoisseur of pickles both fried and marinated, spotted a vehicle that apparently belongs to a woman whom I fear could win his heart away from me, depending on the meaning of the decal on her truck … Categories: Dining, Food…
If ever there was a list that we should be glad to be outside of the top 10, perhaps it’s the Men’s Health 2011 rankings of the drunkest cities in America. Kansas City was named the 36th drunkest city (out of 100 cities ranked), which is a bit like saying we may be a town of drunks. However, we’re nowhere…
What does it mean for a song to be untitled? Was the artist just lazy? Was the song a half-formed sketch? When R. Kelly renamed his 2009 album from 12 Play: Fourth Quarter to Untitled, he told an audience during a performance, “I’m working on a new album and I’m calling that muthafucka Untitled. Y’all call it what y’all want.”…
You can be the mayor of the gay-hating, funeral-picketing Westboro Baptist Church. All it takes is seven Foursquare check-ins to oust Jim O. from this esteemed position. Jim O. is Jim Ogle, general manager of Topeka TV station WIBW. Buzzfeed put together a list of “The 15 Most Depressing Foursquare Mayorships,” and the Topeka “church” came in at No. 14…
Hayes Hamburgers from Anna Goellner on Vimeo. This is a video love letter to Hayes Hamburger & Chili (2502 NE Vivion Rd.) from photographer/multimedia producer Anna Goellner . It’s one of the few places where you can get breakfast 24 hours a day, so it’s love that is definitely deserved. Categories: Dining, Food & Drink Tags: hayes hamburger & chili
If ever there was a list that we should be glad to be outside of the top 10, perhaps it’s the Men’s Health 2011 rankings of the drunkest cities in America. Kansas City was named the 36th drunkest city (out of 100 cities ranked), which is a bit like saying we may be a town of drunks. However, we’re nowhere…
Skipping class isn’t easy for Kansas Jayhawks. Student athletes, just like other college kids, are prone to blowing off class to catch up on sleep or just because they don’t want to go. To make sure Jayhawks are actually going to class, the University of Kansas has hired “a brigade of senior citizens hellbent on making sure they go to…
UPDATE: Here’s the latest in the homicide investigation of Oswaldo Conde-Gamdoa, whose body was found in a Shawnee street Sunday morning: The Metro Squad is looking for a white 2000 to 2006 Hyundai Elantra with a busted out driver’s-side window. If you’ve seen this car, call the TIPS Hotline at 816-474-8477. Original Story (February 7): A 29-year-old man was found…
You could get your partner a box of chocolates for Valentine’s Day, but that’s cliche. Chocolate in a bottle? Well, that sounds a bit more promising. Boulevard’s Chocolate Ale, a collaboration with chocolatier and ice-cream maven Christopher Elbow, is now on shelves. It’s also headed for taps around town, joining the latest hometown brew to flow from the keg, Boulevard…
The Sierra Club just rolled out a new campaign calling Wichita-based Koch Industries “the biggest, scariest company you’ve never heard of.” The environmental nonprofit’s website features a series of “Dislike” buttons, each attached to an ugly Koch-related fact that visitors can post directly to their Facebook pages. The Sierra Club’s public push against David and Charles Koch’s $35 billion empire…
Oh, somewhere in this favored land, a sesame seed shines brightThe bagels are boiling somewhere, and somewhere schmear is light Somewhere brunch is happening, and somewhere children cheerBut there is no joy in KC, for bagels and lox are not here. Categories: Dining, Food & Drink
