If you’re pissed about getting a ticket for leaving your car idling in your driveway, there’s a reason for it. The police are probably sick of having to track down stolen cars when there are so many other crimes in this city (see Killa City). The Kansas City Police Department’s latest “Why We Do What We Do” attempts to explain,…
The parade of depravity continues. Wichita police suspect a 22-year-old man of stabbing and killing his grandmother, Gertrude Lott, Thursday morning. Lott, 69, was stabbed repeatedly in the torso with several different weapons, the Wichita Eagle reported. Lt. Ken Landwehr told the Eagle that Lott’s 22-year-old grandson is being held on suspicion of first-degree murder. Killing grandma is about as…
Some really bad people live among us. An 8-year-old Independence girl reported being sexually assaulted by 45-year-old Randy Lande, a registered sex offender. The girl was found covered in blood and hyperventilating. She told authorities that “Randy” did this to her. The child was taken to a local hospital where she underwent surgery for her injuries. Categories: News Tags: Randy…
The chef-inspired cocktail is not a new phenomenon, but liquefying the essence of a sandwich might be taking the concept to the next level. The New York Times’ T Magazine featured the Grilled Cheese and Tomato Soup Martini recently, which is served at Clive’s in Victoria, British Columbia. Could this be the beginning of a curious trend of comfort drinks?…
Republican lawmakers in Kansas, who balanced the 2010 budget by approving a temporary 1-percent increase in the state sales tax, felt the hot breath of the state’s right-wing element. The Kansas Chamber of Commerce recruited candidates to oppose moderates who supported the tax increase, leading to criticism that the organization pursued an agenda narrow enough to put in a mail…
Sam Graves knows that his seat in Congress is safe. He cruised to victories in his last two elections, including walloping former Kansas City Mayor Kay Barnes. After 11 years, he doesn’t even have to call “quack, quack, seat back.” So it’s not much of a surprise that Graves doesn’t want to make a run at Claire McCaskill’s Senate seat….
It’s all about happy endings, right? One of my favorite Valentine’s memories is of the night I was working in a restaurant, trying not to lose my mind over the owner’s decision to offer one of the most ridiculous prix fixe packages ever conceived. (I can’t recall the actual menu, but there was a bottle of really cheap sparkling wine…
Sean “Chris” Putnam’s body was found buried in a shallow grave in Wichita on Wednesday. The 41-year-old former law-enforcement officer is believed to have been killed in late December, and the Wichita Eagle reports that two people are being held on suspicion of first-degree murder. KAKE in Wichita reported that Putnam was shot in the head. Authorities believe he was…
In the 1950s, Cafe Picardy was the place for dining and dancing. We don’t get a lot of requests here in Fat City for restaurants that still offer a place to dance, but it’s a question that definitely pops up from time to time. And in spite of having no sense of rhythm, we try to provide answers to the best…
Capybara is playing South by Southwest’s official showcase in Austin, which is kind of a big deal. Drawing acts from around the world, the event’s official showcase features hundreds of acts on nearly 80 stages. But plenty of unofficial audiences are up for grabs during SXSW week, when Austin keeps label reps, bloggers and music journalists elbow to elbow with…
With three small children and his wife in the car, Earl Watson led police on a high-speed chase through Independence last Fourth of July. This didn’t end well for Watson and company. He ended up crashing into a median and flipping his red Pontiac Grand Am on the car’s top, which caught on fire. Since Watson is such an upstanding…
The Princess Garden is a blast from the past. When I agreed to go out for dinner at a Chinese restaurant last night, I totally forgot that it was Chinese New Year. Luckily for me, I think maybe the restaurant forgot, too. My friends wanted to go to Princess Garden, one of the oldest Chinese restaurants in the metro, and to…
He doesn’t make candlesticks (yet), but Starker’s owner and executive chef John McClure is at ease both butchering and baking. The son of a cattle rancher and former 4-H baker talked with Fat City this week about his experiences growing up in Tescott, Kansas, working as a Navy chef and discovering his passion for traditional Southern fare in New Orleans…
If you’ve driven to the airport recently, you may have noticed a couple of cryptic billboards with one-word messages: “Hopeless” and “Unbelievable.” Over at Reddit’s Kansas City page, there’s a little debate going on over what they might mean, including one fellow who says they’re “prototypes for a new type of neurally directed marketing.” Sadly, the truth is way less…
Lesser rappers are justified in their envy of the Ying Yang Twins’ “Halftime,” which has become the unofficial anthem for the New Orleans Saints. Unlike some one-hit, sports-arena wonders, though, the dirty rap duo from Atlanta has been a genuine hit maker for the past 10 years. (Among those successes are “What’s Happnin,” “Say I Yi Yi” and collabs with…
Love Garden Sounds, the legendary Lawrence record store, is doing what many people do when they turn 21: gathering a bunch of friends for a couple of nights at a bar, with plenty of loud music to mark the occasion. Love Garden is throwing a 21st birthday bash Friday, February 4, through Saturday, February 5. Kelly Corcoran, Love Garden’s owner,…
UPDATE: Kansas City, Kansas, police say 25-year-old Damien L. Parish was the victim of Thursday’s homicide. He is the fifth homicide victim in KCK in 2011. Original Story: The cold weather wasn’t enough to stop the killing in the metro area. A man in his 20s was fatally shot Thursday afternoon near Kimball Avenue and Hutchings Street. Categories: News Tags:…
The Chiefs won’t make it to the Super Bowl until at last 2012, but that doesn’t mean your football-watching career is over. If you feel the urge to compete, the Brooksider (6330 Brooksider Plaza) is holding its second annual Bellybuster Challenge on Super Bowl Sunday. You’ve got 17 minutes to down a burger with six 1/4-pound patties with cheese, a…
Young upstart Kansas City rapper Matt B and the 33 Degree have remade Kid Cudi’s ode to pre-pre-pretty green bud. While not that far from the original (after all, this is a remake, not a remix), the pair’s new version puts a little fire on Cudi’s icy, slow tempo’d — dare I say narcotic? — song. Categories: Music
As if we didn’t have enough to worry about. In Missouri, February is the designated month in which state agencies want us to be preparing for a seismic event that, depending on whom you ask, is inevitable or impossible: a damaging earthquake along the New Madrid fault. The last “big one” happened in 1812. In a recent study, scientists monitored…
The San Francisco Business Journal reports that Gilt City San Francisco — picture a weekly Groupon for high-end goods — is offering a $499 wine dinner at Benu. And that had me wondering, just how much would you be willing to pay for dinner? Categories: Dining, Food & Drink
