You’ve probably seen them snuggling up around town, getting all cozy and nervously shying away when the paper plate touched the plastic cup. It’s not shocking when you hear that red soda and barbecue are together. Except now, they’ve decided to make it official. Big Red Soda offered sponsorship and the Kansas City Barbeque Society accepted. And with that, Big…
Rashod James allegedly led police on a chase in the cadillac of homicide victim Fannie Delia Young after being involved in a hit-and-run accident on October 24, 2010. The 19-year-old allegedly led police on a foot chase before he was arrested. Young’s car was impounded in a city tow lot. Her ATM card was found in the car’s center console….
Aaron Confessori, the owner and chef at Westport Cafe & Bar, doesn’t miss much about New York City until he gets a craving for a pastrami Reuben from a classic Jewish delicatessen. Today, he talks about where he likes to eat in Kansas City and why eggs are such an incredible food. Yesterday, Confessori talked about how Kona Grill brought…
%{}% Fellas, if you’re meeting up with the owner of this pickup truck for an intimate encounter, be forewarned: The driver might laugh at your manhood. I spotted this truck at 10th and Broadway. If you can’t read the message, I’ll clear that up for you after the jump. Categories: News
Kansas has bragging rights in an important rivalry; it got Free State in bottles first. But that rivalry can be put to bed this week as Free State Brewery’s bottle lineup is now available on the Missouri side. Gomer’s (9902 Holmes) can show you what you’ve been missing (assuming you refuse to drive across State Line) because the Lawrence brewery’s…
We’d hate for you to miss out on all the awesome that happens every weekend, so we’ve decided to run down four 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, Kid Rock brings his incarnation of rock-and-roll Jesus…
The latest development in the therapist-turned-psycho-stalker case of Rachelle Santiago is here. Santiago was indicted yesterday on charges of stalking, attempting to elude police, sexual battery, making a terroristic threat and unlawfully entering a federal military installation. Santiago allegedly fell in love with a married, unnamed soldier and could not take no for an answer. The alleged craziness ranges from…
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). Inspired by Kid Rock’s date at the Sprint Center this Friday, we’ve concocted a would-you-rather poll about the trashy musicians. Click through and choose which musician you’d rather spend the night with, having hot, sweaty sexual relations. After all, trashy can…
By the end of April, a 346-square-mile swath of southeastern Missouri will look like the state last did in the mid-19th century: with 800-pound elk clomping around the woods. Elk are a native species to the state, but European settlers depended so heavily on them for food and hides, by 1865 they were gone. “For consumptive reasons, they basically killed…
Oh, man. Megan Phelps-Roper never seems to get tired of pop songs, does she?The daughter of the Westboro Baptist Church’s Fred Phelps is at it again — but this time, she’s impersonating Eminem, not Gaga. And she’s got some kid on the church’s compound doing a really, really awful impression of the duo’s hit “Love the Way You Lie.” Categories:…
Could the mess that is Southwest and Northeast high schools be getting cleaned up? After fires started at the schools in the last few weeks, school officials believe that they know the four students who started ’em, the Star reported. That’s got to be a minor relief for parents of students at the schools. Expect expulsion hearings for the students,…
Lobbyist and conservative pundit Woody Cozad can’t serve two masters. Cozad is working as a spokesman for the campaign to eliminate the earnings tax in Kansas City, Missouri. The campaign kicked off on Thursday in anticipation of the April 5 vote. Cozad’s support of the repeal means that he won’t be working as a lobbyist on behalf of the Kansas City…
The restaurant business, like any business, can have issues with discrimination, sometimes in the unlikeliest venues. A friend of mine was standing in line at a tiny midtown Chinese restaurant recently, waiting to pay her bill, when she overheard a conversation between a customer and the restaurant’s owner that surprised her. “The customer was a male student from India, and…
Over the weekend, the Star reported on local engineering firm Black & Veatch’s recent contract to keep electricity pumping in southern Afghanistan. The company landed the $266 million job without having to bid for it, and despite poor government ratings on previous projects, it worked in the war zone. The Star didn’t wade into what role, if any, political contributions…
%{}% Using a crank phone to torture a 20-year-old woman was “extremely painful,” James Noel admitted in his guilty plea today. Noel noted that the woman hated being electrocuted with a crank phone, but he and other men used the device to torture her anyway. Noel, 45, pleaded guilty in federal court to his role in a sex-trafficking conspiracy in…
Looks like hacker collective Anonymous did knock down the Westboro Baptist Church’s websites. A hacker known as The Jester claimed credit for the denial of service attacks (The Jester did a similar denial of service attack on Wikileaks.) The letter went up on the Westboro site while a member of the Anonymous group and Shirley Phelps-Roper were being interviewed on…
As a parent, you never want to get a text like this one: “Hi. My name is Jack. I’ve know UR son 4 about 6 months. He is wanting to come live with me. He gave me UR phone number this morning so I could text u. He told me he was 17 and than he told me he was…
