Archives: February 2011
The Aquarian diet? Tart and light airy desserts, like meringues
Drive an Aquarian wild with lemon meringue pie. The sign of Aquarius covers the period from January 21 to February 19. If you’re going to invite an Aquarian out to dinner, says local astrologer (and waitress) Brenda G. Smith, think Mexican: “They love avocados, melons, spicy foods with chili and cayenne. They enjoy a good tart Margarita, too.” Because…
Blizzard-bound? Make an edible igloo and other sensational Super Bowl snacks
Go wild with cream cheese, black olives and Bac-os! If the weather has you officially homebound today, why not let your culinary creativity soar? With the countdown to Super Bowl Sunday ticking away, it’s a great time to plan a buffet of visually stimulating snack creations that trump the traditional (like Jonathan Bender’s chili-cheese dip) or the too exotic (Spicy White…
Two school-bus wrecks in one day? Yep, that’s what we call Monday
The screen cap on the right shows just how bad the roads were yesterday. Yesterday when it was sleeting — not pounding us with snow. That’s a Lee’s Summit school bus, which slid off the road in what had to have resembled one of those Simpsons’ episodes featuring Otto tearing around in the bus and the children screaming for their…
Crazy T, rising Japanese hip-hop star, uses his Midwestern roots to remix cultures
The story of Travis Tewes is an improbable one. For the last couple of years, the University of Kansas graduate has been making the ultimate hip-hop move: mixing and remixing cultures. Tewes, who raps under the name Crazy T, parlays his love of rhyming and his love of Japanese culture, creating a fusion of international styles, rapping in both Japanese…
Tony DiPardo memorial service at the Hyatt today
Trumpeter and Chiefs super-fan Tony DiPardo, passed away last week. From 1963 to 1983, he led the Zing Band with his mighty horn, first at Municipal Stadium and then at the newly constructed Arrowhead, picking up an honorary Super Bowl ring from their 1970 championship win and scoring legions of fans as he began the legacy of the loudest stadium…
The jalapeno cheddarwurst from Fritz’s Smoked Meats brings the heat
The parking lot at Fritz’s Smoked Meats (10326 State Line Road, Leawood) is rich with the smells and sounds of tailgaiting — the sharp sting of smoke, the light crackle of sizzling fat. The black smoker sits chugging on the concrete only feet from the front door. While your instinct is to simply grab a sausage off the grill, you’ll…
Lactose-based products hoarded in advance of blizzard
Fearful of the blizzard’s potential to cripple their cereal preparation, area residents plundered supermarket dairy cases. The Hy-Vee in Raytown reported a reduced stock at 7:45 a.m. on Tuesday. Kansas City firefighters were shopping for groceries at the supermarket along with residents who waited until the storm’s arrival to obtain adequate supplies of animal flesh and bananas. The National Weather…
Video: Steve Aoki and Infected Mushroom buzz the Midland at Last Frost
FROST Festival brought hipster patron saint Steve Aoki and Israeli psychedelic electronic duo Infected Mushroom to the Midland this past weekend, along with a slew of other DJ acts. Glowsticks were waved, bodies were smashed, and a roomful of people danced to a night of bass-buzzing dance music. Click here for a slideshow of the show in all its neon…
Five suggestions for Barkley’s new campaign for Krispy Kreme
The Kansas City Business Journal reports that Krispy Kreme Doughnuts Inc. has tabbed Kansas City-based Barkley as its agency of record. And because Barkley will be responsible for designing a new campaign for the doughnut retailer. Fat City thought it would help the brainstorming process along by putting together a few ideas to help spark a brainstorming session. Here are…
Jerry Johnston’s First Family Church facing foreclosure
The Rev. Jerry Johnston’s First Family Church is facing foreclosure. The Kansas City Star reported today that Regions Bank wants the Overland Park megachurch to pay more than $14 million in mortgage and other costs or the bank will foreclose on the property, sell it and use the proceeds to pay off the church’s debt. The church issued a statement…
Kansas City men are guinea pigs for Dr Pepper 10
Men do drink diet soda. At least, that’s the hope of the Dr Pepper Snapple Group Inc., which is test-marketing a new low-calorie soft drink aimed at men ages 25 to 34. Dr Pepper 10, a 10-calorie version of the soda, is being tested in Kansas City, Denver, Colorado Springs, Des Moines, Austin and San Antonio. And if the men…
SnowaMania III has begun, and it’s only going to get worse
Stay home, if you can. That message keeps coming out of my TV. The biggest story of the day — the only story of the day — is the weather. It’s SnowaMania III, brother. Or the Snowpocalypse? Snowmageddon? Snowgasm? SnOMG? The Blizzard of Oz? (Someone should be paying royalties to Ozzy Osbourne whose 1980 album was titled the same.) The…
We have the password for Love Garden’s killer 21st birthday sale
Lawrence’s favorite record store, Love Garden Sounds, is turning 21. (But you already knew that!) Now, the vinyl geek haven is launching a gigantic sale in honor of its coming of age — if you know the secret catchphrase to utter while handing your purchases over to the cashier. Through Sunday, February 6, if you say, “Here’s looking at you,…
Redeemer Fellowship Church to force out Westport businesses
In the last couple of years, it’s been sad to see so many holes in the once vibrant storefronts of Westport. But new landlord the Redeemer Fellowship Church has a plan to “spruce up” the neighborhood by forcing out businesses that have survived. The church inherited its space at Westport and Baltimore two years ago, along with property being used…
Newsweek crowns Kris Kobach ‘America’s Deporter In Chief’
Locally, everybody knows Kris Kobach. He’s the granite-jawed savior of states struggling with large illegal-immigration populations that the federal government is too sheepish or ham-fisted to properly handle. Or he’s the evil, scheming, nativist brown-people hater fixated on getting damnable aliens out of America’s backyard. Whatever you think of him, you know who he is. Nationally, however, Kobach isn’t quite…
John Travolta helped Kansas City’s Airline History Museum take off – but a con man almost took it down
Paul Sloan sits on a courtroom bench on a November morning, waiting for a clerk to call his name. The 63-year-old’s considerable girth stretches the fabric of an olive-green sweater. Sloan is here, at the Cass County Justice Center, on charges that he stole $51,000 from the Airline History Museum, an homage to flight that occupies a hangar at Kansas…
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