The most depressing story you’ll read today is about 3-year-old Landon Michael Carlson’s death. Carlson died Wednesday after being struck by a hit-and-run driver on Tuesday afternoon. Carlson had crossed Pittman Road in front of his home to check a mailbox when he was hit around 5 p.m., the Star reported. Carlson suffered major head injuries and died Wednesday afternoon….
It’s high time for boozin’ in downtown Kansas City. The music blog of our sister paper in St. Louis, The Riverfront Times, is called A to Z, and the fine folks over on the other side of Missouri have come up with a killer list of their favorite songs to drunkenly sing. After all, is there anything more fun than…
%{}% Kansas City’s last tie to the NBA’s Sacramento Kings — once known as the Kansas City Kings — could soon be a very distant memory. An attorney for the team’s owners filed trademark registrations for the names “Anaheim Royals,” “Anaheim Royals of Southern California,” “Orange County Royals” and “Los Angeles Royals.” Sacramento’s inability to get a public-financed arena built…
UPDATE, March 17, 2011, 11:17 a.m.: Tickets are now on sale for the Rod Stewart and Stevie Nicks date at the Sprint Center. They range from $49.50 to $126, and you can get them here. Tickets for Bob Seger go on sale Saturday at 10 a.m. Damn, son. The Sprint Center is going old-school in this emerging concert season: We…
Chef Todd Schulte is constantly thinking about new sandwiches to feature on the menu at Happy Gillis Cafe & Hangout and the Genessee Royale Bistro — the two restaurants he owns and manages with his wife, Tracy Zinn. Fat City had a chance to discover more about his favorite foods — the things he eats to pass the time between…
The strangest story of the last couple of days was that someone released 32 horses from a Kansas City, Kansas, stable and stabbed a couple of them in the neck. Who stabs a horse? The Star reported that the stabbed horses are expected to be all right. But this is a big money deal. The horses released at the Due West…
If you find yourself stuck at your desk working today and unable to partake in the St. Patrick’s Day shenanigans, you can still watch the Kansas City St. Patrick’s Day Parade online (although I doubt that it’s nearly as fun and boozy, and your boss might get pissed). Fox 4 will stream the parade on its website starting at 11…
Michael Beard, the chef at 715 in Lawrence, gives Fat City readers a taste of what it’s like to butcher a 250-pound pig, in the video above shot by Allie Mason. The pig is from Norton Farm in North Kansas City. The restaurant also gets its pigs from Good Family Farm in Olsburg, Kansas. Check out Charles Ferruzza’s review and…
%{}% If you find yourself stuck at your desk working today and unable to partake in the St. Patrick’s Day shenanigans, you can still watch the Kansas City St. Patrick’s Day Parade online (although I doubt that it’s nearly as fun and boozy, and your boss might get pissed). Fox 4 will stream the parade on its website starting at…
Because it’s St. Patrick’s Day and all, we’re going to co-opt a video that we found on the Facebook page of local rockers Bleach Bloodz, where they sing the blues with a guy in Denver who claims that he’s a black leprechaun. (We have a sneaking suspicion that he might have just had a few too many, though.) Either way,…
%{}% If at first a burger joint doesn’t succeed, then it’s up to another to try again. Joyce Smith of The Kansas City Star is reporting that Smashburger will be taking over the space of the former B:2 A Burger Boutique (860-W N.W. Blue Pkwy.), the scaled-down less-expensive option from the Circle Restaurant Group. The sister restaurant to Blanc Burgers…
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, Little Miss Sunshine sweetheart DeVotchKa graces the stage,…
The unsolved disappearance of three women in Springfield, Missouri, in 1992 is bizarre enough for the international press to take note. The Daily Mail in London described the details of the case after a “programme” about the mystery aired on the Investigation Discovery channel. Suzie Streeter, 19, and Stacy McCall, 18, vanished after leaving a high-school graduation party on June…
Lawrence’s beloved Pink Box Bakeshop will have one last day — St. Patrick’s Day — of bringing locals caloric bliss before closing for good. Michele Kaminski, owner of the 19-month-young Pink Box Bakeshop at 727 Massachusetts, personally discovered that doing what you love for a living makes that very thing lose its luster. Categories: Dining, Food & Drink
Sugar Mama’s (7943 Santa Fe) in Overland Park will close this Sunday, March 19. The bake shop (which specializes in cupcakes) is run by Jasmin Talbert, who took over the business earlier this year from her sister, Monique, the shop’s founder. Talbert explained on the shop’s Facebook page that she is trading in her baker’s hat for a Bunsen burner:…
Durrell Jones, charged with the October 2006 murder of Lawrence rapper Anthony Vital, known as Clacc, will stand trial a second time, a Douglas County judge has decided. The Lawrence Journal-World has the story. The saga surrounding Vital’s murder began when his body was discovered full of bullet holes in rural Lawrence. A June 2007 Pitch feature told the story…
James Phillip Edwards admitted to authorities that he laced ice cream and soda with sleeping pills. The children recalled having ice-cream-eating contests at Edwards’ home, but none knew that they had been drugged. And what came next is far beyond disturbing. The feds found multiple videos of Edwards molesting the children, ranging in age from 6 to 13, in his basement…
