Thousands of comic-book and movie lovers came out to the Overland Park International Trade Center on Saturday and Sunday to meet The Bionic Woman (actress Lindsay Wagner) and to see if they could find the missing comics for their collection. Yes, there was a Boba Fett, alongside actor Jeremy Bulloch, who played the character in Star Wars. And, yes, we…
If Olean gave us anal leakage, then bacon is now giving us menu leakage. The ubiquitous food is being celebrated by Denny’s, as part of a 10-week promotion, “Baconalia,” which launched last week. The pork homage is encapsulated in seven dishes, including a BBBLT (eight strips of bacon), bacon meatloaf and the ultimate bacon breakfast (six strips to two eggs)….
This is just so depressing (if it’s true). Parents and students from Lincoln Prep High School say parents and students from Grain Valley used racial taunts during a girls’ soccer game, according to KSHB Channel 41. The classy parents allegedly hurled the slurs at Latino, black, Asian and white team members (yes, even the white girls got it). Via KSHB:…
If the name of this four-day-old restaurant sounds familiar, it should. The little dining room tucked into a storefront on the ground floor of the parking garage at 11th Street and Oak is the newest location of restaurateur Mekedem Belete’s Addis Ababa Cafe — the sequel to his former venue at 1809 West 39th Street. Belete closed the 39th Street…
Purdue basketball coach Matt Painter is scheduled to meet with University of Missouri officials soon to talk about the Tigers’ vacant coaching job, according to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. The St. Louis paper cited a source saying that there was “better than a 50 percent chance that Painter would accept an offer,” and this whole situation would likely be wrapped…
Rock radio station 103.7 the Dam is celebrating its damn birthday tonight at the Beaumont Club, and it has enlisted the heavy metal supergroup the Damned Things to help celebrate, an obvious choice given the name. The Damned Things, which features members from Anthrax, Every Time I Die and Fall Out Boy, will be joined by Hourcast, Hammerlord and the…
A lawsuit alleging that Mosaic Lounge in the Power & Light District enforced a discriminatory dress code has been settled. The Kansas City Star reported that the lawsuit was dismissed after a confidential money settlement (and no finding of wrongdoing) was reached between the plaintiffs and the nightclub. Attorney Arthur Benson filed the lawsuit in January 2010 on behalf of…
Chad Ochocinco’s Kansas City adventures last week included a ride on the 47 Metro bus. For real. And the Metro didn’t get a great report from Ochocinco, who apparently waited about 40 minutes to get a lift. At 2:59 p.m. Friday, Ochocinco posted: I need a damn rent-a-car,it’s cold as hell at this bus stop on Broadway waiting on this…
The ACB’s with GhostyPress at Crosstown StationFriday, March 25, 2011 Better than: Whatever was happening down the street at the Sprint Center. Andrew Connor’s newly reconstructed incarnation of longtime local band Ghosty took to the Press stage at Crosstown Station Friday night as the opener for one of Connor’s other projects, the ACB’s. Though Press still seems to be struggling…
Comic book fans and storm troopers came out by the thousands on Saturday, March 26, and Sunday, March 27, for Planet Comicon in Overland Park.
Aqib Talib, the former Kansas Jayhawk who plays cornerback for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, has been hit with the dreaded “person of interest” label. Police in Garland, Texas, want to talk to Talib about a March 21 incident involving his sister, his sister’s boyfriend, his mother and two guns. The Dallas Observer reports that Talib allegedly attempted to pistol-whip his…
Red Lobster’s popular seafood promotion, “Lobsterfest,” continues at the four area Red Lobster restaurants through April 25. And some of the featured dishes raise this question: What in the hell is langostino, anyway? If you ask a Maine fisherman, you’ll get one answer (it isn’t really lobster), and if you ask the folks at the Orlando-based Red Lobster chain, they’ll…
Landlord Del Hedgepath’s much-maligned address at Admiral and McGee, formerly a club called NRG, reopened as Xpressions at the beginning of the year after the city forced Hedgepath to sell off his liquor license due to frequent and often violent disturbances at the club. The joint lasted three incident-free hours before a shooting on New Year’s Day put new owners…
Candy on the counter? Fair game. Leftover birthday cake? Gone before the companywide e-mail goes out. But that 1-liter soda in the fridge? I was counting on that to get to 5 p.m., man. There are no stats about office fridge theft because it is one of the great unreported crimes of our time. People are too scared to come…
Apparently, Jackson County is taking this whole fake weed ban thing pretty seriously. Coffee Wonk owner Micah Riggs has been charged with three felonies, including possession of a controlled substance with intent to distribute, possession of drug paraphernalia, and possession of a chemical with intent to create a controlled substance. The charges come six months after the Wonk’s products were…
Travie McCoy lit up the stage at The Granada in Lawrence, Kansas, on Sunday, March 27. We’ve got photos of the show from our photography intern, Allie Mason. Click on McCoy, above, to see more. Categories: Music Tags: Travie McCoy
No matter how much powder or how many suspicious packages you send to the IRS, you’re still going to have to pay your taxes by April 18 (hey, at least we got three extra days to file ’em). Please, stop sending your “leaking” (ew) packages to the IRS. IRS workers found an envelope leaking a substance Monday morning at the…
Here’s the latest place you’ll find local hip-hop mover and shaker Reach: on the sophomore album of Paris and Montreal producer Dela. The album is called Changes of Atmosphere, and it has guests on every track (including Talib Kweli, Les Nubians, Large Professor, Elzhi), but Reach, who appears on most of Dela’s projects, opens the record with “Go On,” an…
Vans Warped Tour will keep its annual date with Sandstone this year, on July 6, for the 2011 installment of the nationwide tour. Main-stage artists include 3OH!3, A Day to Remember, Travie McCoy, the Devil Wears Prada and Asking Alexandria. As of Saturday, you can also snap up your Warped Tour tickets already at a lower price: Pre-sale package prices…
The Kansas Jayhawks once again busted President Obama’s bracket, losing in the Elite Eight yesterday to 11th-seeded VCU (thank Deadspin for the “keepsake poster” above). For Kansas, next year’s roster is likely to look a lot different from this one. Besides losing three seniors — Brady Morningstar, Tyrel Reed and Mario Little — the VCU game was likely the last…
Consistency is the goal of all restaurants. The hope is that you’ll have as good an experience when the restaurant opens as when the next generation takes over the place. The reality is that service can be spotty, even at great restaurants. When I was a waiter in high school, I had a ceiling of five tables. But once the…
It was a sad day here at Fat City when the above tweet from sports columnist Jason Whitlock came across the transom. Whitlock forgoing basketball in the name of vegan food is like discovering that professional wrestling was fake. Is “Big Sexy” now the “Big Veggie”? There are few things in this world that make sense, but Whitlock eating barbecue…
