Reality programming is begging to resemble a Taco Bell menu. There are only so many ingredients, but inventive marketing guys keep finding ways to package them together in seemingly new ways. The latest reality smash-up might just star one of this city’s own. The Kansas City Star’s Aaron Barnhart reports that Stretch (Jeff Rumaner) is the headliner in a new…
New York, you can have your (alleged) scammer cabbie back. Wasim Cheema, who the New York Post calls “the poster boy for New York’s massive cab-rate overcharging scam,” was arrested in Kansas City last week. The 23-year-old had spent a year on the run after being busted in “the biggest taxi-cheating ring in history.” Authorities here shipped Cheema’s (allegedly) meter-cheating…
If you passed the Midland this past Saturday evening, you probably glimpsed a bit more taffeta and fishnet than you’re used to spying in the Power and Light District. It was 96.5 the Buzz’s Afentra’s Prom, where decked-out Kansas Citians flocked to watch the Dan Band (of Old School and The Hangover), She Wants Revenge and the Beautiful Bodies. Categories:…
You likely don’t need an excuse to drink, but just in case you’ve got to give a reason for heading out to the bar, it’s American Craft Beer Week today through Sunday. The 75th Street Brewery is having a public tasting of its homebrew competition tonight at 6 p.m. to kick off a week’s worth of festivities. Wednesday night, it’s…
Charles Ferruzza managed to find Bistro La Scala inside the Clarion Plaza Hotel. Check out his review and then feast on food photos from Chris Mullins by clicking on the photo above. Categories: Dining, Food & Drink
If you haven’t read our music and calendar editors’ reviews of Rockfest, you should. There are boobs, a panty tree and inappropriate T-shits. What more could you ask for? Categories: Music Tags: Kitfest, spring into summer
%{}% Raping a 92-year-old Leawood woman will send Simon Angilda to prison for more than 92 years. Judge Stephen Tatum handed down the sentence on Friday to the 22-year-old. According to the Star, Angilda apologized to the woman and her family prior to his sentencing, saying “Even though I was under the influence of drugs and alcohol, I still chose…
After last year’s filthy, muddy and miserable rock festival at Liberty Memorial, I vowed the next Monday at work that I was done with 98.9 the Rock’s Rockfest. “Fuck that mess. I couldn’t even walk around. Everyone was ankle-deep in mud,” I explained to my co-workers. They smiled and nodded, knowing that I would return in 2011 because, for punishment…
It’s commonly thought that 90 percent of new restaurants fail in the first year. In reality, that number is closer to 26 percent. Still, that means great restaurants will disappear all too quickly, while some spots that are simply average limp into a second year. While we can’t do anything about the donkeys, we might finally have a chance to…
If you thought the Transportation Security Administration’s pat-down of a baby at Kansas City International Airport was extreme, then you haven’t seen Conan O’Brien’s baby-screening process. Conan spoofed the incident on his talk show last week. Mothers, make sure your babies are thoroughly screened. Categories: News Tags: baby pat-down, conan o’brien, Team Coco, transportation security administration
Last November, Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon went to Macon to recognize an expansion of Ardent Outdoors, a manufacturer of fishing equipment. The addition of eight jobs was enough to draw Nixon to the mid-Missouri town. Ira Glass joked with Nixon about his Macon appearance during the monologue of the most recent edition of This American Life, a public-radio show. The…
UPDATE: Kansas City police say the victim of Sunday afternoon’s homicide is 29-year-old Sorie Mansaray. Police are still looking for his killer and say no suspects are in custody. Original Story: Kansas City’s homicide total has climbed to 31. In less than a week, four names have been added to the death toll. The latest came Sunday afternoon when a…
Before this fated Saturday, I was innocent of the sweat, blood, booze and rock that descends on Liberty Memorial each May. That time is no more. Here is a brief smattering of facts I’ll use to describe the looming, epic one-day fest that is 98.9 The Rock’s Rockfest. Five of the best T-shirts that I saw at Rockfest: – Have you…
Poor Larry Seward. The KSHB Channel 41 reporter gets featured on Chelsea Handler’s E! show Chelsea Lately, but I’m sure this wasn’t the coverage he wanted. The camera pans from a police sketch of the Waldo rapist to Seward’s face. So, uh, congrats on the national exposure, Larry. And look for Handler at Starlight Theatre on June 19. Categories: News…
Daniel Kilgore was an unemployed scout leader with the Boy Scouts of America before Wednesday. Now, the 51-year-old is accused of being a child molester. Kilgore was charged with three counts of first-degree child molestation for allegedly sexually molesting three female family members — between the ages of 5 and 12 years old — multiple times at a relative’s home…
Eria Doss asked a Kansas City police detective, who was questioning him about the murders of Andrew Eli and Justin Budreau: “How long am I gonna be down here?” Now the answer is life times two. Doss, 19, was sentenced to two consecutive life sentences for the April 2009 execution-style slayings of Eli and Budreau in an apartment near 59th…
This is not pleasant. A Slater, Missouri, man has sparked a controversy after taping himself sparring with a puppy. The Kansas City Star’s pet section has the story of Daisy, an 8-week-old beagle pup, getting slapped around on a couch. The video shows the owner repeatedly slapping and jabbing at the dog and mocking her. Daisy yelps and snarls and…
Justin Dougan is going to prison for at least the next 25½ years for mistakenly killing the wrong guy. Dougan, 20, was sentenced Thursday to two concurrent life sentences and won’t be eligible for parole for 25½ years for shooting and killing 17-year-old Spencer Crosthwait during a drive-by shooting in Parkville. Categories: News Tags: homicide, Justin Dougan, Spencer Crosthwait, Stephen…
