‘Tis the season of sweet and spicy ice. Fresher Than Fresh Snow Cones is back in the garden at 17th and Summit with owner Lindsay Laricks and company slinging ice from 12 to 7 p.m. on Sundays. Blueberry Sage and Blood Orange were the daredevil specials earlier this month. The teardrop trailer will also be at First Fridays, and you…
Glen Elston admitted to detectives that he met Sorie Mansaray Sunday afternoon for a drug deal. But he denied knowing anything about Mansary’s slaying. Witnesses told police a different story, including one witness who said she watched Elston shoot the 29-year-old Mansary, who attempted to return fire. Kansas City police found Mansary shot to death outside an apartment complex at…
Great barbecue comes with great responsibility — the responsibility to not take ribs off another man’s grill. The seventh annual Great American Barbecue Festival, on Friday and Saturday at the Overland Park International Trade Center (6800 W. 115th St.), will test the limits of your powers. More than 180 competition barbecue teams are expected to bring their best to the…
Runza (6751 Johnson Drive) is now open in Mission. The burger and bierock chain based out of Lincoln, Nebraska, opened earlier this week in the former Captain D’s Seafood Kitchen space. The staff is in each morning — they answered the phone when I called this morning at 7 a.m. — to bake the bread for bierocks and the homemade…
The Airborne Toxic Event’s pulsing, chilly music — with the moody sweep and swirling keyboards of ’80s dark-wave revivalists such as the Killers and Interpol — moves with majestic aplomb. (Frontman Mikel Jollett even cites the Smiths in “Strange Girl,” off last month’s second album, All At Once.) Categories: Music Tags: The Airborne Toxic Event
Jason Croucher used to share child pornography on a peer-to-peer file-sharing network called DicksR4Kids1 under the name “Brads_cocky” until the FBI agents in San Diego tracked him down. Croucher’s days of sharing child porn are over. He’s headed to federal prison for the next 17.5 years. The 27-year-old, who once wrote the liberal Kansas Jackass political blog, pleaded guilty in…
UPDATE: Kansas City police have identified the victim of Thursday morning’s homicide as 25-year-old Mohamed Hussein. Original Story (May 19): May continues to be a deadly month in Kansas City, Missouri. A man was shot to death early this morning at Independence and Brooklyn avenues, taking KCMO’s homicide death toll to 32 for 2011. Police described the victim as a…
It’s been more than four months since Fat City’s Jonathan Bender reported that the owners of the local pierogi-manufacturing operation, Frank Gazella and Andrew Misak, were preparing to open a cafe in a space in the City Market. The proposed restaurant would serve the Polish dumplings, beverages and desserts. Since then, Gazella and Misak have become so busy making pierogi…
English broadcaster Louis Theroux has made two documentaries on the Westboro Baptist Church for the BBC. The first, in 2007, was titled The Most Hated Family in America, a sort of introduction to Fred Phelps and his picket-happy congregation. His follow-up, America’s Most Hated Family in Crisis, premiered in April and focuses on the multiple defections from the church. I…
%{}% The Royals are better than the Yankees. I’ll give you a moment to process that thought. The Atlantic’s Hampton Stevens (who lives here in Kansas City, Missouri) makes the case for why your Kansas City Royals are better than the New York Yankees, and buried within the stats on cost of wins, shortstop ability and the age of the…
It’s been reported that Tom Thornton, who resigned as president and chief executive of the Kansas Bioscience Authority in April, earned a $265,000 salary and a $100,000 bonus in 2010. Lavish compensation was on the list of complaints that Republican lawmakers lodged against the agency. It turns out that Thornton had the potential to earn even more money. Kansas Watchdog,…
A Kansas anti-abortion organization is claiming that pro-choice advocates are being a bunch of sore losers in the wake of Gov. Sam Brownback’s signing of a bill placing restrictions on abortion providers. Wichita-based Operation Rescue reports on its website that vandals defaced a banner on the group’s headquarters. The billboard advertises services and free pregnancy tests provided by A Better…
Love, or as Celine Dion might sing it, “lurve,” was in the air on Top Chef Masters last night. As if to prove that nobody scores after taking a date to a fast-food joint, host Curtis Stone dumped Danyelle Freeman for fellow Top Chef franchise host Gail Simmons, and critic James Oseland was reunited with former tablemate Gael Greene. In…
Bowling for Soup has been together 17 years. In that span, the band has seen its star rise, yet never quite to the heights of some of its contemporaries. While never reaching the heights seen by the likes of Sugar Ray, the band also has never crashed like many of the other innumerable pop-punk acts of the late ’90s —…
Kansas Jayhawks basketball coach Bill Self told 610 Sports’ Nick Wright that he’s not interested in coaching in the NBA right now. “I think I’ve got a better job than two-thirds of the NBA jobs right where I’m at, at Kansas. I don’t see myself being a pro guy,” Self told Wright. “I don’t want to say never, but right…
I’m happy my car has a cassette player, guys. Bobby Sauder and Rolf Petermann started a cassette label in January called whateverforever. In the next few weeks, the label will release its fifth (W4E-005 Bo & the Locomotive – On My Way) and sixth (W4E-006 Karma Vision – Pizza Power) tapes. To celebrate the launch, the label is throwing a…
