Whatever Leonard Pope does in his football career, he’ll never do anything as awesome as what he did Saturday night. According to the Americus Times-Recorder, the Kansas City Chiefs tight end saved 6-year-old Bryson Moore from drowning. Bryson’s mother, Anne Moore, saw her son struggling in the pool and sinking to the bottom. She started screaming. Then, out of nowhere,…
topped by the Union Saturday night to see what a moombahton party looks like in Kansas City. The place was tipping over, especially outside on the patio. Lotta people getting down to what seems to essentially be a slowed-down fusion of house music and dub music. Some pics after the jump. Categories: Music Tags: moombahton
The Kansas City Star’s new publisher is Mi-Ai Parrish. McClatchy Co. made the announcement around 11 a.m. today, and the Star filed this story. Parrish is coming to KC from the Idaho Statesman, where she has been publisher since July 2006, and she is replacing Mark Zieman. Parrish has an impressive-sounding resume of newspaper experience, including the Minneapolis Star Tribune,…
A friend of mine has this theory that Americans so passionately love anything battered and deep-fried, it almost doesn’t matter what’s underneath the crispy crust — rattlesnake, dried algae, dog turd — as long as it’s served as a crunchy, golden brown creation, preferably covered with a cream gravy or a sugary sweet-and-sour sauce. That concept has certainly crossed my…
You have to love arbitrary magazine lists that pit American cities against one another. In this year alone, people who don’t live here have ranked Kansas City the 36th drunkest city, the 21st most dangerous city, and home of the nation’s second-best barbecue. Men’s Health even gave us props for an imaginary light rail project. Honors all. And now Travel…
A federal judge refused to seal a lawsuit filed by a Missouri woman against The Dirty and blogger Nik Richie. (And if you don’t know what The Dirty is, it’ll make you never want to date again. Just read the Kansas City section of submissions from readers ripping apart guys and girls in the area for various indiscretions.) The woman,…
The past couple of days, Fat City has been talking to chef Marshall Roth, of Dog Nuvo, who understandably has hot dogs on the brain. But while his creativity can’t be denied — seriously, beef bourguignon and melted brie? — I don’t think we’ve settled on a standard dress for hot dogs in this city. If I say a Chicago-style…
Dog Nuvo (1724 Main) is about to get moving. Chef Marshall Roth told Fat City that the gourmet hot-dog spot has purchased and is renovating a snap truck to join the exploding food-truck scene in Kansas City. “I just want to drive around in my Gucci sunglasses all summer,” Roth says. On Friday, Roth explained how he got started in…
The West 18th Street Fashion Show packed the streets Saturday night, bringing “A Summer in Spain” to the Crossroads. Pitch photographer Angela C. Bond shot the steamy affair that included lots and lots of hair fashioned into horns. Click the photo to relive the night. Categories: A&E, News Tags: A Summer in Spain, west 18th street fashion show
If you missed this weekend’s Street League Skateboarding showdown at the Sprint Center, DC Shoes has your back. This nearly five-minute video recaps the competition. Keep an eye out for hometown hero Sean Malto, who finished fourth in this tour stop (Nyjah Huston ended up winning the $150,000 top prize). Check out the video. It’s pretty sweet. H/t: Heycameraman. Categories:…
Perkins, the pie chain where time stands still, will finally be going through some changes. Perkins & Marie Callender’s Inc., the parent company that runs restaurants by the same name, has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. As part of a financial restructuring plan, the chain will close 58 restaurants, including the Perkins’ location at 7262 State Avenue in Kansas City,…
On June 2, Harry Cleberg, a former chief executive at Farmland Industries, obtained a permit to cut a doorway between two condominium units. Cleberg and his wife, Clara, live on the third floor of Santa Fe Place, a seven-story building at Crown Center. The timing is noteworthy. The Clebergs purchased their units in the fall of 2005. Why would nearly…
Are you hotly anticipating the as-yet-untitled project from DJ Spinstyles, drummer Billy Johnson, guitarist Mike McGrath and rapper Vertigone? How about lukewarmly? Coolly? Well, this track ought to crank up the anticipation by a few degrees. It’s called “Either Way,” a shout-out to the Nina Simone sample that Spinstyles tweaked for the beat. Categories: Music
What I’m driving at here is that I know a thing or two about fashion. And though my requests to participate in an advisory role in this year’s West 18th Street Fashion Show were denied, it appears that the event went off without a hitch. Click here to check out a slideshow of the evening shot by Angela C. Bond….
There may not be a commemorative plaque in the Denver International Airport. But at a table on the second floor of Concourse C in January 2010, two men sat down to write the next chapter in Kansas City’s beer history. They were supposed to have four hours to hash out a collaboration between Deschutes Brewery, the country’s fifth-largest craft brewer…
Dan Eaton is a gentle, curly haired 25-year-old who speaks so softly that I found myself inching my tape recorder more toward his side of the table throughout the course of our interview. At one point, I grew so concerned about the tape not picking up his voice that I considered asking him to hold the device up to his…
Who knew that the way to your children’s hearts was seeing a man swab a lot of penguin shit. That’s what Mr. Pooper’s — I mean, Mr. Popper’s — Penguins would have you believe. The movie has Jim Carrey as the title character, a divorced, ambitious real-estate developer whose life gets sidetracked when he inherits a sextet of adorably incontinent…
Portland, Oregon’s Carolyn Berk has released five albums of weighty, confrontational songs under the name Lovers. Over the past couple of years, though, she has drastically altered her means of expression. What once were stripped-down, woman-with-a-guitar arrangements have evolved into songs performed by a three-piece synth-pop girl group. But the depth of a mature singer-songwriter unmistakably remains. What a drag…
R. Kelly does whatever the hell he wants, to such a compulsive extent that you wonder if he has ever even considered what anyone else thinks about him. In 2007, with a child-pornography case swinging against him, he released “Sex Planet,” a song that included the couplet Girl, I promise this will be painless/We’ll take a trip to the planet…
Take a few minutes and root around your childhood bedroom closet. Find the box you dumped all your old CDs in when you moved out. Pull out Bone Thugs-n-Harmony’s E. 1999 Eternal for a listen. Once the nostalgia fades, you’ll find that most of the songs hold up. Turns out, there’s something surprisingly timeless about the Cleveland gangsta rappers’ smoky…
A decade before ESPN’s Jock Rock and Jock Jams compilations, there was Huey Lewis & the News. The group’s two biggest records were hilariously called Fore! and Sports, and San Francisco 49ers Joe Montana and Ronnie Lott sang backing vocals on the hit “Hip to Be Square.” So what if it’s your dad’s favorite band? Huey Lewis and the News…
The Granfalloon has been on the Country Club Plaza — though not in the same location — for 34 years, longer than almost all of the other dining spots on the Plaza, except for Plaza III and Fred P. Ott’s (and Winstead’s, not within the shopping district’s original borders). In the 1970s and ’80s, the Granfalloon didn’t have much of…
