Slavic immigrants settled Sugar Creek nearly 100 years ago. So now you can stuff yourself with sarma (cabbage rolls), kielbasa and povitica, all while listening to Grammy-nominated Alex Meixner shred the accordion. The Sugar Creek Slavic Festival is Friday, June 10 (5 to 11:30 p.m.), and Saturday, June 11 (3 to 11:30 p.m.). Admission costs $3; children under 12 get…
This is one tough pussy. Lavern the cat survived 16 days under the rubble of its family’s Joplin home after the EF5 tornado wiped the house out on May 22. The Joplin Globe reported that Terrla Cruse returned to the home Tuesday to get paperwork for the family’s Federal Emergency Management Agency application when she and her sister heard meowing….
%{}% The Hawaiian shirts are coming. The Kansas City Star reports that Trader Joe’s will open both its area locations on July 15. The specialty grocer has had fans in Kansas City clamoring for it to open since it was announced in early 2009 that the chain was interested in the city. Trader Joe’s will be located at Ward Parkway…
In 2003, Scott H. Biram was involved in a head-on collision with an 18-wheeler that left his truck looking like a wadded-up gum wrapper. A month later, he was back onstage in a wheelchair, an IV dangling from his arm, delivering his inimitable brand of blues- and country-inflected punk. The guy is unstoppable. He’s at Davey’s on Saturday night, and…
They survived the tornado but not the fungus it left behind. Health officials in Joplin attribute three or four deaths to zygomycosis, a rapidly spreading and often fatal fungal infection. “It’s difficult to say if it killed them, but it definitely was a contributing factor,” Dr. Uwe Schmidt tells the Springfield News-Leader. Schmidt, an infectious disease specialist, says he has…
You can tell a lot by where a man chooses to rest his fork and knife. Kansas City’s own Tom Watson was recently interviewed by Golf Digest for its My Town series, wherein a pro golfer offers a succinct travel guide to their city. And in between recommending the Negro Leagues Baseball Hall of Fame and the Nelson-Atkins Museum of…
Independence Avenue needs a new Vietnamese restaurant: Pho 97 at 2605 Independence Avenue still hasn’t reopened since last month’s fire destroyed the adjoining Vista Theatre building, and Viet Hoa at 3616 Independence Avenue has been shuttered for a long time. Beginning this week, there is a new Vietnamese bistro on the historic avenue, the first local franchise of the San…
It’s opening day for LiveStrong Sporting Park, Sporting Kansas City’s shiny new home. And with that comes fanfare. Major League Soccer commissioner Don Garber is in town to witness the ninth soccer-specific stadium opening under his watch. While making the rounds with the local media (he estimates that he’s already done 15 interviews in a couple of days), he answered…
Hey, ladies (and gentlemen)! Just in time for your post-lunch-break, man-watching needs, here’s Electric Six performing “Gay Bar.” Categories: Music Tags: electric six
Baffling story in the Star today: The man charged with investigating sex-abuse complaints against priests in the Kansas City-St. Joseph Diocese was previously accused of sexual improprieties. According to the Star, Brian Heydon, a licensed professional counselor, accused the Rev. Robert Murphy of sexually harassing him in 1984. Heydon accused Murphy, who is now the diocese’s vicar general, of exposing…
So you’re saying there’s a chance that twin Kansas Jayhawks Marcus and Markieff Morris could end up getting drafted by the same NBA team? One NBA insider says so. The latest mock draft of espn.com’s Chad Ford mapped out one scenario in which the Charlotte Bobcats would take Marcus Morris with the No. 9 pick and Markieff Morris with the…
The last time we heard from Brandon Flowers, the Kansas City Chiefs defensive back had taken to Twitter in search of a woman he’d spotted at City Hall who was “thick as a snicker.” We’re not sure if he ever found someone to satisfy him. Maybe not, given this tweet: Ladies stop telln ur ex’s they’ll never find n e…
A Fat City reader wrote to ask: “I read, in the Kansas City Star, that Muddy’s at 318 E. 51st Street was going to be purchased by a couple of employees. But I’ve looked in the window, and everything in the space is gone. The place is completely empty. If employees were buying the business, wouldn’t there be at least…
Can we get any more depraved today? The answer is sadly, yes. A 97-year-old woman was beaten and robbed in her midtown home at 39th Street and Mercier on Thursday morning. KCTV5 reported that the attack occurred just before 8 a.m., and it took four robbers to drag the woman out of bed. A next-door neighbor found the woman “bruised…
Fiesta Azteca brings the party to Lee’s Summit. Photos by Angela C. Bond.
The mystery of who set Phoenix, the black lab, on fire appears to be over. Fox 4 reported that a 14-year-old girl is accused of lighting the dog on fire in the backyard of her family’s home. Welcome to the day of seriously effed-up stories. Phoenix’s owner, Maria Alarcon-Suarez, is facing animal-cruelty charges for waiting a full day before taking…
These days, it seems like grilled-cheese sandwiches are about everything but the cheese. The bread is artisan, and meat is as likely to be the focus as the cheese. Back in my day, I remember when butter in the pan for browning the bread seemed like a fancy option. Is this the moment that we take back grilled-cheese sandwiches and…
There’s an air of mystery about Cave. The Chicago band keeps a low profile — there’s not a ton of info out there about its members other than that a few of them used to be in Warhammer 48K, the now-defunct Chicago-via-Columbia, Missouri, sludge-rock act. The rest you can infer from its music. And what I infer is that these…
Gemini/Gemini Rising* (May 21-Jun 20): Your aspirations to have more trinkets collide against your rising need to have more, shall I say, soulful experiences? You’ve heard the ol’ saw about a camel through a needle and the rich man getting into the kingdom of God? Your soul, that is, your witness to your thoughts, actions and feelings desires more attention….
The first $1 million appraisal made on PBS’ Antiques Roadshow happened in Raleigh, North Carolina, in 2009, when a woman brought in a collection of jade that her father procured from China in the 1930s and ’40s. It was the show’s highest assessment in its 16-year history. The wares at this weekend’s Crown Center Antique Festival will most likely be…
