The Missouri Department of Conservation sent out a press release last week announcing that frogging season officially starts on June 30. Whether hunting frogs — bullfrogs and green frogs only, please — for sport or for harvesting their tasty legs, there are rules that simply must be followed. For one thing, the Missouri Department of Conservation permits only the hunting…
The Orient in Lawrence is the rarest of combo restaurants — serving tasty Vietnamese cuisine and homemade fried chicken. Photos by Angela C. Bond.
7,200 Frames pays attention to the whole movie so you don’t have to. Just don’t go buy popcorn during the best part. Transformers: Dark of the Moon begins with actual footage of the first lunar landing, and for those five minutes, you can see the joy and astonishment of everyone who watched Neil Armstrong hop down that ladder onto the…
You know that bottle you’ve been saving for a special occasion? Crack it open because today we have some good news to share. Tir Na Blog reports that the Kansas City Irish Festival (September 2-4 at Crown Center) will have an Irish whiskey lounge for the first time. Fat City caught up with Irish Fest founder Dan Regan to talk…
Rep. Todd Akin (R-Wildwood) wants to be a senator. What’s the best way for a congressman to make that jump? Akin seems to think it’s by discrediting the religious values of all liberals. He told a radio show on Friday, “At the heart of liberalism, really, is a hatred for God and a belief that government should replace God.” What…
Star Base Projects / Maker Faire 2011 from texjer on Vimeo. Sweet video compilation of animated portraits taken at Maker Faire 2011 at Union Station by artists Tex Jernigan and Jared Wilson of Star Base Projects. See all of the portraits here, but you can see it all in action in the video above, including cameos by storm troopers and…
Even though tonight’s battle at RecordBar will involve art creation — not blood, guts and steel — it shouldn’t make it any less fascinating. Starting at 9:30 p.m. (doors open at 9 p.m.), Tyson Schroeder (the reigning Art Battle Champion) and Vaughn Schultz (the challenger) will attempt to make art demonstratively competitive. We spoke briefly with Schroeder about what’s planned….
Warning, fellas. If you pick up a woman on Independence Avenue, she’s likely packing a box cutter. Just yesterday, we heard the story of a guy who invited a woman he met at an Independence Avenue gas station to smoke crack with him in his motel room. The woman ended up biting off the tip of the guy’s tongue and…
The fellas in the Lawrence psych-folk act Karma Vision are goin’ out west this fall. Its last Lawrence show of the year was apparently this past Friday at the Love Garden, says member Bobby Sauder. Categories: Music Tags: Bobby Sauder, Karma Vision
Some jobs are like unicorn meat because it just doesn’t seem possible that they exist. But lo and behold, just like unicorn meat, the Internet brings word of the kind of occupation that would leave Indiana Jones jealous. Smithsonian magazine has the tale of Patrick McGovern, arguably the world’s foremost beer archaeologist, who tracks down and attempts to reverse-engineer ancient…
Ep. 218: June 24, 2011 – Overtime New York Times columnist David Carr said something really stupid on Real Time With Bill Maher Friday night. Maher was railing against New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie for refusing to answer a question about his views on evolution. (The meat of the conversation starts at about the four-minute mark in the video.) Maher…
A little bit of the Wild West is coming back to Olathe. The Dodge City Distillery, a restaurant serving spirits made on-site, is getting ready to open next month. The Kansas City Business Journal reports that the former On the Border space at 11935 South Blackbob Road is being transformed into the new restaurant that will serve steaks and late-night…
Can a seven-game unbeaten streak be called a hot streak if it includes four ties? Maybe a warm streak? Sure, why not? Sporting Kansas City beat the Vancouver Whitecaps 2-1 Saturday, extending their un-cold streak for another game, and getting them out of last place in the Eastern Conference. Funny story about the stretch: When I was writing a feature…
This fantastic remix of sounds, vocals and music from The Wizard of Oz comes via Pogo, who calls it Mellow Brick Road. The silhouette video animation was made by Reed Gauthier, and the opening title sequence was created by MumboJumbo. Spectacular. H/t: BuzzFeed. Categories: A&E, News Tags: Mellow Brick Road, Pogo, Reed Gauthier, The Wizard of Oz
Always candid and armed with words that are sharper than any knives you own, chef Anthony Bourdain is answering 10 questions over on a Reddit thread later this week. And you’ve got 36 hours — the deadline for submitting questions is midnight tomorrow — to figure out what you want to ask Bourdain. Categories: Dining, Food & Drink Tags: anthony…
Let’s say you were able to build a society from scratch. Chances are, you wouldn’t think to tether health insurance to employment. The United States is the only industrialized country to use such a system, which is more of an accident of history than a thoughtfully considered idea. The system, such as it is, isn’t working as well as it…
Photographer Brooke Vandever dropped by Crosstown Station Sunday evening for Raising the Titanics: An Evening With Howard Iceberg and Friends. Click through for photos. Categories: Music Tags: Howard Iceberg & the Titanics
When George W. Bush signed a farm bill in 2002, he said it would preserve the “farm way of life” for generations. The bill increased direct payments to farmers by $83 billion, redistributing wealth to agricultural communities and helping fund the farm way of life for people living at Crown Center and in Mission Hills. Newly tabulated information from the…
