The Economic Development Corporation of Kansas City, Missouri, is like a chamber of commerce with the power of the purse. The agency receives funding from the city to administer tax-increment financing (TIF) and other incentive programs that make developers squeal with delight. Competent, conscientious people work at the EDC. But every once in a while, the staff can be conniving….
Cancer/Cancer Rising* (Jun 21-July 21): Crisis in action demands you challenge those imprinted shoulds. “Imprinted Shoulds” represent your unconscious (and often neurotic) sense of duty and obligation. Instead of letting others determine your self-worth, look to how you help change the atmosphere of your community through simply being you. No, this is not the Oprah-esque gospel of self-help and exaltation….
Sporting Kansas City got lucky this afternoon when they won the Major League Soccer lottery for the rights to American striker Soony Saad. Who the hell is Soony Saad? He’s the guy in the video above, single-handedly beating the University of Kentucky with three awesome goals for the University of Michigan. Career facts and an unbelievable video after the jump….
The Moroccan cuisine is rocking at the Marrakech Cafe in Westport. Photos by Brooke Vandever.
Your craving for a burger could make a wish come true for a child. And, no, I’m not talking about your food baby. Smashburger is donating 25 percent of its proceeds on Tuesdays in July (5-26) to the Make-A-Wish Foundation, which grants wishes to children with life-threatening medical conditions. Categories: Dining, Food & Drink
We were bound to hear a story like this: A Kansas City man had his right hand blown off by a homemade firework that was the equivalent of a quarter-stick of dynamite, NBC Action News reported. Yeah, this sucks. But it’s even worse when you hear the details. Around 3:30 a.m. Sunday, three guys were hanging out at a Northland…
Remember when University of Kansas basketball and football players were rumbling with each on and off campus in 2009? The healing must be under way. In the second installment of DP and AJ Take on KU, football players Daymond Patterson and AJ Steward challenged basketball players Thomas Robinson and Travis Releford to a game of H-O-R-S-E. The video is 13…
The news appears to be getting a little worse for Sen. Claire McCaskill’s re-election hopes. According to Washington Post political blogger Chris Cillizza, anyway. Last week, The Post handicapped the Senate seats most likely to change parties, and McCaskill has risen from No. 5 to No. 3. Cillizza’s blurb for McCaskill’s troubles might be even more worrisome for the senator….
A man typically gives up his barbecue-sauce recipe for only one of two reasons — either he’s on his deathbed or he’s about to be handed a check with an amount of money that typically is seen only on novelty checks. So, when YouTube user mystroamster2 purports to be making Gates BBQ sauce , it’s worth a look. Categories: Dining,…
Lawrence sounded like a war zone last night. Nobody seemed to care that it was a Monday. It was more like a Saturday at the Replay — the beer garden patio and bar inside were both crowded and pulsing with music. Categories: Music Tags: Fourth of July, JabberJosh
Kansas City cops believe they’ve tracked down the driver who fled a DUI checkpoint at 76th Street and Troost last month after running over a civilian member of the Kansas City Police Department and driving off with the person on the hood. Tyrone Campbell Jr., 26, is charged with second-degree assault and leaving the scene of a motor-vehicle accident for…
The British are coming. The British are coming. Or, at least, the British-centric concept pub and grill, Mad Dogs British Pub, is coming. The franchise group, which opened its first location in San Antonio in 1995, is seeking to open three new pubs in Kansas by 2015 — one each in Wichita, Overland Park and Shawnee Mission. So get ready…
Tuesday morning video-o-rama on the Plog continues. Rush Limbaugh gave a speech yesterday in Joplin, where the long, long recovery from the May 22 EF5 tornado continues. Nothing really jumps out about the speech, other than the southeastern Missouri native did keep it (mostly) nonpolitical. Good move. H/t: Reboot Congress. Categories: News, Politics Tags: Joplin tornado, Rush Limbaugh
Is the light in this video a UFO? YouTube user FrompleFeet captured it (and a hat tip to TKC for positing it) and wondered if it was a Chinese lantern or fireworks or, yes, a UFO. Sounds like it’s probably just a satellite, given that spotting opportunities existed in the last four days over Lee’s Summit. Oh well. In June,…
