Archives: August 2011
Opening Soon: Cafe Ginseng & More
Excuse me, there’s a piece of ginseng on my plate … There’s a new restaurant opening soon on 39th Street: Cafe Ginseng & More will officially open for business in the storefront space previously occupied by Mama’s on 39th Street and the short-lived Thai Garden restaurants. I stopped in last night, and the restaurant’s owner, Mia Jamison — she actually…
Tropicana’s banana popsicles will cool you off
A guava and banana popsicle makes a proper double dip. Banana-flavored goods are all too often tales of disappointment. The banana is too prominent or hyper-present, like a dessert form of Laffy Taffy. But the banana paletas (popsicles) at the West Side’s Paleteria Tropicana (830 Southwest Boulevard) strike the right balance at a very wallet-friendly price of $1.79. Categories: Dining,…
Lou Engle believes he can pray the gay away and also convert Muslims to Christianity
Lou Engle believes prayer will fix everything that he thinks is wrong with America. Creepy Kansas City preacher Lou Engle has something in common with Marcus Bachmann: He believes you can pray the gay away. Engle recently spoke about one such conversion at Awakening 2011 in Chicago (of course, there’s video after the jump). Engle also believes that prayer will…
Pop-Up dining is coming to Kansas City with Alex Pope’s Vagabond
Chef Alex Pope will be back in the kitchen at the end of the month. The hardest part of opening a new restaurant is the very real possibility that you may close in your first year. So, what about a new restaurant that closes after five days? Vagabond, what is very likely Kansas City’s first pop-up restaurant, will be up…
Randy Lande blames ‘sexomnia’ in the rape of an 8-year-old Independence girl
Randy Lande claims that he didn’t abuse a girl. He says it was sleep sex. Registered sex offender Randy Lande is claiming that he didn’t knowingly rape an 8-year-old Independence girl. Lande’s son shared jailhouse letters from his father with Fox 4. In the letters, Lande blames “sexomnia” for the sexual assault. Lande’s son, Corey, told the TV station that…
KC doesn’t care about celebrity chefs … yet
Mario Batali isn’t making us book a ticket to Las Vegas. The beauty of Las Vegas is the effort that goes into creating a realistic version of a fake universe. Like Jurassic Park, no expense is spared, albeit in an effort to bring the rubes with the cameras around their necks. And it would seem, to the good people of…
Would you ever buy a stranger a coffee?
Haley Joel Osment has grown up, but the idea of paying it forward remains timeless — at least in the eyes of Starbucks card holders. Jonathan Stark made news last week with a social-media experiment, Jonathan’s Card — a screen grab of his own digital card that people could either contribute money to or use to get a free coffee…
Bubba Starling choo, choo, chooses the Kansas City Royals
Bubba Starling won’t be needing those shoulder pads anymore. Bubba Starling is staying home. The Kansas City Royals reached an 11th-hour deal with the former Gardner Edgerton star. Starling, the Royals’ first-round draft pick and the fifth overall selection, could have gone to college at the University of Nebraska on a football scholarship. But he signed a multimillion-dollar deal with…
Edward Ewing dead in double shooting on Kansas City’s south side; 68 homicides in KCMO
The 68th homicide victim of 2011 was killed Tuesday morning. A double shooting on Kansas City’s south side left a 25-year-old man dead. Officers found Edward Ewing and a woman suffering from gunshot wounds in the 7000 block of East 85th Terrace around 1 a.m. Ewing died at the scene. The woman was rushed to a local hospital with serious…
Lo-Fi Feeling, a free EP from the Tambourine Club
I’ve been really digging a few songs on “Lo-Fi Feeling,” a new EP from local act the Tambourine Club, which as far as I can tell is just a guy named Bryan recording in his basement somewhere in the suburbs. Melodic pop songs with a hint of gloom — good stuff. He’s giving away the EP online today, and you…
Motorcycle gangs face off in Pulaski County
How do you know you’re a hardcore badass? When you get shot while your motorcycle gang is brawling with a rival outfit in the middle of a highway and you refuse medical treatment. Yeah. That’s how. And, authorities say, this actually happened a couple of nights ago on Interstate 44 in Pulaski County.The Springfield News-Leader reports that more than 20…
Midtown swank at the 2011 Pitch Music Awards, last night at the Uptown
Angela C. Bond The usual crowd — country punks, earnest rappers, midtown scenesters and hangers-on — descended upon the Uptown Theater Sunday night for The Pitch Music Awards. Nominated acts, friends of nominated acts, and high net-worth individuals such as myself gathered in the adjacent Conspiracy Room prior to the ceremony for a glorious two-hour open bar. People stood around…
Texas A&M is still in the Big 12 … for now
The Aggies still appear SEC-bound. The SEC didn’t offer Texas A&M an invitation to join on Sunday. However, the invitation is only delayed. According to Texas’ Rivals site Orangebloods.com, the Aggies will be announced as the newest members of the SEC in about three weeks’ time. “Texas A&M wants the SEC, and the SEC wants Texas A&M,” the source told…
Hungry for squirrel and dumplings? We have a recipe for you!
Try the Missouri crab cakes — they’re made with trout. Nothing beats the smell of squirrel being fried in the skillet,” writes Bernadette Dryden in her new cookbook, Cooking Wild in Missouri.”It fills up the kitchen with a wonderful aroma.” Now I wouldn’t mind tasting a little squirrel fricassee (particularly a few of the pesky scamps eating the tomatoes in…
Westport Flea Market turns 30 with burger and beer specials
Get a burger and beer for less than five bucks at the Flea this week. If Joe Zwillenberg — the proprietor of the Westport Flea Market — wanted to really take his dining customers back in time, he could roll back prices to the late ’50s and the 1960s, when the tenant of the whitewashed building at 817 Westport Road…
Farm Aid 2011, Saturday at Livestrong Sporting Park
Angela C. Bond I arrived at Farm Aid on Saturday around 2 p.m., and despite being relatively early, I had to walk an Odyssean half-mile from my parking spot to the stadium entrance. I weaved through tailgaters already drinking beer and rocking out to Neil Young and Dave Matthews. It was my first time at Livestrong Sporting Park, and the…
Woman accused of driving her preteen daughters to Wichita so a sex offender could abuse them is charged with rape and human trafficking
This woman passed out in court, as seen on KAKE. The Kansas City, Kansas, woman accused of driving her preteen daughters to Wichita so a convicted sex offender could abuse them is now charged with 10 counts of rape and human trafficking, according to KAKE. The 34-year-old woman’s name isn’t being used in order to protect her children. The woman’s…
Ryan Maybee, Part Three: The Greater Kansas City Bartending Competition 2011
Ryan Maybee thinks about the 13 finalists for the fifth annual Greater Kansas City Bartending Competition and he slowly shakes his head. He just can’t pick a favorite. Instead, he marvels that this year’s field includes three contestants from St. Louis and one from Nashville. “It just keeps growing and growing. There’s a new lineup of bartenders with a bunch…
Ira Glass goes to Worlds of Fun for the games, not the rides
Ira Glass spent some time with the Michael Scott of Kansas City. This American Life host Ira Glass spent some time at Worlds of Fun recently talking to Cole Lindbergh, an 11-year employee of the amusement park. Lindbergh is described as being like The Office’s strange-but-kindhearted boss, Michael Scott. It’s hard to argue after seeing YouTube videos Lindbergh has made…
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