Peter Kinder and Tammy Chapman in friendlier times. Missouri Lt. Gov. Peter Kinder is denying allegations of a former Penthouse Pet and stripper — and blaming Gov. Jay Nixon for the sort-of scandal. Kinder (or his press secretary) writes: “Like most people I am not proud of every place I have been but this woman’s bizarre story is not true….
Police are looking for Claude Hudson’s killer. Update (August 12): The victim of Thursday morning’s homicide outside of the Executive Lounge has been identified as 22-year-old Claude Hudson of KCK. Published (August 11): A man was shot to death outside of the Executive Lounge nightclub at 50th and State early this morning. Kansas City, Kansas, police say they found a…
Charles Ferruzza Grab with two hands. Take bite. Welcome to Heaven. We’re still in tomato season, but we’ve entered the stage at which the end of the season is (sadly) closer than the beginning. Thus, it’s imperative that you up your tomato consumption in order to try and become inured to the fruit; that way, maybe you won’t miss the…
Welcome to What I Like, our weekly chat with local musicians about their favorite things. This week: Brian Johnson of KC/DC Categories: Music Tags: 90 Minutes, Federation of Horsepower, KC/DC, Perpetual Change, Poison Overdose, Rattle and Hum, the Shanks, the Zeros
Flickr: yurilong It’s been too long, chicken wings. It’s not pretty to watch fans go through football withdrawal. Beer loses its taste. Chicken wings have no spice. And pretty soon, they’re trying to run a play with the family dog in the backyard. Well that all ends at 7 p.m. Friday, August 12, when the Kansas City Chiefs take the…
Texas A&M could soon have a new home. Texas A&M is leaving the Big 12 for the SEC … if you believe the Aggie Yell Rivals fan site. The news came last night, just a day after Texas governor, presidential candidate and former Aggie yell leader Rick Perry stirred the conference realignment pot by saying “conversations are being had.” Even…
Howard Iceberg “As a once-in-a-lifetime special accommodation to those of you who like my songs but hate my singing (you know who you are), this Friday at the Writers Place I will be reading the lyrics to some of my songs as if they were poetry,” says Howard Iceberg in an invitation to join him at 3607 Pennsylvania at 8…
The MU-KU rivalry will get the ESPN treatment in February. ESPN announced today that College GameDay will come to Columbia to cover the hoopla surrounding the February 4 Mizzou-KU basketball game. The game, which will be the schools’ 266th meeting on the hardwood, will mark the first time the show has covered the basketball side of the schools’ ancient rivalry….
Australian bluesman Claude Hay is a one-man band. Using an impressive array of looping pedals, as well as a double-necked combination bass and guitar, he creates funky roots numbers that appeal as much to the jam band kids in patchwork pants and peasant shirts as it does the middle-aged white dudes in jeans and polo shirts you see at blues…
Flickr Sean Patrick Taylor allegedly blew nonprofits’ cash on slot machines. This week’s news is full of losers. Earlier, we had the story of a Wichita mom accused of egging on her 12-year-old son to chuck a brick at a kid’s forehead. Now U.S. Attorney Beth Phillips has announced an 82-count indictment against Sean Patrick Taylor, who allegedly ripped off…
944.com Park Place just got a bit more cachet. It’s going to get a little harder to figure out where you want to eat at Park Place this fall. Celebrity Chef Aaron Sanchez’s Mestizo is scheduled to open in October with 801 Chophouse and Gordon Biersch Brewery Restaurant following later this year, according to a release sent out by Park…
Mama Ray and her blues band. In this week’s Pitch: A look back at last week’s Pitch Music Showcase, and a look ahead to this week’s Pitch Music Awards. But we are not completely obsessed with ourselves! See, look, we wrote about blues lady Mama Ray’s 25th anniversary jam at B.B.’s. Plus the Forecast. Educate yourself through the written word…
It’s OK to ignore your mother’s brick-hurling orders. Another Mother of the Year candidate has emerged! A Wichita mommy and her 12-year-old son were both arrested on Monday when a neighborhood fight broke out between kids. Mom’s boy allegedly started scuffling with an 11-year-old. Apparently not wanting to see her kid suffer the humiliation of losing to a younger foe,…
Ryan Maybee With Manifesto, Ryan Maybee declared to Kansas City that the cocktail culture would be changing. And now with the Rieger Hotel Grill & Exchange, he’s bringing the same conviction to the space upstairs with partner and chef Howard Hanna. Yesterday, Maybee talked about his start behind the bar, and tomorrow he shares the details on the upcoming Greater…
Rick Perry stirs the conference realignment talk. In what may be the first instance of anyone taking what an Aggie yell leader says seriously, Dallas Morning News reporters pounced on Texas Gov. Rick Perry’s comments about “conversations being had” about Texas A&M bouncing to the SEC. In the latest installment of “as the Big 12 turns,” Perry caused a stir…
Brett Ramey, modern-day freedom rider Freedom Riders, a traveling exhibition about the civil rights movement in the early 1960s, is nearing the end of its run at the Dole Institute of Politics at the University of Kansas. The courageous confrontation of segregation in the Deep South continues to inspire. Young people are conducting a bus tour in homage of the…
Baron Wolman, besides possessing a name that would make any European count jealous, is the famed original chief photographer for Rolling Stone magazine. His shots adorned the covers of 21 issues in the magazine’s heyday. There’s currently a touring exhibition of his work for the magazine, and it’s making a stop at the Lawrence Arts Center from August 26 through…
Call it the Sandra Lee school of cooking, wherein canned or packaged ingredients merge with fresh additions to become something better than their likely destiny from the moment they were vacuum-sealed. We are not all doctors; we just play them in the kitchen. Our cars have gotten too complicated, and our cell phones can no longer be opened for repairs,…
Kansas City’s zombie apocalypse is about to resume. The bloodthirsty undead horde has returned for the second season of Dead Wait. Show runner Justin Parlette unveiled the trailer on Facebook and YouTube yesterday, but new episodes won’t return until fall. The show will pick up with paranoid shut-in Adam (Dan Hillaker) leaving his apartment with his nail-covered baseball bat and…
Forester Michael American Catastrophe Another month, another Sonic Spectrum tribute show at RecordBar. July’s AC/DC show went swimmingly, and on Sunday, August 28, brace yourself for an evening of gravelly voices singing Tom Waits songs. Who’s on the bill? Some fine and fitting acts. Categories: Music Tags: sonic spectrum
