Archives: August 2011

Pitch Music Showcase 2011

The Pitch Music Showcase 2011 was Thursday, August 4, as 30 bands rocked six venues downtown. Photos by Forester Michael.
News, Politics

Penthouse Pet: Peter Kinder creeped me out

David Martin,

Peter Kinder reconnected with a former nude model. A photograph of Missouri Lt. Gov. Peter Kinder enjoying the company of a former Penthouse Pet surfaced last week. In an interview with The Riverfront Times, the model-turned-bartender in the photo says Kinder hounded her when he was in the state senate, and she worked as an exotic dancer. Tammy Chapman, the…
News

Thomas Robinson apologizes for spitting on bouncer; battery charges dismissed

Justin Kendall,

Thomas Robinson is out of legal trouble. University of Kansas basketball player Thomas Robinson is sorry. The junior forward with NBA potential has apologized for spitting on a bouncer during an April altercation at the Cave nightclub in Lawrence. The Lawrence Journal-World reported that though the bouncer didn’t want to press charges, Robinson completed 20 hours of community service and…

News

Guy proposing at KCI unknowingly pops the question on live TV

Ben Palosaari,

When you work in journalism, sometimes a good story falls in your lap. KMBC’s Brenda Washington proved that a few days ago when a man accidentally proposed to his girlfriend in the background of Washington’s live shot at KCI. Washington was reporting on the rather bland subject of the cost of healthy eating and went to the airport to do…
Music

Jeremy Formby died at Kanrocksas

Justin Kendall,

The man who died at last weekend’s Kanrocksas music festival has been identified as 26-year-old Jeremy Formby of Olathe, Kansas. Police are waiting on the toxicology report. Foul play has been ruled out. The KCK Fire Department received an “unresponsive person” call around 9:30 a.m. Saturday. Formby wasn’t breathing when EMTs arrived. He was pronounced dead at the scene. Categories:…
News

Jeremy Formby died at Kanrocksas

Justin Kendall,

Jeremy Formby was from Olathe. The man who died at last weekend’s Kanrocksas music festival has been identified as 26-year-old Jeremy Formby of Olathe, Kansas. Police are waiting on the toxicology report. Foul play has been ruled out. The KCK Fire Department received an “unresponsive person” call around 9:30 a.m. Saturday. Formby wasn’t breathing when EMTs arrived. He was pronounced…
Dining, Food & Drink

Urban Table’s pork schnitzel is a good piece of pig

Jonathan Bender,

The pork tenderloin’s days may be numbered if Urban Table (8232 Mission) keeps knocking out sandwiches like its pork schnitzel. The Prairie Village restaurant, the latest from Bread & Butter Concepts (the team behind BRGR), opened on Monday, August 1, in Corinth Square. And four days later, I found myself with two hands around the pork schnitzel sandwich while sitting…
Dining, Food & Drink

Which KC restaurants are actually worth the wait?

Jonathan Bender,

Charlotte Disapproves Where will you wait? Sometimes it feels like everyone gets a hankering for the same dish at the same time. But when the wait is close to an hour, suddenly that clever thought you had for dinner on Friday night seems a lot less clever. Fat City reader and Tips for Improving Your Tips author David Hayden raised…
News

You can send free copies of Slaughterhouse-Five to Republic High students

Peter Rugg,

Wesley Scroggins just got 150 kids free copies of the Devil’s handbook Missouri once again made the worst kind of national headlines this July when the story broke that Republic High’s school board had banned Kurt Vonnegut’s WWII classic Slaughterhouse-Five and Sarah Ockler’s novel Twenty Boy Summer because a district parent complained that the material was “biblically contrary.” The added…
Dining, Food & Drink

Which water would you prefer? Sparkling, still or…tap?

Charles Ferruzza,

Flickr/Fillmore Photography My newest restaurant pet peeve? Asking for a glass of water — not an unlikely request lately — and having a server respond, “Would you like sparkling, still or …tap.” The final word is often uttered in the same tone one might use to describe a dead mouse. A withering disdain. This drives a friend of mine mad:…
Dining, Food & Drink

A brand-new life for 600 Ward Parkway

Charles Ferruzza,

The once-popular Baja 600 patio is getting a serious face-lift. Until the 1980s, there was a gas station at 600 Ward Parkway. It was torn down in the mid-’80s to build the domed structure that opened as the Parkway 600 restaurant in 1987. In the late 1990s, the building underwent renovations and reopened as the Pacific Rim-themed restaurant Japengo. In…