Bernard Jackson’s sentencing is coming soon. If you’ve been wondering just how many years in prison convicted Waldo rapist Bernard Jackson will be spending, you’ll have to wait until September 30. Jackson’s sentencing is scheduled for 9 a.m. Last month, a Jackson County jury convicted the 53-year-old on seven counts of rape, seven counts of sodomy and four counts of…
Our buddy Greg over at Riot on the Plaza clued us in on this rerelease of the Leopards’ 1977 album, Kansas City Slickers, back in June. However, the record just now came out, and man — it’s nice. Categories: Music Tags: reissues, Sing Sing Records, the Leopards
Michael Tittone told police that he shot his mother-in-law after she punched him. Michael Tittone told detectives that he got into an argument with his mother-in-law, Pamela Graves, before he fired a bullet that would kill her. Court records say Tittone told detectives that he took out his gun, and Graves punched him. So he shot her. Graves’ body was…
St. Joseph’s Radkey is the best area band you’ve never heard of. I saw the band, made up of brothers Dee, Sai and Sol, open for Fishbone back in March, and they fairly much blew my damned mind. I wasn’t sure what to expect from three young kids in denim, and when I asked them what kind of music they…
Lonzo Lamar was shot to death in Independence. It’s been a deadly few days in the metro. A double shooting in Independence Monday night left a 28-year-old Kansas City, Kansas, man dead. Lonzo Lamar and another person were found in the 700 block of North Dover Drive around 11:55 p.m. with gunshot wounds. Lamar died. The second shooting victim is…
Wyandotte County Unified Government Mayor/CEO Joe Reardon smiles like a man whose Netflix is never going to stall. Monday’s Wall Street Journal story touting Kansas City as one of the nation’s new tech hubs has already earned a grumpy counterpoint from The Kansas City Star. The reality check was fair, but if you want to hold on a little longer…
You probably wouldn’t know it unless you were a bar regular or an especially nosy individual, but Davey’s Uptown Ramblers Club has a poolroom. Just past the end of the bar, to the left, is a door that’s always shut, and inside is a rectangular-shaped room with a pool table and some old chairs, stools and tables. It’s like an…
On August 4, a Thursday, the Liquor Control Board of Review held a hearing that lasted nine hours. The parade of witnesses tested the stamina of the court reporter. Late in the afternoon, she used lulls in the testimony to stretch and to shake the tension out of her arms and hands. The daylong hearing was dedicated to the liquor…
Steely Dan Last year, Kansas City welcomed one half of Steely Dan, when Donald Fagen stopped in with Boz Scaggs and Michael McDonald as part of the Monsters of Yacht Tour, as it was called (by me). Thursday, we get the real deal: Fagen, his partner in crime Walter Becker, and probably about eight of the most technically accomplished touring…
Now Now Sleepyhead’s … For Science is a record that’d make MythBusters host Adam Savage proud: It’s geeky, it has popular appeal, and it seems to enjoy blowing stuff up in the name of skepticism. Featuring former Flee the Seen drummer Aaron Crawford alongside Phil Park and Brian McCourt of Lawrence act Davan, this three-piece band crafts emo-pop songs but…
After a squeal of feedback, a thrumming bass line kicks in, and the debut LP from KC punks Dark Ages is off and running. The band’s sound and aesthetic hearken back to the heyday of SST, and the cover art calls to mind New Day Rising by Hüsker Dü — a band that, like Dark Ages, manages to avoid punk-rock…
Named for the house where the album was recorded and where Karma Vision hosts monthly local-music showcases, Pizza Power finds the Lawrence psychedelic-folk outfit integrating the looseness of its first two EPs and achieving a sort of laid-back control. Frontman Bobby Sauder is no longer with his other band, Mammoth Life, and the album reflects that — the wonky synthesizers,…
A ghost haunts 1809 West 39th Street. Not a menacing poltergeist but rather the generous spirit of a Great Depression-era farm wife. Anna prepared home-style dishes for her family and anyone else who dropped by the old property. That’s the story I’ve managed to piece together in four visits to the new Anna’s Oven restaurant on 39th Street. There’s a…
Two decades later, Heathers remains the gold standard for caustic high school satire. But an irritating whiff of condescension permeates its sappy epilogue, in which Winona Ryder’s triumphant Veronica oh-so-magnanimously befriends universal object of ridicule Martha “Dumptruck,” whose sole defining trait is that she’s enormously fat. I remember thinking at the time that a truly subversive movie – one that…
foleymo “What’s wrong with you?” my late Sicilian-American father once screamed at me — I was 5 years old, by the way — in front of all the customers in a busy Italian restaurant. “Everyone loves spumoni. It’s un-American not to like spumoni.” So blacklist me! I have never liked spumoni. I never will. They say children will eat almost…
Anna’s Oven on 39th Street has inexpensive comfort food. Now, they just have to turn a profit. Photos by Brooke Vandever.
Another black eye for Municipal Court Chris Hernandez at KSHB Channel 41 is reporting that Kansas City, Missouri, Municipal Court Judge Elena Franco has been suspended pending a determination of her residency. Apparently she was escorted from the Municipal Court building on Monday. Hernandez is reporting that Franco “is said to live in a home in Platte County,” presumably one…
%{}% Angela C. Bond The last time that Fat City checked in with chef Michael Peterson, five months ago, he had just finished a consulting gig with Hickok’s Bar & Grill in the River Market and was talking with investors about opening his own restaurant in the same historic neighborhood. Chef Michael Peterson “But in doing due diligence for my…
Hey, it’s a streetcar! If you’re interested in checking out a “modern streetcar,” head over to Union Station before 5 p.m. The Kansas City Regional Transit Alliance is throwing a “modern streetcar party,” and I’m pretty sure I just witnessed two children running away from Kansas City Chiefs mascot KC Wolf (he probably just wanted to tell them about abstinence)….
Under the name DJG Design, Danny Gibson has created artwork and posters for countless local bands over the past decade. A bunch of those musicians recently returned the favor by contributing to DJG Was Here, a 35-song compilation featuring work from Elevator Division, Thom Hoskins, Max Justus, the ACBs, Sam Billen, and many more. Categories: Music
The Missouri State Troopers in this video have quite a bit of patience as a crazed woman chases them around, cussing and begging them to Taser her. This goes on for more than six minutes. At one point, the woman chases a trooper around with a Bible. Where’d she get the Bible? I have no idea. The woman’s husband was…
