KC is now at 86 homicides for 2011. Two men were killed in a double homicide at 26th and Prospect Wednesday evening. The victims have been identified as 18-year-old Clarence Williams and 27-year-old Candielario Benton. Officers found three men shot when they arrived on the scene around 5:23 p.m. The third shooting victim is in critical condition. Police described the…
Libra/Libra Rising* (Sep 23-Oct 22): You have an untutored ability to build consensus. You don’t simply see another’s perspective; you can see all perspectives. Sure, it makes decision making more challenging. However, with Joyous Venus moving through your sign until October 8, your abilities have been enhanced. Do not think for a moment that just because some connections have fallen…
Bubba Starling is just like any 19-year-old, except he has a $7.5 million contract. How about a little tarnish for the Kansas City Royals’ golden-boy prospect? Bubba Starling, 19, was one of three Royals’ prospects cited for underage drinking at an Arizona checkpoint, the Star reported. Royals’ assistant GM J.J. Picollo sounded like a disappointed daddy in his comments to…
If you can’t volunteer to plant tulips on Troost, you can donate some. Durwin Rice, the founder of the Tulips on Troost project, has more than 200 volunteers ready to plant tulip bulbs on a long stretch of Troost Avenue on October 15. This midtown beautification project, which began six years ago, traditionally plants between 25,000 and 75,000 tulip bulbs…
Convicted sex offender Michael Cole Sr. is now a city official in Levasy. Convicted child molester Michael Cole Sr. ran an unsuccessful campaign for mayor of Levasy, Missouri. Eleven folks there voted for Cole, but it wasn’t enough to beat Phyllis Dieckmann, who received 38 votes. Cole’s aspirations of political office didn’t die there. In fact, Fox 4 reports that…
Last night 17,779 hockey fans (a few thousand may have been wearing invisibility cloaks) filled the Sprint Center for a meaningless exhibition NHL game between the Pittsburgh Penguins and Los Angeles Kings, and they were treated to a thriller. The Penguins tied the game 1-1 early in the third, then took a 2-1 lead, only to watch the Kings level…
Last we heard from Lawrence’s poppy garage punks Rooftop Viglantes was when they played a show at the Replay in December of last year, after which they appeared to go on hiatus. Drummer Seth Wiese joined Dry Bonnet, guitarist Zach Campbell and some folks started up Mouthbreathers, and the fate of the Vigilantes’ second full-length, Real Pony Glue, looked in…
Brendan Hangauer Say My Name A fine music section this week, and I know this for a fact because I wrote all the words. Wait, wait, where are you going? Hold on, hold on, hear me out, hear me out. Spent some time with Lawrence soundscapist Steve Swyers, aka Say My Name, who has a new record out. Also chatted…
Evan Doherty has sick skateboarding skills. Just try not to get dizzy watching the 8-year-old nail SEVEN 540s on his vert ramp in this YouTube video posted yesterday. It’s amazing. Earlier this month, video of Doherty hitting a 720 topped 1 million YouTube views. Doherty, who is known as “Big E,” may be the youngest person to ever do the…
Venus Van Horn is leading the food-truck charge. Kansas City may some day look back on a round of buyouts at Sprint in 2005 as one of the key moments in the culinary development of the city. Venus Van Horn, a 20-year veteran of the telecommunications industry, came into work every day and sat in a cubicle just three rows…
Five Finger Death Punch Some things just go together. Intoxicated people and fist fights. Standing-room only concerts and tall individuals. Kansas City and Freaker’s Ball. 98.9 the Rock’s annual rock extravaganza is nigh. Five Finger Death Punch, Anthrax, Hatebreed and Rev Theory are slated to play the October 21 show at Independence Events Center (tickets $35, free parking). The ramp…
Facebook: Badseed Dan Heryer, Brooke Salvaggio and son Percy have had a busy season. Farmer Brooke Salvaggio, who runs the Urbavore farm with her husband, Dan Heryer, has her finger on the pulse of the urban-agriculture scene in Kansas City. Together they also run the downtown BadSeed Farmers Market (Friday nights from 4 to 9 p.m. at 1909 McGee, through…
What’s it going to be, Mizzou? Stay or go? Questions remain about the University of Missouri’s commitment to the Big 12, and the sooner those are answered, the better. However, SEC commissioner Mike Slive may have provided some answers on Tuesday. Slive, in a conference call with reporters, said his league is not considering any other school for admission and…
Facebook: Parisi Artisan Coffee It’s hard to turn down a free cup of coffee. Need a little perk-me-up? Then head over to Parisi Cafe tomorrow between 7 and 10 a.m. for a free cup of coffee to celebrate National Coffee Day. The new cafe is setting up a pop-up drive-thru in the circular drive in front of Union Station, so…
Fresh off a tour with Fucked Up, Wavves is making a last-minute stop at the Jackpot in Lawrence next Wednesday, October 5. The band’s surf-laden, hooky garage punk is damned near addictive, and you’d do well to check it out in such intimate confines. Advance tickets go on sale Friday. The band recently released the EP Life Sux, a follow-up…
Governor math: tax cuts = prosperity. When Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback thinks of a typical Kansan, he imagines somebody like Tiger Woods. Woods, a California kid, moved to Florida when he turned professional. Why would he leave one warm-weather state for another? Florida has no state income tax. Brownback seems to think regular people act like money-worshipping superstar athletes. The…
Olathe police are investigating after a man was killed Wednesday morning. UPDATE (September 29): Olathe police say the victim was 53-year-old Ronald Venable. The 43-year-old man questioned by authorities in the case has been released. If you have info, call the TIPS Hotline at 816-474-8477.Original Story (September 28): Someone was killed in Mill Creek Park early this morning. KMBC is…
Jori Sackin is fresh from his virgin tour of the Strand. It’s September 20, a little less than two weeks before the October 1, one-night-only premiere of Space Thang, Sackin and Pat Vamos’ first film collaboration. The old porn house at 3544 Troost, he knows now, is just the right place for the project. “The whole thing was energizing,” Sackin…
Breaking Bad is the most awesome show on television — we can all agree on this, right? What it does for one hour a week puts many big-budget movies to shame. But what makes the series great is that it spent its initial seasons laying out the financial crises that families face once cancer enters their lives. By the time viewers…
Keith Mueller’s red-and-gold truck bounces down the blacktop, past ranch houses and Cape Cods. He’s bound for a 150-foot-by-25-foot plot of land at Kurlbaum Tomatoes in Kansas City, Kansas. After he parks in the shadow of a shed, it’s another 1,000 yards on foot down a steep slope before he can stand among the three throws of plants that he…
In March 2008, a mid-sized passenger jet, an Airbus A320, was approaching Kansas City International Airport for landing when an automated warning went off in the cockpit: collision alert. The instruments said another plane was 700 feet away and closing. The first officer looked for the other plane but couldn’t spot it. The Airbus pilot pulled up as the computer’s…
