The Kansas Jayhawks fired football coach Turner Gill on Sunday, a day after KU fell to the Missouri Tigers in the final gridiron installment of the Border War. Gill was only in year two as coach of the Jayhawks, winning just two games this season and losing every conference game. “After a thorough evaluation of our football program, I have…
The Oh Sees want you to see them and their “oh.” Work off those leftover turkey sandwich pounds with a plethora of Best Bets. Check out the full calender here. Thursday: Ghosty, the ACBs, the I’ms at HarlingsThe Schwag at the UptownDJ Sequence, DJ Subliminal, DJ Telekinesis at the Riot RoomThe Elephant Riders, Facelift at Davey’s Uptown Ramblers Club The…
Full steam ahead, indeed. The Kyle Orton Sweepstakes are over, and Orton is a Kansas City Chief. ESPN reported that the Chiefs claimed Orton from waivers Wednesday, ESPN.com reported. Orton reportedly wanted to go to the Chicago Bears, who were in need of a quarterback after starter Jay Cutler broke his thumb over the weekend. That isn’t happening. The Chiefs…
Flickr: floodllama Happy Thanksgiving. You know everyone’s fairly close to mailing it in after you hear a grown adult suggest, on the local news, that it’s going to be fine weather for Gobble Day. We’re off here at Fat City until Monday, but we wanted to wish you and yours a happy Thanksgiving. After the jump, there’s a host of…
Chef Marshall Roth — here in his short-lived food truck — is thrilled with his new job. The last time Fat City wrote about chef and hot-dog entrepreneur Marshall Roth, he had closed his downtown frankfurter bistro, Dog Nuvo, and was looking for employment. Five weeks later, Roth is back in the kitchen. A state-of-the-art kitchen, he says. “It’s the…
Women first? It’s hard to paint this as a “win” for Kansas City, Missouri. The Big 12 is moving the women’s basketball tournament out of Kansas City a year early, the Star reported. In 2013, the tourney will be in Dallas. In 2014, it’ll be played in Oklahoma City. KC will hold the tournament for one more year (this coming…
LOL Toy Truck? No. Ha Ha Tonka. Soften the blow of Thanksgiving’s emotional abuse with tonight’s Best Bets. Tonight: Ha Ha Tonka, Tommy & the High Pilots, Honest Cowboy at RecordBarPonyboy, Radkey at Replay Lounge Hillbilly for Harvesters: Miss Major & Her Minor Mood Swings, Outlaw Jim & the Whiskey Benders, Adam Lee, Truckstop Honeymoon, Tinhorn Molly, Haute Flash Burlesque,…
Boeing is considering leaving Wichita. Let’s take a brief trip down Memory Lane … “The Boeing Company today announced that Kansas will benefit from approximately 7,500 jobs and an estimated $388 million in annual economic impact if the Boeing NewGen Tanker is selected as the U.S. Air Force’s next aerial refueling aircraft.” That wonderful-sounding promise came in an April 30,…
%{}% Songs I’m grateful for by my favorite female singer … major props to Chaka Khan. Happy Thanksgiving! Sagittarius/Sagittarius Rising* (Nov 22-Dec 19): Ooh, watch out, a Solar Eclipse in your sign at 12:10 a.m. Friday, November 25. Learning to live on less is general theme, and you have to do this without taking any scarcity consciousness out for a…
If you’ve seen the YouTube video above of the February 2010 raid of a home in Columbia, Missouri, the images are likely burned in your brain. Columbia police raided Jonathan Whitworth’s home looking for drugs. In the process, members of a SWAT team shot and killed his pit bull and wounded his corgi-pit bull mix. Officers rounded up his wife…
Don’t mess with Russ. Russ Ptacek equals results. The KSHB Channel 41 reporter’s investigation into now-former Clay County Auditor William Norris has led to criminal charges. Clay County prosecutors charged Norris with a felony for filling “a false sworn affidavit of candidacy” in which he claimed he’d never pleaded guilty or been convicted of a felony (he had). Norris was…
Emanuel Torres Tinhorn Molly Who doesn’t like to go hillbilly every so often? Especially when it’s for a good cause. Tonight, local musicians will go Hillbilly for Harvesters at Knuckleheads. The entry fee: 10 cans of food or $10. Tinhorn Molly headlines (12 a.m.-1 a.m.). “Julie Majors approached us about this one way back, round about July or so. Been…
Chef Patrick Ryan is bringing his talents to Westport. It takes two to taco. Chef Patrick Ryan, the driving force behind the Airstream trailer/Mexican restaurant Port Fonda, is partnering with Dan Doty on an as-yet-unnamed Mexican concept. The new restaurant will likely open by March of next year at 4141 Pennsylvania in Westport, where Doty had planned to build Barrio,…
Facebook: CherryBerry The area’s yogurt cup runneth over. CherryBerry self-serve yogurt bar recently opened in Blue Springs at 704 N. Highway 7. The frozen-yogurt shop, part of a chain based in Oklahoma, serves yogurt and sorbet and has an extensive topping bar with candy, cookies and fruit, as well as whipped cream and syrup. The yogurt shop rotates 14 flavors…
Hypothetical movie soundtracks and holiday albums are Mouth’s thang. For each holiday album the local jazz-funk band has released over the last three years, it has created a campy soundtrack to a nonexistent film the band wished existed. Campy, jokey, whatever — the eight-track album, Escape From the Moon, is worth a listen. Read more about the release and download…
Saturday’s Kansas-Missouri Border War showdown is likely the last. The University of Missouri Tigers are off to the Southeastern Conference. The University of Kansas Jayhawks are staying in the Big 12, with school officials acting jilted and claiming to be uninterested in playing Mizzou outside the conference. And if a classic old rivalry withering into a cold war wasn’t enough…
Name: Scott Hillman Hometown: LaSalle, Ontario Current neighborhood: Lakewood Who or what is your sidekick? My wife and kids What career would you choose in an alternate reality? Crime fighter (Spider-Man) Categories: News Tags: Missouri Mavericks, Scott Hillman
