Mark Turley sold Jim’s Hot Tamales. The victim of Kansas City, Missouri’s latest homicide was a longtime, well-known tamale salesman. Mark Turley, 50, was found dead inside his thrift store at 3810 East Truman Road Friday evening. Officers were called to a shooting around 5:15 p.m. They found Turley’s body. Turley sold Jim’s Hot Tamales from a cart on the…
The Kansas City Chiefs’ season hasn’t been pretty. Yet, Sunday’s upset of the Green Bay Packers was an early Christmas for Chiefs fans. With a new coach and a new quarterback, the Chiefs put the first blemish on the Packers’ 2011 season and ended a 19-game winning streak. Countless sports writers and reporters probably dropped the “on any given Sunday”…
H8rsgonnaH8 We need to work out a signal with our servers. Truly great servers seem to appear before you even know you need them. And just like that, there’s another glass of wine or a fork to replace the one that got away. The worst (or perhaps most inexperienced) waiters seem to lack those powers of observation or ability to…
Tonight, Moon Duo — the side project of Wooden Shjips’ Ripley Johnson — hits the Replay with Long Shadows. Because it’s the week before Christmas, we’re sharing some of the holiday-themed treats that the pair has performed over the years. Over at the Free Music Archive, you can find the twosome’s versions of “Auld Lang Syne” and “O Tannenbaum.” Below,…
Nurses Well, the Jackpot is still booking some pretty great shows. Categories: Music Tags: Nurses, the Naked and Famous, Youth Lagoon
Sporting Kansas City’s inaugural season with a new name and home field was thoroughly entertaining. It started out disastrously, then saw the team make a thrilling climb up the standings and get all the way to the Eastern Conference finals. But forget all that, because MLS put together this handy video that distills the season down to just the goals….
Facebook Dorothy Savory’s plan was so close to working. With just two weeks left in the year, Kansas City attorney Dorothy Savory has claimed the title for strangest courtroom stunt of the year. And to make it even more bizarre, there’s a Lisa Irwin connection. This shit is straight out of Matlock. The Star reports that Savory was in court…
Truckstop Honeymoon will be there. All surgeries are invasive, but some medical procedures are more cringe-inducing than others. Example: Getting tonsils removed is, like, a 1 on the invas-o-meter. Another example: Having half your brain removed or disconnected. Yeah, I’d say the personal-space invasion with this one is off the charts. Categories: Music Tags: HemiFoundation, the Brody Buster Band, Truckstop…
Metro Jacksonville Would you ever take a date to Cosentino’s Market downtown? Paper or plastic has a different connotation at grocery stores today. Now, it’s all about paper plates and plastic forks as supermarkets are discovering that having a restaurant can be a good way to drive traffic to their stores. The Boston Globe looks at the growing trend of…
The shock-rocking, blood-letting, rock-and-roller Donkey Show songs never had a proper release, existing mainly on CD-Rs and home-dubbed cassettes. For those who want to revisit the raunch and revelry of the band’s heyday, all its recordings are now available for free on Bandcamp. The band may have played its last show more than six years ago, but former members of…
Road Food The burnt ends at L.C.’s are real KC barbecue. We might as well change the name of this city to Tasty or Spicy, Missouri, because at this point, I’m not sure that Kansas City is going to mean much of anything for all that much longer. Mintek, a research firm fond of compiling lists that make for blog…
Travel Channel Anthony Bourdain has been all over Kansas City the past few days. Anthony Bourdain, perhaps the first chef to be treated like a rock star, is onstage tonight at the Midland (1228 Main). His 8 p.m. show (to get a sense of his personality, check out Charles Ferruzza’s interview with him this week) includes stories from his TV…
Rich Strauss, courtesy National Museum of American History First the kids went crazy over vinyl. Then, when you were able to buy LPs at Best Buy, they started putting out cassettes. Cheap Trick and Fucked Up trumped all of that with releases on 8-track and reel-to-reel, respectively. Now, what’s a lo-fi fetishist supposed to do? How about wax cylinders and…
No cooking, no washing dishes — just leave a nice holiday tip, OK? I’m not from Kansas City and have no relatives here, so I was invited — during my first few years here — by well-intentioned friends and co-workers to spend Christmas Day with them. It was a gracious gesture from lovely people, but I never had a very…
El Salvadoreno is serving up serious slaw to go with the house papusas on a menu that manages to sneak carrots into tons of dishes. The small, but well-appointed restaurant is in Overland Park. Photos by Brooke Vandever.
The best of 2011 lists are slowly but surely making their way to blogs and print. While we have neither the patience nor the interest to link to them all, there are a couple of local lists we’ve found noteworthy. Local lists contain local albums, and that’s what we’re all about here at the Wayward Blog. Categories: Music Tags: best…
For the music fan who has heard everything (and the attendant demo bootlegs, as well) Shirtify ought to be the hot new thing. It also appears to be the best way for you to connect financially with the artists you listen to from streaming providers, like Spotify or Last.fm. You pay a fee — a one-time shot of $35, a…
