Jeana Poertner’s dining table is ready for company: meatballs from Garozzo’s, Roma bread, cheese, an array of sweets. The two dozen or so people she has invited will juggle small plates with their wineglasses as they wander through Poertner’s three-story home or gather on the front porch for cigarettes. On this cool March evening, they’ve come together for a reason….
Real Estate, with Twerps and Ghosty There were more progressive and dangerous records in 2011, but none as endlessly listenable as Days, the sophomore album from Real Estate. Midtempo rock songs about trees and streets have rarely sounded so compelling. That’s owing to the New Jersey band’s freakish gift for melody and the fuzzy melancholy lurking beneath the songs: How…
For nearly a decade, the narrow building at 17104 East U.S. Highway 24 sat empty. The underground gas tanks outside the former filling station and convenience store had been ripped out. The pumps were history, the roof on the adjoining building was leaking, and everything that could have been stolen from inside had been looted long ago. Something in this…
The Todd Weiner Gallery presents strong, typical examples of work by some of Kansas City’s better-known artists in What Makes You, You … . Works by Tom Sciacca, Hugh Merrill and Kevin McGraw balance well with others. A new “So . . . What Holds Up Your Sky” canvas by Robert Quackenbush complements a classic steel-and-glass sculpture by Stretch. Lenticular…
Celebrating Record Store Day with the Grand Marquis, Expo 70, and more at Earwaxx Records in the Northland. Photos by Angela C. Bond.
Mia Jamison thinks 39th Street is ready for some Seoul food. Mia Jamison Mia Jamison has a dilemma. The owner of the building on the northeast corner of 39th and Bell (1726 West 39th Street, to be exact, the location of the diner formerly known as Bell Street Mama’s back in 2007) opened her own restaurant called Cafe on 39th…
Ashton Oguinn is KCMO’s 39th homicide victim of 2012. Thirty-nine homicides. That’s how many killings there have been in Kansas City, Missouri, in 2012. The city’s latest victim is 20-year-old Ashton Oguinn. His body was found on a sidewalk at 32nd and South Benton Avenue Monday around 10:30 p.m. He was dead at the scene. A witness told police that…
Two men are accused of killing Calvin Buckner (pictured) during a robbery. Two brothers have been charged with second-degree murder in Sunday’s homicide at the A-1 Motel. Jackson County prosecutors charged 31-year-old Damion Boswell and 25-year-old Rick Boswell with killing Calvin Buckner, who was found shot to death in a public area of the motel. The Boswell brothers are also…
The Little P The Missouri Legislature isn’t likely to take up the issue of tolls this year. The drive between St. Louis and Kansas City is going to look the same for at least the next year. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that a bill to add tolls to Interstate 70 appears destined to languish in the Missouri Senate’s Transportation…
Facebook: Natural Grocers Natural Grocers is now open. Get ready to fill those reusable bags. Natural Grocers by Vitamin Cottage (9108 Metcalf) opened this morning in Overland Park. As Fat City reported back in January: Natural Grocers is located in a neighboring shopping center to the Whole Foods Market (7401 West 91st Street). While both stores focus on organic produce,…
La Parrilla has opened in Olathe. A staple of Massachusetts Street in Lawrence has come southeast to Olathe. The second La Parrilla – a Latin American restaurant known for rice bowls and empanadas – opened at 1197 S. Strang Line Rd. (119th & Strang Line) earlier this month. Co-owner Subarna Bhattachan opened the first La Parrilla with Alejandro Lule in…
About.com: Andrew Collins It would be nice if the Hereford House was still downtown. Brands never really die. They just sometimes need a makeover. At least, that’s the premise of an article in The Wall Street Journal about the resurrection of Astro Pops and National Premium beer. The trend piece looks at how a few savvy retailers are looking to…
Angela C. Bond The Grand Marquis Good times at Earwaxx Records in the Northland this past Saturday. Click through for a look at the scene. Photos by Angela C. Bond. Categories: Music Tags: expo 70, grand marquis, record store day
Gregory Price had been missing since early 2011. The body of a missing Kansas man Gregory Price was found in an abandoned refrigerator near De Soto, Kansas. Authorities made the disturbing discovery last Thursday. A tip led Johnson County deputies to a field near 103rd Street and Kill Creek Road. Price, who was from Ottawa, Kansas, had been missing since…
Calvin Buckner, 33, was from Kansas City, Missouri. Kansas City, Missouri’s homicide total is now at 38 for the year after Calvin Buckner was found shot to death at the A-1 Motel (6101 East 87th Street) early Sunday. Officers responded to a shooting at the motel around 12:15 a.m. The 33-year-old Buckner’s body was found in a public area. No…
Jaimie Warren After three years and a tumultuous ride, Joy Jacobs officially closes the R Bar on Saturday. This morning, Fat City received an e-mail from Joy Jacobs, the owner and operator of the three-year-old R Bar, the restaurant, saloon and music hall in the West Bottoms: “After much thoughtful consideration, I have made the painful decision to close the…
Chocolate Chip and vanilla ice cream are meant to be together. When I grabbed a Shatto Ice Cream Sammich out of the freezer at the Prairie Village Hy-Vee, I almost put it back. A single sammich costs $3.99. At that price, unless it’s filled with meat and cheese, it’s hard to justify the cost. So while I like you readers,…
The cupboards have been a bit bare recently when it comes to cookbook authors coming to Kansas City. Next week should make up for the past several months with three authors stopping in the city to offer advice on meal planning, desserts and ribs. If you’re not excited by Steven Raichlen, Alice Medrich or Katie Workman speaking, then you don’t…
The Pulitzer Prize Board didn’t give an award for fiction this year. In light of the snub, the Kansas City Public Library has stepped up and is asking for nominations for its first ever “Publitzer” Prize for Fiction. Library Director Crosby Kemper III explains the Publitzer in the video above, but here’s how it works: You nominate your favorite pieces…
I get it. Your barbecue sauce is amazing. And so is your neighbor’s – the one you tried after the better part of a six-pack just last weekend. Everyone thinks they’ve got the inside track to the best sauce for barbecue. But since you’re not giving us that recipe, and it might not ever make it to market, let’s stick…
