Men’s Health Thump your chest, then delicately click your mouse to vote. Man make fire. Another man kill beast. Third man deliver carefully portioned parcels of beast in timely fashion to be smoked over fire. Insert Tim Allen noise here. Oklahoma Joe’s, by the very nature of its existence, has been included in Men’s Health search for the Manliest Restaurants…
Wanted: Info on Google Fiber Time Warner Cable isn’t exactly thrilled with the prospect of competing with Google Fiber. And why should it be? Like so many KC residents, my only choice is TWC. But Google may be able to change that. Gigaom reported Wednesday that the cable and Internet provider is seeking tips from its Kansas City employees about…
Pat’s Off the Beaten Path Felitza’s is closing. Felitza’s (402 North Fifth Street) in Kansas City, Kansas is closing. The Wyandotte Daily News has the story as owner Roberto Bautista has decided to shutter his restaurant on Strawberry Hill after eight years of operation. Back in 2006, Charles Ferruzza reviewed Felitza’s and found echoes of Carmen’s Cafe in Brookside, which…
Recently reunited Kansas City favorites the Casket Lottery won’t release their full-length, Real Fear, until later this year. Their label, No Sleep Records, has something to tide you over until then, though — a 7-inch single featuring songs “The Door” and “My Father’s Son,” due out August 7. You can listen to the a-side (which augments the band’s familiar post-hardcore…
We’ve been waiting for a good excuse to share this track, “Click-Click,” from Kansas City’s REV Gusto. The garage-y pop act’s been playing out and about these past few months, but it’s only recently that they’ve made music available for download. This sunny piece of summertime goodness will only satisfy for so long, however, so one hopes that some of…
Photo by Sabrina Staires Name: Heather Williams Occupation: Owner and stylist, Araby Salon Collective Hometown: Blue Springs, Missouri Current neighborhood: West Plaza Who or what is your sidekick? My daughter, Birdie What career would you choose in an alternate reality? A homesteader in the wilderness Categories: News Tags: Araby Salon Collective, Heather Williams
Frida’s has a modern look and a slightly updated menu following its move; but the food is just as enticing. The new location, which is a bit further north, should keep pulling in diners from both sides of State Line. Photos by Angela C. Bond.
Today’s Senior Network Living in KC is worth 298 of these. When it’s the end of the month and the rent is due, it turns out that Kansas City is a fine place to live. Not great, not terrible, but right around fine. Forbes has ranked KC 28th out of 51 cities in a list nearly as long as its…
In February, the Internet was abuzz about Will Ferrell appearing in Super Bowl commercials for Old Milwaukee that aired only in North Platte, Nebraska. The spots were weird, amateurish and unexpected. This week, the beer’s advertising department came up with a similar campaign featuring erstwhile Oakland Athletics Bash Brother and professional thorn in baseball’s side Jose Canseco just prior to…
Wikimedia The neon-sign guys are doing a brisk business in KC right now. Diners’ dance cards have been full thanks to a recent slate of new restaurants in Kansas City. What follows is a roundup of the places we’ve written about here on Fat City that appeared in the print edition today. It’s a chance for you to check in…
That’s Nerdalicious One of the three beers on the menu tonight: 8-Bit Pale Ale Martin City Brewing Company (500 E. 135th St.) is taking the beer dinner outside tonight. The restaurant is holding a Picnic on the Patio featuring Tallgrass brewmaster and owner Jeff Gill. He’ll be talking about his Manhattan brewery and bringing the original test batch of Farmhouse…
Hayley Bartels Our time with the All-Star Game has passed. By the end of the top half of the first inning, it was all over but the shouting. In last night’s All-Star Game, the National League put up five runs on the Detroit Tigers’ Justin Verlander in the first frame while cruising to an 8-0 victory. The game in many…
Fat City received an e-mail from a former Fo Thai employee in May stating that nearly all of the restaurant’s employees had walked out. (Fat City could never confirm the story.) At the time, the elaborately and expensively mounted venue was then all of six months old. Three weeks ago, Fo Thai closed. The location then just as quickly reopened…
We’ve been remiss in not informing you of the impending Bus Stop Label reunion show featuring the What Gives, Erik Voeks, and the Harrisonics. The show is taking place at the Replay on Friday, July 27. The last thing the What Gives released was the excellent — nay, classic — piece of pop Up All Night With the What Gives…
Northwest Cherries If you keep track of your national food holidays, you know that today is National Blueberry Muffin Day. But in Prairie Village, a different fruit is being honored. Today is also National Rainier Cherry Day, celebrating the cherries grown in America’s Northwest. To give the Rainier cherries — a large yellow cherry with a sassy red blush —…
Major Planetary Note (MPN) and Basic Meaning of MPN After nearly eight months of Mars (self-assertion, warrior and passion) being in self-effacing and masochistic Virgo, he is now in Libra until August 23. Astrologically speaking, men are NOT from Mars and women from Venus! In the world of the planets, every man has a Venus (yearning for love and connection)…
A real jolt to the local economy,” my friend Big Booth said wryly, as we passed through the empty Crossroads streets early Saturday night. Granted, the marquee All-Star Game events were still a few days off. And the Crossroads isn’t really a major nightlife destination. But Big Booth had a point. It seemed, both Friday and Saturday nights, as though…
Most businesses in the East Crossroads closed hours ago, but on a balmy Monday night in June, the garage door at Meya Metalworks is still open. There’s a U-Haul parked outside on 16th Street, and two men are dragging what appears to be the gate of a human-sized possum trap onto the truck. It’s less than 24 hours before the…
Almost two years ago, a couple of new signs were slapped onto the residential-looking stone building at the southwest corner of 39th Street and Wyoming. Something called the Rock Café was coming soon. Steak burgers were promised. The new establishment’s logo (a red, white and blue electric guitar with a lightning bolt evoking the Grateful Dead’s iconic Steal Your Face…
Big K.R.I.T. Big K.R.I.T. is my favorite rapper going right now, and I haven’t even heard his debut. I’ve been too busy bumping his mixtapes — he has dropped three in the last 15 months, and they’re all excellent, and free — to get around to actually buying his major-label studio album, Live From the Underground, out last month. K.R.I.T….
Over a career that spans half a century, Don Reitz has become a legendary ceramist. But his real medium might be time. In the artist’s statement that accompanies Reitz’s eponymous exhibition at the Belger Arts Center, he reminds us of the essential connection between time and ceramics. Time “hardens and colors the clay,” he writes, while giving him space to…
Traffic slowed on the Heart of America Bridge late last Tuesday morning as drivers gawked at a pack of cyclists winding their way downtown. The 88 gray Trek bicycles were headed for Ilus Davis Park, in a volunteer-aided delivery organized by Bike Walk KC to mark the arrival of bike-sharing service B-cycle. “This is how we take Kansas City to…
