Bleacher Report It’s a continual leap of faith with the Royals. An expansion team with fans hanging on to what seems like glory days that are further and further gone. A collection of young and talented hitters to go alongside a crop of highly touted pitching prospects who will change the team for the better whenever they reach the major…
Brandon Frederick The TV stations are reporting that a fire broke out at the Jerry’s Bait Shop in Lenexa in the early morning hours Tuesday. The space above the suburban bar and live-music venue was apparently hit with the most damage, but there has been some water and smoke damage in the bar as well. No word on cause or…
Traveling Canucks Can you get behind tiny beers? Grandmothers and French teenagers drink small glasses of beer. Apparently, so do New Yorkers. New York magazine has an interesting trend piece on the downsizing of ales and lagers in the Big Apple. The suggestion is that customers are seeking to drink beer in different ways, appreciating smaller batch brews in smaller…
Facing a campaign disaster, Republican Senate candidate Todd Akin sat down in front of some stairs and recorded the above plea for forgiveness in a last-ditch effort to save face in the wake of his claims that rape victims can prevent themselves from getting pregnant. Yesterday, Akin vowed to stay in the Senate race despite some calls from within the…
Riff Raff Buy five pairs of flip-flops and a quart of Barton vodka: It’s time to go back to school! To celebrate this rambunctious and studious time, Lawrence crew Team Bear Club is throwing a special party for its Goomba Rave on Thursday, August 23. “As a celebration of the coming-back-to-school season, I reached out to my good friend Riff…
Flickr: City of Overland Park The Farmers Market is a big draw. Money Magazine has maintained its crush on Overland Park. Only two years after Money named OP its seventh best place to live in the country, the magazine dropped the Kansas city back to ninth in the rankings. Diving into the list, which ranks pricey homes and the rich…
The beef on weck sandwich at Remedy Food + Drink is a little bit of Buffalo — in Waldo. My father grew up in the hamlet of Lockport, New York: 18 miles from Niagara Falls and famous for the original canal locks created for the Erie Canal, 1980s supermodel Kim Alexis, and a great cheeseburger joint called Reid’s. Because Lockport…
If it was good enough for Ernest Hemingway, damn it, it’s good enough for you. At the new Port Fonda restaurant in Westport, there are currently 13 imaginative craft cocktails on the drink menu, including a Technicolor pink Roselle Margarita (made with house-made hibiscus syrup and Solerno blood orange liqueur). The unexpected offering on the list is a classic cocktail…
Brooke Vandever Although the Missouri State Fair wrapped up Sunday night with a bad accident when two racing cars crashed into people and injured five, the rest of it was classic deep-fried Americana. See photographer Brooke Vandever’s slideshow here. Categories: News Tags: missouri state fair, slideshows
Sharon Van Etten knows all about the vagabond lifestyle. Van Etten’s roamed from New Jersey to Nashville, back north to Jersey and on to Brooklyn, all while honing her craft and working at a venue and music PR company. Her travels and collection of oddly appropriate jobs have served the singer-songwriter well, enriching Van Etten’s songwriting in surprising ways. While…
It was a whirlwind week of car racing, concerts and the shiniest farm equipment in Missouri. The 110th Missouri State Fair ran from Friday, August 9, to Sunday, August 19. Photos by Brooke Vandever.
Yoder wasn’t smiling this morning. It was a festive evening in a foreign country, and for one night, a congressman from Kansas apparently forgot that he was a congressman from Kansas. Politico broke the story over the weekend of U.S. Rep. Kevin Yoder’s nude dip in the Sea of Galilee on a fact-finding trip to Israel last August. While Yoder’s…
The fallout began in earnest Sunday afternoon over Missouri Congressman and Republican Senate candidate Todd Akin’s remarks about women being able to not get pregnant in the case of “legitimate rape.” And it looks as bad as one would expect. In an interview posted online Sunday, Akin told a St. Louis television show that he opposed abortion even in the…
Sharon Van Etten The album I keep thinking about while listening to Sharon Van Etten’s latest, Tramp, is The Trials of Van Occupanther by Midlake. Both are elegant, mournful indie-folk records that maintain a consistent dreamlike mood throughout. I don’t love Tramp the way I love Van Occupanther, but it’s growing on me, and I won’t be surprised to see…
BBQ Jew There’s just not a Mr. Barbecue on every block. At a time when robots will soon be responsible for slicing noodles, the romantic in me is secretly glad that barbecue at its core resists some of the technology that leaks into restaurant kitchens. This is not a rant directed at pellet smokers or machine-cut fries, it’s instead an…
Five Guys is cooking on Rainbow. Tucked in the shadow of construction fencing and in the midst of a mixed-use development, Five Guys Burgers and Fries has opened at University Plaza (3930 Rainbow Boulevard, Kansas City, Kansas). You might be thinking about Five Guys because of this unreal review (that has been songified) from Connecticut connoisseur Daym Drops. Back in…
The city is considering outsourcing airport buses. As the city debates whether to award the airport bus service to Standard Parking (the lowest of three bidders that already runs the airport’s parking lots) on a contract that would begin in November, this is the time when we get into exaggeration. In a Kansas City Star story yesterday, the drivers maintained…
Have a hot taco with that cold PBR, baby… Update: Yesterday, Fat City reported that Mike’s Tavern, owned by Ray Dunlea and James O’Brien — the operators of Cantina del Ray and The Gaf in Waldo — would begin serving Mexican food on Monday. The reason? Cantina del Ray permanently closed for business on August 11. Read on… Mike’s Tavern,…
What’s the deal with airline food? That Seinfeld episode, in which Kramer names his rooster Little Jerry Seinfeld and takes it to cockfights, was on last night. And George is dating a woman in prison. The scene where George meets with her parole board and intentionally sabotages her release is kind of a classic. (“Plans. Schemes…she keeps talking about getting…
