Kansas City’s NHL chances are the slimest they’ve ever been. This is a dark time for those of us who follow hockey. If you haven’t heard (and let’s face it, that’s fairly likely), the NHL has locked its players out, and the ugly labor dispute between the sides doesn’t look like it’s close to resolution. So, instead of numbing life’s…
Republican Senate candidate Todd Akin’s now infamous “legitimate rape” comments have led to no shortage of outraged responses from just about anybody with access to a media soapbox. The latest to take on the moronic comments was Tina Fey, the star of NBC’s 30 Rock (and my personal hero). Giving a speech at a gala Wednesday night at the Center…
Flickr: k763 KC is considering a ban on funeral protests. The Kansas City City Council will convene today in its chambers. Among the agenda items being considered is a proposed ordinance that would keep protesters at least 300 feet from funeral services within the city limits. The ordinance is a duplicate of the one in Manchester, Missouri (a suburb of…
Blue Ribbon Hunter, Yahoo’s travel food competition show, attended this year’s Kansas City Bacon Festival, the annual benefit for the Rehabilitation Institute of Kansas City. They interviewed meat lovers and chefs alike to find out why our city enjoys pork belly as much as we do. There’s the Local Pig’s bacon and waffles dish, Ameristar’s cheesecake bites covered in chocolate…
Angela C. Bond. The fried chicken is an old family recipe. Big plates of comfort food get a star turn in this week’s review of Woodsweather II, the second incarnation of the home-style cafe in the West Bottoms. Fat City’s Charles Ferruzza found cooking in the style of a classic diner in the Northland, and as he noted, “The fries…
Wendy’s The Ultimate Baconator Challenge rolls into KC today. You ate his father — the Baconator — and now he’s in Kansas City to see if you’ll eat him. The Son of Baconator, Wendy’s double-patty cheeseburger covered with four strips of bacon, stops at Barney Allis Plaza (12th Street between Central and Wyandotte) today. The “Ultimate Baconator Challenge” tour will…
Sly James is the mayor of Kansas City. You knew that, right? You should really know the name of the mayor of the city you live in. Anyway, you might know that the mayor has a son, and his name is Kyle James. In addition to getting arrested a lot, Kyle James is a rapper. He goes by the stage…
After the 2008 fire, the original Hereford House was an overcooked mess. The third day of the federal trial against restaurateur Rod Anderson and his alleged co-conspirators — Vincent Pisciotta and Mark Sorrentino — had plenty of meat, including a revelation from the chief financial officer of the company that owned the downtown Hereford House, James Stanislav, when he told…
I’m pretty impressed with the quality control on the AV Club’s Undercover series. Hospitality covering Steely Dan? The Mountain Goats covering Jawbreaker? The Walkmen covering R.E.M.? The Low Anthem covering Wilco? Those are all things I want to watch. Today, it was brought to my attention that Gwar recently did a version of Kansas’ “Carry On Wayward Son” — the…
Woodsweather II is dishing up diner classics in the Northland. It’s serving homemade, oversized portions of steaks, burgers and pasta. Photos by Angela C. Bond.
Facebook: Dough of the Dead Zombie movies make reluctant heroes out of everyday people. Now, one of those everyday people is hoping to make his very own zombie film. Brandon Prewitt is filming his zombie comedic short, “Dough of the Dead,” at Spin Pizza in Lee’s Summit this morning. The film, Prewitt’s graduation project for his master’s degree in mass…
Facebook: Freebirds Freebirds opens tomorrow in Westport. Soups, coffee, piping-hot burritos — a crop of new restaurants is dedicated to warming your frozen hands and cold insides this winter. Here’s a list of some new places and a few that have closed, along with a glimpse at what’s on the KC restaurant horizon. Freebirds World Burrito opens at 554 Westport…
Facebook: Tannin It’s hard not to order wine at Tannin. Open Table, the online restaurant reservation system, has begun mining its diner review database to create rankings, and in the newly released 2012 ‘Top 100 Notable Wine Lists,’ there’s a name familiar to Kansas City oenophiles: Tannin Wine Bar and Kitchen. General Manager Barry Tunnell runs the wine program —…
Liz Van Note is accused of forging the documents to take her father off a ventilator. Someone broke into William Van Note’s three-story Lake of the Ozarks home on October 2, 2010, and shot him in the head. The crime was simple, but the aftermath hasn’t been — the 67-year-old Liberty man was a millionaire. Van Note’s 59-year-old girlfriend, Sharon…
Photo by Sabrina Staires Name: Jill Sixx Occupation: Slaughter Movie House creator Hometown: Kansas City, Missouri Current neighborhood: JoCo … not excited about it. Who or what is your sidekick? My 3-pound, black teacup Chihuahua, Pepper! What career would you choose in an alternate reality? Pop star What was the last local restaurant you patronized? Caddy Shack. The pizza is…
Great news, you guys: The Matrix IV is out, and it’s way better than Matrix: Revolutions. It’s Matrix: Gumpalutions. That’s the easiest shorthand for Cloud Atlas, the Tom Hanks-starring, post-global epic that co-writers and –directors Tom Tykwer, Andy Wachowski and Lana Wachowski have composed from novelist David Mitchell’s much-admired book. It’s a largely faithful adaptation, visually sumptuous and often tenderly…
The best thing I saw last weekend was at a Ramada Inn, near where Front Street meets Interstate 435. This hotel, whose doors may also be a time warp back to 1986, was hosting a psychic fair. I did not know psychic fairs existed, but when I started telling friends I was going, they were all, “Oh, yeah, the thing…
