Kona Brewing Co. Kona is ready to pop a few bottles in KC. The days of the average wheat-threshing, meat-eating midlander pining for the craft brews of his honeymoon are over. Kona Brewing Co. is surfing onto shelves and taps across the Kansas City area over the next week. Fat City said aloha to Mattson Davis, the president of Kona…
Photo by Sabrina Staires Name: Heather Wiley Occupation: Art director, Russell Stover Candies Hometown: Independence Current neighborhood: I just married a hometown boy and moved back to Independence after living in Waldo for 16 years. Who or what is your sidekick? My 11-year-old “mini me” daughter, Avalon. I was a single mom until recently, so she was on my hip…
Kathryn Bigelow’s Zero Dark Thirty has already become a popular talking point for elected officials, smug pundits and other self-appointed guardians of our national innocence. From outraged leftist blogs all the way to the floor of the Senate, people are asking: Does ZDT make a clear case that the torture of al-Qaida–affiliated detainees provided specific information leading to the location…
“Stiff drinks, good jazz, no homicides.” This is the pitch that John Scott gave me last Thursday night, when I stopped in to visit his recently opened jazz lounge in the Crossroads. The Green Lady Lounge is located at 1809 Grand, an address you might recognize from the police blotter: It’s the former home of Balanca’s. Balanca’s had been on…
In the wacky and wicked world of professional wrestling, Mick Foley is regarded as the hard-core legend. Known for his multiple personalities — brawler Cactus Jack, ’70s burnout Dude Love and maniacal Mankind — Foley left fans wondering if he felt pain as his opponents battered him with barbed-wire baseball bats and steel chairs or threw him off — and…
Little Mother’s Things I Am Keeping (Money Wolf Music) Letter,” the lead track on Little Mother’s Things I Am Keeping, is about as busy as roots rock gets. A blistering banjo line, the thumping of snare drums, and the honky-tonk-meets-Rubber Soul guitars swirl around in a tornado of Americana. It’s a declarative opening statement but maybe not the best example…
The LennySlitz Project Part 2 (Self-released) In 2010, producer Leonard Dstroy and rapper Kutty Slitz released the synergistically titled album The LennySlitz Project to raves from just about every hip-hop head in midtown Kansas City. Dstroy is perhaps best known for his beats on records by Deep Thinkers and CES Cru. Slitz, a founding member of CES Cru (now composed…
There aren’t really “studio bands” anymore, at least not ones that make any money. Touring is where the profit is in the music industry these days. But for a certain type of musician, the studio remains a fun place to tool around if cashing in isn’t a high priority. Alex Courtney is one such specimen. The local trio he fronts,…
The Architects The Architects closed 2012 strong, dropping a live album, Live in Los Angeles, this past fall. And on New Year’s Eve, the group announced a new studio LP, Border Wars, which will see release sometime this spring. This is all pretty huge news if you are a fan of the local boys’ earth-shaking, punk-inflected rawk music. And this…
On New Year’s Day, two men, huddled in winter coats, were sitting in a boxy, 90-seat screening room — the main auditorium inside the Strand Theatre, at 35th Street and Troost. It was noon — and, on any other day, a busy hour at the last adult theater operating in Kansas City. Up on the screen — a stretch of…
In a 1904 volume titled Vivilore: The Pathway to Mental and Physical Perfection, Mary Ries Melendy writes: “A complexion of cream and roses cannot be expected to result from a diet of pork, pastry and preserves.” As advice from old self-help manuals goes (this one’s subtitle: The Twentieth Century Book for Every Woman), that’s pretty sound. Keep it in mind,…
Mark McHenry designs buildings for a living, but you wouldn’t guess that by looking at his six sculptures on display at the Late Show. The exhibition is so solid that it’s difficult to picture McHenry doing anything but making work in a studio. It’s also surprising to learn, then, that those six sculptures make up his entire artistic output. McHenry…
boing boing There’s a special kind of hell for customers who would leave this instead of a tip. I’m not sure if this alleged “tip” left for a server, somewhere, is a hoax or the real thing, but it has stirred up a lot of controversy on the Web. If this story – most recently posted on the boing boing…
The Darkness is still a band that plays shows – it’s true! – and the classic-rock fetishists were scheduled to play the Beaumont Club on Wednesday, January 30. I will forgive you for possibly not remembering that information. More likely you’ll remember how the Beaumont Club officially closed about a week ago, which meant the Darkness was either going to…
Police say Paul Potter tossed arms at witnesses. Paul Ray Potter, 49, of Kirksville has been charged with second-degree homicide and arson in what is definitely Missouri’s strangest news story of the year. The Kirksville Daily Express reports that police were called to Potter’s apartment complex when a car became engulfed in flames Sunday night. Two apartment units were also…
Facebook: Longbranch Steakhouse A man made a big mistake over a steak dinner. A night out in Johnson County didn’t go exactly as one couple planned. KSHB Channel 41 reports that last week at the Longbranch Steakhouse in Lenexa, a man accidentally shot his wife in the left leg from across the booth. As Lenexa officer Dan Friesen explained it…
U.S. District Court: District of Kansas The abortion debate returns to Topeka in March. A federal judge has ordered a trial to determine if a Kansas law that restricts abortion coverage in private health insurance plans violates federal law. The American Civil Liberties Union of Kansas and Western Missouri argued in court yesterday that the 2011 law should be thrown…
Facebook: Uncommon Stock Soup’s on at Uncommon Stock. It’s winter, and while I find the warmth of a stove comforting as I prepare dinner, I also discover that my motivation to fire up said stove declines alongside the temperature. And so like a bear that must devour salmon to pack on winter weight, my internal hunger clock has declared that…
Flickr: MichaelGras The cows have landed. The inexorable pull toward national chains continues for Mission as Chick-fil-A opened November 29 at 6039 Metcalf in the Mission Crossing development. A Fat City reader saw the new location off U.S. 69 and wondered when it began serving waffle fries and chicken sandwiches. Mission Crossing is now a chicken mecca with Culver’s recently…
Andy Reid and Chiefs owner Clark Hunt say they hit it off together. The mustache has landed. Chiefs owner Clark Hunt introduced new head coach Andy Reid to the local and national media on Monday during a press conference at Arrowhead Stadium. Hunt explained that when he began looking to replace fired former coach Romeo Crennel, he was looking for…
Andy Reid: Arrowhead bound Every TV station in the city should have a live feed of Andy Reid’s introductory press conference, which starts at 1 p.m. (Here, here, here and here.) The Chiefs have their own live coverage here. And here’s a photo of Reid holding a Chiefs helmet. Categories: News Tags: andy reid, Kansas City, kansas city, kansas city…
%{}% %{}% Ron Swanson, America’s new icon of manliness, is coming to our fair city next month, on Sunday, February 17. The gentleman who plays Swanson on NBC’s Parks and Recreation, Nick Offerman, is touring in a one-man show called “American Ham.” What does such a show entail? A “veritable smorgasbord of cautionary tales, tunes, and tips for prosperity (with…
Angela C. Bond Does Lawrence still need its own fish and chips shop? Fat City only just reeled in the bad news about the closing of Queen Lizzy’s Fish & Chip’s in Lawrence. The independently owned purveyor of British-style fried fish and chips (served with the traditional mushy peas upon request) closed the location at 125 East 10th Street in…
