Look, young ones, stay off the plaza after curfew. All right? Kansas Citians remember last summer as the season of the teens. They were everywhere, it seemed, clumped together, wandering around, even loitering. On the Plaza, no less. And businesses and residents grew tired of it. It even got a little scary a couple of times, including when a shot…
Megan Dejmal The greens are here for farmers market season. Farmers market season is like New Year’s Day – this is the time when you can promise yourself that you’ll eat better and really believe it. The markets that are open will be filled with greens, spring onions, eggs, meat, baked goods and jellies. They’ll also have lots of transplants…
Megan Dejmal Christensen inside a high tunnel at Blue Door Farm. A cold, wet start to growing season means that humans and bunnies alike are waiting a little longer for carrots. Fat City caught up with Laura Christensen, who operates Blue Door Farm in Kansas City, Kansas, as she worked her fields in preparation for the opening of the Brookside…
The Magical Meatball Tour has canceled the show. The Magical Meatball Tour has stopped rolling. One of the city’s first food trucks, funded by a Kickstarter campaign and a series of bakesale-esque meatball events, will not be returning to the Kansas City streets this season. “After two seasons, we have decided to close the Magical Meatball Tour,” says co-owner Venus…
That is Axl Rose. Insane human Axl Rose is still touring with a band he is legally allowed to call Guns N’ Roses. The band just added a few dates to its North American tour, and one of them is at the Midland, Sunday, June 2. Tickets are on sale this Friday at 10 a.m. GNR is also set to…
Name: Keili Lefkovitz Occupation: Actor, singer, producer Hometown: Leawood Current neighborhood: Bel Air, California Who or what is your sidekick? My kiddos, Shep (6) and Gunner (3), and my husband, Shane What career would you choose in an alternate reality? I always felt there was something quite badass about being an FBI agent. Categories: News Tags: Kansas City, kansas city,…
Mohammed Mosley and Nader Shehata’s six-week-old Overland Park restaurant the Basha serves Middle Eastern cuisine. Photos by Angela C. Bond.
File This streetcar is heading to the courthouse. Well, you could see this coming. The downtown Kansas City, Missouri, business owners who thought so little of the streetcar idea that they sued to stop it are looking for another day in court. Lee’s Summit lawyer Mark Bredemeier announced on Tuesday that his clients would seek to appeal a Jackson County…
flykci.com This is what Friends of KCI wish to stop. Friends of Kansas City International Airport came out of nowhere last weekend with an attempt to block the Kansas City, Missouri, City Council’s move toward a new, single-terminal airport at KCI. Their gambit to try and organize a public vote to overturn an April 11 resolution to proceed with early…
Lynn Collins Soaking it up on Saturday for RSD. Last Saturday, a crowd of folks turned up at Vinyl Renaissance on 39th Street to pick up some Record Store Day exclusives and hear sets from Ghosty, Fourth of July, Shy Boys and the Great Vehicle. View some photos from the afternoon here. Those first three acts are on new-ish local…
Facebook Cafe Cedar’s owner Jehad Selah says he’s keeping the shish kebabs – and fried chicken – on his new menu. Eleven days ago, Cafe Cedar owner Jehad Selah sent out a tweet to his followers: “Hello everyone, great news, great news, great news, great news. We are so excited about our move….” There really is “great news,” Selah tells…
Collectors and casual fans alike hit up Vinyl Renaissance on 39th Street on Saturday to celebrate National Record Store Day. Photography by Lynn Collins.
Goodspeed is accused of robbing adult entertainers. On Sunday, Gary Goodspeed was arrested after a long standoff with Kansas City police in a home on the 2100 block of East 70th Terrace. He was taken into custody Monday morning. Prosecutors charged Goodspeed later Monday with an odd set of four robbery charges and armed criminal action. Authorities say Goodspeed wasn’t…
You should do some urban foraging Thursday. When news that one of the nation’s top foragers was coming to town, a talented roster of chefs came out of the woodwork in Kansas City. Tama Matsuoka Wong, the forager for Daniel in New York City and the co-author of Foraged Flavor: Finding Fabulous Ingredients in Your Backyard or Farmer’s Market, is…
Rodriguez is leaving the Little Apple. Kansas State University will start next season with a new point guard. News broke Monday night that Angel Rodriguez will be transferring (to as yet an unnamed school) in order to be closer to his family in Puerto Rico. “This decision was based entirely on my family and has nothing to do with Kansas…
Annie Oliver is facing a first-degree murder charge. Annie Oliver may be the oldest female homicide suspect in Jackson County history – at least that anyone in the prosecutor’s office can remember. Last week, Oliver, 80, was charged with first-degree murder and armed criminal action in the killing of her husband, Ronald Oliver. The octogenarian told officers responding to the…
Facebook: Slice Slice is no longer slicing. Another deli has gone to that great big meat slicer in the sky. Slice Deli & Bistro at 12560 Quivira, in Overland Park, has closed. Tucked in by the University of Kansas Edwards Campus, the four-year-old Slice offered breakfast, lunch and dinner and a Reuben – Randy’s Reuben – that was on my…
The Orion building is no more. The Orion Building at 118 West 17th Street, in the Crossroads, is now a pile of rubble. The building was part of the city’s historic Film Row District, a group of buildings in which movie studios used to store films and distribute them to area theaters. Shirley Helzberg owns the Orion Building and razed…
Amphlett’s one U.S. hit lives on. It’s a wonder that Tipper Gore and her legion of censors never went after Chrissy Amphlett, lead singer of the one-hit-wonder Australian band Divinyls. Amphlett died Sunday in New York from multiple sclerosis and breast cancer at the age of 53. The group’s 1991 hit, “I Touch Myself,” is a dirty little radio love…
The Pitch Jan Marcason is thinking about a bill to extend a youth curfew Hey, kids, you’re looking at a yearlong grounding by the Kansas City, Missouri, City Council. That 9 p.m. curfew on places like the Country Club Plaza and Westport may go from a summer thing to a year-round rule. The Kansas City Public Safety & Emergency Services…
Wikipedia You can’t carry open firearms like this in Leawood or Prairie Village A couple of libertarians from Overbrook and Topeka had no luck trying to get a judge in Johnson County to strike down open-carry firearm bans in Leawood and Prairie Village. A Johnson County judge on April 17 threw out lawsuits filed by the leaders of the Libertarian…
