Subject: Bonner Springs

• No More Live Nation at Verizon

  June 20, 2007

• Family Values at Verizon

  August 23, 2007

• Concert Review: KCK Street Blues Festival

  June 30, 2008

• Brief Dispatch: Jack Johnson at Capitol Federal Park at Sandstone

  August 18, 2008

• Studies in Crap: How to Pick Up Girls!

  Each Thursday, your Crap Archivist brings you the finest in forgotten and bewildering crap culled from area basements, thrift stores, estate sales and flea markets. He does this for one reason: Knowledge is power. How to Pick Up Girls! Author: Eric Weber Publisher: Symphony Press, New York Date: 1970 Discovered at: Goodwill, Bonner Springs The Cover Promises: Much that the book fails to back up. Representative Quotes Page 21: “The point of this story is not that the girl was 'bad' or 'fa

  November 20, 2008

• Don King and 100,000 turkeys: only in Kansas

  Don King is in Kansas to pick up 100,000 turkeys. Huh? The Don King. The legendary, motormouthed boxing promoter with the flamboyant, I-just-got-electrocuted gray hair, the man who could sell a fight in a welfare office. This afternoon, King is picking up 100,000 turkeys from National Cold Storage in Bonner Springs. Sounds like King's been delivering turkeys to needy families for 40 years. This year, he's taking turkeys to Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and Florida. And no, he's not taki

  December 19, 2008

• Area farmers' markets

  May 25, 2000

• Best Kayak Trip

  October 19, 2000

• Best Unlikely Post-Concert Hangout

  October 19, 2000

• Around Hear

  July 19, 2001

• Pray Time

  July 11, 2002

• And on the Seventh Day

  July 14, 2005

• Hey, bands: Last call to apply for local Warped Tour slot (plus tips on making an EPK)

  We've just been informed that there's still time to apply to play the "Kia Kevin Says Stage" at the Vans Warped Tour Kansas City stop (Bonner Springs, actually) on August 4, 2009. But the deadline is tomorrow, April 1. Eek! Register and apply right here at Sonicbids, the musician booking and networking site that is delivering band submissions to the Warped Tour. To enter, you'll need to assemble an EPK, or electronic press kit, which includes photos, band resume, MP3s, videos -- all that stuff.

  March 31, 2009

• Free Love for Dummies

  April 2, 2009

• Letters from the week of February 5

  February 5, 2009

• Improv Springs

  January 1, 2009

• Historically Entertaining

  August 28, 2008

• Taint

  January 17, 2008

• Theater

  October 11, 2007

• Night & Day Events

  Week of June 2, 2005

  June 2, 2005

• The Greenest

  August 23, 2007

• Korn Kontinues

  August 16, 2007

• Night & Day Events

  Week of July28, 2005

  July 28, 2005

• Stripped Down

  Freedom Festival fans are liberated -- from their clothes.

  June 30, 2005

• Found Marbles

  Moon Marble presents a garden of spherical delights this weekend.

  March 3, 2005

• The Puck Stops Here

  Could these Outlaws save local sports?

  October 14, 2004

• The Clash

  Aren't teenagers supposed to be lazy punks?

  September 30, 2004

• Hart-Felt

  A showbiz veteran brings all that jazz to Kansas City.

  August 19, 2004

• Night & Day Events

  Week of April 15, 2004

  April 15, 2004

• Little Balls

  Bonner Springs has great marbles.

  December 11, 2003

• A Second Chance

  Old toys never die.

  October 2, 2003

• Young Knaves

  Kids get medieval on our asses.

  October 9, 2003

• Oz Fest

  Overcome fears with a Sing-Along.

  September 4, 2003

• This Weeks Day-By-Day Picks

  September 18, 2003

• Husky

  There's more to corn than meets the eye.

  July 10, 2003

• Seeing Double

  With NakedMan, the pleasure is ours.

  June 12, 2003

• This Weeks Day-By-Day Picks

  May 15, 2003

• Bus Blues

  For one night, music fans can stop worrying about transportation.

  February 27, 2003

• Mart Attack

  Wal-Mart's pharmacy pains a black customer.

  November 29, 2001

• Wheat State Pizza and Fresernos finalist for new small business of the year

  The Kansas City, Kansas Chamber of Commerce has announced the finalists (PDF) for its new small business of the year. Two out of the five finalists are restaurants.Wheat State Pizza in Strawberry Hill (612 N 5th St.), which, like all of the chain's stores, makes its dough from scratch is on the list. So is Fresernos, a family Mexican restaurant, which isn't actually in Kansas City, Kansas, but in Bonner Springs (220 Cedar St.).Common wisdom has it that 90 percent of restaurants fail within a yea

  May 7, 2009

• And the local Warped Tour slot goes to...

  THE FURIOUS BROS!!! Not really. The winner is actually ....

  May 20, 2009

• Great American Barbecue Festival has started

  Billing itself as "The Mardi Gras of meat," the Great American Barbecue Festival's mission is to make sure you get the most out of the Memorial Day weekend. It features music, Royals and Wizards players, a kid's zone, a carnival, fireworks tonight and Saturday night, and nearly 300 barbecue teams cooking the entire weekend at Capitol Federal Park at Sandstone in Bonner Springs.Tastings from teams and other vendors will be available the entire event at the barbecue expo. In addition, Saturday is

  May 22, 2009

• Meat Eaters

  May 21, 2009

• Play for Keeps

  May 31, 2007

• Somewhere a stomach is crying

  ​Somewhere along the way, man forgot that nature is his biggest foe and decided that we needed to conquer food in a match of wills. The eating competition is taking on a revered place in society. Earlier this month, thousands came to Coney Island, and millions tuned in on ESPN, to watch Nathan's Famous Hot Dog Eating Contest, where professional eater Joey Chestnut consumed 68 hot dogs in 10 minutes to take the crown. Adam Richman takes on different city's eating challenges every week on the Tr

  July 28, 2009

• A Different Time

  September 17, 2009

• Western Wyandotte Arts Festival

  September 24, 2009

• Top 10 hot but liquor-free drinks

  ​Yep, it's cold outside. That makes us think about hot drinks. Here are the metro's Top 10 non-alcoholic warm-ups, according to Fat City: 10) Arrowhead Stadium -- Hot Chocolate. There's something about concession-stand hot chocolate: It's the right amount of sweetness and chalkiness that makes you feel like a kid again. 9) Madame Hatter's Tea Room -- Kansas City once had a dozen little tea rooms like this retro venue in Bonner Springs, mostly designed for ladies after a weary day of rig

  October 15, 2009

• Now you have plans for the weekend

  ​You need plans. Fat City has a recycle bin full of event listings. In this post, all of our problems are solved.It takes some time to make a good batch of chili and that's why the Lenexa Chili Challenge starts on Friday night at 5 p.m. More than 100 teams are expected to compete in this year's event, with the contest in Old Town Lenexa (corner of Sante Fe Trail Drive and Plfumm) starting at 9 a.m. on Saturday and winners being crowned at 4 p.m. Admission is $2 and there's a chili hotline if

  October 16, 2009

• Weekend Distractions

  1. Experience a battle of wits. Bonner Springs' Roving Imp Theater is the site of an improv festival that runs through Sunday.2. Bid farewell to the Abracadabras. The once promising local band plays its final show tonight at Czar Bar.Flickr: foxypar4See cows and stuff at the American Royal.​3. Look closely at baby pigs. Also: Watch kids learn how to rodeo and buy yourself some cowboy boots during Family Fun Day at the American Royal on Saturday.4. Get some green thumb inspiration. Author and u

  October 23, 2009