Subject: Germany

• Sauerkraut or Spaghetti?

  April 20, 2007

• Miles Bonny: New Tour, Free Download

  September 3, 2008

• Concert Review: Randy Newman, October 11, at the Folly Theater

  October 12, 2008

• Iron Savior

  August 8, 2002

• 'tober Kill

  September 26, 2002

• Various Artists

  January 23, 2003

• Various Artists

  March 20, 2003

• Daily Briefs: Service Pack 2

  We're back. I know, right? I never thought I'd be spending my mornings writing up news roundups again, but then you'd also never think that after all the negative publicity surrounding their venture in the hiring and retention of pedophiles, the Catholic Church would move on to the recruitment of actual Nazis. But here we are. After pedophiles and Nazis, you've got cannibals, and that's just about the whole list of fundamentally unacceptable new hires. Now German Chancellor Angela Merkel is bo

  February 9, 2009

• Best Star Nod to the Nazis

  October 9, 2003

• In the Pines

  March 19, 2009

• Who better to patrol the borders than the Manchurian Mexicans who want to open the doors?

  July 17, 2008

• Dark Movements

  July 10, 2008

• Socialist Single

  January 17, 2008

• Worlds Collide

  At the Byron Cohen Gallery, these two strong artists shouldn't be together.

  December 13, 2007

• Cannibal Corpse

  Wednesday, February 25, at the Bottleneck.

  February 19, 2004

• Life's Just Great

  May 24, 2007

• Cali Funkadelic

  March 29, 2007

• The Good East German

  When your hero is a Stasi spy.

  March 8, 2007

• Tactic

  February 15, 2007

• Nacho Problem

  July 20, 2006

• Various Artists

  June 29, 2006

• FIFA You, Joto!

  U.S. soccer fans should get a sac to go with the Cup.

  June 22, 2006

• Merry #@!\&* Christmas

  December 22, 2005

• Kelpie

  September 29, 2005

• Park Life

  Artist Maria Park takes landscapes into the 21st century.

  July 14, 2005

• Rock This Town

  Party with pompadour and circumstance.

  February 10, 2005

• Springtime for Hitler

  Der Führer was a dancing fool.

  October 7, 2004

• The Bellamy Brothers

  Saturday, June 12, at the Mission Cattle Drive.

  June 10, 2004

• Kansas City Rock & Metal Fest

  Kansas City Rock & Metal Fest. Wednesday, May 19, at the Beaumont Club, the Hurricane, America's Pub, Blayney's and Cactus Café. Thursday, May 20, at the Grand Emporium. Friday, May 21, at the Beaumont Club. Saturday, May 22, at the Bunker.

  May 13, 2004

• Lenin Grads

  A sweet German film pokes fun at East Berlin life after communism.

  April 29, 2004

• Bad Meaning Good

  Peanut Butter Wolf's vinyl weighs a ton.

  April 15, 2004

• Helloween

  Rabbit Don't Come Easy (Nuclear Blast)

  July 31, 2003

• The Young Girl and the Sea

  In Whale Rider, a Maori lass confronts her heritage and destiny.

  June 26, 2003

• Mad Sin

  Friday, June 6, at El Torreon.

  June 5, 2003

• That's Fresh

  This chef really knows his onions, but he leaves them out of candy recipes.

  April 24, 2003

• Mamadrama Dearest

  The Jewish Film Festival includes a feisty film about Jewish mothers.

  March 20, 2003

• Reel World

  Kansas City screens films from far and wide.

  October 3, 2002

• The Peacemakers

  Like thousands of others, these Kansas City men refused to fight in World War II.

  February 28, 2002

• Trash Talk

  Political views in the 1943 film Behind the Rising Sun may be garbage, but the prints themselves were rescued on their way to the landfill.

  August 9, 2001

• Blood Sport

  The Oscar-winning One Day in September tells the brutal story of an Olympics massacre.

  February 22, 2001

• Different Strokes

  Iveth Jalinsky has a signature style.

  January 4, 2001

• The Kindness of Strangers

  Archival footage illuminates a remarkable Holocaust story.

  December 7, 2000

• JCCC's Kelly Conwell wins best student chef in the country

  Conwell in the foreground, cooking in front of fellow Johnson County Community College studentsThis past February, Johnson County Community College student Kelly Conwell was ecstatic to go to Illinois and be able to compete against her Midwestern peers for the American Culinary Federation's central region student chef of the year. At the time, she told Fat City she was "completely happy just to even get to regionals." She went on to win, with a complex menu that earned her a trip to the ACF's na

  July 17, 2009

• Self-heating food in a can

  ​The idea of a meal in a can seems wrong, so I don't know what to make of the news from Food2, about a new British product that encapsulates meals in self-heating cans. Hotcan choices are non-toxic, have a three-year shelf life and "no unpleasant odor." "The ability for food and beverages to heat themselves sounds like the stuff of science fiction, but it's not!" advertises Hotcan's Web site.  Chicken casserole, all day breakfast, vegetable curry, and sausages and beans are among the seve

  August 14, 2009

• The wurst idea -- a sausage museum

  ​The museum community added a member this Saturday when the Currywurst Museum opened its doors in Berlin, Germany. It's a shrine to the 60-year-old sausage, which is deep-fried, sliced and then liberally coated with ketchup and mustard powder. Eaters have a choice of whether to keep the casing made from intestines on the sliced sausages. If you're asking why build a museum, the new director explains it with simple German efficiency: "The exhibition is a tribute to the currywurst phenomenon,"

  August 19, 2009

• Climate change affecting hops quality?

  ​You might not have minded when it affected the polar bears -- they're not as cute and cuddly as the cartoons suggest. But you might want to know that climate change is potentially ruining your beer. Let's set aside the arguments over global warming and just assume it is not up for debate, similar to your beer being served cold as opposed to warm. A Czech climatologist believes that the quality of hops in the Czech Republic has declined because of an increase in air temperature over the past f

  September 15, 2009

• What's in your cup of coffee?

  ​Most of us can't operate heavy machinery without coffee, let alone face another day at the office. And it turns out there are some very specific chemical reasons why. But before you discover what you're drinking, some weird coffee news has floated in over the transom. The Guinness Book of World Records has declared that Karl's Farm in Roevershagen, Germany, has the largest collection of china coffee pots in the world, at 13,267. So, next time you're in Roevershagen... And back stateside, a go

  October 6, 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.Let's start the weekend right: with free beer. Boulevard offers free samples of its fall beer, Bob's 47, paired with free offerings from the Fork & Screen at AMC Studio 30 in Olathe. The event (from 5 to 8 p.m.) is tied to the release of the movie Couple's Retreat. To attend, you have to have a movie ticket. Pizza Bar in the Power & Light District celebrates its grand open

  October 9, 2009

• Zeppelins, The Titanic, and the future of education: Studies in Crap celebrates progress with a 1913 Scientific American

  Each Thursday, your Crap Archivist brings you the finest in forgotten and bewildering crap culled from basements, thrift stores, estate sales and flea markets. I do this for one reason: Knowledge is power.​ Scientific American Date: August 23, 1913 Discovered at: Westport Antiques Representative Quotes: "Probably the first whole-hearted aerial attack in modern warfare will be delivered from a very large and safe dirigible, a craft that can at least boast of a practical firing platf

  October 15, 2009

• Breakfast Buffet: Friday, October 23

  Pumpkins are not just for jack-o'-laterns. Here are guides for making pumpkin soup and pumpkin puree if you can't find canned pumpkin at the grocery store. [Blog Well Done, The Expatriate's Kitchen]It turns out you can eat quite a bit on $40 a day in Kansas City, with trips to Blanc Burgers & Bottles and Extra Virgin. [Hot Blog on a Stick]They may look pretty, but wedding registries' kitchen gadget staples are in most cases completely unnecessary -- and here are the cheaper alternatives. [T

  October 23, 2009