Subject: Grandview

• Get Some Action

  May 31, 2006

• Chaukka Shaw and Precious Campbell at Harry's Bar and Tables

  September 15, 2008

• Chaukka Shaw and Precious Campbell at Harry's Bar and Tables

  September 15, 2008

• Breakfast Buffet: Monday, 11/24

  By OWEN MORRIS An interesting Kansas City bar crawl round-up that goes from an old saloon to a strip-mall place and even Grandview. [Living in the Scoot Utopia] The best business hotels in the world. These might as well be imaginary, because if a place does not contain the word "motel" and a number, I probably can't afford to sleep there. [Forbes] In Colorado, 40,000 people show up to pick some free vegetables. Either it's a bad economy or people have nothing else to do in northern Colorado

  November 24, 2008

• Studies in Crap Presents "Science for Christian Schools: Grade 6"

  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. Science for Christian Schools: Grade 6 Author: Joseph Henson, Georgre Mulfinger, Jr., and Emmett Williams Publisher: Bob Jones University Press Date: 1977 Discovered at: Goodwill, Grandview The Cover Promises: "With the rock of truth, we can smash the eyeglass of humanism!" Represen

  December 4, 2008

• Plan for hundreds of miles of trails clears City Council

  By CAROLYN SZCZEPANSKIKnown for its nation-leading urban sprawl, Kansas City has spent almost three decades spinning its wheels when it comes to accommodating pedestrians and cyclists. As far back as 1980, the Department of Parks and Recreation put together a plan for Kansas City Bikeways. But it went the way of side ponytails and parachute pants before it could gain any traction.In 1991, the Mid-America Regional Council initiated MetroGreen, a proposed network of trails that would span seven co

  November 25, 2008

• Eggs, Bacon, Nicotine!

    I know some of you will find this difficult to believe, but three decades ago, when I first started working in restaurants, I learned how to mix up pancake batter from a grizzled old cook who smoked cigarettes while he was cooking. One time, a bit of ash from his Pall Mall fell into the batter and he shrugged, "Oh well, it adds a little kick to the flavor." I had just started smokingat the time and thought, "What the hell, maybe he's right." Flash forward to a very different place and tim

  December 10, 2008

• Forbes: Grandview eighth fastest-dying town

  Grandview, it could be worse. You could be Bensenville, Illinois. Forbes ranked America's fastest-dying towns, and Grandview, once home to Harry Truman and now the International House of Prayer, ranked No. 8 out of 10. Forbes says:Poverty has doubled while incomes have remained flat, and have fallen when adjusted for inflation. What's more, the housing market has deteriorated, with prices falling 10% in the last year, according to Trulia.com. With few buyers, and no one moving in, home prices ha

  December 10, 2008

• Mail

  Letters from the week of March 16, 2000

  March 16, 2000

• Fat City's best posts of 2008

  Fat City started in July and since then, Charles Ferruzza, myself and company have written nearly 500 posts about various comings, goings, odd items and leftovers -- as we affectionately call the stuff we have no idea how to categorize -- dealing with Kansas City and food. Here are ten of my favorite Fat City posts from 2008:

  January 5, 2009

• Letters

  July 12, 2001

• Remebering Evel Knievel's prostitution bust

  This week's column involves street prostitution. Researching the subject, I came across newspaper accounts of daredevil Evel Knievel's 1986 citation for soliciting sex while in Kansas City. Knievel was driving his tour bus along Main Street when he pulled over at 34th Terrace. Police said Knievel negotiated a $60 date with a woman who happened to be an undercover officer. Knievel later told reporters that he wasn't looking for sex but a hotel. He said he thought that he recognized the women who

  January 9, 2009

• Urban Outfitter

  January 31, 2002

• Brown Out

  May 15, 2003

• Radio Waves

  June 5, 2003

• Metal Meltdown

  July 10, 2003

• Best Suburban Revitalization Effort

  October 9, 2003

• Pineapple cream pie and other inventions

  Charles Ferruzza Collection Well, now that February is almost over, I'm glad I remembered that this month was Great American Pies month. Pies really are one of the great American desserts and used to be a staple on most restaurant menus. Today, when most dessert lists are dominated by European confections -- tiramisu, creme brulee and flan, to name a few -- it's increasingly harder to find a slab of good ol' pie on the menu. Unless, of course, you're in a diner. The ne plus ult

  February 26, 2009

• Call and Response

  February 24, 2005

• Where's the Beef?

  May 26, 2005

• Cave-in

  July 7, 2005

• The New Taiwan Restaurant gets carried away with garnishes — and we go right along

  September 18, 2008

• Loch Lloyd’s gate offers protection from the poor, suffering masses

  June 26, 2008

• Pancake Dash

  February 7, 2008

• Do the Hustle

  KC hip-hoppers give us a shout-out.

  December 27, 2007

• Letters from the week of November 22

  Bike riders — and the KC drivers who wish they'd get off the roads — make some noise.

  November 22, 2007

• The Klan Makes KC Uncomfortable.

  Letters from the week of October 11.

  October 11, 2007

• Tour de Triangle

  Bars inside the Grandview Triangle are as random as you'd think.

  September 13, 2007

• Night & Day Events

  Week of October 28, 2004

  October 28, 2004

• Family Values

  Letters from the week of

  March 23, 2006

• She’s So Heavy

  Heather Bashaw’s Heavy Frequency Awards bring the noise.

  February 16, 2006

• Dirty Jobs

  Kori Bundi examines the Strubbles' struggle.

  January 20, 2005

• This Weeks Day-By-Day Picks

  November 20, 2003

• Turn of the Skew

  A Grandview cantina moves north of the border.

  May 22, 2003

• Profit of Rage

  For Profit, hip-hop is no laughing matter.

  April 10, 2003

• Return Of The Prophets

  October 10, 2002

• Lovey, American Style

  The Main Street Inn is like an old classic.

  September 20, 2001

• Around Hear

  The New Year's music scene.

  December 28, 2000

• Flight Canceled

  Voting for runway options at Richards-Gebaur was an exercise in futility.

  July 27, 2000

• Babies in Mind

  May 21, 2009

• KC Magazine's ones to watch in '84

  This week's column involves a shopping center in Lee's Summit that's getting taxpayer assistance. Nowadays, big retail centers receive incentives as a matter of course. Curious to know what cities did (if anything) for the malls of yesterday, I went to the Missouri Valley Room at the Central Library to look at old newspaper and magazine articles. One source turned up in a 1984 edition of Kansas City Magazine. The article described the effects of Bannister Mall on Truman Corners in Grandview. The

  May 29, 2009

• The Zone

  June 18, 2009

• Weekend crime and accident round-up

  When citizens travel and gather for holidays, police officers and highway patrols often see spikes in crime and auto accidents. Hopefully, this past weekend wasn't a preview for the Fourth of July. Here's a round-up of the accidents and mayhem that kept law enforcement particularly busy.On Friday night, a convenience store clerk in Kansas City, Kan., shot at two would-be robbers, killing one.  Saturday afternoon, a 33-year-old Richmond man drowned at the Lake of the Ozarks.

  June 29, 2009

• IHOP's leader envisions '100 foot' snakes falling to earth during Satan's war with Michael the archangel

  ​ Lots of fun in the Sunday Star's International House of Prayer story. IHOP founder Mike Bickle has heard God's voice a couple of times (meh, who hasn't?) and he sees visions of shit straight off the cover of a Dio album.In a recent post about a prophetic dream about war between Satan and Michael the archangel, Bickle wrote that he saw "large snakes, over 100 feet long and 50 feet thick, each having a huge head that looked like a dragon, and many of them were coming from the sky down to the e

  July 27, 2009

• $29 million road (a)head for Grandview

  ​Anticipating increased traffic when industry in the area expands and the NNSA/Honeywell facility comes online, officials from Missouri Department of Transportation and City of Kansas City are pushing a $28.9 million road project to improve the interchange of Botts Road and Missouri 150 in Grandview.MoDot officials say the "diverging diamond" configuration is suited to handle additional car traffic, which will result from additional industrial development in the area, including about 2,100 new

  July 29, 2009

• Kansas City gets more money for cops

  ​The Kansas City Police Department is getting even more stimulus money. Kansas City's share of the Barack bucks is $2.55 million, which a release says will go to keep police on the streets and "civilian support positions."Other stimulus lottery winners:Jackson County: $1,130,734Independence: $416,746Grandview: $90,600Lee's Summit: $62,699Blue Springs: $43,276Raytown: $41,572Sugar Creek: $10,050Add the $2.55 million to the $8.3 million federal grant the KCPD scored to keep 28 recruits and 22 a

  August 14, 2009

• IHOP wants to assure you that even though 100-foot snakes will fall from the sky, there's nothing to fear

  The International House of Prayer doesn't want you to fear them. They're just misunderstood (so they say). To call their neighbors' fears, the church will hold a pair of neighborhood meetings to try to calm the fears, according to The Kansas City Star. Guess folks are a little freaked out because a) IHOP's prayer room is open 24/7 (been there; lots of people weeping and pacing) b) IHOP leader Mike Bickle has convinced 80 families to move to Grandview, Missouri -- America's eighth fastest dying t

  August 26, 2009

• Bird Flu: Competing Charlie Parker birthday celebrations hint at division on 18th and Vine

  September 3, 2009

• Killa City: KCMO homicide No. 83, KC police involved in shooting Sunday; Exae Chavez-Gutierrez dead

  Exae Chavez-Gutierrez​The man shot and killed by police near 113th Street and Sycamore on Sunday was 36-year-old Exae Chavez-Gutierrez of Grandview, Missouri, police say. The officers involved in the shooting are on paid administrative leave. They have 28 and 13 years of law enforcement experience -- which is routine in these situations.Kansas City police says officers responded to a Jeep that crashed into a tree near 113th Street and Sycamore. Officers encountered Chavez-Guiterrez in a nearby

  September 8, 2009

• Anti-nuke activists turn PIEA board meeting into impromptu talent show

  www.peaceworkskc.orgAnn Suellentrop of Physicians for Social Responsibility​Anti-nuke activists turned out to protest this morning's meeting of the Planned Industrial Expansion Authority, whose board voted unanimously to approve a development agreement to build a new weapons facility at Highway 150 and Botts Road. The National Nuclear Security Administration Campus will replace Honeywell's 60-year-old factory on Bannister Road, which manufactures 85 percent of the non-nuclear parts for nuclear

  November 6, 2009