Flickr: RoboppyWhether it's green clothing, green balloons or pets painted green, that's the color people want today. That includes cocktails, though there are only a few green liquors -- creme de menthe, Midori, Chartreuse and absinthe. Never mind that none of the above are Irish and that only the Chartreuse doesn't use artificial coloring. Since those liquors are green they are going to sell well today and most likely be mixed in some revolting cocktails. The New York Times had an articl
Friday
Stroll through the art galleries of Kansas City, Kansas. This month's Second Friday art crawl coincides with the First Annual Downtown KCK Street Festival from 4 to 9 p.m.
Take a road trip to Sugar Creek for the Slavic Festival, which extends through Saturday.
Saturday
Celebrate one of the greatest books of the 20th Century -- James Joyce's Ulysses. What's that? You've never read it! Balderdash! Well, lucky for you, Bloomsday 2009 at the Plaza Branch of the Kansas City, Missouri,
​Since one of this week's Top Stories from the Fat City is our list of the Top Ten Cafes to write a Novel, we thought it was time to take a more literary approach to this weekly list of potent past posts. Some critics of blogging insist that this mode of internet communication is driving readers away from reading the classics, from Aristotle to Zora Neale Hurston, but that's not true in Fat City, where every post is carefully translated from ancient Greek texts. Including this one. But ba
