Subject: Orlando (Florida)

• A Fitting End

  May 25, 2007

• Wock On

  July 20, 2007

• Fancy New Republic Tigers Videos

  April 30, 2008

• The Tupperware Mystique

  "Tupperware: An American Icon"

  August 3, 2000

• Wrestling with Shakespeare

  June 29, 2000

• Alonzo Washington: unregistered superhero

  Last weekend, I was reading Rolling Stone when I came across a tale of real-life superheroes called "The Legend of Master Legend." Master Legend is an Orlando-based masked crusader, complete with secret lair and sidekick, The Ace. But what struck me in the story is that many real-life heroes are listed on the World Superhero Registry or the Heroes Network. (Damn, who knew Utah needed so many heroes?) I wondered if we had a local caped crusader registered with any of these syndicates. Surely Alon

  December 31, 2008

• Around Hear

  February 8, 2001

• Letters

  May 10, 2001

• Further Review

  June 20, 2002

• Chiefs player you've never heard of busted for weed

  Kansas City Chiefs tight end busted for smoking the reefer in Orlando, Florida. Not the good one. KMBC says Michael Merritt was arrested earlier this morning after a police officer caught him smoking a joint. Merritt tried to swallow his cigar, but the officer made him spit it out. Soon to be famous quote: "All this for a little bit of weed?" Uh, yeah. Merritt had 3 grams of bud on him. Here's the police report. Hat tip to Arrowhead Addict.

  February 5, 2009

• Who Puts the Ass in Christmas?

  December 18, 2003

• Johnny Come Lately

  August 19, 2004

• Kelly Conwell: student chef of the year

  Congratulations to Johnson County Community College's Kelly Conwell, who won the central region's student chef of the year award at the American Culinary Federation Conference this past weekend in Schaumburg, Illinois. "I was absolutely completely happy just to even get to regionals and to win -- oh my gosh. Winning is great," she tells me.Conwell had to beat out three other students and make a menu in 60 minutes plus five minutes to plate. It took nearly a minute for Conwell to just describe ev

  February 26, 2009

• Lovetown

  February 12, 2009

• Raglan Road is a classy, if Disney-fied, new-old Irish saloon

  May 22, 2008

• Dubliners

  March 13, 2008

• Gimme, Gimme, Gimme

  When it comes to paychecks, Kansas City's largest construction company acts like a child.

  October 11, 2007

• Barely 21

  Five bucks for all-you-can-stomach drinks keeps this Northland strip mall bar grinding.

  February 1, 2007

• Northland Exposure

  November 2, 2006

• We're Pucked

  September 7, 2006

• Lost in Translation

  Ask a Mexican

  August 17, 2006

• Zip It, Pal

  July 13, 2006

• Reunited

  And it feels so good.

  July 21, 2005

• Sea of Dreams

  Hey, kids! Surf's up in Kansas!

  July 14, 2005

• Get the Funk Out

  Going retro turns into an anthropology lesson.

  June 30, 2005

• Endangered Species

  Will the Wildcats devour the Roos?

  December 9, 2004

• Starlight, Star Fright

  Starlight Theatre's fall programming might scare the bejesus out of you.

  October 3, 2002

• Lobster Risk

  If Red Lobster is good enough for Ben and J. Lo, then it's the new chic place to get crabs.

  September 18, 2003

• Kimball Collins

  Saturday, September 20, at XO.

  September 18, 2003

• This Weeks Day-By-Day Picks

  May 15, 2003

• Cold Shots

  Coldplay shrugs off comparisons and criticism.

  January 30, 2003

• Niche Market

  Two decades after birthing it, Grupo Niche continues to nurture the Colombian salsa scene.

  August 8, 2002

• No Need for Alarm

  Despite recent tour tribulations, Widespread Panic jams on.

  July 4, 2002

• Refried

  Tortilla Soup reheats Eat Drink Man Woman with Latino flavor.

  December 27, 2001

• Boo Hoo

  The Man Who Cried doesn't engender much sympathy.

  September 13, 2001

• Mexico's Pride

  Raytown launches a country boy into the big leagues.

  July 12, 2001

• An Unworthy Cause

  Louis Colaianni has a Resident Alien in his home.

  June 21, 2001

• Around Hear

  A local-band-heavy lineup makes for a Memorial Day weekend to remember.

  May 24, 2001

• Night & Day Events

  Week of March 15, 2001

  March 15, 2001

• Letters

  Letters from the week of February 8, 2001

  February 8, 2001

• Dashed Expectations

  What the Dickens is going on at the Coterie?

  January 18, 2001

• Chantal's Angels

  November 9, 2000

• Running on Empty

  Gas station dealers find Big Oil blocking the way in their struggles against extinction (Part 2 of 2).

  November 2, 2000

• Pay at the Pump

  Major gas companies are driving away independent station operators, all in the name of greed (Part 1 of 2).

  October 26, 2000

• Live from Linwood, God ... TV's founders

  Rory and Wendy AlecThe god fearing people of Linwood, Kansas, get to be closer to the Lord than Kansas City's heathens. The founders of GOD TV are moving into a mansion near the tiny Leavenworth County town. Not familiar with GOD TV, the international Christian television network broadcast on DirecTV, sort of a fresher TBN (or not). Then you're missing out on GOD TV's perfect godly couple, Rory and Wendy Alec, and their show, Apocalypse & The End Times. It'll scare the piss out of  you.

  May 13, 2009

• 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

• 'Uncle' Ed Muscare is back on YouTube ... but Midtown Miscreant didn't miss him

  "Uncle" Ed Muscare​"Uncle" Ed Muscare isn't getting any sympathy  from Midtown Miscreant. In his latest post, double M rips the former children's show host and registered sex offender, who has returned to YouTube after at least a month-long hiatus. Seems the authorities in South Carolina didn't care for "Uncle" Ed's bizarre videos and confiscated his computer. This is from the LiveJournal of a guy who claims to be Muscare's biographer. Here are a few snippets supposedly from "Uncle" Ed on

  July 31, 2009

• Funk pins fantasy hopes on Jessica Simpson heartbreaker

  KCChiefs.comFunkhouser's backup WR has yet to meet the team photographer​Drafting against other big-city mayors, Mayor Mark Funkhouser followed his heart instead of his head and put three Chiefs on his fantasy football team.Funkhouser selected Chiefs quarterback Matt Cassel to back up the Cowboys' Tony Romo. He supplemented his bench with wide receiver Amani Toomer, presumably as first lady Gloria Squitiro shouted "Reach!" in the background.A former small-college basketball player, Funkhouser

  August 21, 2009

• Waterboy Watch, week 1: Funk's Footballers win

  ​Not a lot to complain about after Mayor Mark Funkhouser's first week of fantasy football. Funk's Footballers defeated the Tampa Con Leches 95-85, putting Funk's team in a tie for third place. Funk is going head-to-head with big-city mayors from across the country in the Yahoo! Sports Mayoral Face-Off Fantasy Football League. His charity of choice, should he win the $15,000 prize, is the Police Athletic League. Funk's Footballers were spurred by big games from Dallas Cowboys quarterback Tony R

  September 15, 2009

• Pushing for a new hotel, KC’s convention officials try to seduce us with the same old lines

  October 15, 2009