Subject: Overland Park

• Best Restaurant for Breaking Up 2008: Piccadilly Cafeteria

  January 15, 2009

• No Skates

  June 7, 2007

• LIGHTS! CAMERA! L'CHAIM!

  March 26, 2009

• Daily Briefs: Funkhouser's Budget; Wal-Mart; Someday, Overland Park Will Come For You

  February 15, 2008

• Weekend Events Roundup

  February 15, 2008

• Eating out on Thanksgiving: the cheaper places

  By OWEN MORRISLet's face it. A lot of people don't want to go through the hassle of cooking a special meal at home but also don't-want-to/can't-afford-to pay $30 a plate (not including booze or taxes or tip) for a Thanksgiving dinner out. In fact, let's give this portion of the population a name: my family.As long as your family doesn't consist of traditionalists who can't stand the thought of trading rolls for naan, there are plenty of Ethnic restaurants that are open normal hours on Thanksgivi

  November 26, 2008

• The cheesiest holiday light display

  I usually hate it when people put up their holiday lights the second that Halloween is over. It's like, come on. We still have to slog through Thanksgiving first, so just hold off on your holiday displays until after the only pure, noncommercialized American holiday we have left. But then I saw these lights at the corner of 103rd Street and Metcalf in Overland Park.

  November 27, 2008

• One less recycling center in 2009

                                    The drop-off center at 80th and MetcalfThanks to the tanking economy, the growing stream of recycled materials snapped up by hungry manufacturers in early 2008 has turned into a mountain of worthless trash entering 2009. Waste haulers, like Deffenbaugh Industries, have seen the market for recovered materials plunge to unprecedented lows. So it's no surprise that, in the New

  December 31, 2008

• Best Beer Selection

  October 19, 2000

• That’s Just SO 1984

  December 6, 2001

• Best Place to Find Lupini Beans

  October 17, 2002

• Best Picnic Spot

  October 17, 2002

• Suburban Bawl

  July 3, 2003

• Best Place to Find Adventurous Food Products

  October 9, 2003

• Hot Doggin' It

  June 4, 2009

• Good-bye, Cruel World

  November 20, 2003

• Best Main Street

  October 7, 2004

• 39th Street Farmers' Market tonight

  Wednesday means two farmers' markets.The Downtown Overland Park Farmers' Market started at 7:30 this morning and goes until sell-out, usually around noon. This market's 50 vendors sell produce, herbs, meat and even pie, and include a farm run by refugees. If you can't make it today, the market also opens on Saturdays at 6:30 a.m. This evening in midtown, the 39th Street Community Market opens up in front of coffee store Javanaut at 39th and Genessee. Its growers agree to a strict code of con

  June 3, 2009

• Eat out while giving back. Forks and Corks tonight

  Tonight is the first of Harvesters' Forks & Corks dinners. The biggest is next month, but tonight's proceeds are no less important to Kansas City's only food bank. Eleven restaurants are participating; each offers a special prix-fixe dinner with a portion of the proceeds going directly to Harvesters.Lidia's serves a three-course $35 meal, with diners choosing from three entrees including tenderloin filet with garlic fried potatoes, risotta with balsamic reduction and a seafood soup loaded wi

  March 5, 2009

• Eye-Boggling

  January 29, 2009

• The Fox and Hound English Pub & Grille

  January 1, 2009

• Kidney Collections

  November 13, 2008

• Fast Balls

  June 12, 2008

• Meat is murder, he wrote

  May 8, 2008

• Mars, Meet Venus

  February 14, 2008

• City Lites

  Trolley's Downtown Bar & Grille lets suburbanites pretend they're in the city.

  February 7, 2008

• Arboretum Sculpture Exhibition

  September 6, 2007

• A Good Day in McDonaldland

  August 30, 2007

• Class of '06

  The oddly named OP1906 Bar & Grill serves up fun facts and sophisticated fare.

  December 14, 2006

• DJ Shad

  May 25, 2006

• Stage Capsule Reviews

  Reviews and previews of upcoming shows.

  March 9, 2006

• Very Cool Tonic

  A dinnertime acid trip, smack in the center of suburbia.

  February 2, 2006

• Grand Illusion

  Feeling gluttonous? The Cheesecake Factory should be on your Top Ten list.

  September 15, 2005

• Night & Day Events

  Week of July 14, 2005

  July 14, 2005

• Short Order

  MK12 fans will have to follow the leader.

  March 31, 2005

• Night & Day Events

  Week of November 4, 2004

  November 4, 2004

• Night & Day Events

  Week of July 1, 2004

  July 1, 2004

• Jungle Fever

  As meat markets go, Overland Park's Elephant Bar is a big disappointment.

  April 22, 2004

• Blast From the Pasta

  The past -- and the pasta -- are part of the charm of chef Carl Scavuzzo's new restaurant.

  July 3, 2003

• Night & Day Events

  Week of February 15, 2001

  February 15, 2001

• Déjà Vu All Over Again

  Overland Park may soon hear a giant sucking sound: Sprint going the way of Hoechst Marion Roussel.

  July 13, 2000

• Get ready for Bike Week

  In November 2007, I talked to a number of local cycling enthusiasts, who told me about their run-ins with ignorant or abusive motorists who don't know how -- or don't want -- to share the road with their two-wheeled brethren. While Kansas City is moving in the right direction when it comes to making the streets more welcoming to all modes of transit, the best way to reduce the tension is to increase the visibility of those who travel to work and play on Treks and Cannondales, rather than Toyotas

  May 8, 2009

• I'm never going into Borders' bathroom again

  This is the most horrible thing I've read yet today (thanks Fox 4). A 16-year-old claims a man sexually assaulted him in the bathroom of an Overland Park Borders Bookstore. Stop reading unless you want to be permanently scarred:The teen entered the restroom and was pushed into a stall by an unknown white male. Police said the suspect tried to undo the teen's pants, but the victim crouched down to protect himself. The teen told police that while hunched on the floor, he felt the man against him a

  June 15, 2009

• The Red Balloon

  June 18, 2009

• Saints Pub + Patio

  January 8, 2009

• Closer to the soil

  August 7, 2008

• 2009 Star-Spangled Spectacular

  July 2, 2009

• Sean Tevis catches Phelps family's anti-Semitic, funeral-crashing antics

  Fred Phelps' funeral-crashing flock showed up in Overland Park Monday for a bit of anti-Semitism, and they crossed paths with the shaman of stick-figure theater, Sean Tevis, who turned the whole thing into a live-action story -- and it even has (sort of) a happy ending.

  July 14, 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.The Missouri State Fair kicked off Thursday in Sedalia and runs through August 23. You should go if only for the pork chops on a stick or fried Snickers. The second-to-last-day of the fair will see a world record attempt for most exploding soda fountains, when 2,500 Pepsi bottles filled with Mentos will (hopefully) go off in unison. UNICO's first annual Microbrew Festival will featu

  August 14, 2009

• Breakfast Buffet: Wednesday, October 21

  Thumbs up for Shatto cheese, which is now available at the Whole Foods at 91st Street and Metcalf in Overland Park. [Hot Blog on a Stick]A visit to the regional offices of the Seattle Fish Company and a look at fresh fish in Kansas City. [Making of a Foodie]Whatever you think of the Royals, at least you're not paying $10 a cup for hot cocoa at Kauffman Stadium. [Consumerist]The Burger King Double Cheeseburger is officially available, and it's $1. [So Good]

  October 21, 2009