Subject: Shawnee

• Johnny's Tavern

  February 5, 2009

• Fantasy Fracas

  June 19, 2008

• Ahoy There! Pirate Band Be Needin' Guitarrrr Player

  May 2, 2008

• Kline Buys JoCo House from Campaign Donors

  July 1, 2008

• Best Park

  October 19, 2000

• Best Bike Path

  October 19, 2000

• Around Hear

  March 22, 2001

• Politically Correct

  April 3, 2003

• Best Restaurant to Impress Square Future In-Laws

  October 7, 2004

• Kansas' first journos: Indians?

  For a minute, this looked like a thrilling journalistic discovery: two surviving pages of the Shawnee Sun, which had a sporadic run between 1835 and 1844, making it the first periodical published in Kansas (before Kansas was even Kansas) and -- wow -- the first in the United States written entirely in an American Indian language!As I stared at the two pages of the Sun reproduced in the newest edition of Kansas History (a quarterly journal published by the Kansas State Historical Society), I imag

  March 4, 2009

• Get ready to break out the green this weekend

  Flickr: Kevin ColesSt. Patrick's Day may not be until Tuesday, but a couple of cities in the area are getting their Irish on a wee-bit early. The Northland has the biggest party, with Snake Saturday starting tomorrow at 10 a.m. The Missouri State Barbecue Championship held on site ensures that not only will this parade draw the Irish, but Kansas City's finest pit masters as well. Spectators are allowed samples.Floats for the 25th annual Snake Parade will start lining up at 8:30 a.m. and th

  March 13, 2009

• DJ Highnoone

  August 2, 2007

• Pool Party

  April 9, 2009

• Go Bald for Good

  March 12, 2009

• Cheap Bevs

  January 15, 2009

• knock out or Tap Out

  December 18, 2008

• strings Under the Stars

  August 28, 2008

• Mrs. Bildungsromanson

  August 14, 2008

• Vinyl Honor

  April 16, 2009

• They Throw Like Girls

  July 24, 2008

• Eat Like a Queen

  July 10, 2008

• Farmers on Display

  March 27, 2008

• Chop Responsibly

  December 6, 2007

• No Juice Boxing

  October 4, 2007

• Miracle Miles

  September 27, 2007

• Get Lost

  Orienteers never lose their way.

  May 1, 2003

• Fore!

  July 27, 2006

• Stage

  June 4, 2009

• Purple Haze

  September 29, 2005

• Reality Rights

  September 29, 2005

• Night & Day Events

  Week of July28, 2005

  July 28, 2005

• Night & Day Events

  Week of February 10, 2005

  March 10, 2005

• Second Honeymoon

  Jim Marks proves himself a worthy suitor for Paulo & Bill.

  June 24, 2004

• Keeping the Beat

  Derek Sharp bangs the drum.

  February 5, 2004

• You Sin, You Win

  Quit yer whining and get with Shawnee's liquor ban, sinner!

  September 18, 2003

• Breakers 10-4

  A long day of bar competition ends at the pool -- the pool hall, that is.

  August 14, 2003

• Fire Starter

  Jimmie Oyler might be the chief of the United Tribe of Shawnee. Or he might just be blowing smoke.

  July 3, 2003

• Shawnee residents win fight over redevelopment idea hatched behind closed doors.

  March 2, 2000

• Urban Growth

  June 25, 2009

• Urban farm fundraisers all over town

  Caenan Castle in Shawnee This week is full of events leading up to Sunday's Tour of Urban Farms (more about that tomorrow). Tonight at 7 p.m., All Souls Church at 4501 Walnut presents a free screening of the documentary Mad City Chickens, about people who raise chickens (sometimes illegally) in the city. And even if you can't attend the different classes and lectures throughout the week, you can still help by dining out tonight as part of the Kansas City Center for Urban Agriculture fundra

  June 24, 2009

• Shawnee’s Caribbean-inspired Infused mostly left us confused

  July 2, 2009

• Needmore Discs is closing.

  Erik and Colleen Voeks announced on Facebook this morning that their record store in Shawnee, Needmore Discs, will be shutting its doors for good on August 2. Thanks to Robert Moore for passing along the note. July 3rd is Needmore Discs six year anniversary, and six years is a pretty fair innings. Right? We've had some good times. Sold a bunch of CDs and records. Met some awesome people. Paid the bills. But as George once sang "All things must pass" and "all things" includes Needmore Discs. The

  July 1, 2009

• Frank Alvarez of Vinyl Renaissance on Needmore's closing

  Because the announcement of Needmore Discs' imminent closure has sent ripples, murmurs and even shockwaves through the scene, I thought it would be a good idea to check in with that other Shawnee record store, Vinyl Renaissance, just a few blocks north on Nieman Road, at 10922 Shawnee Mission Parkway. Jason HarperVinyl Renaissance soldiers on in Shawnee Fortunately, retail manager Frank Alvarez (whom you may remember from the late midtown record haven Recycled Sounds) says that his shop is doin

  July 2, 2009

• PERIOD COSTUME ALERT

  July 9, 2009

• What to do this weekend -- our suggestions

  Laugh out loud at hillbilly jokes. Comedian Jon Reep performs at Stanford and Sons Comedy Club at the Legends tonight and Saturday.See how some local actors compare with Drew Barrymore and Adam Sandler. The musical theater adaptation of The Wedding Singer opens tonight at Theatre in the Park in Shawnee.Munch on some tasty sweet corn. On Saturday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., Powell Gardens is having a Sweet Corn Fest.On Saturday night, head downtown to Crosstown Station for some rock and roll and burl

  July 17, 2009

• Breakfast Buffet: Thursday, July 23

  A visit to 75 in Shawnee shows that lunch doesn't have to complicated to be tasty. [KC Lunch Spots]Bacon lollipops, the Japanese fruit yuzu and blood oranges are guiding the latest gourmet trends. [Houston Chronicle]Ice skater Brian Boitano is apparently going to host a new series on The Food Network -- critics sharpen your blades.  [Serious Eats]And finally, take a morning off from gravy and try these egg-and- vegetable biscuits. [Blog Well Done]

  July 23, 2009

• Woman found passed out with a blood-alcohol level five times the legal limit

  Shawnee police found a 20-year-old woman with five times the legal limit of alcohol in her system passed out in the parking lot and now Shawnee police are investigating Johnny's Tavern (13410 W. 62nd Terrace) to see if they served a minor, KMBC reports. View Larger Map Five times? Wow. That's damn near lethal, according to the University of Oklahoma's Police Department, which says a 0.40 is the "onset of coma, and possible death due to respiratory arrest." KMBC says the minor was in a hospita

  July 27, 2009

• Infuse your olive oil with some personality

  ​The wet summer has probably led even the most minimalist herb garden to explode over the past few weeks. The good news is that, without a lot of effort, you can turn your kitchen into a Dean and Deluca by combining your surplus herbs with olive oil. Infused olive oils are primarily used in dressings and marinades, particularly on fish, or simply as a finishing touch on a dish that is finished cooking. Infused oils may seem fancy and complicated (an opened bottle will only last for about a w

  August 6, 2009

• Shawnee council member rallies residents against Deffenbaugh

  When Kevin Straub was running for the Shawnee City Council in 2006, he took a $1,000 campaign contribution from Deffenbaugh Industries. But that, he says, doesn't mean he's in the pocket of the area's biggest trash hauler. Kevin Straub​Quite the contrary. In Shawnee, residents choose their trash hauler, signing up with one of the mom-and-pop outfits -- A-1 Disposal or Superior Disposal -- or the giant Deffenbaugh. Earlier this year, though, the city put together a task force to study new wa

  September 14, 2009

• Weirdos represent

  The facts in this book will astound you​This close to Halloween, getting the heebie jeebies from real-life, weird phenomenon just seems like the thing to do. Good thing there's a new Ripley's Believe It Or Not! book. Seeing Is Believing, put out by (who else?) Ripley Publishing ($28.95), features pretty much everything the world has come to expect from this company that catalogs the unusual: anomalies of nature, technological novelties, food feats and shocking human proclivities. Nestled among

  October 26, 2009