Subject: Worlds of Fun

• A Reporter's Notebook: How to Handle P&L

  July 23, 2008

• Brush Creek Flamenco

  July 23, 2008

• Mail

  Letters from the week of March 2nd 2000

  March 2, 2000

• Kansas City Strip

  October 12, 2000

• Best Safe Alternative to Suicide

  October 18, 2001

• 'tober Kill

  September 26, 2002

• Time of the Season

  July 3, 2003

• !Viva la Zinger! Toasting the Zambezi Zinger, a Worlds of Fun classic

  When word hit yesterday that yet another beloved Kansas City institution is being sold off, I couldn't help but think about another time fun itself was put up for sale. Back in 1997, Words of Fun exiled the great Zambezi Zinger roller coaster, the ass-kickingest thing we could ever get my mom to ride. A circling, snaking blast, the Zinger started slow -- lifting riders 75 feet above the trees of "Africa" in an easy, teasing spiral -- and then whipped them down in a 40 mph burst, screaming t

  March 10, 2009

• Bully Pulpit

  June 24, 2004

• The Give-a-Shit List

  This week: vet candidates to thin the ranks of crooked officials in Wyandotte County, vent about KCP&L jacking up your electric rates, get involved in an East Side beautification effort that continues to flourish without city handouts and toss a pair of old shoes for your under-shod neighbors in Africa.

  March 9, 2009

• Worlds of Fun and Oceans of Fun for sale ... discount with a can of Pepsi

  I'm pretty sure I got a concussion riding the Orient Express over and over in 1998. Then I just got depressed after riding the Mamba ... especially after the half-hour wait to ride. So I'm feeling a little sentimental after hearing that there's a "for sale" sign outside Worlds of Fun and Oceans of Fun. While I'm feeling all nostalgic, here's a link to a map from the year the Timber Wolf coaster opened -- thanks Dr. Crap! Maybe the new owner will bring back the Jamboree.

  March 9, 2009

• Bad Heart

  March 12, 2009

• Don't Lose Your Lunch

  April 10, 2008

• Saddle Up

  At this Legends brestaurant, everybody goes for a ride.

  October 25, 2007

• Night & Day Events

  Week of October 28, 2004

  October 28, 2004

• Not Hiring

  August 16, 2007

• Beach

  Don't let a little thing like being landlocked keep you from the sun.

  June 7, 2007

• Hurricane Part Dos

  March 8, 2007

• KC Sex: The Quiz

  Are you more of a Liberty Memorial or a Hairy Truman?

  February 8, 2007

• Stage Blood

  October 19, 2006

• An All-Amateur Vote

  We drag the river for stuff you didn't know you were missing.

  April 13, 2006

• The Chase

  February 23, 2006

• Night & Day Events

  August 11, 2005

• Home Sick

  Mild nostalgia turns to acute pain when we go Hometown.

  July 14, 2005

• The Second Coming

  Ready your devil horns. Kansas City's maddest Musician has returned.

  July 14, 2005

• Get the Funk Out

  Going retro turns into an anthropology lesson.

  June 30, 2005

• Badda Bam!

  January 6, 2005

• Thrill Kill

  The Prairie Dogg finds the dirt on the Flying Dutchman, killer candy and George Brett with Dave Keuning of the Killers.

  October 21, 2004

• Beating the Rap

  Dan Renzi just wanted a little time to himself. But when police arrested him in a porn theater, he made it an international event.

  July 1, 2004

• Night & Day Events

  Week of May 6, 2004

  May 6, 2004

• What a Drag

  January 1, 2004

• Play Loud

  These kids squeeze their own boxes.

  October 23, 2003

• Get Lost

  Corder's corn maze depicts One World.

  September 25, 2003

• Kid Gloves

  Once in a while, the whatsoever boxing club can make an honest fighter out of a neighborhood tough.

  September 11, 2003

• Wet Bar

  All sorts of liquids are flowing at Oceans of Fun.

  August 21, 2003

• This Week's Day-By-Day Picks

  August 14, 2003

• Uh-oh, It's Magic

  Magicians let loose.

  June 26, 2003

• The Wild West

  Go on a safari, sans lions.

  May 22, 2003

• Spin City

  Viewed from the friendly Skies, Kansas City looks like a real metropolis.

  July 18, 2002

• Best Cheap Safe Alternative to Suicide

  Mamba

  October 18, 2001

• Child Star

  Michelle Williams willingly accepts her Destiny.

  March 22, 2001

• Night & Day Events

  June 29, 2000

• Night & Day Events

  May 25, 2000

• Worlds of 'Funatics'

  April 6, 2000

• Promises of a really big show

  Following the yellow brick road can be a bummer; The longer it gets, the harder it is to distinguish fantasy from reality.

  February 10, 2000

• Celebrate America Festival

  July 2, 2009

• What to do this weekend -- our suggestions

  Celebrate America. Duh -- it's Fourth of July weekend. But seriously, Worlds of Fun is having a Celebrate America Festival every Friday and Saturday in July. Since you're probably not working today, you should just go now. As a reward for surviving the Orient Express, there will be fireworks in the evening.If you want to wait until Saturday to get your Independence Day on, head to the Crossroads. Due to the holiday, some galleries are waiting until next weekend to hold their monthly openings. Bu

  July 3, 2009

• Recap: Taste of Troost, July 4

  This past July 4 in Kansas City, one of the busiest street corners in Kansas City was 76th and Troost -- the parking lot of 7th Heaven -- where from early afternoon to about 8 o'clock, rappers, bands and herds of neighborhood people held court at the second annual Taste of Troost festival. Nicole ReinertsonCash Image The fest had been about seven or eight weeks in the making. Three whiteboys -- Adam (son of 7th Heaven owner Jan) Fichman, Kevin Sweeney and Rob Scott of Lifted Logic -- along wit

  July 6, 2009

• Someone with an ax robbed a Comfort Inn this morning

  A man with an ax robbed a Comfort Inn (7300 N.E. Parvin Road) near Worlds of Fun early Tuesday morning. The robber was described as ripped with muscles but having blue skin with a skeleton face. He was wearing a loin cloth and escaped on a giant battle panther. Here's the police sketch.Or he was a white guy with gray hair and glasses. One of the two.

  July 21, 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 festival circuit continues and there's still something for everybody. Beer lovers, meat lovers, and vegetarians -- get ready to overeat. It's not October, but that doesn't mean your lederhosen can't make an appearance at Oktoberfest. Learn how to properly slide a beer down a bar or go to beer school at Worlds of Fun's annual German Festival the next two weekends. The two beer ga

  September 11, 2009