It's been a big year for former Kansas City Star sports columnist Jason Whitlock. And now he could cap 2010 with a meaningless award from Deadspin.
The sports blog -- which delights in ridiculing Whitlock -- announced last week that the scribe is one of eight notable sports personalities in a tournament for its tongue-in-cheek Sports Human of the Year honor, voted on by the site's readers. Winning won't be easy though. Whitlock finds himself in a cast of morons, sleazebags and weirdos who have made themselves notorious for a stupefying range of actions.
Wednesday will mark a full year since Nelson Hopkins Jr. was gunned down while walking home from a bus stop near 54th and Lydia. Hopkins, a 17-year-old Alta Vista Charter High School student, had a college application in his pocket.
Hopkins' family will honor his memory with a prayer vigil and candlelit walk at the scene of the murder. The celebration of Hopkins' life starts at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday at the Rockhurst Community Center (5401 Troost Avenue). The walk will commence at 8:30 p.m. If you can make it, go.
You can thank the inventor of the electric mixer -- Herbert Johnson in 1908, although the first hand-held mixer, the Sunbeam MixMaster wasn't introduced for 44 more years -- for helping to make the mousse a popular dessert in America.
Sure, there were variations on the mousse -- French for foam -- in the United States long before the MixMaster. A recipe for a pudding-like concoction called chocolate mousse was published in the Boston Daily Globe in 1897.
The introduction of whipped egg whites and, later, the hand-held mixer gave even untrained home cooks the confidence to create a confection that only upscale restaurants -- the continental variety -- were serving.
Thomas Drummond is here to teach us all a lesson in winter weather preparedness. Drummond beat a drunken driving charge by claiming he got lit up to stay warm.
Drummond was acquitted after testifying that he started drinking after -- not before -- he drove into a culvert, according to the Southeast Missourian. We all know how cold culverts can be in February.
Lucky for Drummond, he had his trusty bottle of brandy to keep him company while he waited for more than two hours for emergency workers.
Jacob Coterel's parents woke up Monday morning to a nightmare. The nearly 2-year-old boy was missing. The front door was ajar. Their search for the boy ended in a pond about 100 yards from the family's Sedalia, Missouri, home.
Coterel had drowned in the pond. The boy's parents tried to revive him, but the boy's body temperature was just too low.
The Jewish celebration of Hanukkah begins at sundown tomorrow night, but the traditional fried foods and desserts of the holiday should have people of any faith relishing the next eight nights. So whether or not you celebrate the Festival of Lights, you should consider adding some of the holiday recipes to your repertoire.
It's out with Owen and in with the new for Petro America Corporation, the sham oil company that federal investigators say swindled thousands of investors. Last week, founder Owen Hawkins resigned as CEO as a result of his indictment. But he's already named his replacement.
New CEO Greg Cornley is a member of the Ministers Alliance, a group of local ministers who own and support Petro stock -- because what Kansas City needs from its religious leaders in the Great Recession is really shitty stock advice.
Back in June, the feds were looking for Patrick
Neal Porter. Authorities had searched Porter's home and found pictures of a young girl in sexually explicit poses on Porter's computer.
Authorities believed the 40-year-old -- with the help of his wife, Barbara Porter -- had removed his 16-year-old stepdaughter from protective services and had run away to California. If true, Barbara Porter was well on her way to becoming a terrible
mother.
Was that Usher eating at the Cheesecake Factory late Saturday night after his concert at the Sprint Center? It's not unlikely -- the California-based dining chain is one of the few restaurants on the Country Club Plaza that serves late on weekends.
A bartender at the restaurant told a Pitch reporter that the staff was sure it was Usher. For one thing, he was in town. "He looked just like him," said the bartender, "but he was in a hoodie and sunglasses and it wasn't like we could say, 'Hey, are you Usher?' "
Why couldn't he? What is the proper etiquette when celebrities are in a restaurant? First rule: Don't gawk.
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Comment of the Day: Stop the 'navel gazing,' C.W. Gusewelle
Posted by Justin Kendall on Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 4:30 PM
Kansas City Star columnist C.W. Gusewelle's discovery of Google Maps column was another phoned piece, according to commenter FS Fitzgerald.
C'mon, C-Dub. Embrace the controversy.Fitzgerald summarizes Gusewelle's career in a strong critique in the comments section of "Star columnist C.W. Guswelle has mind blown by Google Maps, mails in another column":
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