AltWeeklies Wire
Boulevard Brewery Faces a Fight for Our Tapsnew
The Kansas City beer company has built a reputation on retraining taste buds -- but so far its newest product, Lunar, has made few fans.
The Pitch |
Ben Paynter |
08-07-2007 |
Food+Drink
There Can Only Be One Foam Sword Fighternew
Wielding a Nerf-like weapon, the Barbarian has never been beaten.
The Pitch |
Ben Paynter |
05-22-2007 |
Recreation
Tags: recreation
John Angolia, the Military Widow Shoppernew
A war memorabilia collector hits up widows of vets.
Tags: war & peace
An Iraq Vet's Oval Office Ambushnew
With war memories torturing him, Alexis Janicki tried to bust his way into the White House.
A Holiday Catalog of Bummingnew
'Tis the season for these street-corner regulars to go to work.
The Pitch |
Ben Paynter |
12-19-2006 |
Housing & Development
Tags: housing & development
The Fast and the Fracturednew
A teenage motocross phenom follows his dad into victory lane -- and the hospital.
Tags: sports & fitness
Virtual Warnew
Military brass head to the Combat Studies Institute at Fort Leavenworth to learn from the mistakes in Iraq.
A Tale of Two Soldiersnew
Two Kansas City grunts who took bullets on the same day struggle with surviving the war.
In God We Dressnew
Churchgoing fashionistas are marketing God-friendly clothing in Kansas City, hoping to convince Midwesterners that their next must-have is a pair of $200 jeans from the Standard.
What's Really Wrong With Kansas City Radionew
Arbitron, the international marketing firm that has measured radio audiences for more than two decades, seems to have lost its ability to reliably track a new generation's listening habits.
A Man Known as Shorty Rides to Reform Gay Rodeonew
Gay rodeo combines traditional machismo events with camp contests in steer decorating and goat dressing.
Reality Bitesnew
When a Kansas City man landed a role on the reality TV show Rebel Billionaire with the intent of raising money for a local nonprofit, he found out that TV is just not that feel-good.
Tags: Kansas City, Solace House
