| Bradyn Fuksa flees a theft charge and disappears in Wyoming BY BEN PALOSAARI On July 16, 2009, when a Wyoming Highway Patrol car pulled up to a maroon 1996 Ford Explorer left empty on the side of Interstate 25, nothing seemed amiss. A patrolman left a sticker on the window of what appeared to be just another breakdown, warning that the Ford would be towed if the owner didn't move it. The patrolman soon drove on through rural Converse County, near a speck of a town called Douglas. A search of the SUV would show that the Ford's driver had tucked the ignition key neatly beneath a floor mat and left a laptop computer just hidden from view under clothes. The Ford had three-quarters of a tank of gas, no mechanical problems and a newly installed tire. The Ford held not a... more >> | | | | | KAWR hopes to make a local noise in Lawrence BY IAN HRABE The Americana Music Academy is in a charming Victorian-style house on Massachusetts Street in Lawrence. It's one of the many beautiful old homes lining the scenic road, and it's remarkable for its bright-blue-and-pink façade. Inside, though, it's clear that the house is more distinctive than the idiosyncratic paint job would suggest. Amid equipment, instruments and practice rooms, the acad... more >> | | | | | My Big Fat Greek Restaurant calls to suburban Cretans everywhere BY CHARLES FERRUZZA There are several reasons not to like a place called My Big Fat Greek Restaurant. Before I set foot inside the place, I tried to ignore my preconceptions, but they kept popping up, like the three furies of Greek mythology. Olathe! Chain restaurant! Nia Vardalos movie! Getting there takes a midtowner about as long as actually traveling to Greece — without the view. And why make the expediti... more >> | | | | Rabbit Hole BY KARINA LONGWORTH Based on the Pulitzer Prize–winning play by David Lindsay-Abaire, John Cameron Mitchell's Rabbit Hole plops us down in the lives of Becca (Nicole Kidman, who also produced) and Howie (Aaron Eckhart), a fortyish married couple rattling around an East Coast dream house. In the film's first scenes, the couple acts out a domestic "normal" that's so obviously in quotes, we know something must be... more >> | | | | | Wayward Blog ? It's been about 25 years since Salt N Pepa met each other at Queensborough Community College and started rapping together, and 1986 was also the same year that they released Hot, Cool & V... Fat City The official topic of yesterday's Fat City post about "hibernation foods" (you know, when it's too much trouble to go out to eat or cook at home) was take-out fare, but when one commenter turne... Plog Does Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback endorse the idea that secularism brought about the events of 9/11 That's one conclusion to draw from Olathe News reporter Rick Babson's account of an inauguration... | | | | |
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