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SCENE AND HEARD // FAT FREDDY'S
> New places. New faces.
The phone number hasn't changed, but the man behind the apron has. "This is the pizza guy," Fred Tucker says into the receiver, keeping a low profile. With confused callers he'll go on to explain, "This is Fat Freddy's, formerly Gumby's Pizza."
In 1999, Tucker managed Gumby's until he flew to Florida to run a full service Italian restaurant called Broadway Ristorante Pizzeria. "In Orlando, people would say 'Oh, you have the best pizza and I know pizza — I'm from New York.' And I'd be like, 'Oh yeah? Well I'm from Kansas and I just made your stinkin' pizza,'" Tucker says.
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Ten years and one hundred pounds later, Tucker brought the saucy East Coast style back to Lawrence. On Aug. 1, he opened the doors to Fat Freddy's, 1445 West 23rd St.
"We started answering the phone 'Thanks for calling Fat Freddy's,' but it was scaring people off because they didn't know what happened to Gumby's," Tucker says.
"It's the same oven that was cooking Gumby's pizza. It's the same dough mixer that
Do the Hokey Pokey (stix): Fat Freddy's, formerly Gumby's Pizza, is revamped with a new menu including the famous Hokey Pokey Stix and the new Kansas City Carriage.
was mixing Gumby's dough," Tucker says. "But it's not the same Gumby's dough and it's not the same pizza."
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Tucker has even tweaked a few of the original items creating Hokey Pokey Stix, formerly Pooky Stix, and Big Fred's Massive Pizza, the former Big Ass Pizza. "Once I establish my quality and re-brand as Fat Freddy's, maybe people will start ordering my food for dinner, instead of after they get drunk at 2 a.m.," Tucker says.
Corey Smith's music isn't found on local radio stations, yet he's sold 150,000 albums and 700,000 singles. The progressive country singer may not be mainstream, but his fans sure want a piece of him.
Smith, who is half-blind after getting hit by a rock as a kid, never dreamed he'd have such a forward fan base. In fact, he never dreamed he'd have a fan base at all.
Starting out as a social studies teacher in his home state of Georgia, he won a local music contest at Cheetah Marie's Café and landed eight golden hours in the studio. It was just enough time for him to record his first album and turn his art into a job. The 33-year-old guitar strummin' father of two doesn't like to gamble. Five or so years ago, he took a very calculated step into the spotlight.
From North to South Country singers Simone Smith started as a social studies teacher in Georgia, but winning a local music contest gave him a chance to record his first album.
"Choosing to teach was actually costing money because I had to turn down so many shows," Smith says. At the time he didn't have a manager or agent.
Jessica Cason, Tampa, Fla., senior, knows his name because of good, old fashion marketing: word of mouth. "I know he's really popular in the south and now he's making his way around the nation," Cason says.
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