Charles Ferruzza w/ Carol Barta
Charles Ferruzza is the award-winning restaurant reviewer for The Pitch, Kansas City’s alternative weekly. His work has been seen in a variety of local and national magazines, including Genre, Borderline, Kansas City Home Design, Kansas City Magazine, Ingram’s and Kansas City Live! For 15 years, Charles was the feature editor of the Sun Newspapers where he covered a wide gamut of topics, ranging from home design to film, theater, and local personality profiles. He began his radio career doing book reviews for WFYI-FM in Indianapolis in the early 1980s.
The popular sidekick on the “Anything Goes” show is co-host Carol Jean Barta, known to KKFI listeners as “The Garage Sale Queen.” Before establishing her career as a garage sale expert and a noted antiques dealer, Carol Barta had a colorful career in the entertainment industry, beginning in the 1950s at KUDL-AM as “Cuddles the Weather Girl.” Before this, Barta – then known as Carol Jean Heuermann – was voted “Miss Prairie Village of 1956.” Later Barta worked at WHB-AM and WDAF-TV. Barta’s film career runs from the sublime to the terrifying, having been featured in “Mr. and Mrs. Bridge” and Hector Elizando’s dead wife in the TV film “Burden of Proof.” Her video career encompasses roles in many horror classics including “Bloodthirsty Cannibal Demons” (in the major role of Haggis the Witch) and “Sorority Babes from Hell.” Barta is also proud to be the mother of Broadway star Becky Barta who has toured the country in a number of shows including “Les Miserables.”