The Royals finally cut a deal that sent closer Octavio Dotel to Atlanta. The pitcher they got in exchange, Kyle Davies, really, truly, absolutely couldn’t be a better fit for the Royals. Why, you ask? Because the 23-year-old is another could’ve-been-great pitcher who burned out early. He’ll join a team that – in the David Glass era – has…
Erasure Sunday, July 29 Uptown Theater Better Than: Being on holiday in the Candy Cane Forest with Rick Astley, Ronnie Spector and Lady Bunny. By Megan Metzger All was full of love at the Uptown Theater Sunday night when electro-pop tart Andy Bell and his partner in music, Vince Clarke, turned the sometimes stodgy ol’ music hall into a sumptuous…
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Before July fades, let’s not forget an important culinary anniversary that should have been celebrated all over Missouri this month but wasn’t. Well, not in Kansas City anyway. Categories: Dining, Food & Drink
The Pomonas Saturday, July 28 The Replay Lounge Better Than: Getting hugged by a sweaty, shirtless man. The scene Saturday night at the Replay Lounge in Lawrence was infernal. There must have been nothing else going on that night in Larryville — either that or the Volunteers and the Pomonas are (or, in the Pomonas’ case, were) bigger than…
Six months ago, Heidi Van Pelt and Taran Noah Smith eyed each other from opposite sides of the aisle at the Platte County Courthouse, ready to fight for control of a vegan cheese company they created during a short and stormy marriage. The battle over Playfood is far from over, but soon someone else may be in charge of…
As the man himself says: “It’s finally official.” from Robert Moore: “Sonic Spectrum will air on the Buzz beginning Saturday, August 11th from 6-8pm.” For those who need explication: After a break of barely over a month, Robert Moore’s popular, locally based freeform music program, which held down a Saturday slot on public radio station KCUR 89.3 FM for over…
Yes, the Fringe Festival is this weekend. Yes, there’s a lot going on. Why not learn about the weekend’s public arts events at the official Web site of the Kansas City Fringe Festival? Because you’re not going to learn about it here. For information on other subjects not covered by this blog, check out the television in your living…
There’s a lot going on this weekend at the Kansas City Public Library’s Fringe Festival, which started Wednesday night. For the benefit of late-to-the-show nincompoops like us, here’s a slapdash list of the remaining, music-only acts that I basically cut and pasted from the site. Here’s a map of the locations. Here’s our Night&Day writeup. Here’s the list. Ambient Music…
The bitch is back. On Saturday, October 13, Elton John returns to Kansas City to play the Sprint Center’s grand opening. Sprint Center GM and Senior VP Brenda Tinnen told Fox 4, “Fans throughout the region will witness a historical moment with a true industry icon. Elton John’s long history of sold-out concerts in Kansas City — beginning in…
St. Vincent July 26, 2007 The Record Bar Photos and review by Richard Gintowt Man, oh man — St. Vincent is the shit. I suspected as much after giving her new album Marry Me a couple spins, but Annie Clark and company’s show last night at the Record Bar was Ron Burgundy’s balls and then some. Annie Clark, aka…
No disrespect to the fine folks at Danny’s Bar & Grill in Lenexa (13350 College Blvd), but who the fuck booked the Start there this Saturday? That’s like booking Garbage at Governor Stumpy’s in Waldo — but at least that would be closer to Midtown, which is where most of the people who would go see the Start happen to…
How much do you love freshly baked chocolate-chip cookies, cute puppies and sex? That’s how much we loooove leaked corporate documents. This missive from Embarq Senior Vice President of Human Resources Ned Holland was sent “To all employees” today. (That’s always ominous.) We transcribed it as it was read over the phone by our source. It says that the…
The Hill, a D.C. newspaper that usually covers Congress, announced its fourth-annual list of the “50 Most Beautiful People on Capitol Hill.” The write-ups make for entertaining reading, thanks to The Hill’s vapid, breathless writing. The hotness is broken down into a top 10, plus “40 more.” In case you care, “tall, dark and handsome” Indiana Rep. Brad Ellsworth…
One of the biggest Kansas City restaurant mysteries of the last year has been: Will any local restaurateur be brave enough to take over the ancient venue abandoned by Nichols Lunch 10 months ago? The legendary Nichols Lunch wasn’t just one of the last independently owned, 24-hour diners left in midtown. But at 85 years old, it was one…
Arguably the most popular (and notorious) drag show in town, starring the legendary Flo. Wednesdays, Saturdays, 10 p.m.-3 a.m., 2005 Tags: Night & Day
Weekly jazz performance at Cafe Trio. Thursdays, 6:30-9:30 p.m., 2006 Tags: 2817, Night & Day
In his big-screen debut, Homer Simpson utters the “D’oh!” heard round the world — or at least as far away as Washington, D.C. (which, given the unspecified coordinates of Springfield, might not be that far at all), where President Schwarzenegger and an overzealous EPA chief (voiced by Albert Brooks) rush to contain a Homer-instigated eco-crisis by encasing all of…
Cartoony second sequel to Raiders of the Lost Ark. Tags: Night & Day, raiders of the lost ark
During these dog days of summer, we are tired, cranky and doing anything we can think of to cool down. But cold showers and air conditioning get us only so far. We haven’t started ingesting uncooked Lean Cuisines — yet, that is — but our desire for something frosty has led us to conjure up what may be the…
More than in any other sport, numbers — not words — recount baseball’s history. Each numerical record tells a story: 755 reflects Hank Aaron’s grace under the pressure of racism; Pete Rose’s 4,192 hits illustrate a compulsive gambler’s successful chase to unseat a despicable racist from baseball’s record books. That’s why the suspicion of performance-enhancing drugs is such a damaging…
Since its April opening, a group exhibit at Grand Arts (1819 Grand, 816-421-6887) has evolved from a promising, nascent blast of cerebral fun into an intriguing anthology of environmental explorations. From the Fat of the Land: Alchemies, Ecologies, Attractions has its closing reception tonight from 6 to 9 p.m. “It’s an exhibition of eco-art practices,” says Stacy Switzer, artistic director…
Debbie Ford’s book teaches that loving oneself means loving one’s whole self. Tags: Debbie Ford, Night & Day
Get a unique view of the summer night sky as it appears over Kansas City, as we pull back the clouds and remove the city’s ambient, cosmos-obscuring light pollution to show you bright stars and prominent constellations that would have been visible a hundred years ago. If your kids have never actually seen stars, this is a fantastic simulation of…
