By Justin Kendall Kansas City’s West Bottom bohemian boys will soon be Northeasterners. Ron Megee and Jon Fulton Adams are selling their West Bottoms loft and moving to the Old Northeast neighborhood. This means the end of the Student Union, the theme party paradise Megee and Adams hosted in their loft. Last weekend, Megee and Adams held an estate sale…
By CHARLES FERRUZZA In an election season, a tasteful “meet-and-greet” cocktail reception or brunch for a political candidate (with ample opportunity and pens for check-writing) is practically de rigueur for Kansas City hosts and hostesses with social consciousness – and spacious living rooms. Last Sunday, Jordan and Betty Bushman opened their beautifully appointed Plaza condominium for just such a soiree….
Kansas City’s West Bottom bohemian boys will soon be Northeasterners. Ron Megee and Jon Fulton Adams are selling their West Bottoms loft and moving to the historic Old Northeast. This means the end of the Student Union, the theme party paradise Megee and Adams hosted in their loft. Last weekend, Megee and Adams held an estate sale to unload their…
By DAVID MARTIN Anthony Ragusa used to own a liquor store at 27th and Troost. B&C Party Shoppe did a brisk Tony Ragusa business. But in 2003, the gin bottles and cans of Spaghetti-O’s gave way to an urban renewal project. In May, Mayor Mark Funkhouser and members of the city council gathered in the parking lot of the old…
By CHRIS PACKHAM Someday, my name will be prefaced with the phrase “wealthy financier,” and then you’ll all be fuckin’ sorry. Specifically, when wealthy financier Chris Packham launches a billion-dollar-losing media empire in Kansas City with heavy editorial application of multi-morpheme sobriquets based on the word douche. %{}% Attention Fox 4: WE WILL BURY YOU. It’s always embarrassing when your…
By ANDY VIHSTADT Next week, Saul Williams’ Niggy Tardust will see a physical release. No longer free to download, the CD will come with a handful of extras, including the song from that recent Nike commercial (link) and the track below (courtesy of Pitchfork). MP3: Saul Williams, “World on Wheels”, The Inevitable Rise and Fall of Niggy Tardust! (Fader) Categories:…
The coolest little ladies in Kansas City take the stage at the KCK Blues Festival. Categories: Music Tags: Blues Fest, drill teams, kck, sass
By ALAN SCHERSTUHL New and old liberal symbols? Dear conservatives: Nice to finally meet you. Long time, first time and all that. Recently, I’ve enjoyed your blog posts, reviews, and message board postings and editorials about how Wall-E is an anti-corporate, environmental polemic crafted by Hollywood elitists to indoctrinate our kids. Like you, I don’t care for entertainment that gets…
KCK Street Blues Festival Date: June 27 & 28, 2008 Venue: Koran Temple parking lot Better Than: A drunken evening at B.B.’s Lawnside BBQ By LORNA PERRY Click to view slideshow. The 8th Almost Annual KCK Street Blues Festival got underway this weekend at the corner of 13th and State, in Kansas City, Kansas. Friday night featured Cadillac Flambé, Koolaide…
By JOHN KREICBERGS Click photo to view slideshow. There’s little doubt that “American Idol” is the best thing that could have ever happened to Kansas City’s annual Red, White & Boom extravaganza. Having pulled through a few awkward years (think “Livin’ la Vida Loca” and “White Wedding” on the same bill), this homegrown event started to hit its stride during…
Barbeque, drill teams, African juices and the new queen of KCK, Myra Taylor. Photos by Lorna Perry.
Photos from this Saturday’s Red, White & Boom extravaganza in Bonner Springs, KS.
By CAROLYN SZCZEPANSKI For a critically acclaimed movie about a hometown war veteran, “Body of War” didn’t stick around long in Kansas City movie theaters. The Phil Donahue-directed documentary intimately details the life of Northland native Tomas Young, who was paralyzed from the chest down after serving just five days in Iraq and came home to become a tireless anti-war…
By CHRIS RASMUSSEN The Royals travel to Baltimore on Monday, where Wild Bill Hagy used to cheer for the Orioles in right field. So would Hagy be encouraged to perform his antics at Kauffman Stadium today? Not a chance. Categories: News
By NADIA PFLAUM Yesterday, I sat down with a candidate running for the 6th district Congressional seat whose name isn’t Kay or Sam. Dave Browning is the Libertarian candidate for Congress. We meet in the back of Clint’s Comics at 39th and Main, where he’s part owner. He follows my eyes to a rack full of Playboy magazines from the…
KC District Art Annual
Roller Warrior’s after party
Red, White and Boom
By JUSTIN KENDALL The Kansas City Star’s David Boyce is the most uninformed NBA writer in the country. Boyce’s incompetence was clear Sunday when he unveiled his first mock draft. Boyce ignored nearly every prognosticator and projected the Chicago Bulls taking Kansas State forward Michael Beasley with the first pick. Sure, Beasley has a chance at being a 20 and…
By ROY KASTEN The glitter fell but doom never did. So much the better for this — how else can it be put? — historic Tom Waits show at the Fox Theatre. Not that Waits didn’t try to summon all the spirits in the boneyard at the end of the junkyard at the end of the world. The hall roared…
By ANDY VIHSTADT Only July 29, Thirsty Ear Records and the Future of Music Coalition will bring the subject of Net Neutrality to the forefront with the Rock the Net compilation. The album will feature new and exclusive cuts from artists like the Wrens, Portastatic, and They Might Be Giants. Where the proceeds go isn’t quite clear, but you can…
By CHRIS PACKHAM My house was confiscated by the Downtown Improvement District last Monday. It turns out that there’s a little-known constitutional power laid out by America’s powdered-wig-wearing founding fathers, which is known today as Tom Clancy’s Right of Eminent Domain, because %{}% The Man — as seen in country clubs and Republican Party fundraisers — can take what’s yours…
