%{}% By CHARLES FERRUZZA There’s been some significant movement in Kansas City’s restaurant scene this week. After failing to keep her Overland Park restaurant 40 Sardines open as the sole chef-owner, Debbie Gold is bouncing back from her divorce from chef Michael Smith (who has remarried and now runs his own namesake restaurant at 1900 Main Street with his wife…
By DAVID MARTIN After a consultant encouraged the city of Kansas City, Missouri, to collect more revenue from on-street parking, meters have begun to appear outside the downtown loop. A row of parking meters now lines the west side of Baltimore Avenue, between Truman Road and 16th Street. More machines are on the way. “In time, additional meters will find…
By CHRIS PACKHAM You’re dead, new fish! A Springfield woman was sentenced for her son’s David Benedek-grade X-treme truancy %{}%after he missed half of the 2006-07 school year. It’s about time that society cracked down on these law-flaunting moms with their sweatpants and their ugly Keds, but will her “shock time” behind bars be enough? I’m suggesting some kind of…
God bless Michele Markowitz. The owner of Davey’s Uptown Ramblers Club has bravely taken it upon herself to host at her club a touring band of legendary proportions — to those in the goth kingdom, that is. According to word on the streets, L.A.’s London After Midnight is the biggest animal-rights, anti-leather, vegan goth band you’ve never heard of. Here’s…
Police Story By FLANNERY CASHILL We’re Fucked at the Anchor Last night’s Seasick show at the Anchor ended early when two cop cars, a paddywagon, and a fire marshal arrived. The confrontation went amicably, with fewer flipped cars and middle fingers than may be imagined, but left the Anchor saddled with a list of necessary building repairs and the future…
Dog Days By ANDY VIHSTADT Philadelphia’s Dr. Dog will be revisiting the metro in September to promote its upcoming fifth LP, out 7/22 (and a week earlier on iTunes). Score the first single below, thanks to the Daily Rind, and grab a nice collection of downloadable oldies here. See Dr. Dog live at the Record Bar on 9/30. MP3: Dr….
By JASON HARPER Kansas City singer-songwriter Forrest Whitlow moves away from the acoustic folk and toward the acoustic rock on his latest and seventh album, 7. Shades of Lenny Kravitz and Phantom of the Opera haunt the strings of driving leadoff track “Vanilla Stoli,” while “On My Way to See Aimee Man,” with some saxamaphone fury from Mark Southerland and…
By FLANNERY CASHILL The Rich Boys beg the question, “Who farted?” MP3: The Rich Boys, “Toxic Wind”, from $ (self-released) Bandit Teeth plays quick, clever indie pop that echoes the Pixies and Dinosaur Jr. MP3: Bandit Teeth, “Porn it Up”, from Demos (self-released) Hatebreed get hard, vow to get harder, with melodramatic metal-core. MP3: Hatebreed, “To the Threshold”, from Supremacy…
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By CHRIS RASMUSSEN For more than a decade, watching the most generic of losing teams, Royals fans have been hopeless. We’re so used to losing that we can’t even imagine winning. It’s not that fans hate the current product. Some are just apathetic; others accept it, believing it’s not possible to field a winning baseball team in this town because…
War on War By ANDY VIHSTADT Secretly Canadian is taking the War on Drugs to a national level. The Philadelphia outfit’s debut LP, Wagonwheel Blues, releases next Tuesday. The label describes its sound as “layered with popping ecstatic guitars, with drums sitting firmly and a voice that is urgent and in control, it’s like ‘I’m On Fire’-era Springsteen with 80s…
Live Nation has just announced that the Coldplay concert at Sprint Center has been moved from July 9 to November 13. If you can’t hang with the new date and have already bought a ticket, you can refund it at point of purchase. See the rest of the dates for the tour, unfortunately named (along with the album) Viva La…
By NADIA PFLAUM Time to wax the mustache and polish the good-cop, bad-cop routine: The Kansas City Police Department plans to start filming all interrogations of crime suspects. Categories: News
Todd Rundgren, big-time rock producer, plays-every-instrument-himself-in-the-studio solo recording artist and composer of corporate chain restaurant PA system mainstay “Bang On the Drum All Day” (maybe it’s just me, but that song totally makes me wanna murder an Awesome Blossom), is coming through Kansas City on July 24, playing the VooDoo Lounge. His next one, a supposed big rocker titled Arena,…
By CHARLES FERRUZZA As an ex-waiter, I still have the occasional server’s nightmare: In my dream, I’m standing in the middle of a well-appointed dining room of a restaurant that I’ve never seen before. It’s a Saturday night, every table is full and I don’t see another waiter in the joint. A strange manager hands me a waiter’s pad and…
%{}% By CHARLES FERRUZZA As an ex-waiter, I still have the occasional server’s nightmare: In my dream, I’m standing in the middle of a well-appointed dining room of a restaurant that I’ve never seen before. It’s a Saturday night, every table is full and I don’t see another waiter in the joint. A strange manager hands me a waiter’s pad…
By CHRIS PACKHAM I’ve been spending a lot of time on Kansas City’s best Web site, the official site of Channel 38 the Spot. Like Channel 38 the Spot host Holly Starr, I’ve been involved in the entertainment industry since age 12, and my career in Hollywood didn’t so much work out. %{}%Also like Holly Starr, I take “the most…
By CAROLYN SZCZEPANSKI To hear Pete Levi, the president of the Greater Kansas City Chamber of Commerce, tell it, scores of local businesses are jumping on the green bandwagon. Corporations big and small are bulking up their bottom line by trimming their environmental impact and nearly 150 local companies have joined the Chamber’s Climate Protection Partnership, which aims to minimize…
By JASON HARPER Guess how many dogs the winner of Mercy Seat’s Hot Dog Eating Contest this past First Friday ate? 40? No way. 20? Not even close. 13? Nope. Seven. And he was a big guy, too, according to reports. Maybe the hot dogs were really big, too, like, the size of huskies. Who can say? I missed the…
Different Strokes By ANDY VIHSTADT Photo by Justin Jay While we wait for the fourth LP from the Strokes, rhythm guitarist and solo artist Albert Hammond Jr. is hitting us his sophomore solo effort, Como Te Llama?, hitting stores on July 7 via RCA. Download the album’s first single, “Gfc,” free at RCRD LBL, here. Categories: Music
Click on Wayne Coyne’s bubble to view our photos from this year’s Wakarusa festival. Categories: Music
