(7418 Wornall, 816-523-5485). Easy-on-the-pocket Monday specials include $2.75 wells, $1.25 domestic draws, $1 PBR drafts and $2.75 domestic bottles until 6:30 p.m. Mondays, 2008 Tags: 2817, Night & Day
(7438 Wornall, 816-523-9964). Before 8 p.m., hook yourself up with $2 domestic bottles, $5 domestic pitchers and $2 wells. Mondays, 2008 Tags: Night & Day
Before there were grocery stores, people shopped at open-air markets. They arrived carrying their own bags or baskets and knew by name the folks who grew the food or produced the goods they consumed. Farmers and craftspeople aren’t as ubiquitous as they used to be, what with leviathan grocery store chains and overseas manufacturing. But Kansas City has its fair…
If your creative life so far has been limited to crafting excuses for why you’re not using the right side of your brain, today’s your chance to turn a constructive corner. Every Tuesday from 8:30 a.m. to who knows when, the textile mavens at The Studio (1121 West 47th Street, 816-531-4466) host Sit & Stitch, a gathering for people who…
Tonight, “The Sousely Punch” takes on “The Devious Emu” as the city’s finest drink slingers compete at the second-annual Greater Kansas City Bartending Competition at the Uptown Theater (3700 Broadway, 816-753-8665). Starting at 6 p.m., the top 12 area bartenders will each concoct a classic cocktail and an original drink for cash prizes and national recognition in Cheers magazine. The…
The city’s budget woes resulted in this year’s $600,000 cut for the Kansas City Zoo (63rd Street and Swope Parkway, 816-871-5700). Rather than taking the easy path of large-mammal layoffs, the zoo ultimately passed the financial hit along to you, the zoological consumer, in the form of an admission hike. Getting in now costs $10.50 for adults, $7 for children…
El Torreon may get cleaned up a bit and reopened, but it will always be a dive — a dive with history and a stage. So what better way to raise money to renovate the building than a talent show? Today from noon to 2:30 p.m., acts of various ages and talents will compete for first prize of at least…
Five years after we invaded Iraq, you can still spot many cars around town with “Support Our Troops” ribbons. If you really want to support the troops, give one a ride to the RecruitMilitary Career Fair from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. today at Kauffman Stadium.Depending on which shameful statistic you want to go by, young vets returning from the…
(520 West 75th Street, 816-523-4677). Guest Reward members get half-off appetizers; Mug Club members get 22-ounce beers for $2.50. Mondays, 2008 Tags: Night & Day
Do you feel it, that subtle shift in the weather — like a wound finally starting to heal? When the dog ceases baying at the moon, the cat comes home to its milk and the hawk stops circling to land on an Einstein Bros. billboard? Yes, citizens, the Pitch Music Showcase is here. Thursday night, August 7, in Westport, for…
“Any Moment Now,” by Koufax, from Strugglers (Doghouse Records): Although Dodgers pitcher Sandy Koufax was the first major-league player to serve up four no-hitters, we’re guessing that’s not the statistic the members of Koufax were hoping to emulate when they named their band after him. If the MySpace samples are any indication, the Lawrence alums’ fourth album, Strugglers (due in…
“Whiskey Kisses,” by the Kansas City Bear Fighters: If the Kansas City Bear Fighters ever actually stumbled across a bear, the beast would be more likely to show off its jazz hands than its teeth. The group’s gleeful singing and toe-tapping melodies would tickle Tiny Tim or Tennessee Ernie Ford. The Fighters have been known to perform in Hawaiian shirts…
“Out Little Song,” by Cindy Woolf: Oh, Springfield … we’d be lying if we said we weren’t feeling a tad competitive these days, what with Ha Ha Tonka and Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin knocking our socks off. Now here comes Cindy Woolf, all sugar and molasses, putting her shapely Arkansas accent to work behind songs that Gillian Welch…
If there’s one band that a generation scarred by nu-metal and rap-rock is willing to forgive, it’s Linkin Park. After all, it’s one of the most successful rock groups of all time, hanging with the Eagles in terms of record sales. The band’s secret lies in its ability to transcend guilty-pleasure status. These days, jaded indie rockers and granola kids…
Werner Herzog has made a career documenting extreme landscapes and courting danger. Encounters at the End of the World chronicles his trip to Antarctica, and, perhaps because the director is approaching old-master status, skews toward the observational. Taking a military plane out of New Zealand, Herzog ponders his fellow travelers, wondering who they are and what they dream. He finds…
“Fear and Convenience,” by Thao with the Get Down Stay Down, from We Brave Bee Stings and All (Kill Rock Stars): Probably deep within an Appalachian forest, Thao Nguyen stumbled upon the elements of a captivating folk song: innocent melody, intimate lyrics, nimbly picked guitar. Wandering back into the Washington, D.C., metro area, she recruited the Get Down Stay Down…
On the surface, Pineapple Express offers precisely what it advertises: a roll-’em-up, smoke-’em-up, blow-’em-up bromantic comedy from the freaks and geeks who have made Judd Apatow’s brand of stunted-man yuks a global franchise. No longer schlepping home electronics (The 40-Year-Old Virgin) or dicking around with a porn Web site (Knocked Up), Seth Rogen has a real job now — as…
Nanette Burstein, who made the entertaining Robert Evans documentary The Kid Stays in the Picture, spent a year hanging out with a handful of carefully chosen adolescents from the only high school in the small town of Warsaw, Indiana, orthopedic manufacturing capital of the world. Burstein’s film seeks to break down the wall between narrative and nonfiction filmmaking — and…
Where in the world,” people ask me, “is Max Chao?” The gregarious Chao has been missing from the dining scene since he closed his last business, Ohana’s Hawaiian Barbecue, last year. But Chao may be better known to local diners for his previous restaurant, Max’s Noodles & More at 1728 Main, and for the family business, New Peking Chinese Restaurant…
Recently, an African-American friend of mine called in a tizzy because he felt he’d been treated less than graciously at one of the restaurants in the Power & Light District. I had a news flash for him: I’ve endured some seriously uppity attitude from several employees in the same haute bourgeois entertainment district — and I’m a honky. Just try,…
Here’s the speech I keep hearing lately as I wait for sweet, tiny shows to start. A director or producer or cavalier local personality comes out and says, “Thanks for coming to see . Because your support is so important, I just want to make sure that you all got the flier about , opening soon. Come on out and…
“Giants of May,” by the Pedaljets, from The Pedaljets (OxBlood Records): It’s July 5, and Lawrence’s Replay Lounge is packed. Veterans of the ’80s underground are everywhere. One-time Lawrence singer-songwriter Lori Wray, back from Minneapolis and onstage with her old band, the Von Bulows, has just thrilled Shelle Rosenfeld, writer and former editor of The Note, by reprising her cover…
On July 14 and 16, Kansas City Mayor Mark Funkhouser wrote three short memos to City Manager Wayne Cauthen. The memos were identical in length (three paragraphs) and in tone (annoyed). Two memos asked Cauthen about the lack of progress being made on changes the council adopted when it passed the budget in March. The third memo wanted to know…
Speak Your Mind Dear Mexican: Where I recently started working, Latinos make up about 95 percent of the work force. We are, however, prohibited from speaking Spanish. Our supervisor tells us that if we can speak so much as one word of English, we cannot speak in Spanish. We are constantly being threatened about it. My manager constantly makes racial…
