By CAROLYN SZCZEPANSKI For years, Benni Ewing and Janet Boggess have lived in development purgatory on Park Avenue. They’ve tripped on crumbling sidewalks to get in their cars and then swerved to avoid huge trash piles that sat for months on the side of the pot-hole-ridden road. They watched as the Community Development Corporation of Kansas City tore down houses…
Click the photo to see a slide show of Robert Plant and Alison Krauss’ show at Starlight. Robert Plant and Alison Krauss September 23, 2008 Starlight Theatre Better Than: Pickin’ on Led Zeppelin By SCOTT WILSON Robert Plant may be a bona fide rock god, but he shuffled onto the stage at Starlight last night in a protective crouch, stoop-shouldered…
By THE PACKHAM VIC 20 Memo from Plog Shift Supervisor Faysal Alkhaiwani Re: Chris Packham Date: 9/24/08 Attention workers: Until further notice, Daily Briefs to be assembled via the third shift’s Packham Vic 20. Find it. Last seen at the 1998 office part. Find it. Message from Plog shift worker Vadiz Levi to Chris Packham (private): Chris, we found your…
By JUSTIN KENDALL Midtown Miscreant is becoming one of my favorite local bloggers. Yesterday, MM posted a startling but great analysis of the sympathy given to an armed robber killed by a store clerk. A taste: “Anytime someone dies a violent death it is tragic, it’s a waste, it’s sad. That being said, if you decide to stick a pistol…
By NADIA PFLAUM On Saturday afternoon, a handful of people showed up to pay tribute to an estimated 3,000 indigent people buried in the historical Leeds Cemetery at 6900 Coalmine Road, now a Kansas City Police Department shooting range. Pictured are Audreay McKinnie and Corrine Patterson, founding members of the Midwest Afro-American Genealogical Interest Coalition (MAGIC) who arranged for the…
By CHARLES FERRUZZA Only a handful of grand mansions remain on Armour Boulevard, which was once lined with the homes of the city’s movers and shakers. Meatpacking mogul Kirkland B. Armour lived on the boulevard (which is named for his oldest brother Simeon Armour). Also living on Armour were dentist M.C. Carpenter (father of iconic film star Jean Harlow), Abraham…
By ANDY VIHSTADT Former Archers of Loaf frontman Eric Bachmann is releasing his next album under his Crooked Fingers moniker. Forfeit/Fortune is out digitally on October 7 and will include a duet with Neko Case. You can preorder the $45 special edition, which includes a bonus live DVD, T-Shirt, autographs and more, right here. The album’s first single is available…
By OWEN MORRIS Ken Krause smiling as his wife Nancy helps customers in the background. Thirty miles west of Lawrence, on the outskirts of a town called Overbrook (town motto: “Don’t overlook Overbrook!”), on a patch of orchard stretching nearly 200 acres, stand hundreds of apple trees with dozens of varieties of fresh apples ready for picking. As in, you…
By OWEN MORRIS Dan from Gone Mild gives a great overview of a great beer. That is, if you want to call a 40-proof drink a beer. I do. A delicious, delicious beer. (Gone Mild) The Four Seasons in New York is one of the city’s (world’s?) most fabled restaurants. It’s a power lunch spot and a be-seen dinner spot….
David Sanborn September 23, 2008 Uptown Theater Better Than: A Steel Cage Deathmatch between Kenny G and Dave Koz. By JOHN KREICBERGS What is there to say about smooth jazz that hasn’t been said a million times before? Safe? Check. Saccharine sweet? Check. Flaccid? Check. Lacking soul? Check. Commercial? Check. Musique d’ameublement? Check. While most would point to such smooth…
By JEN CHEN I’m an impatient shopper; I hate pawing through jumbled clothes racks at stores. That’s one of the reasons why I like Frankly Basic. Not only does it carry some cool clothes, but everything is nicely arranged. And, there’s a cute canine mascot, too! (and a very nice owner, as pictured above). Categories: News Tags: Anthropologie, Crestwood Shops,…
Photos from last night’s show at Starlight, with headliners Robert Plant and Alison Krauss. Sharon Little opened. Photos by Scott Spychalski.
By DAVID MARTIN Joining an addition to the Akron Art Museum and a 10-story tower in a suburban Des Moines office park, an elementary-school playground in Lawrence has been named “Eyesore of the Month.” “Eyesore” is a regular feature on the blog of James Howard Kunstler, a writer who sees tragedy in the highway strips, McMansions and megamalls that surround…
By CAROLYN SZCZEPANSKI Cory Bishop was already on his way to meet with the cops when he got pulled over in early May. The 20-year-old construction worker was driving to Sharky’s restaurant in Harrisonville — a town 35 miles southeast of Kansas City — to chat with a police detective who had some questions about a brawl five months earlier….
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By JUSTIN KENDALL Matt Parkman needs Sprint to phone home. Would it really work? Last night’s two-hour “Heroes” season three premiere featured a blatant shout out for Sprint, a prime sponsor of the show. Spoiler alert: Near the end of the second episode — “The Second Coming” — ex-detective Matt Parkman (Greg Grunberg) wakes up in a desert after future…
By C.J. JANOVY Here’s a Republican talking point we’re hearing ad nauseam: Barack Obama’s health plan “will be a government-run program where a bureaucrat stands between you and your doctor” — John McCain at his September rally with Sarah Palin in Lee’s Summit. The scary rally cry raises the fearful specter of socialized medicine, for sure. But it doesn’t address…
By JUSTIN KENDALL Eww. Eww. Eww. Perennial candidate for everything Richard Tolbert proclaimed his love for Gloria Squitiro in a column on the KC Tribune’s Web site last Friday. I lust for her in my heart. If I had such a wife protecting my back, I could be President of the United States in 2012, regardless of who wins in…
By FLANNERY CASHILL Yesterday’s equinox marked the beginning of fall, a time of year that evokes the smell of apple cider, the crunch of fallen leaves underfoot, and memories of a Samhain concert that predates my precious birth. Scar Stuff shares a bootleg of this 1984 double whammy, Samhain with 7 Seconds at the VFW on Walnut. Holy shit! Download…
By OWEN MORRIS You may remember Lindsay Weiss, the self-described “part-time stay-at-home mom and part-time management consultant” from Overland Park. What she doesn’t mention is that she’s a King Midas when it comes to recipe competitions. When I last mentioned her, Weiss was one of twelve finalists for Cooking Light magazine’s Ultimate Reader Recipe Contest. Then this weekend, look what…
By JUSTIN KENDALL Pirates spread the message that “God Hates Shrimp.” The pirates of Little Rock stole Fred Phelps’ Westboro Baptist Church’s thunder last Friday. The Topeka church was protesting the National Conference of Editorial Writers because they are “responsible for the satanic milieu in this evil land” and for assisting the “satanic agendas” of “baby-killers and fags.” But in…
Lucinda’s new one — yes! a new album already! — Little Honey, comes out October 14. She’ll be stopping by the Uptown on Monday, October 20. I for one, will have my fingers crossed that she’ll be rolling this’n out. Categories: Music Tags: Lucinda
