%{}% The KC Irish Fest needs volunteers and even if you are unable to help, there is a handy form letter you can give to family and friends. Boulevard’s-yet-be-released Tank 7 beer reportedly doesn’t mix well at all with the summer seasonal Maibock. Is flying first-class actually worth the extra couple of zeros, or is it strictly the realm of…
REVIEW BY ABBIE STUTZER Last night at the Replay, each bands’ show had a unique quality. LoFi had a calm and intimate act; the Hot Toddies had a subtly dirty and reserved set, and the Dead Girls had a powerful, steady performance. Lonnie Fisher (vocal, guitar), former member of Lonnie Fisher and the Funeral and Sturgeon Mill, and Cody Henry…
Two Missouri newspapers refused to run a wedding announcement from an Independence same-sex couple. On May 17, Mike and Chuck Hewitt legally tied the knot in Lamoni, Iowa, and wanted to share the news. They tried to place wedding announcements in the Independence Examiner and Kansas City Star, but the newspapers rejected them. Here’s what the Star and Examiner refused…
Mission commuters: get ready for a fresh installation of eye-catching public art. A new sculpture is now on display at the intersection of Shawnee Mission Parkway and Roe Avenue, courtesy of the non-profit group Artists Helping the Homeless. It’s big, bold and red — and presents a challenge from Mahatma Gandhi. Categories: News Tags: Artists Helping the Homeless, City of…
This weekend, metalheads will converge on the Beaumont Club for American Waste, a two-day festival of speed guitars, drum bursts, Cookie Monster vocals, moshing and infinite black T-shirts. Terry Taylor, vice president of Hunt Industries and member of two bands scheduled to perform (Hammerlord and the Blinding Light), has high hopes for the event. He took a little time out…
In a wonderful little thing that started at 12:01am today, Live Nation will not charge service fees on Wednesdays. According to Billboard, every Wednesday throughout the rest of the summer, Live Nation will offer a variety of “No Service Fee Wednesdays” specials at LiveNation.com. Tickets without service fees are available at all Live Nation-ticketed amphitheaters for concerts including blink-182, Coldplay,…
Yesterday’s FYI section of The Kansas City Star makes a compounding error by reprinting a god-awful Philadelphia Inquirer profile of radio and television host Glenn Beck. John Timpane’s piece opens with a cringe-inducing first sentence: “Glenn Beck is dressed to kill.” Timpane went with the sartorial gambit on account of Beck’s penchant for mixing anchorwear with Chuck Taylors. (What a…
The Wichita Eagle reported yestserday that Kansas Sen. Jim Barnett, a Republican from Emporia, will run for the U.S. House of Representatives. Although competition will likely be fierce for the seat currently held by Jerry Moran, Barnett’s entry into the race is good news for Kansas. Barnett is moderate, smart and respectful — Washington badly needs Republicans like him. I…
Last night, Rachel Maddow recapped the history of violence against abortion providers in the United States. This segment is long — it’s nearly 12 minutes — but it’s sobering and frightening and worth seeing. Maddow slowly lays out a case for “an anti-abortion terrorist movement in the United States.” Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the…
You know how I am about soul food buffets: an army of crazed armed Taliban insurgents couldn’t drag my ass away from a buffet table heaped with fried chicken and macaroni-and-cheese. A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about restaurateur Lutfi Khalifa’s new fish-and-buffet restaurant in the back of The Landings shopping center at 63rd and Troost. It’s a nice…
So I got up really early last Saturday morning to gulp down a cup of joe and then drive to St. Joseph and see what the Pony Express Farmers Market was all about. The market is held in the parking lot of the East Ridge Mall on Frederick Avenue every Wednesday — which is why I’m posting this today, in…
Kansas City’s bilingual, Latin-infused rock band Making Movies is celebrating the release of its simmering new single, “Libertad,” with two shows in the next week. The first is Friday night at the Czar Bar with the Cherry Tree Parade and Sal Retta. The second show is Monday, June 8, at Jerry’s Bait Shop in Lenexa with Giant Radio. Making Movies…
Since only one of this week’s three newbies on the country top 10 would strike my grandpa as having anything to do with his beloved hillbilly music, and since even the one kinda-hillbilly number – the Alan Jackson song – sounds like the Tony Rich Project, it’s fair at this point to ask just what in the holy hell it…
Writing at the Huffington Post, author and Kansas City resident Leonard Zeskind describes the origins and tenants of the Freeman, an anti-government movement with which Scott Roeder, the suspected murderer of abortion provider George Tiller, felt a connection. The author of the new book Blood and Politics: The History of the White Nationalist Movement from the Margins to the Mainstream,…
%{}% Scott P. Roeder was charged with the first-degree murder of Wichita doctor George Tiller, the Wichita Eagle reports. Roeder was also charged with armed criminal action and ordered not to have any contact with the men he’s accused of pointing a gun at after allegedly shooting Tiller. A preliminary hearing is scheduled for June 16. Wichita Eagle reporter Ron…
Phil Lindsey became Jackson County’s most notorious voter last August when he caused a ruckus at an Independence polling place that ended in his arrest. Lindsey, founder of the group Show Me The Vote, said the election workers violated his rights when they asked him for a signature identification that wasn’t required by law and then threatened to keep him…
If Governor Jay Nixon signs Senate Bill 202 into law, Missouri motorcyclists over 21years of age will no longer be bound by law to wear helmets when they ride, except on state highways. Cyclists who love the feel of the wind in their hair (and hate to have government regulations weighing on their handlebars) have Clay County Republican Sen. Luann…
Bill O’Reilly took to his Fox News bully pulpit last night to defend his good name in the wake of George Tiller’s murder. There’s been a whole lot of finger pointing after Tiller’s killing, and some of it’s in O’Reilly’s direction. O’Reilly was playing victim, saying he knew as soon as he heard about Tiller’s murder that the “pro-abortion zealots”…
