A packed week of urban farming events, such as special dinners last night and numerous classes this past weekend, is just a precursor to the actual Urban Farms and Garden Tour this Sunday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Although seven hours may seem like a long time, it’s not nearly enough to participate in and see all the sites…
If there’s anybody who knows a good cocktail, it’s Brian Flavin. Before he became an IT officer for the PB&J Restaurant Group he was a bartender at the Grand St. Cafe. He still bar-tends there on Wednesday nights because, as two regulars told me, “We won’t let him leave.” While the restaurant is known for its classic American pork chops,…
In case ya didn’t know (I somehow missed this until just now), tomorrow night’s Nas and Damian Marley show has been moved to the Beaumont. Uptown-stamped tickets will be honored. Categories: Music Tags: Damian Marley, Nas
I skipped out of work early yesterday afternoon to go catch the day’s first showing of Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen. Now, I know it sounds ridiculous to bitch about product placement in a movie based on a line of action figures, especially a sequel that comes as close to being a live-action cartoon as I’ve ever seen. Still, I…
Setton Pistachio was the second-largest pistachio producer in the U.S. when, in the beginning of April, it had to issue a “voluntary” recall of its entire 2008 crop of roasted shelled pistachios and roasted in-shell pistachios. The company was caught off-guard, with one of its chief officers admitting that, before the recall, they hadn’t known salmonella was in raw pistachios….
Today’s first installment of Christos and crew’s Anarchy Tour Diary actually arrived yesterday evening, while I was at the Record Bar waiting for Phoenix to come on. Add 24 hours to the day references in JC’s dispatch below. Christos: What up KC?!!! James Christos here checking in from N. Cali. Yesterday me and the crew hit up San Francisco. You…
Scion is rocking yet another party down at the Czar Bar tonight. Hosted by Nomathmatics (who will be spinning, as well), this event will feature electro / disco madman Pase Rock, Designer Drugs, Dirty South rappers Da Hardy Boyz, DJ / IHEARTCOMIX label founder Franki Chan, and Blu Jemz. The show starts at 9pm, and is 21 and over. Admission…
If you are between the ages of 18 and 35 and live in Kansas City and have a MySpace page, Facebook profile and Twitter account and you weren’t at the Record Bar last night (or, as I write this, with ringing skull, earlier tonight), well, chances are about half your extended network was. As the hours counted down to Wednesday’s…
Coffee Girls is moving from the Crossroads to a new location at 7440 Washington in the same center as Kennedy’s Bar & Grill. It closes downtown on Friday afternoon and is scheduled to reopen in Waldo on July 1. Fat City’s sister, Plog, talked to employee Adela Graf who said that the new space is going to be a “much…
%{}% Coca-Cola has an especially timely message for the people of Mexico. Why is great beer often served with food that is sub-par? One writer sets out to discover whether America really is averse to having its beer and eating well too. While green tea advocates often talk about its health benefits, they’ve never had great scientific proof to back…
Ashley Raines is from Overland Park, but he rambles all over. Raines is playing tonight at the Riot Room before heading out for a summer of touring that will take him through Colorado, New Mexico, Texas, and assorted other points west. You might know him from his former band, a stoner rock outfit known as the Princess Dies, but now…
The family members of the victims of Monday’s quadruple homicide told The Kansas City Star and KCTV-5 that Adrian Wayne Burks had threatened to kill 21-year-old Amanda J. Remmers and everyone in the home at 5234 Munice Drive. Remmers, 66-year-old James A. Warren, 41-year-old Peggy Castleberry and 3-year-old Juanita D. Castleberry-Bess were found shot to death Monday. Burks was arrested…
O’Fallon loon/Missouri state Rep. Cynthia “Hunger Can be a Positive Motivator” Davis is once again Keith Olbermann’s “Worst Person in the World.” This time, Davis made the top spot for her defense of her desire to starve poor children in Missouri and put them to work at McDonald’s. She also wants you to know that she’s not an “inhuman monster.”…
Just a little over a month after the state ended the life of Dennis Skillicorn by lethal injection, executions are again on hold in Missouri. Incoming Missouri Supreme Court Chief Justice William Ray Price Jr. told the The Associated Press yesterday that he didn’t expect the Court to schedule any executions while the 8th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals weighs…
Each Thursday, your Crap Archivist brings you the finest in forgotten and bewildering crap culled from area basements, thrift stores, estate sales and flea markets. I do this for one reason: Knowledge is power. Miss America Pageant Official Year Book Date: 1952 Discovered at: Timeless Treasures Antique Mall, Kansas City, Mo. The Cover Promises: When the night is at its…
Shopping can be exhausting, but during the summer, rewards sometimes await in the form of free outdoor concerts. Two Northland shopping plazas provide musical entertainment tonight (and every Thursday) throughout the summer. From 7 to 9 p.m., Zona Rosa (Interstate 29 and Barry Road, 816-587-8180) offers Jazz on the Square. Susie Thorne is tonight’s performer, and the event includes food…
Over the past four days, the Lawrence area has hosted performers who specialize in Spanish and Latin American music. Folks such as Argentinian classical guitarist Carlos Gutkin and Spanish mezzo-soprano Teresa Berganza have been giving master classes and public performances in conjunction with the first annual International Festival of Spanish and Latin American Music. The festival continues today with a…
As David Lynch famously (and somewhat awkwardly) said about music: “You listen to music sometimes — whoa — things just come out at you. … There are certain sounds that want to be in there, and you work on those sounds to make them marry to the image and jump it.” Obviously, Lynch knew what he was doing when he…
Pierpont’s (30 West Pershing Road, 816-221-5111). Happy hour actually goes from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. in the beautiful bar area. Enjoy $2.75 domestic bottles and $3 Boulevard draughts. House wine, appletinis, cosmos and margaritas are $4.25. Also on special: appetizers and smaller-sized steaks with fries. Or order the Library Ladder and watch the bartender climb for the alcohol. Wed.,…
Art festivals and summer — they go together like downtowns and commerce. Get a little of all four this weekend during the second District Art Annual in the Power & Light District. Some 125 artists from all over set up booths between Grand and Main and 12th and 14th streets from 5 to 9 p.m. tonight, 10 a.m. to 7…
Robert Olen Butler has won a Pulitzer Prize for his story collection “A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain.” He also won two National Magazine Awards and is author of “From Where You Dream: The Process of Writing Fiction.” His keynote speech at the New Letters Writing Conference is open to the public. Fri., June 26, 7 p.m., 2009 Tags:…
