One would think that there’d be a glut of joints offering true barbecue-and-blues experiences in this town. Friendly, greasy dives that you’re able to smell before you enter. Places where casually dressed patrons, surrounded by handbills of past shows, gnaw burnt ends wrapped in white bread and tap their toes to nationally known blues acts. There is only one such…
Those who want to strap on blades and glide (or tumble) around some frozen water have an option other than Crown Center. At Park Place, the “mixed-use community” of residences, retail and entertainment at 117th Street and Nall in Leawood, there’s a winter skating center called simply The Ice. Parents can keep an eye on their red-nosed, pirouetting offspring from…
If you haven’t heard of Airsoft before, the simplest explanation is that it’s the closest you can get to shooting people for fun without the cops taking an interest. It all began when Japan outlawed firearm ownership in the 1980s. The Japanese still wanted to shoot people, so companies started making scale replicas of pistols and rifles that shot plastic…
For proof that Jewish holiday parties just keep getting hipper, look no further than the Hanukkah celebration at Kehilath Israel Synagogue (10501 Conser in Overland Park). It’s called Baby, You Can Spin My Dreidel, and starting at 8 p.m., guests can schmooze and booze with the assistance of a full open bar and tapas. At 9 p.m., New York stand-up…
Kansas City is about to go off the hook or off the chain or take a stop through flavor country. It all depends on which catchphrase explodes from celebrity chef Guy Fieri’s mouth when he takes the stage at the Midland tonight for the Guy Fieri Road Show. The 21-city tour for the star of the Food Network’s Diners, Drive-Ins…
• From 7 to 9 p.m., Sherry Leedy Contemporary Art (2004 Baltimore, 816-221-2626) features two landscape exhibitions with markedly different strategies. Jeff Aeling’s Looking West is a series of oil landscapes documenting the artist’s travels across America. Seeking unpopulated expanses and open vistas with a wide-angle perspective, Aeling illuminates the scale of American spaces and the color, light and beauty…
Thank the sweet baby Jesus: Here’s a December night in the theater that’s not about yuletide ghosts, Christmas carols, flagpole licking, or good ol’ George Bailey getting worked up to off himself. Instead, this year’s Six By Ten show at the Barn Players concerns, as always, at least six entirely separate, unseasonal topics in six entirely separate short 10-minute plays,…
District 9 — released last August amid the sort of fanboy hype that films bearing the imprimatur of hobbit king Peter Jackson tend to inspire — opens as an apartheid parable. In this case, the oppressed masses happen to be a race of stranded space aliens slumming on the outskirts of Johannesburg, and they’re about to be further marginalized by…
Get the sounds of the season stuck in your head at one of the many holiday concerts. • A Spectacular Christmas opens tonight at 8 at the Off Center Theatre in Crown Center (2450 Grand, 816-842-9999). See mthkc.com for additional showtimes and information. • The Heartland Men’s Chorus will serve Fruitcake tomorrow through Sunday at the Folly Theater (300 West…
So you’re visiting Kansas City in December 1949. Perhaps you’re a conventioneer: The Missouri Bottlers of Carbonated Beverages hits town December 4, and the Potato Association of America follows four days later. You could be playing in the Big Seven Basketball Tourney on December 17 or, if we’re lucky, you might have time-machined back to warn that in just two…
A man was shot to death Wednesday night in the 2300 block of Silver Court in Kansas City, Kansas. View Larger Map Kansas City, Kansas, police found a man between two apartment buildings. They described the man “as having a dark complexion and braided hair” and “wearing a blue one-piece coverall.” The man’s identity hasn’t been released yet. If you…
Barrakuda McMurder is a band of which you’ve never heard, who sound pretty much like frontman Grath Madden’s earlier band, the Steinways, of whom who’ve also probably never heard. I might have mentioned them within these pages before, but that’s because I recently rediscovered pop-punk a year or two back, and have since discovered an underground loaded with great bands….
Kansas City police say the victim of Tuesday night’s fatal shooting is 17-year-old Nelson E. Hopkins Jr. of Kansas City, Missouri. KCPD detectives believe Hopkins had left the Plaza Library and caught a bus to 54th and Troost prior to the shooting. Hopkins was shot while walking home on 54th Street. View Larger Map Around 9 p.m., KCPD officers met…
Aim for the stars. If you miss, you’ll hit the moon. Or, if you’re a half-dozen pseudoephedrine robbers, you’ll hit jail. In a brazen robbery on Superbowl Sunday 2007, six people hijacked a forklift at pharmy manufacturer, tied up a security guard and made off with a 110-pound barrel full of pseudoephendrine, which was used to manufacture $1 million worth…
Just to keep this balanced, as to not leave out members of other faiths, I’m throwing in the occasional tune or video that allude to other religions. In this case, it’s Atom & His Package, with “What We Do On Christmas,” which is the truth behind the Jewish conspiracy and how they use the fact that all good Christians celebrate…
Now there’s an idea…. Taking children to restaurants is a Catch 22 situation: The only way that youngsters learn restaurant etiquette is to actually dine in restaurants, but unless parents are attentive and set distinct boundaries, children can ruin the dining experience for everyone else in the room. I was reminded of this on Sunday while having brunch at a sit-down…
Spent yesterday morning at traffic court hearing red-light cases, and, man, that camera at East Gregory and 71 Highway sure pulls in some duckets for the city — $100 per ticket to be exact. View Larger Map There were other cases on the docket, but by and large, that single light was pretty reliable at nabbing people who turn right…
Back in October, a crew of local hip-hop artists confronted (unofficial) representatives from KPRS Hot 103 Jamz at a local recording studio. I posted a blog about it, and that post blew up, with many of the participants in the “Summit on Summit St.” weighing in. This week, I wrote a cover music feature about the escalating demand for more…
The cornbread muffins started out promising. The ingredients mixed easily, the batter was the right consistency, and the baking was fairly straightforward. They slid out of the muffin tin easily and had a crisp outside with a chewy center. The issues started when I popped the first bite in my mouth and realized I had made a batch of yellow…
%{}% The KCPD released it’s third quarter homicide results yesterday, which includes some 98 homicides up to September 30. The total to date is 105. We dug through all 24 pages so you don’t have to to find the most important things to know about staying alive in Kansas City. 1. July is the new deadliest month. The summer spike…
If you have any doubts about genetically altered livestock, you probably don’t want to continue reading. Scientists in Holland have successfully grown meat in a laboratory using cells from a live pig. The Times reports that this could be a potential solution to the dual issue of pollution and soaring global demand for meat, assuming the kinks get worked out:…
