Unlike barbecue, there’s not a lot of competition for best bagel in Kansas City. So, whether my expectations were lowered or I’m finally starting to show my East Coast bias, I think we’ve got a real contender in Bruegger’s Bagels. The Vermont-based chain opened its first area location (13713 Metcalf) last Thursday in Overland Park’s Corbin Park development. On Saturday,…
There you have it. Dreamy Texas rockers Midlake have canceled their Lawrence date at the Jackpot on March 12. After releasing their newest album, Courage of Others, early this year, the band’s tour dates span the continent. It’s all too sad that they won’t be gracing Larryville with their cinematic, Renaissance-fair-channeling rock weirdness in a few weeks. Categories: Music Tags: midlake
Kansas City police are investigating the death of man whose body was found in a burning home at East 44th Street and Wayne Avenue early Thursday morning, according to KMBC Channel 9. View Larger Map Homicide detectives are investigating how the man died, and fire investigators are trying to determine the cause of the blaze, which was first reported around…
%{}% The American Academy of Pediatrics is calling for a hot dog redesign — no word yet on whether buns would have to change shape as well. A recap of the doppelbock tasting at Gomer’s South, where there’s a weekly beer tasting on Wednesdays. It seems apropos to highlight a recipe for frozen hot chocolate. To those who envision a…
Since we’re just over a month away from “Coll-Ides of March,” the season opener for the Kansas City Roller Warriors, it seemed fitting to get you all riled up and rarin’ to go with some derby action. Granted, the women featured in the video for Boy Eats Drum Machine “ABQ” are members of the Rose City Rollers from Portland, and…
Since Public Image Ltd. is playing Coachella this year, it only makes sense that they’d throw in a few other tour dates while they’re on this side of the pond. The band played seven shows in the United Kingdom at the tail end of last year. The reviews of shows like the one at London’s O2 Academy Brixton were stellar…
Last night, a man followed someone he thought matched the description of the serial rapist from Kansas City, Missouri, to Kansas City, Kansas, and he’s lucky it didn’t get him shot (Updated: KCTV 5 says the guy did get shot but wasn’t hurt). The Kansas City Star reports that a man tailed someone he thought looked like the suspected rapist…
Donald Lee doesn’t deny the Community Development Corporation of Kansas City doesn’t have the money to pay its bills. In this week’s feature, the president of the CDC-KC put the blame for the developer’s financial woes at the doorstep of City Hall. Lee argues that, based on a financing agreement the CDC signed with the city in 2008, the developer…
The murder of Wichita abortion provider George Tiller last May would have been shocking no matter what the circumstances. The fact that Tiller was gunned down while ushering at a church just made his death that much more outrageous. As it turns out, attacks in God’s house are all too common. Since 2001, Grandview’s Strategos has built its business by…
Each Thursday, your Crap Archivist brings you the finest in forgotten and bewildering crap culled from basements, thrift stores, estate sales and flea markets. I do this for one reason: Knowledge is power. Superman: The Computers That Saved Metropolis Author: Cary Bates, words; Jim Starlin (!) and Dick Giordano, art Date: 1980 Discovered at: My parents’ attic The Cover…
Faraway Nearby: Addressing Suburbia features 50 works by nine artists who draw inspiration from or critique today’s suburbs. Their works examine the origins, preconceptions, sustainability and social implications of the suburban landscape. Fridays, 10 a.m.-9 p.m.; Tuesdays-Thursdays, Saturdays, 10 a.m.-5 p.m.; Sundays, 12-5 p.m. Starts: Feb. 26. Continues through May 16, 2010 Tags: Night & Day
Every year, the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art sponsors a series of cutting edge art films in Atkins Auditorium. These screenings tend to fill up fast. On the bill tonight: History of Chemistry 2: Excessively Restrained Mountaineering Enthusiasts, by Chunsheng. Fri., Feb. 26, 7 p.m., 2010 Tags: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Night & Day
The Winter Performance of the 52nd season of the Kansas City Balle will include Robert Hill’s dynamic Piano Concerto #2, the haunting Othellean work of Jose Limón’s The Moor’s Pavane and Val Caniparoli’s Lambarena, featuring the irresistable fusion of Johann Sebastian Bach and traditional African rhythms. Thu., Feb. 25; Fri., Feb. 26; Sat., Feb. 27; Sun., Feb. 28, 2010 Tags:…
Perhaps no other first-time director has ever announced himself with the same swaggering, profane, bloody gusto as Quentin Tarantino did in 1992, when his Reservoir Dogs burst onto the screen like a love child of Sam Peckinpah and Martin Scorsese wet-nursed by Lee Marvin. Virtually overnight, this tale of a heist gone horribly awry galvanized Harvey Keitel’s comeback and detonated…
George Gershwin’s 1935 American folk opera, Porgy and Bess, has made all kinds of history in its 75 years. The 1936 touring production forced many segregated theaters to sell tickets to black patrons, and a sold-out production in Copenhagen in 1943 was closed down by the Nazis. There’s even a local connection: Former Kansas Citian Blevins Davis produced revivals of…
You know what a pinhole camera is, right? It’s a lensless, lightproof box. Light reflected from an object projects an inverted image through a tiny aperture, and that image can be captured inside the box, on photographic film. Fine-art photographer Abelardo Morell became famous by transforming individual rooms in his house into large-scale pinhole cameras — he blacked out the…
He’s a pink porker in yellow knickers, standing atop script that reads “Mr. Piggles — Worst Dressed.” At a recent lecture, New York art critic Gregory Volk asked artist Peregrine Honig about this drawing. “Mr. Piggles was caught off-guard,” she replied, laughing. Worst dressed? Says who? The dialect of judgment used by the fashion and beauty industries — and the…
Stephanie Laws, Jazz vocalist with duo piano will perform at the indoor music series “Music for the Birds”—a benefit for the Arboretum’s Wild Birds. Sun., Feb. 28, 2-3 p.m., 2010 Tags: Night & Day, Stephanie Laws
Watching young nerds squirm over the correct way to spell the word pococurante (an indifferent or apathetic person) can be as thrilling as an Olympic speed-skating race. Both events include a combination of hard work, raw talent and drama as competitors vie for glory and hardware. The Olympics are over, and it’s not yet spelling-bee season, but what’s going on…
So far, the new West Side bar Rhythm and Booze (423 Southwest Boulevard, 816-221-2669) has been heavier on its offerings of the latter. But during tonight’s Social Banger, rhythm in the live sense — besides club owner Rhythm Piatt — comes to the venue in the form of Disorder Crew. As seen at other established dance pits, including the Riot…
