As the April 6 Kansas City, Missouri, School Board election approaches, we’re profiling each of the candidates. Cafe Seed, a vegan restaurant on Cherry Street, isn’t a fancy lunch spot. Polished in their business attire, Cokethea Hill and Kenneth Hughlon stand out. It’s apparent these two are interested in making a professional impression. On this Wednesday morning, Hughlon is juggling…
%{}% A review of Mikkeller Simcoe Single Hop IPA — the first single hop IPA from the brewery in Copenhagen, Denmark. A guide to making raw vegan cheesecake. Tir Na Blog wants to know your favorite breakfast spot for St. Patrick’s Day. New York is a very different place from Kansas City — I give you the “Ballad of Uptown…
Once a week, Wayward Blog brings to you sounds of the area’s musical past. Olsen Terror existed during a hardcore heyday in the Kansas City/Lawrence area. It seemed that you could see bands playing everywhere for a few years around the turn of the century: house shows, community centers, and even the Lawrence Visitor’s Center. Hell, if you look at…
Stupid Internet. “Andrew” does online marketing for a living and recently started dabbling in real estate. He estimates he’s spent $20,000 in repairs on a house in the Northeast that he hopes to flip. Via Craigslist, he hired a contractor named Lewis Benson to do some work on the home’s exterior. He paid Benson $1,400. Afterward, Andrew couldn’t track down…
Scene & Heard — wherein local music scene makers give you the lowdown on the soundtrack to their lives. While his mom might’ve named him Sean Hunt, the rest of you probably know the man better as Approach. In addition to being a hip hop badass in every possible way, he’s CEO of Datura Records. His new album, Aloe Park,…
If you’re kind to me, your family will starve. I foolishly assumed that a bill to stop cruel puppy breeding practices would be nothing but a good thing. Who could possibly find anything wrong with requiring dog breeders to provide food and clean water, veterinary care and shelter for their animals and to give them enough space to stretch, lie…
No one will accuse Mayor Mark Funkhouser of worrying too much about other people’s feelings. On the day after he scolded the Kansas City Parks and Recreation Commissioners in front of a reporter, Funkhouser had an opportunity to make nice. But the mayor stayed true to his Vulcan nature at a press conference at the city’s Health Department on Tuesday….
Pepsi and Coke drinkers in Kansas better get ready to be treated like smokers. Kansas state Sen. John Vratil, a Leawood Republican, is pushing a penny tax for every teaspoon of sugar in soda, which breaks down to about a dime per 12-ounce can, according to The Associated Press. The bill made it out of the Senate Ways and Means…
The makers of HE’BREW — Shmaltz Brewing Company — are bringing the freak show to town with a tasting of Coney Island-inspired lagers at Grinders tonight. The Albino Python white lager gets paired with morning glory muffins with charoses. The second course features mini bagels with cream cheese, lox and capers served with the Coney Island Lager. Next is the…
Lakeesha Brown was sentenced today to 18 years for suffocating her 7-year-old son Esmond Ross while reportedly high on PCP last February. Brown, 29, told detectives in February 2009 that she didn’t know why she had suffocated her son but admitted laying with her legs across his head and sitting on his chest. Brown originally told police that the boy…
Former state lawmaker Bob Johnson testified before a grand jury this morning about a bill that’s at the center of a federal probe into the way business was done in Jefferson City under Rod Jetton, the former speaker of the house. Johnson’s recollections, which he shared with reporters after testifying, paint a process that seems a long way from indictment-worthy…
%{}% A Greene County judge allowed a state lawsuit over the sale of raw milk by a Laclede County farm to continue on Friday, but indicated that the intent of the dairy law upon which the suit is based could be up for debate at the trial. While the sale of raw milk is legal in Missouri, the issue of…
In an effort to add yet another great show to this Saturday’s already-crowded schedule, Chicago’s Light Pollution will be appearing at the Brick. They’ll be opening for Auternus and Williams Rite, in what promises to be an evening of seriously epic psychedelic soundscapes. Light Pollution is touring in advance of their debut full-length, Apparitions, due out June 15 on Carpark…
We sat down over the weekend with Josh Martinez, the main organizer of Kansas City’s newest SXSW showcase: Midwasteland Takeover. The project is the brainchild of Martinez (who runs the Gusto Lounge), Czar Bar’s Billy Smith and Steve Tulipana of the RecordBar, working with the Midwest Music Foundation and various other musicians and music heads. For its maiden voyage, Midwasteland…
If you’ve ever felt something pulling you off Wornall Road and into the drive thru, it might just be the McForce. The blog Weather Sealed has put together the above infographic to explain the attraction of a freshly made burger in terms we can all understand: Wrap that concept in a Star Wars motif — set in the present day,…
Empty Glass is a weekly post devoted to furthering the alcoholic rock star image and mythos. That’s right, kids — drinking has no negative side effects and makes you look cool, to boot. Curvacia Vavoom, the lovely and mysterious lead guitarist for Lawrence’s garage creepies the Spook Lights, has a couple of different answers to the question we ask here…
%{}% O’Fallon loon Cynthia Davis called hunger a “positive motivator” last year and suggested freeloading children get jobs at McDonald’s if they want to eat. This year, Davis is concerned about feeding people who don’t want to be fed. Davis is sponsoring H.B. 1235, which would require terminally ill patients to be fed by feeding tubes for 60 days —…
Go ahead and be crabby today Go ahead and take your lumps — as long as its lump crab. March 9 is official National Crab Meat Day, which is reason enough to go out and order something with crab meat as an ingredient. Among the dishes that come to mind: Crab cake sliders or crab macaroni-and-cheese at Jack Gage American…
Rappers like Biggie don’t die. They metastasize in the music that comes after them. Words rhymed after Christopher Wallace’s two major works, Ready to Die and Life After Death, necessarily bear his indelible imprint. To this day, over a decade after his death, other rap artists are best judged by their proximity, far or near, to his imaginative excellence. Also known…
Quillan Glynn is taking over Pizza Bella Chef Quillan Glynn, the former sous chef at Bluestem (he also cooked with Bluestem’s chef-owner Colby Garrelts at the James Beard House) and the chef who opened entrepreneur Rob Dalzell’s Pizza Bella back in 2007, is telling other business owners in the Crossroads that he’s in negotiations to purchase the restaurant. Glynn —…
If you can’t afford the gas—or the time-off—to get down to Austin for this year’s South by Southwest music festival, that’s okay. The kind folks at Metropalife, a locally-run hybrid blog and online radio station, are going to pop open a few bottles in homage right here. Before they head south to the Longhorn State to cover the festival themselves,…
The Big 12 men’s basketball tournament tips off Wednesday morning, so get ready for blocked-off streets (Grand Boulevard is shut down from 13th Street to Truman Road and 14th Street from Main to Grand) starting today and a lot of rah-rah stories about how fans are going to flood Kansas City and drop big bucks. For all of the good…
