We think Record Store Day is best captured by this quote we coaxed from music guru Robert Moore: “Record store day, for people like me, is like earth day for an environmental activist. We already doin’ it.” For all you that ain’t already doin’ it, Record Store Day is the day that all independently owned record stores join with artists to…
Better luck, next meal OK, we think we might have scared Fat City readers by warning that last week’s contest was a tough one. Not one of you ventured a guess! C’mon, you guys — it wasn’t that hard! The questions and answers… 1) What Plaza restaurant has served chocolate mousse for dessert for more than two decades? Answer: Chaz…
The Theater League-produced live radio show that used to emanate from the Mutual Musicians Foundation is heading downtown. 12 O’Clock Jump gets a new name and a new venue May 1, when 12th Street Jump airs live at midnight from a bar in the lobby of the Marriott in downtown Kansas City, Missouri. The blues, jazz and comedy show has…
Update (10:45 a.m. April 19): The least surprising news of the weekend: There were no problems on the Plaza. No streets clouded with pepper spray. No girls in prom dresses getting dunked like witches in the Cheesecake Factory’s fountain. No random street fights. The police promised extra patrols, and with those assurances, why tempt fate? It’s just not going to…
Curbside service is not Chili’s bringing pizzatizers to your idling minivan. Curbside service is walking up to a taco truck to get food that you can walk with and eat on the street — something that doesn’t much exist in Kansas City. I think Kansas City only has one legitimate food truck in existence, the Jerusalem Cafe Truck (a 2009…
This Thursday marks the 40th anniversary of Earth Day, a holiday that attempts to inspire our hyper-consumptive society to reconsider our wasteful habits and preserve the finite resources of our one and only planet. To link citizens with local food growers, eco-resources, and environmental art, the City of Prairie Village threw a day-long festival at Shawnee Mission East High School….
Each third Saturday in April, music heads rejoice: Record Store Day is the day that all independently owned record stores join with artists to celebrate music. (Namely, records.) Including special vinyl and CD releases, the festivities at two of the Kansas City record stores we hit up — Vinyl Renaissance and Streetside Records — included DJ sets and a show…
Money Shots is a glimpse of random happenings when we’re out and about on Kansas City’s music scene. Some shots of local collective Tut Tut performing at the Brick on Saturday night. (You’ll recognize Alexander Abnos and crew from last week’s feature.) Categories: Music Tags: the brick, Tut Tut
Zero Boys’ frontman Paul Mahern stood on stage as the band prepared to start their set, and told the audience that the band was a little nervous, and to go easy on them. There was no need: the band was given love from the crowd from the first note. That’s surprising, because the band started their set with all-new songs….
By Robert Folsom Ani DiFranco brought more friendliness than fire to the Beaumont Club Friday night. That worked out; her audience brought the brio. DiFranco herself, short-haired and fresh-faced, played a career-spanning set that lacked the attitude her in-your-face lyrics suggest. She even seemed to play some songs begrudgingly. Before playing “Dilate,” she told the audience how the song was “from…
%{}% Thoughts on Zona Rosa’s Studio Movie Grill, with its full bar and food service during the film. Goose Island decides to cut back distribution of its Nut Brown & Oatmeal Stout. A peek into a restaurant critic’s day off and the challenge of avoiding restaurant food when that is all your body craves. The scientific explanation for why Cheerios…
Look at those Kansas City Royals round the bases! Coming into the season, the Royals figured to be a team that was going to rely on pitching and defense to survive. Alas, staff ace Zack Greinke is winless, and the bullpen has looked at times as if it belongs in an oil drum buried underground in Nevada. In spite of…
Kansas City police believe a man was shot and killed while trying to break into another man’s apartment at 400 East Armour Boulevard on Sunday. View Larger Map Police arrived on the scene and found a man suffering from a gunshot wound in the apartment building’s lobby. The man, described as in his twenties, told police that another man had…
In a Saturday article from the Charleston City Paper, columnist Jack Hunter had the following to say about Valient Thorr: Also on the bill was North Carolina-based (every group featured was from the South) metal group “Valient Thorr” whose scruffy, bearded image was reminiscent of Southern heritage organizations like the Sons of Confederate Veterans. Categories: Music Tags: incoming event, Jack…
Like a lot of other folks in town, we did chores on Saturday. It was perfect weather for taking a load of lawn crap to Kansas City’s Leaf and Brush Drop-Off Site off of Chouteau Trafficway near the Missouri River. Sometimes, on a busy day, there’s a line at the checkpoint to get in, where a nice man in an…
1. Meet Meatwad. Dave Willis, who provides the voice for Meatwad and other Adult Swim cartoon characters, will be at the Adult Swim Block Party tonight at the Phoggy Dog in Lawrence. 2. Smoke some K3. Tuesday is 4-20, after all. 3. Think in deutsch. A German film festival kicks off Tuesday night at Mission Theatre with Joyeux Noel; screenings…
On Saturday, Prairie Village put on the metro’s biggest celebration in honor of the 40th anniversary of Earth Day.
Two weeks ago, animal rights activist Jason Miller got an earful from campus police when he left controversial propaganda on the property of the University of Kansas Medical Center. Upset about the use of monkeys in clinical research at KU Med, Miller spent a Thursday evening distributing “Wanted” fliers that accuse two KU researchers of animal torture. Campus security didn’t…
If you liked the new Foxy Shazam CD as much as our illustrious editrix Ms. Mermis, you can tell the band in person on Monday, April 26, at 7:30 p.m. That’s when the band will be signing autographs in the Legends at Village West Hot Topic. Granted, the usual rules and regulations apply: you’ve got to buy a CD or…
Kansas City International Airport has installed body scanners to make sure passengers aren’t carrying bombs or guns or sabers or cricket bats. This didn’t sit well with the Liberty Restoration Project, and Pitch reporter Nadia Pflaum filed a dispatch from their protest of the scanners (since they’re intrusive, see you naked, etc.). The thought of his privates not being private…
You need plans. Fat City has a recycle bin full of listings. In this post, all our problems are solved. The birds are singing, your neighbor is mowing the lawn, and that means the Farmers’ Community Market at Brookside is set to return. The weekly market kicks off Saturday from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m., at 63rd Street and Wornall,…
In what seems to be a counterproductive move, the One AM Radio has made a track from their Record Store Day release available for download. “Credible Threats” is a pleasant bit of indie rock that is suited fairly perfectly for summer days. There’s a wonderful bit of electronic throb that pulses beneath the entirety of the song that makes it…
