Approximately 4,000 people showed up for Saturday’s Taking Back Our Country Tour. Headliners were conservative superstars Karl Rove, Sean Hannity, Laura Ingraham and John Rich. Pitch photographer Scott Spychalski captured some of the glory.
Today Experience the poetry of former U.S. poet laureate Ted Kooser, who’s reading at KU’s new, castle-like Oread Hotel tonight at 7. TuesdayCheck out a new bar. Happy hour at Retro Downtown Drinks and Dancing runs from 3 to 7 p.m. WednesdayMake it a movie night. The Kansas City Film Fest kicks off at 7 p.m. at the AMC Main…
How long until K3 is banned? K2 synthetic marijuana has been illegal in Kansas for almost a month and will be banned any day now in Missouri. But demand is too damn high to let legal faux reefer die peacefully, and new products are already on the market. A few midtown locations are selling K3, which advertises itself as an…
For nearly a decade now, the University of Kansas’ Queers and Allies have presented Pride Week in April, a week of events, talks, and the like, dedicated to raising awareness of issues in the gay community. The highlight of the week has always been Friday’s Brown Bag Drag, a free lunchtime drag show in front of the Kansas Union, hosted…
Two years ago, the Kansas City Tribe traveled to Dallas for their first game in the Independent Women’s Football League. And they got absolutely destroyed. That day in April 2008, the Tribe was trounced by the Diamonds, falling 58-0 to the team that ultimately won the IWFL title that year. But the ladies from Kansas City got real good real…
The body of a woman was found in a burning room at the Relax Inn Motel, 6300 Blue Parkway, Saturday around 10:30 a.m., and Kansas City police are calling the woman’s death “suspicious’ and believe the fire was intentionally set. View Larger Map Firefighters discovered the body of the woman, described as a 35-year-old African American. She was pronounced dead…
After an opening video that lacked any and all subtlety, featuring two women attempting to seduce a devilish Angus Young as he stoked the coals on a runaway train, Australia’s finest fivesome, AC/DC, took the stage to fireworks. With a gigantic locomotive as its backdrop, the band ripped into “Rock ‘n’ Roll Train,” from its most recent release, Black Ice…
The Kansas City Tribe women’s football team beat the Dallas Diamonds in their home opener this weekend. The 2010 season is on: Nut up, bitches!
My voice is completely gone, but Julian Casablancas was worth it. That’s his real name, and he is a real rock star, and the girl in front of me Saturday night at the Beaumont Club loved him and put her hands out to him, and I could feel her love and I could feel it in the band behind him….
I spent Saturday morning at the Kansas City Center for Urban Agriculture’s Spring Plant & Produce Sale. It finally feels like planting season and the farm, at 4223 Gibbs Road in Kansas City, Kansas, had the transplants and starters for a vegetable or herb garden ready to take home. The two-acre organic farm — in the shadow of Highway 635…
Dear Dan Hesse,I read your complaints about the negativity of the local media in yesterday’s Kansas City Business Journal. You’re all snippy because in addition to going bonkers over each new gadget Sprint unveils, local media also write about the stuff that affects people who live here — hello, layoffs? You think that’s unfair? It’s your own damn fault. Two…
The Kansas City Strip bar crawl trolley starts tonight at 7, and it’s a cool idea if it keeps people from drinking and driving. It’s an even cooler idea this weekend, since you can booze and ride for free Friday and Saturday night (next weekend it’s $15 for one night, $25 for the weekend or $35 for a month). The…
You need plans. Fat City has a recycle bin full of listings. In this post, all our problems are solved. Kansas City’s new trolley system begins running tonight. The service kicks off with a celebration from 5:30 to 7 p.m. in front of Californos in Westport. The party on the Kansas City Strip continues all weekend with free rides —…
%{}% Food blogger The DLC knows what he wants to hear on KCUR-FM 89.3: Anything but Walt Bodine. This week, KCUR asked its listeners what they want to hear in place of Bodine Monday through Thursday at 10 a.m. Some want Bodine moderator Gina Kaufmann to stick around. Others want an extra hour of Steve Kraske’s Up to Date. But…
Update: Forty-four bids later, the “Famous Royals Express” sold for $3,700.03. To the winner, it’ll cost a lot more than that to get the taint of all these bad seasons off the bus. Best of luck with that (and can we get a ride?). ***Royals fans, the “Famous Royals Express” could be yours if you have a couple thousand bucks….
Are lawyers in the class-action suit against Yelp smelling victory? On Monday, Yelp CEO Jeremy Stoppelman announced the user review giant would drop its “Favorite Review” feature and let readers see the reviews that would otherwise have been filtered out by its automated review filter. “Now you can take a look at any business listing on Yelp and see for…
As a journalist, I’ve a particular affinity for personal anthologies, wherein a writer takes material from the width and breadth of their career and presents it with commentary. That’s what you get when you read Joe Evans III’s Like A Bowling Ball Through the Door: A Personal Anthology Part One. This photocopied and stapled ‘zine collects material Evans wrote for…
The M&S Grill goes into the brunch biz Kansas City’s M&S Grill began offering Sunday brunch last month, perhaps hoping to steal a little Sunday business from its closest Plaza restaurant rival, Figlio, which has long offered a respectable and popular (and modestly priced) brunch just around the corner. The Country Club Plaza has a number of brunch options on…
Without Fred Harvey, there wouldn’t be “Flo” Author and journalist Stephen Fried spoke to a standing-room-only crowd at Kansas City’s National Archives last night about his new book, Appetite for America: How Visionary Businessman Fred Harvey Built a Railroad Hospitality Empire That Civilized the Wild West (Bantam, $27). The book is the first in-depth history of restaurateur Fred Harvey, his…
