A Missouri appeals court says a civil case can proceed against a gun shop visited by the lunatic who opened fire in the parking lot of Ward Parkway Center. On April 24, 2007, David Logsdon used a stolen credit card to buy firearm magazines from the Bullet Hole in Overland Park. The card belonged to his neighbor, Patricia Reed, whom…
Gary Goyer’s all about kolaches In a different time and place, a bakery in downtown Kansas City, Kansas — which once had a large Eastern European community — might have been the logical place to find a kolache in the metro. Today, that requires a trip into the suburbs. A kolache is a yeast bun traditionally baked with a sweet…
Indie dance-rock troupe Passion Pit kicked off their set at the Beaumont on Monday night in front of a sold-out crowd. From my point of view, the show was mostly comprised of silhouetted hands raised in the air (thank you, Beaumont), but what few glimpses we did snatch of Angelakos and his band revealed a fun, rollicking group hopping, screaming…
Stephene Moore is running for her husband’s Congressional seat. Moore made her run official today. Her husband, Dennis Moore, is not seeking re-election. Stephene Moore is a Democrat and a registered nurse. She did a comprehensive interview with the Star (summary: she’s pro choice, pro stimulus, pro health-care reform but anti-bank bailout). Moore released a statement saying she’s lived in…
We know that local MC Les Izmore has been shaking stuff up around Kansas City with his solo career, his collaborative tribute to Common with Hermon Mehari of Diverse, and his afrobeat collective, Hearts of Darkness. (That’s why we put him on our cover a few weeks ago.) But, in addition to every other project he’s got cooking, Les Izmore…
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. Shawn Carney plays guitar and sings in Lawrence’s Stull. In addition to being totally fantastic, melt-your-face doom metal, the band has one of my favorite band shirts…
Chick-Fil-A reintroduced its Peach Milkshake yesterday and the short-run menu item makes a good case for why it’s now worth going to the chicken chain just for dessert. This is a thick shake. The straw collapsed on my first attempt. Less than a third of the way through the shake, the straw had a hairline fracture. Halfway through, it split….
Guessing you didn’t get today off for the Fountain Day holiday, did you? BlogKC reminds us that the city’s 47 fountains get turned on today, starting with a ceremony (really) at the Thomas H. Swope Memorial Fountain kicking off at 11 a.m. The Swope Fountain is pretty cool since it’s one of the two solar-powered fountains in the city. Categories:…
Kansas City is a lot of things — a deli town is not one of them. There are few things I miss from Brooklyn, but lean corned beef and pastrami are right at the top. Now, while the news from McAlister’s Deli and Schlotzsky’s won’t solve my immediate problem of finding cured beef, it might go a little way towards…
You know the feeling: someone escorts a beloved band out of obscurity and into the spotlight, sputtering with stage fright and excitement. Suddenly, it’s exploded: it has TV spots; it has sold-out shows; and it has fans that…aren’t just you. The first time I saw indie-electronic dance rockers Passion Pit was at a concert at my college two years ago,…
The feds are investigating the possible illegal sale of University of Kansas men’s basketball tickets. So any time someone resigns from the fund-raising branch of the athletics department, eyebrows are going to raise. On Monday, KU Associate Athletic Director Ben Kirtland resigned from his post with the the Williams Educational Fund, the place Jayhawk fans donate money to get the…
%{}% Photos and thoughts on the Kansas City Food Circle Expo this past weekend. A new burrito chain called Mucho Burrito is coming across the border — the Canadian border. An interview with the anonymous bloggers at Shut Up Foodies — a new Tumblr blog that seeks to take pretension out of the food world. Jamie Oliver’s Food Revolution continues…
Amazing shows that are must-sees are being announced left and right lately, and we’re going to do our best to let you know about them in a timely fashion without overloading you. This is one that I’ve been hoping to announce for a couple weeks now. I’d heard rumors that KJHK was bringing Fucked Up to Lawrence as part of…
Survival horror graphic novel The Walking Dead will get a six episode run on AMC, and Nerdery Blog’s Greg Hyatt was lucky enough to get a look at the show’s first script, which will be directed by Frank Darabont (The Green Mile, The Shawshank Redemption and, The Mist). After reading Hyatt’s script review and seeing that the show will have…
We like Lawrence’s Rooftop Vigilantes, Stereogum likes Rooftop Vigilantes, and now it appears that Spin does, as well. In this month’s issue (the one with Gerard Way of My Chemical Romance on the cover), the four-piece’s “Seth No Jump,” from the now-in-limbo Real Pony Glue, is one of the magazine’s “Songs You Must Hear Now!” And while I don’t know…
We happily stumbled upon PlayerWives.com, a Web site cataloging the significant others of various major-league athletes. This is how we learned that NASCAR driver Carl Edwards married a fellow Columbia, Missourian, and Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Matt Cassel is married to a champion USC volleyball player. Of course, it’s always more interesting to read about the drama, and there’s plenty…
Royals ace Zack Greinke did his job. But Kansas City’s bullpen bled runs to the Detroit Tigers in a 8-4 Opening Day loss. Three relievers gave up six hits and six runs in a really, really bad seventh inning. Don’t give up hope just yet. There are a 161 games left — and the next one is Wednesday at 7:10….
I love opening day. For these few, glimmering hours, the next seven months hold all the possibility in the world. True, the Royals are likely to wind up in last place again, but you never know, right? Click on these super fans for a tour of the faithful out this afternoon at the K. Categories: News Tags: kansas city royals,…
Topeka rapper Brail has put up a new rap in an effort to lure Google Fiber to Topeka. As if Kansas’ capitol renaming themselves “Google” wasn’t enough, Brail seems to have decided that the folks on the west coast need a tour of the city. The verses Brail drops read like a Chamber of Commerce ad set to a beat,…
It’s difficult to find a royal blue cocktail that I actually want to drink. Blue is kind of a warning color when it comes to cocktails, like yellow and black tend to signal poisonous or dangerous insects in nature. A blue drink likely to be treacly or found in the form of a Jell-O shot. Still, for opening day, I…
“Where We Pee” is a weekly excursion into a local music venue’s excretory facilities, with a premium on the witticisms scrawled onto the walls. Lawrence’s Java Break is familiar to many who’ve needed a late-night pick-me-up before heading home after a concert at Liberty Hall or the Bottleneck. Best known as the only 24-hour coffee shop in Lawrence, it’s a…
Money Shots is a glimpse of random happenings when we’re out and about on Kansas City’s music scene. Shots of British “It Girl” VV Brown’s performance on Sunday night, with Swedish electro group Little Dragons. Steve Tulipana of Record Bar called the songbird’s performance “momentous” and one of the “shows of the year.” Categories: Music Tags: VV Brown
