Today is opening day at Kauffman Stadium, a wonderful moment when the world seems full of possibilities and everyone is equal (except for the Red Sox and Yankees). Thousands of fans came out to watch the Royals take on the Detroit Tigers, certain that this year, finally, the team could win the AL Central. Or at least get out of…
Kansas City relived the high school glory days (or the painfully awkward days, depending on your blood alcohol content) at Afentra’s Prom on Saturday night at the Midland. Performances from the Zeros, Gene Loves Jezebel and When In Rome added ambiance (and nostalgia) to 96.5 The Buzz’s prom romance. Click here for a slideshow. Categories: Music Tags: Gene Loves Jezebel,…
Parkville’s Pie Room is no more Today’s news that City Tavern — the distinctive steakhouse in the historic Freight House — was closing in twelve days reminded us that other popular venues in Fat City have closed over the last month or so. We’ve already bid a fond farewell to Overland Park’s Piccadilly Cafeteria, but only recently learned that Parkville’s…
%{}% There are many fronts in the dismal daily death-struggle that is American politics. A particularly boggy one is race. Rightbloggers are keenly aware that the President whom they like to accuse of socialism and fascism is black, and also that picking on black people is not considered cool these days. What to do? Usually, not much. To counter imputations…
Early ’80s rockabilly and country revival act Jason & the Scorchers have reformed several times. There was a full-on reunion in the mid-90s, with a couple of albums released. The band then broke up again, and reformed for a few one-off dates over the past few years. The band has now full-on reformed, with original members Jason Ringenberg and Warner…
If you’re heading out to Kauffman Stadium, you’ll find a host of new food options from concessions operator Aramark. “Aramark is looking forward to a great second season at Kauffman Stadium,” said general manager Jon Sutton. “We’ve talked with fans, tested new concepts and fine-tuned our operation to build on last season’s success by adding unique new concepts.” The big…
Pitch systems specialist Matt Spencer snapped the above photo this morning at the Lamar exit on Interstate 35. Spencer says the creek next to I-35 crested, covering a new landscaping project of prairie wildflowers and nearly reaching the highway. Heycamerman took photos of pea-sized hail on his deck in Waldo. Any other cool storm photos out there? Categories: News Tags:…
The look on Taylor Swift’s face might say “Oh my gosh, I can’t believe all this cheering is for me,” but she’s in show business, baby — everything is calculated and planned out here. That said, the production that Swift brought to Sprint Center last Friday night was impressive. On her first big headlining tour, Swift manages to combine direct…
Kansas City relived the high school glory days (or the painfully awkward days, depending on your blood alcohol content) at Afentra’s Prom on Saturday night at the Midland. Performances from the Zeros, Gene Loves Jezebel and When In Rome added ambiance (and nostalgia) to 96.5 The Buzz’s prom romance.
The Quin twins — Tegan and Sara — have good reason for their mixed emotions toward Kansas City. As Tegan told the crowd at The Uptown this weekend, the indie rock band’s last stop in our Cowtown was a bit, uh, awkward. Apparently, on said date, someone in the crowd ripped open a condom, blew it up and batted it…
Update: There wasn’t a bomb inside the suspicious cooler at the federal courthouse. The investigation is being turned over to the FBI. ***The federal courthouse at 9th and Locust has been evacuated after a suspicious package was discovered outside the building. A note attached to the package said the package’s contents would explode. View Larger Map Police were called to…
City Tavern goes Viennese in May April 17 will be the last day for restaurateur Dan Clothier’s City Tavern. The next day, Clothier turns over his steakhouse to Austrian-born chef Peter Grunauer — who operated a popular New York restaurant, Vienna 79, on Manhattan’s Upper East Side from 1979 to 1988. This new restaurant, to be called Grunauer (pronounced groon-hour), will be…
Hungover dudes and spork enthusiasts got a little boost last week with the introduction of two new breakfast items at Burger King: the Breakfast Muffin ($1) and the Breakfast Bowl ($2.75). The Breakfast Muffin is sausage on a biscuit. Burger King is taking direct aim at the Sausage McMuffin with this one, running a commercial that features the King mascot…
The 2010 Kansas City Royals are a long shot to win the World Series. But say this about the club: Neifi Pérez isn’t the everyday shortstop. A trade brought Pérez to town in 2001. The Royals gave up Jermaine Dye, an All-Star outfielder who was starting to get expensive, in exchange for Pérez, a shortstop who struggled with important aspects…
Cymbals Eat Guitars’ frontman, Joseph D’Agostino, has a window tattooed on the inside of his right forearm: a glimmering of trees and sky etched into his skin. Is it a window leading inside the 20-year-old singer’s headspace? Or is it a window leading to a technicolored outside world? For D’Agostino, they might be the same thing. After releasing an ambitious…
%{}% One blogger feels like there’s a tractor beam pulling him into Abuelo’s in Zona Rosa. The 4th Annual KC Beerfest has a date — May 22 — and a location — Wesport. If you were the kid who ate paste, maybe you’d like to be the adult who eats edible crayons? Here’s a collection of recipes using marshmallow Peeps:…
The weather was downright delightful and the ladies and gents were dressed in their finest threads for a jaunt through Brookside and Mission Hills on Saturday. The first-ever Tweed Ride in Kansas City drew at least 100 pedalers, all dolled up in ankle-length dresses or looking dashing in bow ties and smoking jackets. Click here for a slideshow of the…
Using footage from the 1973 movie Who?, the video for the title track to Ghosty’s Team Up Again EP is creepy creepy creepy — at least visually. The imagery of a man who undergoes surgery to become a robot is enough to make one shudder at the weirdness of it all. However, as Andrew Connor sings, “You and I could…
Last time Republican Congressman Sam Graves ran for re-election, his challenger was Kay Barnes — and the big-name, well-funded, supposedly formidable former Kansas City mayor got her ass kicked. If Barnes couldn’t beat Graves and his goon-powered machine, one political consultant told me, no one could. One of Graves’ newest challengers? An insurance salesman from Excelsior Springs who’s never run…
The first two or three times I saw the Dead Girls, they were rough around the edges. The vocals and instrumentation didn’t quite mesh, and the songs weren’t nearly as good as either of the members’ prior bands. I then didn’t see them for a year or so, and happened to come across the band at the Jackpot one night….
Today: Root for the Royals! Our favorite underdog baseball team plays the season home opener at Kauffman Stadium today. Tuesday: Ponder the awkwardness of high school reunions. A 40-year reunion is the subject of The Last Time I Saw You by bestselling author Elizabeth Berg, who talks about her novel at Rainy Day Books. Wednesday: Get a new cat. Halfway…
Ladies and gents donned their finest threads and pedaled through Brookside on Saturday, during Kansas City’s first-ever Tweed Ride.
