Scene & Heard — wherein local music scene makers give you the lowdown on the soundtrack to their lives. Ian Sotomayor is the best beer-slinger in Lawrence, providing Free State Brewery customers with perfectly pulled pints. In addition, he can be found rocking area clubs as DJ Proof. This is a man who knows what gets a party started, so…
I missed yesterday’s PETA’s anti-meat demonstration on the Country Club Plaza, but the animal rights organization sent over a few photos of nearly naked women wrapped in cellophane on a tray … just like a KC strip. Looks like a homicide scene. Categories: News Tags: Meat, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, PETA
%{}% O’Fallon loon Cynthia Davis’ chicken coops are empty. After receiving a complaint, animal control officers ordered Davis, a Missouri state representative, to get rid of the 20 hens and chickens from her backyard, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports. Davis’ 24-year-old daughter, Cathryn, had been raising the birds — Snowflake, Buffy and others — for months in cages at the family…
Joe Hammers, of the recently closed Pistol Social Club in the West Bottoms, was kind enough to take some time over the past few days to speak with us via Facebook chat. We talked about the Pistol, the plan for the club, and why it closed. This seems like it was a really sudden thing. The announcement was sudden. Pow….
Kansas City police released a composite sketch of a “person of interest” in the homicide of Bernard Jackson. Jackson, 23, was shot to death at 8502 East 108th Street at the Bridgeport Apartments on April 30. Police have said Jackson and another person were arguing prior to the shooting at around 12:46 a.m. Police described the person of interest as…
Does gender still matter as much as knife skills in a restaurant kitchen? That’s the question bouncing around food sites the past week. After the James Beard Foundation Awards, Chef Amanda Cohen penned the missive “Girls Can’t Cook” on Dirt Candy’s website, where she satirically suggested that the lack of recognition for female chefs means simply that women can’t cook….
Earlier this year, I wrote a blog post about Tech N9ne’s efforts to get Kansas City kids and ‘rents healthy, in which I said: “Tech N9ne is as emblematic of Kansas City as barbeque, jazz roots and obesity.” Well, it seems like Tech knows it, too. Here’s a video from his forthcoming release called — wait for it — Tech…
Area politicians are pretending to be service workers in an effort to highlight National Travel and Tourism Week. Kansas City, Missouri, Mayor Mark Funkhouser was supposed to surprise guests at the Westin Crown Center with his tallness this morning. In Kansas City, Kansas, on Tuesday, Unified Government Mayor Joe Reardon and commissioners John Mendez and Tom Cooley went to CommunityAmerica…
When the server brings over a highchair, I can tell you’re wondering whether we’re going to have an issue. And I understand that you don’t go out to restaurants to listen to my kid. But at the same time, I don’t intend to stop eating out. Serious Eats just published a poll about whether kids should be allowed in high-end…
Mexican guitar duo Rodrigo y Gabriela gave a spirited performance at the Uptown last night. The show was a rapid-fire barrage of Spanish-influenced guitar licks, shifting from one song to the next with almost no time in between. The guitar-wielding instrumentalists are certainly known for their guitar playing, but also exhibited some solid rhythmic and percussive skills — just none…
%{}% They had me at slow cooker — a recipe for slow cooked Chiapas-style Mexican pork. A big thumbs up for the portions and tasting menu at Topeka’s Row House. One writer can’t escape White Russians, as Lebowski Fest is just two weeks away in Orlando. It’s basically a mobile Sonic, but Coca-Cola continues to test the Freestyle, a vending…
Studio 804 proves Jayhawks know how to swing a hammer. Each year, the graduate students in this innovative class at the University of Kansas design and construct entire buildings within the span of a single semester. But they aren’t run-of-the-mill houses. These students come up with designs that consistently win industry awards and draw international attention to KU’s School of…
English indie pop act Field Music will bring their pretty, pretty music to the Record Bar on Friday, October 1. The band is touring in support of Field Music (Measure), released in February on Memphis Industries. The two brothers who front Field Music (Peter and David Brewis) have been out and about under their solo projects, as well as touring…
Bill Self looks good in a leisure suit. The Kansas Jayhawks basketball coach donned the stretchable, double-knit polyester to promote his retro disco party, Bill’s Basketball Boogie, on June 11 at the College Basketball Experience in downtown KC. Basketball Boogie Spot from Kansas Jayhawks on Vimeo. Money raised goes to Bill Self’s Assists Foundation, which gives out scholarships and grants…
