In a local line-up epic proportions (for one venue, that is), the Riot Room hosted three days of Kansas City’s own musical goodness this past Thursday, Friday and Saturday. 26 bands (local and semi-local) graced several stages inside and outside. We’ve got shots of Cowboy Indian Bear, the Grisly Hand, Heroes and Villains, Be/Non, Audiovox, Actors and Actresses, In the…
%{}% Ever wonder what’s it like to get a sugar high as an adult? Apparently, a visit to Amore Chocolate Pizza will answer that question. A review of the most recent Boulevard Brewmaster Luncheon featuring chef Josh Eans of Blanc Burgers + Bottles, and a few potential news items like a four-pack Smokestack series apparently coming in November. These 10…
%{}% “Last night I saw Lester Maddox on a TV show With some smart-ass New York Jew And the Jew laughed at Lester Maddox And the audience laughed at Lester Maddox too Well, he may be a fool but he’s our fool…” — Randy Newman, “Rednecks” Last week, fresh from winning the GOP nomination for Sen. Jim Bunning’s old seat,…
Springfield indie poppers Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin’s new album, Let It Sway, won’t be out until August 17. However, at the moment, you can head over to this page at Polyvinyl Records’ website, and download the first single “Sink / Let It Sway.” The album was produced by Beau Sorenson and Death Cab For Cutie’s Chris Walla, and…
Royals G.M. Dayton Moore has entered a new phase: fatalism. Phase One featured optimism. Moore took the job with assurances that David Glass would make an effort to stop being the worst owner in professional sports. Buoyed by the success of the Atlanta Braves, for whom he had toiled for 10 years, Moore was picking the World Series parade route…
The sixth annual Troost Fest celebrated one of the city’s most dynamic and diverse corridors. Pitch photographer Nicole Reinertson captured the face-painted kids, the Bible beaters and the hoop dancers. Click the photo of Spider-Kid to see scenes from Saturday. Categories: News Tags: Troost Fest
Today: Hang out in the living room — not your living room, The Living Room, the new Crossroads theater space where the play On An Average Day is being staged. Tuesday: Drink somewhere different. The swanky EBT Restaurant down south makes $5 martinis during happy hour. Wednesday: Buy pure produce. KC Organics Fresh Market sells pesticide-free veggies and more from…
Another day, another Kansas City show cancellation — although, I think this show might’ve been canceled before tickets even went on sale. Limp Bizkit’s summer tour stop at Sandstone on Tuesday, August 3, has been canceled, along with the rest of the band’s summer tour. It’s going to be rescheduled as a fall tour, so says the Washington Post. No…
A double shooting Sunday has left one person dead and another hospitalized. Police officers were directing traffic at Swope Park — near 63rd Street and Swope Parkway — when they heard several shots fired and witnessed shots being fired from a northbound vehicle at another. View Larger Map A passenger exited one of the vehicles and collapsed on a sidewalk….
The sixth annual Troost Fest celebrated one of the city’s most dynamic and diverse corridors. Pitch photographer Nicole Reinertson captured the face-painted kids, the Bible beaters and the hoop dancers.
The fourth annual KC Beerfest came to Westport this past Saturday. The event benefits the Kansas City Free Health Clinic and the AIDS Service Foundation of Greater Kansas City. Out with the sunshine came hula hoopers, brewers and dudes in beer T-shirts eager to sample brews from the 59 tables set up on Westport and Pennsylvania Road.
The jury deciding the fate of Eria Doss locked 11-1, causing a mistrial in the 18-year-old’s murder trial for the execution-style killings of Andrew Eli and Justin Budreau on April 18, 2009. In a videotaped interview with detective Robert Blehm, Doss confessed that he went to Eli’s apartment with Larry Marshall and Michael Gunn because Marshall said the “white boys”…
You need plans. Fat City has a recycle bin full of listings. In this post, all our problems are solved. The 4th Annual KC BeerFest is set for Saturday in Westport. Between 1 and 5 p.m., you’ll find 200 craft and micro brews to sample, including Great Divide, Free State and Dieu Du Ciel. Tickets are $25 in advance, $30…
The damage in Penn Valley Park is forcing Kansas City’s Pride Festival Week (May 31 through June 6) to move to Richard L Berkley Riverfront Park. The announcement is slated to be made at a 2:30 p.m. press conference. Mayor Mark Funkhouser spoke of the mythologized “Kansas City spirit” in a press release. “The Kansas City spirit is to help…
In the rush to cover shows, post new tunes, and let you know what’s coming up, sometimes stuff gets lost in the shuffle. Such is the case with the Local Artist Overthrow going down this weekend at the Riot Room. We flaked on getting you info in time for last night’s kick-off, so if you wanted to see Grisly Hand,…
A 23-year-old woman stepped out of her apartment for a smoke break Wednesday around 10:20 p.m. claimed she was raped by a masked man. The woman told police that she was smoking a cigarette on the patio of her apartment in the 7000 block of Northwest Chatham Avenue around 10:15 p.m. when a man sneaked up behind her, covered her…
What’s that? Your sushi is grey? Oh, it’s great…. I once worked as a server in a disco restaurant. The dining tables surrounded a dance floor outfitted with a spectacular light and sound system that blasted out the latest long-playing singles by Gloria Gaynor, Chic, Cher and other artists not even remotely remembered today, like Carrie Lucas (“It’s Not What…
There were a few contenders for this week’s Tweet, but the following from Ultimate Fakebook’s Bill McShane (@bill_mcshane) just blew every other bit of this week’s news out of the water: You may begin freaking out now. Categories: Music Tags: Bill McShane, Twitter, ultimate fakebook, upcoming release
It seems as though no one has sent a memo to the weather gods: April showers are supposed to bring May flowers. There’s only a few days left in May, and the gloomy weather has us yearning for the better signs of spring. Fortunately for us, this weekend’s forecast promises lots of sunshine before we get drenched again during the…
Widgeonwood wares include canned salsas and jams David and Sally Calvin of Widgeonwood Farm in Jefferson City take up their Saturday-only spot in the enclosed courtyard at Prairie Village Shopping Center at 71st and Mission Road tomorrow. They’ll be selling their produce, jars of home-made jams, jellies, salsas, soups and such. Sally Calvin says she’s also bringing a few special…
While we hate having to give the Westboro Baptist Church any further press, the following quote regarding the church’s upcoming protest at Ronnie James Dio’s funeral gave us pause: WBC to picket this public memorial to remind you who worship that old Serpent, Satan, that your time is very short. You know 67 year old, Satan-worshiping (or at least one…
Anyone who’s spent time teaching kids in the urban core will tell you that you have to make sacrifices if you want to help. For some, that means giving up personal time or accepting a low salary. But for Adam Clark, the price was even higher. Clark publicly and irrevocably outed himself today as a Magic: The Gathering fan. Clark,…
Tomatoes have it good right now. It’s early in the season, everybody’s neighbors and farmer’s markets aren’t yet inundated, and it’s been just long enough since last season to miss a ripe, juicy tomato. Treehouse Berry Farm is ending the drought. The Linwood, Kansas, berry farm is mostly known for jams, chutneys and fruit butter, but it also make a…
%{}% I’ve looked at menus and thought, the chef must have been high to have put this together. It turns out that might have been a possibility. The New York Times suggested this week that chefs are smoking marijuana not just to relax from the stressful pace of restaurants but to find inspiration for their menus. Today, a small but…
