Paul Rudd (“I Love You, Man” and “The 40-Year-Old Virgin”) joined fellow comedians Rob Riggle (the Daily Show) and Jason Sudeikis (Saturday Night Live), Horatio Sanz (Saturday Night Live), Will Forte (“MacGruber”), George Wendt (Cheers), KU coach Bill Self, Bobby Cannavale (Third Watch) and Royals player Willie Wilson last weekend to host the Big Slick Celebrity Poker Tournament and Party…
Some drinks are made for cocktails. Sweet tea — the classic Southern accompaniment to fried chicken and barbecue — is just one such drink. Lighter than juice, sweet tea forms the base of cocktails that look and taste refreshing. Snapple has a new sweet tea in a can — 79 cents a pint at Sun Fresh Market — that won’t…
Money Shots is a glimpse of random happenings when we’re out and about on Kansas City’s music scene. La Roux performed as part of Kansas City’s Gay Pride festivities this past weekend. Here are some shots of her show at KC Live in Power and Light on Friday night. Scott Spychalski Categories: Music Tags: KC Pride, La Roux
Show Me Pride 2010, Kansas City’s own week-long celebration during Gay Pride Month, came to an end Sunday night with a festival at Richard L. Berkley Riverfront Park featuring 90s R&B sensation, En Vogue. Pride saw its fair share of controversy this year when some Show Me Pride events were held in the Power and Light district. A splinter group…
It goes down July 23. Tickets are on sale Friday at 10 am. Buzz Freeloaders get first crack at it on Wednesday. Categories: Music Tags: Against Me!, ben folds, Devo, silversun pickups
What’s happening in this space? An elderly neighbor of mine likes to talk about a long-forgotten restaurant at 31st and Troost called Norman’s, which served a complete fried chicken dinner for under $2. It’s been decades since Troost was a dining destination, so it’s hard to imagine that it was once a vital entertainment district with movie theaters, nightclubs and…
Possibly because they think it will help them score a spot on a TV or movie soundtrack, local trio Heroes and Villains frequently refer to themselves as “cinematic.” It’s a reasonably apt description — most of the time they sound like Ben Gibbard fronting Snow Patrol — and it looks as though they’re starting to make a dent: their video for…
%{}% A week ago, Israeli paratroopers took over a ship on the high seas that was part of a flotilla trying to flout Israel’s embargo against Gaza. Those aboard the boat, which carried wheelchairs and such like, fought back against the invading Israelis, who retaliated by killing nine of them. Even some friends of Israel (and normally non-partisan sites like…
If you’re not familiar with Gaslight Anthem, there is a good chance you will be soon, because this band is set to conquer the world. Their formula — taking a legit punk aesthetic and channelling it through some of the brightest spots of the American rock canon (Springsteen, Petty, the Replacements) — is so obvious it’s surprising nobody’s done it…
The Black Keys can make some goddamn noise. For a band made up of just two dudes, the duo managed to blast the hell out of the sold-out Crossroads on Friday night. 2,500 people turned out to see Akron, Ohio’s finest. The opening four songs were “Thickfreakness,” “Girl Is On My Mind,” “10 A.M. Automatic,” and “Set You Free”: a…
He’s got a big Italian sausage for you, baby I learned a valuable lesson yesterday: Do not go to the annual Festa Italiana — hosted by UNICO at the Zona Rosa shopping complex last weekend — if you’re really hungry. I felt complelled to eat way too much: toasted ravioli from the Mike & Charlie’s booth, Italian ices from the…
The Buzz Under the Stars event featuring Weezer, Coheed and Cambria, and Manchester Orchestra morphed into Buzz Under the Storm Clouds featuring Heat Stroke show on Friday night. The smell of puke and sweat filled City Market as hotter-than-hell temperatures took their toll on enthusiastic Weezer fans. I saw six people barf their brains out, and one postmenopausal woman lay…
Remembering those fun nude days No, Victor — we’ll just call him Victor — didn’t go to the Gay Pride festivities last weekend. He moves a bit slowly on his walker these days; he’s 88 years old, after all. And his longtime companion, who is also named Victor — we’ll refer to him as young Victor because he’s only 80…
People no longer scream for just ice cream — there seems to be plenty of demand for snow cones. Eighteen days ago, we noted that Lindsay Laricks of Fresher Than Fresh Snow Cones was trying to raise $6,300 — via the online fundraising Web site Kickstarter — to expand her business. At that point, Laricks was about halfway to her…
Listening to Canadian electronic guru Dan Snaith’s project Caribou, one would imagine – judging by 2007’s Andorra, and the recently-released Swim – that Snaith’s award-winning compositions must be meticulously tuned, like playing compositions by running one’s fingers along perfectly measured glasses of water. Instead, a primarily college-age Lawrence crowd at the Granada on Sunday night was treated to a crashing,…
The Buzz Under the Stars event featuring Weezer, Coheed and Cambria, and Manchester Orchestra morphed into Buzz Under the Storm Clouds featuring Heat Stroke show on Friday night. The smell of puke and sweat filled City Market as hotter-than-hell temperatures took their toll on enthusiastic Weezer fans. But the show must go on — and we have pictures.
The sun is shining and diners are enjoying the chance to eat outdoors. But at restaurants across the city, servers are forced to shoo away people who are not dining out. Today, one server gets a chance to take aim at people who see restaurant patios as public spaces. It’ll be anonymous, because these types of rants are often followed…
Attention, visionary: Here’s a chance to impose your aesthetic on a local do-gooder’s living room. For the sixth year in a row, the Greater Kansas City Chamber of Commerce has put out the call for an original piece of art to offer the winner of its Kansas Citian of the Year award. In conjunction with the Arts Council of Metropolitan…
Royals starting pitching Gil Meche went on the disabled list May 30. If he needs surgery, doctors might find Trey Hillman’s signature burned into the right-hander’s broken muscles. Meche just hasn’t been the same since he complained of a dead arm and then proceeded to throw 121 and 114 pitches under the ex-manager’s “care.” Left-hander Bruce Chen took Meche’s place…
Grab it here. Categories: Music Tags: continents, record machine, Sam Billen, soft reeds
Tonight: Have a Pink Martini. No, this recommendation has nothing to with Sarah Jessica Parker. Pink Martini is the name of the excellent musical group performing at the Midland this evening. Tuesday: Be awed in the presence of an awesome writer when Pulitzer Prize winner Richard Russo reads at the Kansas City Central Library. Wednesday: Watch a local artist on…
%{}% At the Test Kitchen’s Ultimate Cocktail Party, Manifesto’s Ryan Maybee was slinging drinks and the menu included deviled quail eggs. If I’ve learned anything since moving here, it’s that I can cook anything on a grill. I could have used this guide to indirect heat grilling two years ago. Reasonable prices and luscious steak tacos mean that a trip…
Concerned that free Sublime tickets might not be inducement enough for someone to come forward and admit a dirty, dirty encounter with Missouri state Sen. Matt Bartle, one red-blooded Missouri businessman has kicked some cash into The Pitch’s reward pool. Gene Gruender, who owns the adult store Passion’s (three locations for three times the Bartle apoplexy), has pledged as much…
