Burlesque dancers and variety acts took us back to the days before boom boom acts were ousted from the Folly Theater. Devo spazzed out for the third installment of Buzz Under the Stars. If it happened in July, chances are we got it in this slideshow.
When I got to visit my brother-in-law in Los Angeles, he has a simple rule for picking a restaurant for dinner. “Nothing below a B,” he says. A “B” is the letter grade that a restaurant has received from the city’s health department based on the number or lack of health code violations. And now when I go to visit…
1. Put on your grass skirt and glitter boots. The theme of this evening’s Night of Fame, the occasional dance/drag/dress-up party at the Conspiracy Room at the Uptown Theater, is David Bowie’s Luau. 2. Support those whose livelihoods are awash in oil. Heartland Loves the Gulf, a benefit for victims of the BP disaster, happens at Gail’s Harley Davidson tonight….
Categories: Music Tags: range life records, say my name
1. Because it’s possible that the only reason that Twitter — the pinnacle of self-expression for self-obsessed people who live in a world they believe is orchestrated like their own personal music video — was created in the first place was for Kanye West, who may have the largest ego in popular music at the moment. (Besides, ahem, other people…
John W. Schroeder III didn’t last long on the list of Missouri’s most wanted sex offenders. Independence police apprehended him yesterday — with a copy of Kansas City’s Most Wanted newspaper in his backseat, which Schroeder just happened to be in. Police labeled Schroeder a “violent felon” — wanted for first-degree statutory sodomy, enticement of a child and first-degree child…
The Chiefs kick off training camp in St. Joseph today, and it has Mayor Bill Falkner pumped about the flood of cash the team will bring his city. Falkner says with the influx of tourists, media members, and team employees flocking to Missouri Western State University, St. Joseph is giddily anticipating millions of dollars to begin coursing through the city….
The Kansas City Police Department’s website is a whole lot more informative than a visit to the first floor of headquarters (sometimes known as, “Hocus, Pocus, 12th and Locust”). Don’t believe it? Well, would you believe that they’ve posted biographical information for each of the horses in their mounted patrol? Because that’s first on our list. Categories: News Tags: kcpd,…
Night of Fame 4
Lavell Crawford w/ Dominique & Joe Clair
The Crystal Method (Dj set)
On my way to City Hall today, I had to pass through a crowd of kids — a youth group? Some local Jesus Camp? — praying in front of the main entrance on 12th Street. I had no idea what the prayer/protest was about … until I heard the word “abortion.” Which is even more confusing, frankly. Few institutions in…
An evening of rollicking country rock at the Crossroads, with the Old 97’s and Lucero. Hopefully the weather will play nice. A very early show at the Jackpot (7 p.m.!) with Cults and Light Pollution, two bands with some indie bloggy heat on them. Hip hop at the Record Bar with Abstract Rude. CES Cru opens. Plus Snoop and Cube. Categories: Music Tags:…
Image via Flickr: cwluc If you didn’t order lasagna for lunch today, it’s still not too late to celebrate the classic Italian dish for your dinner. Today is, after all, National Lasagna Day. Jasper’s Restaurant is offering a complimentary scoop of spumoni with each order of lasagna — through the end of this evening — and Brio Tuscan Grille…
Jell-O shots sadly get left behind in college, along with punch bowls of indeterminate alcohol strength and knocking on the wrong doors in search of your bed. Perhaps there is a causal connection among all three. Occasionally Jell-O shots get trotted out for a retro party, but they’re a novelty, like a fruit beer or cake shaped like a football…
Widespread Panic played back-to-back nights at the Midland last November. We even reviewed it! Today comes word that the long-running Athens, GA jam band is returning to the Midland on Friday, October 8. Tickets are on sale tomorrow (7/30) at 10 a.m. Just wondering: where does the parking lot scene happen at a Midland show, since it’s smack in the…
Last week, Minnesota freedom-lover Michele Bachmann founded the House Tea Party Caucus. Hooray! So why’s she throwing her houndstooth-clad weight behind Roy Blunt, Missouri Senate candidate, instead of “real Tea Party candidate” Chuck Purgason? Bachmann is planning a trip on Saturday to work at a Missouri phone bank for Blunt’s campaign. Naturally, Missouri Tea Partiers are gathering their collective rotten…
The only bet I ever regret cashing in on involved a Cheeseburger Big Bite from 7-Eleven. The grease-laden meat tube had to be devoured in two bites by a friend who had failed to roll a higher bowling score. This is the same friend who, to that point, had never consumed an egg unless it was in a baked good….
The How the West Was One tour will soldier on regardless, of course. The real question about tonight is, will they be attending church services? Categories: Music Tags: Ice Cube, snoop dogg
The old standbys The first recorded mention of the term milk shake — in print, anyway — was in 1885. The phrase described an alcoholic tonic that contained eggs and whiskey. Two decades later, soda fountains were experimenting with different kinds of cold beverages that utilized ice cream and flavored syrups. One reference to the “milk shake” in 1900 called…
Potheads, you better hope this wasn’t your supplier. The feds busted a couple of guys for allegedly growing thousands of marijuana plants near St. Joseph. The feds scooped up Serafin Rodriguez Gonzalez, 24, and Juan Francisco Garcia, 44, for participating in a conspiracy to manufacture and distribute a couple tons of marijuana. Categories: News Tags: Juan Francisco Garcia, marijuana, Serafin…
The Kansas City Police Department has been using the shotgun that killed Freedom Inc. founder Leon Jordan as a service weapon for the last 33 years. That revelation comes from a press release sent this morning by KCPD spokesman Capt. Rich Lockhart regarding the re-opening of Jordan’s unsolved murder case. The decision precipitates from renewed interest in Jordan’s assassination —…
