Every time I go out for Mexican food, I tell myself that this time is going to be different. I believe that I’m going to bring home leftovers. I believe that I’ll be able to stop after half my burrito. I believe that I will not feel like I’m carrying a food baby. So, I was optimistic when my wife…
1. Gawk in the galleries. Not as many Crossroads art shows are debuting as usual this First Friday, but there’s still plenty of creativity to behold. (Hint: Don’t pass up The Late Show.) 2. Drink in the park. New Belgium Brewing brings fat tires — in bike and beer form, plus on film — to Theis Park tonight for its…
Lady Gaga has remade her “Monster Ball” tour into an even bigger (yeah, you guessed it) monstrosity — in a good way. She unveiled the new edition of her tour in Montreal on Tuesday, and it’s the same version that’s going to make its way to Kansas City on August 3. Gaga has been on tour since November 2009, and…
A few bottles of vitamins and a single pint-sized container of Silk soy milk were all that remained for customers in the Whole Foods Market at 4301 Main yesterday afternoon. After 17 years of operation — 14 of those as a Wild Oats Market — the store closed its doors at 4 p.m. “We’ll be sad to leave here. There…
Categories: Music Tags: rockfest
It’s difficult for this review not to simply consist of the words “Fuck yeah, Rush!” That’s pretty much the reaction one has after a full three hours of Canadian progressive rock, especially when done as well as this particular threesome does. Rush played on what had to be one of the most beautiful nights one could hope for a show…
%{}% The grilled cheese at Cafe Tempo is a lot easier than making your own cheese at home. Could we start having a cereal age? I ate Grape-Nuts for breakfast for the better part of two years, during which time I also favored cardigan sweaters. There is an art to picking ripe fruit and vegetables. Here’s a guide for summer…
Kansas’ private clubs were saved by the courts and exempted from the new statewide smoking ban. But that’s no help to the state’s numerous bingo parlors who will have to go smoke-free. Categories: News Tags: bars, bingo parlors, kansas, smoking ban, Tuck Duncan
There’s a bunch of sturm und drang that comes with being a metal fan; and when fans aren’t being brutalized at a show, cracking open a book can be pretty metal, too. What’s more hardcore than the apocalyptic angst of Nietzche or Dante? “God is dead?” That’s some intense shit. In the spirit of thrashing intellectualism, Flavorwire has complied a metalhead…
Categories: Music Tags: crystal method
Voters in Kansas City, Missouri, won’t get their first crack at the mayor’s race until the primary in February 2011. The race is young, but already one of the candidates has reworked his message. Mike Burke, a development lawyer active in civic affairs, announced his candidacy with the slogan “Don’t give up the ship.” The words appeared on billboards done…
Weep for Frazier Glenn Miller. The Federal Communications Commission ruled last month that radio stations don’t have to air the white supremacist, anti-Semite and all-around racist prick’s commercials for his write-in candidacy for U.S. Senate. (The guy actually makes Roy Blunt look good.) Categories: News, Politics Tags: Glenn Miller, Kit Bond, racism, Roy Blunt, u.s. senate, white supremacist
In Lawrence, slow-rolling drone rock act True Widow is at the Replay, with Black Christmas and Mansion. At RecordBar, it’s an all-ages punk show with former Social Distortion drummer Casey Royer’s band D.I., Hopeless Destroyers, SxOx, Shred Scare, and No Class. That’s an early one — 7 p.m. start. And down at Studded Bird (19th and Charlotte), it’s Bandit Teeth, Lite Loins, and Baby…
Simon Takwana Angilda is accused of — whoa! — raping a 92-year-old woman in the 10300 block of Overbrook Road in Leawood on Tuesday. Angilda, 21, allegedly forced his way into the woman’s home after she answered her door; police say he then demanded money and sexually assaulted her. Categories: News Tags: Kevin Cauley, leawood, rape, Simon Angilda
Linda Duerr Linda Duerr is out of a job — again. Thirteen months ago, the talented chef, who came to Kansas City to oversee the kitchen of Lidia’s Kansas City in the 1990s, was hired by Joe DiGiovanni, co-owner of Leawood’s Zest Restaurant. Duerr had been laid off earlier in 2009 from J.J.’s Restaurant, on the Plaza, when that restaurant’s owner, Jimmy…
Wouldn’t it be great to know what Lt. Gen. William B. Caldwell has to say about the whole Rolling Stone controversy that caused President Barack Obama to fire Lt. Gen. Stanley McChrystal, former commander of all U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan? Categories: News Tags: Lt. Gen. Stanley McChrystal, Lt. Gen. William B. Caldwell, milblogger, rolling stone
“I thought I was going to see a lot of cool 1950s stuff,” said Wendy Dow, who was roaming through the open motel doors of the White Haven Motor Lodge this morning — with lots of other curiosity seekers — before auctioneer Anne Smith picked up her microphone and began requesting bids on the contents of Room 139. The auction…
It’s lonely at the top, especially when you’ve killed friends, family and country men to get there. Yet, even at his worst, Bruce Roach makes the villain Richard III likable, with his galloping limp and winking asides to the audience.The cast of the Heartland of America Shakespeare Festival — now in its 18th year — drew a large crowd yesterday…
Categories: Music Tags: Roman Numerals, the Belated
If you feel like Band of Horses’ latest endeavor, Infinite Arms, is a bit too mellow for your taste, check out this shiny new reworking of the band’s Cease to Begin standout, “No One’s Gonna Love You” by Cee-Lo Green (the voice behind Gnarls Barkley). The video’s a tad NSFW (I mean, it’s two skinny people running around naked, counting…
