When I’m given the option of putting together my own meal at a restaurant, I tend to make poor choices. Why? Because I’m not a chef and because I always add unnecessary condiments. But is that my issue or should a restaurant have enough vision to make sure that my many options all still lead to a tasty dish. Kansas…
Local radio station 96.5 the Buzz brought hundreds back down to the City Market for a night of performances by Ben Folds, Devo, Silversun Pickups, Crash Kings and Against Me!. Pitch photographer Scott Spychalski captured each set.
%{}% You may have heard something about former USDA employee Shirley Sherrod last week. She’s the civil-rights veteran who got forced out of her job after rightwing provocateur Andrew Breitbart released a video of her remarks before the NAACP, edited to make her look anti-white. You may also have heard that the tape turned out to be a con-job. But…
Welcome back, Paul. It’s been a long time. Seventeen years, to be exact. The last time Paul McCartney played Kansas City was during the Clinton Administration, in front of a 40,000-plus crowd at Arrowhead on his “New World Tour” in 1993. Judging by the packed-to-the-rafters Sprint Center Saturday night (not to mention the longest pre-show line I’ve ever seen outside…
Technically, Dave’s Stagecoach Inn is a Westport bar. But its location — just east of Broadway on Westport Road — affords it a comfortable distance from, or, depending on your point of view, easy access to, the shit-show that Westport becomes on most weekend nights. It’s a great joint that has recently been evolving in awesome ways, like extending its…
With humidity as thick and sticky as a Gulf oil plume hanging in the air, and a heat index still in the nineties after the sun had set, what better night to cram into a poorly ventilated bar with a few hundred sweaty dance-rock aficionados for a show by Liars? Well, to be honest, any other night would probably have…
I’ve always looked at New York City like I see Lucky Strike Lanes. It’s a reverse ATM. I figure everything is going to cost me a twenty. And if it doesn’t, I’m pleasantly surprised when I come back with a few singles. It looks like I’m going to have to revise my estimates and the amount of cash I’m carrying…
Death visited Steinbrenner before the Royals in 2010. The Royals appeared at Yankee Stadium over the weekend. Who had Kansas City losing three out of four to the best team in baseball? What, everybody? OK, put down your hands. With Zack Greinke unavailable for the series, the Royals looked as defenseless as an underling who screwed up in the presence…
British soccer powerhouse Manchester United took on the Kansas City Wizards in the first event at the newly refurbished Arrowhead Stadium Sunday evening. The friendly match, which served as a preseason warm up for United, had moments that were highly unfriendly, including Wizards defender Jimmy Conrad getting a red card for denying a scoring opportunity. The Wizards prevailed with first-half…
Monday: Put on your Loyal Locals shirt and root on the Royals. Tuesday: Get your skateboard signed. A bunch of pro skateboarders with sharpies are gonna be hanging out at Escapist Skateboarding in the Crossroads and then heading off to Overland Park to demonstrate their skills. Categories: News Tags: Fringe Fest, Ice Cube, royals, skateboarding, snoop dogg
When Kansas City mayoral candidate Mike Burke announced that Jason Parson would be taking over as his campaign manager earlier this month, it raised a few eyebrows among the city’s political junkies. Parson has already tried his hand at running for state legislature, and based on how that turned out, it’d be easy to assume he doesn’t have the sharpest…
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Edgar Juarez is going to be spending the next nine years in a federal prison cell because he got caught with a fuckton of ecstasy last December. For those of you who didn’t take advanced science courses, a fuckton is the metric unit used to measure how many ecstasy pills you can fit into the trunk of a Cadillac. Juarez…
%{}% Autopsies on two bodies found in a Merriam apartment Thursday morning have led the coroner to rule the deaths a murder-suicide. Police suspect Erik Snow of fatally shooting Lesa Baumgardner and then turning the gun on himself. Both were 35. Categories: News Tags: Erik Snow, Lesa Baumgardner, Merriam, murder-suicide
It looks like Kris Kobach is giving up on his once-grand political aspirations — resigning himself instead to being the lawyer who fights illegals and looks pretty on Fox News once a week. Either that, or he’s just not as smart as his trifecta of alma maters suggests. Kobach — the Harvard-Yale-Oxford-educated lawyer who has crafted many of the nation’s…
FRIDAY *Americana tunes with the Caves, Dead Voices and Blessed Broke, at Davey’s. *Noise FM at the Jackpot, with Hawley Shoffner and Abandon Kansas. *Buzz Under the Stars, at City Market. *Liars at the Bottleneck. Preview here. Saturday after the jump. Categories: Music Tags: home blitz, Liars, paul mccartney, the Caves
The homophobic Phelps family took a San Diego vacation to picket the sinners at Comic-Con. Why exactly? Who cares? The photos are pretty amazing, and Comic Alliance has posted a bunch (including a pretty awesome Trekker holding a “God hates Jedis” sign. Head over to Comics Alliance to check it out. Also, check out the video after the jump. Categories:…
