“Hell to the yeah!!” — Ken Estes Trader Joe’s has some very vocal supporters. And the announcement that two stores will be opening, one on either side of the state line, has brought the rapture to the Facebook group Bring Trader Joe’s to the Kansas City Metro. But lost in the kerfuffle are a few dissenting voices, people who fail…
Money Shots is a glimpse of random happenings when we’re out and about on Kansas City’s music scene. Here are some shots from the ACB’s video shoot this weekend, at the Emerald space in the West Bottoms. Categories: Music Tags: the ACB’s, the ACBs
The Kansas Chamber of Commerce’s hardline stance on taxes and regulation continues to turn off even dedicated Republicans. Creeped out by the ferocity with which the Kansas Chamber holds its right-wing positions, Kansas City’s largest construction company, J.E. Dunn Construction, has left the group. Dunn Executive V.P. Bill Dunn Jr., who gives money to Republicans, told The Topeka Capital-Journal the…
A half-hour in on Saturday at Starlight, the Monsters of Yacht — Donald Fagen, Michael McDonald and Boz Scaggs, plus nine touring musicians — launched into “Green Flower Street,” the second track off Fagen’s 1982 solo album, The Nightfly. It was the first Fagen-penned tune of the night, and for the Fagen/Steely Dan nerds in the house, hearing that groovy keyboard…
It’s a little less punk and lot more red sauce these days for Marky Ramone, the former drummer for the Ramones. He’s got his own pasta sauce now, Marky Ramone’s Brooklyn’s Own, as he told Manapare.us: I made it with my grandpa; he was a chef at 21 Club. I watched him as a little boy, and then when I…
Missouri’s nanny state marches on! Sugar Creek, an itsy-bitsy town of about 4,000 north of Independence has had enough of speed demons drag racing down its road. The board of aldermen has voted make Sugar Creek the first KC-area city to be use automated cameras to nab speeders. Initially, drivers caught on camera will get a nasty-gram in the mail…
Tonight: Get served by a Chief. Corey Mays and other footballers don aprons for Celebrity Waiter Night at 801 Chophouse. Tuesday: Exhale in the presence of a pro. Author Terry McMillan, famous for Waiting to Exhale, reads from new novel Getting to Happy at Unity Temple. Categories: News Tags: Kanasas City Chiefs, Kansas City Wizards
Kansas State apparently has the power to summon the smoke monster from Lost, and the Wildcats have unleashed it on Kansas City in anticipation of tomorrow morning’s Farmageddon with Iowa State. This would be an impressive feat if K-State wasn’t making the smoke monster’s exit from the island look pitifully harmless. The video (watch it after the jump) is the…
Starker’s Restaurant on the Country Club Plaza hosts Hank Wetzel, owner and winemaker for the Sonoma, California, Alexander Valley Vineyards, Thursday, October 7. Chef-owner John McClure is scheduled to create an autumn-influenced, five-course menu paired with Alexander Valley Vineyard Vintages. Reservations for the meal, priced at $95 a person (not including tax and gratuity), are being accepted now at…
There haven’t been a lot of Emmy Award-winning TV shows set in the restaurant industry. True, Cheers (Best Comedy in 1983, 1984, 1989 and 1991) had a Boston saloon as a setting. But the restaurant known to characters on the show, the seafood-serving Melville’s, was forever offscreen, upstairs from the bar. The rule seems to be: If you want…
When Danny Cox, a local blues artist, had his home destroyed by a fire, a host of other local musicians came together to host several benefit concerts to rebuild the folk and blues vocalist’s home. The last benefit is called “Raise the Roof,” and it’s going to help Cox and his family — you guessed it — build a roof…
Farts + Facebook = Money If you have a Facebook, a Twitter, or ever look at YouTube…Hell, if you’re a conscious human being in 2010, chances are you have more power than ever to elevate a giggle-worthy product into a multi-million dollar industry. You did it with the Snuggie, and as we reported in this week’s feature, “Eureka!”, Overland…
Holy shit. The Pixies will rip through 1989’s formative album, Doolittle, at the Uptown tonight. If you don’t already have your tickets in hand, ticket prices to this sold-out show are pretty damn steep: they’re going for about $60 each, and that’s the low end. Just to rub it in: this is what you’ll be missing, if you don’t feel…
Yes, Lady Gaga has sent a video letter to the U.S. Senate, on the subject of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” — our country’s controversial (archaic) policy towards with gays in the military. It’s shot in black and white and she’s wearing a coat and tie, which I think is supposed to make her look professional? Anyway, she makes some good points….
