The Smashing Pumpkins headlined KRBZ 96.5 The Buzz’s Beach Ball concert at Sandstone in Bonner Springs on Saturday night. (Other acts included the Buzz’s mainstay Cake, Civil Twilight, the Limousines, Six Percent, A Silent Film, AM Taxi, and locals the Beautiful Bodies.)
For a 15th anniversary, the traditional gift is crystal. But the smart gift is beer. Barley’s Brewhaus (11924 West 119th Street, Overland Park) is celebrating its 15th anniversary with a week’s worth of specials and events. The festivities kick off tonight with the Oktoberfest Brewmaster’s Dinner at 6:30 p.m. It’s an interesting menu, with black pepper and caraway seed pretzels,…
Rightbloggers don’t like truthiness. Long, bitter experience — and long, bitter comments at this blog — have taught us that if there’s anything conservatives hate more than Big Gummint and homosexuals, it’s someone making fun of them. The outrage that Boss Tweed expressed over “them damned pictures” of himself drawn by Thomas Nast is as nothing compared to that…
Sufjan Stevens is playing at the Uptown on October 17. You’ve only got a month to get adjusted to Sufjan’s revamped sound! Check out the stream of The Age of Adz from NPR, and you’ll find the album opening with a beautifully meandering track that sounds a bit like the melancholy depression of Michigan, disembodied and abstracted into a less…
Elke Mermis caught the Avett Brothers show at Grinders on Saturday night. The band stayed true to their anthemic folk rock sound. Read the review and see their setlist on Wayward and see pictures from the show here. Photos by Tricia Nugen.
The Avett Brothers, with Grace Potter and the Nocturnals September 25, 2010 Crossroads KC at Grinders I miss that feeling of feeling, belted the Avett Brothers in the Crossroads on Saturday night. It’s a fairly complete summary of the band’s tone, sound, message, what-have-you: The folk-rock-Americana-punk band tackles fiery bluegrass jams and wistful ballads, but more than anything, its a…
Chef Turk oversees the kitchen at the YWCA Bistro. Kenneth Turk, a graduate of Paseo High School — “the old Paseo High School,” he likes to point out — moved to Salt Lake City in the late 1990s to study education at the University of Utah. He fell in love, first with Utah (he’d like to move back there)…
Today: Do the robot! Some peeps at UMKC are attempting to organize the world’s largest Robot Dance Party. Tuesday: Get a “Current Perspective” on life as an artist from John Buck, who gives a public lecture at UMKC. Wednesday: Eat nachos until the cheese squirts out of your bellybutton. $35 gets you all-you-can-eat seats at Kauffman Stadium for the Royals’…
You can’t pick up the remote these days without catching a Kansas City joint on television. Guy Fieri continues his love affair with our city tonight with a stop in at The Brick (1727 McGee) on the latest episode of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, which airs at 9 p.m. The exuberant Food Network host was in Kansas City back in…
The words “construction trailer” evoke stale coffee and an accusatory Randy Quaid. But green? Kansas City-based McCownGordon Construction has developed a trailer that’s powered by the sun, harnesses the wind and contains a working toilet. McCownGordon has worked on a number of environmentally sensitive projects, including the Johnson County office building on Sunset Drive and the recent expansion of Bartle…
Arish Ahmad Khan is King Khan, frontman for the King Khan & BBQ Show, Almighty Defenders, Tandoori Knights, and a slew of other acts. He’s coming to Lawrence this Saturday with the funky soul sounds of King Khan & the Shrines. They’ll close out the Bottleneck as part of the Scion Garage Fest. Categories: Music Tags: interviews, King Khan & the…
An all-time-great jazz pianist, Dave Brubeck is pushing 90 years old and still gigging around. He was scheduled to stop by the Missouri Theatre in Columbia on October 16 as part of the city’s “We Always Swing” Jazz Series, but unfortunately that show — along with his entire tour — has been canceled due to Brubeck’s chief cardiologist forbidding him…
Don’t get us wrong: There remains plenty to be skeptical about. After all, the combined record of the Chiefs opponents is now 1-5. But the Chiefs proved a lot on Sunday — including that, when the team shows up, the fans show up. It was my first trip to Arrowhead, and it was easily the most raucous regular season…
The real sticky-icky costs more in Missouri than on the coast. A new website that takes user submitted reviews on price and potency of weed across the country has bad news for people in Missouri: Not only are we paying too much for pot, we’re not even getting value for the money. According to Price of Weed, the weed…
Johnny Sloan’s killer is on the loose. Kansas City, Kansas, police found Johnny Sloan shot to death inside a duplex in the 2300 block of North 75th Terrace on Sunday morning. The door to the duplex where Sloan’s body was found was wide open. At last word, police were still trying to piece together who killed the 30-year-old Sloan….
This is either a public health initiative or a great way to give the Kansas City Police Department a fat supply of pharmies: Attorney General Chris Koster and the KCPD’s Captain Richard Lockhart announced that they are partnering to help with the DEA’s Prescription Drug Take-Back Day tomorrow, which aims to collect expired or unwanted prescription drugs. Categories: News Tags:…
