Rod Anderson OK, so 2010 has not been a very good year for restaurateur Rod Anderson. In June, the owner of the Hereford House steakhouses and the upscale Pierpont’s in Union Station was indicted by a federal grand jury on arson and mail-fraud-conspiracy charges in an alleged $2.5 million scheme to collect insurance after torching the original Hereford House restaurant…
Chris Trew didn’t give a damn how many people showed up to the Kansas City qualifier for the Air Sex World Championships. He was going to treat some lucky figment of his imagination to five minutes of erotic pleasure, and that’s all there was to it. “I came all the way to Kansas City,” Trew said last night standing outside…
Chris Trew didn’t give a damn how many people showed up to the Kansas City qualifier for the Air Sex World Championships. He was going to treat some lucky figment of his imagination to five minutes of erotic pleasure, and that’s all there was to it. “I came all the way to Kansas City,” Trew said last night standing outside…
The dense, aggressively stylized music of Portland, Oregon’s Menomena hits me in a weird way. I love the inventiveness, the audacity, and the ceaseless creativity; yet I sometimes find Menomena’s bric-a-brac process nauseating. It can be hard to gain orientation in its manic, shoehorning of styles. Their music is part hard-rock, part jazz, part funk — actually, it’s part everything…
Samuel Schwer and his daughter, Katrina Schwer, were trying to get back to the Marriott Hotel (200 West 12th Street) in Kansas City, Missouri, last October 29. But somehow they got lost after leaving the American Royal and ended up on the Paseo Express at 1500 Truman Road. The Schwers stopped to ask for directions when 30-year-old Jason E. Frazier…
When I called my order in to Zaina (25 East 12th Street) earlier this week, the man who answered asked when I wanted to pick up my sandwich. “Ten minutes,” I suggested. “No, that’s too long. It will all be gone by then. Hurry. Hurry,” he said before breaking into laughter. It’s nice to see the to-go service at a…
(Runs index finger up and down over lips): Michael Bolton is playing a show in Kansas City next week! Big deal, you say. Bolton’s a hack. Always has been, you say. God, you are arrogant. What’s that? I’m sorry, I can’t hear you over these large headphones I’m wearing, which are playing “Soul Provider” and “Steel Bars” on an endless…
Humping the air with abandon under bright blue and white stage lights sounds like the thing of fever-induced nightmares. But Tuesday evening, three brave men made the air (and a ghost horse) their bitch. Check out Elke Mermis’ pictures from last night’s brief encounters with air coitus.
%{}% Fire tore through Mama’s 39th Street Diner early this morning, and the blaze was so bad that firefighters had to cut a hole in the roof to let the heat escape. The fire broke out around 12:45 a.m., filling the diner with high pressure smoke that had firefighters fearing a “flash-bang,” according to KSHB Channel 41. Mama’s was closed…
America may have baristas in bikinis, but we are woefully behind when it comes to using bunnies to promote a coffee shop. Thankfully, we have Japan to set the standard for cuddly coffee (video via Fork in the Road). So that got me thinking, what would be even better than a rabbit and an espresso? Let’s suspend health codes and…
Fire tore through Mama’s 39th Street Diner early this morning, and the blaze was so bad that firefighters had to cut a hole in the roof to let the heat escape. The fire broke out around 12:45 a.m., filling the diner with high pressure smoke that had firefighters fearing a “flash-bang,” according to KSHB Channel 41. Mama’s was closed at…
The Portland-based trio brought their unique art rock sound to Lawrence. Read Chance Dibben’s review on Wayward and see his pictures from the evening here.
Cafe Trio was a hit on Groupon. “A good deal? That’s a tricky question,” says Chris Youngers, co-owner of Cafe Trio on the Country Club Plaza. Groupon has sold more than 2,600 half-price coupons to Cafe Trio. Youngers admits he won’t make much money off the deal, but he says Groupon has been effective in “getting the right people…
Sherlock Holmes had Moriarty. I have Jack in the Box. One of the great mysteries of my job has been trying to figure out exactly what it is about the fast-food chain that sends Kansas Citians into a frenzy. The news broke earlier this year that Jack in the Box was returning to the Kansas City market, and that information…
Empty Glass is a weekly post devoted to furthering the alcoholic rock star image and mythos. Drinking is almost always fun, and its negative side effects are negligible. Also, it makes you look cool. Steddy P and DJ Mahf are opening for Twin City titan Brother Ali in a few weeks — Sunday, October 24 — at the Granada. That…
For years, we’ve searched for a chink in St. Louis Cardinal manager Tony La Russa’s impenetrable armor of evil. When he joined Glenn Beck’s “Restoring Honor” rally this August we despaired. When he backed the tea party and Arizona’s racial profiling, we wept. This was not a man, but the remorseless troll of America’s favorite past time. But finally a…
A few weeks back, Kansas governor-in-waiting Sam Brownback was caught on camera agreeing with a young woman that nutbag apocalyptic preacher Lou Engle’s views concerned him. The woman missed a golden opportunity to get Brownback to elaborate — on video, no less. Weeks later, the Kansas Democratic Party has decided to make Engle a campaign issue. According to the Topeka…
Flashbulb Fires’ swirling, atmospheric sound fits somewhere between introspective piano rock and Radiohead copycat. The Denver band — who Westword readers recently named the best indie-pop band — claims a lush catalog that makes for dreamy listening, as long as you don’t get caught up in the incisive, sharp-tongued lyrics. We could see that band you like / Even though…
Danyell Jones allegedly didn’t want his daughter to see him get pulled over. Caring father Danyell R. Jones just didn’t want his 6-year-old daughter to see him get pulled over. That was the excuse Jones gave police for trying his damnedest to evade them during a speedy chase on Friday. Of course, it had nothing to do with the…
The Ssion crew — and all its friends — are climbing the ladder to fame, one delightfully sleazy project at a time. Cody Critcheloe art-directed a Wizard Of Oz-themed video for Peaches not too long ago; now, he’s signed on outlandish fashion maven Peggy Noland for a new video for the Gossip. Categories: Music Tags: Beth Ditto, Cody Critcheloe, Peggy…
