Rarely does one find a nugget of truth in reality TV — let alone in I Love the ’80s. “If you never got high and watched The Wall, you were never a teenager,” lectured one of the show’s pudgy, ponytailed commentators when the Pink Floyd album came up on the VH1 show. But for a specific generation, The Wall —…
This isn’t your grandparents’ big band. The Max Weinberg Big Band works the hard-driving sound made popular by jazz icons Buddy Rich and Maynard Ferguson. Weinberg, of course, is the longtime E Street Band drummer who also (until recently) fronted Conan O’Brien’s house band. He’s a big name in any genre, so fans of hot drumming and muscular brass attacks…
Watermelon Slim has been a lot of things — a truck driver, a petty criminal, a protester, a Mensa member and a melon farmer (hence the stage name). He’s also received 17 nominations from the Blues Foundation and is widely regarded as one of the best contemporary blues players on the national stage. Watermelon Slim — whose real name is…
The actress Winona Ryder once said about the price of fame: “Weird people follow you in the street. You can’t sit alone in a restaurant or a café and read a book in peace, and I think everyone values those moments of being alone.” Now, I’ve never actually seen anyone famous dining in the 5-month-old Westport Café and Bar —…
Skip burlesque and fake blood this weekend in favor of shows that focus on tuneage rather than glittery vampires and Snooki costumes. These six concerts won’t make you feel like an asshole for declining to dress up. Rockabilly Halloween at Knuckleheads Saturday night in the East Bottoms, the only getup you’ll need is a pompadour and a greaser’s leather jacket….
Halloween is almost upon us, so local police are reminding Missouri’s registered sex offenders of their duties on this kid-centric holiday: stay inside, keep the lights off, put up signs identifying yourselves as deviants, and whatever you do, NO CANDY! But this year, thanks to the perv-friendly Supreme Court, not as many sex offenders will be forced to stay home…
We’ve heard about rescues of dogs and cats in the last couple of days, but nothing as large as the the one in northwest Kansas in which more than a hundred dogs were taken from a breeder. As you can imagine, there are more dogs than shelter space. KAKE reports, and the dogs have been sent to several shelters. Categories:…
Funeral Party is playing with Two Door Cinema at the RecordBar on October 29 — this Friday. (You might recognize Two Door Cinema Club as the original, volcano-detained opener for Phoenix’s show at the Uptown earlier this year.) Want to win tickets to see these two bands tear up some anthem-friendly electro-pop? Tell us a legitimately funny joke in the…
In years past, you could score a free burrito on Halloween from Chipotle if you came in dressed like a burrito. Sadly, the free burrito train has stopped. This year you can instead get a burrito, bowl, salad or tacos for $2 after 6 p.m. — if you dress up as a “horrifying processed food product.” This is not all…
Kansas City is the corporate headquarters of Russell Stover Candies (the nation’s leading manufacturer of boxed chocolates), so it’s only fair that the company’s home town gets some sweetness on Halloween. Russell Stover Candies hosts its annual free Halloween Candy Giveaway Friday, October 29, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. The event, which has taken place for the past 11…
You can hear them chanting from blocks away: “We want justice! Prosecutors out! Aren’t you fed up? We want closure! Ain’t gonna take it no more.” Rachel Riley, head of an East Side political action committee called the 23rd Street Nonviolent Marchers, is leading a protest until 4 p.m. today on the steps of the Jackson County Courthouse. She seeks…
UPDATE: Darris and Daron Peal, the two brothers wanted in the shooting death of Aaron Hobson, were reportedly arrested Wednesday in Jennings, Missouri, near St. Louis. Aaron Hobson was in Columbia Saturday to watch the Homecoming game between the Missouri Tigers the Oklahoma Sooners. Hobson’s cousin, Trey Hobson, plays defensive back for the Tigers. He was driving through the parking…
KMBC Channel 9 reporter Mike Mahoney is angering up the blood of politicians this year (as he always does). In another awesome confrontation, Mahoney makes U.S. Senate candidate Roy Blunt get out his pointing finger when asked whether he knew a woman — an illegal immigrant on whose behalf he wrote a letter when he was Missouri Secretary of State…
The Traveling Cocktail Club hits the Farmhouse tomorrow night to celebrate autumn with food and drink. A couple of favorites from the Manifesto menu will be served, and Ryan Maybee of Manifesto and the Rieger Hotel Grill & Exchange is set to debut the Smoked Armagnac Sling. Wait … what? Categories: Dining, Food & Drink Tags: manifesto, rieger hotel grill…
Publisher Tim Zagat’s annual survey of the top restaurants in 45 U.S. markets is out today. Which local restaurants got the highest scores in the 2011 edition of Zagat’s new listing of the top restaurants in the United States? The answers probably won’t come as a big surprise. The listing includes Kansas City venues that have received national media recognition,…
Now for something completely stupid, Jack Harry! I realize no one takes the buzz-cut KSHB Channel 41 sports director seriously anymore, but his latest “Jack’s Smack” diatribe — calling on University of Kansas chancellor Bernadette Gray-Little to do away with the school’s football program — is just so stupid. “I’m calling on the chancellor at Kansas to do everything in…
After a six-year absence from the battle circuit, local Scribble Jam champion Mac Lethal steps back into the ring in Miami with San Jose’s DirtBag Dan. Watch Mac kill it. (And watch him spank DirtBag Dan for getting his facts wrong about on Black Clover.) There’s about three minutes worth of ads before the video starts, FYI. Categories: Music Tags:…
Dracula vs. Frankenstein. Freddy vs. Jason. Uh, Jacob vs. Edward. In today’s Battle of the Dishes, will Halloween treats from local bakeries Sugar Mamma’s and Cupcake A La Mode rival these legendary match-ups? On to the battle! Categories: Dining, Food & Drink Tags: Cupcake A La Mode, Sugar Mamma’s
UPDATE: Authorities have caught all three of the escaped inmates, including a convicted killer, from a prison break at the the Daviess/DeKalb County Regional Jail in Pattonsburg. Read the update after the jump … Authorities in northwest Missouri are on a manhunt for three inmates who escaped from the Daviess/DeKalb County Regional Jail in Pattonsburg. Carlos Sarmiento, Nicholas McCleary and…
