Original witchy woman Stevie Nicks made her mark with love songs (“Landslide,” “Rhiannon”) full of sweeping imagery and mystical elements to match her smoky voice. Clad in gauzy, sparkly layers, Nicks has always evinced a gypsy, libertine air. She benefited musically from her on-again, off-again creative relationship with Fleetwood Mac, which provided the crisp chops and surprising rock sinew that…
%{}% UPDATE: KCTV5 reported that police arrested two people in connection with the bodies found in a burning car Monday night. Original Story: The Murder Squad and Crime Scene Unit were investigating a double homicide Monday evening after two bodies were found in a burning car near Gladstone Boulevard and Cliff Drive. Categories: News Tags: homicide
Just guessing here, but I kinda doubt President Obama will be helping with Missouri Attorney General Chris Koster’s re-election campaign (not that it’ll matter in blood-red Missouri). Yesterday, Koster had a Republican flashback and urged a federal judge to strike down the mandatory health insurance provision in the law. Koster filed a “friend of the court” brief to the United…
%{}% It’s an annual rite of spring. Free Cone Day has come to Ben & Jerry’s. Head over to Ben & Jerry’s Scoop Shop (6984 W. 135th St.) in Overland Park to get your free cone. You don’t need a coupon, and the promotion lasts until 8 p.m. Categories: Dining, Food & Drink
It’s been a year and a half since Jerry Fuchs — drummer for such integral indie-rock bands as the Juan MacLean, !!!, and Maserati — died in an elevator shaft accident in Brooklyn, New York. All of the groups that Fuchs was involved with have paid their respect in their own ways and have slowly stepped back into the studios…
After three years of hanging over the bar, the blue moose has vamoosed. KC Hopps closed the Blue Moose Mountain Grill (5317 W. 151st St.) in Leawood last Sunday. The local restaurant group will continue to operate the Blue Moose Bar & Grill locations at 4160 West 71st Street in Prairie Village and 9100 West 135th Street in Overland Park….
Now that chefs of all stripes — from executive to pastry — are media superstars, they’re starting to trump the old-school celebs (you know: movie stars and TV performers) when it comes to serving as drawing cards for fundraising events. Last week, bloomberg.com wrote about the phenomenon. Celebrity categories mirror the times we live in: In the lavish excesses of…
Around prom season last year, a bunch of unruly, black teens — yeah, I said it — converged on the Country Club Plaza en masse. A pretty prom princess got tossed into a fountain. Teens disrespected Plaza foliage and yelled naughty things at adults. Traffic came to a standstill. One couple was assaulted and robbed in a parking garage. And…
Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach is lecturing tonight at the Lied Center at the University of Kansas. But he won’t be getting a warm welcome. A “peaceful protest” is being organized in opposition to Kobach and his lecture, titled “State and Local Laws Discouraging Illegal Immigration: Their Economic and Security Impact.” The protest is scheduled for 6 p.m. in…
Phosphorescent had one of the most perfect country songs of 2010: “Mermaid Parade.” Matthew Houck’s staggeringly sad ballad is a soaring, fragile tribute to a failed marriage. It’s also proof that, despite the lo-fi garage scuzz washing through music’s new underground, an old-fashioned cantina song can still shoot an arrow through a listener’s heart. Categories: Music Tags: Phosphorescent, tonight’s show
I’ve had walking tacos and Frito pies. I understand that humans want to elevate corn chips into an entire meal. But sometimes you have to accept that a food is a side dish for a reason and allow it to shine in a complementary role. Taco Bell didn’t get the memo. Foodbeast writes that the fast-food chain is apparently testing…
I can’t find my stories! Uh, I mean the game. That’s going to be a common theme of today as Time Warner Cable has shuffled its channel lineup. The cable company is calling it a “theme-based” change, categorizing channels “to make surfing a breeze and finding shows simpler than ever.” Oh, yes. Because I was having so much trouble finding…
KMBC Channel 9 caught up with Continents in a short clip that highlighted the Middle of the Map Fest in Westport. Did the news crew’s cameras catch you wandering about the bar district this weekend? Categories: Music
Record Store Day is April 16. That’s this Saturday! If you didn’t know that, shame on you, you so-called music lover. Stores in and surrounding ye olde Kansas City have prepped for this day for a long while. The following is a quick list of who’s doing what. Categories: Music Tags: Danny Cox, Earwaxx Records & More, hidden pictures, kenn…
The recent Pitch feature story about the life and death of John Uhlmann provides a glimpse of Knobtown, a section of the Kansas City area between Lee’s Summit and Raytown. Cut by the Little Blue River and a state highway, the sparsely populated area gives tattoo artists, drag racers, quarrymen and exotic dancers a place to operate. Photographer Sabrina Staires…
Dunkin’ Donuts is coming north of the river. In a press release this morning, the doughnut chain out of Canton, Massachusetts, announced that it has signed a franchise deal to bring five locations to North Kansas City North by 2016. The first will open in North Kansas City in 2012, and future doughnut shops are being planned for Liberty and…
Dunkin’ Donuts is coming north of the river. In a press release this morning, the doughnut chain out of Canton, Massachusetts, announced that it has signed a franchise deal to bring five locations to North Kansas City by 2016. The first will open in 2012, and future doughnut shops are being planned for Liberty and Gladstone. The development group includes…
Do you get all teary-eyed thinking about Larry Johnson’s days of (allegedly) spitting drinks in women’s faces in Kansas City? Of course, you don’t. But that’s not going to stop me from sharing this Craigslist ad offering a misspelled Larry Johnson jersey for $30. Yes, that is the real asking price. Categories: News Tags: craigslist, kansas city chiefs, larry johnson
A taco is definitely portable. Restaurateur Mike Flaherty of Taco Factory is hoping the same is true for his franchise. Joyce Smith reports in The Kansas City Star that Taco Factory will be opening a second location in the former Larry’s Giant Subs space at 5050 Oak. Larry’s Giant Subs is moving to Stanley Square (7968 W. 151st St.) in…
