Get ready for karaoke and nights on the patio, Leawood. Paddy O’Quigley’s Pub & Grille has opened in the former Blue Moose Mountain Grill space at 5317 W. 151st St. Fans of the Blue Moose will likely find the atmosphere similar in the renovated bar and grill. “It is very quaint, comfortable and much more pub-like – a cozy neighborhood…
An argument over “relationship issues” led a woman to throw gasoline on a man and light him on fire near 44th and the Paseo Saturday night. If someone lights you on fire, you’ve got more than relationship issues. KMBC reported that the man was taken to a hospital with severe burns and other injures. The Star reported that the man…
Chad Ochocinco is coming back to town and first on his list? The Peachtree Buffet (6800 Eastwood Trafficway). The aspiring soccer star — remember that tryout with Sporting KC — and actual NFL star fell in love with the soul-food institution back in March, taking the No. 47 bus line there twice. Categories: Dining, Food & Drink
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%{}% Politicians do and say outrageous things all the time. In Kansas, a state lawmaker suggested that the state confront illegal immigration the same way it deals with feral hogs: with rifles aimed from helicopters. Another lawmaker compared unplanned pregnancy with a flat tire. “We do need to plan ahead in life, don’t we?” Rep. Pete DeGraaf, a Mulvane Republican,…
Kris Kobach’s one-man war against illegal immigration took another hit yesterday, when the U.S. Supreme Court decided not to rule on a case that he was handling in California. The state has a law that gives discounted college tuition to kids who have spent three years of high school in the state and graduated. It’s a pretty sweet deal. But…
For the modern audience, The King and I presents dizzying, sometimes troubling layers of cultural appropriation and translation. We’re talking about a musical written by two white men (Rodgers & Hammerstein), based on an account by an English woman (Anna Leonowens) who claimed to have helped civilize a barbaric, uneducated foreign monarch (Mongkut, of Siam – the country known today…
Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback has officially prevailed in his six-month fight to strip Kansas communities of their arts funding. By using the line-item veto in the state’s 2012 budget, Brownback cut funding for the Kansas Arts Commission — and made history of a dubious sort. Kansas is now the only state in the nation without an arts agency. What does…
Remember when Jean-Luc Godard made a movie called Nouvelle Vague? That’s Monte Hellman making a movie called Road to Nowhere — a title that could represent most everything the director has ever made, from the enigmatic 1967 Jack Nicholson Western, The Shooting, to his great self-destroying 1971 racing movie, Two-Lane Blacktop. In Hellman’s unfathomably vast America, the bedrock of identity…
Tell someone born after 1990 that there was a time when Woody Allen was arguably the most celebrated and eagerly anticipated director in American movies, and the person is liable to look at you with a blank expression — pretty much the way people did in 1978 when you said that the guy playing Dirty Harry would one day be…
Robb Heineman’s afternoon starts in the media building at Kansas Speedway. The president and CEO of Sporting Kansas City is on a panel with other local sports bigwigs — noticeably, the Royals aren’t represented. They’re speaking to the Greater Kansas City Chamber of Commerce Centurions, a group of young businesspeople who spend two years in the program learning to become…
This whole craze of earnest men singing folk-pop (cough, Mumford and Sons; clear throat, new Avett Brothers record) has really thrown me off my game. I like folk music, and I love pop music, but when you throw together a bunch of handsome bearded men with deliberately wounded voices, and then give them lyrics about simpler, idyllic olden times and…
Old Crow Medicine Show’s best and most popular song is “Wagon Wheel,” roughly half of which was written by Bob Dylan. Finding his way through old Dylan tapes in high school, frontman Ketch Secor stumbled upon a sketch of a song called “Rock Me Mama,” from an outtakes session to the soundtrack for Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid. He…
Bands merge for a reason. Usually, the coming together fulfills a need having to do with performance or instruments: You’ve got a bassist and a drummer; we’ve got a rhythm guitarist and a singer. Let’s get together. Denver’s Woodsman resulted from two bands fusing, but oddly, no new positions were filled: A guitarist and a drummer took on … a…
There’s an air of mystery about Cave. The Chicago band keeps a low profile, and not much is known about its members other than that a few of them used to be in Warhammer 48K, the now-defunct Chicago-via-Columbia, Missouri, sludge-rock act. The rest you can infer from its music. And what I infer is that these guys do a shitload…
It sort of goes without saying that when circumstances in our lives change, we become different people. Hey, I’m certainly much happier and less frazzled now that I don’t have to take my clothes to a laundromat or ride the bus every day. Sometimes taking a step up the ladder to success — even a tiny step — can be…
In 2003, Scott H. Biram was involved in a head-on collision with an 18-wheeler that left his truck looking like a wadded-up gum wrapper. A month later, he was back onstage in a wheelchair, an IV dangling from his arm, delivering his inimitable brand of blues- and country-inflected punk. The guy is unstoppable. Lately, Biram has been touring as a…
Even worse, some low-budget restaurants are so embarrassingly awful, I almost feel like a whore eating in them. It isn’t just that they’re cheap: They’re bad and cheap. The nadir of my culinary life was when I was so broke in the 1980s that one of the few places I could afford to eat was at Wendy’s, back when they…
In a game decided by two points, this buzzer-beating three-pointer at the end of the first quarter by Miami Heat point guard Mario Chalmers was a biggie. But should the shot by the former Kansas Jayhawk have counted? There’s a lot of argument out there. Pro Basketball Talk’s Kurt Helin and Ball Don’t Lie’s Kelly Dwyer say no, that it…
The Daily ShowTags: Daily Show Full Episodes,Political Humor & Satire Blog,The Daily Show on Facebook In case you needed a reminder that House Majority Leader Eric Cantor is a dick, here’s a reminder from Jon Stewart and The Daily Show last week. If you’re wondering what this is all about, Cantor said the federal government would have to make cuts…
