UPDATE (10:30 a.m.): The victim of Wednesday night’s homicide has been identified as 26-year-old Marshall Blacksure of Kansas City, Kansas. Police are still looking for his killer. Original Story (9:44 a.m.): It’s hard to argue with Louis C.K.’s “shithole” assessment of Kansas City when you check the murder rate. The 47th homicide of 2011 was recorded last night in a…
Last Friday at Press, vaudeville-noir-rock act the Latenight Callers debuted its video for “The Tease.” And now it is up on the Internet for all of us to see. Categories: Music Tags: latenight callers
The price of beer at weddings seems to be going up these days. I’ve been to dry weddings, wine-only weddings, and those where the liquor buy was likely what it would take to kill Motley Crue. Besides a potential hall, the bar can obliterate a wedding budget, based on the number of people coming and the drinking habits of said…
If you were kicking yourself for missing The Food Network cameras at Extra Virgin earlier this month, you’ve got a shot at redemption tomorrow. The lights and action return to chef Michael Smith’s restaurant, which will be featured on the Cooking Channel show, “The United Tastes of America,” with host Jeffrey Saad. “Things are very busy for sure,” Smith says….
Comedian Louis C.K. was on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno last night, and he regaled the host, with the monster chin, with tales of the last time that he smoked up … in Kansas City. But Louis didn’t have any kind things to say about KC. At all. He called our city “a terrible place,” “an awful place” and…
Writer S. Steven Struble’s comic Li’l Depressed Boy released a trade paperback collection of its first four issues for Image Comics last Wednesday. Called She Is Staggering, the trade spins the tale of Li’l Depressed Boy, a literal sad sack, as he meets a young lady, learns her name and has an array of musically related fun times. The comic…
The 10th annual Tour de Lakes bike ride presented by Lee’s Summit Parks & Recreation will be held rain of shine. The ride, which honors the memory of Tom Logan, a long-time Lee’s Summit resident and avid bike rider, includes three courses with the longest ride encompassing five area lakes throughout Grandview, Kansas City, Lee’s Summit, and Blue Springs. Registration…
In 2005, Janet Brown Moss took her grandson to experience a farm for the first time. It was one of six growing sites on the Kansas City Urban Farms & Gardens Tour. Two years later, Moss began coordinating the annual event, which has increased in size and popularity ever since. This year’s tour features almost 40 local farms and gardens….
This year’s tournament will be a charity event with proceeds going to Heart to Heart International (www.hearttoheart.org), a local volunteer organization assisting in the relief efforts for the victims of the Joplin tornado. The entry fee will be $20 per person and there will be multiple flights for every skill level. Even if your work doesn’t donate still feel free…
The Johnson County NAACP (JCNAACP) presents a fundraiser for upcoming youth programs at the Mid-America Nazarene University: A concert with Ron Gutierrez. He has performed alongside B.B. King, Michael McDonald, Wynonna Judd and many others. Most recently, Gutierrez performed at the Plaza Lighting Ceremony The proceeds of this fundraiser will go towards school supplies and backpack project, after school tutoring/mentoring…
The exhibit Lee and Grant provides a major reassessment of the lives, careers, and historical impact of Civil War generals Robert E. Lee and Ulysses S. Grant. It also encourages audiences to move beyond the traditional mythology of both men and rediscover them within the context of their own time—based on their own words and those of their contemporaries. Lee…
Every Thursday from 4-6 p.m. from May through October. Thursday markets take place in the parking lot at the southeast corner of 6th and Wakarusa on the west side of Lawrence. In addition to fresh produce, there will be hot foods, wine and other seasonal surprises. In cases of threatening weather, the Market Coordinator may at her/his discretion open the…
Overland Park’s Midwest Center for Holocaust Education teaches about the genocide perpetrated by the Nazis while also applying its lessons to counter intolerance and indifference. The MCHE marks 18 years (and thanks the community for its support) with a free film series during the month of June. The series wraps up with Liberation and Aftermath in the social hall of…
The Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art (12345 College Boulevard, in Overland Park, 913-469-3000) has a striking installation — “Microcosm” by sculptor Leo Villareal — in its cantilevered entrance, and the work has come to define the young institution’s image. Museums nationwide exhibit the artist’s elaborate and architectural work. (The tunnel between the east and west buildings of the National Gallery…
In the jungle, the mighty jungle, the lion will probably be awake tonight. Enjoy animal facts by the diffuse light of the setting sun, when the Kansas City Zoo (6800 Zoo Drive, 816-513-5800) hosts Sunset Safari — Africa, from 4 to 8 p.m. Hush my darling, be still my darling, the zookeeper is trying to say that the evening includes…
Here’s a family event that won’t end with drunken tears being spilled after Aunt Judy makes a failed pass at your father’s ex-wife. Downtown Lawrence’s Wonder Fair Gallery, Shoppe and Studio (803-1/2 Massachusetts, 785-856-3247) is hosting the Wonder Fair Family Show through July 30. The art exhibit features the work of the gallery’s directors: Jason Barr, Kelly John Clark, Lee…
Feelin’ jazzy? Or more specifically, feelin’ swingy? If so, the night is right for Jazz in the Woods, the two-day music festival hosted by the Overland Park South Rotary Club at Corporate Woods (9401 Indian Creek Parkway, in Overland Park). The headliner at 9:10 p.m. tonight is Big Bad Voodoo Daddy, the swing-revival band that hit it big in the…
Howard Iceberg is not a vainglorious man. When fellow local musicians Elaine McMilian and Scott Easterday approached him with the idea of putting on a massive tribute show, replete with other local performers doing his music, he was horrified, according to McMilian. “He definitely doesn’t want it to seem that his career is over,” she said. But after mulling it…
This season’s Shakespeare in the Park production is neither as stuffy as a high school English class nor as mind-numbing as watching Patrick Stewart in your living room. First, the $325,000-plus production, which was underfunded at the beginning of the spring, is pairing up with Brio Tuscan Grille and offering a happy hour with appetizers, wine and martinis from 6…
A former University of Central Missouri student who taunted investigators isn’t feeling so smart today. Daniel J. Fowler, 21, pleaded guilty to charges stemming from his participation in a computer-hacking conspiracy. Fowler was indicted last fall on charges that he and another man, Joseph A. Camp, gained unauthorized access to the university computer network. Authorities said the men accessed and…
We all have different tolerances for pain. But with money on the line, how far are you willing to push yourself? That’s the question asked by a YouTube video shot at Grand Slam Liquors & Convenience (631 Grand), wherein “Kenny” attempts to eat the convenience store’s spicy pickle in less than 10 minutes for $200 (h/t to Tony’s Kansas City,…
