Stephen Locke shot this sweet time-lapse video of the Kansas City RiverFest fireworks display set to (I believe) Jimi Hendrix’s version of the Star Spangled Banner. Categories: News Tags: fireworks, KC Riverfest
I went to Unforked (7337 W. 119th St). last Thursday night and discovered that even on a weekday, the upscale street taco joint is busy. You order at the counter, and Unforked gives you a beeper to display that your order is ready. It’s during that time that the dining room got interesting. The more crowded the dining room got,…
One could easily make the argument that Lawrence — and especially the Bottleneck — served as the home base for power-pop trio Ultimate Fakebook for the greater part of the band’s career. But despite several performances in Kansas City, as well as a New Year’s Eve show in its hometown of Manhattan, Kansas, the band has yet to play a reunion show in…
Last Friday was the kind of steamy that normally keeps me as close as possible to an air conditioner, not bouncing around in a stiflingly hot, sweaty rock club. But the lineup at the Riot Room was a very promising one, and ultimately it was well worth leaving my comfortable padded chair in the highly refrigerated 39th Street neighborhood bar…
The Spook Lights spent all day Saturday shooting their second full-length feature for Scarum Harum. I was worried that seven hours of filming in an un-air-conditioned garage would’ve taken a bit out of members Scary Manilow and Curvacia Vavoom. But that was not the case. Their show at the Replay Saturday night was a tightly focused garage rockabilly attack. Categories: Music Tags:…
Life rarely comes this neatly wrapped, and a column perhaps less often still, but this week features two terrific large-cast musicals with a lot in common: Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat (at the New Theatre Restaurant) and Charlie Smalls’ The Wiz (at the Coterie Theatre). Both are playfully imaginative reboots of well-known originals, both family-friendly and…
Chicago’s Yourself and the Air has been a band for five years, during which time it has released four EPs of breezy, atmospheric (pun intended) guitar-driven rock. Unfortunately, each of those releases has been followed by a lineup change in the band. “It seems like every time we get a group of songs together and get ready to record, somebody…
Southern Missouri got a moment in the spotlight earlier this year when Winter’s Bone was nominated for four Academy Awards. The film — an adaptation of Missouri writer Daniel Woodrell’s novel of the same name — is an unflinching look at hardscrabble lives in the Ozarks. The tone is set in the opening scene, as an a cappella rendition of…
Most love stories celebrate the intoxicating fizz of first love or document the ugliness of relationship endings. And most family stories wallow in unhappiness and dysfunction. But Beginners is about something rare: a look at the fragility of the first steps toward another person, and at the painful, messy work of staying family when family is imperfect. It is, in…
Todd the spider monkey is about to embark on a five-month island vacation in landlocked Greenwood, Missouri. It’s June 9, more than a month later than Dana Savorelli, the owner of the nonprofit Monkey Island Rescue and Zoological Sanctuary, wanted to relocate Todd. The move to Monkey Island, the moat-surrounded land in what amounts to Savorelli’s front yard, was pushed…
Blind Pilot Another dusty folk-pop band from Portland, Oregon? Well, yes, but Blind Pilot transcends the sensitive beardo set by writing smarter lyrics and better harmonies, and by being generally less riveted by flowers, orchards and their own melancholy. The sweetly harmonizing women in nostalgic folk trio Mountain Man open the evening and may very well upstage the headliners. Wednesday,…
This says volumes about the way geography is taught in the United States: I took five people with me — on different nights — to the Marrakech Café in Westport, and none of them knew exactly where Morocco was located. Two of them insisted that it was near India and Pakistan. One of my dining companions asked the restaurant’s owner,…
The Daily Show – Moment of Zen – 4th of July FireworksGet More: Daily Show Full Episodes,Political Humor & Satire Blog,The Daily Show on Facebook I don’t have to tell you that we’re on the verge of a three-day weekend. Just like you, we’re taking Monday off to blow shit up. See you back here Tuesday, unless we see you…
The fellas at Dickhouse, aka Jackass, put together this tribute to Ryan Dunn, who died in a drunken-driving wreck in Pennsylvania on June 20. For a video that shows a guy jumping into a vat of poo, it’s actually touching. H/t: The Daily What. Categories: A&E, News Tags: Dickhouse, Jackass, Ryan Dunn
Sticking around town this weekend? I’m not! But I wish I were. There are a number of shows I’d like to attend, and drink at. Shows like: Categories: Music
Sporting Kansas City announced this morning that midfielder Graham Zusi was named MLS Player of the Month. It’s fitting because nearly every ball he touched in June turned into offensive momentum for the team, which has a seven-game unbeaten streak going. Zusi notched two goals and three consecutive game-winning assists. That’s nice, but let’s face it: The real reason he…
We heard the rumors back in May, but today it’s official: chief meteorologist Katie Horner is leaving KCTV Channel 5. The TV station issued a news release today that gave no firm end date for Horner’s KCTV5 career, only saying that she’d be leaving “sometime later in the year.” KCTV5 general manager Bobby Totsch said in a statement that Horner…
