Police are looking for Richard Solis, a blind man with dementia and a seizure disorder who has been missing since he went on a walk in Northeast Kansas City at around 8 p.m. Saturday (8/27). He requires multiple medications. Solis is 63 years old, 5 feet 8 inches, and about 185 pounds. He was last seen wearing a KC Royals…
No java jive: Parisi Brothers is serving sweets, sandwiches and coffee in Union Station Now that the Kansas City-based Roasterie has gotten into the restaurant business, it only made sense for its longtime local competitor, Parisi Artisan Coffee, to brew up a coffee-and-food concept of its own. Yesterday, Paris Brothers Specialty Foods — the owners of the Parisi Coffee line…
Taking another small step out of its unmarked grave, the Embarrassment will reissue a 7-inch of its 1980 single, Sex Drive, within the next month. The American punk reissue label Last Laugh Records will do the pressing. The B-side will be the original “Patio Set.” “We are trying to include the original cover ‘sketch’ and a promo poster that revealed…
AP Founder Jonathan Kaplan bites into his creation. The toast is buttered. The cheese is sizzling. And the latest nationwide sandwich trend has been launched. The Melt is set to open in San Francisco, California. The Huffington Post has the story of the grilled-cheese shop that Jonathan Kaplan (the founder of Pure Digital — the makers of the Flip video…
Jason Whitlock doesn’t care for documentation. In former Star sports columnist Jason Whitlock’s world, a reporter only uses a paper trail and documents out of “desperation” to make a story look credible. Oh, boy. Whitlock, who left Kansas City last summer in either a blaze of glory or a tragic, self-indulgent implosion, depending on whether you like him or not,…
Crosstown Station, in happier times. As of October 2, it’s all over for Crosstown Station. The Crossroads venue had a good, albeit too short, run, and we’re sad to see it go. Happy, though, to hear news of a fine farewell show for the venue on Saturday, October 1. Lots of solid local acts on the bill, both upstairs at…
Show Me Beer Nommo Dubbel is out now. When it comes to molasses, Kansas Citians are used to having some in their barbecue sauce. Well, now it might be going into your pint glass. The Boulevard Brewing Company’s Nommo Dubbel, the latest release in the Smokestack Series, is on shelves. The fall seasonal from Boulevard is a Belgian-style ale. It…
Submitted without comment, a press release and video from Kansas State introducing its new environmentally friendly mascot, EcoKat, and her partnership with the traditional mascot, Willie the Wildcat. Collectively, they will be known as the Eco-Enforcers: Meet EcoKat, crusader of conservation and fanatic of fluorescents. The new caricature has embarked upon Kansas State University with one mission: Reduce, reuse and…
luisdediego A pizza a day is part of the recommended diet in Italy. I’ve had my fair share of moments when Taco Bell or one of its convection-oven brethren (I’m looking at you, rural Missouri) was the only thing open during a road trip. And there you pull your car over and just hope that the fire sauce doesn’t hit…
Oh, Karma Vision. I want an all-access pass to each one of your brains for one day. I assume I’d see lots of abstract shapes, swirling colors, exploding heads, and bouncing pizzas. Check out the band’s video for “Pizza Power.” Categories: Music Tags: Karma Vision, Pizza Power
Tedeschi Trucks Band is really, really big. Like 11 members big, including husband and wife Derek Trucks (slide guitar) and Susan Tedeschi (guitar, vocals). The band is touring in celebration of its first album, Revelator, and stops by Crossroads KC on Thursday night with Trampled Under Foot and Scrapomatic. Categories: Music Tags: Scrapomatic, Tedeschi Trucks Band, trampled under foot
Michael Webber thinks St. Louis is delusional. Business and political leaders in Missouri want Lambert-St. Louis International Airport to become a major receptacle for stuff made in China. State lawmakers are considering an incentive package worth $360 million in an effort to remake Lambert into an international trade hub. The St. Louis Regional Chamber & Growth Association says Aerotropolis, as…
The Kansas City Actors Theatre is devoting the bulk of its short season to Harold Pinter, that master of menace, with two productions performed in rotating repertory. Think of it as a progressive dinner: The Birthday Party as meaty main course, followed by three lighter, slighter one-acts (The Collection, The Lover, Night) as salad, dessert and digestif. All four works…
Forty hours of Danny Gibson’s week are occupied by a data-entry job, but when he’s not at work, he’s often putting together an art project of some kind in the basement of his house, which sits south of 39th Street in the shadow of the old Loretto Academy building. Gibson is a collector of things — gloves, old toys, obsolete…
Sitting through The Future is something like spending an hour and a half in Urban Outfitters. You went there for something, and you very well may have found it, but you also ended up immensely frustrated by many of the precious things you saw. And you feel fairly confident that you could have been just as productive in far less…
A key scene in The Debt enacts a powerful Jewish revenge fantasy rarely seen onscreen. Held captive by three young Mossad agents, a Nazi doctor rants about Jewish weakness, complaining that the victims of the Holocaust went too willingly to their fates. One of the agents responds to this outburst by beating the hell out of the Nazi. It may be…
David Byrne at his most eccentrically kinetic has nothing on the dancers who take over RecordBar for two hours one Friday a month. From 6 to 8 p.m. on those evenings, enthusiastic music fans dress in bright colors and shake and spin and bop, making for the city’s most literally happy happy hour. They’re not the usual moving targets for…
Gillian Welch, with David Rawlings Gillian Welch is still best known for her stunning contributions to the O Brother, Where Art Thou? soundtrack; her vocals with Alison Krauss on “I’ll Fly Away” are spine-tinglingly gorgeous. But Welch was apparently uninterested in being lumped in too closely with the old-timey folk crowd; on subsequent releases, she has tried on a more…
Monday night is — unofficially, anyway —Geek Night at Tannin Wine Bar & Kitchen. On Mondays, the dining room and part of the bar at this cozy downtown hangout are taken over by a cadre of lanky young men. Sometimes they sit at the same table. They seem acquainted with one another, but their interactions are mostly limited to their…
Ambitious chef Tate Roberts didn’t prepare one dish for last week’s competition; he made three. Hatch green chile peppers are no ordinary peppers. Named for the New Mexico town, Hatch, where most of these distinctive peppers are grown, the chiles are harvested in late August and September. (Hatch has declared itself, modestly, to be the Chile Capital of the World;…
