Security allegedly doesn’t like people talking during concerts. A retired lawyer claims that Crown Center security roughed him up at last Friday night’s Five for Fighting concert. Jim Stanley, 57, says he went to the concert with his wife, his 14-year-old son and his 80-plus-year-old in-laws. Stanley says opening act Red Guitar was playing so loud that he had cotton…
Peter Kinder tries to clean up his mess. Missouri Lt. Gov. Peter Kinder is probably going to run for governor. Good for him. But Kinder has the little matter of a stripper’s claims to mop up. He tried to do so yesterday, going on a media blitz. Kinder is a little late to this no-pants party. The photo of him…
Yesterday afternoon, Katy Perry’s single, “Last Friday Night (T.G.I.F.),” off her Teenage Dream album, hit No. 1 on the charts, breaking two Billboard records. Perry tied Michael Jackson’s record for having five No. 1 Billboard hits on one album, and she is now the first artist in more than five decades to spend 66 consecutive weeks on the Billboard top…
Yonder Mountain String Band While Katy Perry was littering the tween-filled Sprint Center with confetti and frosting, there was something a world apart going down at Crossroads KC. Something a little dustier, more tattooed, and assuredly more stoned. While waiting in line to get our tickets, a man cruised up to his friend in front of us in the line,…
Flickr: Ulterior Epicure This cake is a special occasion. There comes a point in every man’s life when he realizes that he may be too old to make his first cake. Just like learning a new language, sometimes you have to take a long look at your reflection in the oven and admit that laziness is trumping enthusiasm. In the…
Last night’s Sporting Kansas City game against the Portland Timbers should be remembered for boosting the team’s playoff hopes, for midfielder Graham Zusi’s two goals — one of them a breathtaking bullet from long range — and rookie Soony Saad’s first goal as a SKC member that came on his 19th birthday. It was a hell of game and an…
Bryan Merker stared at the huge map in front of him, the primary-colored pushpins screaming out destinations to visit. It was almost enough to drown out the words of Jerry Vincent, who was talking about the culinary arts program at Johnson County Community College. “I remember him saying, ‘If you graduate from my program, I can get you into any…
These cookies are ready for sharing. Latteland has always served cookies that issue an unspoken challenge: Can you consume a dessert that is the size of half of your face? But the chocolate-chunk cookies at the downtown location (1201 Main) incorporate a solution that I think is worthy of widespread adoption. A cross-shaped depression in the center of the cookie…
As we move closer to the eventual release of Ad Astra Arkestra’s self-titled EP on the Record Machine, a little more here and there leaks out in promotion. We got the first track from the album, “Reverse Fishing,” a month ago, and now comes this video of five members of the band performing the Beatles’ “Don’t Let Me Down.” A…
Carol Coe: Lock up curfew violators in abandoned schools. Former City Councilwoman Carol Coe wants to lock up curfew violators in abandoned schools for the weekend. This is what she told KMBC’s Micheal Mahoney: “Take some of these closed schools and use them for the weekend. Make the parents pick them up Monday morning,” Coe said. “Put some cots in…
We get consistently more excited each time they add something to the Ultimate Fakebook reunion show at the Bottleneck on Saturday, October 29. Thus far, there are three bands playing reunion sets: UFB (obvs), Podstar and the Touchdowns. In addition, here’s an ’80s hair-metal tribute from Pyromaniac, a costume contest, the ACBs, air guitar, a wedding, and now — a…
It’s been 41 years since Stephen Sondheim’s Company made its first Broadway run, but many of the issues addressed by the Tony Award-winning production remain as relevant today as they were then. The musical centers on Robert, a single man who defers long-term commitment in favor of the “company” of his married friends. Casual sex, homosexual advances and drunken rants…
Sufi saying, “Pray to Allah, but tie up your camel.” First read Capricorn. Leo/Leo Rising* (July 22-Aug 21): Once every 9 months lovely and loving Venus travels close to the Sun. This time is now. When harmonious and joyous energies hang out with the center of our solar system, stopping to smell the roses is advised. Leave your stress for…
Photo by Chris Mullins Tony Botello Louie Wright, the longtime president of Local 42 of the International Association of Fire Fighters, has filed a defamation suit against Tony Botello, the blogger behind Tony’s Kansas City. Wright is upset about a 2009 post on Tony’s that accused Wright of receiving kickbacks from the contributions that firefighters make to the United Way….
Booster Nevin Shapiro, center, alleges that MU basketball coach Frank Haith, left, knew that Shapiro paid a recruit $10,000. Coming off the great news that ESPN’s College GameDay will roll into Columbia for the Mizzou-KU game in February, new men’s basketball coach Frank Haith has been swept up in allegations of NCAA violations at Miami University where Haith was head…
Joseph Hendrix will get out of jail a lot sooner than expected. Joseph Hendrix won’t be serving the same sentence as his brother after all in the slaying of Kansas City businessman Michael Tutera. Joseph Hendrix didn’t pull the trigger. His brother, Matthew Hendrix, did. Joseph Hendrix did pay his older brother an extra $20 from money stolen during Tutera’s…
This Friday (August 19), the dreamy, abstract art-rockers in Monta at Odds live up to their name, when they perform at Jorge Garcia Almodovar’s gallery opening at BNIM (106 W. 14th St.). Almodovar will unveil his new site-specific window installation, “Transience.” The mobile installation will hang freely in the building’s street-level windows. What does a “site-specific window installation” look like?…
Envision Studios, LLC The only things a bartender usually gets to throw down are a few drinks during and after their shifts. But on July 31, playful banter was put aside, headgear was donned, and mixologists from across the city duked it out in the Bartenders Brawl at Martini Corner. The event, which originated in St. Louis in 2010, pits…
Sam Brownback wants more people to get hitched. Just a week after telling the federal government to take its $31 million to implement parts of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and shove it, Kansas is now asking for federal money. But it’s to promote marriage, not health care, so it’s cool, guys. When the state rejected the health-care…
Ryder Spillman was killed in April. For handing his cousin the gun used to kill 16-year-old Ryder Spillman, Shane Reed will spend 18 months in a juvenile correctional facility. Reed, 17, also received a 12-month sentence of aftercare. If he runs into trouble during his juvenile sentence, he faces consecutive adult sentences of 11 months for aiding a felon and…
David_Shankbone If you can’t have this guy, just order a California roll … Now that the term cougar is firmly in the popular vernacular, there’s a newer — younger! — category: the puma. According to the Urban Dictionary, a cougar is defined this way: “(noun) a 35+ year old female who is on the ‘hunt’ for a much younger, energetic,…
