Slow and Steddy. IndyGround Entertainment is returning with its second annual IndyFest on September 10, which is the same day as the Crossroads Music Fest, which we announced yesterday, which means some of us will have some decisions to make that evening. It’s at the Riot Room this year, and the bill includes some hip-hop heavy hitters. Categories: Music Tags:…
Facebook: Blanc Get to the bar at Blanc this week. The free refill has ruined our appreciation for fine soda. I’m a sucker. I get drawn in by a Mason jar full of Coke that I can drain twice in a meal as quick as the next patron. But truly great sodas, those that come one glass at a time,…
This is a serious burger lover. Restaurant T-shirts have a way of outliving the establishments that give them to you. I haven’t touched a scorpion bowl (you may know the staggeringly oversized mix of tropical fruit juices, vodka and Bacardi 151 as either a dragon bowl or volcano bowl) in years, but I can’t part with the washer soft T-shirt…
Sam Brownback is accused of grandstanding. Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback’s brand of conservatism has become an object of curiosity at The New York Times. Last month, the newspaper cited his decision to ice the Kansas Arts Commission as an example of the extreme austerity measures that states are taking. On Sunday, an editorial in the Times called Brownback foolish, indulgent…
Poor Otto couldn’t bring the kids to school today. Otto the bus driver couldn’t get his school bus in Grain Valley to fire up this morning. The culprit: sugar in the gas tank. KMBC is reporting that vandals poured sugar in the gas tanks of at least 20 school buses. This prank disabled the buses. The school district’s mechanic will…
Angela C. Bond Stik mayne On Sunday, Stik Figa performed at The Pitch Music Awards. (He also won the Best Hip-Hop category.) Yesterday, he dropped Crown and Coke, his new record with D/Will, on the Internet. Head over to his Bandcamp and download the 12-track album for free. I’m listening to it right now. It’s almost definitely one of the…
Reports of a prowler led police to the body of the city’s latest homicide victim. Kansas City, Missouri’s 70th homicide of 2011 occurred on the city’s south side this morning. Police received a call about a prowler in the 7900 block of East 100th Street around 1:05 a.m. When officers arrived at the scene, they found 27-year-old Wendell Everage’s body…
A teen was shot and killed around 11 p.m. Tuesday. UPDATE (4:30 p.m.): Kansas City police have identified 19-year-old Samir Clark as the victim of last night’s homicide. They say Clark was an innocent bystander. Anyone who is outraged about the violence on the Plaza should be equally outraged by the violence in other parts of the city. Just terrible….
Boulevard founder John McDonald spoke in the library’s entrepreneur series. Who’s next? The Kansas City Public Library is doing a really cool interview series with local entrepreneurs called Cradle of Entrepreneurs. The first conversations hosted by library director Crosby Kemper III were with Boulevard Brewing Co. founder John McDonald and SPIN! Pizza owner Gail Lozoff (see the conversation with McDonald…
Katie Karel singing the lead in Evita, Musical Theater Heritage’s season opener, seemed one of those self-evident announcements, like Friday following Thursday and Lady Gaga modeling an outrageous outfit in her next video. Like the Eva Perón portrayed in Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice’s legendary musical, Karel commands preternatural knock-em-dead brass and star power. She also has a voice…
The usual crowd — country punks, earnest rappers, midtown scenesters and hangers-on — descended upon the Uptown Theater Sunday night for The Pitch Music Awards. Nominated acts, friends of nominated acts, and high-net-worth individuals such as myself gathered in the adjacent Conspiracy Room prior to the ceremony for a glorious two-hour open bar. People stood around talking and holding paper…
In February, the Lawrence band Mouthbreathers played the Love Garden’s 21st anniversary party along with Reigning Sound, former Oblivians frontman Greg Cartwright’s band. ” said he really liked our set,” says Brad Shanks, Mouthbreathers’ guitarist. So the group gave Cartwright one of its CDs to take with him, hoping that he might share it with some folks at the influential…
Natasha Kothari stares at the sign on the door, trying to will it to read “open” instead of “closed.” She’s standing 10 feet from the storefront at 4535 West 119th Street, in Leawood, with her boyfriend, Glenn Dunne. She wants to get — needs to get — inside this building. It’s full of ice cream. Ice cream by Christopher Elbow,…
I Am Still Music Tour As part of the terms of his probation, Lil Wayne is legally prohibited from drinking alcohol until the year 2013. Booze is banned on the tour bus and backstage at his I Am Still Music tour (which also features Rick Ross, Keri Hilson, Far East Movement and Lloyd). Good for Weezy — a Martian couldn’t…
The 2011 Pitch Music Awards was Sunday, August 14, at the Uptown Theater. The Latenight Callers, ACBs and Stik Figa all shared the stage with Eric “Mean” Melin, the night’s host and Kansas City’s own air guitar champion. Photos by Angela C. Bond.
Yesterday, Fat City reported on the celebration of the 30th anniversary of the Westport Flea Market, which began in the summer of 1981, serving burgers in the middle of an eclectic “mall” of vendors selling everything from baseball cards to Zenith Hi-Fidelity record players … and everything in between. What interested me is the life of the big old building…
Bill Sundahl keeps it cool. Bill Sundahl/Spice of Life’s Crossroads Music Fest is returning for the seventh year, on Saturday, September 10. Between 6 p.m. and 3 a.m., 25 acts will play on six stages in the Crossroads. Got the lineup today, and shit is stacked, son! Gonna be a great night. Categories: Music Tags: crossroads music festival
RecordBar posted the following missive to its Facebook page this weekend: “Super stoked!!!!! Just confirmed the almighty HUM for Nov. 4th. We’ve been trying to get these old pals of ours in here since we opened. Details and tickets coming soon!” Categories: Music Tags: Hum, incoming concert, the Esoteric
Extra Classic, the reggae-styled project from Adrianne Verhoeven (the Anniversary, Dri) and producer Alex de Landa, released the “Congo Rebel” single earlier this year. The full-length follow-up, Your Light Like White Lightning, Your Light Like a Laser Beam was recently announced. It’s due out September 27 on Manimal Vinyl, and you can listen to the first single, “Give Them the…
John Chambers’ buddy says he isn’t evil. John Chambers, the man at Standard & Poor’s who was responsible for downgrading the U.S. credit rating is a totally normal guy from Kansas, Slate tells us. Sam Tanenhaus, the editor at The New York Times Book Review, wrote an essay for Slate recalling his days hanging around with Chambers when they were…
R.I.P. More depressing newspaper news: The Johnson County Sun has shut down production and laid off 20 staffers. This is news that is all too familiar to those of us in the newspaper industry. Sun employees learned Tuesday “that the paper was suspending operation indefinitely,” according to The Kansas City Star. Lee Sawyer, the executive vice president and chief operating…
Matt Cassel: Regression to the mean, anyone? Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Matt Cassel surprised people with his performance last season. He threw 27 touchdowns, led his team to the playoffs and played in the Pro Bowl. Fantasy-football owners who took a flyer on Cassel before the 2010 season were happy they did. But one expert thinks Cassel is a bad…
