The cover of One Steady Breath — a wistful photograph of an open bottle of red wine whose label reflects the band and album names — adequately sums up the music: This is soft rock for sentimental adults. Perhaps you’d care for some cheese with that wine? Sample this platter: It’s funny how the simple things make your life worthwhile….
It’s a fine line that separates homage from imitation. Extra Classic’s Your Light Like White Lightning, Your Light Like a Laser Beam was recorded analog with vintage ’70s equipment, the overarching goal being to create an album that sounds like it was laid down in Lee Perry’s Black Ark Studios. The warm, loping reggae vibes, and singer Dri (better known…
Just when I thought my dinner at Lulu’s Thai Noodle Shop couldn’t get any worse, it did. My dining companions were already exasperated. Parking had been a minor crisis. The dining room’s hard surfaces made conversation difficult and thinking impossible. And our young waitress’s technique for maintaining focus seemed to be the willful ignorance of every table in her station…
Costa Vida Fresh Mexican Grill is coming to Lee’s Summit in November. The new fast casual Mexican restaurant will be at 115 S. Missouri 291, next to an Orange Leaf frozen yogurt shop and Ace Hardware store. Friends out West tell me that you can expect something between Baja Fresh and Chipotle with a focus on tacos, burritos, quesadillas and…
Charles Ferruzza Bryant Bickle brings at least 12 different doughnut flavors to the Lawrence Downtown Farmers Market If you visited the Lawrence Downtown Farmers Market last Saturday, you probably noticed that one of the more popular vendors at the outdoor market was missing: Bryant Bickle of Hurtz’s Donuts. “It was so rainy, I didn’t even make the doughnuts the night…
The first time I saw — or heard of, for that matter — Austin’s Okkervil River, they were opening for John Vanderslice at the Bottleneck and they were playing for approximately 10 people. Their second album, Down the River of Golden Dreams, was just out, and they played their set with a packed-house intensity. At one point, frontman Will Sheff…
Photo by Brooke Vandever Puppet would probably like to do this to Hulk Hogan. We may be in for a midget wrestling war. TMZ is reporting that Puppet the Psycho Dwarf and the “Half Pint Brawlers” are considering filing a lawsuit against Hulk Hogan’s new midget wrestling TruTV show, “Micro Championship Wrestling.” Puppet was one of the featured characters in…
Are you an unsigned band with hopes of making it big someday? A struggling singer-songwriter with stars in your eyes? Would you simply like to play to more people than the bartender and the other band on the bill? Fear not, local musician: The 2011 installment of the KJHK 90.7 battle of the bands, Farmer’s Ball, has arrived. This year’s…
A fight over Madden football turned deadly. A Wichita jury found Benjamin Redgate guilty of killing a man who accused him of cheating to win while playing a game of Madden football. The Wichita Eagle reported that the jury returned the guilty verdict — second-degree intentional murder — after a little more than two hours of deliberation. The incident started…
The stage is set, and the doors are open at the Kauffman Center. The Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts is now open. The world-class stage held an open house on Sunday, and we were there. Take the no-penny tour here or click the photo above. Photos by Bethany Day. Categories: News Tags: kauffman center for the performing arts
Kansas City’s homicide total is now at 81. UPDATE (September 20): The victims of Sunday’s triple homicide on Linwood have been identified as 23-year-old Philip Hall, 20-year-old Raymond Hill and 21-year-old Stacy Roberson. The Star reported that at least one of the men lived in the apartment where their bodies were found and a bag of what is believed to…
The 86th annual American Royal Parade wound through downtown on Saturday, September 17. Marching bands, floats and horses cantered on the streets of Kansas City. Photos by Angela C. Bond.
At times, we seem hellbent on finding the nexus of stupid and destructive. The latest Internet meme — Cone-ing — could get us there. Cone-ing is the act of grabbing the ice-cream portion of an ice-cream cone from a startled drive-thru employee. The joke is apparently that the ice cream falls or the expression on the face of the person…
Tony Gonzalez wants you to buy his condo. Tony Gonzalez hasn’t played for the Kansas City Chiefs since the 2008 season. But Gonzalez apparently kept his Plaza condo all of this time … until now. ERA Manning and Associates has the condo of the Atlanta Falcons tight end listed for $659,900. Tony G. lived large with three bedrooms and two…
By day you might be a mild-mannered office dweller, but by tableside you could be so much more. Now while it’s not likely that Batman gets his strength from hot dogs , the concept of fuel as food has a long history stretching back to Jack London’s short story A Piece of Steak. We all process what we eat differently…
Former Drive-By Trucker and current pretty-good songwriter Jason Isbell stopped in at Knuckleheads Friday night with his band, the 400 Unit. I had planned to attend, but instead I ate nearly an entire pizza and fell asleep on my couch. When I woke up, I was still holding a piece of crust! Anyway, our art director Ashford Stamper went and…
Samuel Logan was a partner at a huge law firm in Overland Park, Foulston Siefkin. But he flushed it all when he tried to sex a fictional 14-year-old girl over the Internet. The 46-year-old has since been disbarred and he pleaded guilty in May to using the Internet to conduct sexual chats and to send images of himself performing sex…
Today’s moment of dread and disconcertion comes courtesy of a group called Transportation for America, which informs us that 17 percent of the bridges in Missouri are “structurally deficient,” including many in Kansas City. The red ones on the map above are the offending bridges. The group says a deficient bridge is one “requiring significant maintenance, rehabilitation or replacement.” You…
The Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts held an open house on Sunday, September 18, as Kansas Citians had a chance to see the stage of the world class auditorium for the first time. Photos by Bethany Day.
Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit stopped by Knuckleheads Friday night. Photos by Ashford Stamper.
Republic’s book banning policy might become slightly less ridiculous. The Republic School District has a lot of problems. It took the suggestion of a guy who doesn’t have kids enrolled in Republic schools, and banned two books. Then the district was accused of making a student rape victim apologize to her rapist. And then a family claimed that a special…
