Archives: October 2011
Topeka guitar whiz Andy McKee is at the Lawrence Arts Center Thursday for the Guitar Masters Tour
Andy McKee Topeka-born Andy McKee cut his teeth on the electric guitar, but after hearing Preston Reed play in Topeka, he decided to dedicate his talent and time to the acoustic guitar. He has found great success as an acoustic artist; McKee’s videos have reached more than 150 million YouTube viewers to date. On October 12, McKee, Antoine Dufour and…
Out of Time & Space Astrology
Your Best Self Musician in association with our Best of series (and each is a member of your Sun sign). Libra/Libra Rising* (Sep 23-Oct 22): I balance. We are. Full Moon on October 14 continues to have a potent influence from your opposite sign of Aries. I am. With other directed Venus surveying swamp lands in Scorpio, your darker desires…
Now Open: Royal Kabab King
Over the last two decades, I’ve seen more than a few queens tottering on high heels on the east-side stretch of 36th and Broadway. But kings? Not so many. That all changed in June when Pakistani-born Sohail Anwar opened a new restaurant, Royal Kabab King, at 3623 Broadway in the former Cafe Tandoor space. You know, where Chubby’s used to…
Chef Marshall Roth needs a job
Marshall Roth is out of the hot-dog business for good. The lawsuit-plagued downtown hot doggery, Dog Nuvo, at 1724 Main sold its last frankfurter last week. Business partners Harry Blasco and Marshall Roth finally decided enough was enough. “I’m destroyed by the decision, of course,” says Roth, who is still fighting a lawsuit filed a year ago by his former…
Last night, at FOKL on Strawberry Hill
Take the 12th St. Bridge down to the West Bottoms, continue straight ahead to cross the St. James Viaduct, turn left on the Central St. Viaduct Bridge, then head up Central toward Strawberry Hill. FOKL will be on your right. Hung in the newborn FOKL gallery — only about five minutes from the Crossroads — are large-format faces of Lawrence…
Kansas City Chiefs credit cornhole with saving season
The Chiefs say Cornhole cured their problems. The Chiefs have won two straight games (one more and it’s a streak!), and although they weren’t against the NFL’s premier opposition, it’s pretty impressive given the way the season began. Even if it’s unfortunate for the “Suck for Luck” faction of Chiefs fans. So NFL.com asked the team what’s behind Kansas City’s…
Odd Future’s Mike G on fame and fantasy; show tonight at The Granada
Mike G. A tremendous amount of ink this year has been spilled — or, maybe more accurately, bandwidth-consumed — in the name of Odd Future Wolf Gang Kill Them All (OFWGKTA, or Odd Future for short). The Los Angeles rap collective is young, talented, black and angry — a lightning rod for social theory and moral outrage. The language is…
Mizzou looking at $12 million TV money bump with jump to SEC; interim Big 12 commish disputes figures
Missouri gets no deadline to decide. Documents obtained by the Associated Press on Monday showed why the University of Missouri would want to jump to the SEC from the Big 12. There were $12 million worth of reasons. Annually. The AP got its hands on a 45-page document on which Mizzou’s Board of Curators based its decision to give chancellor…
The British are coming! The British are coming! To Lawrence?
Chef Matthew Poulton is bringing fish and chips to Lawrence. This is the story of an Englishman who came to the plains to find the ocean. The Kansas City Star reported last week that chef Matthew Poulton has signed a lease to take over the former Tenth Street Vegetarian Bistro space at 125 E. 10th St. in Lawrence. Poulton is…
Wichita man stabbed in the scrotum with a hypodermic needle
Stay away from my balls, needle! Fellas, this will be the most painful story you read all day. Be thankful that you aren’t the Wichita man who was stabbed in the scrotum with a hypodermic needle. The Wichita Eagle reported that part of the needle broke off in the 39-year-old man’s scrotum. The guy showed up at a hospital on…
At the heart of every St. Louis kitchen is a KC chef
St. Louis diners are loving Summer. It’s not just the Kansas City restaurant scene that’s expanding with Kansas City chefs these days. It turns out that St. Louis is relying on our city’s cooks, as well. KC native Summer Wright is featured in a recent St. Louis Post-Dispatch roundup of pastry chefs for her work at Brasserie by Niche. Categories:…
Is the Garden of Eden in Oklahoma Joe’s?
Was the Garden of Eden a smoker’s paradise? Was pork the forbidden fruit? Economist Brad DeLong posits that the paradise occupied by Adam and Eve might just be in a gas station: At least one non-Mormon says that it is very nearby—just across the Missouri River in fact: Oklahoma Joe’s BBQ In Kansas City . DeLong asserts that the Book…
Pee Party: The Red Balloon karaoke bar
Welcome to the Red Balloon! Pee Party is a regular column where we investigate bar restrooms. My friend turned 30 last Thursday. We went out for dinner, and afterward, about 10 of us piled into a conversion van and drove out to the Red Balloon, a bar just west of Switzer on 75th Street that offers karaoke every night of…
Lisa Irwin’s mother preparing to be arrested, aunt tells Good Morning America
The search for baby Lisa led police to a Festival Foods store. The story of missing 11-month-old Lisa Irwin took another strange turn this morning. Lisa’s aunt, Ashley Irwin, told Good Morning America that the missing baby’s mother, Deborah Bradley, was preparing to be arrested. Ashley Irwin called Bradley’s arrest “inevitable” because, “It’s what the police do. They don’t have…
Treadmill, Twitter help Claire McCaskill lose 50 pounds
Twitter can be used as a weight-loss accountability device. When U.S. Sen. Claire McCaskill made the decision to try to lose weight, she used Twitter in an attempt to hold herself accountable. “I’m tired of looking and feeling fat,” she wrote in a message in May. “Maybe talking about it publicly will keep me on track as I try to…
Dia de los Muertes Festival
The West Side was filled with life and music on Saturday, October 8, for Dia de los Muertes Festival. The party on 17th Street outside the Mattie Rhodes Art Gallery showed why this is the longest running Day of the Dead festival in the city. Photos by Bethany Day.
How silly are the End the Fed signs at Occupy Kansas City?
Photo by Scott Rohr Occupy KC demonstrators marched from Penn Valley Park to Mill Creek Park on Sunday. It was predictable that “End the Fed” signs would find their way to the Occupy Wall Street protest and its satellites. One day last week, at the Occupy Kansas City site near the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City, a dreadlocked and…
Upcoming Sonic Spectrum tributes: Clash, ELO, Talking Heads
Forester Michael Dream Wolf Robert Moore’s Sonic Spectrum Tribute Series — usually the last Sunday of the month at RecordBar — took September and October off. It returns next month with a tribute to the Clash. And December and January are already scheduled as well. Here’s what’s on tap, with some of the scheduled performers. Categories: Music Tags: sonic spectrum
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