It came from the Drive-In … “Horror on the Boulevard” is looking to be this year’s hot ticket event for horror fans. For two nights — this Friday, October 14, and Saturday, October 15 — the Boulevard Drive-In (1051 Merriam) will be your source for terror. On the big screen, they’re showing slasher classics Friday the 13th and A Nightmare…
In the Music section this week: A look at the Upper Room’s nonprofit music education model, troubadour Tyler Gregory, and movie soundtrack specialists Spindrift. Plus Forecast. Read it while you’re waiting for the server at Sonic to deliver you your extra-long cheese coney. Categories: Music
ScootUtopia O’Malley’s Irish Fest in Weston is back. Strap on your drinking pants and your dancing shoes. The 12th annual O’Malley’s Weston Irish Festival is back. The three-day celebration — today through Sunday — takes over O’Malley’s Pub and Courtyard (500 Welt Street, in Weston). You can enjoy more than eight hours of live music each day and plenty of…
Missing 11-month-old Lisa Irwin can be seen in a handful of videos posted to YouTube earlier this year. There are four videos, all posted by ItzMzDeborah, clearly the child’s mother, Deborah Bradley. Lisa Irwin hasn’t been seen since October 3. The search for the missing baby is ongoing. Categories: News Tags: Deborah Bradley, Jeremy Irwin, Lisa Irwin
A man who fled JoCo deputies is dead. An officer-involved shooting left one man dead in Olathe Thursday night. A Johnson County deputy noticed a vehicle facing the wrong way on Buchanan Street around 7:30 p.m., so the deputy stopped to investigate. A man fled on foot. A second deputy tracked down the guy a short time later in the…
Do this building a solid, Columbia! Fearful of losing the Big 12 basketball tournaments, Kansas City, Missouri, Mayor Sly James wrote an open letter to University of Missouri Chancellor Brady Deaton, urging him to weigh the decision about conference realignment “with care.” Mizzou is considering leaving the Big 12 for the Southeastern Conference. If Mizzou splits, it stands to reason…
Donut King Donut King will sell 69-cent doughnuts — for one day only — tomorrow. A gallon of gas cost 35 cents in 1969. That same year, a pound of Chiquita bananas was selling for 12 cents, a pound of butter cost 77 cents and a pound of ground chuck was 89 cents. That same year, a new doughnut shop,…
Nate Feldmiller is the executive chef at Cafe Europa. At a corner table in Cafe Europa that has likely seen as many women in hats as the Kentucky Derby, executive chef Nate Feldmiller is starting to get animated. He has just confessed to recently purchasing Big Trouble in Little China on Blu-ray, the latest addition to a collection of movies…
Searching for maturity among officials in Topeka yielded one result. Chalk up a victory for the Topeka City Council! Shawnee County District Attorney Chad Taylor announced yesterday that he will once again handle misdemeanor domestic-violence cases within Topeka city limits. Taylor had stopped filing domestic-battery cases in September because his office was broke. That left Topeka’s city prosecutors to handle…
The Embarrassment never died. This is starting to seem like vindication for a band that should have been a lot bigger. Now on their Facebook, they’re hyping us with the first remastered recordings they’ve ever released. These are from a show they did on KMUW Wichita Public Radio in 1983. And you thought your bootlegs were raw. Listen: Categories: Music…
Glace has ice-cream bars in stock. We may need to redefine the ice-cream-treat category. Yesterday, Christopher Elbow rolled out the first batch of his ice-cream bars, and the freezers at Glace were stocked with vanilla bean, black cherry with toasted almond, and fleur de sel with hazelnut croquant bars. The new product, which Elbow hinted at in The Pitch cover…
Facebook: Sarpino’s Pizzeria Sarpino’s is now taking orders. You used to be able to get warmed from the outside at 905 B Westport Road. Now you can warm your insides. Sarpino’s Pizzeria has opened in the former Solkissed Tanning space just a few doors down from Blockbuster Video in Westport. Sarpino’s offers 40 toppings for its pizza and the choice…
Jeff Roe, mastermind Jeff Roe, the Kansas City-based Republican strategist, is getting ripped in St. Louis. On Sunday, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch ran an editorial criticizing the Missouri House for passing a resolution urging Congress to support the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter. What’s unusual about the resolution is that the supersonic jet is manufactured by Lockheed Martin — a rival…
Charles Ferruzza Genghis Grill has closed. With the recent closing of the Genghis Grill, the list of restaurants that didn’t make it are beginning to mount over at the Power & Light. Bice, Famous Dave’s, Chef Burger, Raglan Road, and the Peachtree Restaurant have all shut their doors in the past year. Power & Light Executive Director Nick Benjamin issued…
Chris Taylor is best known as the bass player for the Brooklyn indie quartet Grizzly Bear. He’s also produced the band’s albums Yellow House and Veckatimest, as well as the Friend EP. Recently, Taylor released his first solo album, Dreams Come True, on Warp/Terrible. Performing under the aegis CANT, Taylor moves away from the layered sounds of Grizzly Bear, and…
The failed eyesore that was the West Edge development near the Plaza is beginning to be deconstructed to make way for the new Polsinelli Shughart headquarters. Somebody recorded time-lapse videos of the beginning parts of the dismantlement. It’s not blow-up-a-football-stadium exciting, but the videos are sort of mesmerizing. Especially the one called “The AC Units Come Down.” Watch after the…
