Radiohead on the way to Sprint Center in March!
Wow. Sunday, March 11. On sale this Saturday (November 12) at 10 a.m. Categories: Music Tags: Radiohead
Archives: November 2011
Kansas City Royals deny naming-rights rumors
The K is still the K. There were rumors this morning that the Kansas City Royals would announce a naming rights sponsorship for Kauffman Stadium. Guess that’s not the case. From the Royals: “Amid a variety of reports that the Royals were nearing an announcement today, we felt it necessary to address the situation. Since the renovations were completed prior…
Chef Matthew Arnold, Part Three: Putting together a proper Southern plate
The Knot Chef Arnold is settling in at Webster House. All chefs have a dish that they secretly (or quite vocally) believe is their best and could stand against any other place’s version. “I like my fried chicken,” chef Matthew Arnold says after a bit of prodding on whether Kansas City or the Southern states where he has lived and…
Seasons 52 opens today on the Plaza
Dallas Observer Seasons 52 will start slinging mini indulgences today. The first of four seasonal menus is ready to be unveiled at Seasons 52 today. The chain, owned by Florida-based Darden Restaurants, opens for lunch on the Plaza this morning at 340 Ward Parkway. The fresh-grill and wine-bar concept has a menu that changes four times a year, and every…
How much is a year’s supply of chicken worth to you?
In order to celebrate the opening of its new location (915 N.E. Coronado Drive) in Blue Springs on Thursday, Chick-fil-A is giving out free chicken for a year. The first 100 adults in line by 6 a.m. this Thursday will receive a book of certificates good for 52 Chick-fil-A meals. Just a note: You can begin lining up only 24…
tUnE-yArDs, tonight at the Jackpot!
Merrill Garbus, the brain and face of tUnE-yArDs, is a jarring character. Her haircut is confrontationally lopsided, and she performs with a pink boa around her neck and colorful streaks painted across her cheeks. Her pliable, confident voice frequently approaches a yodel, and many of her songs are built upon a ukulele, but there is a momentum to tUnE-yArDs’ songs…
Mizzou makes move to the SEC official
Mizzou to the SEC is official. Sunday was a bad day for sports fans in Kansas City. The Chiefs lost to a bad, bad Miami Dolphins team. Sporting Kansas City was eliminated from Major League Soccer’s playoffs. And the University of Missouri finally announced its move to the SEC from the Big 12. That last one is debatable, but Mizzou’s…
Best Bets: Weekend Edition
Te gusta Neil Hamburguesa? Si! Be careful, this weekend’s Best Bets are borderline ridiculous. Friday: Hum, the Life and Times at RecordBarPanda Circus, Karma Vision, Sobriquet at Jackpot Music HallDanielle Ate the Sandwich featuring Danielle Anderson, Victor & Penny at the Living RoomJeffrey Gains, Nicolette Paige, Clay Hughes at the Riot RoomMURS, Tabi Bonney, Ski Beatz and the Senseis, McKenzie…
KU football tries to Groupon its tickets away
Insert Jayhawks football tickets here. How bad in is KU’s football team? Oh, they’re bad. They’ve lost their last six games by an average of 34 points. They allowed Oklahoma State to score 10 — 10! — touchdowns on them. Texas blanked them 43-0 last week. But no humiliation on the field this season has approached the latest indignity that…
Is Google Fiber going to start a cable service in Kansas City?
Google fiber might launch a Web-based cable service. Google’s Kansas City Internet plans may be getting even more awesome. Both KCs freaked out when the search behemoth settled on our little burgs as the first metro area in the nation to get eyeball-popping online speed. After all, KCK and KCMO beat out more than 1,000 other towns hoping to land…
Chef Matt Arnold, Part Two: Pride in KC barbecue and the value of a good cast-iron skillet
Charles Ferruzza Chef Matthew Arnold is happy to be back in Kansas City. It’s funny to think of Houlihan’s as having a swinging bar scene. But nearly 30 years ago, there was a cadre of hip drinkers with a cigarette in hand and a line at the ready. Matthew Arnold, now the executive chef at Webster House, remembers the scene…
The Kills, the Sex Police, Randy Rogers Band, and a small handful of other incoming artists
The Kills The Kills make fun, dirty, late-night bar music. The garage-pop duo bring their distorted, somewhat danceable songs to the Midland on January 21. Support from Jeff the Brotherhood and Hunters (via Paste and Under the Radar Mag). Here are some other shows that were recently announced: Categories: Music Tags: The Kills, the Sex Police
Houlihan’s classic comfort food (Slideshow)
Lauren Phillips Houlihan’s is a nice step back in time. Houlihan’s is the classic comfortable sweater, the original neighborhood bar and grill. Check out this week’s review, in which Charles Ferruzza notes that the menu “is a likable hodgepodge of familiar bar food” and “some of old standbys are pretty damn good.” See the food he’s writing about in the…
Granny allegedly sold meth while babysitting
Jody J. Ockert is accused of being a very bad grandma. When baby-sitting your 2-year-old granddaughter, it is not OK to sell meth, even if you’re making only $5 an hour and they don’t get movie channels and there’s nothing good in the fridge. But that’s allegedly what Jody J. Ockert of Enterprise, Kansas, did on August 19. The Salina…
Great Pumpkin Smash and other weekend possibilities
Skein by Skein This is a lot better than watching a squirrel eat the jack-o’-lantern off your porch. Have you ever seen a monkey eating a pumpkin? What about a polar bear smashing one? It’s the Great Pumpkin Smash at the Kansas City Zoo (6800 Zoo Drive) on Saturday. From 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., zoo staff will be giving…
Apocalypse Meow 4 is this weekend
Them Damned Young Livers Apocalypse Meow needs little-to-no introduction. For the last three years, the event (along with help from the Midwest Music Foundation) has helped raise money for a musicians’ health-care fund. The fund aids uninsured and underinsured Kansas City musicians and people who work in the music industry. “This year will be very similar to past years. We’ve…
The Good You food truck is back in business
Yesterday marked the official return of the Good You food truck to Kansas City’s mobile-dining community. As Fat City reported last month, owner Kelli Daniels was sidelined when her burger-and-sandwich truck was vandalized while parked in a downtown lot. While her insurance company was deciding whether to pay her claim, she held a benefit on October 16 to raise repair…
Occupy Kansas City (slideshow)
The Pitch spent a day with the Occupy Kansas City protesters for this week’s feature, “Revolution Lite.” Photographer Sabrina Staires captured life at the group’s month-old Penn Valley Park encampment and at a rally and march that the activists held October 30. Click the photo (or here) for the slideshow. Categories: News Tags: Occupy Kansas City
Chef Matthew Arnold on starting out at Houlihan’s and the pull of the ocean
Chef Matthew Arnold is getting settled in at Webster House. It’s a busy Wednesday afternoon at Webster House when chef Matthew Arnold steps inside one of the private dining rooms off the main foyer. The restaurant has just seated a walk-in party of 19 people — the kind of unexpected party that is being drawn into the antique shop and…
New doo-wop by Dean Monkey and the Dropouts; show tonight at the Jazzhaus
Doo-wop was the dub-step of the ’50s, and girl, Dean Monkey wants to tell you slowly and sincerely, with a walking bass line and soaring harmonies in the background. The Lawrencians have done their research. Tonight at 10:30, they’ll play the Jazzhaus with Aotearoa, probably not dressed as Juggalos. Below, stream “I Am So Lonely” off their debut EP, coming…
Future Islands, Smoking Popes, Dream Wolf and Kenji Williams: Thursday’s Best Bets
Bright synth-pop from Baltimore. If tonight’s Best Bets were a Snow Cone flavor, it would be Dreamsicle. Tonight: Smoking Popes, the Also Rans, Sundiver at the Riot RoomBella Gaia: Kenji Williams at Yardley Hall at JCCCDream Wolf, Boom Chick, Heidi Gluck at RecordBarThe Associates at Davey’s UptownJucifer (Relapse/Nomadic Fortress/Alternative Tentacles), Hot & Ugly at Replay LoungeFuture Islands at Jackpot Music…
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