Ssion is featured in the new video from CSS, “City Grrrl.” The track, from CSS’ most recent album, La Liberacion, features Ssion’s Cody Critcheloe acting as a sort of phantom fairy godmother to CSS singer Lovefoxxx. It’s also a stone-cold dance-floor jam. Even as a guy in my 30s, I kind of wanted to dye my hair pink after listening…
J&D’s You know what bacon doesn’t make better? Sex. There’s a whole new way to pork. J&D’s, the Seattle gentlemen who created everything from bacon salt to bacon envelopes, have brought an April Fools’ Joke to market with their latest product — Baconlube. The “world’s first bacon-flavored personal lubricant and massage oil” is the ultimate realization of their company’s motto…
Bishop Finn has been spared from Clay County charges for now. As Bishop Robert Finn of the Catholic Diocese of Kansas City-St. Joseph faces misdemeanor charges in Jackson County stemming from the Rev. Shawn Ratigan child-pornography case, it was announced Tuesday that he has been spared from charges in Clay County. Prosecutor Daniel White said Finn has entered a diversion…
Lily Tomlin regrets not being able to save her childhood home in Detroit. “My neighborhood was pretty much destroyed after the 1967 riots. I always kind of hoped that if I ever got famous, that apartment building might be saved because I grew up there,” Tomlin, now 72, says. “But it was torn down.” The Tomlin family — headed by…
Do Kansas City venues offer sufficient opportunity for new acts to get noticed? Yes, generally. It’s fairly easy for a halfway decent act to book a show somewhere. But it can be difficult for an unconnected band to gain traction with local music fans. What if there was a weekly showcase, an early one — so folks with kids and…
This Thanksgiving Eve, 10 middle-aged men will crowd onto the stage of the Brick and play a set together for the first time in two years. Half of the Hearers, as they are known, live in or around Kansas City; the other half live in Washington, California and Iowa. This holiday gig has become something of a tradition, a chance…
Two female singer-songwriters — a relatively rare local breed — have resurfaced this autumn with new records. Both favor the acoustic guitar. Both have pretty faces. Both are in possession of alliterative names. But they represent divergent paths for the modern woman musician. Margo May, who advanced to the Hollywood round in the 2009 season of American Idol, recently moved…
Like Crazy dares you not to like its adorable, fumbling, emotional characters. I’ll take that dare. Curly-haired naif Jacob (Anton Yelchin, a total doodlebug) is a teacher’s assistant in some kind of new-media survey at a Southern California college where bright-eyed waif Anna (Felicity Jones, even cuter) is an exchange student from England. The movie opens on Anna delivering an…
In a key scene in The Skin I Live In, Dr. Robert Ledgard (Antonio Banderas) enters his house and, through a monitor resembling a pane of one-way glass, starts to ogle the body of Vera (Elena Anaya). He’s fully clothed; she’s nude. He can see her, but she can’t see him. On the surface, this appears to be a textbook…
On a Friday morning in November, Gilbert McClure stands on the staircase leading to the dining room of Starker’s Restaurant. The silver-haired former cattle rancher is tall, and his hands still have the crackling strength that comes from roping steers for 40 years. He booms out a welcome to the two diners who have just entered, and for a moment,…
Chris Isaak A California kind of Renaissance man — musician, actor, surfer, talk-show host — Chris Isaak has maintained a steady, if slightly sub-radar presence for 25 years now. (“Wicked Game” was on the charts in 1991, son.) You’d think a handsome guy with a pompadour and a retro-hip aesthetic wouldn’t be built to last, but Isaak has an effortless,…
I still cringe at the memory of the worst pancake I ever tasted. I was eating in a crummy dining room inside a motel that formerly stood at Eighth Street and Main. The hotcake was as thick as a Frisbee and just as tough. I shoved my uneaten stack back at my waitress. “How can the kitchen screw up a…
ElixirOnMute. Tuesday’s Best Bets are here. Tonight: ElixirOnMute, David Hasselhoff on Acid, the Roman Holiday, Radkey at the Riot RoomAxe Murder Boyz, Wicked Wayz at the GranadaMates of State, the Generationals at RecordBarPterodactyl (Jagjaguwar), We Are Voices at Replay LoungeConquerors, All Blood, Infinite Mile High Club at Davey’s Uptown Categories: Music
The kickoff for the Camo-to-Glamo campaign was held on Friday, November 11, at the Charles B. Wheeler Downtown Airport. Supporters came out to celebrate female veterans with cocktails, dancing and a fashion show. Photos by Ashford Stamper.
There’s still a daily soul-food buffet at Papa Lew’s Soul Delicious at 12th and Brooklyn I was heartbroken last month when I heard that one of my favorite buffets in the city, the original Peachtree Buffet on Eastwood Trafficway, had closed. (A smaller full-service Peachtree restaurant now operates in the same complex.) There were once several first-rate soul-food buffet restaurants…
Not a photo from last night at the Beaumont. There comes a time in most bands’ lives where a decision must be made regarding commercial appeal. Heavy-metal bands in general get to sidestep this thorny issue. After all, how much popularity can one get from cranking the amp stacks and screeching into a mic? Every once in a while, though,…
Flickr: Ulterior Epicure Bluestem served roasted pheasant (page 167) at its Sunday-night cookbook dinner. Cookbooks are meant to be guides in the kitchen, but the two-year effort of writing Bluestem: The Cookbook may ultimately prove to be the guiding force for the future of the Westport restaurant owned by Megan and Colby Garrelts. “It made us define exactly what Bluestem…
Costa Vida The sweet pork nachos at Costa Vida. Costa Vida Fresh Mexican Grill, a fast-casual Mexican chain that started in Utah, has opened its first outpost in the Kansas City market (and the state of Missouri). The Costa Vida at 115 S. Missouri 291, began serving customers yesterday in Lee’s Summit. The tortillas are made in-house, and the ordering…
