Tasting Menu For some, their doughnut prayers have been answered. Up until two years ago, fans of Dunkin’ Donuts in Kansas City had to drive to Lawrence to get their fix. It was a long ride down K-10 to get a box of doughnuts when the shop at 521 W. 23rd St. opened at 5 a.m. Today, the drive is…
Guys, it’s time to start preparing for the summer festival season. Not really. But you sort of can, if you want. Wakarusa has posted its first “2012 official preview” on its website. The preview reminds us that tickets go on sale Friday, December 2. The 2012 festival is slated for May 31 through June 3. Watch the video after the…
Detroit didn’t embrace Lou Engle as much as he was hoping. Everybody’s favorite hoarse, mustachioed, lunatic drinking bird, Lou Engle, held one of his famous TheCall gatherings on Friday at Ford Field in Detroit, and it followed his classic form: According to news reports, he was his classic, nutty self, and the crowd was smaller than expected. The Detroit Free…
Flickr: Steve Bott A home-cooked Thanksgiving meal is delightful, but some of us prefer letting a restaurant do all the work. Thanksgiving is just 10 days away. For some of us, that means actually taking on the task of hosting an entire holiday meal (I’ve done it — but never again) or preparing a side dish or a dessert to…
Mastodon. Brutal weekend? Add a brutal Monday to the mix with these Best Bets. Tonight: Mastodon, the Dillinger Escape Plan, Red Fang at the Beaumont ClubHar Mar Superstar, Swanson, Joan Benet at the BottleneckRachael Yamagata, Mike Viola at RecordBar Categories: Music
Derek Hubbard is accused of killing his estranged girlfriend and two other people. Derek Hubbard allegedly killed his estranged girlfriend, Stephanie Brown, along with a couple inside a home at 24th and Lister Friday night around 10:19. Hubbard allegedly got into an argument with Brown and Anthony Richardson inside the home. Hubbard is accused of trying to force Brown to…
The owner of Lawrence’s Jackpot Music Hall is selling the music venue to an out-of-town group, the Lawrence Journal-World is reporting. Plans call for the location to become much less of a music venue and much more of a “townie bar.” Carroll said the timing was right for him to sell the business that he started in 2004. Carroll said…
Taiwan has thrust Kansas City into an international fight. Thursday’s arrest of Hsien-Hsien Liu, the director general of the Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in Kansas City, Missouri, for allegedly abusing her housekeeper has sparked a very small international incident. Liu, who has been held in federal custody since her arrest, has been charged with mistreating the woman by forcing…
Jacki Becker founded Eleven Productions a decade ago, and in that time has brought us some of Lawrence and KC’s most memorable shows. The Arcade Fire stopped at the Jackpot just after the release of Funeral, and Sufjan Stevens hit the Bottleneck on the release of Illinoise. We’ve also seen Of Montreal, Deerhoof, and the Dismemberment Plan, just to name…
Forester Michael Better than: Seeing Paradise City, KC’s own GN’R tribute band, perform at the P&L. In the early ’90s, music video director Andy Morahan cemented the image of Guns N’ Roses in videos for songs on the band’s Use Your Illusions I and II albums. Incredibly sexy, pouty women surrounded the shirtless Sunset Strip staples. Grand pianos, sprawling stark-white…
BNO Walk Try not to get verklempt at the KC Library this week. Linda Richman isn’t in town, but you can still get your coffee talk on, courtesy of a pair of food-related conversations sponsored by the Kansas City Public Library this week. The first features Danny O’Neill talking about his coffee company, the Roasterie, tomorrow at the Plaza Branch…
Flickr: puuikibeach Coffee is now just another ingredient. Like bacon, coffee has managed to find its way into all kinds of dishes. There’s coffee beer, coffee in chocolate (Serious Eats recently reviewed KA-POW), and Shatto unveiled its version of coffee milk last month. Some are inspired, like this ancho chili coffee-rubbed steak from Pierpont’s, while others are misguided (Barista Sips…
The Chiefs were complicit in the coronation of Tebow. From the Book of Arrowhead, Chapter 9: Verse 17.10. And lo, the Chiefs took away two running backs from Tim Tebow, and he was angered greatly. And he rose up with polite indignation and he continued to bravely hand off the football. And the Chiefs continued to be surprised that the…
Lauren Alexander Appropriately, “Our Town: An Evening With Iris DeMent and Greg Brown” began with the faces of the children who were the real focus of Friday evening’s show at the Folly Theater. A video montage of the kids served by United Inner City Services (UICS) and St. Mark Child and Family Development Center played over Sweet Honey in the…
Too bad this catch by Chiefs rookie Jonathan Baldwin was called back due to a penalty. It was one of few highlights on an otherwise awful day that ended in a 17-10 loss to the Denver Broncos. Categories: News Tags: denver broncos, Jonathan Baldwin, kansas city chiefs
Nick Spacek My night of 11.11.11 action started at the Jackpot with the dulcet rock-and-roll tones of the Runaway Sons. No, wait — strike that. The Sons’ full-on assault is an attack on your central nervous system. Their rhythm section vibrates your entire body. The frontman, Jimmy Wing, will jerk and gyrate directly at you, and you will feel mightily…
KCMO’s homicide total is now at 96 for 2011. The weekend was the bloodiest in recent memory. In just 12 hours, Kansas City police were investigating six homicides in three separate cases. It all began Friday night around 8:29 when Kansas City firefighters were called to a house fire in the 5400 block of East 28th Street. Firefighters discovered the…
DJ Spooky definitely ain’t no DJ P. And he’s certainly much more of a Renaissance Man than say, Kaskade, Pauly D or Skrillex. The DC-born artist has written a collection of essays called Rhythm Science, put his reggae and dub expertise on remixes of legendary Trojan Records tracks, and was a one-time collaborator with Yoko Ono. Tonight “That Subliminal Kid”…
