Victorian ideals and clockwork ephemera came together under one roof for a steampunk-themed Party Arty 2012. The annual benefit for the Nelson-Atkins Museum was held at the Bloch Building on Saturday, January 21. Photos by Ashford Stamper.
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Some people aren’t happy with Jermaine Reed. Third District City Councilman Jermaine Reed has made plenty of headlines in his seven months in office. He rushed to the defense of Club Xpressions, a downtown violence magnet. And he put out the boneheaded idea of renaming Prospect Avenue after Martin Luther King Jr. Reed won his seat last May in an…
McCoy’s root beer is one of the favorite house brews. The best drink at McCoy’s Public House may not even be alcoholic — the house-brewed root beer has as many fans as the Hog Pound Brown and or Newcom’s I.P.A. Today brewer Keith Thompson talks about how the brewpub’s soda came into existence. On Friday, he offered a few unique…
When it comes to Boulevard Chocolate Ale, Kansas Citians have long lost the ability to be rational. Thankfully, as the release day, January 31, approaches, we apparently have not lost our humor. We thought the bottles might be on the bottling line. We were wrong. In the well-worn tradition of Is It Christmas? The 816 has created a humorous take…
Flickr: Parker Michael Night Maybe it’s best to sometimes just stick with coffee. Lunch within an institutional dining room is sometimes about the choice that will make you the least sad. It’s the turkey sandwich or burger in your office cafeteria — the things you pray are too simple to really get that far from edible. I was recently standing…
Reptar The Bottleneck appears to have a pretty decent early spring schedule so far. On March 8, the Athens, Georgia, “disco dust” band Reptar brings its dance-noise funk to Lawrence at 8 p.m. It’s all-ages and costs $9. Watch for the constantly touring Electric Six on April 6. Support from Aficionado and Andy D, 8 p.m., all-ages, $13. Here are…
The Republic School District attracts controversy. The Republic School District — made famous last year for banning books, allegedly making a student rape victim apologize to her attacker, and allegedly abusing a special-needs student — is in the news again for trying to ban something. Reuters reports that this time, Republic High School (Go, Tigers!) officials revoked 16-year-old Riley Collier’s…
Much as Kansas City’s recent brew history has flowed through McCoy’s brewer Keith Thompson, he has drawn inspiration from craft brewers around the country. Yesterday, he talked about getting his start in glassware at the Free State Brewery, and on Monday he’ll share exactly how the root beer at McCoy’s was created. What are your brewing inspirations? I like to…
Both Missouri senators have given up on PIPA. Update: Sen. McCaskill’s spokesman Trevor Kincaid called to clarify that McCaskill hadn’t staked out a position on PIPA until yesterday’s tweet saying she is against it. ProPublica had reported that McCaskill had supported it, which wasn’t the case. In 2010, McCaskill supported the Combating Online Infringement and Counterfeits Act, a weaker PIPA…
Ashford Stamper The Traveling Cocktail Club created the cocktail pairings for chef Craig Howard’s dinner at the City Arts Project gallery last Sunday night. The northwest corner of 20th Street and Main emerged in 2011 as a sort of mini culinary epicenter of Kansas City. The Rieger Hotel Grill & Exchange quickly came into its own as a smart destination…
Missouri didn’t get any love from the American Lung Association. The American Lung Association released its state-by-state tobacco control grades Thursday, and Kansas earned an F. But there’s good news for Kansans: Missouri was pasted with an even worse F, joining only five other states that received an F in each of the four grading areas. Kansas got an F…
Way back in the ’90s. No official news on the Middle of the Map schedule yet, other than that it’s planned for April 5-7. But! Nineties KC rock kings Molly McGuire recently launched a Kickstarter page seeking funding for a new album. And in a video on the page, frontman Jason Blackmore reveals that the band will play RecordBar as…
Beer Street Journal This is a lot better than a beeping alarm clock. The days of the beer dinner, where the food is just an afterthought, are long over. Case in point: Beer Kitchen’s first beer dinner of the year, featuring brews from the Grand Teton Brewing Co. The five-course meal at 6:30 p.m. Sunday, starts with pan-fried sweetbreads and…
If you’re a Bach aficionado, you’ll want to head to the Folly Theater this coming Tuesday, where you’ll hear the Kansas City Chamber Orchestra perform the complete Brandenburg Concertos. This performance is part of the 2012 Bach Festival. We recently spoke to Bruce Sorrell, Kansas City Chamber Orchestra founder and director. He discussed the festival and next week’s concert, and…
Will the Chiefs avoid a league investigation? It appears that there won’t be much of a fallout from the The Star’s damning story last weekend about allegations from current and former Kansas City Chiefs employees that their offices and phones had been bugged or tapped. (Really, you need to read it if you haven’t yet.) In the piece, former Chiefs…
If you paid your fine but got a letter, call ATS. American Traffic Solutions, the company that contracts with cities — including Kansas City — to operate red-light cameras had a serious d’oh moment last Friday when it incorrectly sent letters to 1,000 drivers telling them to pay fines that they didn’t owe. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that ATS…
Angela C. Bond The coconut shrimp at the Brass Monkey. In this week’s restaurant review, critic Charles Ferruzza offered an education on a classic cocktail and restaurant of the same name — the Brass Monkey. The former has a number of variations, while the latter has no shortage of variety on its menu. Find out why the bar might be…
Dana Wright moves to the radio. The Shanin and Parks show on KMBZ 980 is going to need a new name. Shanin, as in Mike Shanin, is out. In is KCTV Channel 5 investigative reporter Dana Wright. This news comes from Bottom Line Communications’ John Landsberg, who should change the name of his website to Scoops, Scoops, Scoops. Wright will…
Keith Thompson takes a moment with the tanks at McCoy’s. If you’ve had a beer in the Kansas City area in the past 20 years, odds are that Keith Thompson had a hand in it. Although, in the beginning, he was just making sure your glass was clean. “I was a hydro-ceramic engineer,” Thompson says of his first job, as…
Twitter: @NoReservations Yup, that’s Bourdain and the Black Keys. It’s unclear if food writers love the Black Keys or the rock-band members are actually foodies, but the end result is a recent healthy heaping of food wisdom from the hipster darlings. Back in December, they palled around with Anthony Bourdain while he filmed an episode of No Reservations around Kansas…
