I haven’t seen Metro Sports’ documentary on the Kansas City Comets, Blazing Trails: The History of the Kansas City Comets, but I’m looking forward to its debut Thursday night at 7. Can’t wait to hear the theme from the Midnight Express (the movie and the pro wrestling tag team). Categories: News Tags: Kansas City Comets, Metro Sports
The old Raglan Road space will have a new look this March. KC Hopps is hoping that an Irish-themed restaurant proves luckier the second time around in the Power & Light District. The Kansas City Business Journal reports that the local restaurant group, which owns O’Dowd’s Little Dublin and the 75 Street Brewery, plans to operate and manage the Dubliner…
It seems that it was just the other day that Hidden Pictures was sharing its wonderfully poppy cover of the Cranberries’ “Dreams.” Now, we’ve got a tease of the band’s upcoming full-length, Rainbow Records, with the track “Solo Record Shop.” The keyboard hook will pull you in, but you’ll stay for the jangly guitars. Categories: Music Tags: hidden pictures
Flickr: DavidSpinks This is a weekend for wing eating. Another Super Bowl will pass without the Kansas City Chiefs as a participant; however, that shouldn’t stop you from enjoying the game this Sunday. Fat City has compiled a list of options for where you can watch the Big Game and eat (or drink) enough to forget the drama of the…
The Missouri Tigers kept the nation’s No. 1 recruit (as rated by Rivals) in-state. Dorial Green-Beckham, a wide receiver from Springfield, announced that he’ll be playing football at Mizzou. Finally some good news for Mizzou on a week that saw this atrocity. Categories: News Tags: Dorial Green-Beckham, Missouri Tigers
Bye, bye to Brian McCourt (right) Now Now Sleepyhead announced yesterday that the group has found a replacement for departed bassist Brian McCourt, who moved to Chicago in order to study music at Columbia College. The band didn’t have to look far to fill McCourt’s shoes, taking on former Flee the Seen frontwoman Kim Baldwin. Baldwin’s longtime bandmate in Flee…
Mahalo Ever think about sharing your Tupperware with a restaurant? Life with multiple small children more often than not leaves me with the same approach to eating as a hyena — if it’s not moving and I’m the only one around, it’s fair game. As a result, I’ve eaten the remains of a non-relative’s pasta, more pizza than I care…
In the wake of his recent viral pancake video, Kansas City’s Mac Lethal was featured on Daytrotter again last week. The session included the songs “’87 Blimmy,” “Cherry Soda Pop” and “Bird Feeder.” Click over to the session here. You’ll notice Daytrottter has conveniently listed links to Lethal’s previous sessions on the right sidebar. Nice job, sir. Categories: Music Tags:…
Deschutes’ Jason Randles (left) and Brian Faivre were recently in town to introduce KC to their beer. Fresh off a tasting event at the Foundry, Deschutes brewmaster Brian Faivre is happy to be back in Missouri for a glimpse of what his life might have been. Eight years ago, Faivre was preparing to accept a position with the Saint Louis…
Name: Kris Ketz Occupation: First News anchor for KMBC Channel 9 and KCWE Channel 29 Hometown:Â Moline, Illinois Current neighborhood: Northland Who or what is your sidekick? Donna Pitman, Diane Cho, Joel Nichols, Johnny Rowlands, Kerri Stowell and company. What career would you choose in an alternate reality? Thirty-plus years in broadcast journalism, and I still don’t know what else…
Joe Paterno: Nittany Lion in winter Joe Paterno died last week. The 85-year-old coaching legend, who headed Penn State’s football program for 46 years before his late-2011 firing, had lung cancer. His death prompted a waterfall of teary farewells, including one from former Kansas Citian Joe Posnanski. Posnanski left KC last year, upgrading from Kansas City Star columnist to Sports…
Fresh off a tasting event at the Foundry, Deschutes brewmaster Brian Faivre is happy to be back in Missouri for a glimpse of what his life might have been. Eight years ago, Faivre was preparing to accept a position with the Saint Louis Brewery, maker of Schlafly beer. “We had driven the U-Haul to St. Louis and left it packed,”…
Remember endless summers and their limitless possibilities, of viewing the world through the lens of a child? And don’t we all still grasp sometimes for that carefree feeling? A couple of hours at an action film, a happy hour, a musical performance — a play — can soften life’s concerns, for a while. Such is the world of Tom Sawyer…
On its 2009 debut, Try Brother, Capybara crafted a percussive, giddy sound that won the band notice here in its hometown and out across America’s digital divide. One of its songs was featured on Spike Jonze’s mixtape for Where the Wild Things Are, and Will Wiesenfeld, the arty beat maker behind Baths, sang the band’s praises in an interview with…
Some club people in the U.K., where dubstep was birthed, sneer that the genre jumped the shark a decade ago. There are DJs and promoters in the United States who believe that it’s the future of the live-music industry. At least one Facebook page and numerous Web forums exist solely to explain why Skrillex, perhaps the most famous dubstep artist…
Until recently, you could have shot the next Saw movie here. But even at its most decrepit, beauty was hiding in the decay of the Cosby Hotel. Now this neglected, once beautiful 1881 building — abandoned in 1995 — is coming back, the object of a history-minded restoration. On a cold late-January day, the place’s old splendor peeks out, visible…
The Cave Girls, with Thee Devotion and the I’ms Free copies of garage-rock trio the Cave Girls’ self-titled debut album will be awarded to the most “caved out” guests at this CD-release show at the Brick. How might one qualify for such a distinction? “Animal print, super-messed-up hair and other Neanderthalesque tendencies,” say the women in the band. Supporting is…
I have tasted the best ham-salad sandwich in Kansas City — in an Overland Park barbecue joint. But more on that later. If you’ve never heard of Brobecks BBQ, on Indian Creek Parkway, you aren’t alone. I was right there with you, in fact, until a couple of weeks ago, when I stopped there on a Friday night. I was…
Tim Brown might hold the strongest convictions of anyone exhibiting art in Kansas City. Venture into Telephonebooth, a no-frills gallery that the artist operates in a storefront on Troost Avenue, and you might feel a little cold this time of year. There’s no electricity, so Brown limits visiting hours to when the sun is up. Over hot tea near the…
