Bruce Chen is a keeper for the Royals. Watching the Kansas City Royals can do strange things to a man. It can make Ned Yost fall in love with Chris Getz. It can convince a man to wear a cape and travel the country with his favorite team. And it now leads me to doing what I never thought I…
Chloe Millward William Elliott Whitmore This week in print: Scoping out the brutality at Black Thorns in the White Cube, a black-metal-inspired exhibition showing at the Paragraph Gallery. Also, a talk with farm-dwelling reformed punk William Elliott Whitmore, who brings his songs to Lawrence on Friday. Plus the Forecast, which festively (depressingly?) includes some Valentine’s Day ideas for singles. The…
Flickr: dvs Forks are an underrated part of the meal. Dinner can lead you to unpredictable places, like standing by the soda dispenser at a fast-casual restaurant wondering why there aren’t any forks next to the sugar packets and straws. Last night at Noodles & Company, we received our food sans silverware. I’m not a frequent diner there, so I…
Quiet Corral “Let’s put on a show!” is the default answer that wide-eyed young hopefuls shout in films in which money needs to be amassed quickly. There are fine reasons for this. Shows are pretty fun, and people don’t mind lending a few bucks to a good cause. Good causes abound this Friday. Take a gander. Categories: Music Tags: Chadwick…
Freak (freek) n. (plural freaks) 1. strikingly unusual person, animal, plant: a person, animal, or plant that is strikingly unusual, and appears to be unique or occurs very rarely (offensive in some contexts) Let your freak flag fly! Aquarius/Aquarius Rising*(Jan 20-Feb 19): By the time we reach the 11th sign, we are almost home, Dorothy. A flaw in your preceding…
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The new Michael Forbes Bar and Grille is looking sharp, but not like Sharp’s. Restaurateur Forbes Cross quietly opened his new Michael Forbes Bar and Grille in Brookside — in the old Sharp’s 63rd Street Grill location at 128 West 63rd Street — with a private fundraising party Monday night. The actual open-to-the-public debut is tonight, beginning at 5 p.m….
Saw this sweet photo of Modern Family’s Eric Stonestreet and Jesse Tyler Ferguson on the Facebook page for It’s Time: Marriage Equality. No surprise here. They play a couple on the ABC comedy, which is one of the funniest on TV. Ferguson is openly gay, and he told Out that Stonestreet is “gay for pay.” Stonestreet was born in KCK…
Christopher Elbow’s chocolates are a love letter to Kansas City in tiny square form. Photos by Angela C. Bond.
The Hollywood Casino at the Kansas Speedway had its grand opening on Friday, February 3, bringing glitz, glamor and gambling to Kansas City, Kansas. Photos by Angela C. Bond.
Two area radio stations offer up Valentine’s Day gifts. The Buzz will give listeners a treat when its morning host, Afentra, brings her annual VD Party to the Midland this Friday, February 10. It’s a free show with Middle Class Rut, the Lonely Forest, the Chain Gang of 1974, and O Giant Man. You’ll have to listen to 96.5 FM…
Facebook: Story It’s been warm enough to enjoy the patio at Story most of this week. Wednesday is the day when meal planning tends to fall by the wayside and you’re just looking for somebody else to get you through the week. Fat City is here to help. Today, we’ve got five things you can eat and drink this week….
Bands, why must you forsake Kansas City (and Lawrence)? It seems that many, many tours coming through in the upcoming months hop right past our section of the Midwest, going from St. Louis to Denver, or from Oklahoma City to Omaha. Why are we your day off, rockers? There’s a goodly bunch of interesting shows we’d love to host here,…
The Bay Citizen There’s always another dish around the corner. When growing up, we often made fun of my father for the longing looks he gave food that was headed to other tables. As a kid, I was embarrassed when my dad would snag a waiter’s attention to find out what had just wafted by his nose. Although, to be…
Deadspin Things may get a little louder in Pennsylvania. With the news breaking yesterday that the Pittsburgh Steelers have hired former Kansas City Chiefs head coach Todd Haley as their offensive coordinator, it seemed appropriate to offer some insight into what Pittsburgh can expect since this was Mr. Haley’s last place of gainful employment. So this is one time you’ll…
It’s been 10 months since Google announced that Kansas City, Kansas, had won the Web lottery. The city would be the first in the country to get the full-on Google Fiber treatment. Whatever that turned out to be. Since then, however, specifics have proved as elusive as bottles of Boulevard Chocolate Ale — who gets it? when? how much will…
Cursive is headed out on the road again. The Omaha band is touring in support of its new LP, I Am Gemini (February 21, Saddle Creek). Get a taste by listening to/downloading “Wowowow”. Want more? Listen here to “the Sun and Moon” or “the Cat and Mouse”. See Cursive with Ume and Virgin Islands on March 2 at RecordBar. Doors…
Photo by Brooke Vandever Name: Elana Gordon Occupation: Health reporter, KCUR 89.3. I don’t have a set program, but I regularly produce stories that air during Morning Edition and KC Currents. Hometown: Pleasantville, New York (no, not like the movie; yes, home of the Puzzlemaster) Current neighborhood: The West Side Who or what is your sidekick? My Marantz 660 and…
Anyone who has ever filled out a full-sized Oscar-party ballot knows that you have a much better chance of winning the pool if you’re that rare person who has seen the shorts. What with YouTube’s ascendance, this ought to be a boom time for sub-feature-length movies, but even the animated and live-action short films that attract attention from the Academy…
The angelic grace, the disembodied voices and mute faces, the tension between witnessing and acting — with Pina, director Wim Wenders completes a trilogy begun with the sublime Wings of Desire and the disappointing Faraway So Close. As in those angels-among-us movies, we follow each player between the poles of stillness and motion and must determine for ourselves the whos…
Molly Shapiro has done the math: If everyone in Kansas City bought Point, Click, Love, her book would be a best-seller. The local author (who won the 1997 Willa Cather Fiction Prize for her debut story collection, Eternal City) knows that isn’t going to happen. But in the six weeks since her first novel hit stores, she and the book…
William Elliott Whitmore grew up in Lee County, Iowa, on a 160-acre farm in the southeast corner of the state, miles from the nearest town. The property has been handed down since Whitmore’s Irish great-great-great-grandfather. The singer-songwriter lives on the property today behind the farmhouse, in a one-room stand-alone that he built with his own hands, with wood reclaimed from…
Amelia Ishmael’s introduction to black metal came at age 14, by way of a mixtape. She was hooked instantly. But as a teenager in pre-Internet Florida, the only way for her to find more music was through mail-order catalogs, which required access to a checking account. “I remember asking my parents to write a check for a few things —…
