Charles Bates turned 24 on March 9. The Monday afternoon’s homicide victim has been identified as 24-year-old Charles Bates, of KCMO. He is the 26th homicide victim in the city this year. Bates was shot at 80th and Brooklyn around 4:30 p.m. Monday. He was taken to a local hospital where he was pronounced dead. Police say the suspect, described…
Capt. Spaulding’s World Our citywide aroma therapy ends on Friday. Kansas City will lose a little bit of its perkiness on Friday when the downtown Folgers plant ceases production. Gone will be the distinctive aroma of roasting coffee that has wafted through the business district for more than a century, and gone will be the nearly 200 workers who have…
John Vench We may eat with our eyes first, but all too many of us are seeing things first through the lens. I’ve accepted the fact that I’m not always a fun dining companion because, on occasion, I’ll stop whomever I’m dining alongside and ask if I could take a picture of their food. Even worse, I’ll ask them to…
I have two approaches when it comes to cold calls, those targeted attempts to sell me, the homeowner, a set of replacement windows or an alarm system. Usually I lie and say I have a family member in that business. Plan B: Pass the phone to my wife. Neither makes me proud. “A man called this afternoon and said he’d…
One of the fantastic things about the Web is that a song from a three-year-old album can be made into a video and magically become current news. Such is the case with Lawrence’s the Hemorrhoids, whose zombie-laden video above is for the song “Weirdos.” Off 2009’s Itchin’ Fer a Good Time, it’s a bloody good time for fans of Queers-influenced…
Angela C. Bond A rally to mourn Trayvon Martin was held on the Plaza on Monday, March 26. The rally and candlelight vigil held next to J.C. Nichols Fountain was designed to call attention to the circumstances that led to the slaying of the Florida teen. Click here or on the picture above for photos by Angela C. Bond. Categories:…
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I have two approaches when it comes to cold calls, those targeted attempts to sell me, the homeowner, a set of replacement windows or an alarm system. Usually I lie and say I have a family member in that business. Plan B: Pass the phone to my wife. Neither makes me proud. “A man called this afternoon and said he’d…
“Kiss my emancipated ass” doesn’t sound very Civil War-era to me, but I wasn’t there. Neither was playwright Matthew Lopez, but his The Whipping Man — directed at the Kansas City Repertory Theatre by Eric Rosen — mostly succeeds in transporting us to the uncertain and still dangerous, chaotic days just after the Civil War’s end. The time is April…
In another universe, Edward Stephens is a political star. He’s young (24), engaged in the community, smart. A big, athletic-looking man, he graduated from the Park Hill School District in 2006, shows up at every school-board meeting, and works as an assistant electrical engineer in the nuclear division of engineering firm Burns & McDonnell. In that other universe, Stephens’ campaign…
Former Soul Coughing frontman Mike Doughty has made it excessively clear that he is sick of talking about his old band. An avid Internet user since the early days of message boards, Doughty has proclaimed on Twitter and Facebook, in online journals, and in interview after interview that he resents being recognized for his work in Soul Coughing. He says…
Not all relationships end in dramatic fashion. Sometimes they crumble slowly, piecing off a bit at a time, until one day you wake up and not much is left. Colin Halliburton knows a little something about that slow burn. His Lawrence-based alt-country act the Roseline, which last released an album in 2008 (Lust for Luster), didn’t split up in a…
Gary Huggins needs to raise $70,000 by April 3. The 44-year-old filmmaker’s first full-length feature, Kick Me, hangs in the balance. Huggins either reaches 70 large by 1:59 a.m. Tuesday or loses every dollar pledged. Those are the rules, Kickstarter-style. “We can do it,” Huggins says. “Everyone tells us that the money comes at the end.” As The Pitch went…
Starhaven Rounders, with Ruddy Swain Classic country revivalism — think Hank, Johnny, Merle, Waylon — is the notion behind this relatively new group, which includes local stalwarts Mike Alexander, Kirsten Paludan and Bill Sundahl, among others. Ruddy Swain, a collaboration between the Grisly Hand singer Lauren Krum and David Regnier of Dead Voices, lends an Americana lead-in to the evening’s…
An ambitious group show and separate sets of work by two local artists differ in approach and execution but share a curiosity about how we view ourselves — and who’s watching us. At H&R Block Artspace, five artists with international profiles ask difficult questions about privacy and security. And it was a satellite image that helped inspire Shea Gordon’s contributions…
A rally to mourn Trayvon Martin was held at the Plaza on Monday, March 26. Supporters, many donning hoodies and carrying Skittles in honor of the slain Florida teen, gathered near J.C. Nichols Fountain to call for an investigation into Martin’s death. Slideshow by Angela C. Bond.
Huevos rancheros, tortillas and pupusas are on the breakfast menu at Plaza Market y Restaurant. Yesterday, we reported on a couple of family-owned restaurants in the historic hamlet of Englewood, a tiny business district inside the boundaries of Independence: the Detour Coffee Shop and the Englewood Cafe. Another relatively recent restaurant addition to the shopping district is La Plaza Market…
The French garage-rock act the Sonic Angels is making a rare Midwest stop tonight at RecordBar, in support of their most recent album, Don’t Mess With the Angels. The band is on a self-booked tour through the country, and we took advantage of their swing through our neck of the woods to speak with guitarist and vocalist Marc Hacquet about…
