The Purple Carrot Cafe Gratitude opens in the Crossroads today. For all those still waiting to be convinced that Kansas City is vegan-friendly, another very large door opens today when Cafe Gratitude – a licensed location of the San Francisco restaurant – begins serving lunch in the former Lulu’s Thai Noodle House space at 333 Southwest Boulevard. Natalie and Mike…
Today comes word that Anthony Ladesich – along with Sam Platt, Richard Burgess and Mike Rooney – will be playing some Pendergast reunion shows this summer. The country roots-rockers started rehearsing this weekend, but other than some vague plans for “summertime shows,” nothing is fully set as of yet. “It’s happening … not sure where,” Ladesich says. “But we will…
Joe Blog Joe Posnanski is a throwback in a lot of ways. As writers, we often agree to trade a degree of access for a degree of discretion. Some journalists will tell you that nothing is “off the record.” While they’re not wrong, they also probably aren’t working the same source twice. And then you have Joe Posnanski, the former…
Portland’s Greylag has been getting a lot of comparisons to fellow Pacific Northwest denizens like Fleet Foxes, and it’s easy to see why. High, lonesome vocals combine with acoustic strumming and a stomping rhythm, taking as much from British folk as it does from American indie rock. The band plays the Granada Wednesday, May 2, opening for Augustana. Take a…
