Paul Anderson has quickly become concussion litigation expert. Paul Anderson’s beer should be a celebratory one. The University of Missouri-Kansas City law student just took his last final. But rather than imbibing out of elation, Anderson occupies a booth inside a muggy, mostly deserted bar on a recent afternoon and talks about the death of his childhood hero, NFL linebacker…
Farm to Market makes custom pretzel sticks for Affare. The Fat City article in this week’s print edition looks back at the local restaurants and food shops that have opened in the past two months, as well as a few of the places set to open this summer. The newest restaurant in Kansas City proper is Haus, a sausage and…
Houlihan’s is on the block. You have to ask yourself just how much the lobster bisque recipe is worth at the Bristol. The Kansas City Business Journal reports that Houlihan’s is considering a sale. Houlihan’s has six locations in the Kansas City area, plus J. Gilbert’s in Overland Park. It also runs two Bristol Seafood Grill restaurants in Leawood and…
Malto: The champ comes home. A few weeks ago, security guards handcuffed Sean Malto for doing his job in the wrong place. He and his friends were detained for skateboarding in the street. They were a couple of blocks from the pro skateboarder’s River Market loft. “It was so weird,” Malto says. “It was like a sting operation.” The 22-year-old…
Al Scorch is on tour in support of his quite excellent new record, Tired Ghostly Town, out next week on Plan-It-X South. It’s an album that manages to sound life-affirming, despite its rather dirgelike qualities on songs like “The Hearse Driver.” You’ll have another opportunity to catch him when he stops at Davey’s Uptown next week on Wednesday, May 23,…
Photo by Sabrina Staires Joe Cox Name: Joe Cox Occupation: Director of social media at Barkley Hometown: Pleasant Hill, Missouri Current neighborhood: Spring Valley, 43rd Avenue and Rainbow, the ‘Dotte Who or what is your sidekick? If you know my wife, the answer is easy. She’s the best partner in crime ever. My iPhone comes in at a very distant…
At some point last fall, the art punks started playing shows at a place called FOKL. Apart from being an extremely fun word to say, FOKL turned out to be a new art space, located right off the 12th Street Bridge, on Central Avenue in Kansas City, Kansas. In November, FOKL hit its stride when a large crowd turned up…
This year marks the 10th anniversary of Datura Records, the label that Lawrence rapper Sean Hunt, also known as Approach, runs with his sister, Rolanda Suter. But Hunt, who was raised in Overland Park, has been active in KC and Lawrence for longer than a decade: rapping, producing, collaborating, even composing film scores. In 2007, he moved to San Francisco,…
Fool’s Gold When Fool’s Gold surfaced in 2009, the L.A. act included a dozen rotating members and delivered its lyrics primarily in Hebrew. On its sophomore album, 2011’s Leave No Trace, the ranks have been reduced to a core of five members, and English is now the preferred language. The band has retained the Afrobeat influences of its debut, but…
Burning flesh, a severed head, a rain of feces — there’s no horror movie like a Sacha Baron Cohen horror movie. (The naked wrestling match in Borat is to hotel rooms what The Blair Witch Project is to basements and Psycho is to showers.) No other screen presence of recent vintage matches Cohen’s understanding that shame, terror and comedy all work…
As documentaries on the late reggae revolutionary Bob Marley go (and I’ve seen a couple), Marley is definitely the most comprehensive — almost exhaustingly so. Running at two hours and 24 minutes, the movie leaves no turn unstoned (sorry, but I didn’t start it — the film first hit theaters on April 20, get it?) as it examines Robert Nesta…
A century ago, a cultural shift came to Kansas City: Housewives stopped baking bread. It had always been a time-consuming, burdensome task, made miserable during the hot summers. Now, as KC flourished, there were more than 100 neighborhood bakeries — not to mention independent grocery stores and delicatessens — selling fine loaves of white, rye, pumpernickel, wheat and challah. Starting…
Until recently, my favorite after-11 p.m. dining experience involved sitting at the counter at Town Topic and trying to decide among the patty melt, the fries and the chocolate cream pie. My second-favorite after-11 p.m. dining experience: ordering all three. But I’m going to have to put that feast in a new category: after 3 a.m. There’s a new No….
Restaurateur Kevin Heaton found this treasure in an antique shop, and the new Rusty Horse Tavern is the result. Parkville restaurateur Kevin Heaton – best known for his Stone Canyon Pizza operation on the riverfront hamlet’s main drag – opened his newest venture, Rusty Horse Tavern, last night at 6325 Lewis Street in the Parkville Commons. The location had been…
Shinedown and Slash were the big draws at this year’s Rockfest, held last Saturday at the Liberty Memorial. Photos by Angela C. Bond.
Kristen Lamb: Not guilty of possessing child porn In March 2011, a 20-year-old woman named Kristen Lamb was accused of possessing child pornography. At the time, a Cyber Crimes Task Force in Boone County discovered a computer in Columbia offering child porn through a file-sharing program, which they traced to Lamb’s apartment. The file in question allegedly showed child-porn videos…
Harry Stone was jogging in Raytown when he was fatally shot. The shooting death of 60-year-old Harry Stone in Raytown Sunday is being called a “random” act of violence (per the Star). Stone was reportedly on a morning jog when someone inside a dark-colored, four-door sedan shot him. Stone’s body was found around 7 a.m. near 67th Street and Blue…
This is not the kind of news you want when your starting quarterback is recovering from shoulder surgery on his throwing arm – well, or anytime. Missouri Tigers backup quarterback Corbin Berkstresser – the guy taking snaps with the first-string offense in James Franklin’s absence – was arrested for allegedly leaving the scene of an accident after hitting a parked…
A spat between a blogger and a newspaper editor is not breaking news. But a blogger asserting a copyright claim at the offices of a newspaper while a video camera is rolling – that’s national news. Boing Boing is just one of the media outlets to pick up All American Blogger Duane Lester’s story about serving The Oregon Times Observer…
Hop Scotch Tasting Have you hugged a craft beer today? The kegs are chilling. The bottles are on ice. And your face – well, it should be ready to get filled with beer. It’s American Craft Beer Week – a manufactured holiday for drinking the best that the micro and independent breweries have to offer. A guide to where you…
Stumbling in the footsteps of legendary booze-hound acts like the Replacements and Guided By Voices, Providence quintet Deer Tick professes its love for alcohol pretty much every chance it gets. But judging from Deer Tick’s work – most recently, the 2011 full-length Divine Providence and the new EP Tim, which contains leftover songs from the same sessions – the social…
