Facebook: Wing Busters It’s not just wings at Wing Busters. It’s about time you started training, and with Wing Busters & More coming to 1128 Oak next month, you’ll have plenty of time to get in football-watching shape. The Grandview wing shop has more than 30 sauces (from mango hot to jalapeno BBQ to bourbon), bone-in and boneless wings and…
Food Network Guy Fieri will now have a permanent home in KC. Stop me if you’ve heard the one about the automaker, pitmaster and celebrity chef who walked into the hall of fame. In a less controversial move than another Hall of Famous Missourians, The American Royal has announced this year’s inductees into the National Barbecue Hall of Fame: Henry…
Overworked. Underfed. Not all mixologists and chefs like you messing with their recipes. Every chef, regardless of their motivation for getting behind a hot grill, has a vision of the food they’re sending out into the dining room. The composition of dishes is intentional and, in many cases, a reflection of the chef’s influences and evolving abilities over years. And…
The Lied Center announced its 2012-13 season at the end of last month, but tickets have only been available to Friends of the Lied and students at the University of Kansas. However, tickets are now on sale to the general public. The season offers up a typically diverse series of performances – musicals like West Side Story and Beauty and…
The Replay Lounge’s Spring Into Summer show took over 10th Street in Lawrence on Saturday night. With beers in the street, it was a wonderful way to start the summer while simultaneously winding down the school year. We shot video of the Recessionists and Hearts of Darkness – plenty of horns and sweet soul vocals. Check the Recessionists’ cover of…
Rush has been enshrined. Update: Progress Missouri has uploaded video of Limbaugh’s speech during the ceremony. It’s embedded after the jump. The controversial bronze bust of Rush Limbaugh was unveiled at the Missouri Capitol’s Hall of Famous Missourians. The bust was sculpted by Kansas City artist E. Spencer Schubert. The Star reports that the unveiling ceremony was announced only 20…
Hall and Oates return. As if they ever left. Two more big show announcements from Starlight: Darryl Hall and John Oates roll into the outdoor venue Saturday, September 8. Tickets on sale this Saturday, May 19, at 10 a.m. And Counting Crows, who are still around, are at Starlight Tuesday, July 31. Tickets on sale this Friday, May 18, at…
Sleigh Bells All right. It’s a pretty big week for announcements. The gritty, electro-pop band, Sleigh Bells, is headed back to Kansas City. This time, the duo will rattle the Beaumont on July 12. Expect a sweaty, sold-out show. For those who like their pop melodic: Florence + the Machine will perform at Starlight Theatre on October 1. The Maccabees…
Happy Hour is coming back. Once it’s noon, raise your glass to the Kansas House, which approved a bundle of liquor bills last Friday. The legislation allows bars to offer happy hour; distilleries to sell and serve booze like microbreweries; and liquor stores to sample beer, wine and spirits. The package of bills did not include a provision to let…
The Hips Last Saturday, on a shutdown stretch of 10th Street in sunny Lawrence, Kansas, the Replay Lounge hosted Spring Into Summer, a daylong concert performance of five bands on a big black stage. A modest crowd assembled around 4 p.m. and paced themselves on the keg beer and grilled foods; a contingent of cheapskates, or the merely curious, stood…
Facebook: Little Freshie You can get your snow cone fix five days a week now. Everyone who has a trailer dreams of one day finding a home without wheels. For Lindsay Laricks, a more permanent home was just across the street. The owner of Fresher Than Fresh Snow Cones unveiled her new venture, Little Freshie (811 W. 17th St.), on…
Stone Stone Brewmaster Mitch Steele will be in KC on Monday and Tuesday. It’s always smart to travel with brewmasters. They bring the best beer. And now one’s coming to us – Stone Brewing Co.’s brewmaster, Mitch Steele, will be in Kansas City for Craft Beer Week. Tonight, he’s stopping by Julian (6227 Brookside Plaza) for two events. At 5…
Kev-Entertainment. KC fans can’t ignore Eric Hosmer’s struggles. Eric Hosmer showed up at spring training with a mohawk and the weight of a fanbase that believes he might be the next homegrown superstar for a franchise that has been lacking a face for the better part of a decade. It was a weight that, even at just 22 years old,…
Terrance Richardson is the 41st homicide victim of 2012. Taxi-cab driver Terrance Richardson was found shot to death inside his vehicle at 44th and Spruce on Saturday afternoon. Officers found Richardson, 47, dead from an apparent gunshot wound inside the vehicle around 3:03 p.m. Police say residents of a home in the 4400 block of Spruce who called for a…
Michael Knox was killed early Saturday. In the early hours of Saturday morning, Michael Knox’s body was found in the street at 69th and Prospect. Kansas City police are investigating the 55-year-old’s death as a homicide. Around 12:14 a.m., officers were called to a shooting at the intersection. There, they found Knox dead from an apparent gunshot wound. Police are…
Facebook: Orange Box Bacon cheeseburger, anyone? The grill will be sizzling outside Orange Box today, with homemade veggie, turkey and beef burgers, as it is every Friday at 2700 Jarboe. Chef and owner Scott Welsch shared his vision for his month-old restaurant on Wednesday, and yesterday he made his case for who has the best bowl of pho in Kansas…
Tennis: members of the indie-rock leisure class. Hoo boy, it was easy to hate that Tennis debut before hearing so much as a note of it. The Denver duo’s buzz-generating backstory – cute couple buy a sailboat; travel up and down the Eastern Seaboard; write songs together; get married; then release an album called, oh my God, Cape Dory –…
Young chefs have long toiled in obscurity at the salad station, hoping that one day the fish guy doesn’t show up and they get their shot. Nowadays, the future restaurateurs of Kansas City don’t have to wait that long. Witness Jeff Lefko – a Broadmoor Technical Center graduate – who is bringing Concept One, a farm-to-table pop-up restaurant, to the…
Wanderlust Wonder Say, “Happy Mother’s Day” with steak. Whether you want to be a better child or just get out of trouble, taking your mom to the Mother’s Day Brunch at Capital Grille (4740 Jefferson) Sunday, is a good start. The Plaza restaurant is offering brunch from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. with a buffet that includes lobster eggs Benedict,…
