Austin’s OBN III’s rocked the Longbranch Inn as part of the Replay Records party at SXSW this past March. They finally bring their garage rock to the Replay itself this Friday, June 8, along with Mouthbreathers and Up the Academy. The quintet’s sound is sharp and direct, determined to fully rock each and every neuron in your brain into jelly….
Pork Oaxaca, smothered in a roasted onion tomatilla sauce, is the signature dish at the Guadalajara Cafe in Lee’s Summit. Restaurateur Victor Esqueda – probably best-known for his Ixtapa restaurant in the Northland and his first Guadalajara Cafe at 103rd Street, between State Line and Wornall Road – decided to buck the trend for popular Tex-Mex dining venues in Lee’s…
There’s a new Indian restaurant in Liberty… The word seva is from the Sanskrit root sev: “to serve, to wait upon, honor or worship.” If you can transpose that into remarkably attentive service in an Indian restaurant, you have restaurateur Gurdev Singh’s shiny new Seva Cuisine of India, a two-month-old venue tucked into a strip shopping center at 8674 N.E….
PBS When Walter Cronkite declared, “That’s the way it is,” almost every weeknight from 1962 to 1981 on the CBS Evening News, it was easy to believe him. After all, the man was from Missouri. And it was here that the man who had covered stories all over the world – he worked up until died, in 2009, at age…
KC sludge lords Meat Mist are known for brutalizing basements and parking lots throughout the metro area, sometimes showcasing during their performances the finest odds and ends of slaughtered cows. They’ve brought this meaty spectacle from the basement to the inter-tubes, with a video for a song from 2011’s bejeweled cassette, Bleak Bisque. The video for “Art Scum” takes place…
A Wife Loved Like the Church Movie buffs should be fired up about the Alamo Drafthouse coming to KC. It didn’t take long for Mainstreet Theater to find a new date. Only a week after AMC Entertainment Inc. announced that it would be ending its relationship with Cordish Co., the Alamo Drafthouse Cinema has revealed that it will be taking…
This is no ordinary chicken sandwich. The chicken and the egg no longer need to be enjoyed separately. The Genessee Royale Bistro(1531 Genessee) has figured out a way to bring together the staples of a country breakfast for lunch (it’s on the menu all day from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m.) with its creamtop buttermilk biscuit ($10). The West Bottoms…
Militant Carnivore They’re not open for breakfast; otherwise, it might be in the running. At a certain hour of the day, I don’t particularly want to mess around with forks and knives. And so, when it’s just a little too late for pizza and I get worried they know my order at Town Topic before I walk in the door,…
It was a foul ball that likely decided Sunday’s game between the Oakland Athletics and Kansas City Royals. In the top half of the fifth inning, left fielder Alex Gordon raced towards the Roma Bakery sign along the wall just past the visitor’s dugout as a ball off the bat of right fielder Josh Reddick sliced away from him. As…
Michelle Preston will be required to register as a sex offender. Michelle Preston, the former Shawnee Mission West teacher accused of having sexual encounters with students, won’t be getting prison time. Preston, 28, was sentenced Friday to three years’ probation and must register as a sex offender, according to KCTV 5. Preston reportedly cut a plea deal with the prosecution,…
The Big 12 men’s basketball tourney is sticking in Kansas City. Fantastic news for Kansas City and the Sprint Center: The Big 12 Conference is keeping its men’s basketball tournament in Kansas City through 2016. The men’s basketball tournament will remain in Kansas city through 2016 – and the Big 12 has “first right to championship dates after 2016.” Sounds…
Metro Pro Wrestling Michael Strider’s last ride is Saturday night. Retirements in professional wrestling almost never stick (no wrestler has retired more times than Terry Funk). But Michael Strider insists that his retirement is for real. The first clue that he’s serious may be the way he answers the phone: “Hi, this is Justin.” Strider’s real name is Justin Appleberry….
Via Myspace. Nezbeat It’s like 2005 all over again at this reunion party, which brings together current San Franciscans Ozgood (formerly Señor Oz) and Nezbeat (of Lawrence hip-hop act Archetype) on a bill with local DJs Fat Sal and Miles Bonny. The poster calls the lineup the “Funk Soul Brothers,” which gives you an idea what to expect from the…
Huddle House How do you like your grits? Tucked within a Fox 4 story about Westport development was the news that Huddle House, a Southern diner chain, will be coming to the neighborhood this August. The 24-hour restaurant will be located at 3957 Broadway in the space that once housed Midwest Cyclery. It’s part of a multitiered plan from Dr….
All food holidays are not created equally. Case in point is National Donut Day. LaMar’s Donuts is celebrating the holiday today, June 1, with a free regular donut for everyone who walks in the door (bars, Bizmarks, fritters and non-holed donuts are excluded). The tradition, as a release from LaMar’s explains it, dates back to 1917, when “women Salvation Army…
Flickr: Clearly Ambiguous You’ll have a berry good time in Independence. Life is sweeter when you’ve got a mouthful of strawberries. Dive into the Vaile Strawberry Festival on Saturday, at Vaile Mansion in Independence (1500 North Liberty). Stuff yourself with strawberry treats, or other eats, as you wander among vintage cars and craft booths and listen to music. The festival…
