Terrible photo of Zach Hill. On Facebook yesterday, I saw a post that said Riot Room only had 20 tickets left for last night’s Pinback show. Good for Pinback, I thought. I figured most people had forgotten about the San Diego indie-rock act. I stopped in last night, curious to see who all these local Pinback fans are. Categories: Music…
This pint has your name on it. You should look so good when you turn 125 years old. Browne’s Irish Marketplace celebrates its 125th anniversary with its annual Irish Street Faire on Friday and Saturday. The block party, with traditional Irish food and music, takes place on Pennsylvania Avenue between 33rd and 34th streets and is a benefit for Catholic…
Cell phones are finally off-limits to telemarketers. Missouri Attorney General Chris Koster announced today that the state’s telemarketing no-call list can now accept cell-phone numbers. Earlier this year, the state Legislature passed a law expanding the list – which has 1.8 million land lines already registered – to include cell phones. You can add your cell to the list by…
Restaurateur Lutfi Khalifa will soon open his biggest fried fish restaurant – on Main Street. There was a rumor going around midtown this week that restaurateur Lutfi Khalifa had already opened his newest location at 3037 Main. Not true, although he’s just waiting on the Kansas City Health Department to sign off on the sleek kitchen in the 3,400-square-foot space…
Mid-’00s contemporaries Modest Mouse and Death Cab for Cutie broke through to the mainstream playing a similar kind of cold, earnest rock, but no such luck for Pinback. The San Diego act is maybe a little too unassuming for the masses – no monster hooks, no sexy back story – but the dynamic interplay between core members Rob Crow and…
Sacred Bones Records is pretty much killing it these days. The label’s current roster includes the Men, Zola Jesus, Psychic Ills, and Moon Duo – also, Fresh & Onlys guitarist Wymond Miles, who just released his moody, British-sounding, 1980s-influenced debut LP, Under the Pale Moon, on the label. Miles is at FOKL tonight with Gemini Revolution, a new project from…
WWE Champion CM Punk was recently at Comic-Con in Philadelphia, and the champ told a story about getting harassed by Missouri cops while traveling through the state with his “road wife” and fellow pro wrestler, Kofi Kingston. “Him and I constantly, constantly get pulled over and always, always harassed because of how I look, and I’m with an African-American gentleman…
Flickr: Dennis Vu Has buying a daily coupon left you with this face? Restaurateurs circle the week that Groupon is ending on a calendar and know that things will get a little bit frantic in the dining room. It would seem that impulse buys make procrastinators of us all. Even if the universe feels over-saturated with daily deals, the reality…
Nerdcore rapper mc chris has figured out a way to make me not despise Carly Rae Jepsen’s ubiquitous “Call Me Maybe” by making it about people getting fucked up on drugs and eating other folks’ faces. The song is called “Tasty Face,” and you can stream it below for free, but if you pay the $1 for which they’re asking,…
It’s summer and that means a new guide to grilling from Chef Paul Kirk and Ardie A. Davis, two of the founders of the Kansas City Barbecue Society. The duo have written 11 barbecue cookbooks between them (many co-authored), and the latest is “America’s Best Ribs,” a collection of recipes, tips and stories about ribs of nearly every meat variety….
%{}% Air Element In our world, moving between the end of spring (Gemini) to summer’s beginning (Cancer), we go from the lofty dragon, his fire and light, to the temptation of our feelings. In one ancient Chinese text, the summer solstice represents the return of darkness, the perennial yin/feminine force. In some cases, this return of the yin was compared…
Jaimie Warren The R Bar will return as a restaurant, under a new name, by autumn. Last Saturday marked a turning point for the West Bottoms restaurant space formerly known as the R Bar. The current tenant of 1617 Genessee is now Moxie Catering, the 11-year-old catering firm owned by Jill Myers and Wes Gartner (who are engaged, but haven’t…
The Fire Wire Yeah, that’s some pork in your dessert. America just can’t stop trying to get the pig and cow into one perfect dish. Denny’s thought that they had it with a maple bacon sundae, Jack in the Box was convinced it was a bacon milkshake, and now Burger King is sure its bacon sundae will provide you with…
Karate By Jesse We’d lose to Milwaukee in an arm-wrestling match, folks. Kansas City would lose to Oklahoma City in a one-arm push-up contest. It would be on the floor if it attempted to go drink-for-drink with Columbia, South Carolina. And it would never take its shirt off at the beach if Memphis, Tennessee, was there with its bear rug…
Kurt Flecksing Kurt Flecksing is ready to start up the s’mores cart again. The ingredients for s’mores are simple enough: marshmallows blackening in the fire, chocolate oozing between a pair of hastily broken graham crackers, a deep and abiding commitment to changing the way we use and understand public spaces. Designer Kurt Flecksing figures that the first two aren’t a…
Chris Mullins Dana Savorelli still wants his missing monkey back. Catherine Montes killed the lights on her Ford Explorer as she approached the Monkey Island Rescue and Zoological Sanctuary the night of October 6, 2007. On Harris Road, near Greenwood, the sanctuary was shrouded in darkness. Montes, who had volunteered at Monkey Island for a few years, pulled her SUV…
Photo by Sabrina Staires Name: Julie Koncak, leadership council chair of the GenKC steering committee Occupation: Corporate events manager, Burns & McDonnell Hometown: Beaver, Kansas – 25 people plus one microbrewery Current neighborhood: Prairie Village Who or what is your sidekick? Nivea lip balm. I have a little bit of an addiction to it and can’t be without it. What…
Wow, whad’ya know, another Def Leppard-title-borrowing rock musical — one about the invention of the vibrator. Oh, wait. Those songs were just in my head. Hysteria is, in fact, a markedly unmusical 2011 Maggie Gyllenhaal leftover that’s slightly more entertaining than a case of vulvodynia. It would take an all-Stones score to make this horrid little thing even 10 percent…
Lestat is back, and he’s on American Idol. That’s the basic takeaway of Rock of Ages, which uses Tom Cruise to try cranking the successful off-Broadway jukebox musical up to 11. The movie makes it to about 4, mostly because of Cruise’s high-singing, liquor-guzzling, fur-draped turn as busted Sunset Strip casualty Stacee Jaxx. Squinting through Axl Rose-colored glasses and shaking…
On June 1, Speaker Mike O’Neal (R-Hutchinson) announced his retirement from the Kansas House of Representatives after nearly three decades in the Legislature. It’s been a banner year for O’Neal. In early January, he was shamed into a public apology for forwarding an e-mail that suggested a physical comparison between the Grinch Who Stole Christmas and First Lady Michelle Obama,…
From a distance, Claire Ashley’s 10-foot, two-eared vinyl balloon doesn’t look like a clown. Rather, the object now in the Plug Projects window seems to have come from the rejection pile of a factory turning out bouncy houses for children. This painted, inflatable sculpture is the beckoning piece in Dramatic Chromatic, in the little white West Bottoms gallery run by…
