Chris Mullins The West 18th Street Fashion Show is Saturday. It’s going to be more than big stuffy hats and bow ties when 18 talented designers get their hands on seersucker, bold colors, history books and some of the hottest bods around. This year’s West 18th Street Fashion Show celebrates a Triple Crown Summer and looks to tell powerful visual…
Robert Frazier is the sixth person accused in the killing of KC businessman Michael Tutera. Jackson County prosecutors charged Robert Frazier with second-degree murder in the May 2010 slaying of Kansas City businessman Michael Tutera. Frazer, 23, is also charged with armed criminal action and first-degree burglary. Court documents say a witness overheard Frazier saying he planned “to steal a…
Wikipedia Could evolution be back on the table in 2012? The prevailing wisdom is that the debate over evolution being taught in Kansas public schools refuses to evolve. The Associated Press suggests that as the Kansas State Board of Education reviews a draft of the Common Core curriculum – a multi-state effort to create a set of teaching guidelines –…
David LeFever is KCMO’s 45th homicide victim of 2012. David LeFever was found shot to death inside a vehicle at 27th and Park Thursday afternoon. Kansas City police were called to the shooting around 3:15 p.m. LeFever, 28, of Kansas City, Missouri, was rushed to a local hospital where he was pronounced dead. LeFever is KCMO’s 45th homicide victim of…
Kilts Rock Beer and kilts just go together. This might be your only shot this year to try haggis in Kansas City. Enjoy traditional Scottish foods at the Kansas City Scottish Highland Games Friday through Sunday. Tickets for the festival (at E.H. Young Park on N.W. Argosy Pkwy. in Riverside) are $5 on Friday (6-11 p.m.), $15 on Saturday (9…
The former Gate City Bank at 11th and Grand will become a boutique hotel with a stylish restaurant. Missouri Valley Collection, Kansas City Public Library A tastefully appointed bank in 1920, a comfortable hotel in 2012. Kansas City is getting a new Ambassador Hotel. Just don’t confuse the stylish boutique hotel being constructed out of the skeleton of the 92-year-old…
Air Element Gemini, May 21-June 20, adapting intellectual, the changing mind The past 12 months, you’ve been in a spiritual feeding frenzy. In other words, you’ve been learning the lessons of surrender and submission. Jupiter (the planet of expansion and opportunities) has been attempting to get you to see the larger picture, the intuitive and magical side of life. If…
There’s nowhere you can drive, Bacon, that the Internet won’t find you. Near the end of the film, The Big Picture, aspiring filmmaker Kevin Bacon gets in his convertible and drives into the desert. He returns to discover that Hollywood has fallen in love with his work in his absence. Malcolm Gladwell laments, in a recent public e-mail chat with…
60s Airline Antiques TWA’s history is once again on display in KC. It’s hard to imagine that flying was once glamorous, plane cabins were as smoky as bars, and your shoes remained on your feet for the entire time you were in the airport. Those days of tied laces and ties loosened after a few preflight cocktails were the “Golden…
She is Obsessed Blanc has closed its Omaha location. Omaha residents will have a much farther drive if they want to get a burger with Kansas City flair. The Omaha World-Herald reported today that Blanc Burgers + Bottles has closed its Omaha location at the Midtown Crossing development “As much as I love Omaha, we didn’t see the same volume…
Happy in Bag This place knows chicken. Who else is blowing the wings off a bird? Chicken has always been a case of one well-trodden truth (a chef’s ability is said to be directly related to his roast chicken) and one stark reality: Nobody goes for the chicken first on the menu (absent some recent edict over red meat or…
A buffet with something for everyone… According to the “Help Wanted” Craigslist ad posted by the Royal Buffet restaurant at 8725 Metcalf (it’s spelled Mertcalf in the ad), the new tenant of the former Fuddruckers location is planning to be open today – Thursday, June 7 – but it’s hard to get that verified because the multicultural buffet doesn’t have…
Antennas Up returns with a sophomore album. A local review roundup this week in print, featuring Antennas Up, Thee Water MoccaSins, Bombs Over Broadway, and High Diving Ponies. Also: Chugging fancy drinks and admiring wrestler art at last week’s First Friday. Plus the Forecast, your handy list of shows to see this coming week. Read, learn, go forth! Categories: Music
Photo by Sabrina Staires Name: Chad Harris Occupational info: Executive director, FarmHouse International Fraternity, headquartered in Kansas City. My background is in higher education administration, and I’m also currently a doctoral student in educational leadership and policy analysis at the University of Missouri-Columbia. Hometown: Shenandoah, Iowa Current neighborhood: Prairie Village Who or what is your sidekick? Coffee and my mobile…
Emmanuel and Megan Langlade are celebrating their 12th wedding anniversary with a brand-new restaurant, Aixois Brasserie. Megan Langlade, the Brookside restaurateur who operates Aixois Restaurant with her husband, French-born chef Emmanuel Langlade, shows me a photograph on her cell phone: 13-month-old Charlotte, the couple’s fifth child and first daughter. “She was a surprise,” Megan says, “a very happy surprise.” This…
The dishes can go hot or sweet in the well-appointed dining room with a show-stopping bar top at Sweet Siam in Lenexa. Photos by Angela C. Bond
