No sales tax on stuff this weekend! If you need a new computer, new clothes or an iPad, this weekend is the time to buy. Missouri’s back-to-school sales-tax holiday runs from Friday, August 3, through Sunday, August 5. No sales tax will be added to clothes, school supplies, computers and software. The state Department of Revenue has all the rules…
Justin Kendall A month ago, Fat City’s Jonathan Bender wrote about a new coffeehouse, Quay Coffee, taking over the sunny space at 412 Delaware in the River Market; the location had previously been occupied by K City Coffee House and Wine Bar and, before that, Eljay’s. A Fat City reader wrote in to say the venue was now serving lunch….
Kansas City moved closer to getting a streetcar today. The Kansas City Board of Election Commissioners met Wednesday afternoon to certify the results of the Transportation Development District streetcar election. Reports from transit activist David Johnson (@KCLighRail) and The Star say the vote was 381 for and 141 against. A few of the ballots were not notarized and were not…
It’s not as exciting as a dipped cone, but a DQ Sandwich is a lot tidier to eat in the car. I haven’t eaten one in, maybe, decades, so I was surprised to learn that Dairy Queen is still selling the round “DQ Sandwich,” one of its few ice-cream products — like the Dilly Bar — that date back to…
One of the most frequent questions that Fat City has been receiving lately is echoed by reader Rod, this time via Twitter: “Do you know anything about the restaurant coming in across from the Uptown Theatre? ” He’s referring to the old Chubby’s location at 3623 Broadway, last occupied by the New Cafe Tandoor. There’s currently a sign in the…
Ian Munroe New kinds of money problems have arrived at the K. WHB-810 AM’s Kevin Kietzman reported yesterday that the Royals have been using taxpayer money intended for repairs to Kauffman Stadium on office supplies, employee salaries and even for paying payroll taxes. Citing a tipster within the Jackson County Sports Complex Authority, Kietzman reports that over the course of…
Major Planetary Note (MPN): Aquarius Full Moon, Wednesday, August 1, 1028p CDT. Venus begins to cover new ground. Basic Meaning of MPN Our collective spirits move through individualistic Leo. Our individual instincts hunker down in collectively soul-driven Aquarius. See and feel the paradox. Brain cells were found in our hearts … a thinking heart and a feeling brain. The mirroring…
La Bayadère was first staged in 1877 by Marius Petipa, ballet’s most hallowed choreographer. Today’s high-def presentation of the piece (title translates to “the temple dancer”) is a Paris Opera Ballet production reworked for the company by Rudolf Nureyev. Ballet at its finest, people. See it at the Tivoli Cinemas (4050 Pennsylvania, 816-561-5222) at 1:30 p.m. Sunday, August 5, or…
It’s just over a year since I took over as music editor down here at 1701 Main, but I’ve been writing for The Pitch on and off since the mid-aughts. I like to think that I possess a certain amount of institutional knowledge about our newspaper — about the writers and bands and stories that have passed through these pages…
The just-ended festival called Fringe offered an embarrassment of performing-arts riches: 80-plus uncensored and, in most cases, original or new works over nine days (not counting the bonus-show day). But how many performances can one person take in? In line at a venue halfway through the festival, a man boasted that he’d already seen 12 shows, as though hoping to…
Ben Bridwell, lead singer and songwriter for Band of Horses, makes success look easy. Each of the band’s four albums has sold more than the last, with 2010’s Infinite Arms reaching No. 7 on the Billboard album chart and earning the band a Grammy nomination for Best Alternative Album (eventually losing to some nobodies, the Black Keys). That winning streak…
Givers World music has gradually seeped into the rock songs that American kids write these days. I generally support the trend, and I credit the Internet. Where it once required years of crate digging and personal musical exploration to find one’s way to an Os Mutantes, a survey of ’60s Brazilian art-pop is now only an Amazon recommendation and two…
Visit the 12 Baltimore bar at the Hotel Phillips and you might get the feeling that you’re being watched. Trey Bryan sits at a four-top, his back to the café’s mahogany wall. There’s a pot of coffee and a half-full cup in a saucer next to a spiral-bound sketchbook lying open on the table. Blaine Proctor, who’s in charge of…
