Paradoxes are the bread and butter of the time-travel scenario. You know the kind: Marty McFly accidentally gets his mom hot for him instead of Crispin Glover and starts slowly vanishing from a family photo. And when effect cuts in front of cause, trying to wrap your brain around the resulting logical contradictions can be enormous, disorienting fun. Looper, the…
There was a man standing on a yellow milk crate at the corner of 13th Street and Grand last Friday night. It was about 7:30 p.m. Groups of people swarmed past the man, many of them en route to the Sprint Center, where Joel Osteen was scheduled to speak. “Joel Osteen is not the gospel of hope,” the man said…
Local theater marquees the last several months have gone retro, promoting popular shows first produced 40 or 50 — or more — years ago: One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, The Music Man, The Fantasticks, The Mousetrap, Little Shop of Horrors. That’s not a complaint. Plays are revived, sometimes revitalized, made continually relevant (hello, Shakespeare). And if an entirely new…
Fathers & Sons (EP) (Self-released) Local songwriter Ben Moats’ father grew up in a small town in Nebraska, laid railroad ties for Union Pacific, served in Vietnam. He returned from the war, worked his way up the ladder at UP and retired a few years ago. “It’s not that he’s led some super-rare type of life,” says Moats, an English…
Until this past spring, Nick Lowe hadn’t released a music video in 18 years. Then “Sensitive Man” landed on the Internet, starring alternative comedians Tim Heidecker (Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job!) and Marc Maron (host of the WTF podcast). The video also featured cameos from Robyn Hitchcock and Wilco, with whom Lowe — the 63-year-old British pub-rock and…
Fall for a Pit Pit bulls get a bad rap, and a new local group, M.O.S.H. (Money for Organizations Saving Helpless) PIT, is working to raise funds for rescue groups with pit bulls and pit-bull mixes in their care. The first benefit is Saturday at Riot Room, where M.O.S.H. PIT has assembled a rock-oriented lineup of KC acts to coax…
On September 14, Wahed Moharam walked into the Richard Bolling Federal Building in downtown Kansas City to ask why he was on the U.S. government’s terrorist watch list. He says he isn’t a threat to anybody. In fact, Moharam — once known to Kansas Citians as “Helmet Man” and the owner of As Seen on TV stores — has a…
Many things can be said about Ray “Pete” Peterman, the chef-owner of the new Peanches Food & Wine on 39th Street. He’s hardworking but volatile, good-natured when he wants to be but a pistol when provoked. He doesn’t suffer fools gladly, and his definition of fool is subject to minute-by-minute fine-tuning — just ask the local food blogger he chased…
There are something like 20 guests on Marco Benevento’s latest album, TigerFace. Among them are members of Phish, Ween, Tortoise and Antibalas. That tells you a little about Benevento, whose colorful, improvisational, piano-based compositions stretch so wide and cover so much sonic ground that the idea of genre seems quaint. Very quietly, whether with the Benevento/Russo Duo or his various…
Phil Elverum — formerly of the Microphones — has a new psych-folk type of project, Mount Eerie, which is playing at the Lawrence Arts Center tonight (Tuesday). Hungry Cloud Darkening opens. Doors at 7 pm, show at 7:30 pm, $12. Get up in it, Lawrence! Categories: Music Tags: mount eerie
April Fleming Apparently there was a line outside of Liberty Hall around 6:00pm last night for the sold-out Lumineers show, which had previously been booked at the Bottleneck. Trading up venues is a mark of a band’s level of success, and this move is particularly impressive considering that the Lumineers released their debut album in April. Yes, 2012. Which is…
It looks like this is not going to be the norm at Sprint Center. The Seattle City Council is pushing forward with plans to build a new $490 million basketball and hockey arena in the same neighborhood as their still newish Quest Field and not-all-that-old Safeco Field. The tentative plan is for hedge fund manager Chris Hansen to buy the…
Comedian Mike Birbiglia, who is set to play The Midland on Saturday, October 6, sent out the above tweet earlier this morning and, in doing so, raised the Kansas City equivalent of a test-of-strength contest question. I’m thinking I max out at three days. That will be tested next week when I’m sitting in a barbecue judging class before attending…
Straight from the Kansas Ocean. You like sushi, you really like it. Drunken Fish, the import from St. Louis that opened in the Power & Light District last March, at 14 E. 14th St., is planning a second area sushi restaurant in Leawood. The Kansas City Business Journal reports that Drunken Fish will be taking over the former Fo Thai…
Time is running out to vote in this year’s readers’ poll for the Best of Kansas City. If you haven’t voted, here’s the link to the ballot. Make sure you hit each subsection — Arts and Entertainment, Food and Drink, Sports and Rec, People and Places, and Goods and Services. The deadline is today. Categories: Dining, Food & Drink Tags:…
Time is running out to vote in this year’s readers’ poll for the Best of Kansas City. If you haven’t voted, here’s the link to the ballot. Make sure you hit each subsection — Arts and Entertainment, Food and Drink, Sports and Rec, People and Places, and Goods and Services. The deadline is … tomorrow (September 25). Categories: News Tags:…
Messy’s takes flight. The chicken wings have landed. Messy’s Birds & Brews, which specializes in chicken wings, opened this weekend at 1230 Woodswether Road in the former Woodswether Cafe space. Fat City talked to owner Titus Bond back in August about the new location, the addition of pizza to the menu, and his plans to offer 4 a.m. delivery to…
KC Chiefs Blog Succop earned his paycheck Sunday. In the fourth quarter of the Kansas City Chiefs game against the New Orleans Saints, I felt like I was going to throw up a little bit. And I welcomed the feeling. It was nice to have a bit of tension on a Sunday for a change. It was nice to have…
Buzzfeed Cupcake eating needs to change. I’m a bit chagrined that I never considered eating a cupcake like a Whoopie Pie — cutting off the bottom half and then using it to sandwich the frosting with the top half (see above). That’s just one of the pieces of potentially revolutionary food-eating advice in Buzzfeed’s list of ’22 Things You’re Doing…
La Russa’s back in KC. Tony La Russa didn’t always receive the warmest welcome in Kansas City, but that was when he was the manager of the St. Louis Cardinals (which was usually busy drubbing the hometown team). Now out of uniform, but back to talk baseball, it’s an entirely different ballgame. La Russa is set to discuss his newest…
