Jurors believed the person in this video was, indeed, Mark Sorrentino and found him guilty today. Rod Anderson The jury in the high-profile trial of restaurateur Rod Anderson — part-owner and very public face of Kansas City’s Hereford House restaurants — found the 59-year-old businessman guilty today on four counts of arson, mail fraud, conspiracy, and using fire to commit…
Mio: an Italian Trattoria is a new Italian restaurant at 135th Street and Roe that has figured out the formula for success: solid service, a talented chef and the right location. Photos by Angela C. Bond.
Angela C. Bond Better Than: Gwar and David Sedaris in the same room. Gerrick D. Kennedy of the Los Angeles Times recently broke down Madonna’s MDNA tour by the numbers. Among his findings: 89 shows in 28 countries (18 — including the show in KC — are places where Madonna has never performed), 90 speakers hung on stage, 700 pieces…
Google Street View The future site of Big Papi Tacos. The odds that Red Sox designated hitter David Ortiz will finish his career in Kansas City are slim, but the prospects look a whole lot better for another Big Papi headed to Westwood. Bread & Butter Concepts, the folks behind BRGR, Gram & Dun and Urban Table, intend to open…
Jacob Turk says FEC complaints are unnecessary distractions. The former chairman of the Jackson County Democratic Committee Stephen Bough likes to document things. On a desk in his Westport law office sits a hefty, red three-ring binder filled with neatly organized complaints against Republican 5th District congressional candidate Jacob Turk. In June, Bough sent a copy of the binder to…
Facebook: Waldo Pizza It’ll be like a werewolf bar mitzvah at the Tap Room tonight: spooky and scary. Halloween is perhaps more fun for adults. Discover why at the Waldo Pizza Tap Room (7433 Broadway) tonight. The Waldo pizza shop is hosting a Halloween party with a costume contest and Tallgrass Brewing Co.’s Buffalo Sweat Stout (which will be infused…
Hammy comedian-actor Jack Black tears an organ of some kind (a heart? balls?) out of another man’s body in OFF’s recent video for “Wrong.” It’s a bloody scene and an appropriate prelude to the band’s show here in Kansas City, which falls on Halloween. That’s tonight! OFF is a group of middle-aged vets from old hardcore bands — Keith Morris…
Menufy Rosati’s online menu was created by Menufy. In 1995, the idea that Sandra Bullock didn’t have to pick up a phone to get a large pizza with anchovies, garlic and extra cheese seemed revolutionary. Nearly two decades after The Net, Ashishh Desai and the team at Menufy are proving that Hollywood’s early vision of the Web was onto something:…
Photo by Sabrina Staires Name: Dan Mahaney Occupation: Co-owner of Normal Human What is Normal Human? Normal Human is a retail shop, in downtown Mission, specializing in original, handmade screen prints on apparel and housewares. Hometown: Kansas City, Missouri Current neighborhood: Hanover Heights Who or what is your sidekick? Not really a sidekick, but my business partner, Pat Egger, who…
Flight, the new Denzel Washington movie from director Robert Zemeckis, cost a reported $31 million to produce. For an awards-season-kickoff drama that boasts some 300 digital effects, that’s practically a mumblecore budget. And probably $28 million of Paramount’s cash went to music clearances. Zemeckis has spent the past decade shepherding motion-capture filmmaking from dead-eyed creepy (Polar Express) to merely stupid…
%{}% I’ve learned over the years, the hard way, that there is a problem with my face. Really, it is not so much my face, which is basically average, as it is my face’s default expression, which I have been told is the look of a “judgmental asshole” or a “shithead” or a “condescending piece of shit.” I don’t really…
Much has changed in this country since 1984. When The Mystery of Irma Vep — a Penny Dreadful debuted, gay jokes and men in drag could still surprise mainstream theatergoers. In its original run, one of the two actors in Irma Vep was its playwright, Charles Ludlam, a director, writer and actor who had formed the Ridiculous Theatre in 1967….
The unofficial headquarters of Golden Sound Records is the basement of a house on Rockhill Road, near Rockhurst University. Ross Brown and Jerad Tomasino, two of the three young men who run the local record label, live at the house; Mat Shoare, the third, recently moved out. The basement is split into two sides, though the sides basically mirror each…
Dan Deacon The new Dan Deacon album, America, is a fuzzy blast of electronic music, which is no huge surprise. But it’s also a step forward both sonically and thematically for Deacon, the breakout star of Wham City, a Baltimore collective of party-throwing art freaks. There are classical influences stitched into the EDM on America, plus moments that sound like…
There was a full moon the night I saw the rat. I had seen bigger rats before, but never one in this Brookside neighborhood and never one this brazen. This wasn’t a nervous rodent scurrying around a Dumpster. It moved with fearless swagger as it merrily crossed 59th Street. I stared as it found the sidewalk and then strolled along…
The ingredients are easy enough to figure out: a good location, a talented chef, an interesting menu, polished service. But there’s no such thing as a surefire recipe for a successful restaurant, and even the most artful combination of these components sometimes can’t prevent a restaurant from failing. A powerful intangible also comes into play: luck, which so far is…
Someone burned down the Hereford House restaurant four years ago — who was it? A man with short-cropped hair leaned over the back of the bench in the public seating section of courtroom 8-D of the Charles Evans Whittaker U.S. Courthouse and whispered to the man in the seat in front of him: “I can’t help it. Every time I…
Lexington Legends Somewhere, Selleck is smiling. Forget Movember, the Lexington Legends are looking to honor the mustache year-round. The brand-new Class A affiliate of the Kansas City Royals revealed a new logo last Thursday: a mustache . The mustache, a nod to the handlebar that dominates the face of the mascot “Big L,” was one of three updated looks for…
MoDOT Northland drivers get a treat on Halloween. Drivers will breathe a little easier Wednesday morning when the Broadway Extension reopens at 5 a.m. The extension, which carries 35,000 vehicles daily, has been shuttered since July 14. The Missouri Department of Transportation closed the roadway north of the Wheeler Downtown Airport in order to replace sections of the retaining wall…
Mike Daisey’s This American Life segment “Mr. Daisey and the Apple Factory” torpedoed the radio show’s credibility for a time earlier this year, but it’s fair to remember that one of the program’s favorite voices has always been best when the stories are wholly unverifiable. “David Sedaris has never been presented as a journalist,” Alicia Shepard, former NPR ombudsman, once…
Toby Keith’s I Love This Bar & Grill In case you were confused, this bar is in America. Sometimes a man just needs a place to kick up his cowboy boots, rest his cowboy hat on the bar and wrap his hands around a cold red Solo cup of yellow beer. That place is Toby Keith’s I Love This Bar…
Oh mama! The latest Madonna album, released back in March, is called MDNA. There are, by my count, three interpretations of this title. One is that it’s just Madonna’s name without the vowels. Another is that it represents the core essence, or DNA, of Madonna (represented here by the letter M). The third is that it’s a mischievous twist on…
