Tune in Thursday to 1660 AM for tech and entrepreneur talk. KMBZ’s business radio channel 1660 AM debuts Entrepreneur KC Radio Show today from 1 to 2 p.m. Sara Davidson and former Missouri State Rep. Jason Grill host the hourlong show every week. Look for programs with entrepreneurs and techies ranging from AgLocal’s Nait Jones to Backly’s Adam Coomes to…
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dwalsterflickr The young life of popular server Tyler Fracassa will be celebrated with spirits and memories tonight at Extra Virgin. Tyler Fracassa, at age 27, was already a renaissance man. The young waiter built his own small home for his wife and three children on a small farm in Urich, Missouri, where he grew vegetables and planned a life of…
Flickr: NateOne The Affordable Care Act’s provision requiring employers to offer contraception coverage is not a violation of the First Amendment or the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, according to a federal judge in St. Louis. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch Political Fix reports that U.S. District Judge Carol Jackson ruled against Frank O’Brien and his company, O’Brien Industrial Holdings, who had…
Sami Dowd Trivia and pizza at Waldo Pizza is a good pairing. Great cheap eats are like high school secrets: You know word is going to get out, but you just hope you can keep it to yourself awhile before the whole world knows. Consider the world informed about Longboards in Gladstone, Grinders and Waldo Pizza. Urbanspoon released its list…
Flickr: JamiesRabbits Get ready for some hot stove talk. Chefs Celina Tio of Julian, Ted Habiger of Room 39 and Debbie Gold of the American Restaurant will be chatting with Up to Date’s Steve Kraske at 11 a.m. today. The show promises to tackle the following questions over the course of an hour: As we visit with these three masters…
Sabrina Staires O’Neill can’t help looking up these days. Underneath a plane,” Danny O’Neill says, “I feel closer to God.” The Roasterie owner is gazing through a wall of windows, looking up at the underbelly of a 1943 Douglas DC-3. O’Neill last month installed the refurbished aircraft (minus its heavy engines) at the top of the company’s West Side coffee…
Photo by Sabrina Staires Name: Ah-ram Park Occupation: Photographer, gallery manager at Bill Brady/KC Hometown: Pusan, Korea; and Manhattan, Kansas Current neighborhood: Valentine Who or what is your sidekick? My bicycles, definitely What career would you choose in an alternate reality? Barbecue pitmaster or a job that kept me primarily in the mountains. That doesn’t sound so alternative-reality. What was…
Underneath a plane,” Danny O’Neill says, “I feel closer to God.” The Roasterie owner is gazing through a wall of windows, looking up at the underbelly of a 1943 Douglas DC-3. O’Neill last month installed the refurbished aircraft (minus its heavy engines) at the top of the company’s West Side coffee plant. A line of 72 blue string lights trails…
“In five years, there won’t be venues big enough to hold this band,” reads a quote attributed to Anthrax drummer Charlie Benante in a late-1980s magazine ad taken out by Megaforce Records, then the label for King’s X. As landmark albums such as Gretchen Goes to Nebraska (1989) and Faith, Hope, Love (1990) arrived, it looked like Benante might be right about…
Places (Self-released) Every December for the past five years, longtime Lawrencian Sam Billen has released a Christmas-themed album or compilation of some kind. Christmas is a natural fit for Billen: Like the holiday, his songs evoke a fuzzy nostalgia for youth. Billen’s latest, non-yuletide release, Places, thrives on this wistfulness. Billen has a tender voice and, like Sufjan Stevens or…
Earlier this year, Anthony Saunders flew to Los Angeles to meet with Justin Bieber. Saunders, a singer, songwriter, instrumentalist, producer and Kansas City resident, had been steadily building toward such a career break, but still: Bieber! Things worked out. Two new Justin Bieber songs are co-written by Saunders: “Fairytale” (which features Jaden Smith and appears as a Spotify bonus track…
Sons of Great Dane, with Dead Girls and Radkey It seems that every few weeks, the Brick hosts some irresistibly stacked, local rock bill. Headlining this one is Sons of Great Dane, which recently released an excellent EP of twangy indie rock, You Can’t Lose It All, All at Once, via Sharp County Records. The classic-rock fetishists in the Dead…
Sir David Lean didn’t create Lawrence of Arabia, his epic masterpiece, with computers and green screens. He did it all in-camera, orchestrating a literal cast of thousands and only one special effect: a little-known Irish stage actor named Peter O’Toole (above right, with Omar Sharif). Fifty years later, Lawrence of Arabia enters the digital age at last, as Sony Pictures…
The old Metcalf South Shopping Center seems like a ghost town most of the time. But every October, the Overland Park mall becomes a destination for hard-core movie lovers. Since 2001, the annual Kansas International Film Festival (formerly known as “Halfway to Hollywood”) has made its annual lineups a smartly curated feast, with silent movies (played to live music), newly…
Kansas City, Kansas’ Rosedale Ridge public-housing apartment complex is one of the battlegrounds in the metro’s digital divide. Seven beige buildings, some with windows boarded over, sit atop a steep hill on Mill Street, which is lined with crumbling sets of concrete stairs. Dead ends bound the community. A hundred feet or so down one of those roads is a…
In an early rehearsal, Scott Cox was trying to remember which parts he’d cast. His gaze alternated between his script of Macbeth and an assembly of inmates who had signed on to play roles. “Do I have a Second Murderer?” asked Cox, who is in his first year as the director of the Lansing Correctional Facility’s Shakespeare in Prison program….
McCaskill is surging, an internal poll shows. Politico published a memo today with the results of an internal poll from Sen. Claire McCaskill’s re-election campaign, and it’s full of good news for the incumbent. The survey of 600 likely voters indicates that McCaskill has climbed to 50 percent support compared with 41 percent for Akin. The polling agency, Kiley &…
Bassnectar Bassnectar, along with Ghostland Observatory (my favorite act of the night), Gramatik and Gladkill, are set to play at Burcham Park in Lawrence, this Friday, October 5. The bass-laden, all-ages show is going to be crayyyzayyy. Categories: Music Tags: bassnectar, Burcham Park, Ghostland Observatory, Gladkill, Gramatik, Lorin Ashton
The Tigers celebrate in the infield. An American League Central title was won at Kauffman Stadium last night. The problem is that it was the visiting Detroit Tigers doing the celebrating. The Tigers clinched the division with a 6-3 win over the Royals. The two teams are apart by 16 games in the standings and just under $58 million in…
Milone thinks of his place as a hole in the wall. The term “hole in the wall” is like the term “dive bar.” Some restaurants wear it like a badge of honor, while others slowly slide into this designation. For the purposes of this blog post, let’s define a hole in the wall as the following: a few tables, just…
