We noted a few weeks ago that Titus Andronicus will be making the trek to Lawrence this November. The beery New Jersey rock crew is at the Jackpot on November 20. Ceremony supports. Consider it a pre-Thanksgiving treat. Watch the band perform two songs (“Food Fight” and “My Eating Disorder”) at a pizzeria in Brooklyn after the jump: Categories: Music…
Here’s your tone-deaf candidate of the week: Steve Fitzgerald. Fitzgerald is the Republican running against incumbent Kansas state Sen. Kelly Kultala. On Friday, October 26, he took part in a candidate forum in Leavenworth, put together and moderated by Ernest Evans, a political science professor at Kansas City, Kansas, Community College. At the end of Fitzgerald’s remarks, the candidate asked…
%{}% %{}% Angela C. Bond In 2007, bartender Nick Haug poured drinks for Victor Fontana at the downtown nightspot called Seven. It’s not too late to raise a toast to the memory of a great restaurant owner: Victor Fontana. But nothing too fancy. “Victor wasn’t a big drinker,” says restaurant veteran Laser Avery, who worked for Fontana, on and off,…
It’s time to pretend this was a seven game season. Sunday has become a day for laundry. A day for pumpkin patches. A day for tending the yard. Sunday is no longer reserved for watching the Kansas City Chiefs. That’s what the Chiefs told us in their 26-16 loss to the Oakland Raiders at Arrowhead yesterday. The Chiefs are ceding…
Brooke Vandever There are winners somewhere in this town. If you’re still licking your wounds from the Chiefs’ carnival of suck yesterday, there’s good news. One of our professional sports teams, Sporting Kansas City, is good and heading to the playoffs as the top seed in the Eastern Conference. And in order to usher the team into the playoffs with…
That Starfucker can pack midsize venues all across the country is an exceptional feat when you think about it. Here’s an indie band that has received virtually no love from new-media gatekeepers like Pitchfork and Stereogum, and has a name that’s unspeakable and unprintable by the old-media gatekeepers. How do they do it? By writing very danceable psych-pop songs, performing…
Bundick, better known as Toro Y Moi, is headed to Lawrence this February. The man is touring in support of his new album, Anything in Return, which is due out January 22. Catch his show at the Granada on February 21. Door time for the all-ages show is 8 p.m. Advance tickets are an affordable $15. With Sinkane. Categories: Music…
Chips. Cheese. Meat. Repeat. Try as some restaurants might, there’s not a lot of sense in classing up a big old plate of nachos. We want chips straining under the weight of beans, cheese and meat. A plate that looks like seven-layer dip after a round in the washing machine. I’ll admit to breaking down on occasion and burying my…
Facebook: Pickleman’s Pickleman’s opened last Friday. The deli deficit in Kansas City is a bit less pronounced. Pickleman’s Gourmet Cafe, the Columbia import, opened at 5050 Oak on Friday. The first area location opened this summer in Overland Park at 7224 W. 135th St., and there’s another in Lawrence (818 Massachusetts). The quick casual sandwich shop also serves pizza, soups…
The black hole of logic and coherency is awaiting an anchor tenant. Sometimes it feels like everybody associated with the Sprint Center has had a logic and coherency lobotomy. AEG CEO Tim Leiweke is one of these people. When Sprint Center was being built, he guaranteed that it would snag an anchor tenant in the form of an NBA or…
Flickr: cdharrison You might as well not put anything between the slices of bread. I’ll start with a confession. I’ve never had Texas toast in Texas. And maybe that’s why I don’t understand the phenomenon of double-thick slices of buttered or margarine-d bread that plagues menus across Kansas City. I always suspect that the Wonder Bread on steroids is simply…
Twitter: Justin Bieber The hamster did not attend. It’s hard to take your kids out to eat. You have to find food they like and a place that’s kid-tolerant. And your biggest fear is that you’re going to turn the dining room of a restaurant into a circus. Now, just imagine that your kid earned $55 million last year. Hold…
Flickr: City of Marietta, GA You’ve got one full day to get costume ideas. The city’s biggest costume party is probably at Martini Corner (31st Street and Gillham) when Halloween on the Hill returns Saturday from 8 p.m. to midnight. Each of six Martini Corner bars will have its own horror-movie theme and an open bar. Tickets cost $35 in…
The best basketball player on the planet was in Kansas City Wednesday night. For nearly 30 minutes, LeBron James put on a show during the Miami Heat’s preseason exhibition game against the Washington Wizards at the Sprint Center.The Heat blew a 14-point halftime lead, letting the Wizards hang around in the third quarter before finally losing the lead in the…
Photo by Chris Mullins LeBron James and the Heat rolled through Kansas City Wednesday night. The best basketball player on the planet was in Kansas City Wednesday night. For nearly 30 minutes, LeBron James put on a show during the Miami Heat’s preseason exhibition game against the Washington Wizards at the Sprint Center. The Heat blew a 14-point halftime lead,…
