KC Zombie Walk The family that eats brains together… Like our fascination with the undead, the zombie craze just won’t die. The Kansas City Zombie Walk for Hunger is Saturday, and hundreds of people are expected to be lurching and moaning their way through the Plaza. The walk begins at the RA Bloch Cancer Survivors Park (4799 Roanoke Parkway) at…
The Pork Belly Cubano from Bunk should be on your itinerary. Portland, Oregon, is the kind of city where a man can’t help but stumble-trip into a doughnut shop, coffee shop or brewery. The end result is a deliciously vicious cycle of overstuffing oneself on doughnuts, overcompensating with caffeine and then various attempts at coming down over pints of micro…
Flickr: Images_for_money There’s a heavy tax to pay for visiting KC. Tax for tax, Kansas City is getting its money’s worth from visitors to the city. The Wall Street Journal reported that KC has the fourth-highest travel taxes in a comparison of the 50 most popular U.S. destinations. The statistics, provided by the Global Business Travel Association, were the total…
Interpol frontman Paul Banks is set to release his solo album, appropriately titled Banks, on October 22. To celebrate that album, Banks, the man, is headed out on tour. You can see him at the Granada on Monday, November 26. Door time for the all-ages show is 7 p.m. Advance tickets are $15. With Lawrence, Kansas’ Conner. If you’re interested…
BreadKC BreadKC is a visual feast. When Bread KC wants to celebrate, it really celebrates. The local group, which raises funds for the arts with innovative dinners, is celebrating its second anniversary at the Local Pig (2618 Guinotte Avenue) at 2 p.m. Sunday. The Local Pig will be roasting a whole hog, and Boulevard beer will be served. The entrance…
Shitty news: Earwaxx Records, one of the last brick-and-mortar record shops in town, is closing. From the Facebook page: It is a sad day indeed 🙁 After hours upon hours of painstaking pondering, I have come to the conclusion that it is best for my personal situation if I close the shop. This means that the Roctober Spooktacular Sale has…
Is this another black eye for Chris Steineger? Top-ranking Democratic officials claim that the Kansas Bureau of Investigation is looking into whether Kansas state Sen. Chris Steineger illegally used taxpayer money to restore rental properties he owns. Wyandotte County Democratic Chairman Matt Watkins alleges that Steineger “has accepted thousands of dollars from the federal government to restore property he owns.”…
The members of Die Antwoord have been making music for a few years now, but my first experience with the act was earlier this year, as a fan of David Letterman. After DA performed on Letterman, he got a lot of mileage out the phrase I fink you freeky, a line from one of Die Antwoord’s songs off of this…
Not all collaborations are created equally. Case in point: The Rieger Hotel Grill & Exchange and Port Fonda are getting together to cook you dinner Saturday at 1924 Main. The five-course meal features boudin balls with remoulade; sweet potato brandade with grilled pretzel bread and radish salad; pumpkin fettuccine with sweet breads, sage brown butter, pecorino and pine nuts; smoked…
A doctored Coke left Nelson needing a doctor. A laxative-spiked bottle of Coca-Cola could end up costing Family Dollar a lot more than a buck. The Kansas City Star reported that Barbara J. Nelson bought two plastic bottles of Coke on September 10 at the store at 3156 Troost. What Nelson didn’t know, but was soon to find out, was…
Percussionist Lloyd Knibb died in 2011, and upright-bassist Lloyd Brevett passed away a few months ago, which leaves alto-saxophonist Lester Sterling as the sole surviving member of the original Skatalites lineup. Sterling is still grinding it out on tour, aided by singer Doreen Shaffer (who has recorded with the group since the mid-1960s, when it was busy inventing the genre…
Freebirds Freebirds is nearly ready in Westport. Burritos and nachos are coming back to Westport. Freebirds World Burritos will hold its grand opening Thursday, October 25, in the former Chili’s space at 554 Westport Road. The first 25 people in line (you’ll probably have to camp out to be included in that group) receive free burritos for a year. If…
Angela C. Bond Everybody gets the tacos at Poco’s. The whirlwind of cameras and designers has come and gone, and now Poco’s on the Boulevard must discover what life is like after Restaurant: Impossible. And as Charles Ferruzza found in this week’s review, Poco’s is finding its footing: “I say this new Poco’s is the best of both worlds: Restaurant:…
When the Deftones last came through Kansas City, the alterna-heavy quintet was in the process of rebounding from the long-term loss of original bass player Chi Cheng, a series of divorces, and a sluggish writing process that had created no small measure of internal friction. The situation had begun to improve in 2008, when work commenced on what was to…
Angela C. Bond Cadillac Flambe The Midwest Music Foundation is set to host its yearly Apocalypse Meow fundraiser on Friday, November 2, and Saturday, November 3. The two-day event will raise cash for the Musician’s Emergency Health Care Fund. Hit the jump for the schedule. Categories: Music Tags: apocalypse meow, cadillac flambe, Dead Voices, Deco Auto, DJ Clockwerk, Midwest Music…
Anthony Sosa, left, and Paul Tinoco are cleaning up the former Mama’s 39th Street Diner to create a new midtown restaurant. Anthony Sosa is a man of many talents. The former and future restaurateur — in the 1990s, he owned Sosa’s Cantina in the historic Northeast — now owns a painting and remodeling company. Yesterday, he was on top of…
Mark Shears was shot to death Tuesday morning. Kansas City, Missouri’s latest homicide victim has been identified as 26-year-old Mark Shears. Around 12:20 a.m. Tuesday, the Kansas City police received a call of a shooting near 107th and Greenwood. Officers on the scene found Shears, suffering from a gunshot wound, in the driver’s seat of a white Pontiac. He died…
A peek inside the judging at the American Royal World Series of Barbecue Open, which was held Friday, October 5, through Sunday, October 7, in the West Bottoms. Photos by Brooke Vandever.
A look at the refreshed menu at Poco’s on the Boulevard following a visit by Restaurant: Impossible, the restaurant-makeover reality show. Photos by Angela C. Bond.
Wikipedia The KC Board of Trade has been sold. The Kansas City Board of Trade, where wheat has been bought and sold for 156 years, has been bought. The CME Group, Inc., and the KCBT announced this morning that the hard red winter wheat futures and options exchange, at 4800 Main, would be purchased for $126 million in cash. It’s…
Brian (left) and Kevin Fleming survived the Shark Tank. Kevin and Brian Fleming owe their newest careers to Kevin’s dog, Beckett, a Tasmanian devil mix. That’s only a slight exaggeration. The Fleming brothers’ brush with fame — an appearance on ABC’s unscripted entrepreneurial show Shark Tank with their invention BagBowl — came about because Beckett couldn’t drink water from a…
