Charles Ferruzza The potato skins at Chappell’s are serious business. Kansas City is nationally known for tailgating, so it makes sense that America would wake up to the idea that we’re comfortable drinking and eating fried food indoors as well. The Daily Meal has named Chappell’s Restaurant & Sports Museum to its list of ‘America’s Best Sports Bars.’ Here’s what…
There’s some confusion, it seems, about whether Die Antwoord is a joke. Having spent some time with the South African electro-rap crew’s music and videos, I’m not sure how anybody could see them as anything other than a subversive comedy act à la Ali G. I am not a gay/This penis is for the girls/My penis is clean/My penis is…
Brooke Vandever This is just a fraction of the chickens smoked at the Royal. I’d love to tell you that humankind was meant to eat 2 pounds of barbecue on a Sunday. I’d love to tell you that my body hasn’t been sending out distress signals like a dinghy aimlessly floating toward the Bermuda Triangle. But you, Fat City reader,…
DO YOUR SERVICE // CONTINENTS from Jim Button on Vimeo. Jim Button, aka Continents, tells Wayward that he’s at work on “what appears to be a new album.” Hell, yeah! If the track and video for “Do Your Service,” which Button recently posted online, is any indication, the new stuff is darker and scarier than the fuzzy psych drones we’ve…
Photo by Sabrina Staires Name: Angee Simmons Occupation: Executive producer, KCPT Hometown: I grew up on a farm near the small town of Afton, Iowa. Current neighborhood: Kearney Who or what is your sidekick? Coffee. I can’t live without it and I drink it from sunup to sundown. I’m not sure the caffeine really has an effect on me anymore,…
Imagine an industry trade show: beige event space, rows and rows of booths, slick salespeople explaining their products to potential vendors. Now imagine that, instead of vacuum cleaners or facial creams or semiautomatic weapons, the unifying product at this trade show is alcohol. Booze is everywhere, every kind of booze that exists on God’s delicious green Earth, and you can…
The Kansas City Ballet’s fall program offers an art-as-life lesson, one that feels both personal and epic. Opening night, it also felt more like spring than something designed for autumn, a welcome respite from fluctuating temperatures and political fortunes. The dancers found the beat in Franz Joseph Haydn’s music, moving fleetly to the evening’s appropriately titled first number, “Mercury.” Here,…
Maria Callas, the legendary and controversial singer, lived for her art. In opera she found — and conveyed to her audiences — the vast rewards to head and heart that masterful drama delivers. The Callas we meet in Terrence McNally’s Master Class, now at Spinning Tree Theatre, is both an exponent of that passion and a victim of it. McNally’s…
Cher UK never really broke up. The hooky grunge-punk group, much loved in Kansas City and beyond during its 1990s heyday, lost a great deal of momentum when frontman Mike McCoy moved from KC to Austin in 1998. But even down in Texas, McCoy continued to play shows under the Cher UK name. “We’ve never been completely kaput,” McCoy says….
Westport is as popular and healthy as it has been in years. New restaurants keep moving into the entertainment district, and the bars and clubs spill over with revelers most nights of the week. Also on the rise: electronic dance music. Right now is a very good time to have a DJ gig in Westport. Or, in the case of…
Araabmuzik One of the more virtuosic musical displays I’ve observed in the past year, or maybe ever, was a YouTube video of Araabmuzik tapping out warp-speed beats with his fingertips on an MPC sampler. The MPC has traditionally been used as a hip-hop production tool, but Araabmuzik — the stage name of 22-year-old Abraham Orellana — has pioneered its transition…
Class hasn’t even started yet, and I’m already lost. I’m outside the American Royal exhibition hall in my midsize SUV, a vehicle that makes suburban women tip their curls to me in recognition. My car is out of place amid the recreational vehicles, dusty pickup trucks and smokers on trailers. I see two old men with cigarettes and Styrofoam cups…
Popular chef and restaurateur Lorenza “Poco” Gutierrez died just five months ago, after a long battle with cancer. Her namesake restaurant, however, has been given a second life. Some of the renewed interest in the five-year-old Poco’s on the Boulevard is doubtless due to the dramatic makeover given to both the building and the menu by British chef and cable…
Seventy-two grinning Barack Obamas greet visitors to We Might Be Wrong: Exploring Our Know-it-all Culture. Paper cutouts from the Shepard Fairey “VOTE” print, the 2008 presidential election’s defining graphic, occupy the wall across from the Leedy-Voulkos entrance, sharing space with V for Vendetta Guy Fawkes masks and Coke bottles with altered labels. Above the two long, horizontal shelves holding these…
After a great deal of personal harassment from me and probably many others, the ACBs are set to release a new LP, Little Leaves, in a few months. Today the band debuted the first single, “Ocean,” a reverb-y pop jangler, just the way I like ’em. Danny Gibson made the excellent stop-motion video for the song, which you can see…
Facebook: jimcchou The Chiefs aren’t out of it…yet. I get it. The Kansas City Chiefs haven’t had a lead for a single second of the 2012 season. Four of their five losses have been by at least 16 points. The fanbase is clamoring for a new owner, general manager, head coach and starting quarterback. And yet, heading into the team’s…
