Regina on Colbert. The Music Hall, inside Municipal Auditorium, is one of Kansas City’s loveliest, richest, oldest (built in 1935), and most underutilized music venues. I’ve seen musical theater performed in the space, but last night was the first time I’ve seen a modern concert there. Regina Spektor was in town, and the environs suited her well. Categories: Music Tags:…
Facebook: Sporting KC It’s officially the offseason for the Blue Hell. They believed they would win. And they did. They just didn’t score enough goals in the process. Though Sporting KC won last night 1-0 at Livestrong Sporting Park, it’s the Houston Dynamo that will be advancing to the Eastern Conference finals on aggregate goals. Sporting KC played with urgency…
Yelp: Rhonda P. The chicken livers are a staple at Gomer’s. Diners in Kansas City keep losing their touchstones. A year after Patrikio’s closed its taco bar for good, The Kansas City Star reports that Gomer’s Fried Chicken (615 E. 99th St.) is hanging it the cluck up. Inside the strip-mall restaurant, the chicken decor leaves no question as to…
Sweet Band O’Mine, a weirder-than-average Guns N’ Roses tribute band, is playing the Riot Room this Saturday, November 10. So why should you go? Here are a few reasons. Numerous noted Kansas musicians (members of the Flaming Lips, Hammerlord, the Dead Girls, etc.) have at one time or another played in the band. They’ve only performed six times in 10…
Kansas Citians flocked to the Crossroads for First Friday gallery openings on Friday, November 2. Photos by Brooke Vandever.
Flickr: Technicool Are you built for molasses? Local man turned movie star Rob Riggle is easy to love for two reasons: He never stops cheerleading for Kansas City and he seems to enjoy his life off-screen as much as on-screen. He graces the virtual pages of Fat City this morning for an interview with Details that ran Monday, in which…
Image via FYIFK Like most Kansans, Will Averill is stubbornly proud of his home state. The Lawrence comedy writer and performer is also defensive. So when Averill moved to Norwich, England, eight years ago to live with his then wife, he was surprised to hear the stereotypes from folks across the pond. “I kept hearing Toto jokes and Dorothy jokes,…
Right now, this is the last image of the Hereford House downtown. Is there life for the Hereford House brand after Rod Anderson? For more than two decades, Anderson, the tall and congenial accountant who turned an aging downtown steakhouse into the flagship of a successful restaurant group, was the public face of the Hereford House restaurants. But on October…
I’ve always thought of Regina Spektor as the Norah Jones of indie rock, but that’s not really fair to either of them. For one, Spektor doesn’t play indie rock; her fans just tend to be indie-rock types. Spektor instead plays oddball piano pop, accentuated by the bipolar — and sometimes excessively cute — vocal curlicues that are her trademark. She’s…
Photo by Sabrina Staires What can you make with Google Fiber? More than 100 developers want to answer that question this weekend, when Compute Midwest holds its hackathon at the Fiber Space (1814 Westport Road). Michael Gelphman, founder of Kansas City IT Professionals and organizer of Compute Midwest, says he isn’t sure what to expect when these programmers and app…
You’ll almost feel like you’re dining in Downton Abbey…in Lenexa! Flickr/JMR Photography Lift a cup for Her Royal Highness, won’t you? No, there’s not a bit of spotted dick on the menu for the high tea served at this Saturday’s British Faire, but one of the vendors selling English-made products (including the Lawrence-based shop, Brits, and the Better Cheddar) might…
Photo by Sabrina Staires Name: Aaron Sprowl Occupation: Displays curator, Sea Life Kansas City Aquarium Hometown: Kansas City, Kansas Current neighborhood: Kansas City, Missouri Who or what is your sidekick? My wife What career would you choose in an alternate reality? Superhero or secret agent Categories: News Tags: Aaron Sprowl, Sea Life Kansas City Aquarium
Between Beetlejuice and Batman, way back in 1988, Michael Keaton starred in Clean and Sober, the smoky, beige addiction drama by Moonlighting creator Glenn Gordon Caron. If those pop-culture mile markers are hazy or unknown to you, then you might be part of Generation Y and, therefore, ready for a 12-step primer geared to fit in the pocket of your…
Mark O’Brien spent most of his short life reliant on an iron lung, his body stilled by polio while his mind probed spiritual matters. He went to college. He wrote poetry and published nonfiction. And, writer-director Ben Lewin shows us in his concise, moving The Sessions, he sought a late understanding of love. In lesser hands, The Sessions — based…
Because the latest James Bond movie arrives in U.S. theaters with breathless Internet praise following its overseas release a couple of weeks ago, let’s start by getting the superlatives out of the way. Skyfall is awesome. Daniel Craig is the best 007 since Sean Connery. Javier Bardem is the best Bond villain since Roger Moore. Awesome, best, boom. But let’s…
Jamilee Polson Lacy greets me inside La Esquina. “Tell me about you,” she says with earnest enthusiasm, her smile warm. But I’m at the gallery to learn more about Lacy, the Charlotte Street Foundation’s first curator-in-residence. Her inaugural Charlotte Street exhibition, Have I been here before?, is hours from its First Friday debut, and I expect to meet someone less…
A pivotal figure in the transition from Impressionism (think Monet’s “Water Lilies”) to Cubism (Picasso), French Post-Impressionist painter Paul Cézanne invented a new way to represent three-dimensional space on canvas, breaking traditions that had been in place since the Renaissance and influencing generations of artists to come. British author Alex Danchev discusses his new book, Cézanne: A Life, in a…
A couple of years ago, Allison Olassa returned from a trip to the grocery store and told Cain Robberson, “I met a tuba player while shopping for frozen fruit.” This turned out to be fortunate news. Olassa and Robberson, late of the Lawrence group Tiny Tuxedo, had found a new bandmate. “At the time,” Tyler Bachert says, “the tuba was…
Neil Hamburger, with Bacon Shoe Sitting through a set by “America’s Funnyman,” as Neil Hamburger hilariously refers to himself, requires Olympian levels of good faith and stamina. Hamburger is a sort of anti-comedian, and the concept of his act is that he’s a washed-up hack, bitter at the showbiz establishment. His show is one giant nose dive. His appearance is…
A little more than a year ago, I moved into a West Plaza apartment. It was neat and spacious, with hardwood floors for the rug I’d bought in Istanbul but never stepped on. And because it was walking distance from both the Plaza and Westport, I could mosey to a coffee shop or stagger home drunk from a bar without…
If there were such a thing as a do-it-yourself Indian-restaurant kit, you might think that Sarbjit Singh and his wife, Navneet Kaur, owners of the two-month-old Saffron Authentic Indian Restaurant, had used one to put together their tidy, no-frills dining room in the Northland. It’s not a particularly warm or welcoming space, and it’s painted a cringe-inducing shade of yellow…
No matter who you’re voting for, make sure you vote today. If you don’t know where to vote, here’s where to go: Missourians, look up your polling place here. Kansans, look for yours here. In Missouri, you’ll need one of these IDs. In Kansas, you’ll need one of these. Oh, and go in expecting a bit of a wait. Categories:…
