Whatever dulls the pain, Truman. There’s no denying that it was an up-and-down season for Mizzou men’s basketball. At one point, the Tigers were ranked No. 7. But they were bounced after one game in the SEC Tournament and were given a nine-seed in the NCAA Tournament. A decided meh campaign. And that’s why the Tigers’ performance in a second-round…
U.S. Soccer Dempsey will lead the Americans against Jamaica in KCK. The road of the U.S. men’s national team to the 2014 FIFA World Cup will pass through Sporting Park. It was announced yesterday that the U.S. soccer squad’s final qualifying game against Jamaica will be held at Sporting Park on Friday, October 11 (the time has not been determined)….
Flickr: Heyrocker We are becoming a nation of coffee pod people. There’s a moment near the end of a meal at a fried-chicken or hamburger joint when my heart overwhelms my brain and I happily accept a Styrofoam to-go cup of whatever I’m drinking at that moment. “Would you like a to-go cup, honey?” turns me into Ado Annie Carnes….
Facebook: Tavern in Mission Farms For those who can’t sell their significant other on a sports bar. Catch basketball today at Conrad’s Restaurant & Alehouse (210 N. State Rte. 291, Liberty). They have a respectable number of televisions, a sneaky good beer selection on 21 taps, and a solid happy hour from 3 to 6:30 p.m. Drafts are $2, as…
Architectural Digest It’s a big thing for a Kansas City resident’s home to be featured in the pages of Architectural Digest, the ne plus ultra of glossy shelter magazines, which tends to focus on big-name subjects: celebrity designers and architects doing magnificent work for their celebrity clients. Or just the celebs, like Rachel Weisz and Daniel Craig profiled in “A-Listers…
Rachel from Cupcakes Take the Cake We’ll have one of everything. Wait, make that two of eveything. It’s no secret that we have a serious sweet tooth here in Fat City. And we love bakeries. Old favorites (like Jonathan Bender’s report on the move by the venerable McLain’s Bakery in Waldo) or really, really old favorites, like the long-razed Vienna…
Is Jimmy Gobble worthy of the HOF? What is going on with this year’s voting for the Royals Hall of Fame? The museum has enshrined 24 former Royals greats (or pretty goods), and every other year the team opens voting for new members to the fans. As with all online voting, the process is prone to strange results and possible…
Facebook: Pappi’s/Jason Day The taco pizza at Pappi’s Pizzeria is intriguing. I can’t believe I’m typing this, but I’m ready to eat pizza again. After a pie binge worthy of Stand By Me, I am once again ready to chew on some crust. Earlier this month, we published our pizza guide (58 places in just three days), and I ate…
Facebook: Chutney’s Chutney’s is now open in Lawrence. The world just keeps getting richer for Indian food lovers on Massachusetts Street in Lawrence. Chutney’s Indian Diner & Bar, a fast casual Indian restaurant, opened last month at 918 Massachusetts. Sandwiched between two existing Indian restaurants – Curry in a Hurry (1111 Massachusetts) and Cosmos Indian Store (734 Massachusetts) – Chutney’s…
Food & Wine Maybe Google Fiber helped Thorne-Thomsen capture more of the online vote. The Midwesterners have spoken. And the name they were all clicking was Carl Thorne-Thomsen. The chef and co-owner of Story in Prairie Village has been named The People’s Best New Chef: Midwest in an online vote conducted by Food & Wine. Thorne-Thomsen and Port Fonda’s Patrick…
Festival fever continues. Dancefestopia, the hip-hop and pop festival that debuted last year at Richard L. Berkley Riverfront Park, returns for another go later this summer, on Friday, September 13, and Saturday, September 14. Two-day GA tickets are $99. If you want to camp, it’s $50 for four people. “Dancefestopia offers an amazing lineup of high-energy artists and delivers it…
Well, here it is: the Star Wars of Harmony Korine movies. Spring Breakers is bigger and brighter and pricier than anything the underground writer-director has vomited up before. It takes place in some other galaxy (Florida), and it’s dominated by a forceful Alien (James Franco, playing a rapper and drug lord called Alien). So much press has already been devoted…
Can we just start the summer movies now? Bring on The Wolverine and The Lone Ranger. Fill the multiplexes with Hangover and 300 sequels. Anything to staunch the trickle of sad, shrugging mediocrity that finds its way into theaters between awards season and the next wave of blockbusters. Anything to clear the mind of dismal voids like Admission. See if…
The cinematic worlds of Iranian director Abbas Kiarostami have always revolved around constantly shifting relationships — between children, between students and teachers, between strangers, between lovers or spouses, sometimes between documentary realism and narrative fancy. This interest has become even more overt in recent years: 2010’s Certified Copy, a perplexing portrait of a man and a woman whose precise relationship…
A perverse fairy tale ripe with mordant, sexy menace, the campy, playful Stoker is the kind of cinematic whirlwind that typically slips through the public’s fingers. Like such baroque wonders as Donald Cammell’s White of the Eye or Paul Verhoeven’s The Fourth Man, it’s almost too kinky for a mass audience. Almost. South Korean director Park Chan-wook, here making his…
We’re just back from a week in Austin for the 2013 South By Southwest conference-festival-endless feast of Lone Star pounders and twice-a-day tacos. Not quite enough time has passed for a proper reflection on everything that transpired. But let’s give it a try. Cool Things Seen Chris Cohen Fact: Three quarters of the performers at SXSW this year were either…
Carousel isn’t meant to be blithely uplifting, and the version being staged by the Living Room and the Kansas City Repertory Theatre isn’t. But it’s a happy collaboration, freshening the work without diluting its essential toughness. First produced two years ago by the downtown Living Room Theatre, this Carousel remains stark and sensual. It’s in a larger venue, but the…
Alejandro Escovedo Less than a week after South by Southwest wraps, the Austin music scene’s unofficial mayor hikes up to Kansas City for an evening at Knuckleheads. Alejandro Escovedo — formerly of Rank and File and the Nuns, now a beloved Americana singer-songwriter — is performing with his acoustic band, the Sensitive Boys. He also has a good many musician…
Kansas City’s days as flyover country are over. Tech startups and funders and entrepreneurs have been landing here for a while now, and the latest high-profile business nexus takes place in an airport hangar. That event is Big Kansas City, the first local iteration in a series coordinated by the Omaha-based news organization Silicon Prairie News. The three-day conference and…
One of the first things I learned as a new Kansas Citian, back in 1984, was that the locals believed real Italian cuisine had been influenced more by St. Louis than by Rome. That pretty much sums up KC’s inferiority complex. I grew up in a comparably sized Midwestern city, a place where restaurateurs from Italy or New York City…
Kansas City gets a sneak peek at Jackie Robinson’s story on April 11. Perhaps one of the most important lessons you learn at the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum is the role Kansas City had in Jackie Robinson’s career and, ultimately, the breaking of baseball’s color barrier. And on April 11, Hollywood is going to recognize Kansas City’s part in the…
Intorno brings a little bit of St. Louis style to downtown Lawrence. The classic Italian dishes from chef Jim Vaughn show why Kansas Citians can’t get enough of St. Louis-style Italian cuisine. Photos by Angela C. Bond.
