Todd Akin is living a campaign ad in retirement. Todd Akin is back! After keeping to himself for almost six months after losing his Senate campaign against Sen. Claire McCaskill, the gaffe-prone former congressman gave an interview to KSDK Channel 5 that was published today. Shocking nobody, Akin said he regrets the “legitimate rape” comment he made during the race…
File Stielow and his colleagues get to try their negotiating skills After months of public and behind-the-scenes consternation, the North Kansas City Hospital sale discussion may find a timely conclusion both in the courts and in Jefferson City. The North Kansas City Council on Tuesday night voted after a closed session to try to settle a lawsuit against them filed…
Facebook: Boulevard Goodbye, Pilsner. Hello, KC Pils. The hometown brewery is adding a hometown touch to the brew formerly known as Boulevard Pilsner. Going forward, Boulevard Pilsner will now be called KC Pils. There will also be a new bottle design and packaging – the standard box that comes with year-round beers like Wheat and Pale Ale. Just a note,…
Facebook: The Mixx The pretzel chicken sando at the Mixx. While today may be National Pretzel Day (I know it’s been circled on your calendar for some time), Kansas Citians don’t limit their love of pretzels to a single day. We inhale the salty sticks in a fashion not often seen outside Pennsylvania Dutch country. There are the sausages on…
Facebook: High Noon Saloon & Brewery A little bit of Leavenworth is coming to Parkville. Humankind was meant to drink beer in the sunshine. Find your calling at the 10th annual Parkville Microbrew Festival on Saturday. The event starts at 11 a.m., and beer sampling goes from 1 to 5 p.m. Several dozen craft breweries will be on hand, among…
Soft Reeds. It’s a big week for the Record Machine: In addition to a new record from Cowboy Indian Bear, the local label is dropping Blank City, the latest from nervy glam-rockers Soft Reeds. Joining them tonight at the Riot Room to celebrate: young garage-pop enthusiasts Rev Gusto and veteran space-rockers Be/Non. Friday, April 26, at the Riot Room. $5….
Twinkies are back! The price of old Twinkies for sale on eBay is about to plummet. Michael Cramer, executive vice president of Hostess Brands, told NBC News today that the golden, cream-stuffed cakes will be back on store shelves “probably the latter half of the month.” After Hostess went bankrupt last November, production of all its products ceased. As The…
Twitter: @keikamara Will Kei Kamara fly back to Kansas City after May 6? There’s less than two weeks left on a loan contract with Norwich City, and the speculation about whether Sporting Kansas City winger and fan favorite Kei Kamara will stay in England or return to town has picked up. Sporting Kansas City coach Peter Vermes told Major League…
Chris Vaughn Raise a ramekin of creme brulee in honor of the late Kerry Layton this Sunday. Kerry Layton loved creme brulee – and music. The longtime associate at Kansas City’s VPR Creative Group had also been a bass player before his death from leukemia at age 53 in 2007. Six years ago, Layton’s former boss, Curtis Pickering, founder of…
Facebook: Oddly Correct Oddly Correct continues to try and perfect the art of single-origin bean selection. The worlds of art and coffee will continue to blend at Oddly Correct this summer. Gregory Kolsto’s Main Street coffee shop and roaster is once again collaborating with Hammerpress in the Crossroads. Last year, it was hop!toddy (bottled toddy coffee), and now the two…
Sullivan Higdon & Sink The Kansas City Chiefs own the first pick in tonight’s NFL Draft, and we can’t wait till KC officially goes on the clock. If you’re like us, you’ll be locked on ESPN to see Chris Berman, Mel Kiper Jr. and company argue about who the Chiefs should take and praise Tavon Austin’s “motor.” With that in…
Sporting KC Jeff “Stretch” Rumaner and Sporting are launching a new menu this weekend. The competition appears to be no less fierce when it comes to stadium concessions. In an effort to keep up with the T-Bones of the world, Sporting KC is adding a series of new amenities at Sporting Park. There’s a Budweiser Beer Garden on the Sprint…
It’s been something like three years since Cowboy Indian Bear put out a new album. The Lawrence quartet rectifies that void tonight at Davey’s, when it releases Live Old, Die Young, a collection of triumphant, atmospheric rock songs that occupy a middle space between Broken Social Scene and Arcade Fire. Helping the group celebrate are Heartfelt Anarchy, the local hip-hop…
Angela C. Bond Vivilore restaurant, in Independence, will be one of 28 local venues participating in Dining for Life. If you’re eating breakfast at 12 Baltimore in the Hotel Phillips this morning, you’re raising funds for Kansas City’s Good Samaritan Project. That also goes for lunch or dinner at 27 other local restaurants, ranging from Hamburger Mary’s in the Crossroads…
A $25 million lawsuit by the owners of the Wolf Creek Nuclear Power Plant against a vendor is the latest headache for Kansas City’s closest nuclear reactor. Attorneys for Kansas City Power & Light and Westar Energy claim in a lawsuit filed on April 12, 2013, in Jackson County Circuit Court that ABB Inc., in North Carolina, did lousy repair…
After 20 years of grinding it out on the comedy circuit, Bill Burr is finally having his cultural moment. He has a recurring role on Breaking Bad; he acted alongside Al Pacino and Christopher Walken in Stand Up Guys; he has a successful weekly podcast, the appropriately named Monday Morning Podcast; and his act — long a favorite among comedy…
“Work like you don’t need the money. Love like you’ve never been hurt. Dance like nobody’s watching.” Satchel Paige’s succinct instructions have been quoted often, but the UMKC Theatre production of Kansas City Swing, a new play by Ricardo Khan and Trey Ellis, shows us a vivid version of the man behind those words. Paige and other baseball players of…
The Black Keys continue to kill it. The dirty-blues duo cleaned up at the 2013 Grammys with Best Rock Performance, Best Rock Song and Best Rock Album. April 28, they play their first arena show in Kansas City at the Sprint Center, with special guest opener the Flaming Lips. Drummer Patrick Carney recently took some time out to chat with…
As a title, Country Singles has the generic ring of some bargain-priced George Jones best-of album. But it’s also the name of a publication you can find at truck-stop newsstands in rural parts of the Midwest. The Grisly Hand’s occasional weekend tours tend to bring the group to such locales, and the members have become devoted readers. “It’s mostly personal…
July 11, 1968: Ground breaks for the construction of the Truman Sports Complex — Arrowhead Stadium and the former Royals Stadium. But one of the design’s most distinctive features has already been nixed. Architect Charles Deaton’s blueprints originally called for a rolling roof, capable of shielding either stadium from the elements. (A 2008 attempt to add a rolling roof failed…
Afentra’s Prom Lazlo and the crew over at 96.5 the Buzz have spent the past few weeks blitzing listeners with ominous warnings about the station’s health: Ratings are down, and Entercom is threatening to end the whole operation. Throwing a big, free concert at the Midland is probably not going to solve these problems, but a show of moral support…
The Kansas City Chiefs have been on the clock since last season mercifully ended with a 2–14 record. That’s bad enough for the first overall pick in Thursday’s NFL Draft but a year too late for sure-thing prospects Andrew Luck and Robert Griffin III. That is, unless Andy Reid and John Dorsey’s new regime trades away the pick, which has…
I like restaurants that pretend to have some connection to royalty: Burger King, Princess Gardens, Dairy Queen. One aspires to make even a soft-serve cone a luxurious experience. This city’s Middle Eastern restaurants tend to prefer biblical and geographical references to regal words. But newly minted restaurateurs Mohammed Mosley and Nader Shehata like to think big, so they named their…
Facebook: Boulevard KC is about to get Boulevard’s take on a Kentucky Derby staple. Boulevard’s tasting room just got a whole lot bigger. It’s fitting that in a week that saw Love Child No. 3 (a test batch brew that has grown into a Smokestack Series release) hit shelves, news broke that Boulevard is rolling out a limited-edition beer only…
