Iron and Wine is coming to the Midland on Saturday, November 9. Tickets for the 8 p.m., all-ages show cost $35. They go on sale Friday at 10 a.m. Categories: Music Tags: Iron and Wine, Kansas City, kansas city, The Midland, the midland
The Jewish Family Services have started a pet food-pantry program called Jasmine’s Corner. The food pantries in the Kansas City metro have been doing record business since the economic downturn of 2008. In fact, many of the church-based food pantries can barely keep up with the demand for staples (pasta, rice, canned fruits and vegetables) and personal hygiene products (shampoo,…
Franz Ferdinand. Scottish dance-punk act Franz Ferdinand has a new album, Right Thoughts, Right Words, Right Action out on August 27. The group will tour the United States in support of it, with a stop in Lawrence for a show Tuesday, October 8, at the Granada. Tickets on sale this coming Saturday at 10 a.m. Categories: Music Tags: franz ferdinand
Twitter: @chef_aaron Mestizo’s Aaron Sanchez and chef John Besh (author of My New Orleans and, for many, the culinary face of that city) are apparently considering opening a sit-down version of a taqueria together. Eater talked to Besh about his new book, Cooking From the Heart, and at the end of the interview, he mentioned that he and Sanchez (who…
Infusions Grill & Bar offers a trio of ham salad, egg salad and cheddar pimento spread as a tasty starter. Just when you thought you’d never find another restaurant in the metro that serves ham salad, we found one for you. The three-week-old Infusions Grill & Bar at 837 S.W. Lemans Lane in Lee’s Summit is offering a trio of…
Drake returns to Sprint Center in October. Drake started from the bottom, and now he’s coming here – to the Sprint Center, again. The Grammy Award winner’s Would You Like a Tour?, uh, tour stops at Kansas City’s big glass arena Sunday, October 6. Tickets go on sale Friday, June 28. Migue and Future are also on the bill. Drake…
dave_mcmt McDonald’s accepts debit cards, but some of their employees won’t. A 27-year-old McDonald’s employee in Pennsylvania was singing the old Burger King theme song last week: She wanted it her way. And she’s going to sue to make her point. Philly.com reported yesterday that Natalie Gunshannon was expecting to get a paycheck after working at a McDonald’s in Luzerne…
Facebook: Urban Grown Farms and gardens keep popping up across the metro. The farm-to-library movement gets a jump tonight with Plant the Seed: Urban Grown Farms & Gardens Tour Kickoff. Tour sponsor Cultivate Kansas City is bringing together a collection of urban-agriculture advocates for a discussion at the Central Library (14 West 10th Street), the first in a weeklong series…
Facebook: Rock & Brews Rock & Brews opened last month in Redondo Beach. Kiss is hoping to be on your lips and in your stomachs, Overland Parktonians. Rock & Brews, a beer-garden concept from Kiss’ Paul Stanley and Gene Simmons, is opening in the Prairiefire development (135th Street between Nall and Lamar) in early 2014. The outdoor patio “captures the…
qwrrrty Not everyone thinks that children in restaurants are adorable. My late father hated taking his four young children to restaurants. But he did it anyway. For one thing, he believed that the only serious way that youngsters truly developed a sense of behaving properly in a restaurant dining room was to actually eat in a restaurant dining room. We…
Midwest Innocence Project Robert Nelson is a free man. Robert Nelson became a free man on June 12 for the first time since going to prison in the mid-1980s. Nelson, 49 years old when he left the Crossroads Correctional Facility in Cameron on a clear summer Wednesday, was convicted in 1984 of a December 16, 1983, break-in and gang rape…
Mandy Mendon This mobile cupcakery is for sale. The cupcake craze is over for Simonie Wilson. The owner, driver and baker behind 3 Girls Cupcakes has put her cupcake business and cupcake truck on the block. “It’s a family business and it’s always been built around my family, but not as a business,” Wilson says. “It’s grown to the point…
Go Here. Drink Beer. Raise a pint in honor of craft beer this weekend. The third annual Summer Beer Festival goes from 5 to 9 p.m. Saturday on Pennsylvania Avenue in front of McCoy’s (4057 Pennsylvania). Sporting KC is the main sponsor of the event featuring 37 breweries and 96 different brews. Tickets for the festival cost $25 in advance…
Facebook: Italian Gardens To Go Lasagna is now at the other end of the drive through speaker. One of the first rules of any meal involving Italian food is that there is always more food. A little less than two years after closing in the Northland, Italian Gardens To Go (7335 West 119th Street) has returned. John David DiCapo, the…
Kansas City, you’ll have to wait for Mumford & Sons. The band announced Thursday evening the cancellation of Monday’s show at Cricket Wireless Amphitheater as well as an appearances at Bonnaroo and Telluride. Band member Ted Dwane is recovering after surgery to remove a blood clot from his brain. “If we could’ve we would’ve, you know that about us,” the…
Facebook: Wilma’s Wilma’s Real Good Food is bringing Americana cuisine downtown. The Beatles had America. Kansas City food trucks have 12th Street and Walnut. The Food Truck Invasion arrives next Thursday, June 20. Wilma’s Real Good Food (fried bologna and a bacon version of crab Rangoon), Cajun Cabin (gumbo and jambalaya) and Indios Carbonsitos (tortas) will be parked in the…
Facebook: Which Wich Which Wich has arrived. Is it a good ‘wich or bad ‘wich? Kansas City will now decide. Which Wich has opened at 554 Westport Road, Suite 100. The sub shop will be serving more than 50 kinds of “wiches” (the signature is the Wicked with five meats and three cheeses) available on bread or lettuce wraps. Which…
Watts is at Czar tonight. This week in print, I profiled Gee Watts, a 22-year-old rapper that is semi-famous locally for a track he did with Kendrick Lamar, who is currently one of the hottest rappers on the planet. But Watts’ other stuff is strong, too – download his recent tape here – and below is the video for his…
In 1995’s Before Sunrise, Richard Linklater cast Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy as two smug but intelligent 20-somethings who met on a train and spent a magical evening walking around Vienna before saying goodbye. The characters, Jesse and Celine, reconnected in 2004’s Before Sunset, a remarkable film that countered Sunrise’s focus on the intoxicating nature of possibility with a meditation…
If you want to make a film about guys dealing with their feelings and insecurities, you have to gussy it up with gross-out comedy, sci-fi/horror/fantasy trappings, or sports. Or a confrontation with mortality. Or, in the case of This Is the End, all of the above. Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg make their directorial debut with this comedy about the…
I have an idea: How about nothing but tent-pole icons for five years? As in: every U.S. movie devoted to a different franchise figure every summer. Like, say, an all-James Bond season, with Christopher Nolan making his big-ass version for one studio, and Steven Spielberg pushing out his take on the other side of town. Joss Whedon and J.J. Abrams…
Project Playwright, in its second year, puts playwriting to the test. Aspiring local playwrights debut new works that are written, rehearsed and staged in less than 24 hours, then performed before a panel of judges and a voting audience. Participating writers get their assignments at 9 o’clock the night before their 10-minute one-acts are seen. Keep the coffee on. Winners…
