Do you feel like we do about Frampton at the Kauffman Center? We may be a few days late on this one, but Peter Frampton is coming to Kansas City August 18. And the Brit rocker is bringing B.B. King and Sonny Landreth with him to the Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts. The three will play together in the…
Trent Reznor. Big day for Nine Inch Nails fans. In addition to releasing a pretty great new single from an upcoming Nails album, Trent Reznor has also announced extended dates for a huge tour across the U.S. and Europe. It stops in Kansas City, at the Sprint Center, on Monday, September 30. Explosions in the Sky opens. Tickets on sale…
Saying Yea While there was some predictable schadenfreude at the cancellation of Kanrocksas (this week’s follow-up on that situation here), ultimately it was KC who is losing out on seeing a bunch of pretty great acts – Kendrick Lamar, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Passion Pit and the Avett Brothers as of now will not be paying us a visit. At least…
Facebook: Farmhouse The cous cous salad at the Farmhouse for meatless Monday. Kansas City earned the moniker of cowtown honestly by ensuring that plenty of cattle came in whole, but most left in pieces. And quite of few of those pieces ended up in Kansas Citians. That said, I was surprised to see that VegNews had named Kansas City as…
Facebook: Shot Stop That entire board is filled with shots. A Manhattan import has officially arrived in Kansas City. Shot Stop (7439 Broadway) opens Friday at 3 p.m. in the space previously occupied by Point Loco, Taco Factory and the Sweet Guy. The sports bar, the first outpost opened in Aggieville four years ago, focuses on two things: shots and…
John squared. They Might Be Giants has been perfecting its bite-size nerd rock over the past 30 years, carving out along the way as distinct an identity as any band working today. An album titled Nanobots (released in March), including 25 songs in 45 minutes, with titles such as “Circular Karate Chop” and “Insect Hospital”? That could only be the…
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On May 17, the organizers of the Kanrocksas Music Festival announced that a “limited” number of single-day tickets were being made available, for $99. (Two-day tickets had been on sale since March, for $175.) A week and a half later — exactly one month before the event was to be held at the Kansas Speedway — we all learned that…
Musical-theater geeks, start your engines. The Metropolitan Ensemble Theatre’s production of Ragtime has everything you want from a big show: lavish lighting and costumes, powerhouse performances, and emotional songs that swell to the top of the MET’s intimate space. Ragtime follows three sets of characters whose storylines intersect in early 20th-century America, what the show calls “an era of something…
winard harper sextet Often, jazz drummers operate in the background — jumping at the occasional solo but mostly laying a base, part of the foundation on which saxophones and horns build. Not so when the group bears the drummer’s name. Since the 1980s, Winard Harper — who backed sax legend Dexter Gordon and spent four years with singer Betty Carter…
Miley Cyrus, Willow Smith — nepotism in the music industry has reached comical heights in recent years. Even the talented ones, like Solange Knowles, are a little hard to root for. But in the case of Sarah Lee Guthrie — daughter of Arlo, granddaughter of Woody — and Johnny Irion, nepotism isn’t quite the word. “Cosmic inevitability” seems more appropriate….
They Might Be Giants They Might Be Giants has been perfecting its bite-size nerd rock over the past 30 years, carving out along the way as distinct an identity as any band working today. An album titled Nanobots (released in March), including 25 songs in 45 minutes, with titles such as “Circular Karate Chop” and “Insect Hospital”? That could only…
Jermaine Reed points to the plot of land where the Horace Mann Elementary School once stood, on 39th Street overlooking U.S. Highway 71. The school, abandoned in 1979, burned in a December 2011 fire. Reed, the 28-year-old 3rd District councilman, saw the blaze as an opportunity to live out a childhood fantasy: tear down the school. In January, he sponsored…
West 18th Street Fashion Show organizers were a few hours and drinks deep into a conversation when their focus turned to wealth distribution. “We began speaking about how most of the money in America is in the hands of just a few families,” says Peregrine Honig, the event’s artistic director. That night last fall, the team landed on 2013’s show…
Collection — which chef-owner Celina Tio says she named for a gathering place in the boarding school she attended in her youth — is going to be a wonderful restaurant when it grows up. It’s been a challenging infancy so far. Tio may have taken this unforgiving stretch of Grand in the spirit of “build it and they will come,”…
Twitter Brooks says he didn’t throw his weight around for Mayweather event Kansas City Councilman Michael Brooks said the press created a storm around $15,000 that went missing from City Hall for a Floyd Mayweather Jr. event that never happened. Brooks took to 1590 AM Wednesday afternoon to deny any inappropriate conduct in obtaining $15,000 from City Manager Troy Schulte…
The 1907 Woods mansion will soon be checking in paying guests. The neighborhood surrounding the Kansas City Art Institute was once one of the most exclusive suburbs of Kansas City, lined with stately mansions (including the former August R. Meyer estate, which has been the centerpiece of the Kansas City Art Institute campus since 1927) that are, for the most…
Chef Celina Tio made a splash with her first restaurant when she opened Julian in Brookside five years ago. Her newest concept, located at 1532 Grand — just south of the Power & Light District — will be two dining spots, both to be an homage to her childhood boarding school in West Chester, Pennsylvania. The just-opened Collection is named…
Photos by Zach Bauman It can be a gamble to go see a band like the xx play live. Their music is lovely, brooding and atmospheric, very calm and minimalist. So soothing even that when their self-titled debut was released, I used to put it on when I was going to sleep. Singers Romy Madley Croft and Oliver Smith deliver…
Who made that beer? If it’s good, who cares? As regulars of many, many watering holes around town, we’ve found a funny trend: Bars without their own breweries offering their own brands of beer. It’s not a bad gimmick for tavern owners, who buy some not-so-great beer from breweries, slap the establishments’ names on the kegs and hang up signs…
Whig out. The Whigs was one of the best bands I caught at Middle of the Map back in April, and part of the reason I dug its set so much was because it wasn’t what I thought it would be. My understanding was that the Athens, Georgia, trio trafficked in semicorny Southern rock, but really what they do is…
Photo by Sabrina Staires Name: Eric Sader Occupation: executive director, Jana’s Campaign Inc. Hometown: Salina, Kansas Current neighborhood: University Place, Lawrence Who or what is your sidekick? My smartphone What career would you choose in an alternate reality? Dinner-theater co-owner What was the last local restaurant you patronized? Korma Sutra Where do you drink? Where the specials scream loudest. Categories:…
Ed Ford thought new ethics laws weren’t terribly tough The Kansas City, Missouri, City Council spent two years working on ethics legislation, but you wouldn’t have guessed it based on what passed May 30. The new ethics ordinance says no city employee or official can accept gifts worth more than $1,000 from someone with a “substantial interest in any legislative…
