Lazy KC punk act Lazy has a new record out this month, Obsession. It’s available via Moniker Records, and its version of punk is faster and more furious (but not 2 Fast or 2 Furious) than that of previous Lazy albums. The track “Party City” is a representative example of what I’m talking about, and the band just premiered the…
Facebook: Shatto Same cows. New blueberry taste. Shatto is going back to the fruit well for its final limited release of the year. Blueberry milk, the fifth flavor created in honor of the Osborn dairy’s 10th anniversary, will begin appearing on store shelves tomorrow. Shatto released its previous four milks and loosely tied them to holidays, with chocolate cherry (Valentine’s…
Henderson, in 2011. It’s a sad day for the Kansas City music community: Abigail Henderson, a fixture of the KC scene in such bands as the Gaslights, Atlantic Fadeout and Tiny Horse, died yesterday at the age of 35, after a five-year fight with cancer. With her husband, Chris Meck, Henderson also cofounded the Midwest Music Foundation, a nonprofit with…
What do a former porn shop, a brick warehouse and a tiny residential basement have in common? At each site, body-product lovers are handcrafting natural ingredients into the stuff that makes skin happy. Here’s a look at what’s new with three local places that do soap right. Cathryn Simmons and Lori Buntin have built their sprawling paradise at 33rd Street…
Formosa Bakery has started selling its Taiwanese-style desserts and breads at Café Vie (10330 Metcalf, Overland Park). The casual restaurant, on the back side of the gray strip mall at 103rd Street and Metcalf, is known for its Korean, Vietnamese and Asian-inspired food. Inside Café Vie’s cool, casual space, one walk-up counter offers rice and noodle bowls (including pho), sandwiches,…
Diana DeLucia Lidia Bastianich will celebrate her Kansas City success next week. When Lidia’s Kansas City opened in the Crossroads 15 years ago, there had never been a restaurant in the former railroad freight house (there are now three), and restaurateur Lidia Bastianich (the proprietor of Felidia, Becco, Esca and Del Posto restaurants in New York City) had never opened…
Continental rock: the Lower 48 Like Dr. Dog or, more recently, Foxygen, Portland-via-Minneapolis act the Lower 48 capably mines the sunny sounds of mid-’60s heavyweights: the Beatles, the Stones, the Kinks, the Velvets. The group opens here for Oils, whose arty, sprawling jangle rock is some of the best music coming out of Lawrence at the moment. With No/Where. Wednesday,…
One position will rule the first round of your draft: running back. Workhorse backs are a premium commodity, starting with consensus No. 1 pick Adrian Peterson. The exception: the league’s best wide receiver, Calvin Johnson. But the experts agree: Take a running back first or you’ll regret it. The Chiefs have one of the best in Jamaal Charles. He would…
King Louie gets a reprieve Johnson Countians who want their elected commissioners to get out of the bowling-alley renovation business almost got their wish this month. In fact, they did get that wish – for about 10 minutes. In a remarkable Board of County Commissioners meeting August 8, a majority voted to pull $7 million in funding for improvements to…
Go outside. Listen to the bugs until they sound like fiddle music. Or is that a fiddle, just across the county line, praying like crickets? Lie on your back, under heaven, not too far from the blacktop road. Casey Affleck is walking that road. Rooney Mara is down it aways. Pay them no mind yet. Disregard detail. Look at the…
Sprint is shedding jobs. After being the business news darling and finding itself the subject of a bidding war earlier this year, when satellite TV provider Dish got into a bidding war with the Japanese company Softbank, Sprint has returned to headlines for bad news. The company announced today that it’s eliminating 800 customer-service jobs. The good news locally is…
Chris Koster’s investigators had to take a second look at their Walgreens receipts. Earlier this summer, Missouri Attorney General Chris Koster sent staffers to various Walgreens stores across the state, including some in Kansas City, to see if the retail and pharmacy chain’s pricing schemes were up to snuff. What these secret shoppers found, according to a lawsuit filed Tuesday,…
Facebook: Arcobasso’s Arcobasso’s is now open. Mangia, Gladstone. Arcobasso’s Restaurant has opened at 6433 N. Prospect Ave., the former home of Stone Canyon Pizza Co. and the Starpoint Cafe. The Italian restaurant dishes up pizza (square cut, St. Louis style), pasta, sandwiches, salads, soups and burgers (the full menu is here). They’ve recently offered nightly specials of eggplant parmigiano, pasta…
Flickr: Ruth Ellison Breakfast is now one of nearly five meals a day. I’ll admit, I occasionally dabble in what hobbits refer to as “second breakfast.” And I’ve certainly never let a good brunch get in the way of lunch. But I still think I’ve got a lot of fork shoveling to do to catch up with the average American….
LaFaver is giving up his fundraising post. The fallout from Missouri House Rep. Jeremy LaFaver’s marijuana arrest over the weekend has been swift. On Monday, LaFaver (who represents Waldo and Brookside) announced that he was leaving his post as chairman of the House Democratic Victory Committee. The committee is tasked with raising money for House Democratic candidates. LaFaver told the…
Sanders takes some questions about Jackson County’s medical research vote The Jackson County Legislature voted on Monday to put a half-cent sales tax increase before voters in a measure that, if passed, would raise $40 million a year for local health research institutions. Jackson County voters get to decide on November 5 whether sending $800 million in sales taxes over…
Ally Lullaby Pass the Cheetos…Not all rats are cuddly pets, you know? For the second time in two years, a midtown location of the North Carolina-based Family Dollar Stores has been closed by the Kansas City Health Department due to an ongoing severe rat infestation; inspectors had done three inspections of the same store – 1201 East Meyer Boulevard –…
LaFaver had the Sunday blues. It’s one of those cardinal rules people sometimes learn the hard way: You’ve gotta be paying those traffic tickets. If you’re not paying those traffic tickets, be careful driving and don’t keep pot around. Jeremy LaFaver, a Kansas City Democrat serving his first term in the Missouri House, followed neither of those maxims and has…
Facebook: Extra Virgin Unger took home first prize at PopFest. There was a whole lot of shaking going on. There was a bit of muddling. And some straining. But at the end of the Paris of the Plains Bartending Competition, it was Extra Virgin’s Paige Unger who stood victorious. Unger captured the contest Sunday night on the stage of the…
Twitter Adam Teicher will ply his Chiefs trade at ESPN. A second (that we know of) Kansas City Star scribe this week has one foot out the door of the paper of record’s stately 18th Street and Grand newsroom. Adam Teicher, who covers the Kansas City Chiefs for The Star, confirmed via Twitter just moments ago that he’s covering Saturday’s…
Eric ‘Mean’ Melin’s last-minute flight to Finland paid off. Melin won the 2013 Air Guitar World Championships in Oulu, Finland. Melin tied fellow American Doug “The Thunder” Stroock in the second round, leading to an “air off” playoff to Weezer’s Hash Pipe. Melin dominated, winning the air-off and the “Flying Finn” guitar. Earlier this week, Melin flew to Finland to…
