Just in time for the dog days of summer, we’re rolling out our annual Best of Kansas City ballot and asking you: What brunch stands a breed apart? Which local clothier sets your tail wagging? Where can you get a tequila cocktail that bares its pretty fangs at you? Tell us your No. 1 places to eat, drink, shop and…
Flickr: RobotClaw666 Corn is a vegetable, right? The Missouri State Fair (2503 W. 16th St., in Sedalia) runs through Sunday, August 18. The gates open daily at 7:30 a.m., and you can catch everything from tractor pulls to Chubby Checker during the busy event. Along the way, you can munch on corn dogs, fried dough and cotton candy – all…
Paul Davis has served in the Kansas Legislature since 2003. Paul Davis, the House Minority Leader for the Kansas Democratic Party, plans to run for governor in 2014. A campaign and fundraising website has popped for the longtime member of the Kansas House from Lawrence. Davis indicated on his website that a formal announcement would come later on. Categories: News…
Justice finally arrived for Murguia. After 17 months, the case of who shoved Wyandotte County commissioner, executive director of the Argentine Neighborhood Development Association and failed mayoral candidate Ann Murguia in the back has finally ended. The nearly year-and-a-half-long saga began in March 2012 during a community meeting at the Argentine Civic Center. Murguia claimed that somebody shoved her in…
Angela C. Bond The empty Beacon may have a well-branded new tenant. The ill-fated midtown restaurant at 5031 Main known – for a year, anyway – as the Beacon is being considered as a future site for the Johnson County-based Nick & Jake’s restaurant. (The second Nick & Jake’s is in Parkville.) Nick & Jake’s owners, Kevin Timmons and Doug…
The members of Minden trucked it out to Portland, Oregon, last year, and they’ve really refined their whole aesthetic out there. Musically, it’s all glassy synths, falsettos and airy, earworm melodies – kind of like a super-cokey version of Spoon. Visually, it’s a lot of sleazy sexuality, with an unwavering commitment to body hair. Categories: Music Tags: minden
Chipotle You don’t need somebody else telling you that you should shop at a farmers market. But this time it’s different. Honest. Chipotle is giving out $10 tokens to the first 250 people at each of nine farmers markets on Saturday in honor of Farmers Market Week. The burrito pushers are handing out a total of $25,000 in the Kansas…
South African director Neill Blomkamp hit the ground running four years ago with District 9, an imaginative futuristic thriller that presented a world where extraterrestrials lived here, segregated in shantytowns — a not-so-veiled allegory of his country’s troubled racial legacy. With his second feature, Elysium, the writer-director’s vision has expanded along with his profile. A space-age variation on Metropolis, Elysium…
It’s crunch time inside this two-story, 130-year-old building in downtown Smithville. Fifteen days from this July afternoon, it opens as the Three Link Gallery. Workers are putting up partial Sheetrock walls in the front room — a space where tall, exposed brick walls run up to a white pressed-tin ceiling. An inspector surveys the progress. Industrial fans blare in the…
If Sufjan Stevens and Bon Iver had a cornfed Kansas baby, it might make music a little like that of David Burchfield and the Great Stop. The band’s music is spare, lovely and interested in the mystical — and now that we’ve come to appreciate it, Burchfield and his bandmates are all headed in different directions across the country for…
Friday night, about 25 local acts assembled on five different stages in the Westport area for The Pitch Music Showcase. There were guitars. There was progressive fashion. There were spilled drinks. There was at least one fight. It was an excellent time. Below, some memories. And don’t forget about The Pitch Music Awards, this Sunday, August 11, at the Uptown…
The Pitch Music Awards Air-guitar hero and Dead Girls drummer Eric “Mean” Melin once again hosts our annual Pitch Music Awards. In addition to Melin and a few other guest appearances, you get performances from old-school jumpin’-jazz group Grand Marquis, thundering psych from the Conquerors, and hearty cock rock from Cherokee Rock Rifle — for an $8 entry ($25 if…
“We’re in Methville. Where is everybody?” Rebecca Caster, her blond hair swept into a ponytail, has posed her question from the passenger seat of an ancient Kansas City, Missouri, Police Department Crown Victoria. She and her partner, Aaron Kohrs, are cruising Sector 30, a territory bounded roughly by Interstate 435 to the east, Missouri Highway 210 to the south, Northeast…
Conrad’s Restaurant & Alehouse is almost certainly the biggest dining operation in Liberty. (The place used to be a CVS pharmacy.) It’s also clearly a prototype for the kind of combination restaurant and saloon that plays well in various suburbs. I have no trouble picturing another, equally big Conrad’s in Olathe or in Lee’s Summit. Shawn Conrad Barber, you see,…
The Times gives Anton’s some love. Two writers from The New York Times were kiicking around the Kansas City area this week. One took in a stage production of The Wizard of Oz in Pittsburg. Because what else are you going to do when you’re visiting Kansas from Manhattan? Right? The other, wisely dropped by Anton’s Taproom at 1610 Main…
Sabrina Staires Abbie Marshall Abbie Marshall’s bright, bold style pops inside Reused Furniture – a store that, beyond Marshall’s front corner, sells a sea of consignment goods. The business sits between a now-defunct Waid’s restaurant and A.B.I.A. (A Bargain Insurance Agency), an antidote to the dreariness of this Olathe shopping strip. Given the demand for upcycled furniture around here lately,…
The Galloping Goose Motorcycle Club has had a stranglehold on the Kansas City area since the 1950s. The club enforced a “100-mile rule” here. No other outlaw gang – 1-percenters, as they like to call themselves – could operate within 100 miles of the metro. But the Goose’s grip on KC has begun to slacken as its closed membership ranks…
The legal coast is clear, for now, for the streetcar. Jeff “Stretch” Rumaner and Sue Ann Burke should have sued the Kansas City streetcar project sooner, an appeals court ruled on Wednesday. The Missouri Court of Appeals, Western District, issued a long-awaited ruling that upheld a Jackson County Circuit Court judge’s decision to jettison a lawsuit that sought to thwart…
Chris Mullins Volunteers prepare the home brew samples for judging. In a warehouse filled with nearly 500,000 gallons of beer, only 94 bottles matter on this Saturday. Each contains a home brewer’s hopes – and a concoction created with wort supplied by Boulevard Brewing Co. In May, the KC beer giant offered free 5-gallon batches of wort (the malted barley…
Corvino is ready to “freaking go” at The American. The American Restaurant may be Kansas City’s greatest culinary contradiction. The jewel of Crown Center has a storied past and a stunning roster of former chefs (including James Beard winner Debbie Gold). It has resonated with the city , even as it hasn’t always been able to turn special-occasion diners into…
Name: Eric Melin Occupations: Social-media marketing manager, Spiral16; film critic, Scene-Stealers.com, KCTV Channel 5, Lawrence Journal-World; drummer, the Dead Girls Hometown: Olathe Current neighborhood: Lawrence What I do (in 140 characters): Create and curate great content in the social-media, movie and rock-and-roll arenas. Enjoy life with my wonderful friends and family. What’s your addiction? Movies and rock ‘n’ roll, baby….
Conrad’s Restaurant and Alehouse makes a big impression in Liberty. Photos by Angela C. Bond.
Shades of Jade bills itself as a “neo-soul quartet.” Josh Williams winds an often eloquent, R&B-influenced trumpet through each song as if on a journey. Eddie Moore’s keyboards are the guide, weaving notes into solos of life and imagination. Dominique Sanders’ bass grounds the group, while Julian Goff’s drumming rhythms drive it forward. The music comes together with a leisurely,…
