Archives: September 2013

The Reserve at the Ambassador Hotel

Chef Shaun Brady has reinvigorated the Reserve inside the Ambassador Hotel. Take a peek at his menu, via Pitch photographer Angela C. Bond.

T-Mobile thinks merger with Sprint makes sense

Steve Vockrodt,

The telecom business makes for strange bedfellows. The latest odd pairing in the industry rife with rumors is the idea that Overland Park’s Sprint strike a merger deal with T-Mobile. It’s easy to speculate, as some have, about this particular merger in the wireless business. After all, there are really only four major wireless companies in the United States. Sprint…
Music

Stone Temple Pilots With Chester Bennington are bringing all the rock to the VooDoo Lounge in December

Natalie Gallagher,

Earlier this year, Stone Temple Pilots ditched their lead singer, Scott Weiland, and replaced him with longtime bestie and “fan” Chester Bennington, who is also the Linkin Park frontman. The band is now known as Stone Temple Pilots With Chester Bennington. (Seriously.) This December, Stone Temple Pilots With Chester Bennington are coming to the VooDoo Lounge.  Try to contain your excitement.  In…
Dining, Food & Drink

Rolling up on corn flatbread with Eat Arepas

Jonathan Bender,

The pork and veggie arepa from Eat Arepas. You ring the bell and people start salivating,” the man says. In the parking lot of the Environmental Protection Agency’s Lenexa offices, his Pavlovian trigger has arrived. He steps up to the food truck’s window, ready for some Eat Arepas. As the truck’s generator hums and the crowd grows to a dozen…
Music

Apache Relay is at the Granada tomorrow night and it’s FREE

Natalie Gallagher,

You may be wondering if the world truly needs another folk-rock band. Perhaps the notion keeps you awake at night, and you blink drearily up at the ceiling, asking yourself if there will ever be another artist able to seamlessly blend heartfelt acoustics and robust rock elements in a way that touches your soul and makes you believe that music…

UMKC wants the Missouri Legislature to go halfsies on a $90 million downtown campus

Steve Vockrodt,

Kansas City’s better-known citizens – the ones who wear suits and don’t play for theChiefs or Royals – packed Union Station’s Chamber Board Room on September 19. This gathering for those tagged “business and civic leaders” served as an update on the progress of the Greater Kansas City Chamber of Commerce’s “Big 5” ideas. The Big 5 was initiated about…
Music

Matt Pryor and James DeWees have a new EP

Natalie Gallagher,

In between a million other projects, BFFs Matt Pryor and James DeWees (of the KC darlings the Get Up Kids) have been hard at work on a new, collaborative EP. It comes out on Monday, September 30. The boys have just released the first track off the EP, “Failing You.” You can stream it here on Brooklyn Vegan or you…
News

Paul Ryan on his way to town to drum up money for Sam Brownback

Steve Vockrodt,

Is Sam Brownback feeling the heat with an announced competitor in a gubernatorial election still more than a year away and a groundswell of discontent within his own party? Or is the Kansas governor looking to pile-drive his way to a second term by securing the largest margin of victory possible, the same way Richard Nixon pounded George McGovern into…
Music

The city of Branson stars in the new video for Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin’s ‘Nightwater Girlfriend’

David Hudnall,

SSLYBY Springfield, Missouri, indie-pop stars Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin return this month with Fly By Wire, the group’s first proper full-length since 2010’s excellent Let It Sway. (They’re also down a member; singer-guitarist John Cardwell has left the group.) Yesterday, SSLYBY dropped onto the Internet the video for single “Nightwater Girlfriend.” It’s set in Branson, the leading tourist…
Music

Cameron Esposito will be at the Midland on Thursday

Nick Spacek,

Cameron Esposito is a talented comic who – thanks to a combination of her own natural gifts and a lucky slot on the Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson and Jay Leno – is currently taking over the Internet.  The Chicago-born, L.A.-based Esposito has a routine that draws heavily from her personal life as a lesbian, and she often finds…