When they were kings. Kings of Leon returned last month with Mechanical Bull, the band’s first new album since its tour meltdown in 2011. Today, the Followill boys announced a very grand comeback tour of sorts that will arrive in Kansas City at the Sprint Center on Wednesday, March 5. Tickets are on sale next Friday, November 1. Categories: Music…
When the temperature dropped this afternoon, the lunch crowd at Cascone’s Grill wanted the fried chicken special. Cascone’s Grill, the family-owned Italian diner across the street from the City Market at 17 East 5th Street, serves a three-piece pan-fried chicken lunch on Thursdays and Saturdays for $8.75. The meal includes two vegetables (today it was mashed potatoes and sweet corn)…
GQ Wiggins gets the men’s mag treatment. No pressure on Andrew Wiggins or anything: After gracing the cover of Sports Illustrated earlier this month, the University of Kansas freshman – who has literally not played a single college basketball game – is now featured in the November issue of GQ. The headline is “Andrew Wiggins: Next year’s #1 NBA Draft…
Kansas City area music fans might not recognize The Boxer Rebellion by name, but they’ve likely heard the London-based indie rock group’s music by way of popular TV shows and movie soundtracks, as well as video games and commercials. The band’s name – taken from a violent moment at the turn of the 20th century – shouldn’t scare away any…
Flickr/au_tiger01 To the so-called, uh, Christian couple who left, in lieu of a tip, a handwritten message on their credit-card receipt this week: It’s a good thing your waiter saw the note before his mother, a hostess at the same restaurant, did. There might have been a post-supper ass-kicking at the Carrabbas Italian Grill restaurant at 10586 Metcalf Lane in…
Contemporary theater often seems to value politics over performance. We’ve come to expect some plays to make us squirm in our seats as they shed light on the (usually grim) human condition. Sometimes, though, we just want to watch a VW bus full of Ku Klux Klan regalia explode onstage. To that end, the Kansas City Repertory Theatre offers The…
It’s just before midnight on a Friday in early October — excellent drinking weather — and the Waldo bars hubbed around the intersection of 75th Street and Wornall are teeming with partiers. Don’t be fooled by its casual name: Quinton’s Bar & Deli is a hulking nightclub after dark, with strobe lights, beefy bouncers, and hip-hop and dance music blaring…
“Writers aren’t people,” a character says in Seminar. Theresa Rebeck’s latest play — co-produced here by the Unicorn and UMKC Theatre — pivots on that difficult premise: how to dramatize the intrinsically private, silent act of writing. In a New York apartment, four aspiring writers meet for a workshop. They have shelled out $5,000 apiece for the privilege of having…
Lisa Henry already had a huge following in Kansas City before she competed in the Thelonious Monk International Jazz Vocals Competition. When she took second place in the contest in 1994, she captured the world’s notice, too. Henry’s vibrant voice, layered with a delightful sass, masterfully swings through jazz standards. On Friday, she joins the Jazz Disciples, a quartet of…
After midnight on a Thursday, trumpeter and Diverse Jazz co-leader Hermon Mehari is laughing with a group of friends — Kansas City rapper Reach, Hearts of Darkness drummer Brad Williams, soul singer Lee Langston, Good Foot singer Julia Haile — at a beat-up Formica table at YJ’s Snack Bar. Scraps of scribbled-on paper are littered around the group. Mehari has…
After a run of increasingly melodic and well-received albums, culminating with 2009’s Merriweather Post Pavilion, Animal Collective did an about-face on last year’s challenging Centipede Hz. The record pleased the avant-garde group’s core fans but confused others with its miles-deep layers. It is supposedly about radio waves communicating from space, but it may as well have been telling fans, “Art…
Night Beats Who says rock and roll is dead? Night Beats has taken the soul of 1960s psychedelic rock and given it a body, in the form of a new album called Sonic Bloom. If your teenage self were locked in a basement with your parents’ old vinyl, a bottle of terrible tequila and some instruments, this is the kind…
Matthew Kaney no doubt knows that paramount parental aphorism, “It’s all fun and games until somebody gets hurt.” What kids rarely hear after that warning is that U.S. capitalism may be what inflicts the damage. So says Kaney’s witty but obvious All Fun & Games, now at Plug Projects. The five sleek, stand-alone game consoles he has built for this…
A newly formed and shadowy campaign committee popped up on Wednesday with the Missouri Ethics Commission. It purports to oppose the November 5 ballot measure in Jackson County to increase sales taxes by a half-cent for medical research. But information about the committee is not readily available. Citizens For Fairness registered with the Missouri Ethics Commission on Wednesday, two days…
Most people I know hate the Eagles. Like, vehemently loathe them. (Last month, a woman stabbed her roommate just for listening to them.) And I know their distaste is perfectly justified: In its 42-year history, the band has delivered an astounding number of hits that have left oily grease marks on the great tablecloth of American rock. But let’s be real….
Kansas City’s reflexive provincial thinking came into autumn bloom last week when Boulevard Brewing Company’s John McDonald announced the sale of his majority stake in the local beer company to Belgian brewer Duvel Moortgat. Social media surged with lamentations, and disaffected Boulevard enthusiasts took turns pledging they’d enjoyed their last bottles from the plucky local success story. Some have likened…
Donald Stephenson didn’t realize how powerful he was. For his senior year, the future Oklahoma Sooners and Kansas City Chiefs offensive lineman had transferred to Blue Springs High School. During the school’s annual spring scrimmage, the offense ran a play called “power.” The 282-pound Stephenson aimed for the tackle, swung off him and picked up the linebacker. “I guess I…
It’s going to be a lot harder to find this stuff in town. Earlier this month, the owners of Bocomo Bay, a Columbia, Missouri-based head shop, were slapped with a federal indictment for allegedly distributing over $2 million worth of K2. At 11 a.m. yesterday, local retailers of the synthetic drug were the target of a metro-wide raid that hit…
Hometown: Kansas City, Missouri Current neighborhood: Maple Woods What I do (in 140 characters): I keep my hand on the pulse of the KC arts scene and reach out to local artists, performers and musicians to feature at benefit events for Cancervive KC, a local organization dedicated to raising money for local families battling cancer. What’s your addiction? Thai Food,…
Michael Gelphman’s mind is in the stratosphere. Gelphman, the 37-year-old founder of the Kansas City IT Professionals online community, recently sent the message about his next Compute Midwest conference – “Imagine the Future” – 21 miles toward space on a weather balloon. He and some physics and engineering students from the University of Kansas had outfitted the balloon with a…
Via @therajwacompany Instagram Jesus Christ. Just announced: Kanye West will return to the Sprint Center on Tuesday, December 3, for a show with Kendrick Lamar. ‘Ye last performed in Kansas City right around this time two years ago, with Jay Z, on the Watch the Throne tour. Tickets are on sale this Friday, October 25, at noon. Based on early…
If you were wondering when Boulevard’s Chocolate Ale would be making a comeback, you now have your answer. Boulevard posted this brewing schedule for its scheduled 2014 Smokestack Series and limited-release beers on Facebook this afternoon. Which beer are you most looking forward to tasting? Categories: Dining, Food & Drink Tags: boulevard, boulevard brewing company, chocolate ale, smokestack series
