The Unified Government of Wyandotte County has done the Kansas City T-Bones a solid. The UG quietly agreed to buy the semipro baseball franchise’s stadium and gave its owners a break on their delinquent taxes. An announcement on November 18 from the UG cast its plans to buy CommunityAmerica Ballpark with $8 million of taxpayer money as a “partnership.” That’s…
Few bands’ songs lodge themselves as resolutely in your brain as Third Eye Blind’s. I have a slightly paranoid theory that “Jumper” and “How’s It Going to Be” are government-funded songs filled with subliminal messages. I mean, that would at least explain why Third Eye Blind garnered such massive airplay in the late ’90s. What was happening in the world…
Name: David Hall Occupation: Anchor and reporter, KMBC Channel 9 Hometown: I was born in Hampton Roads, Virginia, but for me, home is where my family is from, and that’s Latin America. Current neighborhood: The Plaza What I do (in 140 characters): I am a TV broadcaster/journalist. I anchor the news Friday and Saturday evenings on KMBC and KCWE and…
Goin’ out west: Dutton. George Kottaras is not the only guy who won’t be around the Kansas City Royals clubhouse next year. Bob Dutton, who has served as the team’s beat reporter since 2000, announced yesterday that he had accepted a new job. “A heads up: this twitter handle and its focus will change in a few weeks. Have accepted…
Please don’t call Brooke Salvaggio a hypocrite. Artist and restaurateur Jeff “Stretch” Rumaner threw out that word a week ago commenting on the new (and still unopened) Papa John’s Pizza carryout venue opening in the building owned by Salvaggio’s parents, Bruce and Barb Salvaggio. The BadSeed Market, run by Brooke and her husband, Dan Heryer, at 1909 McGee, is also a tenant…
Kansas City will have some big draws for concerts from now through the end of February. Some of the biggest names in music will be playing the best and biggest venues in the Kansas City area. Everyone could be sure to find a concert of their liking, regardless of their taste in music, as artists from multiple genres will be…
Rivalry Week is an eventful week in college football and the SEC matchup of Texas A&M at Missouri will be no different. The Aggies and Tigers will continue being conference rivals since they both came over from the Big 12 together, but will now grow this rivalry in one of the biggest conferences in the NCAA. Texas A&M came into…
The 2013-14 college basketball season is underway and the Kansas Jayhawks are already off to a terrific start to the season. Freshman guard Andrew Wiggins has already shown why he has been considered one of the best college prospects in years, as he’s averaging 16.8 points and 6.3 rebounds per game. There’s some high expectations this seasons for the Jayhawks,…
The Kansas City Chiefs will be hosting the Denver Broncos in a Week 13 game that could be the closest a regular season game can be to a playoff game. A significant amount of playoff positioning could be decided by this one game. With both the Broncos and Chiefs having 9-2 records, the winner of this game will likely be…
Via Antlers Facebook. The Antlers, being not especially hilarious. Last night, for the second consecutive game, members of the Antlers – a long-running, unsanctioned spirit group at Mizzou known for being loud assholes at Missouri Tigers football and basketball games – were ejected from Mizzou Arena by university police. The backstory is that, a week ago, the Mizzou athletic department…
Local country-music sweethearts the Grisly Hand have just released a new music video, “Country Singles,” after the title track from their September-released full-length album. It’s a clever little thing, and you can watch a darling romance unfold, drive-in style. It also features crazed backwoods cultish hippies, which is always fun. Here, take a look, and try not to tap your…
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Rusko Midland Theater, Kansas City Monday, November 25, 2013 I feel like I have to apologize to dubstep enthusiasts in advance for this review. Going to review English dubstep producer Rusko is, to the average person, going to try and comprehend dubstep itself. For an incredibly popular genre, it is probably the most misunderstood, and I’m sure I will get…
Big Freedia with LC, Brent Tactic, Rooms Without Windows Riot Room, Kansas City Monday, November 25, 2013 For the full slideshow from last night, click here. When preparing to enter the truly unique world that is a Big Freedia concert, one must be prepared, primarily, for one thing: Ass. Lots and lots of ass. For that is what the Queen…
With an army of professional booty shakers – male and female – from his hometown of New Orleans, Big Freedia, the Queen of Bounce, gave the reasonably sized Monday-night crowd at the Riot Room something to sweat for. With openers LC, Brent Tactic, and Rooms Without Windows.All photos by Zach Bauman.
Heady times in southern Missouri are no more. Back in 2010, federal agents swarmed and seized Camp Zoe, a 352-acre patch of campground in southern Missouri owned by Jimmy Tebeau. The feds claimed that the weekend festivals Tebeau hosted on the property, such as Schwagstock, doubled as a massive open-air drug market. Prosecutors later alleged that drug dealers sold somewhere…
Though they aren’t related by blood, the four boys of the Harmed Brothers like to think of themselves as bound to one another by the common religion of music. On Come Morning, the Oregon band’s latest full-length, singers Ray Vietti and Alex Salcido unpack their rough-edged, banjo-heavy songs with characteristic gravel-road weariness. It’s the kind of music that would feel…
The “Closed” sign was posted on the front door of the Westport breakfast and lunch venue, Simply Breakfast, in October. A month later, the location at 4120 Pennsylvania has a new tenant: Ernesto Peralta Jr., creator of Blanc Burgers + Bottles. But don’t assume another Blanc is going into the space. Peralta started out in Westport, but after closing the…
If you’ve ever dipped your toes into the warm, rich waters of Kansas City jazz, no doubt Bobby Watson’s name will sound familiar to you. Tomorrow, the famed local saxophonist-composer-producer (and director of jazz studies over at UMKC) will be releasing physical copies of his new album titled Check Cashing Day. The album was released earlier this year on August…
Despite his name, Eddie Spaghetti does not, in fact, sing hokey-pokey nursery rhymes – although if his successful career as a country singer-songwriter ever fails him, that’s certainly an option. The longtime Supersuckers frontman has a new solo album out called The Value of Nothing. Aside from the enjoyable heaps of twang and guitars, Spaghetti shows a surprisingly deeper, more…
