Kid Sister, Body2body with DJ Sheppa Riot Room, Kansas City, MO Saturday, January 4, 2014 For the full slideshow, click here. Blizzardlike conditions and another in a series of heartbreaking playoff football losses couldn’t kill the dance vibe when Kid Sister took the stage at the Riot Room Saturday night. She started by avoiding a mistake some other artists make…
Blizzardlike conditions and another in a series of heartbreaking playoff football losses couldn’t kill the dance vibe when Kid Sister took the stage at the Riot Room Saturday night. With Body2body and DJ Sheppa. All photos by Zach Bauman.
When I saw that William Shatner is coming to Planet Comicon 2014, I cursed aloud. Yes, Star Trek’s Captain Kirk himself is coming to Kansas City – but for one day only. Shatner will be in KC March 16 for “a limited schedule for photos and autographs,” according to Planet Comicon’s website. And you can bet that his sessions are going…
The Kansas City Police Department has identified Jose Medellin as the city’s first homicide victim of 2014. Medellin, 40, was found shot to death inside an apartment building in the 4000 block of Harvard Circle around 8 p.m. on New Year’s Day. He was pronounced dead a short time after police arrived on the scene. Witnesses told detectives that two suspects were…
Veach (left) and Racen behind the bar at the Tank Room. The storefront at 1813 Grand (just south of the Green Lady Lounge) was previously the Gold Exchange, a shop where people traded in their jewelry for cash. For the past several months, Dustin Racen and Chadwick Veach have been building the space into a bar called the Tank Room,…
Chicago-by-way-of-L.A. MC Melisa Young, better known as Kid Sister, is on the up and up. She has collaborated with some big names in the hip-hop world in recent years, including Kanye West, Danny Brown and Riff Raff. She recently debuted a new music video for her song “Bed Breaker” and a fresh track called “Hoes in this House,” which both…
Janet Rogers/UMKC R. Crosby Kemper Jr. receives an honorary degree from UMKC Chancellor Leo Morton in May 2013 R. Crosby Kemper Jr., the longtime Kansas City banker who used his money and influence for various local causes, died in California on Thursday. Kemper was 86. Kemper led UMB Financial Corporation, historically regarded as one of the better-run banking institutions in…
American Aquarium brought the church of country music to an appreciative Knuckleheads crowd. All photos by Zach Bauman.
American Aquarium Knuckleheads, Kansas City Thursday, January 2, 2014 For the full slideshow, click here. See also: American Aquarium’s B.J. Barham loves what he does – even if it sounds depressing “We’re gonna play a bunch of sad songs, then we’re gonna play some loud songs about drinking, then we’re gonna play some songs that’ll make you want to call your…
Happy New Year to the city The New York Times called a culturally rich metropolis … four years ago. We’re confident that things have only gotten better, especially First Friday. The gallery offerings January 3 include a new set of sculptures by Detroit native Herbert Williams III at Plenum Space (504 East 18th Street) that transport you into his journey…
A bank robbery is one of those crimes that doesn’t make any sense. Bank tellers usually don’t carry more than a few thousand dollars in cash, at most, behind the counter. There are cameras everywhere in and around the bank. And when police officers get the call about a bank robbery, they don’t wait around to respond to the call. …
UPDATE: Scott Welsch decided, this afternoon, to call his new restaurant Orange Box. The original post follows. Scott Welsch, who closed his 16-month-old lunch-only restaurant, Orange Box at 2700 Jarboe, in August, will open his new restaurant on Monday. As of today, that new venue at 240 East Linwood (formerly occupied by the Jericho Cafe) has no name. Welsch says…
Neiv is kind of creepy. The Italian trio makes dark, synthed-out rock music that is strangely reminiscent of the Talking Heads, if the Talking Heads were more inclined towards goth sounds. The band’s Friday night RecordBar show is one of only nine U.S. dates, so if you have a thing for either Italians or eyeliner – or Italians with eyeliner…
One of my earliest hair memories is Wolf Girl, a game I played as a little girl with my older brother. We’d flip my hair over my face, a move we thought transformed me into a wolf. When I realized that other kids didn’t do this, I knew there was something different about my hair. There was simply more of…
I was at my gym — TheGymKC, in midtown — not long ago, and my lower back was sore. It has been sore approximately half the time since the 2011 afternoon when I threw out my back carrying a window air-conditioning unit up two flights of stairs. I was 28. Now I’m 31, an age that seems too young to…
Four years ago, Lori and Doug Chandler opened Take Five Coffee + Bar and have since built it into a suburban weekend jazz oasis. Friday, Take Five celebrates its anniversary with champagne, cake and, more important, the music of Dexter Gordon — as played by Brett Jackson & Friends. Jackson’s rich tenor-sax tone and winding, lyrical, consistently fresh solos place…
It’s a miracle that American Aquarium has survived these past seven years. The band’s five members carry a reputation for fast living, playing more than 250 shows a year. And lead singer B.J. Barham certainly sounds weathered. Barham’s rough, whiskey-stung vocals push against twangy guitar notes and rowdy drums on 2012’s Burn.Flicker.Die. Despite the bleak title, Burn gave American Aquarium…
“You’ve probably never heard of me,” singer-songwriter Scott Hrabko warns in a note attached to a copy of his full-length debut, Gone Places. “My musical career has been a textbook example of bad timing, missed connections, stops and starts and detours.” Indeed, there have been plenty of detours on Hrabko’s musical journey. He started playing when he was 25, picking…
Neiv Neiv is kind of creepy. The Italian trio makes dark, synthed-out rock that would suggest Talking Heads if Talking Heads had exhibited goth inclinations. In Neiv’s videos, bassist Lorena, keyboard player Jennie, and guitarist and lead singer PJ — none of the members use last names — are either entwined in some sort of sexily depressed three-way (“Isola”) or…
If I were planning to open a British-style pub in the metro, I’m not sure I’d choose a location on the periphery of Gladstone — the Clay County hamlet famous for In-A-Tub, Hayes Hamburgers and Chili, and the China One Buffet. Then again, legendary statesman William Ewart Gladstone, who served four terms as British prime minister during the Victorian era,…
