%{}% Boulevard Brewing Co. has announced 40 breweries that will be taking part in the Saturday “Taps & Tastes” portion of its three-day Boulevardia festival. Among the breweries coming to the West Bottoms for the special Saturday event will be New Belgium, Deschutes, Firestone Walker, Blind Tiger, Jolly Pumpkin, Russian River and many more. Read the full list after the jump. Confirmed for the event…
It seems like the Buzz is aiming to outdo itself with its latest Kegs & Eggs announcement. On April 28, the radio station is bringing the Hold Steady to the Tank Room for an early morning music session. By the time the Brooklyn band rolls into town, its upcoming full-length, Teeth Dreams, will be available, and we’ll probably all know it by…
This Saturday, the Midwest Music Foundation presents the final installment of its SXSW fundraising concert series with a handful of supremely talented and very different acts. Katy Guillen and the Girls is one of Kansas City’s hottest blues-rock acts at the moment, and we have a good feeling that Guillen’s star is only just rising. Sisters Maria and Tess Cuevas…
New to 39th Street. Snuggled in between the recently opened bistro Kansas Town and the year-old Hi-Dive Lounge is another new addition to the 39th Street West neighborhood: the Drunken Worm. A tequila bar with a Mexican-centric food menu, the Drunken Worm opened its doors for business last Wednesday, says general manager Levi Keefer, who has previously worked stints at…
2 Chainz with Pusha T The Midland, Kansas City Thursday, February 27, 2014 For the full slideshow from last night, go here. The 2 Good to Be T.R.U. Tour starring 2 Chainz navigated its way through town Thursday night and docked at the Midland with crack-rap veteran Pusha T and newcomer August Alsina in tow. Nautical references aside, 2 Chainz’s 2013…
2 Chainz and Pusha T took over the Midland on Thursday, February 27. All photos by Zach Bauman.
Local playwrights are about to get a new venue for developing and staging their work. The Midwest Dramatists Center, a young playwrights collective, has signed a lease to establish its headquarters and construct a black-box-laboratory theater in the basement of the Writers Place. The Dramatists Center is the brainchild of founder and playwright David Hanson, but it took the right blend of collaborators…
For the second year in a row, restaurateur Anthony Accurso – of Accurso’s Italian Restaurant at 4890 Main – was selected by participants (using gumballs as ballots) as the winner of the “KC Sweetheart Award” at the third annual Pitch Sugar Rush event. Sugar Rush was held February 20 at the Promise Wedding and Event space at 1814 Oak. Accurso had…
We are getting very close to that time of year when the printer is buzzing in the office, and individuals are furiously scribbling the names of colleges into a white sheet of paper. Yes, it is almost bracket time. The NCAA Tournament is only a few short weeks away and now is an opportunity to begin speculating where the certain…
Will Daniel Bryan be WWE World Heavyweight Champion by the time WWE returns to Kansas City? A lot will have happened by the time WWE’s post-WrestleMania tour stops at the Sprint Center on Tuesday, April 29, for a TV taping of SmackDown. The SmackDown broadcast will be the final show before WWE’s Extreme Rules pay-per-view – the third live event on…
Kurt Scholla, who owns the Bunker, has his own quality-of-life index for his fellow Kansas Citians: T-shirt sales. In recent years, his Westport clothing boutique has seen demand rise for locally themed apparel. So last year, he decided it was time for the store to make its own local mark. The result: a simple but edgy logo centered on the…
Founded in August 2004 by Bill Lee, Meredith Gordon and Allen Blasco, the Kansas Music Hall of Fame has been around only a short while. The inaugural class was inducted in 2005 and included such familiar names as Kansas and Big Joe Turner. For this year, its 10th group of inductees includes Junior Brown and the Bon Ton Soul Accordion…
As the World War I centennial approaches, memorials and monuments take on greater significance. But the distant solemnity of cold marble and bronze leads to an uncomfortable question: Are we remembering the actual people? Kansas City Actors Theatre and UMKC Theatre restore our proximity to the fighting men with their co-production of Journey’s End at the National World War I…
Death-row prisoner Damon Robinson has been reborn, though he is no angel. After a lethal injection fails to kill him, he sits on a cot in his cell, disoriented and confused. He was prepared to die. Now what? In the cell next to Damon’s, James “Roach” Teagle is a little spooked. He wonders how Damon’s uncanny survival might affect his…
Say what you will about our cultural obsession with vampires, it hasn’t bled us completely dry. The Kansas City Ballet finds fresh marrow in the blood-soaked myth with its production of Michael Pink’s Dracula, a charged meeting of classic ballet and rich theatricality. The cast rotates with each performance, but opening night featured in the title role a hypnotic Anthony…
Sting has described Laila Biali as “an exciting and unique talent,” and that’s good enough for us. This Canadian-born pianist and singer weaves pop and soul with her own sense of swing, delivering contemporary songs with a jazz touch. Biali covers music ranging from Frank Sinatra standards to Joni Mitchell and David Bowie but with her own arrangements, bringing a…
Xiu Xiu has made a 12-year career of menacing moods, centered on singer Jamie Stewart’s unflinching and unironic emotion. Think Trent Reznor with maybe eight more razor blades and a driving, warped aural force. In fact, the new Angel Guts: Red Classroom may be Xiu Xiu’s darkest record yet — and that’s saying something. But the avant-industrial band’s frontman isn’t…
Andrew Sinclair is nervous. He isn’t used to being interviewed, he tells me. He taps his foot against the floor inside Westport’s Tea Drops and picks distractedly at the corner of the table. I tell Sinclair that he has no reason to be nervous, that this is just a conversation about his background and his music. He nods his head,…
Screenland at the Symphony: The Wizard of Oz I first saw The Wizard of Oz when I was in middle school, on a boring afternoon spent at my grandmother’s house. She stocked only the classics on VHS, and watching some doe-eyed girl in pigtails sing about rainbows in black-and-white seemed like punishment. (Though it did look better than Citizen Kane.)…
Missouri Auditor Tom Schweich is expected to make a trip to Kansas City on March 4 to announce the results of an extensive and potentially explosive audit by his office into the Hickman Mills C-1 School District. What started as a routine matter has turned into one of the longest and most detailed efforts carried out by the Missouri State…
It’s not unusual for a restaurant to serve a few dishes that aren’t on the menu. Charles d’Ablaing, for instance, tells me that if one of his Chaz on the Plaza diners requests a dish from a previous menu — even five menus back — and he has the ingredients in the kitchen, he’ll make it. Letting people go “off…
After three years of serving lunch and dinner at the Rieger Hotel Grill & Exchange, at 1924 Main, the restaurant’s owners and manager decided to stop lunch service; Friday, February 28, will be the last day of lunch service in the popular downtown bistro. “it was a very bittersweet decision,” Ryan Maybee says. “It was a decision we didn’t want…
