Sporting Kansas City’s fortunes went from bad to worse on a cloudy evening in Los Angeles on May 14, 2011. In the midst of a withering 10-game road trip, Sporting trailed the L.A. Galaxy 3-1. Late in the game, international soccer star David Beckham stood patiently to the left of Sporting’s goal, sizing up his prospects for an upcoming free…
I don’t know what happened to the Samurai Club. I can’t tell you the fate of the scrapbooking shop, either — or any of the other businesses now absent from Quivira Square, the forlorn suburban strip at 78th Street and Quivira. But there’s one bright spot among these empty Lenexa storefronts: Four Seasons Pizza & Pasta. Operated by Italians Giulio…
Kings of Leon at the Sprint Center
Famed master violinist Joshua Bell may best be known in the pop-culture world for two things. First, he played the beautiful solo arrangement for the violin-centered 1998 film The Red Violin. Second, he was part of an experiment conducted in a subway a handful of years ago, in which he, performing sort of incognito (he had a baseball cap on, anyway),…
%{}% Add one more death to a list that already includes the Arabian Nights, the Back Door Bar, the Cabaret, the Dixie Belle, and the Fox: the former View on the Hill (also called the View in later years) at 204 Orchard in the Strawberry Hill neighborhood of Kansas City, Kansas. The original owners of the neighborhood bar opened the venue in…
“I remember a quote from Clement Greenberg: ‘As we get older, our tastes should widen as they become more refined.’” So says Jordan Stempleman when you ask him how he chooses the participants in his ongoing A Common Sense Reading Series. That Stempleman cites an art critic rather than, say, Billy Collins is typical of his own broad cultural appetites. With…
If you’ve had an ear to the ground in recent weeks, you’ve doubtlessly heard rumors about Brent Tactic’s new gig – which makes sense, given the relatively recent quiet of his label Think 2wice. Now Tactic, longtime Kansas City producer, DJ and electronic dance music champion, makes it official: Think 2wice hits the pause button as Tactic prepares himself to…
Tickets to Boulevardia’s Taps & Tastes sold out in less than 20 minutes on Wednesday morning. The $75 tickets to the special Saturday craft-beer tasting event went on sale at 10 a.m. Demand for tickets was so overwhelming that Boulevardia’s site crashed just before 10 a.m. The site did come back, and tickets were available through an Eventbrite link. I was able to…
Amos Lee with the Chris Kasper The Uptown Theater, Kansas City Tuesday, March 4, 2014 Thirty-six-year-old Lee and his seasoned group of musicians have been touring to promote his fifth and latest studio album, October’s Mountains of Sorrow, Rivers of Song. The album was recorded by Jay Joyce in Nashville on the Blue Note label, and it certainly exemplifies a…
Justin Kendall Does this slice of Geo’s pizza make me look fat? Pizza has more styles and regional variations than Baskin-Robbins has flavors of ice cream, but in the Kansas City metro, the iconic New York – style pie (and its cousin, the Neapolitan version) – a thin, pliant crust and a relatively discreet topcoat of cheese – is probably…
Back in November, Minneapolis artist Joey Verskotzi released his latest full-length album Lemon Heart. It was a highly anticipated release for the community up there, mostly because the 22-year-old Verskotzi – who goes by his last name only – is sort of a return to the roots of the categorical singer-songwriter. His lyrics are specific: themes of love lost and…
Hackman will leave CSF after June. Kate Hackman, head “art lady” at the Charlotte Street Foundation for the past 10 years – she initially served as co-director and recently as artistic director – announced today that she will leave the local arts organization in July. Hackman follows David Hughes, the founder of Charlotte Street Foundation, who stepped down as co-director…
Four Seasons is making authentic Sicilian pizza in Lenexa. Read Charles Ferruzza’s review here, and see photos by Angela C. Bond in this slideshow.
The building at 504 Westport Road, one of the oldest structures in the midtown entertainment district, is home to a decade’s worth of shaky and short-lived business plans. Since the former Stanford & Sons Comedy Club became Johnny Dare’s, in 2004, the two-story brick building along Westport’s main strip has been a revolving door of ill-conceived bar ideas. Johnny Dare’s…
Leno will outlive us all. Old, white people who like broad, predictable jokes: You are in luck! Just because Jimmy Fallon and Seth Meyers recently inherited two of the most prized late-night talk-show slots doesn’t mean Jay Leno is going to totally disappear. You’ll just have to work a little harder for your dose of vanilla comedy. Because he is…
Name: Leanna Brunner Occupation: Professor, writer, publisher Hometown: St. Joseph, Missouri Current neighborhood: Smithville, Missouri What I do (in 140 characters): I write and teach others to write; I publish and teach others to publish; I dream and teach others to dream. What’s your addiction? My iPhone – like 99 percent of the rest of the population. I’m trying withdrawal…
A state audit of the Hickman Mills School District released on Tuesday night found that the south Kansas City school district has doled out no-bid contracts against board policy, had conflicts of interest, violated the Missouri Sunshine Law, had lax financial controls and made several questionable transactions in recent years. The audit confirmed many of the findings described in an…
The soul queen and her court of kings give the people what they want Saturday night, March 8, at Liberty Hall (644 Massachusetts, in Lawrence). Valerie June opens. Read our interview with Valerie June here. Categories: Music Tags: Liberty Hall, Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings, valerie june
McDonald will lend his pipes to the wildly popular European venture. An arena-size stage show that pairs contemporary pop music with classical music, Night of the Proms has been a huge hit in Europe since the mid-1980s. This summer, Night of the Proms will cross the pond for the first time, for shows in four American cities: Dallas, Little Rock,…
