Yes, it’s all Mardi Gras and beads and booze tonight, so live it up. Lent begins tomorrow, kicking off fish-fry season in Kansas City – and with plenty of opportunity to eat meatlessly for the next six Fridays during the Lenten season. No matter what your religious affiliation, these modestly priced meals – fish, shrimp or some other meatless alternative…
In one of the most bizarre co-headlining tours of recent memory, rock legends Rod Stewart and Santana are stopping at the Sprint Center on August 14. You have the blessed opportunity to seize tickets early. The presale for the Rod Stewart and Santana show will be held online tomorrow, Wednesday, March 5, from 10 a.m. until 10 a.m. Thursday, March…
Bearing Torches is a brand-new band out of Kansas City, but it certainly doesn’t sound that way. On the band’s songs, lead singer Jon Ellison pushes his powerful, jagged-edged vocals to soaring heights, aided by the good company of driving guitar riffs and enthralling crescendos. There’s something endearing and nostalgic about tracks like “Headlights” and “Radio Man,” in which Ellison…
Fake reform for the payday industry in Missouri. The notoriously despicable payday lending lobby in Missouri has a rich history of savagely fighting any proposed legislation that might eat into the industry’s absurd profit margins. Very surprising, then, that a payday loan reform bill sailed through the Missouri Senate last week. By “surprising,” I mean, of course, “not surprising at…
Latteland came under new ownership last year, but the transaction hasn’t been very noticeable. That’s about to change. All six local Latteland coffeehouses are set to be rebranded under the name of their corporate parent, St. Louis-based Kaldi’s Coffee. Kaldi’s has been roasting coffee for the Latteland shops since 2007, and it bought the six Lattelands in 2013. Three of…
After sitting empty for four years, the owners of the midtown location of Texas Tom’s restaurant – Javaid Chaudhri and Arshad Chaudhri – have reopened the formerly iconic fast-food venue at 709 East Linwood. It has been closed since 2010. “This is the original Texas Tom’s location,” said one of the restaurant’s managers. Well, no. But it was definitely an early…
If you can’t beat their hyperventilating rhetoric, use it against them. Terry Akins, a labor executive with International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers No. 124 in Kansas City, had this thought in mind when he brandished a map of China with an accompanying hammer and sickle upon a billboard along Interstate 70. Drivers heading east from downtown Kansas City on I-70…
There are two kinds of people who like Amos Lee: those who were listening to popular music in the 1970s, and those who wish they had been born sooner so that they could experience music in the 1970s. Because Lee has built his career by evoking the trademarks of that era, with his folksy songwriting, lazy Sunday morning vocals and…
New Jersey’s Candy Hearts play some incredibly poppy rock and roll, and it’s no surprise that they’re signed to Bridge 9 imprint Violently Happy Records, which is run by New Found Glory’s Chad Gilbert. Candy Hearts share a lot of sonic space with New Found Glory, especially in terms of how they manage to make their songs seem emotionally intimate…
