I’m not saying that there aren’t moderately priced lunch venues on the Country Club Plaza, but it’s hard to compare a bowl of pasta from, say, the fast-casual Noodles & Co. (ranging in price from $4.39 to $8.29) with the stylishly presented, sophisticated meals being served in the dining room of the eight-month-old culinary school L’Ecole Culinaire. It may be one…
For Phill Kline, it’s always someone else’s fault. It wasn’t the former Kansas attorney general’s fault that he twice got voted out of office by staggering margins by Kansans who got sick of his grandstanding on abortion; the blame rested with the Kansas media for demonizing him. It wasn’t Kline’s fault that his persistent crusade against abortion providers in two…
Scott Welsch, who reopened his Orange Box luncheonette in January at 240 East Linwood, says he stopped serving carryout meals from the midtown venue more than a week ago, and the future of the business is still up in the air. “You could say that I’m in limbo right now,” Welsch says. “My catering business really took off at the first of…
Yesterday’s weather brought a taste of spring out in Lawrence. The Free State patio was full for cheap beer night. Shorts and flip flops made some of their first appearances of 2014. And that warmth found its way into Liberty Hall for Dr. Dog’s show. The band knows how to say hello to a hometown crowd – it tours with…
Pat Benetar, the original heartbreaker, and her her guitar player husband, Neil Giraldo, are co-headlining a tour this summer with ex-Zoot member Rick Springfield. It’s a triple threat of 1980s nostalgia, and it sounds glorious. The trio are at Starlight Theatre on Wednesday, July 16. ) Tickets are on sale Friday, March 14, at 10 a.m. Details here. Categories: Music Tags:…
The honey-voiced Ray LaMontagne is bringing his Supernova Summer Tour to KC this June. He stops at Starlight Theatre on Tuesday, June 24. Appropriately, the tour is in support of LaMontagne’s upcoming album, Supernova, his first full-length effort in four years. Here’s LaMontagne’s first single…. also titled “Supernova.” I’m refraining from a lot of space jokes here. Instead, I will direct…
As music fans and industry people begin to queue up at SXSW, expect PR crews to likewise begin their onslaught. Summer festival/tour announcements are beginning to trickle out, including this morning’s announcement of Vampire Weekend’s upcoming U.S. tour and festival dates. With last year’s Modern Vampires of the City receiving nearly universal acclaim (including album of the year nods here and here), it might…
Flogging Molly’s Green 17 tour has been a staple of St. Patrick’s Day festivities all across the country for the past decade. The Celtic punks have made it so 17 cities could celebrate with their favorite band. This year marks the 10th anniversary of the tour and, it appears, the last. Flogging Molly’s guitarist Dennis Casey spoke with us by…
Starting this week, you’ll be able to find Oskar Blues’ beer in liquor stores and bars in Kansas. The Longmont, Colorado, craft-beer maker announced earlier this month that it was bringing its beers to the Sunflower State. That day is here. Rimann Liquors tweeted this photo of Oskar Blues on its shelves. Rimann’s Prairie Village store (3917 Prairie Lane, 913-236-5311) will host…
Jackson County Spelling Bee winner Kush Sharma and runner-up Sophia Hoffman brought the drama Saturday morning. Fox News took care of the comedy. (h/t Media Matters). Categories: Dining, Food & Drink Tags: Fox News, jackson county, Kush Sharma, Sophia Hoffman, spelling bee
The Big 12 tournament starts Wednesday and runs through March 15th at the Sprint Center in Kansas City, Missouri. It is the hurdle before the NCAA Tournament and the beginning on the road to the Final Four. The college teams that are participating in this are Kansas, Texas, Oklahoma, West Virginia, Oklahoma State, TCU, Kansas State, Baylor, and Iowa State….
That gorgeous BLT you’ve been craving? And the side of bacon that you ordered with your cheese omelet? Both are already more expensive than they were one month ago. You can blame the PED virus – porcine epidemic diarrhea – which is so fast-spreading (it doesn’t affect humans, by the way, only piglets) that it has already killed nearly 5 million…
There was a time last year when soul icon Sharon Jones didn’t know if she was ever going to be able to perform music from her and the Dap-Kings’ latest album, Give the People What They Want. As she explained to Noisey’s Eric Sundermann last winter in this open and revealing interview (really, you should read it): When the doctor diagnosed that…
Joshua Bell took the stage in Helzberg Hall on Friday with little fanfare or even an introduction (not that there was a single person in the building who wouldn’t recognize him), but in his relatively brief 35-ish minutes onstage, Bell clearly demonstrated why he is considered one of the world’s most deeply talented and prodigious masters of the violin. The…
Dr. Dog has come a long way since it first emerged in 2002 with its humble, lo-fi debut record, Toothbrush, and scored a slot opening for My Morning Jacket on two North American tours. Twelve years and a staggering seven albums later, the Philadelphia folk-pop act has achieved something that most bands find only in dreams: stability. Ahead of the band’s…
Home, Like Noplace Is There by The Hotelier
Sam Brownback seems rather sanguine on an afternoon in which the Kansas Supreme Court said the state underfunds education to the point that it’s unconstitutional. For a state that boasts its connection to the landmark desegregation case Brown v. Board of Education, the Kansas’ highest court has twice ruled that the state’s K-12 education funding scheme is so inadequate that…
There’s a new place to drink craft beer on Mass Street in Lawrence. Today is the grand opening of Ted’s Taphouse (1004 Massachusetts, Lawrence, 785-856-6269). Doors open at 5 p.m., and live music starts at 8 p.m. What’s on tap? Ted’s listed 20 craft beers for its opening week (barring them running out) on its Facebook page. Here’s the rundown: Stone Arrogant…
For fans of foot-stomping, bluegrass-inspired folk revivalism, June can’t come quick enough. The Avett Brothers are on tour once more, and they’re bringing their easily digestible back-porch harmonies and a whole mess of homey instruments to pluck and pound on with them. They stop at the Cricket Wireless Amphitheater on Friday, June 20. Langhorne Slim opens. Details here. Categories: Music…
