Archives: May 2014
Love Garden’s 24th birthday celebration turned the Granada into a house party Sunday night
Love Garden’s 24th Birthday Party The Granada, Lawrence Sunday, May 4 There may have been a distinct lack of cake, but Love Garden’s 24th birthday party at the Granada filled the venue with friends and well-wishers. Everyone was eating tacos and corn dogs, drinking beer, and just generally playing the game of saying “hi” to a bunch of people they’d…
If Sam Brownback thinks Obama’s tax policies clobbered Kansas’ April revenues, why didn’t it affect Missouri?
Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback dropped a real head scratcher earlier this week when he foisted blame for the state’s astonishingly disappointing revenue report upon President Barack Obama’s capital gains tax policy. The statement came after the April revenue report showed that Kansas’ checking account was $92 million short of what state bean counters thought tax collections would fetch for the…
Deschutes brings Base Camp to Kansas City next week
Deschutes Brewery is throwing a weeklong party in Kansas City next week. The Bend, Oregon, brewery is setting up its “Base Camp for Beer Fanatics” in KC, and coming with its traveling 25-foot-long, 16-tap beer-barrel bar, Woody. Joey Pleich, Deschutes’ field marketing manager, says “Base Camp” is a reference to Deschutes’ flagship beer, Mirror Pond Pale Ale. “People tend to find…
Grain to Glass throws a grand opening party Saturday as part of National Homebrew Day
Saturday is National Homebrew Day – or as the American Homebrewers Association calls it, Big Brew. It’s also the grand opening of North Kansas City homebrew supply and bottle shop Grain to Glass’ new-ish location at 1611 Swift Avenue. The first Grain to Glass store opened in the River Market in 2012 but moved to North Kansas City March 1 of this…
Records With Merritt, a new record store, opens in Westport May 6
Amid all the other record-store news this week – the Love Garden Sounds 24th birthday blowout, the Mills Record Co. one-year anniversary party – comes another announcement: There is fresh blood in town. Records With Merritt is set to open its doors at 11 a.m. Tuesday, May 6. Records With Merritt will occupy the space at 1617 Westport Road. There will be a…
The University of Kansas hosts screening and discussion of Pussy Riot documentary next week
It’s been three years since the world first learned of Russia’s anti-Putin, feminist punk group Pussy Riot, and in that time we have followed the dangerous and startling reports from Moscow – most significantly, the arrests of Pussy Riot members Nadezhda Tolokonnikova and Maria Alyokhina in 2012, their subsequent sentencing, and the polarizing criticism and admiration the women have received…
Golden Sound Records announces lineup for annual Crossroads Summer Block Party
What’s summer without a block party or 10? Not a summer, that’s what. Thank goodness Golden Sound Records has the mother of all summer block parties under its belt. The lineup for the third Crossroads Summer Block Party, taking place Friday, June 6, has just been announced, and it’s full of local favorites. Here is the schedule: 6-6:30 p.m. – Jorge Arana Trio…
Temples mesmerized a crowd last night at RecordBar
Temples With Drowners and Two Harbours RecordBar, Kansas City Thursday, May 2, 2014 Temples have a lot going for them at the moment. Since forming in 2012, the Kettering, England, psych-rock foursome has so far enjoyed a relatively swift rise in popularity – perhaps due in part to fans like Johnny Marr and Noel Gallagher, who, as you’ve likely heard…
Spring Fling featuring Hearts of Darkness, Cowboy Indian Bear, Jorge Arana Trio and more is at Crossroads KC this Saturday
Finally clear of that awful time known as winter – fingers crossed – we celebrate the beginning of outdoor-concert season, starting with the Spring Fling at Crossroads KC. Local Afrobeat funk heroes Hearts of Darkness headline the blowout, ensuring lots of dancing (even if it isn’t the spring-formal kind). But that’s not all: Expect to hear the sparkling pop of…
The Dodos are at RecordBar Saturday night
Since their 2005 debut as Dodo Bird, guitarist Meric Long and drummer Logan Kroeber have slowly built a career on thoughtful, layered folk rock. (Long began his career as a solo singer-songwriter; Kroeber played drums in metal bands.) The San Francisco duo perform now as the Dodos, but little else has changed. On their latest full-length, Carrier, Long and Kroeber dive…
Creatures great and small are on your First Friday hit list
Seasoned First Friday gallerygoers recall the fateful day when Judy Hadley, then new to the job as the head of the city’s Regulated Industries Division, was as shocked as Capt. Louis Renault to discover that art lovers were also enjoying free libations – even, gasp, carrying them from space to space. Things have been ironed out since then – there’s…
Mills Record Co. celebrates its one-year anniversary with the Shy Boys at Harling’s this Saturday
Since opening one year ago on May 3, 2013, Mills Record Co. – owned and operated by the indomitable Judy Mills – has become a key voice in the local music scene and a hub for creative types to come together and feel good about their common interests. (Personally, I haven’t known Kansas City without Mills Record, and it’s very hard for me…
Why do Missouri lawmakers want to copy the Kansas tax-cut disaster?
It wasn’t long ago that Gov. Sam Brownback was feeling pretty good about April. Bean counters who work for him painted a sunny outlook on the state’s finances. By the end of the month, once the state added up all the money headed its way, proof would emerge that Brownback’s tax-cut plan was working. Then news came yesterday that Kansas…
No, the Baltimore Hotel was not on this site
Somehow, the bronze historical marker created in 1978 to honor the founding of the Future Farmers of America in Kansas City has mysteriously moved a couple of blocks north of where it used to be. The plaque, stating that “on this site in the old Hotel Baltimore the Future Farmers of America was founded November 8, 1928, ” was positioned,…
Chicago Cubs Tickets Down As Jeff Samardzija Goes On The Trading Block
As of today we are one month into the 2014 Major League Baseball season the Chicago Cubs have a record of 8-17 and went the entire month of April without winning a single series. However there is one bright spot for the Cubs, that being starting pitcher Jeff Samardzija who has taken his game to the next level this season….
Not even Wall Street is buying what Gov. Brownback is selling; Moody’s has downgraded Kansas’ state bonds
“I just need a little more time.” Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback’s grand, hideous policy experiments in the State of Kansas – which include cutting spending on schools, libraries, the arts, welfare, local health departments – are anathema to those of us who believe that government has a functioning role in a civilized world. But surely “fiscal conservatives” love those policies,…
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