A month after the three members of the local competitive barbecue team Squeal Like A Pig – brothers Mike and Joe Pearce and Brandon Whipple – began renovating the venue at 553 Central Avenue (formerly Millie’s Cafe) in order to open their own restaurant, the trio officially opened Slap’s BBQ for business today. “We had a soft opening over the weekend,” says…
I still love Honeyhoney’s 2012 album, Billy Jack, a collection of songs so varied and witty that it has become a permanent sing-along-at-the-top-of-my-lungs alternative to the radio in my car. On that record, the Los Angeles-via-Nashville duo – lead singer and fiddler Suzanne Santo and guitarist Ben Jaffe – drags lonely, dusty, western twang into a casual blues affair. Santo’s…
The crowds packed it in for Boulevard Brewing’s first-ever Boulevardia on Saturday. All photos by April Fleming.
Logic The Granada, Lawrence Sunday, June 16, 2014 No one could tell that Logic was rallying to combat fatigue and illness to perform his set at the Granada last night. The twenty-four year old rapper from Gaithersburg, Maryland spat fire to a packed crowd of fans who were palpably excited to see him. And who wouldn’t be, after understanding the…
Fellow former English majors, put on a pair of real pants (with zippers!) and take a break from softly sobbing over your liberal arts degree: Bloomsday is nigh. Today, literary lovers will converge on the Kansas City Irish Museum and Cultural Heritage Center for the annual celebration of Irish writer and prodigious word-coiner James Joyce. (June 16 is when the fictional Leopold…
Boulevardia The West Bottoms, Kansas City Saturday, June 14 The nation-state of Boulevardia needs to annex some nearby territory, because there’s an issue with population density – i.e., it was so packed. The various gravel parking lots – especially in front of the main stage – were dust-manufacturing plants. As the sun set, the weather cooled, allowing some of the…
Boulevardia Day 1 Friday, June 13 The West Bottoms is housing a new nation for the weekend. In the country of Boulevardia, orange tokens are the currency and beer is the language. Its constitution is founded on the values of life, liberty and the pursuit of aged wheat juice. Its newly naturalized citizens gathered for the first parliamentary session last…
The St. Louis Cardinals will host the Washington Nationals for three games at Busch Stadium this weekend. The Cardinals schedule has the two teams meeting for the second time this season over the weekend. The teams split a four-game series in mid-April at Nationals Park. While the defending N.L. champion Cardinals team has had their struggles this year, going just…
Greetings, LGBT individuals! We’re still trying to decide if you deserve equal protection under the law. This week in the paper, we turned our gaze to Roeland Park, where efforts to offer protection to the LGBT community in the city’s ordinance have been met with opposition from religious people who are afraid it will infringe on their right to, you…
Sicilians are notoriously superstitious and Kansas City’s Columbus Park – for many decades a solidly Sicilian-American community – is a neighborhood where omens are taken very seriously. And the omens are practically overwhelming tonight: the first full Moon on a Friday the 13th in over a decade (there won’t be another until 2049) and the last day of Pandolfi’s Deli,…
Brownback: My ideas just need a little more time to bake! Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback keeps getting knocked around for his tax policies. Sure, they’ve always sounded really bad on paper and there’s zero evidence that they actually work. But give the man and his ideas some time! Don’t these lamestream media outlets and liberal think tanks realize his financial…
Tonight, after a “Soul Train Dance” down the art alley between the Next Space and the Crossroads Boot Camp, the East 18th Street community loses one of its liveliest tenants. Apryl McAnerney says it’s time to move on, so she’s closing her Slap-n-Tickle gallery, leaving behind the concrete and brick to live in a house in the West 39th Street…
PorchFest isn’t a new concept – it originated in Ithaca, New York, in 2007 – but it’s novel here. The idea: You and a group of friends or your family park your car somewhere in the West Plaza neighborhood and amble around as musicians play from the porches of generous, music-loving residents. More than 70 local and out-of-town artists are…
Doubtless you’ve heard “Safe and Sound” at some point over the past year, if not dozens of times – first when it spread like wildfire on the Internet and then when radio gobbled it up. It was the breakthrough hit from Ryan Merchant and Sebu Simonian, the duo behind L.A. electro-pop outfit Capital Cities. Since releasing their debut album In a…
Metro Pro Wrestling’s indefinite hiatus ends Saturday – at least for one night. Metro Pro owner Chris Gough is bringing his motley crew of wrestlers back for a one-off show at the Turner Rec Center (831 South 55th Street, Kansas City, Kansas) for the first time since last August. But this show has an added hook: the premiere of Scott Kessler’s Metro…
