It seems like 2 Chainz was just in town, but the tireless rapper is set to roll though again this fall – and at a larger venue than the Midland, which he performed at in February. He’ll be headlining at the Sprint Center along with Lil Boosie on Saturday, September 6. Tickets officially go on sale this Friday, June 13,…
The Missouri capital punishment circus has a new exhibit: State officials meddling in an inmate’s clemency process. A federal judge in St. Louis found evidence that the Missouri Department of Corrections clamped down on an employee at the state prison in Potosi who became the subject of an investigation after he said he would support clemency for John Winfield. Clemency…
The Ben Folds Orchestral Experience Helzberg Hall, Kansas City Wednesday, June 11 “You have a better chance of getting laid by taking a date to the symphony than to the roller derby,” Folds proclaimed last night at Helzberg Hall. “But, really, we’re here because of our love of the roller derby.” The roller derby joke became a prominent theme throughout…
Boulevardia sits on the Edge of Hell. The thought causes Jeremy Ragonese, Boulevardia board president, to laugh. But it’s true: The three-day festival (June 13 – 15) of beer, music and food is going up within a four-block radius of two classic West Bottoms haunted houses, the Edge of Hell and the Beast. So you have to go through a…
The Johnson County Board of Commissioners has a bowling problem, and its not foot faults or rolling gutter balls. Rather, the county still owns the shuttered bowling facility and ice skating rink at 8788 Metcalf known as the King Louie West building. And it seems to have no clue what to do with it. Last week, Johnson County Manager Hannes…
In the heart of Waldo, the neighborhood’s homey coffeehouse One More Cup (7408 Wornall) is still going strong. And nearly everything available at the eco-friendly shop is made in or near KC. The big names are well-represented: Shatto milk, Roasterie espresso and Louisburg Cider Mill sodas. But the cozy hideout also stocks less obvious (but equally local) café fare –…
Exile is growing. Kansas City’s tattoo community suffered a rather intense shock back in March, when a 21-year-old woman who was both an employee of Freaks Tattoo and Piercing owner Rodney Sanell, and a tenant in a building Sanell owned, discovered 11 hidden cameras inside her apartment. Many Freaks employees quit in protest, and two of the three branches (Freaks…
On a Wednesday afternoon at Second Best Coffee, 10 people, tiny silver spoons in hand, are gathered around six cups of freshly brewed coffee. We’re attending one of the four-month-old Waldo café’s free public cuppings – coffeespeak for “taste testing.” Second Best uses a variety of beans from roasters across the country – including Coava in Portland, Oregon, and Corvus…
“The LGBT community will be fine without protection under the law,” says group that has protection under the law. It is a testament to how far the gay-rights movement has come in America that those who oppose providing the LGBT community equal protection under the law are no longer comfortable coming right out and saying so. Even in late-adopting states…
Name: Lisa Teachman Occupation: Meteorologist/traffic anchor at KCTV Channel 5 Hometown: Haysville, Kansas Current neighborhood: Olathe What I do: Work with Gary Amble on KCTV5 as meteorologist/traffic anchor. Weather and traffic together, from 4:30 a.m. to 7 a.m. Monday through Friday. What’s your addiction? Buying makeup. What’s your game? I don’t like to play games … What’s your drink? Anything orange, or peach-flavored sweet…
The Unicorn Theatre ends its 40th season on a high note with By the Way, Meet Vera Stark. The play’s fresh-faced script, from Pulitzer Prize–winning playwright Lynn Nottage, wrings guilty laughs from flawed film representations of African-Americans during the Great Depression. The play focuses on the relationship between vain film starlet Gloria Mitchell (portrayed by Katie Karel), “America’s Sweetie Pie,”…
Imagined in part as a jazz version of Prairie Home Companion, 12th Street Jump is a weekly hour of bad jokes and exceptional jazz. These days, it’s recorded live at the Broadway Jazz Club, then broadcast on 116 NPR stations. Wednesday, the show celebrates the music of Stax Records star and soul singer Eddie Floyd and blues legend Big Bill…
On an unforgivably hot afternoon, the three members of St. Joseph’s Scruffy & the Janitors share a pack of Old Gold cigarettes on a coffeehouse patio in midtown. Brothers Teriq and Trevin Newton are hung-over. Drummer Trevin Newton, his tattered ski cap pulled down over blond locks despite the heat, looks surly. Steven Foster, the band’s lead singer and bassist,…
John Velghe is the kind of rock-and-roller you’d order from the catalog. He’s lean, with feathery salt-and-pepper hair, sea-glass-green eyes and forearms sleeved in colorful tattoos. He looks tall even when he sits. At 44, he wears frown lines on his forehead and smile creases around his mouth, and wears them well. And when Velghe speaks — about, say, his…
I can’t remember the last time I saw Braunschweiger on a menu. In fact, I don’t think I’ve ever seen Braunschweiger on a local menu. But here it was, at a pizzeria. I was scanning the menu at the two-month-old Limestone Pizza Kitchen Bar, in Lawrence, where the nonpizza offerings start with a small selection labeled “bar bites.” They are…
If you’ve ever maligned drawing as mere practice (sketchbook scribbles, tentative pencil scratches), a trip to City Ice Arts this month should set you straight. Jeran Avery’s latest solo exhibition, Drawing on Form, shows the artist’s fluency in the exacting languages of geometry and classical mechanics. His concave figures emerge from sharp angles and crisp, even lines to lure you…
Mark Mallman In Minneapolis — and possibly in his hometown of Milwaukee and certainly in a few rabid cult circles — Mark Mallman is something of a legend. His albums are marked by a terrific extraterrestrial rock-pop weirdness. But what Mallman is most famous for are his one-man music marathons, during which he performs nonstop for a record-breaking span. In…
Judgments are being handed down inside Tannin Wine Bar & Kitchen. Garment designer Ebony Harvey and accessory designer Erin Stegman head for the corner near the wine lockers. Both are newcomers to the West 18th Street Fashion Show and its processes. With dresses and jewelry in hand, they begin showing their in-progress collaboration to the show’s lead producers, Peregrine Honig,…
Pitch food critic Charles Ferruzza raves about Limestone Pizza Kitchen Bar in this week’s issue (read it here). See photos from photographer Angela C. Bond.
The servers at the four-month-old Bleu Burger at 320 S.W. Blue Parkway in Lee’s Summit wear T-shirts printed with the words “Get Stuffed.” And they mean it. You can really do some dietary damage at this saloon, particularly on Monday nights when the signature sandwich here, stuffed hamburgers, are half-price. It’s a really good deal. I was there last night,…
Tuesday was a good day for Missourians for Safe Transportation and New Jobs. The committee in charge of drumming up public support to pass the three-quarter-cent sales-tax increase all over Missouri for road and other transit projects cashed some sizable checks on Tuesday. The money came from the types of donors one might expect would support such a cause. Kansas…
The long mustard-colored building at the corner of Fifth Street and Troup in Kansas City, Kansas, has had one hell of a life. At least three businesses owned by the Dickens family have come and gone from this location, and a new venue has just opened. It’s still all in the family. In the 1950s, one part of the building…
