It was only four months ago when Miss Miley broke our hearts by postponing her Kansas City concert date due to “an allergic reaction to antibiotics.” Now the wrecking ball is back in town, ready to scandalize the masses with her wagging tongue, hipbone-baring onesies and lewd dancing. Don’t bother pretending that you’re not fascinated — or at least curious…
The Kansas City Royals’ Hot Dog Derby — where three people dressed as ketchup, mustard and relish run a race between innings during home games — is usually good, clean fun. During yesterday’s game against the San Francisco Giants, the race consisted of three small children in condiment costumes. For one of the children — WHO WILL REMAIN NAMELESS — the contest…
When I think of OK Go, the first thing that comes to mind are the music videos. Remember the treadmill-dance choreography in the video for 2006’s hit single “Here It Goes Again”? That was instant viral success (and a Grammy Award) for the Chicago band. And maybe that’s part of OK Go’s problem: Its fame is due to flashy gimmicks…
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Westerners and Your Friend, with Twinsmith and Paper Buffalo The Granada, Lawrence KS August 8, 2014 When you’re young and a fan of local music, it can be a frequent occurrence to go out to a $5 dive bar show, and fall a bit in love with an area band’s music. It all makes the much pricier national touring shows…
It was almost a year ago that Tom Valenti traveled to Mission from New York to hold a ceremonial groundbreaking at the old Mission Mall site. Since then, flipping over a shovel of mud is about as much physical work as the Cameron Group developer has accomplished at the land he bought in 2005. Valenti was back in Mission this…
Two of Lawrence’s most buzzed-about acts take over the Granada Friday night. Make arrangements if you haven’t yet experienced the stirring warmth of Your Friend’s Taryn Miller or the static-ridden garage pop of the Westerners. Miller’s local profile has only risen since she signed to Domino Records in February, and the attention is well-deserved. In a live setting, Miller and…
The Casket Girls with Dreamend and Griffen Alexander Czar, Kansas City Thursday, August 7, 2014 Toward the end of Thursday night’s show at Czar, lead singers Phaedra and Elsa Greene of Savannah, Georgia’s the Casket Girls came down off the stage and gave every single member of the audience a heartfelt hug. It was a warmly human act from the…
You don’t have to attend a church service before driving to Kansas City’s West Bottoms for Sunday brunch. In fact, Voltaire, the night-only restaurant and saloon at 1617 Genessee, which kicks off its first Sunday brunch this Sunday, August 10, may be the only restaurant in town where pre-brunch religious worship is not a proper homage to its namesake; the…
There are still some interleague series left this season, and this weekend offers a good one. The Kansas City Royals have won four straight to get within 2.5 games of the Detroit Tigers in the AL Central, despite the Tigers adding David Price at the deadline. But there is a different challenge on the Royals schedule with the San Francisco…
The Baltimore Orioles will host the St. Louis Cardinals for three games at Oriole Park at Camden Yards this weekend. With the red-hot Cardinals in town, the first place Orioles will have their work cut out for them as St. Louis looks to overthrow Milwaukee and sit atop the NL Central. The Orioles schedule will welcome the Cardinals to Camden…
Chicago with REO Speedwagon and Tim Stop Starlight Theatre, Kansas City, MO Thursday, August 7, 2014 For more photos from last night, go here. “As a 12-year-old, I told myself if you stick to it, if you set a goal for yourself, you will do it,” preached REO Speedwagon frontman Kevin Cronin, foreshadowing the night’s climax while introducing his band’s…
Chicago and REO Speedwagon united for a first-ever co-headlining tour. They stopped last night at the Starlight Theatre. All photos by Zach Bauman.
The deals that Brenda Wood offered often appeared too good to be true, including the purchase of two downtown buildings. But people gave the local businesswoman money – big-time brokers and small-time investors – and millions vanished. On Thursday, the 45-year-old Leavenworth woman was indicted on federal bank-fraud charges. U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom charged Wood with five counts of bank fraud, one…
Promoters for the streetcar expansion raised $387,333 to campaign for a failed cause. Put another way, it drummed up $68 in donations for every vote it received on August 5. A flurry of donations to pro-streetcar committee Connect KC arrived within a week of the election, including a $50,000 check from the downtown Marriott Hotel and $10,000 from Kansas City…
Kansas City Mayor Sly James has offically declared Saturday, August 9, as “Air Guitar Day” in Kansas City. There was a fancy proclamation and James even rocked out and the good folks in Finland even took notice. For real. That’s because on Saturday, for the first time in 11 years, Kansas City hosts the U.S. Air Guitar National Finals at…
