“Be sure to eat a balanced diet, including plenty of lean proteins, fresh fruits and vegetables, and complex carbohydrates,” recommends Livestrong.com, in an article about diet recommendations for baseball players. “Recommended proteins include those lower in fat, such as chicken (roasted, grilled or broiled), turkey, fish and shellfish. Beans (kidney, garbanzo, black, pinto, etc.) are also a great source of…
Longboards Wraps & Bowls has finally opened in Mission (5415 Johnson Drive), so you’ll want to plan that lunch date you’ve been putting off. The self-described “California grub shack,” with additional locations in North Kansas City and Liberty, invents wraps that a stoned surfer would love — and we mean that in a good way. Take Da Buffalo Soldier, a…
Here’s four minutes of footage from the 1985 Royals’ locker room celebration after beating the St. Louis Cardinals in game seven of the World Series. Alison Reed tweeted us a link to the video with this message: “@TheFastPitch this is amazing footage my father got in the locker room from the 85 World Series game 7! Take a look.” The…
Generationals, with Springtime Carnivore RecordBar, Kansas CityTuesday, October 28, 2014 Someone surely is measuring the economic impact of this Royals postseason on area bars and liquor stores. Business has probably never been better for most of them (or worse for KC’s rapidly expanding, beer-absorbing waistlines). There may be a few bars suffering – particularly ones with no TVs, or perhaps,…
Courtney Barnett with Riot Room, Kansas City Tuesday, October 28 It says something about Courtney Barnett that, despite the weeknight bill and the fact that the Royals were engaged in the pivotal Game 6 of the World Series when the Australian artist took the stage, her show looked close to sold out. In any case, it was a tight fit…
Last night, the Kansas City Royals dominated the San Francisco Giants 10-0, with Yordano Ventura pitching a shutout and forcing a deciding game seven in this World Series. If you weren’t already caught up in the excitement leading into tonight’s game (7 p.m. on Fox) at Kauffman Stadium, this “Take the Crown” video by Spencer Tetik and Nathan Happer of…
Rany Jazayerli started blogging about the Kansas City Royals because his favorite team was driving him crazy and he needed to tell someone. In 1995, he co-founded Baseball Prospectus, a website dedicated to sabermetrics, the wonky discipline from which stats emerge about, say, how many runs the Royals outfield has actually saved this year. Later, he created his own outlet,…
Ahead of 96.5 the Buzz’s second Halloweenie Roast show tonight at the Midland, headliner Alt-J will be performing an acoustic set at the Indie on Main for a lucky few fans. The first 400 people will take part in Afentra’s Big Fat Morning Brunch with the English band from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. today. The line has already started,…
Name: Kate Lindholm Occupation: Owner and senior teacher at Westport Yoga Hometown: KCMO Current neighborhood: Park Farms What I do (in 140 characters): I inspire people to intentionally breathe and move, each supported by a nonjudgmental community looking for peace and freedom with awareness. What’s your addiction? Mud Pie’s fruit seedies and London fogs What’s your game? I love to…
%{}% %{}% Birdman starts like a 1970s Randy Newman song and ends like a 1990s Randy Newman soundtrack. It’s surly and direct at first, a mean squawk in a minor key, catchy and quotable. But a deceptively simple tune turns into a series of increasingly obvious blares. Unable to settle on whether he and his co-writers are satirizing mainstream tastes…
%{}% %{}% No other cultural figure’s arc traces the particular vectors that poet Billy Collins has charted. At 73, he straddles multiple media eras: He used to seal short poems inside envelopes and mail them to Rolling Stone magazine, which published them among its reviews of vinyl albums; in 2012, he joined the ranks of TED talkers. In between, of…
%{}% Everything goes better with beer — including, in Kansas City, beer. A community that already seemed to add taps by the day has surfed a big, malty wave the past year or so, with Cinder Block, KC Bier Co., Rock & Run, Green Room and Big Rip becoming operational (and Martin City Brewing Co. adding a micro operation and…
%{}% %{}% It Came Out of the Garage Let everyone else get swept up in grand plans for Halloween. You, friend, are smarter than that. The eve of Allhallows Eve is definitely your day because you can find the best parties and still avoid the traffic and the shenanigans. One such shindig: It Came Out of the Garage, Thursday at…
%{}% %{}% Two years ago, when Mary Lambert guested on the Macklemore & Ryan Lewis track “Same Love,” the Seattle artist was a bartender and a poet. When the song went supernova, though, she was ushered onto red carpets and signed to Capitol Records. It was an unexpected surge for the 25-year-old, but she is making the most of her…
When I arrive to meet Take Five Coffee + Bar co-owner Lori Chandler at her venue’s brand-new space at Corbin Park, plush red-leather chairs have just been delivered. They’re sumptuous things, deeper than they look — once you’ve burrowed into one, you’re reluctant to rise from it. Chandler is delighted by them. She pushes the chairs to the front of…
%{}% %{}% A strong cast, led by Tony Mirrcandani, finds tenderness in the Kansas City Repertory Theatre’s production of a thorny new comedy. The Who & the What, playwright Ayad Akhtar’s latest, follows an immigrant family negotiating Islamic tradition and religious deference in a culture where little remains sacred. Central to the conflict is the ambition of eldest daughter Zarina…
All of a sudden, Kansas is in play. Gov. Sam Brownback’s heedless devotion to discredited economic theories has resulted in massive revenue shortfalls, credit downgrades, slashed school budgets, no increase in job growth, and tax cuts for the rich. These grim realities threaten to cost Republicans not only the governor’s office but also the U.S. Senate seat that Pat Roberts…
Several touring acts with shows scheduled at Czar Bar recently have had to find a different venue or skip Kansas City altogether. We’re hearing conflicting stories about what’s going on with the Crossroads bar and music venue at 1531 Grand. John Hulston, an owner of Czar, couldn’t immediately be reached for comment on Tuesday. UPDATE: Hulston, as per his comment below,…
As Royals fever spreads, one happy runoff of our team’s success is the clamor of artists throwing down creative songs in support. A new one has just cropped up from Lawrence tunesmith Sam Billen, called “Jump On Tha Wagon.” It’s a crisp little slice of jangly fall pop, and you will want to play it at least once hourly between…
Synthed-out pop-rock tunes aren’t new to anyone at this point. But on Generationals’ latest full-length, Alix, the New Orleans duo demonstrates a finesse rarely heard anymore on the radio. Ted Joyner and Grant Widmer have a sound that is part summer shoegaze, part 1980s rock ballad. The result is downright fun, a danceable batch of songs reminiscent of the sugar-high…
Tonight’s critical Game 6 in the World Series puts a lot of pressure on the Royals, so here’s hoping our boys fare better in their hometown than they have in San Francisco. To give them a little extra bump this evening will be members of the Kansas City Symphony, performing a rendition of “Star-Spangled Banner” just before the first pitch…
