How much do we love QuikTrip? Let us count the ways: *Clean *Well-lighted *Friendly and efficient service *Superior taquitos *Superior hot dogs *Superior donuts *Those tiny Starbucks double-shot espresso cans that most other convenience stores don’t carry QuikTrip is a beacon of convenience and quality wherever it sets down roots, and no, this is not a sponsored post. We just…
A state ethics watchdog says the City Council didn’t cross any boundaries when it approved a public outreach contract in the run-up to the August 5 streetcar election. Dan Coffey, an activist opposed to the streetcar project, leveled an ethics complaint against the City Council in July after Kansas City committed to paying a subcontractor as part of a larger…
Every time he hosts his horror-movie showcase, Drive-in Movie Maniacs, or the annual Halloween-themed Horror on the Boulevard events at the Boulevard Drive-In in KCK, “Terrible Tim” Sweeten painstakingly makes himself up to look like a skeleton. That’s fitting. After all, he’s carrying out traditions and promoting movies that many have given up for dead. “It’s kind of like drive-ins…
For the first time in 16 years, legendary rock band Fleetwood Mac – the act that gave the world such classics as “Go Your Own Way” and “Don’t Stop” – is touring with the original lineup of Mick Fleetwood, Stevie Nicks, Lindsey Buckingham, Christine McVie and John McVie. And lucky us: The band has just announced the extension of its current…
KC Bier Co. latest small-batch beer is getting its first tapping next week. A keg of SGH Hopfen Sack (aka Shawn Grown Hops Hopfen Sack) goes on at 6 p.m. Wednesday, October 15. When we say keg, we mean one keg. KC Bier Co. says SGH Hopfen Sack is made by draining the beer through 60 pounds of hop sacks while dry…
Ol’ Brownie’s standing pat in opposition to gay marriage, but today a circuit court judge in Johnson County issued an order directing the county clerk to begin issuing gay-marriage licenses. Take it away, Judge Kevin Moriarty: “In the interest of justice and to avoid the uncertainty that has arisen in light of recent federal court rulings about the constitutionality of…
When Natasha Goellner, pastry chef and namesake of Plaza sweet shop Natasha’s Mulberry & Mott, has late-night cravings — she’s three months pregnant with her first child — she typically doesn’t have a sweet tooth. (OK, there was a night when Goellner “went to town” on a pumpkin cheesecake that she had made earlier in the day at her commissary…
Three p.m. on a weekday isn’t really when you’re supposed to do shots. Those liquid thimbles of freedom are better served at, say, a bachelorette party or just before a club show’s headliner comes out or over Sunday brunch. But here I am, inside a nearly empty RecordBar, looking at jiggers as the midafternoon sunlight tiptoes away through the windows….
When Chelsea Huff created her lipstick line, Noun, she knew that she didn’t want to come up with names for the colors. “I thought that whoever names paint chips has a great job, but that’s not something I want to do,” she says. “I probably won’t wear a nail polish with a bad name, even if I like the color.”…
Why do people watch professional wrestling? I ask myself that after especially bad (and sometimes embarrassing) segments on the WWE’s Monday Night Raw or SmackDown. But then The Rock makes a surprise appearance (as he did this past Monday) or a new hero (like Dean Ambrose) or villain (like Bray Wyatt) emerges, and I’m reminded why I’ve been a fan since…
On a humid Sunday morning at Adventure Zip KC, I found myself riding a yellow school bus up a 300-foot Kansas hill — one of the state’s tallest, I’d just been told. The guide at the front of the bus assured everyone that we would tower over the rest of Bonner Springs, a promise that elicited a chorus of sarcastic…
J Mascis with Luluc The Bottleneck, Lawrence Tuesday, Oct. 7, 2014 J Mascis’ career is one full of volumes – yes, a breadth of work – but also volumes. Dinosaur Jr. made a name for itself over the past few decades with a wall-of-sound, bleeding-eardrums kind of rock ’n’ roll. Mascis’ newer solo career sits on the opposite spectrum, pairing…
Name: Kelly “Momster Mash” Cantwell Occupation: Stay-at-home mom; program partner and certified instructor with Derby Lite Roll Out Fitness Skating Hometown: Heartlandia (Wisconsin and Illinois) Current neighborhood: Brookside What I do (in 140 characters): When not building Legos with my boys, I’m leading high-energy fitness-skating exercise classes in which ladies become healthier humans and are brought into a welcoming community…
Since 2001, when it was known as Halfway to Hollywood, the Kansas International Film Festival has screened classics such as Stanley Kubrick’s Lolita and brought future Oscar contenders such as Black Swan to the Kansas City area months before they were scheduled to open here. Among this year’s slate of narrative and documentary features, the following are the ones we’re…
For a self-proclaimed jazz and blues festival, Saturday’s event at 18th Street and Vine doesn’t feature a preponderance of either musical style (soul and R&B stake near-equal claims). But when the jazz and blues headliners take the main stage, there won’t be doubt in anyone’s mind as to the true loyalties of the fest. Trumpeter Roy Hargrove has won Grammy…
Temples It wasn’t that long ago that Temples was in town, playing to a sold-out crowd at RecordBar. The English band is back Tuesday, this time at the Riot Room, continuing a tour in support of its debut, Sun Structures. When that album was released in February, music critics and fans fell over themselves to praise it. On Sun Structures,…
Seeing the Kansas City Bear Fighters live is like stumbling into a bizarre theme party. The band’s four members typically dress in either all-white suits or Cub Scout uniforms (lead singer and guitarist Quinn McCue says geisha robes may be next), and a costumed bear mascot frequently accompanies them onstage. The sound is an odd mix of 1920s vaudeville and…
When I ask Dedric Moore — who plays bass in local bands Monta At Odds and Gemini Revolution — how he came to found Psychfest, he doesn’t answer right away and looks a bit stumped. His eyes flicker briefly around the room at the Broadway Café, as though the answer might come from someone hunched over a mug a few…
