Here’s someone who probably had a stranger Sunday evening than you did: Alyssa DeGraff – a local singer-songwriter who performs as Gardienne – spent an hour and a half locked inside the closed CVS on Holmes and Red Bridge in south Kansas City last night. DeGraff originally entered the store at 9:45 p.m., she says. She was in search of…
Char Bar Smoked Meats & Amusements, which opened today at 4050 Pennsylvania, has a 7,000-square-foot interior, taking up only half of what was most recently the cavernous Beaumont Club. But the place still feels endlessly large. There’s a spacious lounge beyond the striking bar, and just outside that room’s windows waits a beer garden that’s still under construction for a…
Kyle James, son of Kansas City Mayor Sly James, has a new music video for his song “This Is Love.” In it, Kyle James tells us about what love means to him. There’s a storyline around the ill-fated romance between our unlucky-in-love hero, “Sam,” and the Regina George-like antiheroine, “Claire.” There is also a guy creating some pretty obvious spray-paint…
Via Twitter this morning, Oklahoma’s Joe’s announced that its name change — an effort to sever ties with the Tulsa barbecue operation it split off from 17 years ago — is now officially in effect at all three of its area locations. It’s now Joe’s Kansas City Bar-B-Que. For those of us who get carryout Z-Man-and-fries orders with enough regularity…
One day after Kansas City, Missouri, Councilman Michael Brooks allegedly choked his legislative aide in his City Council office, City Hall reached an agreement with employment law firm Littler Mendelson to investigate. Tonia Titus reported to the Kansas City Police Department on November 10 that Brooks had choked her on the afternoon of November 4, with his hands and, moments…
Kansas City contract to investigate Michael Brooks
A 60 Minutes report Sunday evening on CBS is the latest bit of circumstantial evidence that suggests Kansas City Bishop Robert Finn is losing, or has lost, his support in the Catholic Church hierarchy. A segment from Sunday’s television news magazine, which you can watch here, profiled Sean O’Malley, the archbishop of the Boston Diocese and the United States cardinal for…
Chrissie Hynde The Uptown, Kansas City Sunday, November 16 Chrissie Hynde took the stage to Sam Cooke doing “The Great Pretender.” It was almost too clever, but it did effectively remind audience members what they were there to see: Hynde, despite her new solo album, Stockholm, is best known as the frontwoman of Akron rock band the Pretenders, and it…
For anyone invested in bluegrass, speaking Rhonda Vincent’s name is like saying a prayer. The 52-year-old singer-songwriter (and mandolin, fiddle and guitar player) has a career that stretches back four decades and is studded with a dozen International Bluegrass Music Association awards. She has performed with country music’s biggest stars — Dolly Parton, Willie Nelson, Alan Jackson, Merle Haggard —…
Win or lose, Kansas City still boozes. In honor of a certain professional baseball team’s run to the World Series, Boulevard Brewing Co. will release Crown Town Ale later this year. Boulevard announced the special release on Facebook this afternoon. Kansas City, you asked for a beer to toast the amazing accomplishments of October and we’re right there with you….
Hey, remember VHS? Those spectacular rectangles that you so carefully cataloged as a kid, the boxes and boxes they occupied? And then along came DVDs. Your parents probably resisted the increasingly necessary hardware upgrade. Oh, the ’90s. But if you’re the nostalgic type, and you’ve kept a few of your most cherished cartoons on tape, then the Found Footage Fest…
As if the chance to see David Bazan perform wasn’t enough to lure us out, the singer-songwriter — formerly of Pedro the Lion and Headphones — is appearing Friday in Lawrence with fellow Seattle act Passenger String Quartet. In September, Bazan released a collaboration album with the quartet (David Bazan + Passenger String Quartet: Volume 1) featuring reimagined versions of…
“Modern emo” seems to be the catch-all term for Philadelphia quartet Modern Baseball, and that phrase kind of fits – the songs have pop hooks with a distinctly confessional edge to the lyrics. But the band’s roots as an acoustic duo has a definite influence on the foursome’s sound, and that come through loud and clear on Modern Baseball’s new…
The Seattle Seahawks and Kansas City Chiefs are two of the quietest 6-3 teams the NFL will ever see. Perhaps it has something to do with the defending champion Seahawks not exactly dominating or that the Chiefs aren’t quite as good as the division rival Denver Broncos. Whatever the reason, no one seems to notice these two underrated squads, and…
Sure, you can play it cool and be all, “No, no, I’m not into Taylor Swift, pfft,” making you either a liar or a monster. That’s fine. But then, by default, you’d miss out on this truly awesome cover of her global hit “Out of the Woods” by local rock stars the Architects. And that would be a damn shame. …
KC Bier Co. learned today that it won three silver medals at last weekend’s Great International Beer Fest & Cider Competition in Providence, Rhode Island. The Waldo-based, German-style brewery took second place for German Wheat Beer for its Hefeweizen, Wheat Beer – Weizenbock-Dunkel Weisse for its Weizenbock and Continental Pilsner for its Pils. St. Louis’ Urban Chestnut also had a…
