Imagine swimming through a river of shit. When you finally reach the other side, Gov. Sam Brownback is standing above you on the bank of the river. You’re still wading in the shit-water. You stink like shit. There’s shit in your eyes, shit in your mouth. You look up at Brownback. He’s wearing a suit. He’s got that smug smile….
Something fishy is going on in the federal case against Mission Hills businesswoman Cheryl Womack, enough so that her scheduled change of plea hearing in court on Wednesday has been called off. Instead, Womack’s attorneys and federal prosecutors will hold a hearing before a magistrate judge tomorrow morning. The hearing will presumably discuss why a piece of evidence in Womack’s…
As I discovered last month when writing about the newest Stroud’s restaurant, you can never get enough fried chicken in the Kansas City metro. A young entrepreneur, 30-year-old Adam Herndon, is on a mission to make sure that the bird — wings and chicken tenders — is even more accessible in this steak-and-potato town. Herndon opened his first Slim Chickens…
The American Royal, boosted by a small group of high-net-worth individuals like UMB CEO Mariner Kemper and Cerner CEO Neal Patterson, thinks Kemper Arena should be torn down and replaced with a smaller, fancier facility, and that the rest of us should pay $30 million for it. It is pretty close to getting its way. A competing plan that would…
Vladimir Krstic Letter to Mayor James
Sad news for all country fans who were excited for this month’s double bill with Loretta Lynn and Wanda Jackson at the Uptown Theater. Due to an illness, Jackson canceled her November tour dates and will not be stopping by our fair city. The good news is that the show will go on as scheduled, on Saturday, November 22, with…
Just as the weather is about to turn cold, Free State Brewing Co. is bringing us something warm: the release of Owd Mac’s Imperial Stout. From 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. (or until the beer sells out) Saturday, November 22, Free State will sell 750 ml bottles of Owd Mac’s Imperial Stout on the docks of its production facility at 1923 Moodie Road…
This should have been a great year for Ernesto Peralta, the founder of the two popular Blanc Burgers + Bottles restaurants (the Leawood location and the nine-month-old Westport venue, which brought the burger joint back to the neighborhood where Peralta opened the original restaurant in 2008). In September, the parent company of the Blanc Burgers + Bottles restaurants, Circle Restaurant…
Yes, it is confusing. Two weeks after restaurateur Alex Pope took over the lease and changed the signage at 510 Westport Road, turning the combination beer emporium and sandwich shop — Bridger’s Bottle Shop and Preservation Market — into a new Local Pig, he has put the Bridger’s Bottle Shop sign back up. Inside the venue, it’s pretty much as…
Four decades after Monty Python’s Flying Circus left the air, writer-performer John Cleese still can’t get away from it. Lately, though, that doesn’t seem to bother him. Cleese, whose TV shows and movies created with fellow Pythons Eric Idle, Terry Gilliam, Terry Jones, Michael Palin and the late Graham Chapman influenced everything from Saturday Night Live to The Simpsons, participated…
Thee Oh Sees with Jack Name and the Conquerors Saturday, Nov. 8, 2014 Riot Room, Kansas City Last night’s slideshow here. There was a point, about six songs into Thee Oh Sees’ set last night, where a fan took a step up to the stage and fell backwards into the waiting crowd to begin the most timid stage dive I’ve seen….
Lucinda Williams Liberty Hall, Lawrence Friday, November 7 There are concerts you walk into, predisposed to think they’ll go a certain way. Lucinda Williams certainly was one of those. She was the raspy-voiced woman my mom liked, and damned if the crowd didn’t look a lot like my parents. As the show started, there was something that had me worried…
Ron Quick made an executive decision today. Well, two actually. The first was to make today the last day of business for the 50-year-old barbecue restaurant at 1007 Merriam Lane in Kansas City, Kansas. (Quick had told a couple of local news outlets that he intended to keep the restaurant open until November 14.) The second? “I had planned to…
The Kansas City Chiefs aren’t the perfect 7-0 they were last year around this time, but they’re not drowning, either. At 5-3, the Chiefs are still alive in the race for the AFC West crown and you could even argue they are a favorite for a wild card playoff spot. That being said, not too many people expect Kansas City…
This week, Kansas City’s whiskey-loving population has a completely legitimate reason to spend a few hours imbibing after work: the introduction of the much-anticipated J. Rieger & Co. Whiskey. On Monday, Rieger’s Kansas City Whiskey hit local shelves and bars. Ryan Maybee, co-owner at the Rieger Hotel Grill & Exchange and its sublevel speakeasy, Manifesto, and co-founder of the resurrected…
Missouri’s 2004 constitutional amendment prohibiting same-sex marriage continues to crumble on a historic day for gay rights in the Show-Me State. Just hours after a federal judge in Kansas City declared that Missouri’s law against same-sex marriage was unconstitutional, Jackson County announced that it would start issuing marriage licenses to gay couples on Friday afternoon. Retired judge Vernon Scoville will…
Boulevard’s 25th anniversary celebration starts today in the taproom (2501 Southwest Boulevard) with a birthday kickoff from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. Everything on tap is $4. There will be Little Freshie carrot cupcakes paired with 4-ounce pours of Pale Ale for $3. And, while it lasts, free samples of Silver Anniversary Ale. The party continues Saturday with a sold-out pub…
The Honorable Ortrie D. Smith today joined the chorus of judges serving in and around the Kansas City area who have declared that state bans on same-sex marriage are unconstitutional. Smith, a federal judge in the U.S. District Court for Western Missouri, ruled today that the ban violates the 14th Amendment’s due process clause, in a lawsuit filed in June by…
When the Midwest Music Foundation first conceived the Apocalypse Meow benefit seven years ago, the goal was simple. Money raised from the benefit would help the organization’s co-founder, Abigail Henderson, pay a stack of hospital bills accumulated from her fight with breast cancer. Henderson died last year, but the MMF rallies again to raise money for Abby’s Fund, which assists…
