Archives: January 2015

Dining, Food & Drink

A Sugar Rush in January truly calls for … snow cones

Charles Ferruzza,

There are two locations of the boutique snow-cone shop Tropical Sno in Kansas City, and they’re both owned by local entrepreneurs Seth Golay (a Tropical Sno dealer-relationship manager and actor — he’s currently understudying two roles in Shear Madness at the New Theatre Restaurant) and his partner, Jason Kralicek. Both snow-cone emporiums are closed for the winter season, but for…
Music

The Black Lillies let their roots show at Knuckleheads last night

Mike Warren,

The Black Lillies Knuckleheads Saloon Wednesday, January 14, 2015 It’s not often that a country band gets a crowd pushing and gasping to the “oohs and “ahs” of the the Zombies. At the top of the evening during the Black Lillies’ set at Knuckleheads, it simply couldn’t have been anticipated. Realistically, a Black Lillies’ crowd craves harmonies and honky tonk…
Beer & Spirits

Taste Boulevard beers, learn about proper glassware and more beer events

Justin Kendall,

Thursday, January 15Nøgne Ø/Terrapin Imperial Rye Porter tapping, at Flying Saucer (101 East 13th Street), 7 p.m. North Coast Barrel-Aged Old Rasputin XVII Russian imperial stout, New Belgium Salted Belgian Chocolate Stout and Santa Fe Black IPA tappings, at Waldo Pizza’s taproom (7433 Broadway) Oaked Winterbock tapping and release of Doppel Alt, a dry-hopped German amber ale, at KC Bier…
Dining, Food & Drink

No more booze at P&L’s Whopper Bar for the foreseeable future :(

David Hudnall,

The Whopper Bar, Burger King’s experiment in slightly more upscale dining, debuted in the Power and Light District in 2011, at 1350 Walnut. In addition to more than 30 different toppings for your burgers (including guacamole and crispy onions!) and exclusive menu items like the BK Black & Bleu Steakhouse XT, Whopper Bar also offered customers beer and wine.  We are…
Dining, News

Ibis Bakery in Lenexa to open downtown Kansas City location this fall

Charles Ferruzza,

Bread baker Chris Matsch and his partner, Kate Seversen, who have been selling loaves of their crusty, country-style breads at farmers markets, coffee shops and specialty stores for several years under the Ibis Bakery banner, opened their first retail operation last October (at 12817 West 87th Street Parkway, in Lenexa). The young married couple now plans to open a combination…

Elizabeth Wilson’s Asiatica is a quiet institution

Angela Lutz,

Once a year, Elizabeth Wilson goes shopping in Japan. She has made the annual trek since 1977, the year that she opened Asiatica, her distinctive Westwood boutique. Then, as now, she adheres to a simple criterion: She buys what she likes. “What I buy varies a bit from year to year,” Wilson told me when I stopped by Asiatica in…
Food & Drink

Bartender’s Notebook: Arturo Vera-Felicie brings his lab-ready wizardry to Justus Drugstore

Natalie Gallagher,

The bar at Smithville’s Justus Drugstore is small, with just a half-dozen seats in front of it and, behind it, a claustrophobic array of bottles covering the shelves and countertop. The place looks, perhaps, one wholesale delivery away from needing a PODS unit. Not every vessel is commercial — dozens of glass jars and vials contain liquids in various hues,…
News

Beth Ott, co-founder of SocialHeart, shares lessons from improv, plans for Mardi Gras KC and more in this week’s Pitch Questionnaire

Justin Kendall,

Name: Beth Ott Occupation: Marketing specialist at Hoefer Wysocki Architecture and co-founder of SocialHeart Hometown: Brazito, Missouri (south of Jeff City — you blink, you miss it). Current neighborhood: Hyde Park What I do: I love to keep busy. Between work and SocialHeart, I also serve on the board for Quixotic School of Performing Arts and as the sponsorship director…
News

Glenwood Arts at Metcalf South closes Sunday, January 25

Scott Wilson,

The Glenwood Arts theater, home to one of the Fine Arts Group’s arthouse cinemas as well as to the enormous marquee that once belonged to the Dickinson chain’s original Glenwood, closes for good on Sunday, January 25, Fine Arts co-owners Brian and Ben Mossman and Wade Williams announced this afternoon. The Metcalf South mall’s last non-Sears holdout is decamping east…

Music

Jazz Beat: Horacescope, at the Blue Room

Larry Kopitnik,

Any jazz fans worth their salt will recognize the music of the late pianist and composer Horace Silver — even if they may not be able to name one of his pieces off the bat. Enter KC quintet Horacescope, an ensemble dedicated to playing Silver’s compositions in all their contemporary glory. Thursday night at the Blue Room, you’ll find Stan…
Music

High Dive Records’ Jeff McCoy has big plans for his little label

Natalie Gallagher,

When Jeff McCoy founded High Dive Records in January 2013, he had only one band and one purpose: To release the ACBs’ full-length, Little Leaves, into the world. Mission accomplished. McCoy, along with ACBs bassist Bryan McQuire, moved on to build High Dive’s empire. It was a gradual process, but now, as the label observes its second anniversary, McCoy can…
Music

For this punk band, there’s just one rule: Work hard

Natalie Gallagher,

Let’s be clear: Lazy, the band, is not lazy. The name is an intentional irony kept up since the punk act’s founders, guitarists and co-lead singers Brock Potucek and Sarica Douglas, first joined forces, in 2009. (They started as Lazy K before dropping the lonely letter.) The truth is — and Potucek and Douglas will admit to this, very quietly…
Food & Drink

Renee Kelly plants some new seeds for her Harvest

Charles Ferruzza,

Renée Kelly’s list of New Year’s resolutions is more ambitious than the usual self-improvement rundown. She wants, for instance, to open a restaurant on the Missouri side of the state line. And if she has her way, 2015 will be the year when she’s featured in a new cable series about operating a restaurant with a different approach. The 34-year-old…
A&E, Stage

Jessalyn Kincaid shape-shifts through her roles — onstage and off

Deborah Hirsch,

Like many — if not most — local actors, Jessalyn Kincaid supplements her theater roles with steadier work. And like many — if not most — she doesn’t consider her stage work a sideline. The actress, singer and self-proclaimed introvert has been active on local stages for more than a decade. “Acting allows me to be all the things I’m…
News

KSHB investigative reporter Ryan Kath is off to Boston (or, Kansas City loses another great journalist)

Steve Vockrodt,

We’ve long been admirers of KSHB 41 Action News investigative reporter Ryan Kath. By the end of February, we will have to admire him from afar. The news station’s top on-air gun is leaving Kansas City for Boston’s CBS affiliate, WBZ. He will join that station’s investigative team in one of North America’s largest television markets. His departure isn’t terribly…
News

Belle and Sebastian stop at the Uptown Theater in June

Natalie Gallagher,

Girls in Peacetime Want to Dance, the new album from Glasgow, Scotland’s Belle and Sebastian, might surprise longtime fans. The band hasn’t exactly abandoned its folk-pop roots as much as it has expanded upon them, with a sound that pulls heartily from disco, and grand, sweeping choruses. It’s already being heralded as one of the band’s finest achievements, which is…