About an hour ago, Texas County, Missouri, Sheriff James Sigman held a press conference regarding the multiple murders that took place last night inside several homes in Tyrone, a small, unincorporated community in the south-central part of the state. The shooter has been identified as Joseph Aldridge, age 36. He was discovered in an adjacent county, dead from an apparent…
%{}% Why would someone who announced in January that he’s running for Missouri governor shoot himself? Why would that person summon reporters to his house for a 2:30 p.m. press gathering, only to die by his own hand some five hours earlier? Why would concern about an apparent whisper campaign by a Missouri Republican apparatchik about one’s Jewish heritage be…
After a bit of a holiday, Kansas City’s Shy Boys are finally stepping back into the spotlight. Last month, the trio celebrated the first anniversary of its stunning self-titled debut album and teased that a few new tunes were in the works. Before the boys go out on tour in March, catch them Saturday at Harling’s with the shimmery psych-pop…
Courtney Patton and Jamie Wilson with John Goolsby Knuckleheads Saloon, Kansas City Thursday, February 26 For some singer-songwriters, it would be paralyzing to learn they’d been moved from the cozy Gospel Lounge to Knuckleheads’ main room, full of still-benevolent fans actually there for Austin country rockers Micky and the Motorcars. (It’s not quite Blues Brothers at the roadhouse, but it…
%{}% Sad news out of Missouri today where its auditor and aspirant for governor, Tom Schweich, has died. He was 54. Schweich was taken from his home in Clayton to a St. Louis hospital on Thursday morning following what his office described as a “medical situation” for which he was being treated. Several news outlets reported that Schweich was being…
For at least two years, Johnson County’s Board of County Commissioners has been divided as evenly as you can split seven votes on what to do with the King Louie building. Steve Klika for much of that time has been a vocal opponent of renovating the ramshackle bowling alley, at 8788 Metcalf, on the backs of taxpayers, who already overpaid…
Martin and Katrin Heuser, the owners of the Affare restaurant at 1911 Main, have come to the end of the line — at least in terms of their frustrations with the construction of the streetcar line in front of their award-winning contemporary German restaurant. This week, Katrin Heuser sent out a media notice: “We have decided to close on Mondays,…
The color purple is almost gone. The vibrant shade of violet paint that had covered the two-story Crossroads building at 101 Southwest Boulevard during its five-year tenure as Hamburger Mary’s is pretty much covered with a first coat of charcoal-gray paint. It’s the most obvious sign that the flamboyant nightclub and restaurant has left the building (and reopened in the…
Thursday, February 26Brewers table, featuring Nebraska Brewing Co.’s Mélange à Trois and HopAnomaly with food pairings by chef Derek Owen, at Flying Saucer (101 E. 13th St.), 7 p.m. Mother’s Brewing Co. beer dinner and tap takeover, at Ted’s Taphouse (1004 Massachusetts, Lawrence), 3–11 p.m. Mother’s Brewing tasting, at Cork & Barrel (901 Mississippi, Lawrence), 6–8 p.m.; at On the…
You cannot half-ass an American Ninja Warrior workout. That was my first lesson at Chaos Course in Belton, the Kansas City area’s only training gym for the Esquire Network show that pits contestants against one another on a masochistic obstacle course seemingly designed to make grown men cry. Russ Babcock, who co-owns the gym with his wife, Liz Babcock, is…
The 96.5 Buzz Beach Ball will return to Kansas City this summer for its 11th installment on July 25. Held at Sporting Park, the concert will be headlined by Alt-J and also features performances by Awolnation, Taking Back Sunday, Glass Animals and Milky Chance. Additional artists slated to play this year’s Buzz Beach Ball include Andrew McMahon in the Wilderness,…
%{}% Boulevardia tickets officially went on sale at 10 a.m., and it didn’t take long for tickets to Taps & Tastes, the Saturday beer festival, to sell out. The $100 VIP tickets were locked up almost as soon as they went on sale. That’s 300 tickets gone right there. Instead of getting locked out entirely, I picked up the $75…
Along with the news of Cleaver & Cork’s opening, we decided to check in with the Rieger to see what talent was being tapped to take over for Andrew Olsen’s vacant head bartending spot. The answer was a familiar one: Brock Schulte, who has been at the Rieger since it opened in 2010 (with a one-year absence September 2012-13), will…
Back in 2003, the sports architecture firm then known as HOK was in the market for office space. Kansas City, Missouri, was eager to help. The city, as it often does, issued tax breaks to a developer willing to erect a building at Third Street and Wyandotte. The Chelsea Theatre, a run-down porn hub, went away. In its place rose…
Name: Matt Cox Occupation: Lead pastor, EastLake Church in Lawrence Hometown: Lansing, Kansas Current neighborhood: Lawrence What I do: I lead a fairly new church startup in Lawrence for people who don’t like church. We value community above agreement. We value our differences. We are open and affirming to all people. What’s your addiction? Chipotle burrito bowls What’s your game?…
Jabee If you needed one more reason to love Oklahoma City rapper Jabee, look no further than Love Don’t Live Here. The six-track EP dropped on Valentine’s Day, and should the title not be clear enough, this is a darksider’s take on the so-called day of love. In verse after verse, Jabee shouts out the women who broke his heart…
Sunday jazz brunch — with quieter, more intimate music that accompanies your meal and that you can talk over — is growing in popularity in Kansas City. The Broadway Jazz Club was first, followed by Chaz on the Plaza in the Raphael Hotel. Take Five Coffee + Bar has added brunch to its new location and, starting this weekend, gives…
There would be quite a few more bands sticking around Kansas City in mid-March during Austin’s South by Southwest if it weren’t for Sondra Freeman and her fellow Midwest Music Foundation staffers. Freeman, MMF’s director of promotions, has had a hand in organizing the MidCoast Takeover showcase since its inception in 2009. In those six years, the unofficial SXSW showcase…
Depending on whom you ask, the Walnut Valley Festival in Winfield, Kansas, sounds either idyllic or just sort of awesome: rollicking campfire sing-alongs, drunken camping, an impossible amount of great music. It’s the kind of setting that leads to deep friendships. And sometimes, those newly forged bonds lead to more music, as when longtime Winfielder Melissa Butler put together her…
Over his nearly five-decade career, Canadian filmmaker David Cronenberg has given us surreal worlds populated by dangerous people, from the telepaths of Scanners to the drug-addled psychic landscape of William S. Burroughs in Naked Lunch. With his latest film, Maps to the Stars, Cronenberg, who turns 72 next month, explores his most bizarre world yet: contemporary Los Angeles. The weirdness…
Harling’s Upstairs, the comfort-over-style dive bar overlooking the intersection of Westport Road and Main Street, doesn’t pack ’em in on Tuesday nights. On this frigid mid-February evening, plenty of bodies are present, yes, but most of them are attached to musical instruments and arrayed behind music stands — tonight’s talent, not tonight’s customers. This is the New Jazz Order, the…
%{}% %{}% Revivals are best left to Broadway and to church groups. When it comes to restaurants, they’re almost always doomed to fail. It’s one thing to bring back The Sound of Music. It’s another to put Paradise Diner back on the block. Yes, yes, some folks remain nostalgic for the original Paradise, the quirky Oak Park Mall café opened…
