At 5:37 p.m. Monday, in Rozzelle Court’s grand atrium at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, some 16 servers were furiously polishing what seemed to be an endless supply of heavy silverware. The metal clanked together in a constant melody, accompanying another team of servers racking glassware up from the kitchen. In another corner, the museum’s kitchen crew plated tray after…
%{}% Jermaine Reed is thinking like Sly James. Both believe that the minimum wage should be higher. But Reed, a first-term Kansas City councilman from the 3rd District, has a different approach. Last week, Reed introduced an ordinance to increase the minimum wage in Kansas City, starting at $10 an hour and going up $1.50 an hour each year for…
If you attended last year’s Boulevardia Taps & Tastes, you likely got to sample a few brews by Pretty Things Beer and Ale Project. Well, get ready to try a lot more Pretty Things. Shelton Brothers Missouri announced yesterday on Twitter that the Somerville, Massachusetts, brewery’s beer would be hitting store shelves across Kansas City this week. Look for a Pretty…
An Evening with Ferran Adrià at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art. All photos by Zach Bauman.
Since early March, billboards throughout the country have been cryptically hinting at a Rolling Stones tour. The Internet has been riled up with speculation, and now, we finally have a concert date to tattoo onto our forearms. The Rolling Stones – frontman Mick Jagger, guitarists Keith Richards and Ron Wood and drummer Charlie Watts – will be performing at Arrowhead…
You may recall that last year, the Royals’ sixth-inning song was changed from Garth Brooks’ “Friends in Low Places” to Journey’s “Don’t Stop Believing.” The team subsequently went on a winning streak, and later advanced to the World Series, where they faced the San Francisco Giants. Unfortunately, Steve Perry, the lead singer of Journey and co-writer of “Don’t Stop Believing,”…
With so many local artists gone down to Austin this month, it seems like local pickings have been scarce on the video front, but what’s been released is fabulous. From spare, loping hip-hop (Barrel Maker and D/Will), bluesy rock (Danielle Nicole) or even an improvised jam on a plane (Victor & Penny), it’s an intriguing selection for this month’s Cine…
On Sunday night at the InterContinental Hotel, a half-dozen local bartenders were gathered for an exhibition put on by Patrón and the United States Bartenders’ Guild. The partner exhibition was titled Patrón Aficionado, and its purpose was two-fold: First, to promote the alliance between the USBG and Patron; second, to promote Patrón’s newest products, its Roca Patrón line. A large portion…
%{}% Several familiar restaurant names were among the closings over the first quarter of 2015, including Saigon 39, the family-operated Vietnamese restaurant that had been a mainstay of the 39th Street “Restaurant Row” for more than 23 years. Two Johnson County Japanese restaurants — Sushi Gin Japanese Cuisine, at 9559 Nall, and Kaiyo Authentic Japanese Restaurant, at 4308 West 119th…
One of the great things about being a Kansas City sports fan is that you have a plethora of storied, highly-regarded professional organizations to root for. The Royals, for instance, are coming off an astounding breakout year in 2014, in which they mowed through the playoffs and advanced to their first World Series since 1985, participating in one of the…
More troubling news emerged from the Missouri political establishment on Monday morning with reports that say deceased state auditor Tom Schweich’s press secretary, Spence Jackson, was found dead in his Clayton home on Sunday. Multiple news sources indicate that Jefferson City police are investigating the discovery of a dead body in Jackson’s residence. PoliticMo reports that Jackson’s death appears to have…
Fleetwood Mac Sprint Center, Kansas City Saturday, March 28 For more photos from last night, go here. “If you would have asked me ten years ago, I never thought I’d be doing this,” Christine McVie announced to the Sprint Center audience last night, before she began “Everywhere,” her first lead song of the evening. Indeed, McVie was not alone in…
Yesterday, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau unveiled its long-anticipated proposal to bring stricter rules to the consumer lending industry of payday loans, title loans and installment loans. Such reform is long overdue in Missouri, a state with more payday-loan storefronts than Wal-Marts, McDonalds and Starbucks combined. The payday-lending lobby, which employs disgusting tactics to preserve its unconscionable profit margins, more or…
Like proud Kansas Citians, we religiously follow the activities of Janelle Monáe, one of our favorite local girls made good. This morning, we were delighted by the news that the R&B goddess has partnered up with 1980s icon Duran Duran on the band’s forthcoming album, to be released in September. What we know so far: Monáe will be featured on at…
Virginia “Dee” Evans suspended her campaign for Kansas City’s 3rd Disrict at-large seat on Friday following the recent and unexpected death of her husband. Dennis Evans III passed away on March 1. “Due to recent events in my personal life I am unable to put forth 100% of my time towards those goals at this time,” Evans said in a mid-day…
Palcohol is not, as I first guessed, a cool, friendly name to give your drink when you are drinking alone. It’s not that at all. It’s instead a brand of powdered alcohol, sold in packets, that you mix with water to turn into booze you can drink. Currently, there are four flavors of Palcohol: vodka, rum, cosmopolitan and Powderita, which is like…
Kansas Congressman Tim Huelskamp votes against the Affordable Care Act every chance he gets. He calls it a “liberty-attacking mandate.” And he subscribes to it. Huelskamp told a gathering in Clay Center, Kansas, on Thursday that he and his wife signed up for insurance offered through the Affordable Care Act. “For the record, I am on Obamacare — Yee-hah!”…
%{}% After a five-month delay — a complicated ordeal that involved changing the licensing of the venue — chef Alex Pope (Local Pig butcher shop, Pigwich food truck) was finally able to bring back the Local Pig sign he had first installed above the door at 510 Westport Road in October. As we explained last fall, Pope took over the…
The line just to get into the tan building at 7612 Northwest Prairie View Road took about 10 minutes. Then there was the line inside the building to get to the cashier’s window. That took 18 minutes. And the wait for the grease-stained brown-paper sack with two cheeseburgers and tater tots? About 20 minutes. But the wait was worth it…
On New Year’s Eve, Hank Puls was eating buffalo chicken wings while waiting to hear the winners of 75th Street Brewery’s annual homebrewing contest. “I had no expectations of winning whatsoever,” says Puls, a pediatrician at Children’s Mercy. “I had to go to work that night and was just feverishly eating buffalo wings.” Puls had entered a saison, which he…
