%{}% %{}% There’s bar food and then there’s, well, bar food. There are fried pepper poppers, greasy burgers and neon-orange nachos. And then there are the aspirational dishes that appear on tavern menus in which the poppers and plain burgers and molten Tex-Mex typically await your future regret. In the latter category you can put the new Barrel 31, the…
This is the beginning,” says Keith Thompson on a misty, gray mid-March morning as he looks at the graffiti-covered building at 1829 Oak. Metal bars block the windows, and the wooden front door would have looked at home on the set of The Wire. Thompson has worked as the brewmaster at McCoy’s Public House since its 1997 opening, but he’s…
The only gleam of light in a glum, overcast day in Kansas City is the one that shines down on Johnson County Commission Chairman Ed Eilert. Eilert delivered a sunny State of the County address during lunch hour on Tuesday at the Ritz Charles in southern Overland Park. As the leader of the Kansas City metro’s most prosperous county, Eilert…
Down in Harper County, Kansas, a recent and sudden rise in earthquakes has caused structural cracks and damages to the courthouse, with repairs estimated at $1.1 million. In adjacent Sumner County — also located in the Sunflower State along the Kansas-Oklahoma border — earthquakes continue to damage homeowners’ walls and roofs. Last November, the largest earthquake ever recorded in Kansas…
Jeff Rosenstock’s solo album, We Cool?, debuted on the Billboard charts when it was released a couple of weeks ago on SideOne Dummy Records. For those familiar with the former frontman for the Arrogant Sons of Bitches, as well as long-running basement favorites Bomb the Music Industry, this might’ve come as quite a shock. Rosenstock is the king of DIY,…
Ted Cruz, a Canadian-born conspiracy theorist and climate-change denier that the citizens of Texas elected to represent them in the U.S. Senate, announced today that he is running for president of the New World Order United States of America. He did so at Liberty University, a Baptist school founded by the Rev. Jerry Falwell Sr. Look at all those youngsters fired up…
%{}% Bless the folks at the League of Women Voters. The Kansas City political club will do its civic duty on Tuesday evening when it will corral wayward mayoral candidates Clay Chastain and Vincent Lee into the auditorium at All Souls Unitarian Church with Sly James to hold a forum in this year’s least dynamic municipal election contest. Near as…
Chef Ted Habiger of Room 39 and Michael Foust of the Farmhouse will host, on two different nights in April, five-course dinners pairing cheeses from Green Dirt Farm and wines produced by the Terra Vox vineyard in Farley, Missouri, just north of Parkville. The dinners will actually be prepared and served at the vineyard: Ted Habiger will be the guest…
Good news for classic-rock fans of a certain age (and their kids): Boston is touring this summer, and the Massachusetts band hits Kansas City in August, along with support from Blue Öyster Cult and Shooting Star. The triple-threat bill performs at Starlight on Sunday, August 30. Tickets go on sale Friday, March 27, at 9 a.m. at LiveNation. Categories: News Tags:…
After TV on the Radio’s bassist and producer Gerard Smith passed away from lung cancer in 2011, the band was so heartbroken that the fate of the group remained unclear for some time. In the ensuing few, years the group’s members started new projects. Occasionally, a TV on the Radio song trickled out here and there. It wasn’t until last…
The Kansas City Business Journal earlier this week wrote a story about how Spencer Fane Britt & Browne invested $5.5 million into expanding and renovating its leased office space at 10th Street and Walnut. The story made no mention about whether one of Kansas City’s largest law firms tapped the public dole to defray part of the expense. Kansas City companies,…
It is a plain fact that single-use plastic bags are terrible for the environment. They pollute forests and bodies of water, threaten marine life and resist decomposition for hundreds of years. For reasons like these, many municipalities in the United States have either banned or taxed the use of these plastic bags. It’s not just Seattle and San Francisco, either….
If you don’t know local rapper Reach by his music, there’s a good chance you know him from his work in other areas of the community. Last year, Reach partnered with the Black Archives of Mid-America and debuted a symposium surrounding misogyny in hip-hop. This Saturday, the second installment of the Bebop to Hip Hop series takes place, as a…
The Power & Light District is getting another beer bar. We’ve known for some time that Yard House would be joining the Flying Saucer in the Power & Light District, but today we finally have an opening date: Saturday, April 25. This is the second Yard House in the area (the first is in the Legends in KCK). Yard House…
Chef Josh Eans, one of the founders of Blanc Burgers, purchased the popular Columbus Park restaurant Happy Gillis Cafe & Hangout in 2013. Previous owner Todd Schulte had also operated his Uncommon Stock soup business out of the garage space adjacent to Happy Gillis before moving that operation west of the Crossroads. Now Eans has a plan for that garage:…
It has been an open secret for months that Jonathan Justus, the James Beard Award-nominated chef and co-owner of Justus Drugstore, is planning to open a second restaurant in Kansas City … somewhere. Justus isn’t quite ready to say just what zip code he’s after for the place — to be called Black Dirt — but he tells me that he’s…
When the Country Club Plaza was founded in the 1920s, the district included a mix of retail and restaurants that left room for the occasional bowling-alley grill, Woolworth’s lunch counter or Putsch’s Cafeteria. Those relatively down-market vendors are distant memories, to say the least, but the Plaza’s current owner, North Carolina-based Highwoods Properties, does seem to like the whole fast-casual thing….
Three months ago, Pope Francis established the Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors, a review panel to address the problem of sexual abuse in the Catholic Church. Among the nine appointees was one layperson: Peter Saunders, who was abused by Jesuit priests in London and who later founded the National Association for People Abused in Childhood. The move was…
Anyone who’s met Hammerlord bassist Terry Taylor knows that he’s one of the nicest guys on the planet. Given his calm demeanor (especially when dealing with bands, managers, and local music journalists) and massive toy collection, you can’t help but think this is a guy who’d make an awesome dad. This Saturday, March 21, there’s a benefit to help Taylor…
