Back in March, country five-piece Crybaby Ranch celebrated five years together – but they were missing one key party favor. The band – which packs more fun than a drunken hoedown into its live set – had never recorded any music together. Finally, they’ve got something to show for themselves, with a debut full-length called Boom Boom Boom, which the…
Jeff Edmondson, the co-owner of the Hamburger Mary’s restaurant in the historic Uptown Theater building, says that when he and his construction crew were renovating their new venue in that 89-year-old building, they didn’t stumble across any interesting relics. The relic load was a lot more interesting when they began, last month, construction on the interior of 3740 Broadway, a…
The Dirty Kanza 200 deserved a beer to call its own, and Free State Brewing has obliged. Lawrence’s hometown brewery has released the Dirty Kanza Kölsch in honor of the 200-mile gravel-grinder bicycle race through Kansas’ Flint Hills. The German-style session beer is the first release in Free State’s new Front Porch Series, and it just started hitting store shelves in…
Tired of the Royals fighting their way through the American League? Then take a break from the brawls, and look at SPOART: Signal/Playbook by Zophia A. McDougal opening at Front/Space (217 West 18th Street) Friday from 6 to 9 p.m. What to expect? “An integration of the athletic concepts of signals and playbooks with the practice of art making,” the gallery says. “The show…
Construction is under way on Crane Brewing’s Raytown brewery. The equipment should be arriving in mid-May, and brewing of its wild and sour beer should begin in June. And then, well, it’ll be the licensing waiting game. But the Crane crew is targeting August for an official launch. Before getting there, Crane is asking for a little help from its friends…
Will ramen be the big culinary trend in Kansas City this year? Now that chef Josh Eans and his wife, Abbey-Jo, have raised their start-up money — through a Kickstarter campaign — for the simple, no-frills ramen operation Columbus Park Ramen Shop, to open this summer in the Historic Northeast, at least two other local restaurateurs are launching their own ramen…
A Missouri man named Jeff Mizanskey is currently serving a life sentence for non-violent marijuana-related offenses. Mizanskey, 61, has been imprisoned since 1996 and is not eligible for parole. Mizanskey’s situation has drawn more scrutiny in the last year, owing to media attention, calls for his release, marijuana’s march toward legality and increased awareness of how fucked-up the prison system…
The weather’s getting lovely outside, and there’s nothing that sounds finer than sitting out on the porch and listening to some tunes while knocking back a few beers. One of the finer genres for porch-drinking is honky tonk, and there’s few finer purveyors of that sound than Kansas City’s Rex Hobart & the Misery Boys. The band has a new…
After being one of the surprise teams in the NFL in 2013, en route to an unexpected playoff berth, the Kansas City Chiefs regressed a bit, missing out on the postseason despite a 9-7 record. Even so, fans and analysts alike believe KC has enough talent assembled on their roster to make another postseason push, and this time with a…
Starting May 1, Berbiglia Wine & Spirits will operate out of one store on 103rd Street, closing down its other six locations. The local liquor-store chain, owned by Jack Bondon, made the announcement today on its Facebook page. “Ralph and I have decided to concentrate all of our time here at the 103rd Street store,” the Facebook post reads. “We…
Thursday, April 30Tappings of Lagunitas Waldos’ Special Ale Imperial IPA, Perennial Saison de Lis and Ciderboys Peach County Cider, at Waldo Pizza (7433 Broadway) Torn Label tap takeover, at Green Room Burgers & Beer (4010 Pennsylvania), 6 p.m. Torn Label tap takeover, at Barley’s Brewhaus (5031 W. 135th St., Leawood), 5 p.m. Mikkeller 1000 IBU IPA, at Flying Saucer (101…
Every day, Scott Falke makes the 45-minute drive from his Liberty home to Hamilton, Missouri, a small town of 1,800 people where he decided to plant his Ninja Moose Brewery. If the location and name sound odd (and sound even odder together), well, they are. But, as Falke explains, production breweries can be anywhere. “If you’re a production brewery, it…
This month’s round-up of local videos is pretty heavy on new music. In fact, some of it is so new, these videos are the only place you can hear it. Be it dreamy hip-hop (Maal A Goomba), power-pop (Josh Berwanger Band), or twangy bluegrass (Monzie Leo & the Big Sky), we’ve wrangled up a slew of fresh tunes to put…
Name: Nicole Bissey Occupation: Photographer Hometown: Moberly, Missouri Current neighborhood: Downtown Kansas City What I do: I work 14-hour days shooting weddings and editing photos. I take road trips and travel for work a lot. I go to Costco way too much. I hang out with my roommate’s cats. I binge-watch Netflix while editing. I am a CASA (Court Appointed…
Believing himself to be Jesus Christ reincarnated, a 22-year-old student named Casey Brezik entered a conference room in the humanities building on the Penn Valley campus of Metropolitan Community College the morning of September 14, 2010. Brezik had been awake for three straight days, beset by schizophrenic delusions of government conspiracies. He had accessorized his all-black outfit with a bulletproof…
James McMurtry With his long curls, gray-streaked goatee and out-of-time round spectacles, James McMurtry looks about the way he sounds: a little rough around the edges, a little older than he planned to be. But fans of the Texas singer-songwriter’s latest full-length, February’s Complicated Game, like him that way. It’s that dust and grit that give his Americana deep flavor….
Ken Lovern’s OJT — Organ Jazz Trio to those unfamiliar — has a new album out called New Standards for the Green Lady, and it’s a doozy. Lovern’s roisterous Hammond B-3 organ, Brian Baggett’s dripping-with-blues guitar, and Kevin Frazee’s quick and supple drums turn pop standards into jazz standards with exceptional delight. “Eleanor Rigby” hasn’t been this much fun since…
When Anna St. Louis, the bass player for garage-rock trio Bloodbirds, departed for California in October 2013, the local music community was bereft. A beloved band had come to a sudden stop. Feeling even sadder were Bloodbirds’ lead singer and guitarist Mike Tuley and his wife, drummer Brooke Tuley. “We wanted to keep the band going, and we talked about…
Aside from the intricately patterned boots, Scott Hobart, in his corduroy pants and tucked-in oxford, does not particularly look like a honky-tonk singer. He can sure drink like one, though, and before he slides into a bar seat at Coda Bar & Grill during a weekday happy hour, he orders a shot of whiskey and a draft. It has been…
Fiddler on the Roof turned 50 last year, but the musical doesn’t show its age. Despite being steeped in traditions and, for most of us, an old and far-removed way of life, the story is so fundamentally human that it remains vibrant and contemporary. Its world isn’t so distant, in some ways, from our own. Spinning Tree Theatre’s Michael Grayman…
The fictional community in Welcome to Night Vale is more H.P. Lovecraft’s Arkham than Garrison Keillor’s Lake Wobegon. In less than three years, the podcast about a strange desert town has become an international phenomenon with a novel slated for a fall release through Harper Perennial. The voice of Night Vale’s community-radio station is Cecil Palmer, played by Cecil Baldwin….
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