Archives: April 2015
Polski Day volunteers make lots and lots of Polish food for Saturday
If you’ve never stood in line — sometimes for as long as an hour — to get a plate of traditional Polish favorites at All Saints Parish (the original St. Joseph’s, the Polish-Catholic church at the corner of Eighth Street and Vermont in Kansas City, Kansas), you’ve missed out on a true taste of this city’s culinary history. The 31st annual…
Grinders announces it’s taking over the High Noon Saloon in Leavenworth
Looks like Stretch is expanding his Grinders empire. The rock-and-roll pizza joint announced on Facebook today that it’s taking over the High Noon Saloon & Brewery in Leavenworth, Kansas. The High Noon Saloon also teased the transfer of ownership on social media with this Facebook message. “Rumors are NOW true. We are closing May 1st to make way for something…
Pleadings due today in Clay Chastain’s legal attempt to get Sly James off the ballot
A Jackson County Circuit Court judge has told Clay Chastain, April’s distant third-place finisher in the Kansas City mayoral primary, and attorneys for incumbent Sly James to file arguments to the court by the end of the day Tuesday about whether James should be disqualified as a candidate. Tuesday’s deadline is the first major step in Chastain’s bid to remove…
Fifth Harmony is coming to the Uptown in August
Fans of the X Factor and/or powerful girl-groups will be pleased to hear that Miami’s Fifth Harmony is coming through town. The five-piece ensemble stops at the Uptown on Thursday, August 20, with special guests Common Kings, Natalie La Rose and Bea Miller. Tickets go on sale Friday, May 1, at 10 a.m. via Live Nation. Categories: Music Tags: concert announcement,…
Sleater-Kinney delivered a fiery, unapologetic set last night at the Uptown
Sleater-Kinney with TheeSatisfaction The Uptown Theater, Kansas City Sunday, April 26 For the full slideshow from last night, go here. Sleater-Kinney did not spend a lot of time on banter last night at the Uptown. There was little need, of course: The Portland-based trio was fully occupied between guitarist Carrie Brownstein’s powerful shredding, drummer Janet Weiss’ punch-packed drumming and singer…
D’Angelo announces new tour dates, stops at the Midland in June
You guys. D’Angelo is coming to our city. Less than an hour ago, Consequence of Sound announced 14 dates for the U.S. leg of D’Angelo’s Second Coming Tour, in support of last year’s Black Messiah. The singer and his band, the Vanguard, stop at the Midland on Thursday, June 11. Tickets go on sale Friday, May 1, at 10 a.m. Details…
When it comes to steering its economy into the toilet, Kansas is in a league of its own
Kansas lawmakers, no strangers to bad economic news these days, got some context for the state’s struggling budget: the Sunflower State last year suffered the third worst revenue drop in the United States. The U.S. Census Bureau says in a new report that Kansas joined Alaska and Delaware as the three states showing the most precipitous drops in overall tax…
Neil Diamond spread the love at the Sprint Center last night
Neil Diamond Sprint Center, Kansas City Sunday, April 26 It’s easy to forget that there was a time, not that long ago, when Neil Diamond was pretty passé – a time when “Sweet Caroline” wasn’t part of every major league ballpark experience. After Diamond’s first few waves of popularity (AM pop hits, iconic ‘70s status), his career got a little…
Sly James and members of the City Council celebrated the first streetcar stop last Friday
A couple of hundred streetcar supporters, streetcar construction workers, local politicians, journalist types and other civically engaged persons assembled at 16th Street and Main this past Friday for a happy hour to celebrate the completed construction of the Kauffman Center stop, the first shelter stop on KC’s downtown streetcar line. Inside a white tent, people grazed on free food from…
BoysGrow Farm partners with the Rieger’s Tony Glamcevski for a new supper series, starting in May
Tony Glamcevski is perhaps best known as the unflappable general manager at the Rieger Hotel Grill & Exchange, but that doesn’t mean his work is confined within the walls of that restaurant. Recently, Glamcevski has announced a new project in partnership with BoysGrow, a local nonprofit that blends a curriculum of farming, agriculture and entrepreneurship over a two-year program for inner…
It looks like Uber will stay in Kansas City, after all
A compromise has been reached in the debate over how transportation-network companies like Uber and Lyft can legally operate in Kansas City. The KCMO City Council last night approved new revisions to the taxi ordinance that appear to clear the way for Uber drivers to continue working in the city. Uber hailed the move. In a release, Uber’s general manager…
Tomorrow’s No Kid Hungry charity bake sale is big on style and good taste
I’ve been a fan of bake sales — our parish in my hometown seemed to be having one every month — since I first mastered the art of the Kenner Easy-Bake Oven (my folks were wary of me, in those pubescent years, using something more dangerous than a light bulb as a “heating element”) and was able to construct something…
Death Cab for Cutie opened its Kintsugi tour last night with a lovefest at the Midland
Death Cab for Cutie The Midland, Kansas City Thursday, April 23 For nearly 20 years, Ben Gibbard and Death Cab for Cutie have provided the soundtrack for countless relationships with their ability to write nearly perfect, totally relatable pop songs about love, heartache and loss. Last night provided Kansas Citians the chance to bounce some of that love back the…
Watch this commercial for racist tourism in Missouri
Been a somewhat humiliating year for the state of Missouri, due in large part to events on the other side of the state, in Ferguson. Funny or Die recently debuted a fake promotional video wherein Missouri’s tourism board touts the fun activities in our “beautiful, racist state.” As an uptempo, feel-good piano plays in the background, a narrator boasts of…
Watch this commercial for racist tourism in Missouri
Missouri’s Racist Tourism Commercial from Funny Or Die
Michael Forbes Bar & Grille will reopen in June after last night’s fire
The good news is that restaurateur Forbes Cross thinks his three-year-old Brookside restaurant, Michael Forbes Bar & Grille, at 128 West 63rd Street, will reopen in June, after last night’s fire shut down the popular neighborhood venue. The bad news? “We’ll be closed during our two busiest weekends of the year,” says Cross. “The Brookside Art Fair and Mother’s Day.”…
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