Nora Jane Struthers and the Party Line with Smokey and the Mirror and Rebecca Loebe Knuckleheads Saloon Thursday, April 2, 2015 Sometimes at roots shows – and with bluegrass in particular – even the most adoring crowds can be more than a little reserved. Realistically, Nora Jane Struthers, an amazing singer and performer who started in traditional bluegrass, probably understands…
The last day that Chris McCord served in public office was November 9, 2002. That’s when Wyandotte County’s Board of Canvassers counted provisional ballots, turning up enough votes to recall McCord from his seat on the Piper School Board. McCord had served as president of that school board during a plagiarism scandal that rocked the Piper School District in 2002….
Baseball and beer is a great combination. Baseball and craft beer is even better. Monday at the K, the Royals, Boulevard and Central States have teamed up to bring more beer options to Royals fans than ever before. Especially options that use the “C” word — “Craft.” The Royals have decided to turn the .390 Club in the left field…
In April 2014, an entity called NorthRock LLC filed suit in Jackson County court against Del Kimball, Sam Furseth and several of the online payday-lending companies they owned and operated. According to the suit, NorthRock was formed for the purpose of providing loans to intermediary entities — primarily KSQ Management, owned by Joel Tucker — that in turn lent money…
How long has it been since the Society for Contemporary Photography closed up shop in Kansas City? The new gallery Snapshot Gallery might help fill that too-long void. Paul Churchill opens the space (1724 Main) Thursday, April 2, with a 5:30–8 p.m. reception. Churchill, a chief preparator for the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art for 13 years, aims to bring a…
Josh and Abbey-Jo Eans, co-owners of Happy Gillis Cafe & Hangout, are more than two-thirds funded in their Kickstarter campaign to turn the garage behind their Columbus Park restaurant (549 Gillis) into a ramen shop. As of this afternoon, more than $26,000 of the $37,000 goal has been pledged. Tomorrow night, the couple is offering a taste of what the…
Carla Schreiber has a dream, and it’s a pretty big one. Schreiber wants to bring pastry customers back to a stretch of Troost that hasn’t had much of a retail presence, let alone been a culinary destination, for nearly half a century. How? With cheesecake. This week, Schreiber officially set up Whimsy Cheesecakes inside Shannon Kimball’s Flavor Trade shop, at 3000…
Super-talented, award-winning singer-actress Kristin Chenoweth will be stopping by our fair city this fall, teaming up with the Kansas City Symphony for a concert on Saturday, October 3. The concert will benefit Kansas City Young Audiences. You might know Chenoweth for her role as Glinda in the musical Wicked, or perhaps from the television series Pushing Up Daisies, which got her…
As a testament to the pathetic state of RadioShack’s business affairs, the bankrupt electronics retailer thinks that selling customer information is a reasonable way to drum up cash to pay its long line of creditors. Consumer watchdogs and law-enforcement officials aren’t so sure. Missouri Attorney General Chris Koster joined other colleagues on Wednesday morning when his official objection to RadioShack’s…
It’s official: Jake Randall, a 32-year-old entrepreneur, has signed the lease for the double storefront at 4117 Pennsylvania. That address is now occupied by the clothing store Imagery. Randall’s plan is to have his Doughnut Lounge — a bar, coffeehouse and, yes, doughnut shop — open by July. Randall has already hired an executive pastry chef who is helping him…
Thursday, April 2Pair Excellence II—Crossroads Pollination, featuring Torn Label beer and a four-course menu by chef Celina Tio, at Collection (1532 Grand), $75, 7 p.m. Free State tap takeover, at Barley’s Brew-haus (11924 W. 119th St., Overland Park), 5–7 p.m. Free State tasting, at Village West Liquor (11010 Parallel Pkwy., KCK), 4–6 p.m. Founders variety-pack event, with CBS (ticketed tapping),…
The Columbia Daily Tribune has a story today of interest to Mizzou grads and fans of the best pizza in the state of Missouri: The building housing Shakespeare’s Pizza — hallowed ground in downtown Columbia since 1973 — is set to be demolished next month. WUT NO WUT WHY? According to the Tribune: Shakespeare’s downtown location at 225 S. Ninth…
April 14 might as well be declared Boulevard Day in Kansas City. The city’s biggest beer maker announced today that it would be sending a whole lot of beer into area liquor stores, among them Love Child No. 5, Saison-Brett and cans of Unfiltered Wheat, Pop-Up IPA and Ginger-Lemon Radler. KC, of course, gets them first. Categories: News Tags: Boulevard…
Chris Gentile was supposed to be honored April 9. The Honeywell executive was set to receive the 2015 Fr. Nick Rashford, S.J., Award for Ethical Leadership from the Helzberg School of Management at Rockhurst University, the Catholic institution from which he received his master’s degree in business administration in 1999. The ceremony, at the Bean Hangar space in the Roasterie’s…
Kit Maxfield and Greg Dennis had never set foot in the brewery that they were purchasing. In fact, three of Root Sellers’ four owners hadn’t even seen Columbia, Missouri’s Rock Bridge Brewing Co. when they agreed to buy it. They didn’t feel the need. “We were pretty confident, knowing that all of the equipment was brand-new and had barely been…
Name: Victor Le’Yon Occupation: Magician Hometown: São Paulo, Brazil Current neighborhood: Waldo What I do: As a close-up magician, I work with cards, coins and other small objects with use of advanced sleight of hand to create an entertainment experience much like a magic show. What’s your addiction? Carrot cake What’s your game? Poker What’s your drink? Cotton Candy Shatto…
You can like April for its warmer weather, its longer days, its promise of bloom. I like April for two reasons: Royals opening day and, with it, the advent of nacho season. I’m not saying I haven’t picked up a cheese-soaked corn chip since the end of October. Of course I have. What I’m saying is that I’m once again…
When it premiered nearly 50 years ago, the musical Hair shocked audiences with its frank ode to free love and pharmacology. Theater has more than caught up since then, but you don’t need hippie nostalgia or a belief in astrology to feel the Aquarian Age dawn again at the Kansas City Repertory Theatre. The Rep’s Hair: Retrospection is a large-scale…
The ideas underlying Equus, Peter Shaffer’s 1973 play, seem bound to connect to some psyches more than to others. The Tony Award–winning drama at the Living Room Theatre, in the very capable hands of director Jeff Church, is thought-provoking, inventive, even riveting. But it’s the actors and the staging here that must compensate for the playwright’s tenuous approach to a…
Father John Misty It’s only just April, but already Father John Misty — born Joshua Tillman — has had an epic year. His I Love You, Honeybear merits all the praise it has earned since its February release, its songs complex and twisting, its music’s turmoil and gloom wrapped in lush, warm chords. Yet for all the album’s popular success,…
Every Monday night at New York City’s Village Vanguard jazz club, Jason Jackson holds a trombone chair in the esteemed Vanguard Jazz Orchestra. Other nights, you might find him in a Broadway orchestra. He has recorded and toured with Ray Charles, Aretha Franklin, Gil Evans and the Dizzy Gillespie All-Star Big Band. Over the next two weeks, he joins saxophonist…
Joe Pug’s The Great Despiser is one of those albums that, from the first time you hear it, makes you wonder: How is he going to top this? And given the time that has passed since that 2012 disc arrived, you might have figured that he couldn’t. Except he has. His new album, Windfall, is even better. Pug’s singular voice…
