Alabama Shakes with Father John Misty Starlight Theatre, Kansas City Friday, May 29 For the full slideshow from last night, go here. There wasn’t much of a crowd for Josh Tillman – who performs as Father John Misty – when he began his set last night, opening for Alabama Shakes at Starlight, and the people present were decidedly not his…
This month’s roundup of local videos is a cavalcade of live performances, be it a full set from Wet Ones, Radkey crammed into a van somewhere in the Coachella Valley or Psychic Heat melting faces. In addition, there are new official videos from Kasey Rausch and Tech N9ne. No matter which way you cut it, you can see the full…
Sunday night’s Cook for Courage cook-off brings together six of Kansas City’s best chefs for a good cause — a benefit for the Child Protection Center. This year, three new chefs join three returning chefs from last year’s inaugural event. The all-star lineup features Bluestem and Rye’s Colby Garrelts, Port Fonda’s Patrick Ryan, Justus Drugstore’s Jonathan Justus, the Rieger’s Howard…
Some rock fans might be puzzled by Tech N9ne’s billing alongside names like Rob Zombie and Anthrax on Saturday’s RockFest lineup. The 43-year-old Strange Music mogul is, after all, a rapper by definition – despite his metal-fused 2013 album, Therapy, and his latest fierce full-length, Special Effects. But even though a recent press release detailing Tech’s new “crossover status,” the man himself is…
The headline says it all. The Big 12 men’s basketball tournament is staying where it belongs — in Kansas City through 2020. So even when the conference’s leadership can’t help itself from making missteps (controversial replay limits?), it goes and totally redeems itself. Well, sort of. This seemed improbable after the University of Missouri bolted the Big 12 for the…
The Kansas City, Missouri, City Council is about to embrace nano-breweries. This afternoon, the council is expected to change an ordinance that would allow small, neighborhood breweries to operate in business districts. The smallest breweries allowed so far in KC business districts are microbreweries. The ordinance change is the work of John Sharp and Scott Taylor. Taylor, the chair of the…
One of the more fucked-up news stories in recent memory continues to unfold in the middle of Missouri. On April 30, a 46-year-old Sedalia woman named Sandra Sutton hysterically called the police and said she’d just escaped from a home where her boyfriend, James Barton Horn Jr., had been keeping her locked inside a wooden box on and off for…
Meg Heriford, the owner of the temporarily closed Ladybird Diner, at 721 Massachusetts in Lawrence, may not be able to prepare pies for her restaurant right now, but she’s still rolling out that pie dough. Why? It’s bridal season. But more on that later. The Ladybird Diner closed March 3 after the bar and grill next door, Biggs on Mass,…
We have no problem with candidate forums as a general concept. While it’s a tall task for aspiring Kansas City, Missouri, City Council candidates to make the seemingly endless list of forums prior to the elections, any excuse to get would-be politicians in front of interested voters is a good thing. But many forums follow the same model: Candidates sit on…
Now that surround video gaming and Google Glass are becoming available to artists wanting to plunge their viewers into a 360-degree experience, there’s something newly refreshing about less confrontational forms of immersion. Case in point: the high-whimsy, decidedly analog approach taken by 2015 Kansas City Art Institute graduate Kadie Nugent in her installation Laundry Day Was Last Week. The exhibition is…
It takes a video like “Downstream” to really remind people that, once upon a time, a local band could pack a place like the Uptown all the way to the rafters. Watching the Rainmakers absolutely own this crowd in this footage from 1986 is just killer. While “Let My People Go-Go” might’ve been the bigger hit, this is the real…
The big weekend question will be this: Do I enter the meatball-eating contest or the cannoli-eating contest? Those contests, lots of food vendors, musical acts (saxophonist Joseph Vincelli, for one) and a vibrantly festive atmosphere will be a few of the attractions this Friday, Saturday and Sunday when the Zona Rosa complex once again hosts Festa Italiana. It’s the lively…
Fly – Kasey Rausch from Steve Rausch on Vimeo.
