There were deals, deals, deals to be had in the basement of Memorial Hall on Friday, June 19. Higgenbotham Auctioneers was handling the liquidation of a dead Kansas City, Kansas, restaurant called Backfire BBQ. The resulting auction wasn’t the usual drab inventory of tables, chairs, stoves and bar lights. Backfire was a motorcycle-themed restaurant built around the Orange County Choppers…
There’s been a lot of commotion about the American League All-Star voting in recent weeks, due to the fact that the Kansas City Royals, at one point, were slated to hold eight of the nine starting positions. The voting has finally evened out, though, and some of Kansas City’s hopeful All-Star starters have lost their grasp on leading the voting….
%{}% By Mike Burke’s own admission, the development team that wants to build a 800-room convention hotel has negotiated with Kansas City leaders for three years to figure out finances for the project. On the other hand, officials with Kansas City Public Schools and the Kansas City Public Library learned about the project around the same time everyone else did:…
Last year, Roeland Park Mayor Joel Marquardt — an architect by profession — brought to that suburb’s City Council some rough sketches for a potential new development on city-owned property. The site, along Roe Avenue at 48th Street, was once home to Roeland Park’s city pool. The pool has since been filled in, and the area is unused and surrounded…
This month’s roundup of local videos features two full sets from the wildly opposite worlds of jazz (The Project H featuring Katy Guillen) and metal (Eyes of Iolite), along with Beautiful Bodies’ debut video for Epitaph Records, plus the scrappy DIY of the Rackatees and Mr. & The Mrs., among others. No matter which way you cut it, you can…
UG Jazz Project H Katy Gullien 060415 from Tom Ptacek on Vimeo.
Public financing for the downtown convention hotel could cost Kansas City Public Schools $4.7 million over 30 years due to public financing for the project, according to an analysis of the project. On the other side of the equation, Kansas City stands to make nearly $50 million. Jackson County would emerge $23 million ahead, according to the analysis. Springsted Inc….
If you didn’t make it out to Arrowhead Stadium Saturday night for the Rolling Stones concert, perhaps you met one of the boys on the street. We’ve got some local social-media gems proving that the band members experienced bits of Kansas City in their own way. Mick Jagger had dinner at Michael Smith Restaurant on Friday night. On Sunday, Charlie…
Victor Esqueda, owner of Ixtapa in the Northland, and Ivan Marquez, former owner of Frida’s Contemporary Mexican Cuisine in Overland Park, want to add some Cacao to a hot neighborhood. Cacao — that’s what the restaurateurs mean to call their proposed Mexican bistro — would open next to the corner space where Jonathan Justus is slated to open Black Dirt. The…
The Rolling Stones, with Ed Sheeran Arrowhead Stadium June 28, 2015 For the full slideshow from last night, go here. Taking a break from scorching temperatures and biblical downpours, the weather was impossibly perfect last night for the Rolling Stones appearance at Arrowhead Stadium. The band was making its first Kansas City appearance since 1999, and for the tens of…
As of today, same-sex couples in Missouri will be able to legally marry. But Kansas City already has a long history of welcoming the LGBT community to its restaurants as both patrons and employees. Unlike many Midwestern cities of its size, Kansas City has a tradition of gay-owned, gay-friendly restaurants, dating back at least to the 1960s. Some of them…
It was inevitable. For years, the domino pieces that stood in the way of gay couples getting married in the world’s most powerful, supposedly advanced nation kept falling. The last one tumbled today when a majority of U.S. Supreme Court justices ruled that the Constitution does not say marriage is only between a man and a woman. The ruling clears…
It’s a good day. No more discrimination against folks based on who they love! I love my country.— Claire McCaskill (@clairecmc) June 26, 2015
