%{}% This weekend, like thousands of movie theaters, Cinetopia at Overland Park’s Prairiefire development opens the new Ridley Scott film, The Martian, which stars Matt Damon. After an October 2 screening, though, comes a unique event: a question-and-answer session with Michael Shara, the curator of the American Museum of Natural History, at the museum next door to Cinetopia. The talk…
Read the mission statement of the Rocket Grant program, the longtime artist-funding mechanism fostered by the Spencer Museum of Art and the Charlotte Street Foundation, and you’ll be reminded that part of the design is to launch “innovative, public-oriented work in nontraditional spaces” in the KC area. Megan Mantia and Leone Anne Reeves, who have lately made art together under…
With any luck, this is the last time we’ll have to announce the Who’s on-again, off-again “The Who Hits 50!” tour and its pending Sprint Center concert date. On Friday, April 29, the band will come to Kansas City. Roger Daltrey, 71-year-old founding member and lead singer, is purportedly feeling better after an icky bout of meningitis, and so the…
What’s a Wal-Mart-anchored development worth to Mission taxpayers? Does $29 million in public money sound like a deal for a development that starts with the world’s largest retailer — which already operates 20 other locations in the Kansas City area — along with a hotel, some apartments and maybe office space? That’s the decision that the Mission City Council will…
Yesterday, the office of Missouri Attorney General Chris Koster announced that its investigation into Planned Parenthood’s St. Louis facility — the only place in Missouri that performs surgical abortions — yielded zero evidence of wrongdoing. Conservatives have stepped up their attack on Planned Parenthood in recent months, following the release of videos by the Center for Medical Progress, a…
%{}% Last week, Boulevard gave us Rye-on-Rye, the annual released that was aged in Templeton Rye whiskey barrels. Liquor store shelves are about to get another Smokestack Series beer this week, plus the latest collaboration brew. Starting tomorrow (Tuesday, September 29), distribution begins for Imperial Stout X — Tart Cherry, and Collaboration No. 5 — Tropical Pale Ale. Imperial Stout…
If you missed Aussie singer-songwriter Vance Joy opening up for Taylor Swift last week, good news: He’ll be headlining at the Midland on Wednesday, February 17. If you haven’t heard his mega-hit “Riptide,” you should check your pulse (or maybe just the radio dial). Bonus: The super-talented Elle King (aka Rob Snyder’s daughter, everyone) is opening, along with Jamie Lawson. …
Planned Parenthood’s facility in St. Louis, the only place in Missouri where women can undergo a surgical abortion, handled fetal tissue in accordance with state law, Missouri Attorney General Chris Koster has found. Koster’s office on Monday announced that an investigation, under way since July, found that Planned Parenthood was able to account for all fetal organs and tissues from…
The Great American Beer Festival was a gold rush for McCoy’s Public House and Free State Brewing Co. Both breweries won gold medals over the weekend at the annual festival and brewery competition — the biggest in the United States. Free State Brewing Co. claimed the gold medal in the Herb and Spice Beer category for Garden Party, a light…
Tea party rock star Tim Huelskamp is a Catholic. And when someone, in the Kansas Congressman’s view, betrays the principles of his faith, he can’t keep his mouth shut. Yesterday, Huelskamp called out Vice President Joe Biden prior to Pope Francis’ speech before Congress in a tweet that he hashtagged #CanNotBeCatholicandProChoice. But Huelskmap was blind to his own hypocrisy. Biden…
Biden believes in #life from conception, but @VP has voted for years to kill babies. #CanNotBeCatholicandProChoice #prolife— Cong. Tim Huelskamp (@CongHuelskamp) September 24, 2015
Four years after being named publisher of The Kansas City Star, Mi-Ai Parrish is moving on, according to a report from the paper today. Parrish — the first female publisher of the Star — will be joining the Arizona Republic as president and publisher next month. (The Republic is a Gannett paper, so Parrish will also be leaving the Star’s parent…
On Monday, September 28, the American Restaurant holds the 17th-annual Friends of the James Beard Foundation Dinner. As you can imagine, this seven-course feast will be quite the experience, with five chefs — from California, Texas and Norway — presenting their dishes alongside the American’s executive chef, Michael Corvino, and pastry chef, Nick Wesemann. “For this dinner, I think I’ve only met one of…
I almost didn’t recognize Mike Pearce, co-owner of Slap’s BBQ, when I stopped in at the 18-month-old smoke shack last Saturday. “I’ve lost 80 pounds,” he told me. “I call it the open-a-barbecue-and-get-divorced diet.” Brothers Mike and Joe Pearce opened Slap’s BBQ — the name is the acronym for their competition barbecue team, Squeal Like a Pig — at 533 Central…
Harry Murphy, the veteran Kansas City bartender who opened his namesake Harry’s Country Club at 112 East Missouri Avenue in 2003, is planning a second food-and-drink business in the City Market neighborhood, using a historic name. Today the City Market announced that Murphy and his daughter, Kate McGlaughlin, have signed a lease for the long-vacant first floor of 429 Walnut,…
Atlanta rapper Young Thug has canceled a slew of dates on his first headlining tour, including an upcoming show at the Uptown on Saturday, October 3. Mammoth just broke the news on its Facebook page. In a statement, Young Thug’s label, 300, explained that the rapper needed more time to work on his forthcoming album. Regrettably, a number of the…
Missourians seem likely to favor St. Louis Republican Eric Greitens over Democrat Chris Koster if the two square off in a race for Missouri governor, according to a new poll. A poll out today by Public Policy Polling asks 731 Missourians whom they would prefer in a Greitens-Koster race; 44 percent responded in favor of Greitens, compared with Koster’s 37…
Join me for a major announcement about Missouri’s future on 9/26. You can register here: http://t.co/Q7R4Cseofe pic.twitter.com/5wCQpSKKBR— Eric Greitens (@EricGreitens) September 24, 2015
Papa Keno’s is ready to party like it’s 1995. The Overland Park location, anyway. Unlike the newly opened Westport pizzeria, which is co-owned by David Hawley (who also now owns the Lawrence original), the Papa Keno’s at 7901 Santa Fe Drive is co-owned by French-born chef Philippe Lechevin, whose day job is executive chef at the Kauffman Center for the Performing…
The departure of Megabus from the Kansas City and Columbia, Missouri, markets has left an opportunity for a low-cost bus service to shuttle people — often, college students — between KC, Columbia, St. Louis and Chicago. Greyhound today announced that it intends to fill that vacancy. The company — which Megabus in many ways was attempting to supplant — says…
