Good news for early rising brunch enthusiasts. Starting this Saturday, September 26, Port Fonda in Westport is expanding its weekend brunch times. On Saturdays and Sundays, the restaurant will open at 9 a.m. instead of 10 a.m. If you’re not super into the whole early bird thing, here are some convincing specials: From 9 a.m. to noon on Saturdays and…
A fast-growing, Nebraska-based chain of sushi restaurants, Blue Sushi Sake Grill, tentatively plans to open its first Kansas City outpost next spring in the Woodside Village development near the intersection of Rainbow and County Line Road. The first Blue Sushi Sake Grill opened in Omaha in 2002. The Kansas City venue will be the ninth restaurant in this chain, which…
Restaurateur Forbes Cross doesn’t need to tell you about the electrical fire that nearly destroyed his three-year-old restaurant, Michael Forbes Bar & Grille (128 West 63rd Street). He can show it to you. “It was all captured on videotape,” Cross says. I have cameras in the basement, in the bar, in the dining room. It’s fascinating to watch. You can…
Can Kansas City trust a landscaper in Virginia who struggles with e-mail technology to shepherd what would be the city’s biggest capital improvement project in history? Clay Chastain says you can. “I think this plan I have designed that you have in your hand is the greatest public transportation plan placed before voters in the history of the United States…
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 24 Mystery firkin and a showing of Step Brothers, at Cinder Block Brewery (110 E. 18th Ave., North Kansas City), at sundown. Carson’s Brewery Red Dawn, at Flying Saucer (101 E. 13th St.), 7 p.m. FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 25 Firkin Friday with two mystery firkins, at Cinder Block (110 E. 18th Ave., North Kansas City) Oktoberfest, at Grünauer (101…
Taylor Swift with Vance Joy (Night Two) Sprint Center Tuesday, September 23 For the review and photos from Night One, go here. There is no bigger name in music right now than Taylor Swift. Since the release of last year’s smash-hit 1989, Swift, already a big name, has had a stratospheric rise to superstardom (just when you thought she couldn’t get…
Garnet Booth jokes that she should be a “gemstone therapist.” Since founding Gigi Moon Gems earlier this year, Booth has discovered that people visiting her jewelry studio in the Bauer Building (115 West 18th Street) are often drawn to specific stones based on what’s happening in their lives. A recent heartbreak might call for something green. A shot of confidence…
Name: Khadra Aden Occupation: Social worker, Della Lamb Community Services Hometown: I was born and raised in Somalia, and now live in Kansas City with my husband and family. Current neighborhood: Zona Rosa area What I do: I love helping others, my work and my community. I also take care of my brother, who became a paraplegic on April 19…
Beach House Beach House has always had a vaguely futuristic vibe to its music, and that has never been more apparent than on the Baltimore duo’s Depression Cherry. Victoria Legrand’s voice stretches dreamily over Alex Scally’s alluring, glittering beats, and the whole thing sounds like it belongs to a civilization that’s generations removed from our own — one, perhaps, that…
Kansas City native Will Matthews has held the guitar chair in the Count Basie Orchestra for nearly 20 years, along the way winning two Grammy Awards with the big band that originated on 12th Street, back when vice and blues-based swing ruled this town. But Saturday night, Matthews brings a different group to the jazz district when he surrounds himself…
Now in its ninth year, Columbia, Missouri’s Roots N Blues N BBQ Festival has never been stronger — thanks, in part, to a man who has long been a figure of Columbia’s music scene: Richard King. King made headlines last November when, after 34 years, he sold his iconic music venue, the Blue Note, along with its sister venue, Mojo’s….
Sie Lieben Maschinen released its debut album, June Gloom, on New Year’s Day. There was no party, no gig, no fanfare — barely an announcement on social media. This wasn’t part of any conscious, anti-marketing formula. The album was ready, frontman Steve Tulipana tells me, a shrug in his voice. Up it went, on with his day. Josh Newton, guitarist…
%{}% Ever since it acquired the Country Club Plaza from the J.C. Nichols Co. in 1999, real estate firm Highwoods Properties has had a precarious relationship with a Kansas City public suspicious of an out-of-town owner and its plans for the iconic retail-and-entertainment district. Things have been mostly calm between Highwoods and Plaza enthusiasts over the past five years, but…
The Crossroads Westside is getting its own Minsky’s Pizza by November. So says Gregg Johnson, who operates 11 Minsky’s restaurants in the metro and who has purchased the low-slung brick building at 3063 Southwest Boulevard to house a twelfth. That address is familiar to local eaters: It operated for years as a Waid’s diner before it was home to the late,…
I knew we were screwed when the teenage boy didn’t know what a VHS tape was. I’d been stuck in Room 13 at Breakout KC for about 25 minutes with my boyfriend and five strangers, and I thought we were progressing at finding the clues that would help us escape. Then this confused kid held the antiquated plastic rectangle sideways…
Papa Keno’s, the locally owned pizzeria that returned to its onetime Westport home at 415 Westport Road last week, still serves baked-to-order slices and sandwiches. But for me, it’s all about the thick-crust Sicilian pie. That’s not an easy pizza to get around these parts, and the one here is outstanding. The presence of this location’s previous tenant, the Boot,…
Taylor Swift with Vance Joy (Night One) Sprint Center Monday, September 21 For the full slideshow from last night, go here. You’ve got to hand it to Taylor Swift: The 25-year-old superstar has crafted a personal brand so brilliant, so pervasive, that the sold-out Sprint Center crowd of 13,000 last night would have done just about anything she asked. It’s…
If Sporting Kansas City manages to make a deep run into the Major League Soccer playoffs later this year, it will likely have Benny Feilhaber to thank for reversing its fortunes. The wily midfielder scored the opening two goals for Sporting KC in last Friday’s 3-1 victory over FC Dallas at Sporting Park. The performance was enough to garner him…
Take a look at the calendar above. That, folks, is the future. That’s what we’ll be drinking from Boulevard Brewing Co. in 2016. Included on the list are 10 new beers — eight of them in the Smokestack Series. The newbies are: * Session Fruit Pale Ale, which joins the core plus year-round beers Heavy Lifting IPA and Ginger-Lemon Radler…
Before Spanish-themed restaurant República’s August 4 opening on the Country Club Plaza, the publicity machine at Bread and Butter Concepts, which owns the restaurant, was in full swing. The restaurant’s kitchen crew — executive chef Bradley Gilmore, sous chef Rick Mullins and chef de cuisine Robert Cantu — was given prominent mention. Cantu, in particular, got the star treatment; he…
So, tomorrow is technically the last day of summer. Bummer, right? But if you’re not ready to give up the flip-flops just yet, the Well has a list of tropical drinks that might pique your interest. And last week, as the still-summer sun was making me sweat through my long sleeves, I decided to cool off with some of the…
Taylor Swift has been a massive draw everywhere she’s gone on her 1989 World Tour, and this week’s trip through Missouri and Tennessee will be no exception. Swift’s tour has been the most expensive on the secondary market since kicking off in May and that will be the case until the end of December when the tour ends in Australia….
Here’s what we know for sure about Taylor Swift. The 25-year-old singer-songwriter and seven-time Grammy Award winner loves her cats, Meredith Gray and Olivia Benson. A couple weeks ago, she surpassed Kim Kardashian in Instagram followers (making her the most followed person on the ‘Gram). And her 2014 album, the pop-centric 1989, confirmed what music heads around the world were…
