Archives: December 2015
Boulevard Crown Town Ale kegs arrive today; bottles hit store shelves Tuesday in Kansas City
%{}% Let the Royals World Series championship celebration continue. Starting tomorrow (Tuesday), you’ll be able to pop open a bottle of Boulevard’s Crown Town Ale. Last month, the Kansas City brewery announced that the golden ale would return. Look for it on tap today and in 750 ml bottles on liquor-store shelves starting Tuesday in the Greater Kansas City area. …
Citizens for Responsible Government sues Kansas City over denying convention hotel petition initiative
%{}% Some unsurprising news to start the week: A citizen watchdog group, whose petition initiative to put the downtown convention center to a public vote was turned away by the Kansas City, Missouri, City Council, has sued to reverse that decision. Citizens for Responsible Government announced on Monday that it had filed legal action in Jackson County Circuit Court asking…
AC/DC is at the Sprint Center in February
%{}% AC/DC has just announced new dates for the next leg of its “Rock or Bust” tour, including a stop at the Sprint Center on Monday, February 29. The tour is in support of last year’s Rock or Bust, which reaffirmed the Aussie band’s dedication to rock and roll. Tickets go on sale Friday, December 18, at 10 a.m. Details…
New Music Monday: Temp Tats, at RecordBar tonight, debut their album Ions
%{}% In September, during an interview, the members of Temp Tats tried to put their music into words, calling it “prog-soul” and “spastic R&B.” Listening to the foursome’s debut release, Ions, out today, I’d say their descriptions were accurate. Recorded by Jorge Arana (of the similarly experimental Jorge Arana Trio), Ions plays out like a Ritalin-abusing kid’s hyperactive fusion of…
Vinyl Renaissance & Audio on 39th Street is moving its operations to Overland Park
Yesterday on Facebook, Vinyl Renaissance & Audio announced that its 39th Street location would be closing, and all merchandise would be consolidated with the wares at the recently expanded Overland Park store at 7932 Santa Fe Dr. Beginning today, the 39th Street location will offer 25 percent off merchandise storewide. See also: Vinyl Renaissance and Audio is moving into the…
Henderson Engineers settles its lawsuit against Mission Gateway
%{}% Just two months before the case was headed for trial in Johnson County, Lenexa-based engineering firm Henderson Engineers has settled its claims against the developers of the stalled Mission Gateway project. Henderson Engineers claimed in a lawsuit filed a year ago that the firm had done more than $400,000 worth of work for the Gateway Developers LLC, a business…
KCI cost estimates finally arrive: Renovations cost more than single terminal
%{}% Plans for Kansas City International Airport could cost somewhere between $964 million to $1.2 billion with new terminal concepts costing less than renovations, according to city staffers and consultants. Pat Klein, an assistant city manager for Kansas City, told the Kansas City, Missouri, City Council that four concepts were evaluated, two which contemplated renovations to existing terminals and the…
KCI cost estimates finally arrive: Renovations cost more than single terminal
KCI Terminal Update Dec 10%2c 2015 City Council Presentation
Boulevard Brewing Co. plans to move its warehouse and barrel-aging cellar to Three Trails Industrial Park
%{}% As Boulevard Brewing Co.’s growth and expansion into new markets continue, the Kansas City brewery is in need of more warehouse space. Today, Boulevard announced that it’s tripling the size of its distribution center with a move to a new, “state-of-the-art,” 182,000-square-foot warehouse space on 87th Street in the Three Trails Industrial Park. This means Boulevard will be leaving…
Drink This Now: Charlie Brown and more from Manifesto’s new winter cocktail menu
%{}% On Monday night, Manifesto went live with its new winter cocktail menu, featuring 18 seasonal cocktails — that’s in addition to its 15 classics. I couldn’t resist popping in early this week to sample the goods, and a quick glance at the menu revealed a theme. “When we thought about winter, we looked at the seasonal flavors,” bartender Jonathan…
Jackson County judge orders HCA Midwest to pay $434 million to Health Care Foundation of Greater Kansas City
%{}% HCA Midwest Health must offer up a whopping $434 million to the Health Care Foundation of Greater Kansas City for not living up to commitments to fund hospital improvements, a Jackson County Circuit Court judge ruled on Wednesday. An order filed late Wednesday is the latest saga, but probably not the last, in an ongoing dispute between HCA and…
Jackson County judge orders HCA Midwest to pay $434 million to Health Care Foundation of Greater Kansas City
HCF-HCA Jackson County award
Throwback Thursday: Take a trip back to the post-rock early ’00s with the Storied Northwest
%{}% If there’s anything we miss about the early aughts, it’s the vast array of post-rock and post-hardcore bands that regularly played out in and around the area. Whether bigger names like the Casket Lottery or house-show regulars like the Trelese, pulsing rhythms and breakdowns were the music of the day. It was a natural extension of the “Kansas City sound”…
Unbakery & Juicery will open on 63rd Street next month
%{}% That fabulous, retro A-frame building at 634 East 63rd Street has had many lives. It’s about to get one more next month when Robin and Danny Krause — Robin is a partner in the Filling Station coffeehouse business — open the Unbakery & Juicery. The building — it has been a bank, a hair salon, a burger shack, a…
KCI debate will come up for air at a Thursday KCMO Council session
%{}% Ever since airline representatives agreed with city officials that renovating Kansas City International Airport would be more expensive than building a single terminal — and not backing up that claim with numbers of any kind — the KCI issue has remained dormant publicly. The public might get a better sense of where KCI’s future lies during a Thursday business…
Tallgrass Buffalo Stampede at Flying Saucer, pHunk pHest at the Foundry, Rock & Run anniversary, Founders Killer Queen tournament at Up-Down and more beer events
%{}% THURSDAY, DECEMBER 10 Buffalo Stampede, with Tallgrass Buffalo Sweat, Vanilla Bean Buffalo Sweat, Bourbon Barrel Buffalo Sweat, Bourbon Barrel Vanilla Bean Buffalo Sweat with Cinnamon, and Buffalo Sex Firkin Cask (Buffalo Sweat with cherries and chocolate added), at Flying Saucer (101 E. 13th St.), 7 p.m. Thirsty Thursday cookie and beer pairings, at Boulevard Brewing Co. (2501 Southwest Blvd.),…
There’s nothing boring about drinking healthy
%{}% Rain fell like a gray sheet as I rushed into Simple Science Juices (8126 Floyd, Overland Park) in search of a little mood booster on a gloomy, late-fall afternoon. The smoothie and juice bar, which opened near downtown Overland Park in March, makes raw, cold-pressed juices that are as refreshing and colorful as they are healthy. The moment I…
Ben Zobrist isn’t forever Royal, leaves Kansas City for the Chicago Cubs
%{}% The first of the Kansas City Royals’ major free-agent dominoes has fallen: Ben Zobrist is leaving KC for a four-year, $56 million deal with the Chicago Cubs. Zobrist walks away from the World Champion Royals after being acquired from Oakland before the July trade deadline. Zobrist was a key cog in the World Series win, batting .303, hitting two…
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