%{}% Torn Label Brewing Co. kicks off its anniversary week with an all-day affair at the Crossroads brewery (1708 Campbell) from noon to midnight. All 12 of the tasting room’s taps will be flowing, including the first pours of Barrel-Aged Long Time Comin’ imperial stout, which was aged in J. Rieger Whiskey barrels. Also, take one of the first tours…
%{}% Valley Broasters may offer the most unusual culinary combination in the metro: broasted chicken (more on that in a minute) and Filipino cuisine. It’s also located in a strip shopping center in the hamlet of Grain Valley, 23 miles east of Kansas City — a place not known as a dining destination. Is it worth hopping on U.S. Highway…
%{}% Singer-songwriter and frontwoman of the Fiery Furnaces Eleanor Friedberger is coming to the Bottleneck this Spring, promoting the release of her new album, New View, out on January 22. Keep your eyes on the Bottleneck’s website for upcoming ticket information for the April 26 show. Check out her newest video from the new album, “Sweetest Girl,” below: Categories: Music…
%{}% The 2016 elections will have a rarity in Wyandotte County: a competitive race for its district attorney’s office. Mark Dupree, a local criminal defense lawyer, has filed to run for that job. Dupree says he has contemplated running for the seat for the last two years. Jerry Gorman is currently the county’s top prosecutor. “One of the things that really…
%{}% Alex Gordon is staying the face of the Kansas City Royals. MLB writer Jeffrey Flanagan broke the news on Twitter that Gordo will be signing a multi-year deal to stick with KC. According to sources, Alex Gordon and the #Royals have agreed to a mult-year deal, pending physical. Announcement likely today — Jeffrey Flanagan (@FlannyMLB) January 6, 2016 Royals…
%{}% It takes a certain amount of chutzpah — call it attitude, if you prefer — to open a new breakfast-and-lunch restaurant in a midtown location that has had more incarnations than Lord Vishnu. But Patti Allen and Greg Kormanik, the owners of Attitude — the still-unopened bruncheonette at 600 East 31st Street — say the name was inspired by…
%{}% On Instagram: bride.kc Hometown: The home of Arbor Day, aka Nebraska City, Nebraska Current neighborhood: Live, Prairie Village; play, Waldo; work and play, Crossroads What I do: I connect future bridal muses with emerging, creative and independent designers in a laid-back and cozy lil’ studio. What’s your addiction? Reformer Pilates (at Transform Barre & Pilates in Waldo) and finding…
%{}% %{}% Leonardo DiCaprio suffers mightily and nobly through Alejandro Gonzalez Iñárritu’s The Revenant. And make no mistake about it — it’s definitely the actor suffering up there. Breathless Oscar-season reporting would have us believe that he really did many of the things we watch his character, wounded mountain man Hugh Glass, doing onscreen, from eating raw elk liver to…
%{}% KC Jazz Vespers returns Sunday to the First Baptist Church of Kansas City for a new, free monthly series, beginning with the Roger Wilder Quartet. Wilder is an anchor of the Kansas City jazz scene and one of the area’s most versatile and powerfully inventive musicians — he drives the piano in Sons of Brasil, delightfully vamps on keyboards…
%{}% Coyote Union Arkansas’ Coyote Union joins the legions of bands somewhat lazily choosing a wildlife name. Though their decision is regrettable, let’s try not to hold it against them. Coyote Union’s music arrives like a warm slice of Americana to nurse our chilly, post-holiday January blues. The band has a knack for storytelling and a talent for comfortable, worn-in…
%{}% Creed Bratton’s name didn’t change for his character on The Office. But the man behind the character has little in common with his television self. For example, he isn’t a psycho killer prone to delusions. For those familiar with Bratton only from his role on the hit NBC show, one thing is true: He was the guitarist for the…
%{}% %{}% Familiar euphemisms take on different meanings at the Gym KC. Regulars at the fitness club’s three Kansas City locations know that the “booty call,” for instance, is a sequence of exercises designed to work the thighs and the glutes, and the “nooner” is an hourlong, boot camp–style class that will give you an excuse to eat a guilt-free…
%{}% %{}% For the past two years, the Historic Kansas City Foundation has included the Downs Building at 18th and Prospect on its annual list of 10 locally important structures in serious jeopardy of demolition or destruction. The 2016 list won’t include the Downs Building. All that remains today of 1801 Prospect, the building named for prominent Kansas City black…
The Kansas City Chiefs put in their bid to be the winners of the AFC West division when they defeated the Oakland Raiders 23-17 in Week 17 of the regular season, but the Denver Broncos defeated the San Diego Chargers to earn the right to play at home in the AFC playoffs. The Chiefs (11-5), winners of 10 straight games,…
%{}% We just blue ourselves. Comedian and actor David Cross is returning to stand-up (and to Kansas City) after a five-year hiatus, during which he’s been not terribly busy filming his own independent film, Hits, as well as the TV shows The Increasingly Poor Decisions of Todd Margaret, Arrested Development and new episodes of With Bob and David (the reincarnation of Mr….
%{}% Kansas City’s most anticipated beer release of 2016 is set to go down Tuesday, January 12. That’s when metro liquor stores will begin receiving their allotments of Boulevard Chocolate Ale with Raspberry. This year’s Chocolate Ale remains a collaboration with Christopher Elbow, but the chocolatier is taking a more active role in 2016’s edition. I spoke with Boulevard ambassador…
%{}% Highwoods Properties didn’t wade deep into 2016 to stitch up a sale of the Country Club Plaza, announcing on Monday it had reached an agreement to sell Kansas City’s landmark shopping district. The Plaza is expected to sell to a joint venture, made up of two out-of-town real estate investment trusts, for $660 million. California-based Macerich Company and Taubman…
%{}% If we can take one thing away from Sunday’s Chiefs’ victory over the Oakland Raiders, it’s that this is one chill cat. Max Chilen (aka donehavinfun on Instagram) snapped this photo of a Green Bay Packers fan holding a cat during the game at Arrowhead Stadium — you know, the loudest stadium in pro football. So what’s the story?…
