Archives: February 2016
Making a Murderer‘s Dean Strang and Jerry Buting are at the Midland in July
National heroes Dean Strang and Jerry Buting — the two defense attorneys for Steven Avery and accidental stars in the Netflix documentary series Making a Murderer — are taking their newfound fame on the road this spring and summer. The A Conversation on Justice Tour will find Strang and Buting discussing the Avery case and the American criminal justice system as a…
Flight of the Conchords are coming to Starlight in July
Jemaine Clement and Bret McKenzie — who together perform as musical comedy duo Flight of the Conchords — have a new North American tour. This is big news for the duo, which announced its dissolution following its 2009 album, I Told You I Was Freaky. Clement and McKenzie have had a couple intermittent musical projects since then, but this tour…
For Kris Kobach’s money, it’s Donald Trump for president
If you wagered money that Kris Kobach would endorse Donald Trump, don’t spend all your winnings in one place. The Kansas Secretary of State endorsed Trump on Monday, just ahead of the Kansas caucuses. It’s easy to see why. Trump thinks immigrants coming from Mexico into the United States are “rapists” and “criminals” (although he concedes some might be good…
AC/DC deafened a sold-out Sprint Center crowd last night
I almost skipped AC/DC’s sold-out Sprint Center show last night. After a weekend of having several drinks (on me) followed by a training session that left my 38-year-old body hobbled and sore, I was still in recovery mode on Sunday night. But around 7:55 p.m., I realized that if Angus Young, AC/DC’s 60-year-old guitar virtuoso, could do jump kicks down…
Def Leppard is at the Sprint Center in August
Classic rock lives on this summer with Def Leppard back on tour. Singer Joe Elliot has recovered from the throat problems that forced the band to postpone a handful of dates earlier this year, and those dates — plus several new ones — are back on for the band’s summer tour. Def Leppard stops at the Sprint Center on Friday,…
Keith Urban is at the Providence Medical Center Amphitheater in June
Keith Urban — Grammy Award-winning singer, American Idol judge and vetted sensitive soul — is embarking on a world tour starting this summer in support of his forthcoming album, Ripcord. His first stop is at the Providence Medical Center Amphitheater (formerly the Cricket Wireless Amphitheater) on Thursday, June 2. Brett Eldredge and Maren Morris open. Tickets go on sale Friday, March…
Best Coast and Wavves brought a taste of summer to the Midland last night
As winter begins to shake off and touring bands once again begin to pop up like noisy spring buds, a bit of relief from concert withdrawal comes at last. Friday night’s Best Coast and Wavves performance, titled “Summer is Forever II” (a follow up to a 2011 tour of the same name), gave fans in Kansas City a chance to…
AC/DC Will Hit Sprint Center Next Week, And Ticket Prices Won’t Be Cheap
Turn the amps up to eleven and put on your cleanest schoolboy outfit, AC/DC are coming to Kansas City next week. The iconic hard rock band has proven that age is just a number on the “Rock or Bust” World Tour, which continues its stateside-jaunt until early April. It will cost a pretty penny to be on hand at Sprint…
Royals Find Conflicting Ticket Demand for Home Opener Vs Mets, Return to New York in May
It took 30 years for the Royals to bring a World Series title back to Kansas City, and how sweet it was to capture it in New York City, The Capital of the World. Aided by an endless cast of offensive talent, the Royals defeated the New York Mets in a five-game series that culminated at Citi Field in Flushing….
Missouri Senate committee passes proposed constitutional amendment to allow people to use religion to deny services for same-sex marriages
Missouri lawmakers can no longer stop same-sex marriages, so they seem set to try and make them a hassle. The Senate Seniors, Families and Children Committee passed a joint resolution on Thursday to keep the state from penalizing any person or any business that turns down a same-sex couple for marriage-related services. As a joint resolution, the measure would go…
Fred Andrews, KC film booster, dead at 62
Fred Andrews, whose larger-than-life personality and enthusiasm for movies and independent filmmaking left a significant imprint on Kansas City, died yesterday. The cause was cancer. He was 62. Kansas City, Missouri, Mayor Sly James declared February 24 Fred Andrews Day, in honor of the man who founded the Kansas City Filmmakers Jubilee in 1996 and worked over the past two decades…
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