Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit, with Damien Jurado Uptown Theater, Kansas City Tuesday, February 17 Artists like Jason Isbell bring out crowds that make for excellent people watching, with last night’s Uptown audience proving to be no exception. A good portion of the attendees were clearly on dates (because damn, can Isbell write a hell of a love song),…
Everyone knows what a deluxe hamburger is, right? Or the correct components of a hamburger platter?In this day of “artisan” hamburgers — and I use the term with some disdain — those old diner terms like deluxe burgers or a burger plate have taken on new meanings or maybe have no meaning at all.Traditionally, a deluxe burger means that the…
No Doubt frontwoman and star of The Voice Gwen Stefani has announced a fall tour in support of her new album, This is What the Truth Feels Like. The tour includes a stop in Kansas City at the Sprint Center on Friday, August 12. Categories: Music Tags: Gwen Stefani, the sprint center
At one time, the symphonic music of the classical canon did not much mingle with the symphonic music written for Hollywood movies. Times have changed. A lot. Yesteryear’s theme-from-Star Wars-indulging pops concert has given way to huge touring productions like Video Games Live. Now that scenes from Halo get the live-score treatment in arenas, the Kansas City Symphony’s effective Screenland at…
It would be news any day that Public Enemy will be coming to Lawrence this summer, but Lawrence had to outdo itself. The legendary hip-hop act will be performing a free downtown concert on Saturday, June 25. Thank the annual Free State Festival, a week-long celebration of the arts. Public Enemy will appear on New Hampshire street between Ninth and…
Ready your turn-of-the-century ironic tees. As we reported late last month, the Anniversary is reuniting for a West Coast Festival. This morning, the band has announced local tour dates, including a stop at the Bottleneck in Lawrence on September 17. We welcome back the year 2000 with very open arms. Presale tickets for all shows are available at the band’s website. …
Thursday 4.14 The Kansas City FilmFest honors local Kevin Willmott with its Independent Spirit Award tonight, followed by a screening at 7 of the 2015 film he co-wrote with Spike Lee, Chi-raq, at Cinemark on the Plaza. It’s a heartfelt, funny, chaotic satire about America’s obsession with gun culture that looks and sounds fantastic on the big screen. Willmott does…
Thursday, April 14Tallgrass launches Half-Pipe Tart Pale Ale, the Manhattan brewery’s new summer seasonal, with a party at Up-Down (101 Southwest Boulevard) from 5 to 7 p.m. You’ll have the chance to meet brewery owner Jeff Gill, too. Friday, April 15Get some tax-day relief with a tasting of Odell beers from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. at Rimann Liquors (15117 West…
Richard Linklater has never attended Kansas City Film Fest or its predecessor, the Kansas City Filmmakers Jubilee, but the Austin, Texas-based director’s legacy has been a vital part of both the event and independent film in general. Now, three decades into his career, he’s on a serious critical and commercial roll, coming off the Oscar-nominated Before Midnight and Boyhood and…
The Bad Plus defies categorization — unless the category is “a genre-defying, exploratory jazz trio.” Pianist Ethan Iverson, bassist Reid Anderson and drummer Dave King can claim an oeuvre that includes Nirvana, Ornette Coleman and numerous points between. In 2014, the trio adapted Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring with a challenging mix of tension and grace. The same year, the album…
Mumford & Sons If you’ve been avoiding Mumford & Sons’ latest album, Wilder Mind, know that you’re missing out on a sound the band surely hoped would give it an edge. Gone are the suspenders and banjos, replaced by leather jackets and electric guitars. Mumfy is no longer the outfit of full-hearted folk troubadours it was in 2010, when it…
Kangaroo Knife Fight wastes no time on its new EP, The Dark. The four-piece band charges through the gate with ready-to-rumble rock that’s meant for arenas and sweltering summer festivals. Despite the band name — a homage to lead singer Anthony Avis’ home country of Australia — there is nothing silly about this band. Kangaroo Knife Fight takes its music…
It’s hard not to think of Annie Get Your Gun as the grinning materfamilias of modern Broadway. Even if you’ve never seen the musical — which follows sharpshooter Annie Oakley on her rise through the ranks of Buffalo Bill’s Wild West show — you’ve almost certainly heard the tunes. The score, by composer Irving Berlin, is full of cozy, uptempo…
If you haven’t yet seen Marilyn/God — the chilling, one-woman vehicle for the Fishtank Performance Studio’s Heidi Van — stop reading this review and buy a ticket. It’s the kind of show best confronted cold. If you have seen it, you know what I mean. The one-line synopsis — Marilyn Monroe auditions for heaven, judged by an audience of her…
If you ever wanted to know what it tastes like when you distill corn and oak-age it, this is it,” Scott Beskow tells me, brandishing a handsome bottle of Wicket & Peg Bourbon. It’s an odd way to describe a liquor, perhaps, but Beskow, Grünauer’s longtime bar manager, isn’t wrong. I tasted Wicket & Peg, the small-batch, Missouri estate–grown craft…
