For 15 years, Café Europa has been a Crestwood institution at 325 East 55th Street. But this most neighborhood-y of neighborhood restaurants has opened a second location: Owners Dan Weber and Nate Feldmiller are Union Hill’s latest tenants, at 2976 Gillham Road, on the ground floor of the new McGee Building. Weber and Feldmiller — the longtime GM and chef,…
Starting with its title, Lynnette Miranda’s debut as the Charlotte Street Foundation’s latest curator in residence asks a question that lately has occurred to a whole lot of us: ¿Que Pasa USA?The artists in this group exhibition address the state of American bicultural identity with works that channel not a little anxiety. The show lays out a meaty buffet of…
Last October, Manuel Palacio received a five-year prison sentence after pleading guilty to stealing a credit card by force. On the day he walks free, though, Palacio will be a couple hundred thousand dollars richer. That’s because the Kansas City, Missouri, police officers who arrested Palacio on May 2, 2014, roughed him up pretty good — and the beating was…
An investigation into the finances of a New Mexico cabinet member has led that state’s attorney general’s office to the Kansas City area. Demesia Padilla was the Taxation and Revenue Secretary in New Mexico until last Thursday, when she abruptly resigned after her offices were raided by the AG’s office. Padilla still hasn’t been officially charged, but the investigation —…
The Wyandotte County District Attorney’s Office on Friday charged Filiberto Espinoza Jr. with premeditated first-degree murder in connection with the death of Louis Scherzer on November 27, 2016. Espinoza is being held on a $1.5 million bond. He is 19 years old.Scherzer was fatally shot outside Chicago’s Bar in Kansas City, Kansas, on the Saturday after Thanksgiving. Two weeks ago,…
Please, Lisa Gutierrez and Kansas City Star, please never again write that Ivanka Trump is a “champion for working women.” She is not, she is not, she is not.That ignorant assertion is one of the babbling points in Gutierrez’s sub-Us Weekly assembly today of breathless fun facts about the incoming first children. The story, inexplicably slotted under “Government & Politics” and given prominent placement…
Despite single-digit temperatures and urging from authorities to stay off slick roads, hundreds of music fans streamed into the Midland last night for a stacked, year-end bill featuring sets from local act Jaenki and national touring attractions Warpaint, Local Natives and Band of Horses. Here are photos and set lists.Local Natives Setlist:Past LivesWide EyesVillainyYou & IBreakersAirplanesJellyfishMother EmanuelCoinsCeilingsMastersDark DaysFountain of YouthWho…
Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach visited Trump Tower on Thursday. Kobach previously met with Trump in November, entering the president-elect’s golf club in New Jersey with the first page of his vision for the Department of Homeland Security left visible.No one will be surprised if Kobach is tapped for a job the new administration. One potential irony of Kobach going…
Swampdrainer-in-chief Donald Trump is set to shake things up in Washington come January 20. You’re not gonna believe how lacking in moisture this swamp will be. Very dry! The Center for American Progress has been monitoring not just Trump’s high-level cabinet picks, but also whom has been chosen to serve beneath them in various federal agencies. CAP’s finding is that roughly a…
GinuwineSaddle up for a wild night with one of the most revered R&B artists of the 1990s: That’s right, Ginuwine is back. But this American hero (real name Elgin Lumpkin, no joke), best known for his 1996 hit, “Pony,” never really went away. If you want to brush up on some of his best work before Friday night’s show at…
President-elect Donald Trump took time on Thursday morning to lash out at Graydon Carter, the editor of Vanity Fair, which posted a scathing review of the Trump Tower restaurant on Wednesday.%{}%Trump and Carter have a long history. Carter was a founder of the magazine Spy, which began describing Trump as a “short-fingered vulgarian” in 1988. Spy is long gone, but…
More than 11,000 Missouri Department of Corrections employees received an e-mail Thursday morning from George Lombardi, director of that state agency, announcing his resignation.The e-mail contained Lombardi’s signature, his office phone number and the DOC’s insignia. It was CC’d to “All Outlook Mail Users” as well as to “DOC Puppies for Parole Program.”But David Owen, spokesman for the department, denied…
Logan Richardson grew up on East 55th Street, attending Paseo High School and Saturday classes at the American Jazz Museum. Today, he lives in Paris, and his new album for the Blue Note label, Shift, has won acclaim. Just last week, it notched 33rd place on NPR’s list of the 50 best albums of 2016 (keeping company with records by…
Third Friday’s main event is in the West Bottoms at Plug Projects (1613 Genessee), which opens two exhibitions from 6 to 9 p.m. December 16.One of the shows brings to mind that awkward scene in The Graduate when an intoxicated Mr. Robinson comes home and surprises Ben, who has just scrambled downstairs to act nonchalant after Mrs. Robinson has made…
Thursday, December 15If you like your Christmas movies laced with bitter, acid-tongued dialogue, add Ted Demme’s 1994 comedy, The Ref, to your Netflix queue. Bickering married couple Kevin Spacey and Judy Davis couldn’t be less concerned that burglar Denis Leary has taken them hostage at gunpoint in their own home, because they can’t stop fighting.%{}%As their family arrives for Christmas,…
After 20 months, an urban beer garden is nearly ready to open at 1829 Oak. Brewery Emperial, a joint project from Room 39’s Ted Habiger, brewmaster Keith Thompson and Rich Kasyjanski, this month joins the growing microbrewery district in the east Crossroads.“I’ve always liked what a brewpub represents for the community and neighborhood,” Thompson says. “We’ve got the brewery and…
On the same day that Donald Trump nominated Ben Carson to run the Department of Housing and Urban Development, the Lawrence, Kansas, chapter of Black Lives Matter was busy planning direct action.The group was not protesting the fact that Carson — a retired surgeon with no government experience who has said that “poverty is really more of a choice than…
New plays don’t always tread new ground. That’s one hard lesson from Application Pending, a frenetic one-woman showcase by playwrights Greg Edwards and Andy Sandberg.The feverish one-act follows Christine, a single mom stretched to herculean limits on her first day as director of pre-primary admissions for Edgely, a prestigious Manhattan prep school. Her predecessor (fired for cause — more specifically,…
Instagram handle: @zzona.erinHometown: Little Rock, ArkansasCurrent neighborhood: South Hyde ParkWhat I do (in 140 characters or less): I am a lecturer in the printmaking department at the Kansas City Art Institute, and I run my own education-based print shop called the Zz School. What’s your game? Arm wrestlingWhat’s your drink? CoffeeWhere’s dinner? At home!What’s on your KC postcard? One of…
Around 11 a.m. on October 7, a Raytown police officer attempted to apprehend a man and a woman suspected of shoplifting at the Wal-Mart on East Missouri Route 350. The couple, a husband and wife, decided to make a run for it, leading police on a car chase that ended when their maroon Cadillac DeVille crashed in a wooded area…
Bon Bon’s eclectic, it’s-a-small-world-after-all menu — its items ranging from takoyaki (Japanese-style fried octopus fritters) to Nashville–hot chicken sandwiches, queso dip and squash korma — doesn’t seem like it should work. On paper, it sounds random, borderline chaotic. In person, however, the Lawrence bistro (804 Pennsylvania, in ever-hip east Lawrence) makes a strong case for its excesses.As I’ve reported before…
President-elect Donald Trump, who supported abortion rights until he didn’t, now says he wants to shape a U.S. Supreme Court that will unravel Roe v. Wade.Just one more history-busting feat for Trump’s gruesome reality show. But why worry, the woman-cherishing president-elect told Leslie Stahl on 60 Minutes just days after his victory. The demise of the landmark 1973 Supreme Court…
Before the election, Jason Kander was considered a rising star in the Democratic Party. Nothing’s changed, even though he lost his race against U.S. Sen. Roy Blunt.Kander, 35, continues to demonstrate that he’s going to be a player, without or without the fancy office in Washington. In recent days, he booked a trip to Iowa, spoke at a gathering of…
As the first of many stand-alone films slotted to take place in the Star Wars universe without advancing (or rewinding) the main storyline of the Skywalker family, Rogue One: A Star Wars Story has one very challenging question to answer: What exactly makes a stand-alone Star Wars movie a Star Wars movie?For J.J. Abrams’ franchise reboot last year, entering the…
