Every year, sometimes month after month, Tom Deatherage would say, “I’m going to close the gallery.” Not enough sales. Not enough press. He would growl his complaints, threaten to be gone. Well, the Late Show Gallery — the building at 1600 Cherry where Deatherage worked and lived — has finally come to a crossroads. Deatherage died Tuesday, reportedly among friends…
Donald Trump is mentally unstable and has no core beliefs and no curiosity about anything besides his own public image, and he was willing to say anything at all, to anybody, in order to get elected. As a result, it is boringly easy to dig up old Donald Trump quotes and tweets that directly contradict his actions now that he…
The bartender wasn’t happy with the drink.He strained a blush-pink cocktail with the focus of a chess grandmaster, siphoned a taste with a straw — and scowled.Not good. Not great. He tipped the glass into the sink behind the imposing wooden bar. He started again.I’d been waiting 20 minutes for that cocktail, but I couldn’t help admiring the effort.That bartender…
The Pitch’s biggest food event welcomes back past Golden Fork winners to vie again for the prize while you sample the city’s best food and drinks.Hints of summer seem to show up a little earlier every year, from the 85-degree day in March that throws your thermostat into chaos, to the tank tops and sandals that must be unpacked in…
As of today, the No. 1 album in the country no longer belongs to Kendrick Lamar. No, the top seller right now is by Logic, a Maryland rapper known for a string of mixtapes that eventually landed him a deal with Def Jam. That new album, Everybody, even features an appearance from everyone’s favorite astrophysicist, Neil DeGrasse-Tyson. Logic is slated…
Tuesday, May 15Celebrate American Craft Beer Week at Cinder Block Brewery. Each day this week, through Sunday, May 21, features different events and specials. Tonight, for example, there are $3 year-round brews and $10 year-round growler fills. If that doesn’t whet your beer whistle, head to the Peanut in Mission (5400 Martway) for a happy hour featuring beers from Santa…
In this music moment, it doesn’t get much hotter than Kendrick Lamar. His 2017 release, DAMN, has received nearly universal acclaim for its honest, driving storytelling and pungent originality. His previous release, To Pimp a Butterfly, was considered a masterpiece — Lamar even captured the attention of then-President Obama and earned a trip to the White House — yet many…
Jim Cavanaugh, owner of Clint’s Comics, died this afternoon following a robbery at his iconic midtown shop. Early reports are that Cavanaugh chased a thief into the back parking lot after he stole comics from the store. An altercation ensued, during which Cavanaugh was struck by the door of the thief’s vehicle. Cavanaugh then suffered a heart attack and died….
Dear Dan: My husband is nearly 20 years older than me, which was never an issue early in our relationship. However, for approximately the last eight years, we have not been able to have fulfilling sex because my husband can’t keep an erection for more than a few thrusts. I love my husband and I am committed to our family,…
Picture a serial killer. Cold-blooded, methodical. Quiet temper, high IQ.Odds are you’re thinking of a white guy, maybe even a stuffy H.H. Holmes type. But the racial breakdown of serial killers hews fairly close to that of the population writ large. White serial killers get the lion’s share of media coverage — perhaps because their victims tend to be white,…
What Would Crazy Horse Do? appears, at first glance, to play off the “What would Jesus do?” meme. But it also reflects more profoundly on a people’s legacy and tragic history. The drama with that title, onstage at Kansas City Repertory Theatre — part of its Origin KC: New Works Festival — contains that very duality: It’s a deeply troubling…
You’re in a Hollywood mansion (OK, a mini-mansion), and the party is going strong when you see a Royals baseball cap hovering over the DJ booth. Yup, you’re at Lil Aaron’s place, epicenter of a semi-mysterious new brand of internet hip-hop coolness. And you’ve spotted Paul Judge. He’s usually the lone Kansas Citian at these raucous get-togethers of up-and-coming rappers…
Lisa Gutierrez, The Kansas City Star’s long-serving aggregator of celebrity wire filler (as well as its designated Bachelor fan), once again has wandered into the wrong section. Back in December, you’ll recall, she blew an air-kiss at incoming President Donald Trump’s nitwit children. It was gross. Today, she sprinkles a thick layer of who’s-that-sassy-lady glitter atop another fringe human. Her…
Somewhat overlooked amid the drama of this years’ preposterously dysfunctional, entirely Republican-controlled Missouri legislative session is a bill that would cut funding for DUI checkpoints in the state from $20 million to $1. As in: a single dollar. As in: no more money for checkpoints from the state. This is of particular significance for the Kansas City, Missouri, Police Department,…
The New Pornographers are back in 2017 with one of their best albums in years: Whiteout Conditions. The power pop supergroup (though its members would deny “supergroup” status), which includes Neko Case and A.C. Newman (but not, this time, Dan Bejar), has announced a local date on its summer tour, with an appearance at Liberty Hall on Saturday, August 12. The…
Katheryn Shields is used to close elections. In 1994, as a Kansas City, Missouri, city councilwoman, she ran for Jackson County executive. She won the Democratic primary by just 173 votes before cruising in the general election.By the end of her third term as county executive, Shields was the target of a federal investigation. Prosecutors were not able to build…
It is happening again.No television event this year has more expectation riding on it than Showtime’s May 21 return of David Lynch and Mark Frost’s groundbreaking cult TV show, Twin Peaks. When the series concluded its second season, on June 10, 1991, FBI agent Dale Cooper (Kyle MacLachlan) had discovered a temporary portal to the Black Lodge and entered the…
Two years ago, Mountain and Andrew Kimley were living in midtown Kansas City but mulling a move to somewhere more remote. Mountain was employed as a midwife. Andrew, her husband, worked as a chef at the West Side vegan mainstay Füd and, later, a south Kansas City spot called Pita Mediterranean Grill. One day, Mountain got a call: Was she…
Rosilyn Temple is part of a club she never asked to be in.After her 26-year-old son, Antonio “Pee Wee” Thompson, was fatally shot, in 2011, she decided to take a stand against the violence that had caused so much pain for her and others in her community.She also realized she wasn’t alone — that many other mothers in Kansas City…
Longtime friends and Blind Tiger co-workers McKayla Edmonds and Zach Campbell got drunk together one night and found that they shared a fantasy. Their mutual desire was simple, almost innocent: a punk festival. But not that kind of punk festival.“Honestly, there hasn’t been too much going on as far as festivals go in Kansas City for quite a few years…
If you’ve ever been on the receiving end of a bad review, you can take comfort in I’m Gonna Pray for You So Hard, playwright Halley Feiffer’s 90-minute redressing of stuffy critics and safe bets.The show (playing now at the Unicorn Theatre) opens as David, a crusty, Pulitzer-prize–winning playwright, is midway through a screed excoriating critics — that “sick cadre…
Inside Johnny’s Donuts and Hamburgers, in early April, I ordered a half-dozen doughnut holes and asked the man behind the bulletproof glass what he thought about the election. Two days before, Kansas Citians had voted to tax themselves to fund economic development on the East Side. Johnny’s, at 44th Street and Prospect, sits in the middle of the area that…
Rory Fresco is Kansas City’s most recent hip-hop success story. In a city known for its independent titans — namely Tech N9ne and his Strange Music label — Fresco is the first rapper in recent memory to achieve major-label status for the first time in recent memory. The teenager signed to Epic Records in 2016, after years of writing raps…
How foolish to want to write about Patricia Lockwood. In fact, I don’t really want to write about her, would rather read and reread her words. But writing about her — at least until I get to the part where I call her and she speaks for herself — is the only way to put into print three salient facts…
