U2 has been on the road for the past several weeks marking the 30th anniversary of its seminal Joshua Tree album, with splashy stadium dates across the country. This morning comes a surprise: Without any buildup of hype, the band added tour dates this morning — including a Kansas City slot on September 12 at Arrowhead Stadium. Reviews of the tour have been…
Kansas City Actors Theatre closes out its 12th season with a contemporary play — it opened on Broadway in 2014 — that’s more streamlined jet than workaday passenger aircraft. And it isn’t a production to see jet-lagged, lest you miss its many connecting flights of conversation.Except they’re more often near misses. In The Realistic Joneses, effectively directed here by John…
It’s short-sighted, but it’s a truism: When the economic going gets tough, the arts get going. And so, with budget problems plaguing the University of Missouri system, the school is scaling back the UMKC Theatre program, resulting in the layoff of four nontenured instructors, a loss of programming, fewer graduate students, and the elimination of productions. UMKC Theatre is a…
Tuesday, June 6More beer: Novel (815 West 17th Street) is hosting a coursed dinner featuring the beers of Crane Brewing Company. The evening starts with a specialty reuben, paired with the Farmhouse IPA, followed with a fluke ceviche served with the Grapefruit Gose. A wedge salad featuring blue crab and puffed barley follows, paired with the Nostalgia Saison. Next: a lamb…
Another court ruling, another goose egg for the Missouri attorney general’s office and its strange quest to mess with California’s hen-house laws. This time it was the U.S. Supreme Court telling Missouri to go cluck itself. State Attorney General Josh Hawley wanted the justices to overturn a federal appeals court’s decision upholding a California food-safety statute. The justices declined to…
From the drink ingredients to the bygone hospitality flourishes to the industrial-vintage décor, James Beard Award nominee Jill Cockson knew every last detail she wanted to pour into Swordfish Tom’s — and it shows.Her 30-seat, spirits-only bar, which opens this week in the Crossroads and instantly summons the golden age of cocktails (historians put that roughly between 1860 and Prohibition),…
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers fans last night at the Sprint Center witnessed a free flow of hits spanning the band’s 40-year career. From the first notes of ‘Rockin’ around with You’ through the extended, joyous closer ‘American Girl’ – an iconic classic rock song if there ever was one – the audience stood and sang, awash in absolute nostalgia….
Early Thursday morning, a couple was robbed at gunpoint after leaving Dave’s Stagecoach Inn around 2 a.m. Three men came up behind them near the corner of Westport Road and Wyandotte Streets, according to the police report, and demanded their money. Then one of the robbers shot the woman, and the three men fled north up Wyandotte.The woman is recovering….
Royals got you down? Head to Spinning Tree Theatre for a winning production of America’s other national pastime: assassinating presidents. Assassins, Stephen Sondheim and John Weidman’s lippy 1990 musical, still feels contentious in its slapdash structure and comic treatment of murderous loons. But the musical has earned a loyal cult following thanks to a few tidy tunes and an uncanny…
If tonight’s First Friday seems more crowded than usual, well, it is — thanks to the annual Crossroads Flock Party, which takes over the intersection of 19th Street and Wyandotte from 5 to 11 p.m. June 2. The surrounding galleries are open, with street entertainment including live music by Arc Flash, High Westhus, Dreamgirl, Reptil and others; skating demonstrations from…
Dear Dan: I’m a middle-aged homo trying to figure out Grindr. Is it impolite to go on Grindr if you’re not looking for an immediate hookup? My preferred form of sexual relationship is the friend-with-benefits situation. I go on Grindr looking to make friends who could, at least potentially, be sex partners, but I like to do the friend thing…
Following a few months of buzz, Arcade Fire announced today that its latest album, Everything Now, will be released July 28. The band also released a new music video for the title track (below). This is the Arcade Fire’s first release since 2013’s Reflektor. What’s more, tour dates have appeared on their website, including a stop at Silverstein Eye Centers…
Since Westend Studios opened, in 1988, its recording gurus have been responsible for engineering the sounds behind some of your favorite local records. Kansas City veterans such as Shiner, the Life and Times, and the Pedaljets have all put together albums there. Recent local favorites Shy Boys and Fullbloods have, too. Even Justin Bieber recorded three songs for his 2011…
