Equip-Bid Auctions, located down in the West Bottoms, occasionally finds itself tasked with unloading the inventory of interesting clients. Sex shops, for instance. Currently, the company is auctioning off the property of its biggest West Bottoms neighbor: Kemper Arena. In February, after years of exhausting discussions and deliberations about what to do about Kemper, the City Council sold the arena…
Monday, July 31Five-dollar burgers are officially here! The Pitch’s Burger Week begins today, which means that, from Lawrence to downtown and out to south KC, you can enjoy specialty burgers at Dempsey’s Westport, Unforked, Niecie’s Restaurant, Brick House, the J Bar, Green Room Burgers & Beer, Tanner’s Bar & Grill, Howard’s Grocery Café and Catering, Harvey’s at Union Station, Hank Charcuterie,…
Dear Dan: I’m a reader in Kansas with two teenage daughters, 16 and 18. My girls recently met a boy where they work, and both took an interest in him. The 18-year-old was devastated that he was more interested in her younger sister. I spoke to the 16-year-old about it, which is when I found out this boy is going…
I don’t take this lightly.I grew up watching an average of two movies a week in Kansas City theaters and at area drive-ins. I saw The Empire Strikes Back and Return of the Jedi in the 800-seat main auditorium of Overland Park’s long-gone Glenwood Theatre, where Darth Vader loomed on a curved, 70-foot-wide, 40-foot-tall screen. In high school, I worked…
Last we checked on Kansas City’s perpetual and so far ill-fated quest to paint bike lanes on a handful of city streets, the potential for new bike facilities abounded. There were no guarantees, but city officials and bike advocates were hopeful that the KC would complete at least two bike-lane projects that have been funded for years — a downtown loop…
A couple of years ago, Anson DeOrnery moved a Willem de Kooning painting out of a house in Omaha. It was hanging in a dimly lighted den — it had been there for years — but had recently sold at auction for $32 million. “It didn’t look that impressive when I first saw it,” DeOrnery says. “But the room where…
TUESDAY, 8.1SlayerLamb of God and BehemothProvidence Medical Center AmphitheaterWEDNESDAY, 8.2Lucinda WilliamsKnuckleheadsTHURSDAY, 8.3Alt-JStarlight TheatreMystery Science Theater 3000Arvest Bank Theatre at the MidlandFRIDAY, 8.4RL GrimeWhat So Not, Graves, and Longer DaysArvest Bank Theatre at the MidlandPaper DiamondCrossroadsKCThroat BreachIddy Vice, Tommy Strauser, and SolomonMills Record CompanySATURDAY, 8.5Young the Giant and Cold War KidsStarlight TheatrePrimusCrossroadsKCJulien BakerLurayThe GranadaTUESDAY, 8.8Fleet FoxesArvest Bank Theatre at the MidlandWEDNESDAY,…
I park a few blocks from the well-manicured building and walk to the door in the sweltering heat. Just outside my destination — Spa on Penn, a sleek Westport establishment on the same block as trendy spots Port Fonda and Ça Va — a man is using a green watering can to cool a bed of flowers. In this age…
Missouri Governor Patrick Bateman Eric Greitens has called the Legislature back to Jefferson City twice now since the end of the regular session in May. The first special session was, Greitens said, to lure a steel mill to the Bootheel. It also paved the way for the St. Louis–based monopoly utility Ameren — which has given north of six figures…
John’s Space Age Donuts doesn’t seem like the sort of enterprise that has — or much needs — a Facebook page, though have one it does. For 50 years, the shop (8124 Floyd, Overland Park) has anchored a modest commercial duplex at the southern tip of downtown OP. Longtime neighbor Villa Capri, the night-shift carbo yang to Space Age’s deep-fried…
The art of political spin, the massaging of public opinion, the ruthless machinations of a leader’s administration — these things predate our era by hundreds of years. That’s one takeaway, anyway, from Breakneck Julius Caesar, “adapted, edited, explained and performed” by the charismatic and talented Tim Mooney, whose breathless one-person one-hour tour through the Shakespeare play is yet another outstanding…
Ah, the Crossroads, where cool ideas about tech and culture collide in restored brick buildings as the streetcar goes ding-ding just outside. Working artists, come on down to the Crossroads Arts District, where one-bedrooms start at just $1,475 per month! Into this very hip, very funky environment last month arrived a new neighbor: Koch Business Solutions LP, an IT subsidiary…
Monday, July 24Chef Jonathan Ponzer (Aep) is hosting Monday Night Supper Club at Lucky Boys (1615 Genesse, in the West Bottoms) beginning at 5 p.m. Ponzer specializes in seafood, and tonight is offering crab melts made with freshly cracked crab, and fancy grilled cheeses for those who don’t go for crustacean. Both sandwiches will be served in Ibis Bakery’s polenta…
Kathy Hale’s new restaurant in Brookside has been a long time coming. I first heard whisperings about its opening sometime last year — though Hale, a well-known chef with an established clientele, had already been selling her healthy grab-and-go meals for some time on a made-to-order basis. In March, her brick-and-mortar location finally opened its doors, serving organic entrées, salads,…
From wine-imbibing klatches to serious-lit socialities, book clubs are about as common as backyard barbecues. But who knew they could be quite so much fun? Kansas Repertory Theatre, on the University of Kansas campus in Lawrence, puts this social phenom under center-stage dissection in playwright Karen Zacarías’ uproarious and insightful The Book Club Play. If the title sounds dry, remedy…
Dear Dan: I’m a 35-year-old straight woman, recently married, and everything is great. But I have been having problems reaching orgasm. When we first started dating, I had them all the time. It was only after we got engaged that it became an issue. He is not doing anything differently, and he works hard to give me oral pleasure, last…
“There is this great thing that happens when people come to see the mural. People are driving by and they get such joy that people are coming to see something there.” This is how the artist and muralist José Faus sums up the relationship between the vibrant, expansive artworks that adorn many of downtown Kansas City, Kansas’ old brick buildings,…
The women and children are crammed together, in what asylum seekers called hieleras — Spanish for “ice boxes.” In these small rooms where the U.S. Border Patrol holds them, they wait for days or weeks — sometimes becoming ill, usually suffering from hunger — for an interview with a U.S. asylum office, hoping for permission to come into the country….
You needn’t be an expert in history or military strategy to understand right away that the Allied soldiers in Christopher Nolan’s gripping new war drama, Dunkirk, are in enormous peril. Set mostly on a beach in France at the outset of World War II, Nolan’s tightly wound epic is unbearably tense, a suspense film like no other because it is also…
Blondie & Garbage: The Rage & Rapture Tour With John Doe and Exene Cervenka The Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts Tuesday, July 18 The show at the Kauffman Center may have kicked off while the sun was still high in the sky, but inside, the audience — mostly rock fans of a certain age — kicked it like it…
How to disrupt an industry, Silicon Valley–style: Skirt existing laws, operate illegally, lure customers with convenient technology, maintain low costs by avoiding the taxes and regulation required of existing competitors, declare your business so different from those competitors that all rules must be rewritten, and cede very little ground when you finally come to the bargaining table with the government….
As someone from Kansas City who recently lived in Durham, I can state with confidence that it was very annoying to travel between Kansas City International Airport and Raleigh-Durham International Airport. There were no direct flights. It required stopping over in some dumb place like St. Louis, or some stupidly busy airport like the one in Atlanta. It sucked. But…
Songwriter Jimmy Webb has written many, many songs you know: half a dozen of Glen Campbell’s greatest hits, Art Garfunkel’s “All I Know,” the eternal chestnut “MacArthur Park.” He tells the stories behind many of these in his recent autobiography, The Cake and the Rain, and he’ll probably touch on them when he appears as part of the Lawrence Public…
Saying he was tired of waiting for legislators to end Missouri’s pariah status as the only state without a prescription drug–monitoring program, Gov. Eric Greitens created one by executive order on Monday. He directed the Department of Health and Senior Services to build a database to track prescriptions and purchases of controlled substances, including opioids.His action, announced with the governor’s…
