The Kansas City Comets finished last season atop the Major Arena Soccer League’s Central Division, boasting a squad that included the indoor-soccer league’s Rookie of the Year (Stephen Paterson) and a First-Team All-League Defender (John Sosa).Off the field, though, things haven’t been so rosy.A year ago, Comets co-owner Brian Budzinski filed suit against fellow Comets co-owners Chris, Brad, and Greg…
To call The Hand a mere magazine confuses the publication — now four years, 17 years and several hundred artists into its run — with one that doesn’t include a handy glossary. What its founders, photographer and teacher Adam Finkelston and printmaker James Meara (above), call a “magazine for reproduction-based art” is itself an art object. So it’s fitting that The…
Gordon Biersch, one of the original tenants of the Power & Light District, will soon close its doors, its ownership announced Wednesday. The restaurant and brewery’s last day in business will be Sunday, August 13. “Gordon Biersch has had a great run through the end of its lease term in the Power & Light District, and we would like to thank…
After breaking the Kickstarter record for the highest amount ever given to a video project, the long-rumored Mystery Science Theater 3000 revival came to Netflix earlier this year. The show — in which a hapless human is forced by mad scientists to watch the worst cheesy movies on the planet — brought back the human’s robot pals on the Satellite…
In the spring of 2013, Jan Bombeck was wrapping up her 21st year as a librarian in the Shawnee Mission School District. She liked her job. But as a veteran employee and the mother of kids who had gone through high school in the district, she’d started to worry about Shawnee Mission’s direction.For decades, Shawnee Mission had been the gold…
It’s back-to-school season, which in Missouri nowadays means one weekend when the state waives sales tax on certain purchases. This year’s sales tax holiday begins at 12:01 a.m. this Friday, August 4, and runs through Sunday, August 6. KCMO will also not be charging sales tax this weekend, meaning you can save about 8 percent on purchases if you’re…
As a Missouri senator, Will Kraus of Lee’s Summit did his best to bankrupt state government. Now the beast that he worked so hard to starve will be his benefactor.Gov. Eric Greitens on Monday handed Kraus a plum appointment to the state Tax Commission, where he will earn about $106,000 a year, plus generous government health care and other benefits….
Perhaps no pop star in recent memory has been through the legal and personal ringer as much as Kesha, who has recently emerged from a long legal battle with her former producer, Dr. Luke, centered on allegations of abuse. Five years after the release of her last album, Warrior, Kesha has returned to recording with Rainbow, to be released August…
