After a hiatus of several years, brought about by onerous state legislation, abortion services are expected to resume in midtown Kansas City in about a week.Planned Parenthood Great Plains is booking appointments for nonsurgical abortions at its Patty Brous Health Center, near Emanuel Cleaver Boulevard and Troost Avenue. The first consultations with physicians are expected to begin September 18. “We…
You may have heard that there was a terrifying uprising inside a state prison in Norton, Kansas, earlier this week. Corrections officers at the prison — Norton Correctional Facility — described a full-blown riot involving 400 inmates who smashed windows, destroyed computers, knocked over a medical-response vehicle and brandished homemade weapons, before officers from several other prisons arrived and restored…
Dear Dan: I’m a lady considering taking on a foot fetishist as a slave. He would do chores around my house, including cleaning and laundry, and give foot rubs and pedicures in exchange for getting to worship and jack off to my model-perfect feet when I’ve decided he’s earned it. Am I morally obligated to tell my roommates? Technically the guy…
Director Steven Lewis Simpson’s Neither Wolf Nor Dog — an adaptation of Kent Nerburn’s award-winning novel of the same name — is a slow, meditative movie. It’s also, once you get used to its deliberate pace, a rewarding story. David Bald Eagle plays Dan, an elder who reaches out to Kent Nerburn, played by Christopher Sweeney, to write a book. Neither Wolf…
Your Harrison Fords and your Bruce Willises play action heroes who take out bad guys through determination, wit and physical commitment.Then there’s Bruce Campbell.He’s the actor whose fanbase coalesces around Ashley J. “Ash” Williams, the Evil Dead franchise figure who imagines himself Indiana Jones but hews closer to Daffy Duck as he battles supernatural forces.Ever since Sam Raimi’s 1981’s low-budget…
Yes featuring Jon Anderson, Trevor Rabin, and Rick WakemanThe Kauffman CenterTuesday, September 5
Back in 2011, the Prairie Village Jazz Festival looked like a drowning victim. The event, in only its second year, took on water — literally. A microburst blasted the grounds, soaking instruments and crippling stage equipment. The music was over.But the festival wasn’t dead. Its organizers toweled off, paid all of the bills and put on another jazz weekend in…
Meet Cathy Stepp, the new head of the local Environmental Protection Agency’s regional office. She’s now in charge of overseeing 450 employees in Missouri, Kansas, Nebraska and Iowa. As the Star noted yesterday in a useful editorial, there are many reasons to believe Stepp will be terrible at her job. Stepp is a former homebuilder who got herself elected in the…
Beginning with President Trump, even the most callous politicians are taking care to seem a little bit sorry about the prospect of deporting nearly a million young people who have grown up in the United States but aren’t here legally.But not Kris Kobach. The Kansas secretary of state and candidate for governor has been all over the news the past…
Labor Day weekend is over. You’ve got a long stretch of work staring you in the face, with no holiday until Thanksgiving. Maybe you’re a little sunburned, maybe still hungover from yesterday’s cookout. Why not watch some videos from the area’s finest and ease into that work week? There’s hip-hop from Shawn Majors, RileyPnP, and Tech N9ne, indie rock from…
On September 5, 1997, 1,500 people packed 18th Street between the Paseo and Highland. In the Gem theater, Harry Belafonte and Billy Dee Williams hosted a black-tie gala. The stars performing included Tony Bennett, Al Jarreau, George Duke, Diane Reeves, David Sanborn, Pat Metheny and Jay McShann. They had come to celebrate the opening of a jazz museum, one meant…
On a Wednesday in early August, Lawrence’s Raven Book Store was closed for an afternoon of repair work, and Danny Caine, surrounded by many quaint and curious volumes of forgotten lore, dragged a couple of chairs over from Nonfiction, parked them in the small area in front of the counter and set about explaining how he had recently come to…
EJ’s Urban Eatery1414 West Ninth Street (September)Chef John Cedric Smith honed his skills in France and at Tom Colicchio’s Craft in New York before coming to Kansas City to head the kitchens at 801 Chophouse, Pig & Finch and the Jacobson. Now he’s opening his own place with partner and investor Erik Gaucher. (EJ’s represents the initials of their two…
Monday, September 4In its enviable Crossroads beer garden, Brewery Emperial (1829 Oak) is hosting a Labor Day barbecue, featuring Local Pig and Brewery Emperial beer brats, very good house-made short-rib hot dogs and the Emperial Burger. Chips or beans come on the side with each selection. There is, of course, beer as well. The party takes place from 3 to 11…
Labor Day weekend kicks off today, along with a number of events like the KC Irish Fest, SantaCaliGon Days in Independence, the World Series of Barbecue at the American Royal … and First Friday in the Crossroads, where all that competition for people’s time might make the area somewhat easier to navigate.Maybe.Among the most striking exhibitions that start tonight: Convenient Season…
Dear Dan: My brother just broke up with his girlfriend for the second time in eight months. They had been together for two and a half years, and she became pretty discontent when she finished college and my brother entered law school, because all his time and attention weren’t revolving around her. In January, she staged this bizarre, soap-opera-esque situation to…
Since its founding nearly 50 years ago, Yes has been one of the defining players of progressive rock. From 1971’s classically tinged Fragile to 1983’s pop success 90125 and beyond, the band has changed its sound and its lineups, but the emphasis on forward-thinking composition has remained strong. In recent years, two versions of Yes have toured the world. The first, under the…
Beginning almost two centuries ago and continuing for 35 years, the grassy hills now a part of Kansas City’s Minor Park were rutted by constant wagon traffic from travelers on the Oregon, Santa Fe and California trails, most of which originated in the region. Just west of where the old Red Bridge now sits was a muddy bog in which…
Anyone else thrilled that summer is over? Glad to leave behind three months of sequel after failed franchise after lame formula? Yes, we got Baby Driver, Dunkirk and Good Time, galvanizing formal challenges that also exerted commercial appeal. But inspiration stayed at low tide all season.Will fall bring more adventurous filmmaking? Will weeks of doldrums give way to movies and…
