Shake Shack, the New York-based burger-stand chain, has been rapidly expanding across the United States, and today the company announced its first Kansas City location. It will open on the Country Club Plaza sometime this fall, at 239 West 47th Street, a piece of real estate that until recently housed Talbots. According to the press release, the menu will feature “all…
The month following the holidays can be the start of winter doldrums, but the Kansas City music community seems to have spent its winter break getting creative. We bring you a fine selection of the best in local music videos to hopefully break you out of your own seasonal affective disorder, at least for a little while. American Dischord’s skate-punk,…
On Saturday, a parade of Human MAGA Hats descended on downtown Lawrence and exercised their constitutional right to march around and carry signs and yell a bunch of ignorant shit.It’s America, and they’re allowed to do that. But it is perhaps worth noting a few details about Saturday’s “Defend Our Flag” protest for future reference.According to its Facebook event page, the…
Monday, February 5Anyone looking to try the “Impossible Burger” — the somewhat infamous vegan beef patty substitute that purportedly tastes remarkably like beef, and even “bleeds” — can do so beginning today at Tapcade (1701 McGee Street). The burger officially debuts at 4 p.m. Tuesday, February 6Two big openings occur today, including the Russell (3141 Main Street), which will serve a rustic…
Following last night’s relatively controversy-free Super Bowl halftime performance, pop icon Justin Timberlake has announced 31 new tour stops across Europe and North America, including one at the Sprint Center on Monday, December 10. The tour celebrates the release of Timberlake’s first album in five years, Man of the Woods. Tickets go on sale to the public Monday, February 26…
Every once in a while, Khrystal Coppage will hashtag her Instagram posts #AwkwardBlackGirlRap. It’s a clever bit of social-media self-marketing, but it also captures the Wyandotte County native’s personality, both onstage and off. She doesn’t suffer from stage fright or clunky flow. But she can be awkward. She doesn’t always know what to say. It’s perhaps the cost of actively pursuing…
Drummer and composer Antonio Sánchez is currently on one hell of a roll. His most recent album, Bad Hombre, is nominated for the Best Contemporary Instrumental Album Grammy, and the EPIX show he scores, Get Shorty, has been renewed for a second season. Finally, he’s touring a live version of his Golden Globe and BAFTA-nominated score for Alejandro González Iñárritu’s…
It’s hard to imagine a better cultural moment for the premiere of Project Dawn, a play about sex trafficking and the criminal justice system now onstage at the Unicorn Theatre. The play unfolds in vignettes tied to the cases of Project Dawn, a “problem-solving court” in Philadelphia that offers recovering prostitutes a chance to clear their criminal records. The catch?…
When the news fills with divisive talk of border walls, I think of the wall that came tumbling down some 28 years ago. I think of Leonard Bernstein, in Berlin, leading an orchestra of German, British, American, French, and Russian musicians through Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9, in a concert televised across the globe. Bernstein, 71 years old, sick and sweating,…
Invasion 2018, the annual theater fest that features actors and shows from such countries as the U.K., Australia and Ireland, kicks off this week, with performances beginning Thursday, February 1, at Central Standard Theatre (3614 Main, cstkc.com). Instead of a variety of shows scheduled together over the course of a week or so — kind of like a mini Fringe Festival…
In October 2017, longtime Westport bar owner Bill Nigro was quoted in a Kansas City Star story about what the city’s social scene is like for African Americans. Nigro is a reporter’s dream: he speaks his mind, gives colorful quotes, rarely backs away from controversy. “I don’t believe in playing hip-hop and rap music and drawing a specific crowd,” he…
