Die-hard sports fans run the gamut. There are the tamer enthusiasts, who name their babies after players and coaches or get tattoos of their favorite players. On the more extreme end, “you have your stalkers, your field-chargers, and your murderous psychopaths,” notes Bleacher Report. (See the famous 1990s Texas cheerleader case.) Perhaps playwright Jerry Hickey had these not-uncommon instances in mind…
Eric Greitens should have resigned today before Missouri’s special House committee released its disturbing report. By now, you’ve likely read the report or skimmed its details on Twitter. In it, the Missouri governor’s ex-lover — a woman deemed by the committee to be a credible witness — details a harrowing 2015 encounter in which Greitens blindfolded her, taped her hands to…
Comedian Rhea Butcher has been doing stand-up for years now, a run that includes a 2016 solo album (Butcher, on Kill Rock Stars), as well as last year’s split release with wife Cameron Esposito. Butcher also is one-third of the stand-up podcast Put Your Hands Together and the co-star of the Seeso comedy series Take My Wife (which was taken off streaming when…
Over the past 22 years, KC FilmFest has managed to bring Sundance favorites like Me and Earl and the Dying Girl to town months before they hit local screens, but it has also helped bring people like Oscar-nominee Don Cheadle back to this cowtown. And it has provided a place for local filmmakers to get their efforts seen in auditoriums…
To catch a glimpse of Hermon Mehari in his element, you could do worse than attend the Mardi Gras party his jazz-soul band, the Buhs, has held the last four years running. The 2018 soirée, held on a cold, mid-February night inside a West Bottoms warehouse, had a DIY superhero theme, which meant that, in addition to the feathered and…
Monday, April 9Underdog Wine Company (327 East 55th Street) is hosting Chad Melville of Melville Wines, a renowned estate label in the Santa Rita Hills of California, today for a free tasting from 5 – 7 p.m. Wednesday, April 11Two worthy charity-oriented events to attend tonight: first, Les Dames d’Escoffier and Slow Food Kansas City are hosting a benefit for Kansas City Community…
The beauty of Bacon & Bourbon — or, at least, one of the beautiful things about it — is that we don’t have to explain it to you. It’s an event where there’s a shitload of bacon and bourbon. Personally, that’s all the information we require, but we’re happy to go into detail for you, because we’re frankly thrilled about…
Between the NCAA tournament and opening day of baseball season, we know you’ve been spending a lot of time staring at a screen lately. But now is not the time to stop all that. There many amazing things going on in local music right now onto which you should lock your eyes. Below, check out garage rock from Scruffy &…
Since being discovered by Ryan Adams at the age of 20, Phoebe Bridgers has grown into one of indie folk’s brightest young stars. The steel guitar and string sections present on Stranger In The Alps, Bridgers’ debut album, at first call to mind the warmth of the contemporary folk music that’s so popular in the American Midwest and South, but…
Dan Auerbach and the Easy Eye Sound Reviewwith Shannon and the Clams and special guest Robert FinleyWednesday, April 4, 2018The TrumanLast night, Dan Auerbach, who’s made a career of pared-back, two-part arrangements, opted to showcase his solo material with a band stacked with legendary session performers, including keyboardist Bobby Wood (who played with Elvis Presley and Dusty Springfield), drummer Gene Chrisman (Presley,…
Crazy gets fleshed-out, in a rather spectacular fashion, in Stephen Sondheim’s Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, a provocative, absorbing, funny — dare I say delicious? — rendition of theatrical madness cooked up at Kansas City Repertory Theatre, through April 15.Debuting on Broadway in 1979 — and winning the Tony Award for Best Musical (music and lyrics by…
When does Dan Auerbach find time to sleep? Even though the Black Keys have been on hiatus for a while now, the Nashville-based, Akron-born musician has in the last few years formed a side project, The Arcs; released his second solo album, Waiting On A Song; and started a label, Easy Eye Sound. That’s to say nothing of the eight…
Situated on nearly 1,000 acres of land 40 miles southeast of downtown, Powell Gardens is one of the Kansas City area’s most beautiful and serene spots. The botanical garden boasts thousands of plant varieties, a nature trail, an indoor conservatory. It hosts weddings, field trips, galas, and other special events. Over 100,000 people visit the “living museum” every year.A big…
Tuesday, April 3Port Fonda (4141 Pennsylvania Avenue) is debuting its mezcal dinner series tonight beginning at 6 p.m. The meal is a six-course paired dinner featuring Bozal mezcal, a spirit made with wild varietals of agave. Cocktails and tasters of mezcal will be served alongside dishes including flash-seared tuna carpaccio with mango, marinated olives and toasted chile oil; and fajitas…
There aren’t too many opportunities to participate in great art. Museums get a bit prickly if you add even one dab to a painting, the orchestra doesn’t appreciate it if you lug your own string bass on stage, and heaven forbid anyone try to talk Hamlet off his ledge of toxic masculinity.But you could be in an opera.Grand opera wouldn’t…
It’s only been four years since comedian Hari Kondabolu released his first album, Waiting For 2042, via Kill Rock Stars, but he’d been working toward it for awhile, with appearances on stand-up showcases and late-night talk shows. It was arguably a 2012 on-screen appearance on Totally Biased with W. Kamau Bell, the FX series for which Kondabolu wrote, that sowed…
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