Around the four-mile marker at the Lake of the Ozarks lies a zone where the waters are curdling over with even more piss, shit, gas, and semen than in the rest of the man-made, E. coli-infested body of water. My friends, I am referring to Party Cove, a place FourLoko Dot Com calls “one of the most infamous lake parties in…
New York-based developer Tom Valenti’s perenially frustrating project Mission Gateway received an adrenaline shot earlier this month with the announcement that celebrity chef and Top Chef judge and executive producer Tom Colicchio had signed on as part of a new plan for the long-vacant space at Johnson Drive and Roe Avenue. The plan: a 40,000-square-foot recreation and food hall, designed and curated by…
The Lawrence power trio Gnarly Davidson came together in typically Lawrencian fashion: at the Replay Lounge, at Love Garden Sounds, at the Eighth Street Taproom. That’s how the dudes in the band — drummer Franklin Fantini, guitarist-vocalist Mitch Jones, bassist-vocalist, Sam Gunnerson — tell it to me as we lounge in the shade behind SeedCo Studios, in the college town’s warehouse…
The idea of musicians touring the country in a massive bus, replete with bunks and bathrooms, has been dispelled, to a certain extent, by movies like the recent Green Room. The reality is that most touring bands playing, say, the Bottleneck or the Riot Room, are sleeping on floors and in their van. Touring is, in most ways, an unpleasant grind, and…
Wednesday, May 30One of KC’s great bars, Chez Charlie (3809 Broadway), turns 50 years old today — the same day that would have also been the 100th birthday of its founder, Charlie Giloti. The bar is celebrating with “1960’s prices on 1960’s drinks.” May this beautiful Broadway hideaway stay open another 50 years.Francophiles will be intrigued by tonight’s collaboration dinner at…
Dear Dan: I like watersports, and I heard about a guy in a rural area who holds piss parties in his backyard. I found a mailing list for those interested in piss play, and it wasn’t long before he posted about one of these parties. People on the list talk a big game, but no one else has stepped up…
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While parents and teachers beamed from the audience, a parade of student scholarship winners from Kansas City, Kansas Public Schools introduced themselves at the May 8 meeting of the board of education.Their names and faces reflect the district’s diversity. Some of the graduating seniors began their journeys in Mexico, El Salvador, Myanmar, Nepal, and other foreign lands. Many are the…
It was 5:30 p.m. on a Thursday, and Brookside Poultry Company had already run out of chickens. There was plenty of chicken, explained our server, a supremely patient man named Justin. My tablemates and I could order an individual thigh, a craggy-coated breast, a pile of saucy drumettes, a something-salad sandwich. But the whole birds? 86’ed. I craned my neck to peek…
The signs began popping recently up on trees at the edge of the big woods near the Line Creek trailhead at Northwest Platte Brooke Drive. Little red and white signs, all along the edge of the clearing where the forest begins. “No hunting, weapons, trespassing,” they say. But to Julie Stutterheim and others in the Northland, the signs mean something else:…
It is with every ounce of my being that I urge the Millennials and humans of Generation Z to see Jimmy Buffett’s Son of a Son of a Sailor Tour. Attend with your parents (you know, those people you should call more often) if you must. Request a press pass (as I cleverly did). Overdraft your miserable excuse for a…
In A La Mode, husband and wife duo Clayton and Jesica “Baby J” DeLong deftly tap into Kansas City’s nostalgia for the wild Prohibition days of yesteryear. Their hot-jazz swing sound is accentuated by Jesica’s sultry vocals (and her way with a kazoo), Clayton’s jazzy guitar tones, and, often, a collection of other musicians and dancers that join them onstage….
Monday, May 21Sonoma wines are the star at tonight’s Forth Vineyards wine dinner at Tannin Wine Bar (1526 Walnut Street). Forth Vineyards’ Jann Forth has been a frequent guest at Tannin and is a restaurant favorite. Among tonight’s courses: duck served in an orange pepper gastrique with napa cabbage and smoked beans, and lamb served with jalapeno cornbread, brown rice, and…
Friday night’s Joey Bada$$ show at the Truman confirmed some recent developments in the dexterous New York rapper’s career. His 2017 album, All-Amerikkkan Bada$$, on which he’s still touring, is rich with pop-friendly material and plainly aims for a larger fan base. It’s working, at least judging by an informal poll Joey conducted onstage Friday: about half the members of…
Savage Love Live at Denver’s Oriental Theater last week was epic. I fielded sex questions in front of a sold-out crowd, singer-songwriter Rachel Lark performed amazing news songs, comedian Elise Kerns absolutely killed it, and Tye — a token straight guy plucked at random from the audience — joined us onstage and gave some pretty great sex advice! We couldn’t…
Pete Cowdin stands in an expansive North Kansas City warehouse filled with bottled beverages stacked on wooden pallets. Everything in this three-story, 165,000-square-foot industrial space is made of raw, exposed concrete, amplifying the abnormally chilly spring day. Workers zip by on forklifts, moving at a speed that seems unsafe, glass clanking as the pallets are loaded onto waiting trucks. Cowdin…
When violinist Dana Mengel and his brothers were teenagers, they would practice music together in Woodlawn Cemetery, off Noland Road, a few blocks from their home in Independence, MO. It was quiet (plus there were no critics), with a beautiful view all the way to Blue Springs, but Mengel always wondered about the stories of the people buried in the…
As the insurrectionist mental patient Randle McMurphy in the Ken Kesey adaptation One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Jack Nicholson was the anti-establishment character that the mid-1970s needed. The U.S. was recovering from its late-1960s free-love hangover and still processing the resignation of a corrupt president. Americans embraced McMurphy, who confidently and hilariously railed against the system — until it…
Among the productions in the Kansas City Repertory Theatre’s Origin KC festival of new works is Welcome to Fear City, an inventive play by Kara Lee Corthron that feels overstuffed with too many good ideas.Most of the script takes place in a predominantly black neighborhood in the South Bronx in the summer of 1977, a season of citywide blackouts and burgeoning…
Monday, May 14American Craft Beer Week kicks off today and runs through Sunday. A few places to celebrate:Hopcat (401 Westport Road) will be featuring a beer each day that it thinks exemplifies what is good about the craft, and representatives from that beer’s brewery will be on hand for giveaways and to talk about what their brewery has to offer….
Modest MouseStarlight TheatreFriday, May 11, 2018About 6,000 fans showed up for last night’s Modest Mouse appearance at Starlight Theater. The Isaac Brock-fronted act is no stranger to Kansas City, having appeared here three times just in the past four years. Last night, the band played judiciousy from its five most recent albums, finally tapping out after about two hours. While…
Dear Dan: First let me say that I think you give excellent advice, even if it is a bit pedestrian at times. I have a small problem: Last fall, my penis bent up and to the left at an almost 90 degree angle. I know from Google that this is not an unusual problem. And at 59, I am thankful…
Since its earliest days incubating in Kansas City, SSION, the experimental art-pop project led by Cody Critcheloe, has embraced a complete and total disregard for genre norms, gender norms, and the comfort level of anyone paying attention.So it’s surprising to meet up with Critcheloe at Broadway Cafe and have him several times pause to make sure he wasn’t speaking too…
