The dish was unassertive enough: a brown-skinned cube of veal breast, a shimmer of mahogany demi-glace, three lightpoles of white asparagus slashed with grill marks. A culinary version of “duck, duck, goose” played in my head: brown, brown, ghost. I pulled a morsel of veal away from the plate. The veal pulled me away with it. A great meal — and…
Dear Dan: I’ve been enjoying consensual nonmonogamy for the past two years, in part thanks to your column and podcast. I have a delightful young lover, and our connection has evolved into a kind of Master/slave relationship. I “allow” her to fuck other men and women, and she delights in asking my permission and recounting the details of her other…
Smashing Pumpkins stopped in at Sprint Center last night and played a career-spanning show that clocked in at over three hours. That’s a lot of Pumpkins. The “Shiny and Oh So Bright” tour marks the reunion of original members Billy Corgan, James Iha, and Jimmy Chamberlain (original bassist D’Arcy ‘s absence was well noted when the tour was announced several…
Over the last few years, Jill Gevargizian — aka Jill Sixx — has become the go-to director for short-form horror films in Kansas City. Beginning with Call Girl in 2014, continuing with 2016’s The Stylist, and with her latest, 42 Counts, Gevargizian has shown an ability to maximize frights and freak-outs in less time than your standard sitcom episode. On…
Phil Dickey is most associated with Springfield, Missouri, where his band Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin was based for more than a decade. But he lives in Kansas City these days — he moved here about a year and a half ago, with his wife, Grace Bentley, and their young son. They were in Waldo for awhile, and they’re currently…
More than two decades after New York launched an annual music festival to honor the Kansas City icon who propelled jazz into a modern era — that’d be Charlie Parker — the group KC Jazz Alive organized its first celebration of the man. In this, its fifth year, the Charlie Parker Celebration is sticking with the formula of tossing an umbrella…
A new vote-reporting system that fell flat last week will again be in the spotlight Tuesday, as the last votes are tallied in Johnson County. A week ago, vote totals from Kansas’ most populous county took all night to be announced because of upload problems with the brand-new Election Systems & Software voting machines. The next chance for that system to…
A few short months ago, the Drake-Pusha T beef was dominating rap headlines and shaping up to be the hip-hop narrative of the summer. How things change. Pusha has canceled half his tour, likely due to poor sales. Meanwhile, every single from Drake’s new album, Scorpion, has charted in the top ten, and his tour-opening show Sunday night at Sprint…
Kansas City was blessed with a Radiohead tour stop last year, and this year such good fortune has once again returned: frontman Thom Yorke announced today he’ll play Arvest Bank Theatre at the Midland as part of his winter solo tour. The date: Sunday, December 9. Details: “It will be a live electronic performance with Nigel Godrich and visual artist Tarik Barri,”…
Monday, August 13It’s wine versus beer at tonight’s specialty dinner at Louie’s Wine Dive (7100 Wornall Road). KC Bier Company beer will be pitted against Ernest and Julio Gallo wines during a four-course meal that begins at 6:30 p.m. Guests will sample the four courses, each of which is paired with one wine and one beer, and decide which pairing…
Michael McDonald The Lied Center Sunday, August 12 It was harshly hot outside but smooth and cool inside the Lied Center last night. Yacht rock god Michael McDonald took to the stage for a nearly two-hour set encompassing cuts from his latest album, Wide Open, plus the hits, like show opener “Yah Mo B There.” A crackerjack band played the…
When chefs Ryan Brazeal and Jessica Armstrong moved Novel from the house on the hill at 815 West 17th Street to the Crossroads, there were no immediate plans for a new restaurant to occupy their former space (which was Lil’s before it was Novel). But we’ve recently learned that a new concept will soon come to the century-old house —…
Voting equipment and tech support from Omaha vendor Election Systems & Software failed Johnson County for a second spectacular time on Tuesday night’s primary election. But county officials say they have no buyer’s remorse.“I have absolutely no regrets,” Johnson County Election Commissioner Ronnie Metsker said of the county’s agreement to purchase $10.5 million in new voting machines that made their…
In the 1970s, singer Michael McDonald was one of the progenitors of what is now known as yacht rock — smooth sounds with a soul angle purveyed by the likes of McDonald, Loggins & Messina, Seals & Croft, Hall & Oates, and other ampersanded pairs. As the years have gone on, though, McDonald’s work has made a mark outside that…
Meet Steve West. On Tuesday, West won the Republican nomination for House District 15 — a slice of Clay County that includes Gladstone and Kansas City. West had three opponents in the primary but won rather handily. He took in 1,485 votes — more than the other three candidates combined. He’ll face incumbent Democrat Jon Carpenter in November. West’s platform? Here are…
Since opening this past December, Hogshead Kansas City has busied itself carving out a place for local ingredients and chef-driven creations on the Country Club Plaza. Its latest creation? The CBDiki, a play on the classic piña colada, but with one very significant twist.It has CBD in it. “I’ve seen chefs on the West Coast cooking with cannabis,” says Clark Grant,…
Less than hour after walking out of BlacKkKlansman, I spoke by phone with Kevin Willmott. Along with the film’s director, Spike Lee, Willmott co-wrote the film, which arrives in theaters August 10. Willmott also happens to live around here: he’s a professor of film and media studies at the University of Kansas. I told him I was still reeling from…
His star was born on YouTube, and it rose considerably via the insufferable and omnipresent 2015 Wiz Khalifa collab “See You Again,” but judging by recent developments, Charlie Puth appears to be maturing into a non-embarrassing pop star. The 26-year-old’s new album, Voicenotes, is … kind of good? Puth has perfect pitch, a talent he deploys on Voicenotes in service…
Alice Cooper Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts Monday, August 6 Touring in support of his most recent album, Paranormal, shock rocker Alice Cooper made a stop at the Kauffman Center last night. In addition to numerous selections from the latest LP, Cooper and his crack squad of musicians played Cooper’s biggest hits: “Poison,” “School’s Out,” and “No More Mr….
A crowded, confusing Democratic primary will come to a close Tuesday for Kansas’s third congressional district.The six-person field features all shades of blue. Progressives and centrists and corporate Dems and even a democratic socialist.It remains unclear, at both the national and state levels, which of these flavors of Democrat are best suited to take on the Kevin Yoders of the world. After…
Drake was supposed to perform in Kansas City with Migos on July 31 as part of their juggernaut “Aubrey and the Three Migos” summer tour.But a few weeks ago, that tour was postponed and rescheduled. The tour, which was to originally start July 26 in Salt Lake City, instead now begins this Friday, August, 10, here in Kansas City, at…
Monday, August 6Tickets for the third annual Oktoberfest, organized by KC Bier Company, go on sale today. The event, which takes place on October 5-6, drew 10,000 attendees last year to Union Station (30 West Pershing Road). Oktoberfest this year means KC Bier Company beer, German and Austrian wine, German food including sausages, pretzels and schnitzel from KC Bier Company and…
Deafheaven, with Uniform and Drab MajestyThe Granada Saturday, August 4 It seems that Deafheaven’s latest, Ordinary Corrupt Human Love, has brought more people into the fold of the shoegazer death metal band. Whereas previous albums have swung wildly from one side of the band’s sound to the other without ever quite melding the two, Deafheaven’s latest — released last month on…
How bad was November 8, 2016, at the Johnson County Election Office? Very bad. Flop sweat, reporters-pounding-on-the-door-to-get-answers bad. Ronnie Metsker remembers it well. It was his first big election, less than a year after he became commissioner of the office. The choice between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton had sparked a high number of absentee votes in Johnson County, the most populous…
