A prolific performer and songwriter, Krista Eyler once wrote a tune called “Favorite Sounds in the World,” inspired by the mental image of a woman on a staircase listening to an orchestra tune up. Eyler let her mind wander and began to think maybe there was more to this woman’s story. Maybe this woman lived in Kansas City. Maybe the…
Tuesday, September 18 In honor of National Cheeseburger Day, Hogshead KC (4743 Pennsylvania Avenue) will be offering its much-loved cheeseburger — thick-cut bacon from Daily’s Premium Meats in St Joseph, a fresh egg from Good Natured Family Farms, pickles from KC Canning Co. and an egg bun from Farm to Market Bread Company — for $10 (regularly $14). Thursday, September…
Dear Dan: I am a gay man in my late 50s and have never been in a relationship. I am so lonely, and the painful emptiness I feel is becoming absolutely unbearable. In my early 20s, I hooked up off and on, but it never developed into anything. I have always told myself that’s okay; I’m not people person or…
Is it love or is it dopamine? That’s the well-worn question hanging over The Effect, the Unicorn Theatre’s 45th season opener. Lucy Prebble’s script, though — which won the 2012 Critics Circle Award for Best New Play — is both subtler and smarter than that premise suggests. The play opens in a drug-trial unit at Rauschen Pharmaceuticals, where Dr. Lorna James…
Bad Bad Hats The Bottleneck Wednesday, September 12 Last night at the Bottleneck, a loyal cotillion of indie-loving college-aged kids gathered to see Minneapolis’ Bad Bad Hats and Seattle’s Cumulus knock out some beautiful, chiming tunes. The show kicked off a solid half-hour before the advertised start time, so Cumulus played to a smaller crowd than it might have otherwise….
Down in the East Bottoms, at 1800 North Topping Avenue, is a pharmaceutical company called Nostrum Laboratories. This company makes a drug called nitrofurantoin, which is an antibiotic that treats urinary tract infections. Nitrofurantoin is categorized as an essential medicine by the World Health Organization. Last month, Nostrum’s CEO, a man by the name of Nirmal Mulye, decided to quadruple the…
With her musical partner, David Rawlings, singer-songwriter Gillian Welch crafts rich and intricate folk songs that have influenced a generation of musicians. (Most recently, Courtney Barnett covered Welch’s “Everything is Free” for The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon’s Cover Room series, and you can hear a direct line from one artist to the other in just four minutes.) Welch reissued…
For two hours — indeed, if we are lucky — the movies transport us. Images conjured by light dance on screen while music and sound booms through the auditorium speakers. But after we leave the theater, all that remains is the memory of the experience. The memory of writer-director Panos Cosmatos’ newest nightmare concoction Mandy remains oh so vivid. Piercing…
As blissful as many Nothing recordings can be, Domenic Palermo and his band are no strangers to chaos. During a violent period in Philadelphia’s early-aughts hardcore scene, Palermo was involved in a fight that resulted in a two-year stint in prison for aggravated assault and attempted murder. Some of the lyrics from the band’s acclaimed debut, Guilty Of Everything, were…
Spend any time around urban planners and you’re likely to hear them talk about the need for “eyes on the street.” They’re quoting Jane Jacobs, the urban activist who wrote The Death and Life of Great American Cities. Jacobs saw eyes on the street as the key to safe, thriving neighborhoods — and she was careful to specify she meant…
Those black scooters that you’ve lately seen people riding? They are made by a company called Bird. On Tuesday, you will begin to see green scooters around town. That’s because Lime — the Uber to Bird’s Lyft — will be dumping a fleet of dock-free scooters around Kansas City. Lime’s app-based pay system is the same as Bird’s: a dollar to unlock…
Monday, September 10Chef Kelly Conwell of Stock Hill (4800 Main Street) will be creating dishes from Smithfield’s DURoC line of pork products for a free open house event today from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. Guests who register for the event via Eventbrite will enjoy Conwell’s bites as well as paired cocktails and desserts. The event also includes some giveaways. Get a…
In order to assess the longtime reach of the Byrds’ 1968 album, Sweetheart of the Rodeo, one only need look as far as the artist backing Chris Hillman and Roger McGuinn at the Folly Theater last night. Marty Stuart’s always had a bit of a rock ‘n’ roll meets country music — best exemplified in his 1990 single, “Hillbilly Rock”…
It has been a quarter of a century since Counting Crows released its breakthrough album August and Everything After, a fact that will rightly fill many millennials with mortal dread. This tour celebrates those songs — “Round Here,” “Omaha,” and, of course, “Mr. Jones” among them — and features fellow ‘90s alt-rock hitmakers Live in the opening slot. ♦Counting Crows, with…
The whole country is a crumbling mess, but things are going well for at least one person: Taylor Swift. The 28-year-old pop megastar is at the height of her career, despite a tumultuous 2016. (Bustle does a nice job of tracking all the receipts, should you care to relive a simpler time.). Swift’s 2017 album, Reputation, was pre-ordered over 400,000 times…
Led by mandolinist and cheeky Prairie Home Companion host Chris Thile, Punch Brothers recently dropped album number five, All Ashore — another collection of classy, curious, and worldly bluegrass. Madison Cunningham opens.♦Punch BrothersSunday, September 9Kauffman Center for the Performing Artskauffmancenter.org Categories: Music
The first country-rock album ever made? A deeply debatable topic, but the answer returned by many fans of the genre is The Byrds’ Sweetheart of the Rodeo. The Byrds was a revolving-door kind of band, and in 1968 its formation included Roger McGuinn on guitar/banjo; Kevin Kelly on drums; Chris Hillman on bass; and Gram Parsons on piano/guitar. Sweetheart was Parsons’…
Nearly a quarter-century after opening at Unity Temple on the Plaza, Eden Alley has shut down operations, the restaurant announced yesterday on Facebook.Eden Alley opened in 1994 and grew from a 40-seat dining room to 130 seats by 2011. It is one of a very few vegetarian restaurants in Kansas City. The western stretch of the Country Club Plaza on which…
Thursday, September 6Rub elbows with industry leaders nationwide — as well as the city’s brightest bar talents — during the annual Paris of the Plains Cocktail Festival, which runs Thursday through Sunday. PoP Fest includes lectures, tastings, dinners, parties, competitions and so much more. The event is geared toward those in the industry, but hobbyists will also find a lot…
Dear Dan: This woman has gone down on me (I’m a man) more than half a dozen times in the last three months. Each time seems to be better than the previous! She does not want reciprocation. She has also turned down all my offers for intercourse. As far as I know, she is heterosexual just like me. What’s with…
