Metallica Sprint Center // Wednesday, March 6 With the exception of the title track, the songs from Metallica’s 2016 album, Hardwired… to Self-Destruct, are mostly workmanlike rockers. But probably you’re seeing Metallica to hear the hits, and judging from last night’s Sprint Center show, the band’s live chops are still rock-solid after 38 years together — at least once everything got…
Red and green lights flash as the exotic dancers make their way around the club. Normally, they’re in G-strings and 7-inch heels, but tonight is special. The ladies are clad in formal attire: a flapper dress dripping in fringe, a bedazzled gown, a blue lace dress worn at a college graduation. It’s the 50th anniversary of the Flamingo Club, a strip…
Though he’s spent years performing music from the Baroque era, Matthew Shepard — the conductor and artistic director of the choral music group Te Deum — realized recently that he knew almost nothing about an important choral tradition: convent music from the cloisters of 17th Century Italy. “It’s not that were completely unknown,” Shepard says, “but they are certainly not…
Over the last few weeks, we’ve been speaking with Kansas City mayoral candidates about how they’d use the office to approach the biggest challenges facing Kansas City. (Pick up our March issue, out now, for a preview of the race.) As of the end of the 2018 fiscal year (last April), Kansas City, Missouri, is $733.3 million behind on its pension…
It’s an embarrassment of riches in our latest roundup of local music videos. Not only do all of these tracks sound amazing, they look great, too. Be it hip-hop from Amira Wang or Aaron Alexander & Zarin Micheal, or Merlin’s skronky doom metal, or Y god Y’s danceable pop, there’s something upon which to affix your eyeballs and perk up…
Roughly 50 protesters marched toward City Hall in nearly sub-zero temperatures Monday morning. “Hey, hey! Ho, ho! Slumlords have got to go!” they chanted. The demonstration was also an introduction of sorts — the launch of KC Tenants, a new grassroots organization advocating for better affordable housing options in Kansas City. “It’s cold outside, but you know what? Our people get evicted…
Tuesday, March 5Fresh off his Best Chef: Midwest James Beard Award nomination, Antler Room chef Nick Goellner, along with chef Kyle Sears, will be creating a special, izakaya-inspired a la carte menu tonight at the Antler Room (2506 Holmes Road). In Japan, an izakaya is a lively place where friends gather over drinks and small shared plates. The Antler Room’s version…
Over the last few weeks, we’ve been speaking with Kansas City mayoral candidates about how they’d use the office to approach the biggest challenges facing Kansas City. Pick up our March issue, out now, for a preview of the race.In the first two months of 2019, there have been 20 homicides in Kansas City (as of Feb. 26). In 2018,…
Dear Dan: I’m a gay guy in my late 40s with a straight sister in her early 50s. She’s been married for a bit over two decades to guy who always registered as a “possible” on my average-to-good gaydar. But I put “BIL,” aka my brother-in-law, in the “improbable” bucket because he actively wooed my sister, was clearly in love…
The proposed merger of T-Mobile and Overland Park-based Sprint keeps lurching toward a resolution of some kind. The outcome of a merger is unlikely to be good for Overland Park, for reasons previously discussed here.Today, Sprint announced the sale of the Sprint World Headquarters Campus. The company floated the idea late last year. It will continue to lease space in…
