Magnificent This Thanksgiving weekend sees six (6!) worthwhile cover shows happening in and around Kansas City. Plenty of soul, oldies, goth, and more to soothe your mind and spirit after you’ve eaten your weight in mashed potatoes. Below, quickie Q&A’s with a few of the folks making these shows happen. Magnificent plays The Cure’s Disintegration. RecordBar—Friday, November 29 Byron Huhmann,…
Photo by April Fleming Jill Cockson of the Crossroads cocktail dungeon Swordfish Tom’s is one of the city’s brainiest bartenders, the type of operator who leads discussions about profitability and trends at industry conferences. Though she takes her work seriously, her drinks are consistently playful. Cockson’s fall menu includes a garden pepper cocktail that doubles as a tribute to Alexandria…
Kim from her music video for Icy // Photo by Clare Gillen and Alexandre Moors Kim Petras has had a rapid rise to fame. The German artist’s 2017 debut single “I Don’t Want It at All”—featuring a Paris Hilton guest spot in the music video—hit the Spotify Global Viral chart. Two years later, Petras has three more projects under her…
Schoolboy Q // Photo by Aaron Rhodes. Third time’s a charm. Los Angeles rapper ScHoolboy Q gave Kansas City fans the best version of himself at his Monday night show at the Midland. Followers of the Top Dawg emcee may recall the 2014 Liberty Hall appearance that was cut short (and followed by an intense Twitter rant) or the 2016…
Eric Stonestreet and GB // Eric Stonestreet Facebook. The sale of the Kansas City Royals was approved last week by Major League Baseball and finalized on Monday afternoon. Today, the team released details about the new ownership group. It contains many interesting local names—so many that the idea of ever moving the team away from KC now seems virtually impossible….
Photo by Jake Cardwell A passing glance at the members of the Whiffs gives little in the way of context clues about what style of music they might play. Oi!? Slade covers? Ramones-core? “This guy bought a record at one of our shows recently and was like, ‘Do you all plan this?’ says bassist and vocalist Zach Campbell, sitting at…
True Lions // credit Ada Jay Indie-pop act True Lions’ new EP, You’re Not Invited, takes its name from a line on the album’s first track, “Birthday Party”: I’m so excited that you’re not invited. The line may read negative, but in the song’s charmingly upbeat musical context, it’s almost joyously positive. “It came from a previous, very long and…
City of Kansas City, Missouri Troy Schulte announced Friday that he will leave his post as the city administrator of Kansas City, Missouri, two months earlier than anticipated. Schulte had originally said in September that he would leave the position when his contract was up in February 2020. He’s now set to exit on December 2 in anticipation of taking…
(Courtesy Rye Plaza) Wednesday, November 27 Rye Plaza (4646 J.C. Nichols Parkway) is celebrating its second anniversary. And in appropriate (and appetizing) fashion, the restaurant is offering 50 percent off its much-loved fried chicken and also half-off champagne, all day long. Reservations are recommended; make them via Tock. Thursday, November 28 Out in Lawrence, Leeway Franks (935 Iowa Street) is…
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Song of Solomon is a high-water mark for recent local hip-hop. // Photo by Aaron Rhodes Picture a young rapper that has risen to fame in the last few years, and somebody like Solomon comes to mind: face and neck tattoos, brightly dyed dreadlocks, a predilection for melody-driven bars and wild, booming beats. But how many of those trendy kids…
Sheets with Moore during the filming of Violent New Breed. // Photo courtesy of Todd Sheets. Best known for his pseudo alter-ego Dolemite, comedian and proto-rapper Rudy Ray Moore died 11 years ago, but his impact on popular culture lives on. Moore’s DIY approach to raunchy comedy albums (his oeuvre includes such subtle titles like Eat Out More Often and…
Photo by E.G. Schempf We Americans are often guilty of seeing ourselves as the center of the story. Here’s the Thing, a comprehensive exhibit of the British artist Hew Locke’s work showing now through January at the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, offers a chance to reflect on global tensions and the movement of power from another perspective. Or, rather,…
Emily Park It’s typically pretty easy to find a seat at the monthly meetings of Mid-Continent Public Library’s board of trustees. Tuesday’s meeting, though, was standing room only. The unusually high attendance followed the recent publication of an editorial by one of the library’s board members in a Platte County newspaper. The editorial criticized Mid-Continent’s LGBTQ-centric materials and programs like…
Ministry Ministry The Granada Tuesday, November 19 The long-running industrial rock act Ministry frequently finds its way to the Kansas City and Lawrence area, where its performances are noted for their intensity and verve. But last night’s show— an off date from the band’s current gig opening for Slayer’s farewell tour—saw the band particularly fired up, particularly for a Tuesday…
The name Buffalo Exchange will be familiar to many who have shopped for vintage gear outside of Kansas City. The buy-sell-trade resale store has now 51 locations in 20 different states. Its latest shop is in Westport, at 4041 Broadway, in the brick building north of Mills Record Company (formerly inhabited by Re-Runs, another vintage seller). “We’re excited to finally…
Dracula’s aways on call; no weekends for vampires. I was sitting in a hayfield-turned-parking lot in Bonner Springs in September, enjoying a few last seconds of air conditioning, when a Ford F-150 truck parked beside me. Out popped a half-dressed knight, an archer, and an off-with-their-heads member of some kind of royal court. The three companions—Saturnino Hernandez, Jessica Hernandez, and…
Colin Mochrie & Brad Sherwood Comedian Brad Sherwood first came to fame doing improvisational comedy for three seasons of the original British Whose Line Is It Anyway?. He then made the jump to the American version of the show when it launched on ABC in 1998. As the host for the three live episodes of The Drew Carey Show, he…
Post Malone // Instagram The massively successful pop-rap superstar Post Malone will perform at Sprint Center on Wednesday, February 5, 2020. He’ll be joined by Swae Lee. Tickets are on sale this Friday, November 22, at 9 a.m.
The 40-year-old Plaza dive bar—the only dive on the Plaza, in fact—Fred P. Ott’s faces eviction over $70,000 in back rent, the Star reported last week. In September, the Plaza sent Fred P. Ott’s owner Haddad Restaurant Group notice that the lease would be terminated at the end of October, but the bar stuck around and failed to vacate. Its…
Michael and Christina Corvino, owners of the Crossroads fine-dining destination Corvino Supper Club and Tasting Room, had hoped to open a fast-casual lunch counter called Ravenous this summer. But the July target date came and went without an opening, the result of construction and permitting delays. As of this week, permits are in hand and construction is complete. Summer’s gone,…
Photo by April Fleming Since the Antler Room debuted three years ago, Georgian flavors—we’re talking here about the European republic, not the American state—have repeatedly crept onto the menu. Georgian cooking utilizes a lot of spices (the country is located at the end of the ancient silk road) and is rich in beef, pork, cheese, wine, and fresh herbs. Chef…
Molly Balloons is known for a lot of things—her wild balloon dresses, a life-of-the-party attitude at local events, and balloon installations she’s built around town—but her Balloon Fashion show is the embodiment of everything in her repertoire. On Friday, the Balloon Fashion Show was held at The Truman. Now in its fourth year, the party had balloon couture fashion, acrobatics…
Boley has found wild inconsistencies in valuations along Troost Avenue. // Photo by Zach Bauman. The email from the Jackson County Assessment Department was oddly cheerful, considering it came bearing bad news. “Greetings!” it began. It went on to inform Kansas City resident Christian Cochran that the county had been willing to lower his property tax assessment, which Cochran believed…
