Caper McWade. // photo by Mike Dotson Casper McWade and HonkyTonk Rebels Knuckleheads Thursday, July 6 On Thursday, July 6, Shawnee, Oklahoma’s Casper McWade, and his band, HonkyTonk Rebels, brought their “true, homegrown country music” to Knuckleheads. Our photographer Mike Dotson was there to capture the action. Categories: Music Tags: Casper McWade and HonkyTonk Rebels, knuckleheads, photo gallery
St. Marys city commissioners have taken offense with a transgender book in the Pottawatomie Wabaunsee Regional Library. (Rachel Mipro/Kansas Reflector) ST. MARYS — Gerard Kleinsmith says he hates the idea of censorship. He just wants to pull the lease for the city’s public library because he doesn’t like books about transgender people. As a city commissioner, he feels it is…
Mass Street Fish House owner Laura Klein. // Photo by Emily Kate Johnson Laura Klein holds a stem of daylilies as she looks out the small restaurant storefront at pedestrians on Massachusetts Street in downtown Lawrence. As owner-operator of the LFK seafood institution, Mass St. Fish House, she has elegance and a sense of ease about her while she arranges…
Nominations are open for Best of Kansas City from now through July 31! The Best of Kansas City 2023 nomination round is now open. Help make this our fifth straight year of record-breaking turnout for voting in 500 categories! From July 6-31, submit nominations for your favorite KC area restaurants, shops, spas, plumbers, artists, athletes, scenic destinations and more. Then…
KC Blue Crew. // Photo by Brooke Tramel It’s a warm evening in early June, and the crowd at Children’s Mercy Park is charged. KC Current is set to play North Carolina Courage, and the stadium is decked out for Pride Night. While the stadium as a whole is roaring with adoring fans, there is no place like the supporter…
Taylor Swift. // Photo by Chris Ortiz On what was slated to be an overcast, possibly rainy Saturday turned out to be anything but on July 7th as Arrowhead Stadium opened up the flood gates early and started to allow people to park their cars slightly before 2pm as the lines down Blue Ridge Parkway grew longer with idling cars,…
Courtesy Quade Campaign Crystal Quade was the first in her family to graduate high school. Now, she’s running to become Missouri’s first female governor. The Missouri House Minority Leader opened the door on her 2024 gubernatorial campaign July 9 with an announcement video featuring Quade herself trucking through bodies in a roller derby bout. “When you come from nothing, you…
Scumbag. // Photo by Maura Dayton Bambi’s Birthday Show w/ Blast Monkeys, Sewing Circle, Scumbag Penn Valley Skate Park Saturday, July 8 Taylor Swift wasn’t the only one on stage this weekend. Penn Valley Skate Park hosted a DIY punk rock birthday bash on Saturday night with the Blast Monkeys, Sewing Circle, and Scumbag, Our photographer Maura Dayton (@twistedmauraphotos) was…
High Noon Lobster Roll:Creamy hollandaise, perfectly scrambled eggs, and crispy bacon combine to brunch-ify Jax’s next-level lobster roll. // Photo by Lauren Textor Jax Fish House & Oyster Bar is decorated “like the cruise ship in The Parent Trap,” according to the friend I brought along to the brunch tasting. It’s fun and elegant all at once, and that’s not…
Former U.S. Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos spoke at the Herzog Foundation’s launch, and former U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo gave a presentation at the foundation’s headquarters this February (Illustration by Annelise Hanshaw/Missouri Independent). The headquarters of the Herzog Foundation sits on the edge of Smithville, in an 18,000-square-foot stone and glass building on a corner lot across the…
Victoria Brooks behind the soundboard at Replay Lounge. // Photo by Brooke Tramel If you’ve ever taken a trip to Lawrence’s rock and roll pinball bar, the Replay Lounge, chances are musician and sound engineer Victoria Brooks was in the booth working her magic for a night of tunes. Growing up in Fort Scott, Kansas, with an audio engineer for…
Courtesy Paramount Pictures Pop culture reflects our anxieties. A decade from now, hopefully we’ll look back on the now-current movies, books and shows about the threat of artificial intelligence and smile at how we avoided the future of The Terminator by regulating it when we had the chance. More likely, we’ll sigh nostalgically from our AI-controlled future about a time…
Taylor Swift. // Photo by Chris Ortiz When Speak Now was originally released in 2010, I convinced my parents to buy me two copies. I listened to them nonstop on my Hello Kitty CD player, obsessed with the dramatic lyrics about blossoming love and heartbreak. It didn’t matter that I was years away from having my first kiss—Taylor made life…
Photo by Maura Dayton In an ever-evolving post-COVID music landscape, concert etiquette has taken a hit. In Ginger Sherry’s recent viral TikTok, “Don’t Do This at Concerts,” she makes the point that good behavior can be as simple as not taking a beer into the pit and soaking the crowd with it, but in our experience over the past year,…
Sparks at Midland. // Photo by Brock Wilbur While the metro was focused on Taylor Swift’s back-to-back sold out shows at Arrowhead this weekend, a different iconoclastic act bounced through KC. Sparks, the eccentric electronic/alternative duo headed by brothers Ron and Russell Mael, have been releasing music since 1966 and made their second-ever stop in the KC area. Or…
A selection of albums from onetime University of Kansas visitor Taylor Swift available for sale at Love Garden Sounds in Lawrence, Kansas. (Clay Wirestone/Kansas Reflector) Chuck Marsh could tell that something was a bit jittery about his Journalism 101 class at the University of Kansas. Marsh was instructing the spring 2009 installment of “Media & Society.” During the April 28…
Kansas City Monarchs catcher and infielder Gavin Collins swings during the Monarchs’ game with the Sioux Falls Canaries on Tuesday, July 4, 2023. // Photo by Mason Hart / Kansas City Monarchs KC Monarchs Update is our weekly look at what’s happening with hometown baseball heroes, both at Legends Field and on the road. Check out their season schedule here….
Wyld Bar. // Photo by Morbid Awakening Photography Wyld Bar. // Photo by Morbid Awakening Photography “It should feel magical,” Edward Schmalz—the owner of ReRoll Tavern, as well as its sister venue, Vignettes, and the Apparition family of pop-up bars—says of his team’s newest venture, The Wyld Bar and Cafe (4601 Shawnee Dr.), a planned permanent fixture in KCK that…
Kris Kobach offers his opinion during a June 26, 2023, news conference about how Senate Bill 180 should be implemented. (Sam Bailey/Kansas Reflector) TOPEKA — Kansas Attorney General Kris Kobach chastised Gov. Laura Kelly in a court filing Friday for recognizing the identities of transgender residents in a dispute over gender markers on driver’s licenses. In a petition filed in…
Hamburglore podcast hosts Nate and Kam, moments before Kam spilled his ice cream all over his cargo shorts and multiple people. // Courtesy photo If you’ve taken a glance at the internet in recent weeks, there’s a chance you’re familiar with a sizeable purple creature by the name of Grimace. Created by McDonald’s as an addition to their family of…
Missouri Gov. Mike Parson during a press conference from the Capitol on Dec. 2, 2020 (Photo courtesy of the Missouri Governor’s Office). Gov. Mike Parson on Thursday signed the tax cut he said a week earlier was responsible for his decision to veto most of the 201 spending items he cut from the state budget. The bill, exempting Social Security…
Is it narcissistic to think Taylor Swift releasing Speak Now (Taylor’s Version) on the first day of her Eras Tour stop in KC was a personal gift to me? Yes, probably. But if ever there was a day to indulge in narcissism, it is today. Welcome to Brynn’s Version… of the events leading to this moment. And, of course, a celebration…
Kansas City EDM act Community Service released their first single, “Mr. Tree,” back in May. Featuring vocals from Úyanga Bold, it was melodic and wistful, the perfect late-spring transition into summer. They’re back with their latest, “Mustang Jungle,” dropping today, which sees Community Service moving into a track they describe as “Beautifully translucent, capturing a wealth of transitory beats and…
Animals on LSD, Dead on Collision, and Digester (cancelled by cops) Toilet Bowl July 6, 2023 Animals on LSD from Des Moines swung through LFK and played punk venue The Toilet Bowl along with Dead on Collision. The evening of power violence was supposed to include Digester, but for the first time in the venue’s history a double set of…
