Daily Briefs: Downtown hotel. PLUS: A table-reading of a new one-act play.
By CHRIS PACKHAM
In his column, The Kansas City Star‘s Yael T. Abouhalkah does, admittedly, use the cliche “rose-colored glasses” in reference to the “cheerleaders” pushing for a new 1,000-room hotel in downtown Kansas City, which made me grind my teeth, %{[ data-embed-type=”image” data-embed-id=”57150c4689121ca96b9611c2″ data-embed-element=”aside” ]}% resulting in a broken filling and a painful dental procedure — not that I’m holding any grudges — but I think he’s probably right that the city shouldn’t rush into any serious tax-abatement relationships with hotel developers. HAHA! Look at me. I’m David Martin. Let’s talk about tax-increment financing and those fat-cats on the City Council. Unless it involves legwork, or even calling-people-on-the-phonework, in which case the real David Martin can handle it just fine. I’m less of a reporter, and more of a dramatist, in that my preferred approach to journalism is making things up out of my head.
That’s your one link for the day, because — after the jump — I’ve assembled what Kansas City Star television critic Aaron Barnhart might annoyingly describe as a “crackerjack” cast for a table-reading of a new one-act play suggested by a commenter. Click here, or you can click on three plays by Tom Stoppard, three plays by George Kelly and three plays by Leo Tolstoy:
