May

28

Rock out with your Bach out

May 28, 2010 | Comments Off

If you’re curious about the condition of Penn Valley Park for Celebration at the Station concert and fireworks on Sunday, don’ t worry.  It’s in a whole other area of  the park, far from the Rockfest mud pit.
Unfortunately the event web site doesn’t mention transit service to one of the city’s biggest public events.  However, [...]

May

27

Christopher Elbow opening Glacé Artisan Ice Cream

May 27, 2010 | Comments Off

Chocolate superstar Christopher Elbow is branching out into ice cream with Friday’s opening of Glacé Artisan Ice Cream.  The new shop is in the South Plaza at 4960 Main Street, on the same block as Accurso’s, Spin Pizza, and Planet Sub.
Hours are Noon-9:00pm during the week and until 10:00pm weekends. Find them online at www.glaceicecream.com

May

25

Foreclosure help event

May 25, 2010 | Comments Off

If you are someone you know is facing foreclosure, the Feds will be in town on Wednesday providing face-to-face counseling and planning.  It’s Wednesday 1:00 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. at Bartle Hall.  Get the details and list of documentation to bring.

May

25

New convention hotel starting off with shaky math

May 25, 2010 | 1 Comment

Several City Council sub-committees and public committees are currently working on plans for a new 1,000 room Downtown convention hotel, and the full City Council will soon issue requests for proposals from hotel developers. Convention planners and Downtown boosters say an additional hotel is badly needed to attract conventions and tax revenue, but the math [...]

May

24

Beerfest runs out of beer

May 24, 2010 | 1 Comment

Last week we were stoked for the KC Beerfest’s move to Midtown, but it didn’t go so well.  KC Beer Blog reports that the fund raiser for the KC Free Health Clinic ran out of beer, apparently due to beer distributors reneging on commitments of donated beer.

May

21

Imagery boutique moving back to Westport from Midtown South

May 21, 2010 | 2 Comments

After a brief sojourn in southern Johnson County, the Imagery boutique is moving back to its long time home in Westport at the request of its customers.  Imagery had moved to the Mission Farms development, a Leawood project that has recruited so many Midtown businesses to relocate or expand that it’s become known as Midtown [...]

May

20

Pat Metheny on Kenny G: Battle of the man perms

May 20, 2010 | 2 Comments

Kottke.org reminds us of an old rant where KC jazz celeb Pat Metheny brutally disses Kenny G.
It’s a 15 paragraph character destruction that, since it’s now on the web, must be considered one of the top flames of all time. If you didn’t think it was possible to gut someone with words, click [...]

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