| | | When Club Oasis went down, it took the West Side's hard-earned trust with it BY MANDY OAKLANDER  Monitor Place, a hilly street just west of Interstate 35, was the first street on Kansas City's West Side where landlords would rent to Hispanics. Many of the red-brick duplexes in this once-proud Irish neighborhood now wave Mexican flags alongside American ones. A block south of Monitor is Southwest Boulevard, the neighborhood's main thoroughfare, lined with sweet-smelling panaderias and taquerias. Drive west on the boulevard, past the tortilla factories and Boulevard Brewery, and you hit Autobuses Los Paisanos, a run-down bus depot where passengers can catch buses from Kansas City to Chihuahua, Mexico, for $139. And just down the block from there, for paisanos wanting Mexico without the... more >>
| | | | | | | | A break from the Get Up Kids' longtime label offers new freedom BY NICK SPACEK  Matt Pryor, frontman of the Get Up Kids, is talking on the phone from his home on the east side of Lawrence. Wonky cartoon sounds echo in the background, alongside a child's laughter. They're mundane, domestic noises but, for Pryor, they also signal one of the benefits of taking control of one's career. "It was a business and philosophical decision," Pryor says. He's referring to the decision th... more >> | | | | | | | | Genessee Royale Bistro arrives in the West Bottoms BY CHARLES FERRUZZA  Not too many chefs in Kansas City can say they've cooked in two restaurants that used to be gas stations. But one of them is Todd Schulte, who in 2008 turned a soup-delivery business into the popular Columbus Park lunch joint the Happy Gillis Café & Hangout. One of Schulte's first professional cooking jobs was in the kitchen of the old Joe D's Wine Bar in Brookside (now home to Celina Tio... more >> | | | | | | The Company Men BY KARINA LONGWORTH  Transparent in its ambition to capture The Way We Live Now, The Company Men tracks the parallel trajectories of three employees laid off from cushy corporate jobs at the same Bost... more >> | | | | | | | | Wayward Blog By Ian Nyquist There is no more perfect pairing with music than booze. (Ladies and blow come in a close second.) Given Kansas City's musical history, it's no wonder there are many drinks in loc... Fat City Mmm, just pop the tab and savor the sweet smell of whiskey in a can. Eater has the story of Scottish whisky in a can. Apparently Scottish Spirits, a Panama-based company, is hoping to entice Sou... Plog The proposed Kansas City budget, floated yesterday by City Manager Troy Schulte, is dripping with boring old sensibility: With the recession waning but still lingering, the proposal maintains ba... | | | | |
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