| | | Pat Gray, Kansas City's most notorious campaign guru, just landed his biggest job yet: saving the e-tax BY NADIA PFLAUM  Festering mounds of uncollected trash. Potholes big enough to swallow a Suburban. Broad-daylight purse snatchings with no cops in sight. These are the scenes that Kansas City, Missouri, leaders want to have haunting the minds of voters come April 5, when an election will determine the fate of the city's annual allowance: the earnings tax. The "e-tax," which collects 1 percent from the paycheck of anyone who lives or works in the city, accounts for about $200 million a year, money responsible for basic services such as snow removal, trash pickup and police work. But in November, Missouri voters approved Proposition A, a ballot issue dreamed up by St. Louis billionaire Rex Sinquefield that ... more >>
| | | | | | | | O, Giant Man takes a step back BY BRAD KROHE  When asked about his body of work, Lou Reed once replied that he had been rewriting the same song for a long time. "Except my bullshit is worth most people's diamonds," the legend famously qualified. The search for the same intuitive understanding of artistic reinvention is at the core of the unfolding story of Kansas City's O, Giant Man. Chris Robbins and Andy Wendling huddle at a table in the ... more >> | | | | | | | | After a 180, a prime Westport spot becomes Beer Kitchen No. 1 BY CHARLES FERRUZZA  When a friend of mine heard that local restaurateurs James Westphal and Mark Kelpe — creators of McCoy's Public House and the Foundry, among others — planned to change the concept of One80, their four-year-old restaurant, he knew what to name the new place. "Since it used to be a clothing store called Natural Wear," he said, "it should be a vegan restaurant called Natural Fare." I r... more >> | | | | | | Blue Valentine BY KARINA LONGWORTH  When the MPAA handed Derek Cianfrance's Blue Valentine an NC-17 rating in the fall, cynics suggested that the so-called "kiss of death" was better publicity for the gently experimental marriage drama than anything that distributor Harvey Weinstein could buy. The rating was downgraded to an R, without any cuts, after Weinstein reportedly appeared in front of the appeals board. But anyone looking ... more >> | | | | | | | | Wayward Blog ? This past Monday night, I went out to the Legends in Kansas City, Kansas, to redeem a Groupon and have a few overpriced cocktails at Dave & Buster's. I stuck my face and camera against the... Fat City The success of Mad Men hasn't created a demand for all vintage cocktails, but Lenny Tocco, the Food & Beverage supervisor at the Raphael Hotel -- bartending at Chaz on the Plaza is just one ... Plog A couple of days ago, as Justin Kendall and I were leaving The Pitch, we were called to by a burly man already halfway out of his pickup truck. He clutched folded papers in his hands. "You guys ... | | | | | Calendar >> | | Thursday | Kay Ryan
Rockhurst University | | Friday | At the Left Hand of God, 3 Quarters Coma, Grimstone, Unwritten Rulz, Pardon the Innocence
Uptown Theater | | Saturday | Be/Non, Soft Reeds, Pioneer
Crosstown Station | | Sunday | Rebelution, Iration, Orgone
The Bottleneck | | Monday | Making Movies, David George, Honeywagen
RecordBar | | Tuesday | Bridge to Terabithia
The Coterie Theatre | | Wednesday | Collecting With Passion: Contemporary Ceramics From the Lennie and Jerry Berkowitz Collection
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