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Dragon Inn had operated in the space in the 1950s through the mid-1960s, last showing up in the city directory in 1965 with Mike’s Tavern listed in 1966. Mike’s Tavern had been under different ownership groups before Dunlea and a partner took over in 2010. It served a typical bar menu of Buffalo wings, loaded nachos, sliders, patty melts, pork tenderloins and the like, along with cheap beer.

That made it popular with college students for decades. But Dunlea said in the last couple of years students from the nearby Rockhurst University and the University of Missouri-Kansas City have been leaving for places like the Brooksider Sports Bar & Grill in Brookside. His “beer and burger bar” also had caused him plenty of problems from staff turnover to college students trying to use fake IDs.

So Dunlea and Brady shut Mike’s down after school shut down in June, then they spent a couple of months remodeling the red brick building, putting in a new front and back bar, and an open kitchen where Brady can see some of his customers in the back dining room (Mike’s former video game room).

“Now it’s a ‘from scratch’ kitchen with locally sourced ingredients and cooked to order, no microwaves,” Brady said.

“Classic Irish dishes with a twist. My scones are an old family recipe, probably been around for 100 years,” he said. “But my mixed berry jam, that was just something I started doing because I’m not a big fan of store-bought jam — too sweet, too many preservatives. Mine has strawberries, raspberries, blueberries with a little vanilla and sugar. Fresh is always better.”

At just 15 years old, Brady started working in a restaurant in his native Nenagh, in County Tipperary, a town of about 8,000 people. He moved to Dublin a year later and earned a degree at DIT School of Culinary Arts and Food Technology in 2001. He worked in Dublin, then traveled in Europe and Asia before moving to Chicago in 2006 with his wife, who is from Wichita.

At Brady’s Public House, menu items include Scotch eggs (boiled egg wrapped in pork sausage, breaded and fried and served with Colman’s Mustard); curried spice fries; “handwiches” such as the Irishman with corned beef, caramelized onions and cheddar cheese with an Irish Whiskey & Guinness mustard; the Irish Whiskey cured salmon BLT with a sun-dried tomato aioli; fish and chips; fried chicken in a maple brine with mashed potatoes and green beans; P.E.I. mussels with fries; and steak and Guinness pie.

Brady said what Americans call Shepherd’s Pie has hamburger and mashed potatoes. But in Ireland that’s known as Cottage Pie while Shepherd’s Pie comes with lamb or mutton. So his Traditional Cottage Pie comes with ground beef, carrots, onions, celery and peas, topped with Colman’s mustard mashed potatoes and served with a side of Irish soda bread made in-house.

Desserts include Guinness brownie parfaits, cinnamon apple bread pudding with warm Baileys Irish Cream and Guinness ice cream floats.

“We’re Irish so we cook with a lot of alcohol. Our Scotch eggs are flying out the door, our sausage rolls. You could always grab a sausage roll, they were always available breakfast, lunch or dinner in Ireland,” he said.

Brady can see customers from his open kitchen and often stops by customers’ tables to check in.

“I look at their expressions when they try the food and their eyes grow wider,” Brady said. “One hundred people can tell me something is the best they ever had, but if one person has a bad meal they can tell 10 people. So we want to make sure everyone has a great experience and leaves happy.”

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Welcome to Red Friday. The first of this year and the 25th year the Chiefs have been doing it.

The first question we’re going to get from many of you is, “Where do I get my Chiefs Kingdom flag?”

The answer: locations in Kansas City, Omaha and Wichita. You can also BUY ONLINE here.

The Kansas City Chiefs are once again giving them away at local McDonald’s for five dollars. The proceeds, according to the Chiefs, will help families stay near their children while they receive medical care with Ronald McDonald House Charities.

In the past the flags have been very popular and they go quickly.

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The Blue KC Chiefs Kingdom Champions program, powered by Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Kansas City (Blue KC), is intended to spotlight Blue KC Chiefs Kingdom Champions who make our community a better place to live, work and play. Blue KC Chiefs Kingdom Champions, selected from nominations submitted by Kansas City Chiefs fans, will be recognized during the pregame festivities at each Chiefs home game at Arrowhead Stadium. The champion will be asked to conduct the official first pass of the game to a former Chiefs player or celebrity. The champion and their guest will not only get the on-field experience but will also receive two tickets to the game to cheer on the Chiefs to victory!

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Blumapalooza is a car expo, country concert, silent auction, BBQ contest all wrapped up in one. Year 4 at Stonegate Motorplaza!!!! Come hear Sim Balkey, Travis Marvin and Noe Palma and help benefit Red, White and Bluma! Red, White and Bluma helps support Warriors Ascent, Folds of Honor, Veterans Community Project and Many other local charities. If you have been before, you know how fun it is, if you haven't been, I feel bad for you and you have a chance to come this year!!!!

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Marc Almond is an internationally acclaimed and successful artist. He has sold over 30 million records worldwide and is an icon and influence to a generation of musicians.

He was born in Southport, a seaside town in the north of England, in 1957. After an unsettled childhood of moving to Harrogate, Leeds and back to Southport, of illness and learning difficulties he finally left school at 17 with few qualifications. As a teen he worked in Southport Theatre and on Southport fairground while singing in a local band, covering hits of the day. After school he spent five years at art college including a three year Fine Art BA course at Leeds Polytechnic where he left in 1979 with a BA Honors. At art college he developed his style of mixing experimental performance and cabaret pop with music and film studies. He began visiting London and worked in Soho during college breaks, documenting his experiences in his early performances; Zazu, Twilights and Lowlifes and Glamour in Squalor. It was at Leeds Poly that he met David Ball and together they formed the internationally successful 'electro duo' Soft Cell in 1979.

Soft Cell were signed to Stevo's underground label Some Bizzare and licensed to Phonogram as part of the new electronic music phenomena. They went on to record four albums; three in New York including the iconic seminal Non Stop Erotic Cabaret, and had a number of top ten hits including the international classic Tainted Love. Tainted Love broke all records as the track that remained the longest in the US Billboard Top 100 and received a Brit award for best single of that year. Soft Cell's arrangement of the track has been covered many times by artists as diverse as Marilyn Manson and The Pussy Cat Dolls and has been sampled by a generation of dance producers for artists, notably Rihanna's SOS.

Soft Cell parted amicably in 1984 to pursue solo projects. Marc had already branched out with Marc and the Mambas, a loose collective of musicians, and recorded the innovative influential double album Torment and Toreros which Marc has called 'a nervous breakdown put to music'. Mambas shambolic and florid musical shows put Marc in a unique musical place that had one foot in mainstream and the other in the underground. Marc has always been one of very few artists able to comfortably move from one to the other. Torment and Toreros was influenced by Spanish Flamenco, Marc has always used World Music influences in his music from Turkish torch songs to Brazilian Macumba and Russian folk. The Mambas use of a full string section inspired a young Antony Hegarty later of Antony and the Johnsons. Antony has always openly cited Marc as the person that without whom it would not have been possible for him.

The Mambas started Marc on his path as a chansonierre troubadour, a singer of the songs of others that he would make his own, Jacques Brel, Scott Walker, Lou Reed, Juliette Greco, Nico, Syd Barrett - all early influences of Marc. Marc has said that his style comes from Jacques Brel and Marc Bolan glam with a bit of Aznavour and Johnny Ray thrown in, add some 60's Joe Meek and Orchestral Pop and some 60's Northern Soul, a pinch of Music Hall and you have something approaching Marc. It is this mix of styles that have made him hard to pigeonhole, but also totally unique. He has been called over the years The Judy Garland of the Garbage Heap, The Acid House Aznavour, Jim Reeves of the Bedsit Generation, Marc Bolan and Juliette Greco's love child and Britain's own Piaf.

A diverse and acclaimed successful solo career followed with over a dozen albums including Vermin in Ermine, Mother Fist and Her Five Daughters, Enchanted, Open All Night and Stranger Things, and a number of solo chart hits including Tears Run Rings, Stories of Johnny, A Lover Spurned, Adored and Explored, Jacky, The Days of Pearly Spencer and Child Star. In 1989 Marc had another number one, a duet with 60's legend the late Gene Pitney, a cover of one of Gene's hits Something's Gotten Hold of My Heart. It was number one in Britain for five weeks. The album it came from, The Stars We Are, was Marc's most successful solo album in the USA.

Marc has worked with a number of acclaimed producers including Mike Hedges, Trevor Horn and Marius DeVries as well as more experimental producers such as Iceland's Johann Johannsson. He's also had licensing deals with a number of major labels including Phonogram, EMI. Warners, Universal, Rough Trade, Echo, Tres Bis XIII, Sanctuary and Virgin.

In 1987 he recorded two sister albums, one of French Chansons Absinthe, specially translated songs made famous by Juliette Greco, Barbara, Leo Ferre, Robert Nyal and poetry of Rimbaud put to music and an album of Jacques Brel songs, many never sung in English before, called Jacques. The estate of Brel cited him as being the best living interpreter of Brel's songs.

In 2000 Marc worked briefly again with David Ball on a Soft Cell tour and an album, Cruelty Without Beauty. Critics and fans were warm and welcoming, and they even reached the top 40 with a hit, a cover of Frankie Valli's The Night a song they nearly recorded back in 1981 instead of Tainted Love.

In 2000 Marc went to live in Moscow and was invited to record a project of music that has become dear to his heart, Russian Folk and Gypsy Romance. Produced by Russian musical prodigy Andrei Samsonov, Heart On Snow features collaborations with some of Russia's biggest musical legends and stars, the icons of Russian folk Luydmila Zekina and Alla Bayanova, Boris Grebenchikov, Ilya Lagutenko as well as the Russian Naval Choir and the famous Rossiya Folk Orchestra. Although largely ignored in the West, Marc looks on this album as one of his most successful records. It was an adventurous and highly creative project never before undertaken by a Western artist, and it has taken him back to Russia many times to perform in public and in private beloved Russian songs to Russians. He has been dubbed in the Russian press, 'adopted son of Russia'.

Marc was going through a musical renaissance in 2004. He had performed a residency of shows at London's Almeida Theatre that had received unanimous, glowing praise from both critics and audiences alike, when he was seriously injured in a motorcycle accident. He was in a coma for two weeks and sustained near fatal injuries that took the next few years to recover from. Marc has overcome many obstacles and ups and downs in his life, including drug addiction, and it was one more battle, but the motorcycle crash was his hardest fight. He had to learn to sing again with the help of top vocal coach Mary Hammond, and regain his shattered confidence. After Antony Hegarty bought him back on stage as a surprise guest at his London show in 2005, he began to slowly gain vocal and physical strength and today he is performing and singing better than ever.

He returned to the studio to record Stardom Road, an album of songs that had been part of his life and, in a way, told his story. It was produced by long time friend Tris Penna and Marius de Vries and with guests Antony, Sarah Cracknell and Jools Holland. Marc, still not back to full strength at the time of recording, looks on this album as his recovery album. It was well received by critics and fans and Marc's music was re-discovered and re-appraised. Marc undertook a number of short appearances, at Patti Smiths Meltdown performing Brecht, Marc Bolan The Celebration where he performed with legendary producer Tony Visconti and made an appearance for the first and only time with original Tainted Love singer, and Marc Bolan's partner, Gloria Jones on a duet of the classic song, tribute shows to Sandy Denny the late great folk artist and one of Marc's favourite singers, and Dusty Springfield for the BBC backed by a 70 piece orchestra, and with Current 93. Marc was also a special guest singer on Jools Holland's 2006 and 2008 tours. Marc is a regular guest and collaborator with Jools and his Rhythm and Blues Orchestra. He gave a lifetime achievement award to The Doors at the 2007 Mojo Awards. He also made various DJ and PA club appearances - all to help build his stamina and confidence after his crash. 2008 saw him back performing full sell-out shows in Britain, Europe and Russia. To celebrate his full return to the stage he performed a retrospective show on his fiftieth birthday to ecstatic fans.

Marc has enjoyed many diverse collaborations during his career, Nick Cave, Siouxsie, Nico, Jools Holland, Bronski Beat, Rosenstolz, John Cale, David Johannson, Kelli Ali, Current 93, Coil, PsychicTV, Antony and the Johnsons, Baby Dee, Little Annie, Matt Johnson, Jim Thirwell, Ferry Corsten, 60's icons Gene Pitney and PJ Proby whom he produced an album for in 1998 entitled Legend. Marc has written many songs but prefers to sing songs by other writers and artists, saying it frees him from his own baggage allowing him to express the things he wants to, in sometimes a better way than he can write himself.

He still enjoys occasionally working in electro Dance music, collaborating with underground Dance producers, though his true heart lies in the marathon Chanson, folk and 'twisted pop cabaret' shows he calls the Sin Songs Torch and Romance Shows. These shows have been recorded in 2004 at London's Almeida Theatre and in 2008, the double live album/DVD, Marc Almond in Bluegate Fields Live at Wilton's Music Hall, was released showcasing Marc back at his best as a live performer and curator of song. These recordings along with 1992's Twelve Years of Tears at The Albert Hall are the best testaments to Marc in concert.

2009 saw the release of another set of Russian Gypsy Romance and Folk songs, a collaboration with Russian producer and arranger Alexei Fedorov - Orpheus In Exile, the songs of the late Russian Gypsy Romance singer, dissident and now gay icon Vadim Kozin. The album sold in excess of 45,000 copies and received rapturous reviews. Marc also collaborated with musician and arranger Michael Cashmore on a series of limited singles, decadent poems of Count Stenbock and Jean Genet amongst others, set to music. The project, Feasting With Panthers, was released on the Durtro label.

As well as a huge body of recordings, Marc has also had two best selling autobiographies, Tainted Life and In Search of The Pleasure Palace, as well as three books of verse; The Angel of Death in the Adonis Lounge, A Beautiful Twisted Night and The End of New York.

In 2010 Marc recorded a brand new mainstream album, Variete, which was released in June to much critical acclaim. Variete celebrates Marc's 30th year as a recording artist and it is his first complete album of self-written songs since Open All Night over a decade before.

2010 was a milestone celebration year for Marc, his thirty years in music as a recording artist, with his most successful tour to date, All The A's, Hits And A Sides. 2010 Also saw Marc presented with the Hero Award by Mojo Magazine. The year ended with a special one off concert at the beautiful Wilton's Music Hall.

In 2011 the album Feasting with Panthers, a collaboration with musician and arranger Michael Cashmore, was released. It featured poems of Count Eric Stenbock put to music as well as decadent and homoerotic poems by Jean Genet, Jean Cocteau, Paul Verlaine and Rimbaud. Marc took part in the unique music-theatre work Ten Plagues held at Edinburgh's Traverse Theatre from 1–28 August 2011. Ten Plagues is a one man song cycle based on Daniel Defoe's journal of the Plague Year (which dates back to 1665), with metaphors of AIDS and epidemics. It was a collaboration between Marc, theatre director and designer Stewart Laing, libretto author Mark Ravenhill and composer Conor Mitchell. The show won the Scotman's Fringe First Award.

In 2012 Marc took the role of the Greek Stoic philosopher Seneca in the Paris Théâtre du Châtelet's experimental rock adaptation of Poppea based on Monteverdi's original 17th century opera The Coronation of Poppea also starring ex-Libertines Carl Barat, Benjamin Biolay, Fredrika Stahl, Valerie Gabail and Anna Madison.

On 9 August 2012 Marc performed at Antony Hegarty's Meltdown Festival in London's Southbank. He sang the whole Marc And The Mambas Torment And Toreros album live for the first time. Some of the original musicians on the album also performed: Gini Ball, Anne Stephenson, Martin McCarrick, Jim Thirlwell and Lee Jenkinson. Hegarty sang "My Little Book Of Sorrows" with Marc. At the end of 2012 Marc took time off for an operation and subsequent recovery from spleen and gall bladder removal.

In May 2013 Marc revived the Ten Plagues play for a month at Wilton's Music Hall in London, based on Stewart Laing's original direction and the Edinburgh Traverse Theatre's production with new direction by Hester Chillingworth. The production was a success both with audiences and critics. Also in May of that year he received an Ivor Novello Inspiration Award presented by Vicki Wickham. Marc recorded tracks with legendary producer and orchestrator Tony Visconti for an EP The Dancing Marquis for later release. He also recorded vocals for a project with acclaimed composer John Harle called The Tyburn Tree for a February 2014 release. He set up a production company Lab Entertainment (The name made from the initials of people involved) for development of films, television, music and books. Lab's first project is a DVD of Ten Plagues. In October Marc was awarded an Icon Award by Attitude Magazine. He was special guest of Ian Anderson for a performance of Jethro Tull's classic record Thick As A Brick at the Albert Hall. He sang sections from both Thick As A Brick part one and part two. He performed the James Bond theme Thunderball at a tribute to lyricist Don Black at the Festival Hall.

In 2014 the record of The Tyburn Tree (Dark London) was released to good reviews and Marc and John Harle toured the piece with a large musical ensemble and a theatrical presentation in the Spring. A mini album collection called The Dancing Marquis (in dedication to the colourful and eccentric Henry Paget 5th Earl Of Anglesey) was released in July featuring tracks recorded with Tony Visconti and tracks written for him by Jarvis Cocker, Carl Barat and with Steve Nieve. He guested singing After All in a performance of David Bowie's classic album The Man Who Sold The World with a collection of musicians featuring the albums original rhythm section and producer Tony Visconti and Woody Woodmansey.

His latest, "Shadows and Reflections" will be out September 22nd!

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A sports restaurant & bar by any other name -- you can see a TV screen from nearly any seat in the place -- the spacious new Granfalloon has a delectable new menu by our Chef pared down from the former Granfalloon menu of 77 dishes to 52, keeping the popular burgers and chicken wings but adding several new entrees: Fish tacos with mango napa slaw and a lime cilantro creme fraiche; a Thai Pork Belly over Asian cabbage slaw with a sweet & spicy shitake mushroom glaze; and for pizza lovers, homemade pizza crusts made in house that includes a Chicken Parmesan pizza with roasted chicken, chopped bacon, tomato basil relish and spinach in a parmesan sauce. At night the place is busy and rambunctious, which is just what Granfalloon fans love most.

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Michael Forbes Bar & Grille

has been delighting Kansas City’s palettes for more than 30 years.

Located in the heart of Brookside, diners enjoy a cozy, family friendly atmosphere, a large menu offering homemade entrees for breakfast, lunch and dinner, as well as an extensive wine and cocktail list.

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Poco was formed in August, 1968 by guitarists Richie Furay and Jim Messina, who had just left Buffalo Springfield. The pair enlisted the help of session man Rusty Young who had played steel guitar on some tracks recorded by their former band. Young introduced them to drummer George Grantham, while bassist Randy Meisner left his former group, The Poor, to round out the quintet. Among the others that auditioned but not chosen was Gregg Allman. Calling themselves Pogo, (with a "g") the band debuted a month later at the Fillmore West, opening for The Steve Miller Band and Sly And The Family Stone. After building up an local following, they were forced to change their moniker, which they had openly pilfered from Walt Kelly's comic strip of the same name, when Kelly filed suit. They settled on Poco because it sounded like the original name that fans had come to know.

Several record companies had considered signing Poco, but Richie Furay's contract with Atlantic caused some problems. The band was eventually signed to Epic Records in 1969 after the label traded Graham Nash to Atlantic, where he would record with Crosby, Stills And Nash. The group was set to record their first album when Randy Meisner announced that he was leaving to join Rick Nelson's Stone Canyon Band. He would later become part of Linda Ronstadt's Stone Ponys and go on to help form The Eagles in 1971. Poco continued as a quartet and released their first album, "Pickin' Up the Pieces", which sold over 100,000 copies. Eventually, they hired bassist Timothy B. Schmit, who had originally auditioned for the band, but lost out to Meisner.

The five members of Poco then recorded a self titled L.P. and a live album called "Deliverin'" before Jim Messina quit, saying he was tired of the hectic touring. He would later find success when he teamed up with Kenny Loggins to form one of the most popular duos of the seventies. Messina's replacement was guitarist Paul Cotton, who stayed for three modest selling albums. Frustrated by the band's failure to find a break out hit, Richie Furay also quit after 1973's "Crazy Eyes". After a failed super-group called Souther-Hillman-Furay, he would pursue an unrewarding solo career before turning his attention to religion. Although Furay's departure was a setback, Poco's next four albums through 1977, sold better than the previous efforts. In January, 1978, drummer George Grantham also left the band.

With Rusty Young as the only original member, Poco released an album called "Legend" which climbed to the #14 spot on Billboard's Hot 200 album chart. The group now contained keyboard player Kim Bullard along with a pair of Englishmen, Steve Chapman and Charlie Harrison, who had played together for eight years with Leo Sayer and Al Stewart. This was the line-up that finally found commercial success in 1979 with "Crazy Love", which reached #17 and "Heart Of The Night", which made it to #20. Unfortunately, Poco quickly fell off the charts as fast as they had climbed it. Subsequent albums returned to the band's previous sales levels and the group began a slow decline until their break-up in 1984.

In 1989 the original line-up of Poco, Furay, Messina, Young, Grantham and Meisner, re-formed, recording a highly successful album called "Legacy" which produced two Top Forty hits, "Call It Love" (#18) and "Nothin' To Hide" (#39). The group toured throughout 1990, but old tensions flared and Furay, by now a minister in Boulder, Colorado, left again.

Fragments of Poco toured throughout the '90s with new members coming and going, but in early 2000, Paul Cotton, Rusty Young and George Grantham got back together again, along with Jack Sundrud. In the Spring of 2003, this new version of Poco released "Running Horse", their first new album in thirteen years, backed by a year's worth of tour dates. The album however failed to generate much interest and couldn't crack Billboard's Hot 200 LP chart.

In July of 2004, Grantham suffered a stroke during a live performance and was subsequently replaced by Tim Smith. It took until 2009 for Grantham to occasionally appear with the band again, but his contributions were limited to vocals only. A new album called "Bareback at Big Sky" was released in 2005 and "The Wildwood Sessions" was issued in 2006. Richie Furay and Jim Messina returned for several 2008 Poco performances as well as a tour of California in 2009, which ended at the Stagecoach Festival in Indio, California, where they were joined by Timothy B. Schmit and George Grantham. In early 2010, Cotton abruptly left Poco over a contractual dispute and Nashville session man Michael Webb took his place. In January 2011, Poco started work on a new studio album in Nashville, tentatively titled "Long in the Tooth but Short in the Hair".

In 2012, Poco still had a busy touring schedule, appearing in concerts across the United States, but at the end of 2013, a now 68-year-old Rusty Young decided to announce his retirement. Only a few shows were booked into 2014, but one of those produced a DVD documentary that captured the band's live act. Although no other tours or recording projects were planned, Rusty Young continued to make guest appearances with former members of Poco and other Country / Rock artists.

Poco was inducted into the Colorado Music Hall of Fame at the Paramount Theatre in Denver, Colorado on January 9, 2015 during a ceremony which featured a performance by band members Paul Cotton, Richie Furay, Timothy B. Schmit and Rusty Young. As of 2015, though not touring full-time, Poco continued to play isolated dates around the US.

Rusty will preform at Knuckleheads Oct 29rd!

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In 2012, I was in Mexico with my daughter and her family. It was raining, and we were all inside. The TV was on and my son-in-law and grandson were watching a King Kong movie. I instantly remembered the dream I had at five years old and relayed it to my daughter. Parts of the dream were as vivid as they were seventy-three years ago. There he was, a huge gorilla with a chair on his chest just for me. He walked on his back legs as if to say, look at us! I remember feeling that sense of pride having my own gorilla. It was wonderful to remember how special it was to me. My daughter looked me straight in the eye and said “Mom, you need to write a children’s book”.

As soon as I got home and sat in front of my computer, the words just flew out of my head, as if to say, “Where have you been”. It was a wonderful experience and I was in love with the whole process of writing a book.

I look forward to bringing more fun stories to print. The “Gorilla of My Dreams” has many more adventures to share.

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