Playing about in the neighborhood

We live outside Kansas City, it makes it very convenient to bomb over there for cool concerts, shows and other events.

Kansas City has also done a SUPERB job with re-gentrifying their downtown area, I remember when I first moved here, think, OMG, this ain't good.

But, since then, the Sprint Center and accompanying Power & Light District has gone in.  The mainstays such as Country Club Plaza have stayed strong, they just completed the beautiful Kaufmann Center for the Performing Arts, Union Station has great revolving exhibits and there are more fantastic restaurants than you can shake a stick at.

And no, folks, KC is not known only for its barbecue.

One of the areas, that is slowly gaining steam and getting better and better is the Crossroads Art District just south of the downtown area. You can actually walk downtown to Crossroads nowadays without feeling you are going to be mugged every two steps. BIG improvement.

Besides some fabo restaurants coming into the area, they've had a great live music venue for some time now.  Great local and national acts.

What's better, they even do FREE shows once in a while. So, in a last minute decision we run over to see The Rainmakers and The Nace Brothers.  Great show, starting to feel a bit old tho'!

Before hand we walked around found some interesting artwork and a nice little joint called 'The Brick', funky little place that was evidently featured on Guy Fieri's Diners, Dives and Drive-Thrus.

Meet my little robot friend.

Warning: Total Geek Alert.
Inside The Brick, MST3K artwork.
Seriously, HOW COOL IS THAT.

Our yummies for the evening. Tim had the house specialty wings.
I had a ham and cheese on rye that was really, really good.
And you can get veggies and hummus as a side. BONUS!