The New Found Glory and Senses Fail show that was November 8 at the Beaumont has been moved to The Granada, same night. Your tickets are still good. Here’s the picture the publicist, Eddie, sent with the press release, asking members of the press to guess who he is. I got nothin’. Categories: Music
Bryan Brown hasn’t forgotten about Kansas, especially the state’s jails. Brown, the former head of the Consumer Protection Division in then-Kansas Attorney General Phill Kline’s office, skipped town earlier this year after Kline lost a re-election bid to Paul Morrison. Brown reportedly left the Sunflower State to start his own law firm in Fort Wayne, Indiana. But Brown has kept…
Some say Indian “Thriller” is the essence of Halloween. For others, it’s “Halloween” by Helloween. Here’s what’s rocking our ghouls over at The Pitch on this howly day. Bauhaus – “Telegram Sam” More hand-picked Halloweeny viddies after the jump. Categories: Music Tags: YouTube
No doubt, it’s hard to be single in Kansas City. That’s evident in the fact that whenever we run a pretty woman on the cover of The Pitch, we’re sure to get e-mails from dudes with crushes. That happened back in January when we ran this story on the smokiest bars in town, and a sultry-looking girl on the cover…
Van Halen Friday, October 26 The Sprint Center Better than: Valerie Bertinelli’s weight-loss blog. A crowd roughly the size (and appearance) of Independence, Missouri, poured into the Sprint Center last Friday night to worship at the altar of once-lusty ’80s guitar rock kings Van Halen, fronted this time around by original bitch-on-the-mic David Lee Roth. Side note: I would not…
So, let’s say that it’s Halloween, you’re straight guy who’s kind of an idiot, and you need a costume – fast. In 1998, you’d bust out the horn-rims and the tooth-blackener and suck in public as Austin Powers. In old ’06, you’d smear on a ‘stache and jabber about sexy-time. So in 2007, what’s the best costume strategy for the…
BY ANDY VIHSTADT E=CD^2 The Eels are kicking off 2008 time-capsule style. Along with the Essential Eels Vol. 1 2CD/DVD greatest hits collection, the band will releasing Useless Trinkets (also 2CD/DVD), an all-inclusive anthology of B-sides and rarities that makes the cache of import singles I’ve been collecting just that — useless trinkets. Get the inside story here. Both are…
Architecture in Helsinki Thursday, 10-26-07 The Bottleneck Better than: Jet, Silverchair and Air Supply Review and Photos by Richard Gintowt The word “twee” scares the fuck out of me. Not because I’m particularly scared of cute girls or striped sweaters, but because it usually implies other things like “amateur” and “sucky.” Architecture in Helsinki has been described as “twee,” but…
Today, we here at the Plog hit a snag. For years now, we’ve been channeling Bart Simpson and prank-calling Royals owner David Glass. Usually, the phone calls go smoothly – we ask for someone with a silly name, Glass doesn’t realize he’s being pranked, then he threatens to cut our bellies open. But not today. Things changed forever today….
Is the Kansas City, Missouri, Council going to be awash in porn in a couple of weeks? At Thursday’s business session, Mayor Pro Tem Bill Skaggs asked for an internal audit that supposedly has looked into the forbidden use of City Hall computers. In requesting the audit, Skaggs mentioned a blog. The blog, Not Ready for Prime Buzz, said…
Minus the Bear Wednesday, October 24 The Granada Review & Photo by Crystal K. Wiebe Fashionably late is fine for a party. But I like to get to concerts on time — early, even. There’s an inherent thrill for me in getting to hear the opener. Who knows what new sound you might hear? But, sometimes, I admit, I…
On October 10, The Pitch requested a copy of any contracts issued or agreed to by the Jazz District Redevelopment Corporation. The JDRC responded on October 23 with a one-page letter that denied the request. The following day, we published this story, in which several sources confirmed the existence of a contract between the JDRC and the Downtown Council. Hours…
This may be old news to some, but apparently guerilla marketers for the spacey, screeching prog-emo band Coheed and Cambria scared the hell out of folks at Kansas University by painting the band’s logo — or some damn symbol — and the date 10.23.07 in various places around campus to commemorate the Tuesday release of the band’s album Long-Haired Dude…
Say the name D.B. Cooper to a midtowner and they’ll probably think of the smoky 39th Street bar near the Kansas University Medical Center that opens at 6 a.m. and hosts some wild karaoke on Wednesdays. Many of the bar’s regulars might not even know the story of the real D.B. Cooper, a daring, albeit extraordinarily polite hijacker who jumped…
With cheese-hat-wearing fans coming to Arrowhead (1 Arrowhead Drive, 816-920-9300) today for the Chiefs vs. Packers game, it’s time to show Green Bay types what tailgating is all about. So here are tips from Monte Short — aka Arrowman, the season-ticket holder who wears opposing team jerseys with a crapload of Chiefs arrows sticking out of him. First, start preparing…
In its 50th year of mounting operas in KC, the Lyric Opera brings a true classic, Georges Bizet’s Les pecheurs de perles, or The Pearl Fishers, to the Lyric Theater (1029 Central). In a run that begins tonight, the three-act production is performed in French with English subtitles projected above the stage. That might help you figure out what…
Earlier this year, glammed-up art-rocker Mercury Mad started hosting superhot weekly club-kid theme nights at Korruption (1717 West Ninth Street). Now, Merc brings more daring entertainment to the venue with Film Korrupt, a series of Monday night screenings of indie, avant-garde, experimental and local films as well as occasional original theatrical productions. Nothing is taboo here, boasts the event’s MySpace…
Sure, the puppet cast of the Broadway musical Avenue Q resembles Muppet cousins. But the fuzzy-faced characters do things that naïve little Kermit the Frog wouldn’t dream of — such as getting drunk and looking at Internet porn. Which is why you should wait for Sesame Street Live if you want a puppet show to endure with the kiddies. But…
Sure, it’s getting close to hibernation time, but the Kansas City Zoo (6800 Zoo Drive in Swope Park) holds about 900 animals. Some of them are bound to be frolicking, even on cold November days. But even if they’re not, you won’t lose the usual price of admission, as long as you live in Kansas City, Missouri. Through November,…
Filmmaker Tod Browning was a Ringling Brothers clown and vaudevillian comedian until 1915, when he crashed his car into a train, killing one of his passengers. “His attention turned to demons — real and imagined, solid and liquid,” says Jason Vivone, director of the darkly surreal production Tod Browning. “His films are peopled with the grotesque and the angry, like…
Just yesterday, neighborhoods crawled with little candy-hungry mummies, princesses and Optimus Primes. Adults feted, too. At costume parties, dudes in clever numbers such as a “one-night stand” (get it?) tried to impress chicks slutted up in the ever-popular “sexy cat,” “sexy nurse” or “sexy shark-attack victim.” Well, maybe not the last one.Although Halloween has come and gone, those of…
Activist Richard Mabion is working toward a “great turning,” and his template for economic and social revival is the neglected Quindaro corridor in Kansas City, Kansas. The Great Turning is the title of author David Korten’s 2006 book, which argues that corporations have created a modern empire in which citizens must reorganize before an impending eco-meltdown.Earlier this year, Mabion went…
One more sign of the continuing growth of the arts community in Kansas City is the inauguration of yet another new gallery. Hyde Park Gallery (3257 Gillham Plaza) opened its doors last May under the leadership of director Fumio Sawa and business manager Walt Boulden. So far, the gallery has provided support for seven artists, with Sawa, a notable abstract…
That new Charles M. Schulz biography lets us know, at long last, how Charlie Brown would fare in the adult world. He’d be a wistful, depressive, billionaire genius, an artist adept at alchemizing personal neuroses into universal jokes. But how would he handle the 21st century? And puberty? Answers (sort of) lie in Dog Sees God, Bert V. Royal’s…
