Break out the cubes of cheese and dodge the Naomi Campbell-propelled cell phones: It’s New York Fashion Week, Kansas City! It’s high holiday for those of us who care way more about hemlines than linemen. Despite all the preening and superficiality associated with fashion, the industry is candidly grappling with issues of race and racism. It seemed that with all…
The Smokestack Series from Boulevard Brewery has always seemed to require a bit of planning — you need a friend to split the 750 ml bottle, whether you want to share or not. Well, curmudgeons and those of us who enjoy a beer after work during the week can be a bit more casual in our enjoyment of Boulevard’s seasonal…
%{}% Nothing beats watching a bunch of lawyers demonstrate the dismissive gesture of “air-wanking.” It happened several times during yesterday’s hearing in front of the panel of three lawyers from the Kansas Board for Discipline of Attorneys, whose job it is to recommend appropriate discipline for Kimberly Ireland. Ireland is the attorney who accused Johnson County District Court Judge Kevin…
The most powerful restaurant critic in any town, as we’ve noted before on Fat City, isn’t a writer for a print publication or even a blogger, It’s you — the person who pays the check at any local restaurant. The old restaurant industry mantra is that a happy customer tells five people about a positive restaurant experience, and an unhappy…
Next week kicks off with a historic night for Kansas City football: the New Arrowhead will host the first Monday night football game next week. Looks like the Chiefs have added Billy Ray Cyrus and Train to the festivities. (No Miley? Boo.) Billy Ray Cyrus will perform the national anthem, and Train will perform the ever-infectious “Soul Sister” — and a…
The Hereford House has one great chicken dish — this is it. To whet your appetite for The Pitch’s annual Best of Kansas City issue, we’re counting down our favorite Top 50 dishes each weekday until October 7. When you think of restaurateur Rod Anderson’s Hereford House restaurants — best-known for juicy grilled steaks — chicken isn’t a dish that immediately comes…
Kansas City’s fountains are flowing with the blood of San Diego Chargers fans (instead of the usual tears of Chiefs fans). OK, so maybe it’s just colored water, but it’s still kind of cool on this Kansas City holiday known as “Red Friday.” All of those people wearing red around town, they’re not (all) Bloods. It’s part of the tradition….
%{}% Fall is a perfect time to celebrate beer. That’s why the Flying Saucer is hosting its Fall Beer Festival from noon to 10 p.m. Saturday in the parking lot at 101 East 13th Street. The lineup of brews (24 in all, spread out over six tents) includes Tallgrass Kold, Freestate Ad Astra, Founder’s Red Rye, Lagunitas A Little Sumpin’…
1. Make someone cry — if you can score one of the few spots available to interview a family member on the StoryCorps bus while it’s in Brookside and the recording gets played on NPR someday. 2. Run for a good cause. The first Hopkins, Skip and Run Memorial 5k is set for Saturday morning at Rockhurst University. Registration money…
Yes, what you heard about Weezer naming its album Hurley after the clothing company Hurley as part of some bizarre cross-promotional merch deal is true. (Of course it’s true.) That makes the fact that Weezer put the guy from Lost on the cover not just lame, but cowardly. It’s a sad attempt at novelty meant to distract us from their gross business deal….
I’m worried that the term “barbecue” is being applied too loosely. That the word is being cheapened in some way. And since this city can’t trademark the word barbecue, I think we have to go in an even more powerful direction — reality television. Barbecue Intervention would be a weekly hour-long program in which we send a local pitmaster to…
Looks like Vi Tran should be commanding a little more R-E-S-P-E-C-T these days. (Har, har.) The local singer and songwriter has wrangled a band together, and they’re opening for Aretha Franklin for the 1YEAR2GO countdown celebration for the opening of the Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts. The performance is on Sunday, September 26, at the good ole P&L on the…
This is the Chinese symbol for “slave.” A young woman with mental illness was sexually abused, tortured, branded and forced to work as a stripper during a five-year commercial sex trafficking conspiracy that started in a Lebanon, Missouri, home, according to an 11-count federal grand jury indictment. The ring was discovered after the victim, referred to as FV, went…
Good things happen when you have food trucks in your town. Case in point, the above advertisement from Lake Street Creamery, a “mobile ice cream parlour” in Los Angeles, California. Although Kansas City isn’t on their route, you can still enjoy what happens when a kitten in a top hat is presented with a tiny ice cream cone. Just a…
Just a few weeks after a judge in Poplar Bluff made the strange ruling that state laws banning the use of dogs and vehicles while deer hunting were too vague to enforce, seven southeastern Missouri hunters have pleaded guilty to awfully similar federal charges of conspiracy to hunt with dogs. The lazy man’s hunting tactic has been outlawed in Missouri…
Cats. Lots of cats. If you don’t already know who Girltalk is — also known as song-snatching DJ Greg Gillis — chances are that you haven’t gotten a ticket to see him rock his laptop tonight at Crossroads KC at Grinders. Well, if you want a preview, here’s an eerily apt one. Evan Roth, an artist with a tad too…
Mario Candedo knows where the gay Latino party is. Yeah, we already had a gay pride day this summer. But what if you’re Latino and gay? Hombre, get on the rooftop and shout it loud and shout it proud. This Saturday, radio personality Mario Canedo will host the 2010 Latino Gay Pride Day from 2 to 8 p.m. in…
The fest celebrates both music and urban art, and to prime you for that, we present you with Steddy P and DJ Mahf’s video for “Building Steam with a Grain of Banksy,” which features visual art from Magic 8 and samples DJ Shadow’s “Building Steam with a Grain of Salt.” Synergy. Categories: Music Tags: DJ Mahf, indyfest, indyground crew,…
Kid Congo Powers has an impressive history in notoriously weird bands: the Gun Club, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, and the Cramps. It follows that his new group, Kid Congo Powers & the Pink Monkey Birds, follows in the great bizarre ones’ footsteps. Catch Kid Congo and his new getup in Lawrence on Sunday at the Jackpot. Spook Lights open….
More than two million people have watched the trailer for Ray Griggs’ documentary, I Want Your Money. It’s an impressive number — one that caught the attention of The New York Times (the Times profiling a conservative filmmaker? Someone’s going to lose its liberal media cred). Griggs has Missouri ties; he’s a former staffer for ex-state Rep. Rob Schaaf, who…
