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 Dear French Dip. I always thought you were fancy, a sandwich for a gentleman. I was delighted to see you on restaurant menus. But now, you will not even merit a second look. In…
Jailhouse groupies, save your postcards. You’re not going to be able to pen love letters to Shannon Young. The 36-year-old former Pleasant Ridge High School teacher won’t be doing jail time for sexing a 17-year-old student … and buying him a Mustang. Young received three six-month sentences for pleading guilty to three counts of unlawful voluntary sexual relations. But her…
Plus upcoming shows from Pavement, Girl Talk and Autolux. Categories: Music Tags: bill sundahl, conquerors, crossroads music festival, girl talk, indyfest, indyground crew, Pavement
Yeah, yeah, yeah…yeah, yeah, yeah — yeah. Usher is going to make love in — um, I mean play — the Sprint Center on November 27. He’s embarking on his “OMG Tour,” titled after the will.i.am-assisted single of the same name. It’s his first tour since 2004’s “Truth Tour” in support of his smash album, Confessions. Categories: Music Tags: love…
Each Thursday, your Crap Archivist brings you the finest in forgotten and bewildering crap culled from basements, thrift stores, estate sales and flea markets. I do this for one reason: Knowledge is power. Basic English Korean Conversation For Foreigners Author: None listed Date: None given Publisher: None listed Discovered at: Independence estate sale Representative Quote: “What a severe typhoon we…
Having directed the first Resident Evil and written every installment since, crap auteur Paul W.S. Anderson returns behind the camera to put series hero (now his wife) Milla Jovovich through the 3-D paces. It’s unclear why Resident Evil is the most successful video game turned film franchise, and Afterlife offers no clarity. The 3-D is what you’re paying for, and…
Halfway Home is 30 dogs over capacity, so this weekend, dogs are going for $40 to $50 instead of $100. The adoption fee includes vaccinations and spay/neuter. Fri., Sept. 10, 12-4 p.m.; Sat., Sept. 11, 12-4 p.m., 2010 Tags: Night & Day
CoCo Key is an indoor water resort where it’s always 84 degrees. Enjoy drink specials, a live DJ, thrilling waterslides, lazy river, and an indoor/outdoor whirlpool. Stay the night the evening of event for a special rate of $49. Fri., Sept. 10, 9:30 p.m.-1 a.m., 2010 Tags: 2817, Night & Day
CIUDAD JUÁREZ — Esteban was riding shotgun in his family’s rusted teal minivan when his dad, Lorenzo, suddenly stopped the car. It was odd — a vehicle facing the opposite direction blocked their way on the narrow street. They were just four blocks from home. The then-6-year-old boy with soft eyes and a freckled nose noticed the glass-strewn pavement first….
The Love List is something like Weird Science for boomers. After a single 50-year-old man makes a list of the qualities he seeks in a woman, a gypsy helps to make the dream a reality. Of course, hilarity and complications ensue. Fridays, Saturdays, 8 p.m.; Sundays, 2 p.m.; Tuesdays-Thursdays, 7:30 p.m. Starts: Sept. 10. Continues through Oct. 24, 2010 Tags:…
Featuring the beautiful big sky landscapes from area artist, Aaron Norris. His energetic reflections of nature invoke the look, the smell, the sound, and the feel of Midwestern environs on the brink of being rattled by a threatening storm in the distance. Mondays-Saturdays, 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Starts: Sept. 10. Continues through Oct. 14, 2010 Tags: Aaron Norris, Night & Day
Reading the Grain is a collection of custom, handmade furniture using solid woods with accompanying photographs of the building process and previous work by self-described “21st century traditionalist” Scott George Beattie. Fri., Sept. 10, 5-7 p.m., 2010 Tags: Night & Day, Scott George Beattie
UMKC history professor, Dr. Bill Worley, will tell the story of how trains like the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe shaped Kansas’ past and continue to have an impact on Kansas and its residents today. Tue., Sept. 14, 7 p.m., 2010 Tags: Bill Worley, Night & Day, santa fe, topeka
Whoops! What with your Labor Day-weekend pilgrimage to the Lake of the Ozarks’ Party Cove, you completely forgot about First Friday gallery openings in Kansas City. Now that your aquatic bacchanalia is over for another year, you might take the time on this Second Friday to see some local art on both sides of the state line. Honeytree Gallery (504…
Aziz Ansari is a funny little man. He’s a comedic actor of diminutive stature, so that statement is literally accurate. Apart from his numerous film and TV gigs (NBC’s Parks and Recreation or MTV’s Human Giant among them), Ansari also is a stand-up-comedy rock star. Following the success of his Intimate Moments for a Sensual Evening tour and Comedy Central…
DUTY is a two-act play dealing with the role of moral obligation to country, family and self. The play deals with the challenges and consequences of living with commitment to perceived and real duty. Thu., Sept. 2, 7:30 p.m.; Fri., Sept. 3, 7:30 p.m.; Sat., Sept. 4, 7:30 p.m.; Sun., Sept. 5, 2 p.m.; Thu., Sept. 9, 7:30 p.m.; Fri.,…
Artists, writers and assemblers of elaborate model-railroad dioramas know that the best way to kindle the fires of creative inspiration is to listen to a lecture by someone in the appropriate field and then slavishly copy that person. So the Current Perspectives lecture series at the Kansas City Art Institute offers periodic microbursts of inspiration to completely blow the house…
You endured pit stains, mosquitoes and mud while getting your fix of the Bard during Shakespeare in the Park. Now, as the summer heat finally relents, the fourth annual Shakespeare in the Parking Lot provides another opportunity to support the arts and enjoy the Elizabethan master’s epic wit in the open air — without a total onslaught of nature. Performed…
A weekend of fun activities for dogs and their people. Pet Expo with Demos, Agility, Flyball, Dog Contests, Speakers, Raffles and More. Fri., Sept. 10; Sat., Sept. 11; Sun., Sept. 12, 2010 Tags: Night & Day
Informed by his experiences teaching English in Kyoto and later traveling throughout Asia, the novels of public-relations professional and former reporter John Shors are rich in color and full of tactile detail. At the heart of his latest, The Wishing Trees: Japan’s wishing trees, onto which people tie written prayers. The book follows Ian as he traverses Asia with his…
NewEar Contemporary Ensemble wades into its 18th season with a program featuring a contest winner and a definitive classic. Peiying Yuan , the student winner of NewEar’s first composers’ competition, airs her “5 Elements.” Also on the program: works by iconoclastic Dutch composer Roderik de Man and the intriguing Americans Bonnie Miksch and Edward Jacobs. The night’s marquee performance is…
Johnson County Community College will host its third annual “Sustainability Expo and Dinner” beginning with the expo at 4 p.m. and gourmet dinner featuring locally grown food paired with Kansas wines at 6 p.m. Thu., Sept. 9, 4 p.m., 2010 Tags: Johnson County Community College, Night & Day
The recent cultural reanimation of Pride and Prejudice’s Elizabeth Bennett included zombies, aliens and a vampiric Mr. Darcy. Now it’s time to revive another classic heroine. Few are more overdue than Shakespeare’s ill-fated Juliet. Her life may have ended in Romeo and Juliet, but her story lives on in Anne Fortier’s new novel, Juliet, a historic re-imagining of the “real”…
