Locavores and local lovers, take heed: There’s a new event that’s catering to Kansas City talent. It’s called Maker Faire: Kansas City, and here’s the description of the event from its website: Maker Faire: Kansas City celebrates things people create themselves — from new technology and electronic gizmos to urban farming and “slow-made” foods to homemade clothes, quilts and sculptures….
ThePhantom* (Kemet Coleman), local rapper, producer and Kansas City advocate, recently announced that his new album, The Fountain of Youth, will be released on July 12. The album will feature Dutch Newman, Ces Cru, Atilla, Headfella, Approach, and more. The album’s art was designed by Daniel “Lucid” Bartle, Kansas City muralist and artist. ThePhantom*’s press release stated that the album…
Icing on the Cake, a fundraiser for Newhouse, organized by local cake artist Mike Elder was this Sunday, April 17. Among the guest judges was The Pitch’s Charles Ferruzza. Photos by Brooke Vandever.
In this week’s Pitch, Charles Ferruzza falls in sweet, sweet love with the desserts at Tavern in the Village and wishes his neighborhood pool was filled with the restaurant’s potato soup. Dive into Charles’ review and delicious photos by Chris Mullins. Categories: Dining, Food & Drink
One of these things is not like the others. … This random photo is from blogger Sara with Camera. She had a run-in with Verizon’s customer service. A bad one. So bad that she needed some catharsis. So she made a “God hates Verizon” sign and decided to picket at 17th and Gage in Topeka — the same spot the…
Yesterday, Westin Crown Center’s Executive Chef Martin Heuser shared his love of hunting and his experiences growing up in the kitchen of his family’s restaurant in Bonn, Germany. Tomorrow, he’ll talk about the joys of ordering room service. Today, he dives into the ingredients and restaurants he loves around Kansas City. What are your culinary inspirations? A lot of it…
Wesley Watson’s days of freedom are over. The 55-year-old rapist was declared an aggravated habitual sexual offender on Wednesday and sentenced to life in prison with zero chance of parole. Watson is a particularly despicable waste of flesh. Last December, he posed as a cop, accused a woman of shoplifting, kidnapped her and attempted to rape her in the parking…
UPDATE: Wow. A $7,500 reward is being offered to find whoever killed a couple of pit bulls and dumped their carcasses in a Dumpster at 31st and Campbell. Also, a moment of silence is being held at 6 p.m. Thursday (April 21) at the southeast corner of 31st and Campbell (it’s being put on by Spay & Neuter Kansas City,…
Who out there was fan of The L Word? (Don’t look so guilty. Raise your hand.) Well, last night, the chick you’ll recognize as Alice — left, above — came to KC’s Conspiracy Room with her electro-pop band, Uh Huh Her. Here’s a quick shot that we got of two of the women of the band, Camila Grey — a…
%{}% The fellas behind the Riot Room have taken the helm of Czar (they’ve dropped the bar) and are making some changes that should improve the joint. Over on Wayward, Abbie Stutzer has a Q&A with Adam Compo — the Creative Director at Electric City — about the new look and menu at Czar. Categories: Dining, Food & Drink Tags:…
Arcade Fire played with The National at Starlight Theatre on Wednesday, April 20. Photos by Scott Spychalski.
Kinky Friedman, Texas singer, author and political provocateur, is possibly better known for his 2004 campaign for Texas governor than his music and writing. However, songs such as “They Ain’t Makin’ Jews Like Jesus Anymore” have managed to find their way into the public consciousness, due to Friedman’s unwillingness to abide hypocrisy and doublespeak. However, his umbrage manages to be…
UPDATE: A federal judge refused to grant a preliminary injunction yesterday that would have banned anti-abortion activist Angel Dillard from coming near a doctor training to perform abortions in Wichita, the Associated Press reported. Dillard is accused of sending a threatening letter to Dr. Mila Means that referred to explosives being placed under Means’ car and that talked about anti-abortion…
On the right is a tomato. It will not get you high. Independence police know this, but they still knocked on a man’s door on 4/20 looking for a marijuana-growing operation and found tomato plants, KMBC Channel 9 reported. Understandably, the tomato grower isn’t happy and believes that he was profiled for buying hydroponic equipment. “What I saw today was…
The former Blue Moose Mountain Grill space at 5317 W. 151st St. won’t stay empty for long. Paddy O’Quigley’s Bar & Grille is busy renovating the dining room and plans to open in May, only a month after local restaurant group KC Hopps shuttered its location in Leawood. The “Irish Sports Zone” serves pub fare such as burgers, wings and…
I feel for you, hipsters. I really do. What a conundrum Wednesday night’s Arcade Fire show at Starlight Theatre must’ve been for you. Here’s a band that you’ve watched grow from an indie sapling into a Grammy-winning, SNL-performing super group, right before your thick-framed eyes. But now that everyone else knows about them, is it no longer cool to keep…
You know the worry you feel after you discover your favorite bar has changed management? You try and convince yourself that there’s no way the new bar manager could muss the sanctity of “your bar,” but you know very well that there are many ways things can go topsy-turvy. Well, Czar Bar lovers: Don’t fret about the bar’s new management….
The idea that celebrity chef Aaron Sanchez might be opening a restaurant in Kansas City created quite a bit of buzz back in February. The main question, at that time, was where exactly he might locate it. The answer appears to be not in Kansas City, at all. The Kansas City Business Journal reports that Sanchez is in lease negotiations…
Kansas state Rep. Greg Smith thinks schoolteachers should accept pay cuts to “help the students,” as he put it in a recent e-mail. Smith was responding to an e-mail from a teacher and coach at Shawnee Mission East High School, who complained about state budget cuts. Smith, who also teaches in the Shawnee Mission School District, is knowledgeable about public…
The Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts, Kansas City’s newest and most-anticipated live-music venue and skyline addition, still has several months to go before the two-day grand opening on September 16 and 17. But the Kauffman Center Encore group isn’t letting that stop the new center from getting in on some summertime celebrations, and thus is kicking off a grand-opening…
The craze of marathon dance competitions sweeps through 1930s Los Angeles, where the unemployed and desperate dance for weeks, and sometimes until death to win money and fame. Adapted by Ron Hutchinson, this production is directed by Barry Kyle. For tickets, call the Central Box Office at 816-235-6222. Sat., April 23, 7:30 p.m.; Mon., April 25, 7:30 p.m.; Tue., April…
Kansas City Kansas Community College will be the centerpiece of jazz in KC this spring when it hosts the first Kansas City Jazz Summit. This opening night, featuring the Kicks and the New Vintage Big Band directed by Jack Taylor, will kick off the music event aimed at middle school, high school and college age students. For six days –…
The Confucius Institute of the University of Kansas and the KC Chinese American Association screens Stephen Chow’s CJ7 at 10 a.m. at the Glenwood Arts (9575 Metcalf, Overland Park, 913-642-4404) as part of their 2011 Kansas City Chinese Film Festival. Director Chow is best known to U.S. audiences for 2004’s Kung Fu Hustle, but this 2008 family movie is miles…
Shaun Broyls’ debut book, Just Give Up: Why Nothing in Life is Worth Trying At All…EVER, a satire based on his life of why nothing is worth doing and succeeding is overrated. Comedian Austin Wright opens up. Thu., April 21, 7 p.m., 2011 Tags: Night & Day, Shaun Broyls
