It’s all about the solo project next Saturday at Crosstown Station, when Mat Shoare of Everyday/Everynight and Andrew Ashby of the Caves perform without their bands. They’ll be joined by singer-songwriter Jenny Carr and local indie starlet Margo May, who is celebrating her homecoming after a stint in Portland, Oregon, recording her new album, space/face. Categories: Music Tags: Andrew Ashby,…
Hazy-edged instrumental rock master Explosions in the Sky is set to soar into Kansas City on October 12 for a show at the Uptown Theater on October 12. Wye Oak will support. Have a listen to the band’s romping, adrenaline-fueled track “Trembling Hands” over at Pitchfork. Categories: Music Tags: Explosions in the Sky, Wye Oak
Yesterday, we told you how Kansas state Rep. Pete DeGraaf compared planning for the possibility of a rape pregnancy with special “abortion only” health insurance to keeping a spare tire in your trunk in case of a flat. Because let’s face it, ladies, it’s going to happen. Yet many of you thought this analogy was insensitive, stupid and demeaning to…
The Pitch’s Charles Ferruzza found that Drunken Fish was a bit too clever, but there was a lot to like about the stylish menu and restaurant. Click on the photo above for a slideshow of the wild colors featured in the decor and food. Photos by Forester Michael. Categories: Dining, Food & Drink Tags: drunken fish
%{}% Bishop Robert W. Finn went to St. Patrick’s parish on Friday, a day after a priest who served there was arrested and charged with three counts of possessing child pornography. Finn admitted that the Catholic Diocese of Kansas City-St. Joseph mishandled information that a priest, Shawn Ratigan, 45, possessed images of children, including at least one of a nude…
Congrats to Scott Bakal, whose illustration for last week’s Pitch feature story, “The Believer,” was just named “Cover of the Day” by New York media-design consultant Robert Newman on his Newmanology Twitter stream. Newman wrote: “Great altweekly illustration by Scott Bakal.” Agreed. Categories: News Tags: Newmanology, Robert Newman, Scott Bakal, Westboro Baptist Church
. . . you can find him at Crosstown Station this Thursday. Miles Davis — also referred to by those in the jazz know as the “Prince of Darkness” — would have turned 85 years old this Thursday. But Kansas City jazz musicians will be keeping him and his legendary music alive and well at Crosstown Station with a tribute…
Kanrocksas, the somewhat intriguing music festival that will be held August 5-6 out at the Kansas Speedway, and headlined by Muse and Eminem, has announced its full lineup. Some good stuff! Categories: Music Tags: kanrocksas
The doors to Story Restaurant (3931 West 69th Terrace) will officially open in 30 minutes. The new restaurant from chef Carl Thorne-Thomsen (featured earlier this month in Fat City’s three-part chef-interview series) and his wife, Susan, is located in the Village Shops. The pair are hoping to create a neighborhood spot, wherein folks can stop by for a few small…
There have been plenty of bad things to say about Sprint over the years, but the phone company put together a pretty sweet commercial celebrating the 100th birthday of Veatrice Henson of Grain Valley, Missouri. Sprint wanted people to wish Henson a “happy birthday” by calling, texting or e-mailing her. More than 300,000 did so. As Veatrice says, “Awesome.” H/T:…
The Judgment Day billboard at Charlotte and Truman is gone, replaced with a Safe Auto ad. Unless we all got left behind, doomsday predictor Harold Camping was wrong. Again (he’d previously predicted the end of the world would be 1994). Camping, an 89-year-old evangelical preacher, told his followers that the world would end at 6 p.m. May 21. Camping is…
If you’ve ever looked over at a tailgate spread and wished that it were your own, you probably were seeing the handiwork of Brian Aaron. The chef at Tannin Wine Bar and Kitchen has been a mainstay at Chiefs and Royals games since he got back to Kansas City in 2009. And when he gets behind a grill in the…
Spin Neopolitan Pizza is coming to Lenexa. The Kansas City Star’s Joyce Smith reports that Spin will open its fifth location next January in the Patio 95 Shops (formerly named the Prairie Creek Shops) at 95th Street and Renner Road. According to the article, the new 3,500 square foot restaurant will seat 100 people in doors with seating for an…
President Obama will visit tornado-ravaged Joplin on Sunday, a week after a tornado ripped the southwestern Missouri city in half. The death toll from the twister is now at 120 — it’s the second deadliest to ever hit America since the National Weather Service started keeping track 61 years ago. Categories: News Tags: barack obama, Joplin tornado
Get Motivated, the business seminar that takes over the Sprint Center next week, is not being advertised on every billboard in the city — it only seems that way. The daylong event doesn’t lack star power. Among its dozen-plus speakers are two men who have run for the country’s highest office (Rudy Giuliani, Steve Forbes) and a woman who is…
Fifteen years ago, a group of celebrity speakers spent a day in Kansas City, sharing their secrets to success and happiness. The lineup included Joe Montana, Christopher Reeve, Margaret Thatcher and the televangelist Robert Schuller. The cheapest seats at Kemper Arena went for $49 apiece, a price that seemed like a steal for a 10-star lineup that also included Larry…
John Michael Oyer just wants his chimp back. He says he raised Suco, a 22-year-old chimpanzee, since she was a baby. She’s now at the Kansas City Zoo. And if Kansas City gets its way, she’ll stay there for the rest of her life. The scene that put Suco in the zoo has been splashed across YouTube and a TV…
Pete Townshend turned 66 years old last week, coinciding with the Metropolitan Ensemble Theatre’s spring musical: The Who’s Tommy. The production has its issues — imagine an entire Broadway musical squeezed into a New York studio apartment and you have a good idea of what the show feels like. But the MET proves that Tommy still has it. Tommy began…
For a fleeting moment, Janelle Monae is flustered. The naturally cool and composed 24-year-old Grammy nominee doesn’t understand why some perceive her conceptually driven, restlessly ambitious music as strange or inaccessible. “What’s complicated about it?” she asks. For starters, her debut album, The ArchAndroid (Suites II and III), grapples with themes of morality, social maladjustment, insecurity, and technological evolution, taking…
It’s not often that a computer-animated feature aimed at kids reminds you that maybe it’s time to stop holding on to past baggage and get your damn act together. But what’s most surprising is that the computer-animated feature in question is not a Disney/Pixar flick. With the release of Kung Fu Panda 2, DreamWorks Animation’s panda-powered martial-arts tentpole proves to…
