Jessica Marshall Last week, Jessica Marshall was named the editor of The Pitch’s sister publication, Her Kansas City. We asked Marshall to fill out The Pitch Questionnaire so you could get to know her a little better before the next issue hits newsstands in early November. Hometown: Wichita, Kansas. Current neighborhood: Overland Park Who or what is your sidekick? A…
115 W. 18th St. — formerly known as the Arts Incubator, and originally known as the Bauer — is opening new galleries, offices, retail spaces, studios and a woodshop. It’s been a void on 18th Street since the Arts Incubator closed in July, after a sudden storm of difficulties caused the board to disband. The Bauer has a simpler business…
Facebook: Gusto Lounge Get our your party hats. Over on our sister blog, Wayward, David Hudnall broke the news that the Gusto Lounge is reopening this weekend. This Thursday is the “soft” opening of the new Gusto Lounge, which is relocating from its nasty digs on Broadway to 504 Westport Road., writes Hudnall. Click here to go to the post….
Tampa Bay Sports Central This is so absolutely mind-blowingly wrong that there’s nothing really to say other than former Kansas Jayhawk Aqib Talib is an even bigger idiot than we thought if he’s going to take part in “Da First Eva Coon-o-Ween.” Talib, a member of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, has a history of making really bad choices. Attending this…
Maybee competes in the Angostura challenge. At some point they’re going to need a bigger trophy case at Manifesto. Owner and bartender Ryan Maybee was one of three winners at the Angostura bitters North American Cocktail Challenge, held on Tuesday, October 11, in Chicago (see video of the competition here). The prize is an all expenses paid trip to Trinidad…
The undefeated, eighth-ranked Kansas State Wildcats are on a collision course with a wounded Oklahoma Sooners’ team. Will the Sooners rebound after a loss at home to Texas Tech last week? Do the Wildcats bury ’em even further? ESPN’s Kirk Herbstreit previewed the game and says it’s a huge one for the ‘Cats. Categories: News Tags: espn, kansas state wildcats,…
This Thursday is the “soft” opening of the new Gusto Lounge, which is relocating from its nasty digs on Broadway to 504 Westport Road. The new space was most recently the home of Hell Bar, which lasted about five months. Before that, it was Karma for a couple of years. Prior to that, it was Johnny Dare’s bar. Not a…
AM New York Does this idea get an ‘A’ or an ‘F’? If the good folks of Zagat are right, Kansas City is ready for a letter-grade health inspection system to tell you exactly how clean a restaurant was during the last visit from the Health Department. In Zagat’s 2012 Top Restaurants Survey (Justus Drugstore was one of the 1,578…
Massively sweet shout-out from NPR for Kansas City hardcore act Coalesce. NPR’s Lars Gotrich interviewed Sean Ingram (vocals) and asked him about both versions of Coalesce’s 1997/2004 album, Give Them Rope, and the current status of the band. Read the full interview here. Congrats, fellas. Categories: Music Tags: Coalesce
The shames in Love Crime are more specific and far more intentional, but the French movie’s corporate world is as generic as the offices it depicts. Here, business gets done, but no work. No paper ever slips askew, and no surface suffers under the weight of unattractive clutter. The same can be said about the homes of its antagonists, Isabelle…
What is Dan Humphrey doing in Margin Call? Gossip Girl followers who notice actor Penn Badgley’s name in the credits of this twitchy nocturne might ask that very question. The short answer: Being a dick, getting fired and crying, mostly. It’s a canny bit of small-role casting in a movie dominated by actors born to play bad bosses. Badgley is…
You’ve got to climb Mount Everest to reach the Valley of the Dolls. The route to Mazatlan — the Northland restaurant, not the Mexican city of the same name — is a climb, too. The restaurant is on top of a bluff overlooking Interstate 29. Just remember to turn left at the McDonald’s and keep moving. You won’t be able…
Web hype moves at light speed these days, but Unknown Mortal Orchestra might be the only band on the planet that has experienced literal overnight success. Last year, Ruban Nielson, a founding member of noisy New Zealand pop provocateurs the Mint Chicks, quit that band and settled in a yurt in Portland, Oregon. One night, he recorded a psych-pop song,…
Thousands of talented rock bands in this country aren’t getting their proper due. But it seemed almost bizarre how under-recognized the War on Drugs was until this year. The Philadelphia group’s 2008 Secretly Canadian debut, Wagonwheel Blues, was a high-flying road trip through American heartland rock. On the follow-up, 2010’s Future Weather EP, the band adorned its Dylan-Springsteen-Petty-inflected jams with…
What constitutes a mixtape in 2011? Good question. Usually, it’s a collection of MP3s bundled together and given away as a free download by rappers on the Web. But occasionally it’s a burned CD that some guy outside the Bulldog is trying to peddle for $5. Sometimes a mixtape features original music by the artist, similar in nature to a…
This one time, he made me a cup of coffee, and I didn’t even need cream and sugar. It was that sweet. It’s the most torturous coffee known to man. It takes five minutes to make, and it’s too good. This is the legend of nano-coffee-roaster Oddly Correct and its owner, Gregory Kolsto, and these are the tales told every…
The Hold Steady, with Social Distortion, Viva Brother and the Architects The past few years have proved to be a test of faith for Hold Steady devotees. Mustachioed keyboardist Franz Nicolay peaced out in less than amicable fashion. Frontman Craig Finn announced a solo album. Guitarist Tad Kubler appeared in the latest round of press photos, minus about 75 pounds….
Kemper is going down. Get your Flipcams ready. Kemper Arena is going to meet the wrecking ball. The Kansas City Business Journal reported that Kemper has a date with destruction, and it’ll be replaced by a 5,000-seat Agricultural Events Center. In September 2010, The Pitch reported that the city still owes $11.9 million on the seldom-used arena. Not sure what…
The University of Missouri’s move to the SEC appears almost inevitable. We all know that if Mizzou bolts, there will be consequences for Kansas City. But we may not see them until after 2014. Speculation that the Big 12 could pull the conference’s basketball tournaments from Kansas City if Mizzou jumps may be overblown. The Big 12 awarded its basketball…
Feedback fury fronts tonight’s Best Bets. Tonight: Helmet/ Season To Risk/ Waiting For Signal at the Riot RoomRock Paper Scissors at the Record BarCustomer Appreciation/ Bingo and Blvd at the BrickAIDS WOLF/ Hazel and Henri Slaughter/ Folkicide at Replay LoungeThe Mile High Club/ The Uncouth at Davey’s UptownFunkazon River/ Yam Band/ Janet The Planet/ Antumbra at Czar Bar Categories: Music
Sabrina Staires Bo Fishback has reasons to smile. When The Pitch wrote about locally founded e-commerce startup Zaarly in September, the Kansas City office was positively buzzing with good vibes and excitement. The peppy, relentlessly optimistic staff told us that Zaarly, which allows users to post requests for anything (a sandwich delivered, somebody to mow a law, etc.) to a…
Cults usually form around bands. Human+Plus is a band that’s formed around a cult. That cult would be the Monroe Institute and its highly propagated and meaningless infomercial meditation series, Human Plus — a 48-part hemi-sync CD set that promises self-evolution after 48 small payments of $19.99. Also available on cassette tape. A probable derivative is Lawrence’s Human+Plus, formed by…
