For those unable to make Saturday’s Lied Center performance from Mongolian ensemble AnDa Union, there’s a free screening of the documentary about the band, AnDa Union, From the Steppes to the City, tonight at the Kansas City Public Library’s Plaza Branch, at 6 p.m. The documentary features live performances and traces the band as it travels through Mongolia making music….
The days of KCTV Channel 5 busting dudes who have set out to bang underage kids? They’re likely over. We have yet to hear any creepy voice-overs teasing anything so skeezy for this year’s November sweeps. That doesn’t mean local stations are going to let their fall-ratings grab go by without sex, sickness and death. So while we anticipate a…
Nowadays, the Outhouse is a BYOB strip club in the middle of a cornfield east of Lawrence. But every hardcore Midwest punk worth his weight in Doc Martens knows the joint’s true identity: a legendary music venue where underground ’80s acts like Sonic Youth, Bad Brains, Fugazi and the Descendents all played. Brad Norman, a film student and former bassist…
The smell of the Occupy Kansas City encampment is the concentrated odor of civilization. The air on the small, oddly shaped shard of land on Wyandotte Street and Kessler Road, across the street from the Federal Reserve, smells of burned wood, cooked food, rain-dampened bedding, and extinguished cigarettes. Following the lead of the Occupy Wall Street movement in New York’s…
Hoping to evade the ruinous demands of heredity, a hardworking father alienates his family while trying to protect them from dangers they can’t understand. Jessica Chastain stars as the man’s supportive, haunted wife. Quick: Does that TV Guide-ready thumbnail describe The Tree of Life or Take Shelter? Chastain, of course, is in both (just two of the hundred or so…
In the era of the ’90s reunion tour, it is often hard not to wonder: Are these bands reuniting due to reasons artistic or financial? Hum, the Champaign, Illinois, indie quartet whose fame peaked in 1996 with the radio hit “Stars,” doesn’t have to answer that question. The band hasn’t released an album since 1998 and hasn’t toured since 2000….
Could Gusto Lounge have reopened at a more appropriate time than Halloween weekend? The answer is no. Halloween is about transformation, identity crises, darkness, sleazy celebration. Gusto has these markets cornered. Or it did, at least, in its former space at 3810 Broadway. Until early September, when Gusto rather abruptly shuttered, the bar struggled for two years to define itself….
Neil Hamburger Sitting through a set by “America’s Funnyman,” as Neil Hamburger hilariously refers to himself, requires Olympian levels of good faith and stamina. Hamburger is a sort of anti-comedian, and the concept of his act is that he’s a washed-up hack, bitter at the showbiz establishment. His show is one giant nose dive. His appearance is especially grotesque: He…
A person’s life can be measured in restaurant choices. You start merrily at Chuck E. Cheese, progress to the hipster joint du jour (why, hello there, Extra Virgin), settle into a middle age of comfort food, and wind up on a fixed income with the early bird special at Waid’s. That’s an unrelentingly grim future, so I’m going to enjoy…
The Pitch spent a day with the Occupy Kansas City protesters for this week’s feature. Photographer Sabrina Staires captured life at the group’s month-old Penn Valley Park encampment and at a rally and march that the activists held October 30.
The War on Drugs on jokes in a bar. Forget that post-Halloween walk of shame with tonight’s Best Bets. Tuesday, November 1 The Toasters, Six Percent, The New Riddim, Two Stories at the Riot RoomRex Hobart and Friends (early show), Rich & Uncle Penny Bags, Cantalouper, Man Bear at RecordBarThe War On Drugs, Purling Hiss, Cartern Tanton at Jackpot Music…
Josh Eans is now at The American. There’s a new face in the kitchen at the American. Josh Eans began working at the Crown Center restaurant last Thursday. “I took a position as a sous chef with Debbie . My roots are in fine dining, and I’m excited to get back to that,” Eans says. Categories: Dining, Food & Drink
This statue isn’t going anywhere. In a scene straight out of The Terminator, Hamburger Mary’s general manager Jeff Edmondson apparently ran a pickup truck down on foot in order to break up an alleged mascot robbery attempt on Sunday night. KSHB Channel 41 has the story of his heroics. Categories: Dining, Food & Drink
Andy Studebaker picked the right time to record his first fumble recovery of the year. We live in a world of predictions and spoilers, where it’s hard to find an unforeseen outcome. But the play that changed the contest between the Kansas City Chiefs and San Diego Chargers? Yeah, I bet you didn’t see that coming. With a chance to…
TBL Photography Are you ready to belly up to the bar? A proper beer pairing used to mean that you had enough ice in the cooler, but local restaurants and brewpubs have started over the past two years to take the art of partnering beer with food more seriously. You’ve got three local brewpubs cranking out their own beer (four…
It’s no secret that the music of Chris Isaak — who’s still best known for his popular, swoon-worthy 1991 song “Wicked Game” — is influenced by old-school bad boys like Johnny Cash and Elvis Presley. Now Isaak is paying homage to the studio that made those classic rockers famous, Sun Studio. Isaak recently spoke with NPR Music about his new…
