It has been more than an hour since a train left Union Station, but a crowd remains. About 100 people are gathered in front of the Kansas City Power & Light gallery. They give off the disjointed thrum of folks waiting for a train that has been too long coming. From De Soto, Kansas, and DeKalb County, Missouri, and parts…
There’s still no one else quite like David Cronenberg: mordantly funny, deeply intelligent, defiantly Canadian and unapologetically intellectual. The director’s four-decades body of work has spanned genres and provoked endless debate. His latest, A Dangerous Method, detailing the relationship between Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung in the early years of psychoanalysis, opens this week in Kansas City. The Pitch spoke…
In years past, the Corporate Collector Program of the Studios Inc. made things simple. In exchange for cash, businesses could pick up a neatly bundled mini collection of art. Each of the nonprofit’s resident artists was included in the deal. In turn, the art-hungry companies that stepped up got a commitment from the Studios Inc. that word of their corporate…
Seasons 52 isn’t limited by its calorie conscious menu. Instead, the new addition to the Plaza offers something for just about every taste. Photos by Brooke Vandever.
CiCi’s Pizza Beatriz Segundo preps a pizza at the annual CiCi’s Pizza Throwdown. A Kansas City pizza maker proved that she’s fast, just not quite the fastest in the nation. Beatriz Segundo came in second in the second annual CiCi’s Pizza Throwdown — a national timed competition of CiCi’s employees that took place last Tuesday, January 17, in Frisco, Texas….
Ready Made The Foundry has beer waiting. Let’s be honest. Any place with cold beer and a bar stool can be the best beer bar in America on a given night. But Draft Magazine has attempted to suss out those bars that are serving up proper suds every night. The result is their list of ‘America’s 100 Best Beer Bars,’…
Melissa Hom Gabrielle Hamilton is elevating our discourse on food. In January, local conversation about food devolved into hurling parsnips at one another on Facebook over whether KC is fit for vegetarians. So it’s a relief that February begins with an appearance by Gabrielle Hamilton. The New York chef owns the restaurant Prune and has an MFA in fiction writing…
The common perception of stand-up comedians as damaged weirdos who use humor as a coping mechanism seems to be true more often than not, and no exception is necessary in the case of Dov Davidoff, who was raised in a junkyard. No, really, we asked — it was the family business. Add some exposure to a cult and some New…
Kansas City Daily Photo Are you buying the idea of a healthier doughnut? The life food of one Homer J. Simpson will likely never make a list of the healthiest breakfast options. But LaMar’s Donuts is attempting to rehabilitate the baked circle’s rounder image with whole-grain glazed cake and whole-grain raised doughnuts. “This will be the first phase of a…
The Get Up Kids’ Matt Pryor is in the midst of a solo tour right now, and he stopped by Death By Audio to record a Pink Couch Session for If You Make It. (You may recall our interview with the site’s founder, David Garwacke, last year.) Pryor performed “Where Do We Go From Here,” off his new solo album,…
New bluegrass and roots bands form and fall apart frequently in these parts. Breaking apart from the pack of banjo-totin’ musicians is tough. How does local roots act Ashes to Immortality try to stand out from the rest? “It’s all heart,” says Sonny Sparks, bassist. “No cutting corners, no face-paint, no gimmicks. We want to share moving, beautiful music because…
The Daily Show With Jon Stewart Mon – Thurs 11p / 10c Exclusive – Kathleen Sebelius Extended Interview Pt. 1 www.thedailyshow.com Daily Show Full Episodes Political Humor & Satire Blog The Daily Show on Facebook In case you missed Monday night’s The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, here is the show’s namesake interviewing former Kansas Gov. and current Health and…
Name: Sara Hooser Occupation: Store manager at Altar Bridal and designer of my new collection of wedding gowns called “Ila Bean Bridal” Hometown: Overland Park Current neighborhood: Downtown Overland Park Who or what is your sidekick? My younger sister, Emily, and my English bulldog, Lucy. Emily lives in Stillwater, Oklahoma, which is my home away from home, so Lucy is…
%{}% Happy (Belated and R.I.P.) Birthday, Etta “At Last” James, January 25, 2012. You would have been 74 years old. Let your Aquarian Freak Flag fly. (Is that redundant?) As with ALL Aquarians, you cannot look to a frugally produced Asian calendar at a neighborhood eatery and then think you know your Chinese animal. Ms. Etta, although an Aquarian, was…
A couple of handsome, slick-haired Europeans are giving moviegoers mustache rides back to the early 20th century. One doesn’t speak and never goes anywhere without his faithful dog. The other talks too much but still earns the canine loyalty of a follower. Both toil in films that can’t quite maintain the thrilling sparks thrown off at the start. The silent…
The end of the line looks like this: a squat, brick building called Benilde Hall in an old neighborhood on East 23rd Street, where recovering dope fiends shuffle with the crooked gaits of much older men. They carry around plastic bags because that’s all they need for holding everything they own. A clean white room in the basement is festooned…
Freestyle battles are not just forums for rappers to hop onstage and lyrically humiliate one another, although that is certainly part of the fun. They’re also, perhaps, the truest test of an MC’s abilities. The battle forces its participants to rely on their naked skills. Can you shape a hot diss on the spot? Can you spit that diss inside…
In 1991, Evan Dando of the Lemonheads traveled to Australia to write what would become It’s a Shame About Ray. The album, a guitar-pop classic, made a permanent impact on the alternative-rock scene. Since then, the group has been through the ringer: endless lineup changes, drug addiction and an extended hiatus. Dando is currently the group’s only original member, and…
Ryan Adams Fortifying his reputation as a world-class prima donna, Ryan Adams rambled, dawdled and ultimately cut short his most recent Kansas City show, at the Uptown in 2009. He has since split from his backing band, the Cardinals, and is touring solo this winter behind his latest, Ashes and Fire. Critics have hailed it as a return to form…
In January, local conversation about food devolved into hurling parsnips at one another on Facebook over whether KC is fit for vegetarians. So it’s a relief that February begins with an appearance by Gabrielle Hamilton. The New York chef owns the restaurant Prune and has an MFA in fiction writing from the University of Michigan. That combination means that her…
I know what season I’m living through right now: the time to cast away stones. Well, at least one stone — around 15 pounds, according to a British friend of mine who still uses the archaic reference when talking about body weight. Losing a stone of my own mass is my New Year’s resolution. It was also my 2011 resolution,…
Search too hard for meaning in Garry Noland’s work at City Arts Project and you’ll miss the point. Viewing Noland’s abstractions is, first and foremost, a pleasure. His pieces command a visceral reaction that’s basic but all too rare: It’s hard to stop looking at them. Of the 14 works in Made and Connected, the most immediately dominant are the…
