Archives: April 2012
The Michael Forbes Bar & Grille
The Michael Forbes Bar & Grille brings the touch of restaurateur Forbes Cross to the former Sharp’s space in Brookside. Photos by Angela C. Bond.
First Friday Art Walk
It was a righteous spring evening on Friday, April 6, for the First Friday Art Walk, which included the Pitch Party at Indie on Main and the debut of Speakeasy, in the Crossroads. Photos by Brooke Vandever.
The way to Jeff Francoeur’s heart? Bacon
Sportgrid They cheer for him! Whether we bleed Royals blue or the gold of the Oakland Athletics, we’re all the same when faced with a plate of bacon. Sportsrageous has the story of a two-year love affair between Royals right fielder Jeff Francouer, the fans in the right-field bleachers at the Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum and heaping plates of pork. Categories:…
KU & Salty Iguana intend to serve the world’s largest plate of nachos
This is what 3,999 pounds of nachos look like. It’s not a stretch to say that college kids love nachos, but Kansas University intends to take its appreciation for some melted cheese to the next level. On Saturday, April 21, the Kansas Athletics department is teaming up with the Salty Iguana and the university’s hospitality partner, Centerplate, in an attempt…
Are you willing to intentionally eat bugs?
My Nikki Beach Should we own up to the idea that we’re already eating bugs? We make a concerted effort in America to have cognitive dissonance when it comes to insects in our food. The Food and Drug Administration decided in 2009 that products containing extracts or color additives derived from bugs don’t have to disclose that they came from…
Rooftop Vigilantes, ‘Movie Music for Assholes’ (mp3)
The delightfully shambolic Rooftop Vigilantes got back together last year. However, since Lawrence bands Dry Bonnet, Mouthbreathers and the Roseline all feature members of Rooftop, there’s been a bit of a delay in releasing the band’s forthcoming single, Weird Adventure. To tide you over, here’s a leak of the final track on the EP, “Movie Music for Assholes.” It’s a…
Big shows, bigger bass: Hy-Tekk Productions on tonight’s ill.Gates show, KC electronic music
Are you the kind of person who doesn’t think there’s enough bass until your teeth chatter uncontrollably? If so, the bass-centric parties Hy-Tekk Productions throws ought to please your eardrums. Hy-Tekk was formed in early January 2010 by Mike Jones and Chris Hughes, with the help of Patrick Grantello and a smattering of local, dedicated bass heads. “Hy-Tekk has managed…
Belief Is Not Required
At last, our passions get stoked because personally driven Mars begins to move Friday, April 13, @ 1053p CDT. Mars, as a ball of energy, teaches us to assert and defend ourselves. If you have not been at your normal activity level since the end of January, look to this warrior for answers. Fire Element For the past 10 weeks,…
And the 2012 Artopia winners are …
Photo by Chris Mullins This weekend, The Pitch is throwing a party in honor of this year’s Artopia award winners. We’ve been doing this since 2006, and we believe 2012’s winners stand up nicely to our alumni of cultural innovators. This year’s class includes Judith G. Levy for visual art, Peter Warren for design, Gregory Kolsto for entrepreneur, and Owen/Cox…
Teresa Hill, Petro America scam artist, pleads guilty
Petro defendents are dropping fast. Another week, another Petro America scam leader pleads guilty. Kansas Citian Teresa Hill, 55, pleaded guilty today for her role in a nationwide $7.2 million securities fraud conducted largely through churches. Acting U.S. District Attorney David M. Ketchmark released a statement today saying Hill was responsible for signing up investors, even though she wasn’t licensed…
The Pitch Questionnaire with Worlds of Fun games manager Cole Lindbergh
Photo by Brooke Vandever Name: Cole Lindbergh Occupation: Games manager at Worlds of Fun Hometown and current neighborhood: Smithville, Missouri Who or what is your sidekick? I’ve had an iPhone for only about four months, and it has quickly and devastatingly turned into my sidekick. This device should be outlawed – it’s so addictive. What career would you choose in…
What’s your rule for regifting food gifts?
Letitizia Golosa Do you put a new bow on food you’re regifting? Food is as much a hobby as the foundation for a career. So the reality is that everybody who knows what I do tends to pass on the food items they don’t want. This can mean a beautiful bottle of extra virgin olive oil that they don’t want…
The Silvio family will open a new Mexican restaurant in the Northland
The economy must be improving: New restaurants are moving into the vacant spaces in the Northland’s Picture Hills Shopping Center. If all goes according to plan – and in the restaurant business, it almost never does – the Silvio family will be opening a new Mexican restaurant, En Fuegos, in the Picture Hills Shopping Center, 6409 North Cosby Avenue, on…
Trucker playing its last show in Lawrence this weekend
Long-running Lawrence roots-rock group Trucker hasn’t been as active the last few years, but it seems that the band is really going into hybernation this weekend. Drummer Tom Barletta and lead guitarist Josh Basnett are moving, so while the rest of the band continues on in some manner, Trucker itself is going on “permanent hiatus.” You’ve two final chances to…
Corner Bakery Cafe coming to Overland Park
Chino Hills Corner Bakery Cafe is expanding into the KC market. It looks like bread could just be the next great frontier for chains looking to enter and expand in the Kansas City area. Panera Bread will open in Brookside May 3 (they’re hiring now), and the Corner Bakery Cafe has announced its intention to open five stores in the…
Kottonmouth Kings’ Daddy X on weed, the perception of his band, and Mile High
Though 4/20 isn’t until next week, Kottonmouth Kings roll through Kansas City this weekend. The weed-loving California act plays the Midland Friday, April 13, with co-headliners Twiztid and openers Blaze and Big B. Frontman Brad “Daddy X” Xavier has been playing these parts for a long time – going all the way back to his punk band, Doggy Style, rocking…
Artopia 2012: Meet this year’s award winners
When The Pitch started giving annual grants to the metro’s cultural innovators, back in 2006, we called our awards the MasterMinds. To honor these artists and style gurus and deep thinkers, we put on an event named Artopia. Each April since then, our party has gotten bigger and better, so this year we’re renaming the award after it. That doesn’t…
Streetside: Smoked meats and arson at La Esquina’s Speakeasy
Is Kansas City, as The Kansas City Star breathlessly posited earlier this year, in the midst of a golden age? Oh, come on. Of course not. Recent FBI reports found Kansas City to be the ninth-most dangerous city in the United States, with a crime rate three times the national average. Our public schools have been stripped of their accreditation….
Bassnectar’s Lorin Ashton on death metal, drugs and drops
He is now a superstar in the world of electronic music, but it hasn’t always been all about festival gigs and bass drops for Lorin Ashton, better known by his DJ name, Bassnectar. In high school, in San Jose, California, death metal was Ashton’s scene. “I liked death metal because it was so raw and intense, and I also appreciated,…
The Kid With a Bike
If you resist the art house because you might see a “10-minute uninterrupted take of wind” — as a wiseguy characterized the movies of Béla Tarr online the other day — I have the perfect rebuttal: Luc and Jean-Pierre Dardenne. Filmmakers with a documentary background, the Belgian brothers shoot in a fleet, often hand-held style that gives their very accessible,…
Did the University of Kansas ruin Albert Romkes’ career because he’s gay?
Albert Romkes needs the equivalent of a Hail Mary pass to save an academic future jeopardized by the University of Kansas’ complicated bureaucracy. An assistant professor of mechanical engineering at KU since 2005, Romkes was denied tenure in 2011, despite the support of his colleagues. Now, time is running out to save his career, which will likely end with this…
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