Buzz Under the Stars Night One Newly minted pop stars the Lumineers have been delighting audiences across ye olde land with all their hoin’ and heyin’. The Denver neo-folk group has played both Riot Room and Liberty Hall in the past year, and this weekend it steps up to the stage at Cricket Wireless Amphitheater for the first installment of…
There’s a moment in Frances Ha when a young woman tells Greta Gerwig’s 27-year-old Frances that she has the face of someone older than that. Gerwig is older — she’s 29. And in conversation, the star and co-writer of director Noah Baumbach’s movie has the voice of someone more mature still. Not the speaking voice — she doesn’t sound worn…
The only barbecue restaurant left in Leavenworth is an unassuming joint — it looks like an old roadhouse — off U.S. Highway 73 called All Slabbed Up. There used to be a second barbecue place, the waitress reminded me when I stopped in one day. “We ran ’em off,” she said. I can’t say whether All Slabbed Up owes its…
In this week’s Pitch, we attempted to find Kansas City’s coldest beer. Not that cold is best! Our search was one part statistical, one part recreational and zero parts qualitative. A cold beer is just one of those things that makes KC’s sweltering summer heat bearable. Not everyone is looking for that kind of relief, though. In fact, the world’s…
Kansas City has more than its share of great barbecue joints, but there are some satisfying smoky rib-and-brisket pits on the outskirts of the city. In this week’s Cafe review, we look into Leavenworth’s All Slabbed Up, North Kansas City’s new hickory-scented SmokeShack BBQ and Lee’s Summit’s Pork ‘N’ Pit BBQ.None of these restaurants are easy to find, but once…
Facebook Not a Planet The tornado that struck Moore, OK, last week left a lot of broken lives in its wake. Folks there still need a lot of help, and next Monday, June 3, you can lend a hand by attending MidCoast Cares presents: Rock for Relief, a benefit for Moore. It’s being held at the KC Live! stage in…
Despite appearances, this is not a criminal enterprise. Third Man Records – the Nashville-based record store and label founded by Jack White – also operates something it calls the Rolling Record Store. It’s a yellow truck that travels the country peddling various limited-edition releases, gear and swag from Third Man. It also has a sound system that allows bands to…
A special dinner with ten domestic beers and several creatively-inspired food courses is just the kind of production that Michael Peterson, the executive chef at Beer Kitchen #1 in Westport, likes to do best. Peterson is still accepting reservations to the dinner on Monday, June 3 for patrons who call 816-389-4180. The dinner – which starts at 6:30 p.m. –…
A Hulk-themed Xbox 360 controller Alec Matlock designed and painted. Alec Matlock’s basement may be the strangest of any student’s at the University of Missouri – Kansas City. A corner of the damp, unfinished cellar of this rental house on Rockhill Road is cordoned off with opaque plastic sheeting, which glows from the lights within. A ventilation tube juts upward…
Facebook Fullbloods On Friday, June 7, local label Golden Sound Records and The Pitch will present the second annual Crossroads Summer Block Party. There will be a bounty of food trucks, art, and music on 19th Street between Wyandotte and Baltimore. (Think Mildred’s Coffeehouse.) Categories: Music Tags: crossroads summer block party
Nica’s 320 Beignets are on the menu at both Nica’s 320 and Beignet. A few treats from the South have arrived for your mouth. Beignet opened Saturday in the City Market at 307 Main Street. This is the second restaurant from Bryan and Monica Merker, who opened Nica’s 320 (320 Southwest Boulevard) in the Crossroads in August 2011. And just…
Neither Japanese nor droids. Japandroids’ Celebration Rock was rightly one of the most, er, celebrated records of 2012. The Canadian duo (fact: 80 percent of Canadian bands today are duos) reinforces its minimalist, drum-and-guitar structure with an aesthetic that values maximum strength: power chords, emo bluster, anthemic choruses. There are also some killer lines, like Remember that night you were…
Yve Rojas, auctioneer for the Kansas City Art Institute’s June 1 art and design auction Name: Yve Rojas Occupation: Auctioneer, auctionsbyyve.com Hometown: Byron, Minnesota, and La Crosse, Wisconsin. They both still feel like home! Current neighborhood: Brookside Who or what is your sidekick? My girls, Helayna and Savannah, and their 3-pound T-Rex. What career would you choose in an alternate…
Wal-Mart spent a tough day in court, but fines won’t hurt its pocketbook Wal-Mart settled up on three criminal lawsuits on Tuesday, one of them coming out of Kansas City. In all, the massive retailer will pay out $81.6 million in fines for various environmental transgressions. Wal-Mart admitted guilt to charges in Kansas City federal court that it sent 2…
Nope. Holy shit: We just got word that Kanrocksas, the two-day music festival featuring Fun., Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Tiesto, and a bunch of other acts out at the Kansas Speedway, has been canceled due to insufficient ticket sales. Full release after the jump. Categories: Music Tags: kanrocksas
File A juror might have tailored this suit worn by Hawkins Isreal Owen Hawkins wants a new trial because one of the jurors who helped convict him in the Petro America case apparently tailored his suits. Hawkins, who is out on bond and faces 79 years in federal prison for running the Petro America racket, claims in a post-conviction court…
Remember kids, masturbation is not a joking matter. This is one of those stories that makes you shake your head, look down and mutter, “Kids these days…” A student at Columbia’s Hickman High School allegedly played a little prank in the yearbook, and now she’s facing criminal charges. The Columbia Daily Tribune reports that Kaitlyn Booth, 17, is accused of…
If you want a White Castle cheeseburger, drive to Columbia (or get them frozen at the supermarket). Depending on which culinary calendar you’re looking at, National Hamburger Day is today. Or wait, is it actually December 21, as several other calendars claim? And don’t forget that National Cheeseburger Day is its own food holiday, celebrated on September 18. So let’s…
The Pitch talked to Kansas City native Burt Bacharach this week, and we came away convinced that the Grammy- and Oscar-winning composer, who turned 85 recently, is as relevant as ever. Not many songwriters can say that both Elvis Presley (“Any Day Now”) and Elvis Costello (who made a whole album, Painted From Memory, co-written with the composer-producer-arranger) have recorded…
File Brownback is in for a long weekend. The Kansas House of Representatives opted to prolong the morass of this year’s legislative session by adjourning for Memorial Day weekend before lunchtime. But not before issuing a stinging rebuke of Gov. Sam Brownback’s tax proposal. House members on Friday morning overwhelmingly voted 5-109 against a tax bill that the Senate passed…
Fans at The K are making their own amusement. In Kansas City, we’re no strangers to sports fans running across the field in some dramatic, stupid fashion. At last night’s Royals-Angels tilt, a new chapter was written in Kansas City fans’ hilarity and stupidity. In the bottom of the eighth inning, a fan sprinted onto the infield and headed straight…
