Kanrocksas is fast approaching, everyone. As of today, you can purchase single-day tickets to the music festival – held Friday, June 28, and Saturday, June 29, at the Kansas Speedway – for $99. Do so here. Two-day tickets are still $175. Hit the jump for the full lineup, in case you’ve forgotten. Categories: Music Tags: kanrocksas
ICP y’all. Are you down with the Clown? The FBI, which recently classified Insane Clown Posse as a criminal street gang, is not. But the Detroit butt-rap group’s legions of fans aren’t bothered by that kind of notoriety. They’ll continue to spray each other with Faygo (official soft drink of the Juggalos), paint their faces and party to ICP’s horrorcore…
The thrill of eating outdoors — watching the sky darken before a predicted downpour brought torrents of rain — was just part of the excitement at this year’s Taste of Kansas City, held in the Live Block of the Power & Light District. In the sultry hours before the rain, however, 700 fans of the food event wandered from one…
Facebook: The Gaf The Gaf has closed its doors. The Gaf (7122 Wornall) poured its last Guinness on Saturday. The Waldo pub and bar closed after eight years in the former Romanelli Grill space (Charles Ferruzza wrote about the spot’s stylish upgrade back in 2005). The Irish pub’s owners, Ray Dunlea and James O’Brien, still operate Mike’s Tavern & Cantina…
Chef Jason Wiggin was the winner of the Gold Fork competition at yesterday’s Taste of Kansas City. The predicted torrential rains arrived in downtown Kansas City precisely as The Pitch’s Taste of Kansas City was wrapping up for the evening. By then, though, the 700 people leaving the Live Block of the Power & Light District had been sated by…
Giovanni’s chicken parm is a fine representative of the species. Giovanni’s Italian Deli & Pasta (6100 N.E. Antioch Road) is the rare place where you can get a ham sandwich and a pound of ham for when you’re hungry three days later. The hoagies are done in the style of a classic Italian tradition. You won’t leave hungry. In fact,…
Boulevard They never stop brewing over on Southwest Boulevard. With beer, absence simply makes you thirsty. On Tuesday, you have a chance to drink a beer that even Steven Pauwels, Boulevard’s brewmaster, misses. That’s when the latest Smokestack release, Saison-Brett (a take on Tank 7), begins to start showing up on taps and shelves around town. Just as we noted…
Photo by Sabrina Staires Schamberger: The Art of Wrestling Before Raw at the Sprint Center (read our interview with Cody Rhodes here), Kansas City artist Rob Schamberger shows some of his bigger paintings of wrestling champions, including the Rock, Sheamus and Rey Mysterio, at the River Market Event Space (140 Walnut, 816-591-4346). Schamberger is selling prints for $15 (or two…
Facebook: Big Rip Big Rip has hung its shingle. Now it’s time to try their beers. The Big Rip Brewing Co. is set to let it rip Sunday. The two-man microbrewery in North Kansas City (216 East Ninth Avenue) will be serving up samples to the participants in the Tour de Brew bike race as part of the official open…
Facebook: Indios Carbonsitos The world is better with free sandwiches. Indios Carbonsitos, one of the city’s original food trucks, is giving out free tortas on Saturday to help promote Hangover III. (The event kicks off at 10 a.m.; the free food starts at noon.) The first 100 people in line at the “Free Chow,” event at Original Juan (111 Southwest…
Angela C. Bond Two eater from last year’s event. Eat your way across Kansas City’s culinary landscape at The Pitch’s Taste of Kansas City 2013 this Sunday at 5:30 p.m. in the KC Live Block of the Power & Light District. The annual local food-and-drink sampling party includes more than 20 restaurants (Clark’s, BRGR, Los Alamos, KC Smokeburger, Thai Orchid…
Kansas City’s Ninth Street has changed in a half-century, but the Humdinger hasn’t. This hot afternoon called for a cold milkshake. Not one of those bland boring (and probably chemical-laden) shakes at one of the conglomerate fast-food restaurants, but something a little more eccentric. Maybe a pineapple milkshake or a pina colada version. The 51-year-old Humdinger Drive-In at 2504 East…
stevedamron In 1984, Kansas City’s Gay Pride Festival was little more than a halfhearted little carnival set up in the parking lot behind the since-razed Dover Fox saloon, at 43rd Street and Main. Over the past 29 years, the event has gotten much bigger, much grander – with the occasional financial scandal here and there. This year, after a 2012…
Nigel Parry Gaffigan: portly paterfamilias “People keep bringing up wistfulness,” Jim Gaffigan says. We’re on the phone, talking about Dad Is Fat, the comedian and actor’s first book. Like Gaffigan’s act, it’s sharply observed and quotably droll, a steady drip of high-quality chuckles rather than a wave of gut laughter. “I have five children, and I don’t even own a…
Earle the pearl. The rootsy summer lineup at Crossroads KC at Grinders just got a bit rootsier: The venue announced today that Steve Earle will grace the stage on Tuesday, July 9. Tickets on sale tomorrow, May 17, at 10 a.m. Categories: Music Tags: steve earle
KCI Friends of KCI don’t want to see this. Friends of KCI just announced plans to start an initiative petition to prevent the advancement of a new airport terminal without the approval of voters. “We do not need to spend $1.5 billion on a new airport,” reads Friends of KCI’s statement. “We believe there are better options.” Friends of KCI…
Facebook: S.D. Strong Distilling S.D. Strong Distilling is heating up in Parkville. While other suburban fathers in Parkville tend to their lawns on the weekends, Steve Strong is heading 65 feet below ground. The former rocker, most recently of Steve Strong and the Jackknife Truckers, and father of three has been toiling in the caves below Park University for the…
D’Bronx has homemade corned beef. At d’Bronx (3904 Bell), I always walk in intending to get a grinder and I end up hearing myself order a slice of pizza and a chocolate-chip cookie (if they’re recently out of the oven) before my brain can catch up with my mouth. But several weeks ago, armed with the mission of compiling a…
Laura Stevenson On her new record, Wheel, Laura Stevenson calls to mind Sharon Van Etten and Land of Talk’s Elizabeth Powell – women singers who preside over expansive, soaring indie-rock songs. But I like Wheel better than anything those two have done, including, yes, Van Etten’s Tramp. Wheel’s folk ballads are offset by its Crazy Horse scorchers (I like both…
Star Trek Into Darkness opens, in typical J.J. Abrams style, in medias res, with Captain Kirk (Chris Pine) and Bones McCoy (Karl Urban) running through a bright-red jungle, chased by natives covered in white war paint. Meanwhile, a volcano nearby is about to blow, and Commander Spock (Zachary Quinto) races to stop it. We never find out who these natives…
When Viennese playwright Arthur Schnitzler’s La Ronde debuted, around the turn of the 20th century, it was seen as so risqué — well, pornographic — that it went unproduced again for two decades. But yesterday’s shock is today’s prime time, and Michael John LaChiusa’s 1993 musical adaptation, Hello Again, now appears no more barrier-breaking than your average HBO series. That’s…
The Kansas City Repertory Theatre’s revival of American Buffalo, one of David Mamet’s earliest plays, still has the power to shock. The Rep uses its program and a prominent sign to warn audiences about the 1975 play’s raw language, but I still heard a few nervous titters as one of its rougher characters burst into a manic, profane monologue early…
Radkey “Spirals” and “N.I.G.G.A.” — the first official release from St. Joseph’s buzzed-about teenage band of brothers — captures the Radkey aesthetic: vaguely ominous, Danzig-deep vocals over a feverish, Descendents-style racket. “Every band has that moment where they’re like, ‘Holy shit, I’m listening to myself on vinyl,’ ” Isaiah Radke says, “and Replay Records gave us that moment.” Dry Bonnet…
