Local fast-food workers are reportedly walking off the job tomorrow in a major move for unionization. Update: Gina Chiala, spokesperson for Stand Up KC, the group spearheading the two-day employee strike in dozens of fast-food restaurants in the Kansas City area (there are no planned walkouts in Kansas, Chiala said) can’t give even a rough estimate of how many local…
Mates of State gives some good duckface. Connecticut by way of San Francisco by way of good old Lawrence, Kansas, Kori Gardner and Jason Hammel of Mates of State are back in their old home in Lawrence for an evening for a “warmup” show at Frank’s North Star Tavern (508 Locust, north Lawrence) at 7 p.m. They will be performing…
Kansas City Police Ohearn is charged with suspicion of shooting his mother. Kansas City police officers and detectives kept busy this past weekend with several gun-related fatalities in the area. Richard Ohearn, a 58-year-old Independence man, was charged with murder on Saturday in connection with his mother’s death Friday night. Kansas City police were sent to the 12100 block of…
Facebook: Boulevard Get inside the label next Thursday. It’s been said that great art can come only from suffering. Those who said that must have been teetotalers. Great art comes from inspiration, like the kind one might get after a sip or two of a brew that has been made since the time of the Egyptians. Payton Kelly, the Boulevard…
Facebook: Drunken Fish Leawood Drunken Fish’s dining room is now open. It’s a fish tale in Leawood. Drunken Fish has opened its second Kansas City-area outpost in the former Fo Thai space at 4331 West 119th Street. The St. Louis import has an existing location at 14 East 14th Street in the Power & Light District. (Charles Ferruzza checked out…
In P&L tonight. The video for the Macklemore-Ryan Lewis track “Thrift Shop” currently has about 385 million views. If the Seattle rap duo – Macklemore raps, and Lewis produces – aren’t the breakout stars of 2013, I don’t know who is. They’re playing an outdoor show at KC Live tonight as part of the Major League Soccer All-Star Game festivities….
The Kansas City Chiefs have signed first-round pick Eric Fisher. The 6-foot-7, 306-pound offensive tackle, chosen first overall in the NFL Draft, agreed to terms on a four-year deal Friday. USA Today reported that the deal is worth $22 million, with an option for a fifth year. Fisher, out of Central Michigan, is expected to start as a rookie. The…
Liberty Police Department Rogers, a missing marathon runner, has apparently been found. The body of Chad Rogers, the 30-year-old Liberty resident who has been missing since going out for an evening run on Monday, has apparently been found. An update on the Facebook page for Bring Chad Rogers Home, posted early Friday afternoon, said the Liberty Police Department had tentatively…
Dessa. Parts of Speech, the latest from Dessa, is very much a rap album of 2013, which is to say it sounds only vaguely like a rap album. Dessa is a member of the Minneapolis hip-hop collective Doomtree, where she’s surrounded by strong rappers such as P.O.S. and has been steadily honing both her lyrical eye and her skills on…
Sabrina Staires Cinder Block Brewery has a showpiece wall of barrels. Kansas City appears poised to regain some of its rich brewery tradition this year with six breweries scheduled to open in 2013. The Pitch explored the expansion of the beer universe in Wednesday’s cover story. The Fast Pitch also looked at the Bourgmont Brewery, a new microbrewery in the…
Get yer Schwerv…on. Perhaps you read our music feature this week on KC-via-New York man-woman garage-pop duo Schwervon? One good thing to do after reading about a band is to go watch it play music, and you can accomplish that very thing on Saturday, when Schwervon plays Coda with the Quivers, H.D. Harmsen and Christopher the Conquered. Facebook event page…
Flickr: brent_nashville Funnel cakes and corn dogs are two of the fair food groups. Take a break from eating your fruits and vegetables and enjoy the fruits of another kind of summer harvest: the county fair. The 150th annual Platte County Fair runs through Saturday, July 27, at the Platte County Fairgrounds in Tracy, Missouri. There are carnival rides, live…
You remember this face. You do. In case you’ve forgotten: Filter is the one that did “Hey Man, Nice Shot.” Sponge did “Molly (16 Candles)” and “Plowed” (and both actually hold up OK). Live did Throwing Copper, which was a pretty big album in 1995 on account of “I Alone” and “Lightning Crashes.” Everclear, of course, is the biggest band…
“This is where you get BBQ!” Something called Bottoms Up Comedy created and released a video tour of Kansas City last week. And it’s pretty damn funny, complete with jokes about BBQ, coffee shops and various parts about town. The best joke is probably when our friendly guide tells us that you can see horses at Kemper Arena and “whores…
Jerry Springer Show Local transgender activist Sandra Meade is organizing a Jerry Springer boycott. Update: The Kansas City chapter of the Kansas Equality Coalition has called off its planned boycott of the production of the Dustin Lance Black play, 8, after the producers of the show, to be performed on August 3 at the Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts,…
Lodi Dodi, Slick Rick will be partying. “It’s a hip-hop lover’s dream,” says Dallas Gutschenritter of the second-annual Guerilla Fest, to be held this weekend at his club, the Riot Room. That’s particularly true if old-school characters such as Slick Rick, Spice 1, PMD and MC Eiht (who will all perform) match your flavor of rap. Or if you’re looking…
What do you want the Boz to do? I’ll never forget the night in 2010 that Boz Scaggs sang Teddy Pendergrass’ “Love TKO” at the Dukes of September Rhythm Revue show at Starlight. I’d never really thought too much of that song before then, but Scaggs’ silky voice turned it into something like a religious experience for me. He’s got…
Facebook: Jack Stack The ribs at Jack Stack keep bringing them in. My family never took a vacation without knowing where we were going to eat. Perhaps that’s why I’ve felt at home in Kansas City – this is a city that understands how to tuck in to their meal. The Daily Meal has assembled the “Ultimate BBQ Road Trip,”…
Welcome to Kansas City: the soccer capital of America,” proclaims a huge Major League Soccer All-Star Game mural on the north wall of 1712 Main, in the Crossroads Arts District. Such a claim is impossible to quantify, and there’s plenty of room for debate. Soccer fans by the thousands in Portland, Oregon, and Seattle would have good reason to claim…
