Jazz returns to 36th Street and Broadway when Jazz on Broadway opens this fall. There had been talk, several months ago, that a group of investors was going to reopen the long-shuttered gay sports bar Outabounds, at 3601 Broadway, as the latest incarnation of the Plaza jazz venue Jardine’s (which closed in 2011). But the former club’s name, Jardine’s, was…
Why? Just… Why? Holy shit, this is the dumbest thing ever. News comes this morning that Kate Middleton is in the throes of pushing a baby – a royal baby – into the world. And to celebrate (to capitalize?) on the birth of the tiny human that will be third in line for the British throne, Major League Baseball made…
Boulevard This IPA will be popping up around KC over the coming weeks. You’ve heard of pop-up restaurants, but probably not pop-up beer. That’s because it didn’t officially exist before today. Boulevard’s Pop-Up Session IPA hits taps today (Haus in Martini Corner is having a beer release party from 6 to 8 p.m. Thursday) and will be available in six…
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Facebook: Hana’s Donuts This question may require some heavy market research. Doughnuts right now are like grandmas with iPads. Some are ready for this brave new world, while others are struggling to keep the darn things in front of their faces. The world – or perhaps the media machine that uses New York City as a fusion engine – is…
Kansas City Police Department Lewis Perkins, suspect in bus driver stabbing from last weekend The Kansas City Police Department, as it often does, released photos of suspects in an assault on a city bus driver earlier this week to solicit help from readers and viewers in identifying them. It turns out that the mother of 20-year-old Lewis W. Perkins was…
Facebook: The Roost The Roost has found a home on Mass. The Roost opened Thursday at 920 Massachusetts in the former Milton’s space. The restaurant is a mix of coffee shop, eatery and bar. The pastry case has three flavors of coffee cake (cherry, almond and cinnamon pecan), and the bloody marys come in five different iterations. Manda Jolly, a…
Facebook: KC Barbecue Documentary Project You’ll leave this talk hungry. Things are bound to get heated at a discussion led by Kevin Fossland and Martin Diggs, the filmmakers behind The Kansas City Barbecue Documentary Project. The two men share what they’ve learned in the past year of filming at a talk at the Kansas City Central Library (14 W. 10th…
Kyle James, son of Kansas City, Missouri, Mayor Sly James, was picked up Wednesday by a Johnson County sheriff, arrest records show. James had a probation-revocation hearing in Johnson County District Court on Wednesday stemming from his 2009 arrest for driving under the influence. He had sought diversion, which was later revoked when he failed to pay court costs and…
Brooke Vandever When the Basil Leaf Cafe moves next month, you can eat chicken cordon bleu pasta on real plates. Two years ago, we introduced Pitch readers to the Basil Leaf Cafe, chef Brad Walters’ tiny restaurant tucked into a corner of the Miller Mart, a combination convenience store and Phillips 66 gas station at 3300 West Sixth Street in…
Kansas City KC’s latest citizen survey delivers mixed results. Kansas City, Missouri, municipal leaders on Thursday spent some time patting themselves on the back, pleased that a citizen survey showed 75 percent of respondents agreeing that KC was a good place to live. The survey, conducted by Olathe’s ETC Institute, shows an improvement of more than 5 percent over the…
The Depth and the Whisper In the Crossroads during First Fridays in June, there was a three-piece band out in front of the Whoop De Doo mural that seemed wayyyy too melodically advanced to be playing on a busy street. I stopped and watched them play a few tender power-pop songs for a while. Then they played a song that…
Jennifer Boe Little Debbie Oatmeal Cream Given that their juror was New York art critic Jerry Saltz, the works selected for the Kansas City Artists Coalition’s 31st River Market Regional Exhibition carry a nod of celebrity beyond the event’s usual five-state zone. Saltz himself refers to the region (Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, Oklahoma) as “the Kansas City area” in his…
Nicolas Winding Refn loves red: the crimson-soaked bars of Copenhagen’s underworld in Pusher II, the neon-saturated Los Angeles of Drive, the hallucinatory landscapes of Valhalla Rising. The director’s new Only God Forgives maintains that affection, along with one for elliptical storytelling, with admirable rigor. But its ease with prolonged carnage is ultimately misguided. In this campily Oedipal drama, Ryan Gosling’s…
There’s no hijacking scene in A Hijacking, a razor-wire Danish drama that’s otherwise as straightforward as its title. That’s just as well. Any more tension in writer-director Tobias Lindholm’s tightly wound anxiety machine would be almost physically unbearable. A ship is boarded, an office is raided from afar, but it’s the viewer who finally yields. Aboard the cargo vessel Roszen,…
Remember when you were 6? You and your brother snuck into an empty building through a basement window. You were gonna play doctor. He showed you his, but when it got to be your turn, you chickened and ran. Remember that? You ever tell anybody that?” That, you’ll recall, is Harrison Ford’s cop talking to Sean Young’s replicant in Blade…
For newcomers and veterans alike, the sheer scale of Kansas City’s Fringe Festival can be overwhelming. Starting July 18, local performers, playwrights and spoken-word poets converge to mount 363 shows, presented across 19 venues in 11 days. But don’t let the numbers intimidate you. Whether you attend 20 shows or just a couple, Fringe offers unparalleled access to fresh, uncensored…
Metropolises are revolving doors, and this is especially true of college towns, where every May brings an exodus and every August an invasion. Right now, though, the Lawrence music scene is undergoing something of an evacuation. Two of its pillar groups, Fourth of July and Hospital Ships, are moving (to San Francisco and Austin, respectively). And a third, Rooftop Vigilantes,…
Much of the excitement in Kansas City’s jazz scene today is owing to the emergence these last few years of extraordinary young talent. Here’s a representative quintet. Andy McGhie fronts the band, blowing a tenor sax of rich tone and twisting solos all his own. He bounces off and entwines with the sometimes lyrical, sometimes driving trumpet of Hermon Mehari….
A few Mondays back, about 40 teenagers and 20-somethings were gathered in clusters in the sloped parking lot north of Open Fire Pizza (3951 Broadway). It was after 10 p.m. Open Fire had closed for the night, and to the untrained eye, the scene conveyed trouble: a mini-mob of young people, in ratty clothes and tattoos and complicated piercings, loitering…
