Google Maps This space could be yours, pitmasters. The winners of the American Royal usually just take their check and crown, and then hitch up their trailer and head on back to wherever they call home. But this year, four pitmasters will have the opportunity to earn a few more paychecks as chef at a pop-up barbecue restaurant in the…
Just look for the storefront that looks like a cake. Classy Chocolate (18 W. Kansas, in Liberty) is blissfully cool when I walk in on a Wednesday afternoon, the frigid air keeping the chocolate-covered strawberries and iced cakes from sweating. I’m wishing the air conditioner in my car worked as well as the virtual walk-in cooler that is the tiny…
Tweedy. Back in December of 2011, Great American Rock Band Wilco stopped by the Uptown Theater for a show. The group’s frontman, Jeff Tweedy, will return to the venue this December – Tuesday, December 3 – to play a solo set. Tweedy is pretty solid as a solo performer, so this ought to be a good one. Tickets are on…
Study this map, mayor. Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx was in town Friday to celebrate the $20 million federal TIGER grant that Kansas City’s planned streetcar line received. And Foxx was full of congratulatory bluster in his remarks about the two-mile line, saying, “The community has its act together in a big way.” Thanks, pal! (Just ignore the ongoing drama regarding…
jimmycsays.com Meet Jim Fitzpatrick, champion of The Fitzpatrick Tax Aside from a personal injury lawyer from Springfield and the League of Women Voters, there’s been little in the way of organized outspoken opposition to the November 5 vote to raise sales taxes a half cent to fund translational medical research. Newsman-turned-political-operative Jim Fitzpatrick formed his Committee to Stop a Bad…
Metalheads probably noticed a mistake in this week’s print edition of The Pitch. Here’s our correction – and apology to Eddie and his favorite band, Iron Maiden. Metal masters Iron Maiden play the Sprint Center Saturday night at 7:30 with openers Megadeth. Megadeth frontman and born-again Christian Dave Mustaine may be sliding into political madness – he wrote an album…
Cha, cha, cha. To these ears, punk that veers into power pop is a combo up there with peanut butter and chocolate, and with acts like King Tuff, Titus Andronicus and Japandroids, the last few years have been a golden age for it. Both bands on this bill are also working the territory. Nashville’s Diarrhea Planet (which somewhat preposterously tours…
Look for the blue cap. Shatto’s Blueberry Milk, the fifth of five specialty releases this year in honor of the Osborn, Missouri dairy’s tenth anniversary, is best enjoyed with the nose first. It’s milk with the essence of blueberry, almost as if it was perfumed with the fruit. The effect is akin to smelling lavender in a bar of Zum…
MGMT I wasn’t bothered by the heady art-rock zag MGMT took on its sophomore effort, Congratulations. “Kids,” from MGMT’s surprise-hit, 2007 synth-pop debut, Oracular Spectacular, is probably still the group’s best song, but Congratulations is weirder, richer and braver, and three years later it sounds better than the debut. That said, the group has a new self-titled record out later…
Vince Gill. On his latest album, Vince Gill – owner of one of the smoothest voices in country music – has teamed up with steel-guitar player Paul Franklin to explore the old Bakersfield sound. They’ve picked five songs apiece to cover by the two men who popularized the genre: Buck Owens and Merle Haggard. It’s excellent stuff, revivalism at its…
Facebook: Village West WineFest The wines are waiting. Couples that love wine and beer can circle Saturday on the calendar. That’s the date of the seventh annual Village West WineFest. The event at Schlitterbahn (9400 State Ave., in Kansas City, Kansas) runs from 6 p.m. to midnight and features 200 wines, 100 beers, and food from more than two dozen…
September’s First Friday is a tough call. A big street party at 19th and Locust is ready to draw your attention, but so is the opening of M.A. Alford’s last major showing of work under that persona. Like Gerhard Richter, he’s marking the transition with fire. Selections from the nearly 1,000 works the artist “left behind” (the exhibition is being…
Via Facebook. Algebra Marty Hillard, of Lawrence acts Cowboy Indian Bear and Ebony Tusks, this week launches a new, all-ages showcase of local, regional and national artists at the Bottleneck. “It’s rap-centric but not bound to those parameters per se,” Hillard says. First up is a smorgasbord of local hip-hop talent – Ebony Tusks, Heartfelt Anarchy, MilkDrop – plus a…
Summery beer is coming from New Mexico. When (if?) the temperature finally drops this fall, there will be a new summery beer in town for sipping at your favorite bar. Santa Fe Brewing Company today announced that it’s going to release Imperial Smoked Rye Porter in Kansas City in mid-November. The New Mexico brewery teamed up with local distributor Central…
The Bauer Building in the Crossroads may be the setting for the next Uberdine event. Joe and Carolina Shirley want to open their own restaurant. But they’ll have to wait, at least eight more years. “Our son, Zion, is 10 years old,” Joe Shirley says. “I promised my wife that I wouldn’t even consider opening a restaurant until we get…
Mission Chateau will remain just a rendering. At least for now. John Petersen is a slick real-estate attorney who works for Polsinelli and often gets his (and his client’s) way. But sometimes Petersen gets shot down. More than a decade ago, Petersen represented Robert Kory, a Los Angeles lawyer connected to Leonard Cohen, in an ill-fated attempt to convert the…
Lunch is coming to Johnny Jo’s Pizzeria. The West Plaza pizza joint (1209 West 47th Street) announced on Facebook today that it’d be open for lunch starting September 10. Johnny Jo’s lunch will run Tuesdays through Fridays from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Johnny Jo’s pizza previously was only available for dinner, open from 5 to 10 p.m. Monday through…
Former Kansas City Chiefs general manager Scott Pioli explained in a Sports Illustrated column why he didn’t build a better football team. Pioli wrote that he was too busy dealing with off-the-field distractions. “Less time is spent doing the job you fell in love with, which in my case is the purity of the game and competition,” Pioli wrote. And…
Bent Left. KC’s Red Kate just released its new album, When the Troubles Come, via Lawrence’s Replay Records. On it, frontman L. Ron Drunkard (real name) leads his band through 11 careening tracks that carve out some common ground between punk and alternative rock. Bent Left also put out a punk record this year: the vaguely academic, politically charged Fabergé,…
After little more than a year in downtown Liberty, Cork & Brew has closed. The restaurant and wine bar at 8 E. Franklin St. was run by Jeff and Robin Woods. The space previously housed a Cupini’s. Cork & Brew focused on using local ingredients: Bichelmeyer Meats, Jude’s Rum Cakes and Farm to Market all graced the tables at the…
If you’re going to drink Saturday night, make sure you’re boozin’ for a good cause. Saturday is the ninth annual Falldo Waldo Crawldo pub crawl in, where else, Waldo. Hit all eight bars – the Well, Lew’s Grill & Bar, Tanner’s Bar & Grill, Quinton’s Bar & Deli, 75th Street Brewery, Shot Stop, Bobby Baker’s Lounge and Remedy – on the…
