There’s a beer in the machine. Even if all our entertainment is made up of reruns, some are definitely tastier than others. Case in point: Boulevard’s Reboot White IPA (the hometown brewery sent a bottle over to The Pitch), the rerelease of its 2011 Collaboration Series No. 2 White IPA, which hits shelves Tuesday. The tasting notes for the latest…
Wild Pho in Lawrence serves soft beef spring rolls that are almost too pretty to eat. If you’re a fan of the crispy, gluten-free fried chicken – Oh Boy! Chicken – that Lawrence restaurateur Nancy Nguyen served out of her Vietnamese restaurant, the Orient, at 1008 Massachusetts, you’re in luck. The Orient has, after a 16-year run, departed from Massachussetts…
Ed Peterson, a Johnson County commissioner who represents most of the northeast county cities, wants to become commission chairman. Peterson announced his candidacy for Johnson County Commission Chairman through a press release on Monday. The lawyer who practices in Kansas City is no newcomer to politics; he served as Fairway’s mayor from 1993 to 2002 before going to the Johnson…
Captain Karl is on the way. If you’re unfamiliar with the saga of Karl Welzein, aka DadBoner, first of all, where have you been? Second, head on over to his Twitter account and catch up. (Or buy his new book.) Welzein is a divorced, middle-aged father living in suburban Michigan with an enthusiasm for beers, chain restaurants, classic rock and…
Late Friday afternoon, The Kansas City Star’s website posted a short piece by AP Kansas correspondent Roxana Hegeman. Slugged “Kansas gay couples must file taxes as singles,” it’s a basic, factual summary of the Kansas Department of Revenue’s plan to make life unpleasantly complicated for gay people. Kansas, of course, isn’t about to end its constitutional ban on same-sex marriage…
Vampire Weekend has accomplished a lot for itself in the six or so years that the band has been putting out music, moving fast up the venue ladder to play, for example, the Barclays Center last month. Compared with that, tomorrow’s date at the Midland is like a club show. The band’s new record, Modern Vampires of the City, contains enough…
Call it a flash of inspiration: 26 days ago, on the morning of Sept. 11, veteran songwriter Kristie Stremel woke up and decided to give away 30 downloadable songs for free in 30 days. With seven albums under her belt and a career that spans more than 15 years, Stremel has plenty of material to work with, both from her…
John Yuelkenbeck The Huddle House will reopen says the owner – but he doesn’t know when. Despite the sign taped to the door of the Huddle House (the 24-hour diner at 3959 Broadway), the venue hasn’t been “temporarily” closed – it’s been closed since late September when the dining room experienced serious flooding. “A roofing company was working on the…
Chicken goa curry, cooked in a coconut cream sauce, is one of the specialties at the new Moti Mahal restaurant. It takes a lot of guts – or madness – to open an Indian restaurant on the south side of Barry Road in the Northland, given that on the north side of the street, in the Zona Rosa shopping center,…
Har Mar Superstar with Lizzo Saturday, October 5 Riot Room The quick critique: Even if he’s not stripping down to a G-string anymore, Har Mar Superstar still knows how to throw a party. Thumbs way up. Har Mar Superstar may be the pop music world’s least likely sex symbol, but there’s no denying the man’s power. On Saturday night at…
I guess there was a reason that people called Larry Johnson “King Pink.” From the where-are-they-now files, TMZ reports that the former Chiefs running back is now a part-time strip-club DJ. The gossip website reported that LJ has DJ’ed “several times this year” at Tootsie’s Cabaret in Miami. No, he has not worked his way up to full-time DJ yet….
Full disclosure: Is/Is is a Minneapolis band, a relatively popular one, and I have seen it perform multiple times. It does kind of a lo-fi, DIY, postpunk thing, like releasing new music on limited-edition cassettes. You know, that kind of band. It would all sound a little too precious if Is/Is wasn’t such a legitimate rock band, managing to somehow…
The Pixies released the band’s 2014 North American tour schedule this morning, and Black Francis and company are coming to Kansas City. The date: Tuesday, February 11, at the Midland. Tickets go on sale 10 a.m. Friday, October 11. You can get them at the Pixies’ website. No word on price yet. Categories: Music Tags: Kansas City, kansas city, The Midland,…
Freedom Inc., Kansas City’s black political club, met last night and decided that they will oppose a November 5 ballot measure to raise sales taxes in Jackson County for translational medical research. Proponents and opponents of the tax met with Freedom Inc. on September 19, trying to sway the organization. But Freedom Inc.’s leaders ultimately went against the proposed half-cent sales…
Slogan for 2014? “I feel like we’ve won the World Series,” Royals GM Dayton Moore said a few days ago. The Royals, of course, failed to even make the playoffs for the 27th straight year. But a winning season (86-76) in Kansas City must be graded on a curve, at least according to the people who believe that supporting a…
There’s a lot going on in town tomorrow night in the world of music – a big Har Mar Superstar show at the Riot Room, Midwestern Audio Volume 2 CD -release party at RecordBar – but if you plan your Saturday out strategically, you should be able to hit all the good stuff. Vinyl Renaissance is having a free, live,…
Oh Land (the stage name of Danish transplant Nanna Øland Fabricius) is back on tour, following the September release of her new album, Wish Bone. And this time, she’s bringing her distinct brand of dreamy electro-pop and high fashion flair to the Midwest. The 28-year-old Fabricius collaborated with a host of big names on her latest, from TV on the…
Sam Graves: sore loser, irrational politician. Make no mistake: The reason that the federal government is currently shut down is because a minority faction of extremely conservative Republicans believe they can hold the government hostage in order to delay and ultimately repeal a law – the Affordable Care Act, or Obamacare – that is literally already a law. That is…
