Name: Jenny Prohaska Occupation: Founder, Lucia Aerial Performing Arts Hometown: Leawood Current neighborhood: The Crossroads What I do (in 140 characters): Founded Lucia Aerial Performing Arts, an aerial school where we teach, perform and create aerial art. During the day, I work as a forensic psychologist. What’s your addiction? Natasha’s Mulberry and Mott’s pecan pie What’s your game? Not a…
< Red Door Grill Debbie Gold is ready to open new doors, but preferably not red ones. Tonight will mark the first New Year's Eve in 17 years that James Beard Award-winning chef Debbie Gold has not worked in a restaurant. And she got the night off in 1996 only because she was on maternity leave after the birth of...
Joel Nichols no longer works KMBC Channel 9, the local television station from which he dispatched weather news to Kansas City viewers starting in 1988. Sherrie Brown, news director for the Hearst-owned KMBC station, confirmed to The Pitch that Tuesday was his last day. Brown wouldn’t delve into particulars of Nichols’ departure, saying she couldn’t discuss personnel issues. But it appeared…
%{}% The sunny beaches of one of the world’s most notorious tax havens will have to wait for some other day for Cheryl Womack. A feverish effort to appeal a federal judge’s decision to shackle the indicted businesswoman from Mission Hills fell on deaf ears late Monday. Another federal judge rejected Womack’s appeal to get her passport back in time…
White Horse Pub offers a taste of the U.K. near Gladstone (read Charles Ferruzza’s review here). See photos via Pitch photographer Angela C. Bond.
Tuesday night party! Is this the New Year’s Eve that finally lives up to your wildly unrealistic expectations? Probably not! But you have Wednesday off, so you might as well hit the town. Here are a few of our top picks in case you haven’t yet decided where to go. FOR FANCY-PANTS TYPES The Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts…
It’s official: Ernesto Peralta is closing the four-year-old Plaza location of Blanc Burgers + Bottles next month – he plans to be out of the space at 4710 Jefferson by January 31 – and returning to Westport. As we reported in Fast Pitch last month, Peralta had already leased the former Simply Breakfast location at 4120 Pennsylvania. He chose not…
Perfect Pussy with RLT Czar, Kansas City Friday, December 27, 2013 Perfect Pussy opened nice and wide for KC on Friday. The punk band has been setting the Internet on fire since the release of its debut four-song demo EP, I Have Lost All Desire for Feeling, back in April, and Czar was filled with an eager audience. See also: A conversation…
Getty Smooth sailing for Sudeikis and Wilde. The holiday season in Kansas City these days has the added bonus of potential celebrity sightings. Paul Rudd was out in Waldo and at the Chiefs game over the last week, and on Saturday, Jason Sudeikis and his fiancee, Olivia Wilde, turned up for Summer Breeze: A Tribute to Yacht Rock, out at…
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Cheryl Womack is running out of time if she’s going to make her visit to the Cayman Islands for a New Year’s Eve party. Womack wants to fly to the Caribbean tax haven so she can ring in 2014 with that island’s politicians. The Mission Hills businesswoman thinks her appearance at the New Year’s Eve gathering and other meetings in…
The latest dance party to take over downtown Lawrence takes place at the Bottleneck about every month, and the name says it all: Assjamz. If you’re trying to find pictures of the insanity that goes down or see if your friends are going (and they are), then you probably know it better as #ASSJAMZ. Started in the summer of 2012…
Six months ago, Phil Canty – known largely by his stage name Morri$ – left Lawrence for Los Angeles, and the fate of his elaborate music collective, Team Bear Club, was left in the air. Or, at least, it might have seemed that way – Canty, on the other hand, never had doubts. Now, the acclaimed producer and DJ is…
It’s been two years since the world has heard much from local indie-rock royals the Republic Tigers, and the silence from the band (which has long neglected its website and Facebook page) has widely saddened the local music community. Now, though, fans have something new to chew on: The Republic Tigers’ lead singer, Kenn Jankowski, has just released a new…
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We love sweets. We love them so much that we’ve dedicated an entire event to them: Sugar Rush returns on February 20 at the Promise Wedding & Event Space (1814 Oak). Just like last year, you’ll get to vote for your favorite treats – and we’ll crown a 2014 Sugar Queen or King of Kansas City. We’re still adding local sweet…
%{}% Yesterday at 3 p.m., the bar in the Belfry – chef Celina Tio’s casual saloon and coffee-bar concept adjacent to her seven-month-old Collection restaurant at 1532 Grand – was practically vibrating with activity: The concrete floor was being scrubbed; the bar, created out of old reclaimed wood panels, was polished; and all of the liquor was being stocked behind…
You may know singer-songwriter Benjamin Cartel as one-half of the Brooklyn indie-folk duo Kaiser Cartel. If not, all you really need to be aware of is that Money and Love, Cartel’s debut solo EP, is a solid-as-a-rock folk-pop creation. The six-song collection stands on strong guitar legs and fleshes out with Cartel’s expansive vocals as he infuses slow-burning blues with…
