This Saturday at the Uptown, three local babes will be paying homage to one of pop music’s all-time babes, Amy Winehouse. Lauren Krum (the Grisly Hand), Julia Haile (the Good Foot, Diverse Jazz) and Danielle Metz will be performing two hours of Winehouse’s songs with the company of a full backing band. Though the three women aren’t officially a cover…
On Monday, December 30, the Alamo Drafthouse Mainstreet presents the classic 1980s film Weird Science, co-sponsored by RecordBar. It’s a natural pairing, given that RecordBar will be hosting a Sonic Spectrum tribute with the music of John Hughes’ films the night before. In fact, RecordBar co-owner Steve Tulipana’s band, Mr. T and the BAs, will reprise their performance from the tribute…
We hear all kinds of restaurant gossip here at The Pitch and we try to follow up every lead, which is why we contacted Erika Koike today after hearing reports that she was giving tours of the two-year-old Westport restaurant (located on the site of the former Tivoli Theater) to potential buyers or investors. “That’s not exactly the story,” says…
Over the years, we’ve made many suggestions for New Year’s Day breakfast spots (and particular dishes, like menudo) guaranteed to neutralize the toxic effects of the previous night’s drunken debacle. The long-standing theory that curing the ill effects of alcohol with more booze – often called “Hair of the Dog” – is an ancient tradition. The very term “hair of…
For the last three months, the Midwest Music Foundation has been gunning hard for the winning spot on Boulevard’s “10% for KC” program. Now, the organization that dedicates its resources to local musicians is five days shy of the results of the contest that could get them some substantial – and much-needed – funding. See also: Midwest Music Foundation’s Sondra Freeman…
Perfect Pussy’s lead singer, Meredith Graves, is intense. This is unsurprising: At first listen, Perfect Pussy comes across pretty straightforwardly as a noisy, hot-tempered garage-rock band. Graves shouts violently throughout the band’s debut EP, I Have Lost All Desire for Feeling, her words obscured by the fast-paced chords and formidable volume of her bandmates. Despite the EP’s title, the Syracuse band…
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After playing a “final” farewell show in March 2004, Manhattan power-pop trio Ultimate Fakebook reunited for a friend’s birthday party in December 2008. The years since have seen the band make an annual tradition of getting back onstage and running through the hits to crowds of friends and fans, in addition to digitally releasing a collection of B-sides and rarities…
Ah, yes, here it comes: the end of another bittersweet year. It’s time once again for Fat City to acknowledge the local restaurants that vanished over the past 12 months, some of them capping long and relatively successful runs (Papa Lew’s Soul Delicious, Lil’s on 17th, Starker’s, the Gaf), others after an inglorious flameout. The short-lived restaurants in the latter…
Sean Hunt looks relaxed. On a recent chilly midafternoon, he sits at a window booth in Lawrence’s Replay Lounge and flips through a newspaper. Known to most as the rapper Approach, he wears a black crewneck sweatshirt emblazoned with the logo for Maryland rapper Logic. Hunt speaks with an easiness about him. His warm brown eyes make his unfaltering gaze…
Cowboy Indian Bear Live Old, Die Young Cowboy Indian Bear’s Live Old, Die Young is less an album than a beautifully structured, classic tome — something that indie bands years from now will select from a massive shelf of music history, open with curiosity and then weep over with newfound knowledge. Live unfolds slowly with the grandiose waltz of “Washing,”…
Perfect Pussy At first listen, Syracuse’s Perfect Pussy comes across as a noisy, hot-tempered, garage-rock band. Lead singer Meredith Graves shouts violently throughout the band’s debut EP, I Have Lost All Desire for Feeling, her words obscured by her bandmates’ fast-paced chords and formidable volume. Despite impressions — and the EP title — Perfect Pussy is a tangle of raw…
Jordan Belfort likes fast cars, blow jobs from blondes, and occasionally crashing his helicopter in his mansion’s yard. You remember the type, right? The kind of Wall Street alpha male of the late 1980s and early 1990s who worked hard, played harder and puffed coke up a hooker’s ass the hardest of all? If that name rings a bell, it’s…
The tortured artist toils through the night, alone, hidden away in a shabby studio. At the same time, an autodidact labors in isolation to perfect her latest project, relying on how-to books and YouTube videos. Do these romantic notions still have anything to do with how creative people work? At least in Kansas City, artistic types don’t have to live…
The Kansas City Artists Coalition’s December exhibition tugs visitors through its three galleries in colliding currents of sensory appeal. Each of the four artists on display plays with different kinetic possibilities, moving us through scenes, swirls and symphonies. Christopher Troutman’s charcoal and ink drawings stage active figures in urban environments. The paper panels loom large in the Mallin Gallery, where…
Good tidings from mid-Missouri. Chad Rizner, a schoolteacher in Jefferson City, recently spent what must have been a tremendous amount of time choreographing the Christmas lights on his house to the “Missouri Waltz,” a song the Mizzou marching band plays at every home football game. In all, he synced up 15,000 lights to reflect the spirit and movement of the…
Four members of the Johnson County Mental Health Board held a surreal meeting December 17 in Olathe. It wasn’t a true meeting – four members don’t constitute a quorum – but an official meeting had been scheduled for that day until board chairman and Johnson County District Court Judge Kevin Moriarty canceled it. The four board members – Ben Hodge,…
Name: Sonja Garrett Occupation: Associate director, Continuing and Professional Studies at the Kansas City Art Institute. My career path is higher education. I’m not an artist, but I’m a problem solver, like the creative people I work with every day. Hometown: Lake St. Louis, Missouri Current neighborhood: New Longview with my best friend, her husband, two kids and two dogs….
