Archives: January 2014

News

Like The Super Bowl, Prices For Broadway Tickets Are Falling

Nick Tranfaglia,

It seems that no matter what you did this week or where you were all the talk has been about the Super Bowl; whether it was how tickets prices have fallen or about the weather in New Jersey, you simply couldn’t escape it. With this being the first Super Bowl to ever take place in the New York area during…
Music

The Kansas City Symphony records Beethoven’s Fifth with Google Glass, makes history

Natalie Gallagher,

This morning, as the Kansas City Symphony rehearsed for this evening’s performance of Beethoven’s Fifth, four orchestra members were outfitted with Google Glass, the latest buzzy technology development from the thing that controls buzz on the Internet. Elizabeth Schellhase Gray, second horn, Evan Halloin, double bass, and Heidi Han, second violin, along with renowned Kansas City Symphony conductor and music director Michael Stern,…
News

High-fives might soon be the official state greeting of Missouri

David Hudnall,

Up high! In Missouri and Kansas, at least, this is the time of year for politically aware citizens to get upset about the idiotic bills our elected representatives file in the state legislatures. So it’s a nice change of pace when state politicians introduce bills that are still idiotic but that don’t fill us with blind rage. Courtney Allen Curtis,…
Music

The Sweet Lowdown’s ‘Red Shift Blues’ is your Folk Alliance International Song of the Day

Natalie Gallagher,

The International Folk Alliance Conference & Winter Music Camp comes to KC February 19-23. To get you geared up for the folk blowout, every day we’re posting a song we like by one of the event’s showcase artists.  The Sweet Lowdown is a trio of sweet-singing bluegrass gals from Victoria, B.C. On the group’s 2012 full-length May, guitarist Amanda Blied,…
Music

Jason Eady and Courtney Patton are at Knuckleheads tonight

Natalie Gallagher,

With his 2012 full-length AM Country Heaven, it seemed that Jason Eady was single-handedly trying to save Top 40 country music from itself. In the album’s title track, the Mississippi-born Texas transplant took on all the clichés of what most people think of as “modern country” and blasted them with the good-old-cowboy wisdom so treasured by Waylon and Willie. On…
Music

The Sluts’ CD-release show is at the Riot Room this Saturday

Natalie Gallagher,

Kris Dover has a rather genteel way of explaining how his and Ryan Wise’s band the Sluts got their name. He likes to say that three years ago, when the band was first fumbling through notes in a friend’s garage, he and Wise were “very successful philanderers,” and it seemed both “honest and awesome” to reflect that in the title…
Dining, Food & Drink

Friday is National Brandy Alexander Day

Charles Ferruzza,

Longtime readers of The Pitch know that a very famous 1922 cocktail, the Brandy Alexander, launched my own sordid route to intemperance and dissipation. While still in grade school, I was watching a movie on the “Late, Late Show,” the 1958 drama Too Much, Too Soon about the tragic life of movie star Diana Barrymore – Drew Barrymore’s aunt who died…
Music

The Pedaljets welcome Cody Wyoming to the band, planning new material

Natalie Gallagher,

Tuesday on Facebook, local singer-songwriter, Philistines band member, Midwestern Musical Co. worker, actor, director and co-organizer of the annual Murder Ballad Ball announced that he was adding one more item to his seemingly endless repertoire of activities: guitarist for local rock legends the Pedaljets.  Over the phone, Wyoming explained that his joining the Pedaljets was something that occurred naturally, without…