Are your public, drunken fuckups a source of others’ laughter? Are you proud of the time Westport Security caught you pissing on a PT Cruiser parked in front of Harpo’s? Do you want to relive the time you sneezed and blew all of the coke off the back of the toilet at Chez Charlie? If so, you just might be…
Name: Dana Wright Occupation: Half of the Dana & Parks show on KMBZ 98.1 Hometown: Topeka Current neighborhood: Leawood What I do (in 140 characters): For four hours every afternoon, we talk about what Kansas City is talking about – health care, crime, councilmen texting their wieners … never a shortage of material here. What’s your addiction? Veep; Zum Bar…
This spring. Professionally glib comedian, talk-show host and book writer Chelsea Handler will stop in Kansas City this spring as part of her Uganda Be Kidding Me Tour. The venue is Starlight Theatre, and the date is May 2, a Friday. Tickets are on sale next Friday, January 17, at 10 a.m. Categories: A&E
Taco Republic was hit-and-miss with Pitch food critic Charles Ferruzza (read his review here). Photos by Pitch photographer Angela C. Bond.
Was I surprised by today’s announcement that the 28-year-old Kabuki Japanese Restaurant in the Crown Center complex had finally shuttered its rice paper screens for the last time? No. Kabuki, which The Pitch last reviewed 12 years ago, was barely relevant then, attracting more tourists than local diners, who could be lured by a wide swath of better, more interesting sushi…
Donald Glover – better known by his stage name Childish Gambino – is taking over the Midland on Thursday, March 17. This is one of 29 stops on the rapper-writer-actor-comedian’s The Deep Web Tour, in support of his December-released album Because the Internet. Because the Internet is a strange album to behold. At first glance, it’s a hip-hop album –…
theadvocate.com A new bill to raise the speed limit on Missouri highways. The 2014 Missouri legislative session gets under way this week, so get ready for some wild ideas from the hillbilly districts. Hopefully some worthy stuff will see the floor, too, though. We’re fans of a bill Mike Kelley recently prefiled: HB 1215 proposes to raise the maximum speed…
Chiefs fans are still trying to cope with the one-point loss to the Indianapolis Colts in Saturday’s AFC Wild Card playoff game. Some fans are grasping harder than others to rationalize a second-half implosion in which a 28-point lead evaporated. Poor clock management? A rash of injuries? Outperformance by the opposing team? Not hardly: It’s the Curse of the Shuttlecocks. In a 2008…
It’s been a tough month for Johnson County lawyer John Duggan. Duggan showed up to a Johnson County Board of Commissioners meeting December 19 representing property owners in south Johnson County who chafed at the idea of sharing a fence with a proposed pumpkin patch. After more than three hours of deliberation, county commissioners sided with owners of the KC…
Hershel Greene lost his head in the midseason finale of The Walking Dead – and the AMC hit lost its moral compass. But Scott Wilson, the man who made Hershel so likable, is coming to Kansas City for this year’s Crypticon horror convention August 15-17. This year’s Crypticon will take place at the Ramada Kansas City Hotel and Convention Center…
By the time Altanta garage-rockers the Black Lips storm the Riot Room on Wednesday, April 30, we’ll have had over a month to get well-acquainted with the band’s seventh LP Underneath the Rainbow, due out March 18. The band has said that the 12-track Rainbow will feature a more traditional Southern-rock sound, but it’s probably a safe assumption that the group’s…
In what might be one of the most unexpected and strangely delightful concert announcements of recent times, Hammerjack’s – a St. Joseph club – has just revealed that Miami hip-hop group the 2 Live Crew will be performing on Friday, February 7, as part of the As Wild As We Wanna Be Tour. Brother Marquis and Fresh Kid Ice, two…
Pitch reader Rick Murphy wrote to us to find out if there was ever going to be a new season of the locally produced show, Check, Please!, created and aired by Kansas City’s PBS station, KCPT, and hosted by author and nationally known sommelier Doug Frost. “I don’t think so,” says Frost, who served as moderator for the program, which…
Sporting Kansas City doesn’t play its first Major League Soccer regular-season home game until March 15, but fans get an early taste of soccer action when the team plays a top-flight club team from Mexico just days earlier. Sporting Kansas City plays Cruz Azul March 12, the team announced Monday. The tilt will be the first action at Sporting Park…
Boulevard’s latest limited-release, barrel-aged beer Rye-on-Rye is on tap in Kansas City today, according to the beer maker’s Twitter feed. Boulevard made the beer in whiskey barrels purchased from Iowa’s Templeton Rye four years ago. Here’s why Boulevard describes its rye beer from whiskey barrels: “Why not brew a rich, tawny rye ale, then mellow it in the warmth of charred oak…
Philippe Lechevin, who has been the executive chef at the Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts since its opening in 2011, purchased the Overland Park location of the Kansas-based Papa Keno’s Pizzeria at 7901 Santa Fe Drive in downtown Overland Park last May. He says he hasn’t changed any of the recipes but has improved on all the ingredients for…
It’s a great day for local radio listeners. You may have heard rumors about KCPT’s purchase of KTBG, a Warrensburg station, and its subsequent relocation to Kansas City last year. In December, KCPT debuted the rebranded station – 90.9 the Bridge – in a soft launch online. This morning at 7 a.m., the Bridge went live on airwaves. The Bridge…
