Archives: January 2014

Chelsea Handler coming to Kansas City in May

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

Taco Republic was hit-and-miss with Pitch food critic Charles Ferruzza (read his review here). Photos by Pitch photographer Angela C. Bond.

Kabuki Japanese Restaurant joins Crown Center dead-restaurant list

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…

Childish Gambino is at the Midland on March 17

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 –…

75 miles per hour on Missouri highways? Maybe soon.

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…

Shuttlecocks sports curse petition needs more idiots

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…

Joe Tutera finally gets his way in Prairie Village

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 from The Walking Dead is coming to Crypticon Kansas City; and Panic Fest returns to Screenland Armour

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…

The Black Lips are coming to the Riot Room April 30

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…

Doug Frost returns to KCPT this week

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…

Boulevard’s Rye-on-Rye is on tap today and on shelves Tuesday

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…

There’s a new voice on Kansas City airwaves with 90.9 the Bridge

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…