It is all but certain now that Katy Perry and former boyfriend John Mayer have broken up. Perry has been out in the spotlight a bit recently and has not denied those reports, so it’s safe to say the power couple is no more. Fortunately enough, Katy is not shying away from reporters or paparazzi and appears to be continuing…
Justin Timberlake is ready to begin his International leg of his 20/20 World Tour, touching down in London for two shows tomorrow and Wednesday evening. He’ll be abroad for a little over two months, finishing up on June 10th (where he will perform yet again at the O2 Arena.) He will then have one final international show, performing on July…
The big news over the weekend regarding Lady Gaga was her announcement that Crayon Pop, a five member South Korean girl group, will be the opening act for her upcoming ArtRAVE Tour. It’s an interesting choice as Crayon Pop certainly has much popularity and publicity in their home country, but it’s difficult to determine if that has translated to similar…
Saturday, the Screenland Armour lured the metro’s most bloodthirsty out for the evening – and they all turned out to be, you know, nice. That’s the first thing you notice when you’re elbow-to-elbow with your fellow supporters of Midwest horror moviemaking. These fans are a supportive bunch, and so they packed the Screenland, ready to absorb every nasty sight and…
A divided Hickman Mills School Board approved a contract extension for superintendent Dennis Carpenter on March 27. The one-year extension to Carpenter’s current three-year contract was approved by four members of the seven-member school board. Bonnaye Mims, Dan Osman, Shawn Kirkwood and board president Eric Lowe voted in favor of the extension following discussion in a closed meeting. Darrell Curls…
As we bid adieu to the month of March, we also say a sorrowful sayonara to a rather significant number of restaurants in the metro that closed their doors during the month (or a few weeks prior); some had been longtime survivors, like Crown Center’s Kabuki Japanese Restaurant (it closed in January after 28 years), and others, like the Pacific Buffet at…
%{}% Perhaps Sam Brownback’s most prominent feat during his Kansas governorship was pushing deep cuts to income taxes, which he said would result in a friendlier business climate that would promote growth. But his own administration’s fact-gathering seems to point to a different conclusion. The Kansas Economic Progress Council, a nonprofit business coalition out of Wichita, says Kansas is lagging behind…
We’re less than a week away from the 2014 American Country Music Awards, a star-studded event that country music fans across the country are eagerly anticipating. The show will take place this Sunday night, April 6th, beginning at 8pm EST. The ACM Awards will be hosted by country stars Luke Bryan and Blake Shelton, two of the industry’s most popular…
At this point in his life, Arlo Guthrie probably wishes, on some level, that he never wrote the 18-minute epic folk monologue “Alice’s Restaurant.” The tune has followed him around since he released it on the eponymously titled 1967 album, requested at all of his concerts – Guthrie’s own personal “Free Bird.” The brilliant satire of that song is sometimes…
The sixth annual KC Beer Fest has a date: Saturday, September 27. Flying Saucer Draught Emporium is bringing the beer fest’s 2014 installment back to the Power & Light District Expect more than 100 craft beers from local and international breweries, rare keg tappings, live music and food. The Kansas City CARE Clinic and the AIDS Service Foundation of Greater Kansas City started…
Barrel 31 Facebook. Upping the whiskey quotient in Martini Corner. The building at 400 East 31st Street has sat vacant for the past six months, following the October shuttering of long-running lounge the Velvet Dog. Today at 11 a.m., the space’s new tenant, Barrel 31, opens its doors to the public. Barrel 31 is a whiskey-themed gastropub from Chris Ridler,…
Kansas City jazz singer Dionne Jeroue died in her home Thursday night. She was 35 years old. Jeroue’s fame was growing, thanks to the bold and commanding voice with which she sang jazz standards and pop hits. She had co-hosted the Tuesday-night jam sessions of Everette DeVan, her mentor, with Kelley Gant at the Phoenix. She performed with DeVan at the…
If you haven’t made plans for tomorrow – Saturday, March 29 – and would like the opportunity to talk to local farmers and buy local organic produce, vegetable seedlings for home gardening, free-range meat, eggs and dairy, the Kansas City Food Circle presents the first of two spring “Eat Local and Organic Expos” at the Gym at Johnson County County…
%{}% Earlier in the week, we tried to set the record straight about why the Kansas City streetcar isn’t going to travel down Brookside Boulevard anytime soon, if at all. Some among the chattering class insist that a few grumpy Brookside residents sent City Hall fleeing from a fight with the neighborhood and instead deciding to curtail the line down Main Street near the…
For more than 20 years, Joc Max has been the foremost name in the metro’s hip-hop production. You’ll hear some of that legacy in retrospect at RecordBar Saturday. Local MC Reach has organized what he’s calling a hip-hop “honors show,” with performances by himself, SoundsGood, DJ Ataxic, DJ Skeme, DJ Maxx and Smooth C. This lineup is especially exciting, considering…
New treats for Midtown. The first Andy’s Frozen Custard opened in 1986, at the Lake of the Ozarks. Since then, the company has expanded into several other states (Oklahoma, Illinois, Arkansas, Texas), totaling 22 shops in all. Its president, Andy Kuntz, grew up around these parts – “I was baptized at Christ the King, I still keep a residence in…
Middle Twin with Forrester, the Phantastics and Narkalark The Bottleneck, Lawrence Thursday, March 27 Lawrence’s Middle Twin has an excellent sense of how dance pop works: You work the low end, keep things catchy, make the synth lines sing, and work that fog machine like crazy. Above all, if you’re headlining, keep things going. When your fans have been knocking…
Unless a unique theater opportunity comes along during the winter months when his shaved-ice shops are closed for the winter, Seth Golay – at age 35, a veteran musical-comedy performer in Kansas City – has traded his stage career for the more lucrative business of…snow cones. The Pitch wrote about Golay’s venture into the flavored-ice business – which he owns with his…
The Sweet 16 starts today and the South Region of the tournament is going to be fun to watch. The teams that are left in this region are the 1st seeded Florida Gators, the 4th seeded UCLA Bruins, the surprising 11th seeded Dayton Flyers, and the 10th seeded Stanford Cardinals. Unfortunately, the Kansas Jayhawks will not be participating any further…
The Iowa State Cyclones may not be getting the same amount of attention as their East Regional counterparts, but they are certainly in a strong position to emerge from Madison Square Garden as the victor. After their opening round victory over the North Carolina Central Eagles, it appeared they would have a difficult time moving on any further with the…
A lot of ear-appeasing things are coming out of Lawrence, and one of the newest and most noteworthy is the electro-pop five-piece Middle Twin. Not so long ago, the band had a slightly different lineup and performed under the name Brain Food. Now, with bassist Jon Fitzgerald and a new drummer Isaac Flynn – who have been with the band…
RFT. Tebeau is a free man. Jimmy Tebeau’s southern Missouri property, Camp Zoe – home to several Schwagstock festivals a few years ago – was raided and seized by federal agents back in 2010. Prosecutors alleged that Schwagstock essentially doubled as an open-air drug market, and that drug dealers sold somewhere in the neighborhood of $500,000 worth of product during…
