Beer festival season is upon us. Saturday is the 11th annual Parkville Microbrew Festival at English Landing Park. From 1 to 5 p.m., there will be more than 50 breweries from Missouri, Kansas, Nebraska, Iowa, Minnesota, Colorado, Oregon and California slinging brews. Advance tickets cost $30; click here to buy them. There may be tickets available at the gate for $35. After the…
Today the Kansas City Royals wrapped up their series on the road against the Cleveland Indians. The series, which began on Monday could have started off better for Kansas City as the Royals dropped the first game 4-3 but were able to rebound in the second game thanks to pitcher James Shields. In his last two outings Shields has punched…
Each year baseball fans are treated to the “midsummer classic” that is the MLB All-Star Game. This year the All-Star Game will take place at Target Field the home of the Minnesota Twins on July 15th. The annual All-Star Game is presently just 85 days away from now and always offers a ton of activities for fans outside of the…
Every July baseball fans are in for a treat when the MLB All-Star Weekend comes around. While there are a ton of fan events that surround MLB All-Star Weekend, the events on the field are always the main attractions. Taking place on consecutive nights at Target Field, home of the Minnesota Twins on July 14th the MLB begins its wildly…
The NBA Playoffs may have just begun but that doesn’t mean that you can’t look forward to next year, especially if your favorite team didn’t make it to the postseason. One thing to alway look forward to is the NBA All-Star Game and Slam Dunk Contest which will be held in New York City. When the NBA All-Star Game comes…
New rides. Yesterday morning, as I was lying in bed, scrolling through my Facebook feed and trying to wake up for a day of work – the glare of the Internet being the new coffee – I noticed an advertisement for Uber, the San Francisco-based ride-for-hire service that is expanding across the country. “Earn up to $20/hour driving in Kansas…
If you like beer and movies but hate cancer, then you’ll want to be at the Screenland Armour Friday night (April 25). Our friends at Screenland (408 Armour Road, North Kansas City) are hosting a preparty for this year’s New Belgium Clips of Faith, which doubles as a fundraiser for the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society of Kansas City and Robert Hoops’ Man…
The Kansas City Museum finally has a permanent director nearly 10 months after its former director was fired. Mark McHenry, director of the Kansas City Parks and Recreation Department, confirmed on Thursday that Anna Marie Tutera will join the beleaguered Kansas City Museum. Denise Morrison served on an interim basis after longtime director Christopher Leitch was fired July 8, the…
The NFL schedule for the 2014 season has officially been put on display for all to see, making now a great time to see what’s in store for the Kansas City Chiefs schedule this year. Alex Smith and Jamaal Charles led a surprisingly effective KC offense last season, while a nasty defense helped new head coach Andy Reid guide the Chiefs to…
Oftentimes the most vocal proselytizers are the worst hypocrites. The hypocrisy in racism is inherent in any form it takes, but Frazier Glenn Miller, the accused killer of three people at Overland Park Jewish centers on April 13, seemed to have taken his brand of disingenuousness further than most of his partners in discrimination. ABC News on Thursday unearthed an interesting,…
After spending two months opening for Kings of Leon, L.A.’s Local Natives might be relieved to headline its own tour, which kicked off earlier this month. The five-piece specializes in a far more sensitive brand of indie rock, after all, with its three-part harmonies and gentle, washing melodies. Last year’s Hummingbird was a generally pleasing assembly of those things: a…
Dan Mahaney, one half of Normal Human. We took a look, a few months back, at local producers of locally themed duds. One was Normal Human, a shop from Dan Mahaney and Pat Egger that specializes in original, handmade screen prints on apparel and housewares. Among its designs are shirts with archery arrows aligned to form the state of Missouri…
Craft-beer drinkers will have a lot of festival options this summer. BeerKC’s third annual Westport Beer Festival is slated for Saturday, June 7, which happens to be the weekend before Boulevard Brewing Co.’s Boulevardia festival. Thirty-one breweries have been announced so far. They include: 4 Hands Brewing 75th Street Brewery Ameristar Boulevard Brewing Company Brewery Ommegang Civil Life Brewing Deschutes…
When I ask Frank Hicks, the owner of Knuckleheads, how long his faithful sound guy Pete Saiger has been working at the venue, Hicks laughs over the phone. “Well, that’s a good question,” he says. “I don’t know for a fact. He’s been there almost since Day One. I think probably started somewhere around 2002 or 2003.” Local artists and…
When Lawrence chefs Rick Martin, Charlie Rascoll and Mikey Humphrey decided they wanted to open their own restaurant, they chose the location before the cuisine. The former La Parrilla space, at 814 Massachusetts, had been empty since that Latin American restaurant moved to 724 Massachusetts months earlier. Martin and his business partners liked the 19th-century building. What they found inside,…
In September, Topeka MC Stik Figa released City Under the City, a gorgeous rap-noir album that was the fruit of a collaboration with North Carolina producer L’Orange. Last week, Figa followed it up with the Pookey Tape, a collection of eight sturdy tracks that paint a vivid picture of the rapper’s Midwestern childhood. (The title is derived from Figa’s nickname…
It’s official: JJ’s Restaurant has, like the phoenix, risen from the flames. Owner Jimmy Frantze told The Pitch yesterday that he had signed a lease last weekend for a lobby-level space – more than 3,800 square feet – in the Plaza Vista Building, on the west edge of the Country Club Plaza, at 900 West 48th Place. The restaurant will…
Around a year ago, New York’s Dominique Ansel Bakery launched the Cronut, the doughnut-croissant hybrid that quickly became one of the most talked-about pastries in the world. KC versions have begun springing up at local shops – and we spotted one at Edible Creations (5222 Blue Ridge Boulevard, Raytown). Name: Kronutz Price: $2 each (or “Kronut holes” at 25 cents each) Shape:…
Herschel Young hadn’t finished his first day on the job before a lawsuit was filed to remove him from it. It was 2011, and Young was presiding commissioner of Cass County. Prosecutor Teresa Hensley, who filed the suit, said the law was clear: Felons couldn’t hold public office in Missouri. Young was popped in 1995 for slapping a guy who…
We are less than two months away from the College World Series so if you’re a fan of a top-25 program, it’s time to start checking out flights and ticket prices to see how much it will cost to see your favorite team in Omaha. We spoke with Red Zone Tickets, the premier source for College World Series tickets, to provide…
Hometown: Moulton, Iowa Current neighborhood: the Crossroads District What I do (in 140 characters): Work, sleep, eat, knit, watch a lot of TV, play fetch with my cat, hang out with my boyfriend. What’s your addiction? Mountain Dew What’s your game? Catch Phrase and college basketball. Go, Cyclones! What’s your drink? Mimosas. Or a hard cider. Where’s dinner? For now,…
Ghost B.C. with King Dude The Granada, Lawrence Tuesday, April 22 You can make an awful lot of assumptions regarding a band whose frontman dresses up like Baron Samedi as pope. The same statement goes for any band who sells dildos of the selfsame voodoo pope – not of his “him,” but in his likeness. Your assumptions would only be…
In the video for Schoolboy Q’s “Man of the Year,” the Los Angeles rapper – dressed in his usual campy bucket hat and some cargo capris, and flanked by a handful of scantily clad Kim Kardashian-looking beauties – wanders around what appears to be the island where Lost was filmed. The lyrics are crude and don’t make much sense, but…
