Record Store Day at Mills Record Company, featuring Expo ’70, Bummer, Metatone, the Caves, Lazy, Rev Gusto, the Bad Ideas, Red Kate, Keef Mountain, Heartfelt Anarchy and Burial Teens.
When Miley Cyrus canceled her Sprint Center concert last week, the announcement also came that the 21-year-old artist was hospitalized for an allergic reaction to cephalexin. The remaining shows on Cyrus’ national Bangerz tour were also postponed. But there is good news: The Cyrus camp has got some fresh dates lined up for everyone’s favorite party girl. Cyrus will be swinging…
This year, we wanted to focus on capturing Record Store Day around Lawrence and Kansas City. We sent writers to Love Garden Sounds, Mills Record Company and Vinyl Renaissance. If you didn’t make it out, here’s your chance to live vicariously. Thanks to three rather insistent cats demanding to be fed, I was somewhere in the first 25 people or so at…
This year, we wanted to focus on capturing Record Store Day around Lawrence and Kansas City. We sent writers to Love Garden Sounds, Mills Record Company and Vinyl Renaissance. If you didn’t make it out, here’s your chance to live vicariously. It was call time for the 39th street Vinyl Renaissance location at 11 a.m.; I assumed I’d be facing mayhem right…
Mohammed Whitaker, 27. Last night, the Kansas City Police Department announced that it had taken into custody a suspect in the rash of mysterious highway shootings in Kansas City in recent weeks. At a press conference this afternoon, Jackson County prosecutor Jean Peters Baker revealed the identity of that suspect and announced charges against him. His name is Mohammed Whitaker….
Boulevardia, the weekend-long beer/music/food/street festival taking place June 13-15 down in the West Bottoms, now has its official music lineup. L.A. dance-pop duo Capital Cities are headlining, alongside Ryan Adams-y Nashvillians the Wild Feathers. Local acts are well-represented and feel like some wise choices for an inaugural beer and food festival. The weekend will feature appearances from the Grisly…
The concepts of breakfast and dinner are older, apparently, than the idea of the midday meal that we now know as lunch. Culinary historians pinpoint the mid-19th century as the time when lunch, which had been treated as little more than a snack prior to that (Samuel Johnson’s 1755 definition of the word was “as much food as the hand…
Josephine Mirabile surrounded by her four sons, from left, Salvatore, Jasper Jr., James, and Leonard. Several beloved Kansas City restaurants are celebrating anniversaries this year: The American turns 40 and the family-owned Northland restaurant, Cascone’s, turns 60. Another family-owned operation – Jasper’s Restaurant – celebrated its 60th anniversary this month and continues to offer a special menu of six dishes…
When I ask for Tex at Manifesto, the man in question laughs and darts his eyes around the dark basement bar, as if he’s surprised to hear that a patron might know him by his longtime nickname. But the man known aboveground as Jonathan Bush has a reputation among cocktail-loving Kansas Citians. So my self-imposed mission – getting savvy bartenders…
Well, it’s official. We now know that the Kansas City-Lorde connection has been cemented for all eternity. Last night in Las Vegas, New Zealand teenage pop star Lorde (Ella Yelich-O’Connor) was at long last introduced to retired Royals baseball player George Brett. Here’s the original photo that inspired “Royals.” And here’s the song that just can’t be played enough. Categories: Music…
JD McPherson Knuckleheads, Kansas City April 15, 2014 Back on tour from an unexpected break, Oklahoma native JD McPherson rallied the weekday ramblers for a Tuesday night of All Things Great and Wonderful since the very first hymns were born. McPherson walked onstage with an urbane smirk and a worn-out jean jacket, followed by his band of merry (not to…
Sawasdee (pronounced saw-wat-dee) is serving Thai cuisine in south Johnson County. Read Charles Ferruzza’s review here, and see photos by Pitch photographer Angela C. Bond.
Like a growing number of people, Vandana Shiva wants to know where her food comes from. Gaining that knowledge starts small, with the seeds. The 61-year-old physicist, ecologist and author from Delhi, India, has been saving and collecting seeds for nearly three decades, and she is passionate about encouraging others to do the same. This, she has said, is a…
The Los Angeles Clippers are going to the playoffs for the third straight year. The Clippers are poised to make a serious run at the NBA title. With stars like Blake Griffin and Chris Paul, there is no doubt that the Clippers are one of the favorites to win the NBA Finals and dethrone the defending champion Miami Heat. If…
Name: Wick Thomas Occupation: Teen-services librarian, punk drag activist Hometown: Drexel, Missouri Current neighborhood: Westport What I do (in 140 characters): I combine activism, public service, performance art, and music to make Kansas City a radder city and inspire youth to be themselves. What’s your addiction? Mud Pie cupcakes What’s your game? Katamari. The King of All Cosmos is such…
A man of singular sensitivity and intelligence touches the face of God with a feat of ahead-of-its-time engineering, aided by the love of a good woman and a lot of expensive CGI. Yeah, that’s Noah – which now has bad-movie company at the multiplex thanks to Transcendence, in which a man of singular sensitivity and intelligence, aided by the love…
For a certain kind of English actor, the volatile ex-con is just behind Hamlet and Lear on the cinema bucket list. Jude Law has played Hamlet and has considerable time to go before he’s ready to do Lear – or before anyone asks for that – so plunking him into a Mona Lisa-like story of a parolee bad dad should…
