Archives: April 2014

Record Store Day 2014 at Mills Record Company

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.

Miley Cyrus reschedules her Kansas City concert for August

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…

Record Store Day at Love Garden was controlled madness

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…

Record Store Day at Vinyl Renaissance drew in all sorts of music lovers

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 is the suspect in KC’s highway shootings case

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 announces its music lineup

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…

Where do you take your lunch hour?

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…

Jasper’s Restaurant: After 60 years, Mother knows best

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…

The Bartender’s Notebook: Looking for Chartreuse at Manifesto

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…

Lorde finally got to meet George Brett, the Royals star who inspired her global hit song

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…

Sawasdee Thai Cuisine

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.

Vandana Shiva challenges the world’s lack of biodiversity

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…

Wick Thomas, teen-services librarian and punk drag activist, answers The Pitch Questionnaire

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…

Transcendence

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…

Dom Hemingway

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…