On the heels of the X-Games taking place in Austin this weekend it would be great time to look ahead to that and other upcoming events in the area. The Circuit of Americas will play host to ESPN’s highly successful action sport event the X Games beginning this Friday. While in Austin the X Games will run events like skateboarding,…
Chef Charles Shurn, a veteran of Kansas City restaurants, has opened Chaz 325 in Platte City. Read Pitch food critic Charles Ferruzza’s review here, and see photos by Pitch photographer Angela C. Bond.
Kansas City Bier Co.’s next release reaches back to medieval tradition with the tapping of a doppelbock Wednesday at 6 p.m. During Lent, fasting friers were allowed to drink doppelbocks – dark, strong lagers – for sustenance and nutrition. “One of the reasons that we brewed it is that it’s very traditional,” says James Stutsman, Kansas City Bier Co.’s marketing…
Good news for people that love… good news. (See what we did there?) Eleven Productions dropped word this morning that Modest Mouse will return to Kansas City on Sunday, July 13, for a performance at the Uptown Theater, alongside guests Mimicking Birds. This tour, which includes dates across North America, just adds fuel to the rumors that a follow-up to 2007’s…
Is Sporting Kansas City midfielder Oriol Rosell the latest local player to sign a contract with a European club team? It sure looks that way. A report out on Tuesday from Major League Soccer follows on a drumbeat of European media stories that link the 21-year-old Spaniard with top-flight Sporting Clube de Portugal. The story seems to fall just short of…
The high points of Jake Hendershot’s four-year run as the owner of Pandolfi’s Deli in Columbus Park? “Looking back at what I created. I just thought I’d open a little sandwich shop in my grandfather’s building. It succeeded beyond my wildest expectations,” Hendershot says. “Not so much financially, but in terms of building a solid clientele, getting positive reviews, creating…
The third annual Crossroads Summer Block Party is going down this Friday, June 6, and there’s a handful of well chosen acts in the lineup. Chances are, you’re familiar with some of these local favorites, but in case you’re not, we’re counting down to the end of the week with a “song of the day” from one of the bands….
Vampire Weekend with Cults Crossroads KC, Kansas City Monday, June 2 With a warm, muggy night and a sold-out, packed outdoor show, last night’s Vampire Weekend and Cults concert at Crossroads KC felt like a fitting way to usher in the summer. The show, which was a quick sell-out even at a minimum of $40 a pop, drew in a…
Temples were just in town a month ago at RecordBar, and the show delighted the large crowd that was in attendance – so it’s no surprise that the Kettering, England psych-rock band is returning to the area so soon. The four-piece hits the Riot Room on Tuesday, October 14, in support of its debut record, Sun Structures. Tickets are on sale Friday, June 6,…
With his nerdy frames and average stature, you probably wouldn’t look twice at Paul Janeway if you passed him in the aisle at Target. Up until March, was working as a bank teller at a Wells Fargo. But the frontman’s magnetism is revealed with the seven-piece soul outfit St. Paul & the Broken Bones. Thanks to a breakthrough debut record…
A regular Fast Pitch reader called me last week to rave about a restaurant she had discovered in Olathe. I kept asking the woman to repeat the name of the venue because it just wasn’t resonating with me. “It’s called Simply Reinspired,” she said. “It’s in an old house near the courthouse.” By the time I actually drove up to…
Sour beer lovers have been waiting for Tuesday. That’s when the next Boulevard Smokestack Series beer, Love Child No. 4, will be released to stores in 750 ml bottles. Boulevard gave us a bottle to try, and wow. It really, really lives up to the sour billing. I admittedly wasn’t ready for the barrel-aged brew’s sour power – despite the label having…
The handsome bar at Voltaire is all but empty as happy hour begins at 4 p.m. on a recent Friday. This is fortunate because it means that Ryan Miller, Voltaire’s lead bartender and permanent fixture, is eagerly awaiting cocktail orders. And I have a long list. Well, sort of. In advance of Campari and Imbibe Magazine’s Negroni Week (June 2-8), when bars and…
May came and went without an execution in Missouri – the first month since November to miss the ritual in Bonne Terre. It wasn’t for a lack of trying; the U.S. Supreme Court halted Russell Bucklew’s scheduled execution on May 21 amid persistent questions about how Missouri kills its prisoners. But Missouri may continue the practice on June 18 when…
After five months as the executive chef of the Kansas Town restaurant at 1403 West 39th Street, Garrett Kasper has given his notice; the 27-year-old will be joining the staff of the uncompleted Lulu’s Asian Bistro, the new venue in Westwood planned by Malisa Monyakula, the owner of Lulu’s Thai Noodle Shop in the Crossroads. The bistro is scheduled to open in July at…
Racism in Grain Valley? Now we’ve heard everything. Today in weird news from the angry, white, outer metro of Kansas City: This morning, eastbound I-70 motorists were rerouted after an effigy of President Obama was found hanging from the Lesholz Bridge, in Grain Valley, Missouri. Get it? Because he’s black, and that’s what they used to do in the old…
The third annual Crossroads Summer Block Party is going down this Friday, June 6, and there’s a handful of well chosen acts in the lineup. Chances are you’re familiar with some of these local favorites, but in case you’re not, we’re counting down to the end of the week with a “song of the day” from one of the bands….
Seattle six-piece the Head and the Heart has just announced a slew of fall tour dates, including a stop at the Midland on September 24. The Head and the Heart was last in Kansas City for the Night the Buzz Stole Xmas in December. This tour is in support of the band’s October-released full-length, Let’s Be Still. Listen to “Down…
