Neon Trees KC Live Block, Kansas City Friday, June 20, 2014 A gigantic white partition covering the front of the stage billowed in the warm breeze as the members of Neon Trees struck up the opening chords of “Lessons in Love (All Day All Night).” At the chorus, the sheet dropped, revealing the six piece pop-rock group best known for…
This just handed to me: Actual break dancing is happening on the Central Library’s roof before tonight’s screening of Breakin’ (courtesy of this guy). As though you need another reason to hang out five floors up tonight at 14 West 10th Street. The 1984 movie, a time capsule of early hip-hop culture, headband-forward fashion and a fighting-trim Ice-T, is the second installment of this…
Radioactivity with Bad Sports, All Blood, Nature Boys Minibar, Kansas City Thursday, June 19 I didn’t know until Dirtnap Records posted it to Twitter earlier in the day that this was the tour kickoff for Radioactivity and Bad Sports. It was kind of great for two of the finest garage acts plying their trade to drive up from Texas and…
If White Arrows was an Instagram account, it would post inverted gifs of L.A. palm trees swaying in the wind with post-modern psychoanalytical quotations as captions. Its bio would have “exploring neon as a medium” as its current vocation and a recently added posthumous send-off to Alexander Shulgin accompanied by an alien emoji. Comprised of five Californian millennials – each…
Sold! There have been some minor alterations inside Brookside neighborhood tavern Charlie Hooper’s lately. There’s a new bar, the floors have been refinished, and the shuffleboard table has been jettisoned in favor of high tables. The rumor has been that Hooper’s owner, Bob Regan, who lives in Vermont, was shopping around the bar for a sale. It appears now that…
City employees with fluorescent-colored shirts packed Kansas City, Missouri’s City Council meeting on Thursday, sporting signs warning of retribution in next year’s election if council members approved the outsourcing of ambulance billing jobs. But a 7-4 majority was not persuaded by the crowd and approved a contract with Advanced Data Processing to handle billing those who need ambulance services in…
This Sunday, June 22, will be the final night for one of Kansas City’s best moderately priced steak restaurants: The Range Steakhouse at Harrah’s Casino. After a 17-year run as the casino’s signature steakhouse (The Pitch voted it “Best Kansas City Strip” in 2008), the venue will be shuttered for good so that the casino can focus its attention and resources on…
The Philadelphia Phillies will head to Busch Stadium tonight for a four-game series against the St. Louis Cardinals. While St. Louis Cardinals tickets have seen a season average of $62.88 on the secondary market, each of the four games will have an average price below that number. This series will mark the first of two times this season for the Phillies to appear on…
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, with Warpaint The Midland, Kansas City Wednesday, June 18 For the full slideshow from last night, go here. I believe in love, Nick Cave sang in “Into My Arms” last night at the Midland Theater, And I know you do too. This delicate moment came midset, as the 56-year-old Cave was seated at his piano…
From the preserves in grandma’s storm cellar to that time you got hammered on girly drinks at that trendy new bar, Ball’s glass canning jars have become an iconic part of American culture. This evening, the 130-year-old brand provides an unlikely excuse for local artisans to get together and share their wares at Kansas City’s first Made From Here event….
All photos by Zach Bauman.
After having to reschedule her April 15th concert due to illness, Miley Cyrus will return to the Sprint Center on Tuesday, August 12th. The former Hannah Montana is experiencing a bit of a cool-off in controversy since her extreme personality change in 2013. Despite failing to make as many headlines in the past few months, the multi-Teen Choice Award nominee…
Hold it right there, book peddlers. Over the last year or so, Little Free Libraries have been sprouting up across the Kansas City metro. The idea is pretty simple: You construct a birdhouse-like box, paint it up, put it in your yard, and fill it with some books. Anybody who passes by is free to take a book, swap a…
Where the cheaters at? Ashley Madison is a website that pops up when you click porn links an online dating service that caters to married people. As such, it has a lot of raw data about what types of folks are cheating on their spouses, like how old they are, where they live, etc. Yesterday, the site published the results…
Lyndsey Helling and Lauren Tweedie went back in time in a hurry, scouring the city to unearth fabrics reminiscent of 1970s living rooms and bedrooms for a show not very far in the future. “We found this bedsheet, still in the bag, in an Olathe antique mall,” Tweedie says, holding up a dress the two made from the mustard-yellow, flower-power…
There’s a lot to see – and taste – at FooDoo, the two-week-old vegan café and juice bar along Broadway in the burgeoning Uptown neighborhood. Rows of tribal masks line the walls. A shiny gold Buddha grins in a corner. Mismatched light fixtures glow in shifting, neon colors. The eclectic space feels like a funky New Orleans hideout, the kind…
OK, let’s get the jokes out of the way. As one bartender I talked to last week put it, this year’s Kansas City Pride Fest – slated for the city’s historic West Bottoms neighborhood June 20, 21 and 22 – is “an all-Bottoms party, tops not allowed.” It’s easy to kid about it now, but in 1978, when KC saw…
%{}% Missouri became the second state in the United States to execute a prisoner since Clayton Lockett’s grisly punishment in Oklahoma on April 29. John Winfield died 10 minutes after midnight on Wednesday, strapped down to a gurney in Missouri’s death chamber in Bonne Terre to receive a lethal dose of pentobarbital. It was Winfield’s punishment for a 1996 shooting…
