To say it’s been an up and down season for the Kansas City Royals might be a bit of an understatement. They’ve gone on prolonged winning and losing streaks that have seen them drop below .500 and claim the top spot in the AL Central on two separate occasions. Right now it’s a good time for the Royals with the…
In May, The Kansas City Star’s Mary Sanchez wrote an excellent column about Colleen Simon, the former director of social ministry at St. Francis Xavier Church who was fired by the church after a previous Star article had revealed in passing that she was a lesbian. Simon has since filed a lawsuit against Bishop Robert Finn and the Catholic Diocese…
It started in May two years ago, when the co-founders of art-music-DIY space FOKL decided that they wanted to get together a handful of underheard local acts – some of which tended toward psych rock. A common interest and a little bit of organizing, and KC Psych Fest was born. This year, the fest moves to RecordBar, reassigned to a…
Nashville is never short on young singer-songwriter types dipping their toes in the ever-promising waters of the blues, but there’s something more to 24-year-old Christian Lee Hutson’s sparse, tentative songs. Hutson’s second album, Yeah Okay, I Know, is being released one song at a time, one month at a time, over the course of 2014. The songs released so far…
The Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education ignored several conflicts of interest when it directed a contract to CEE-Trust, the high bidder among four prospective vendors that sought to improve underperforming school districts, Missouri auditors say. CEE-Trust, an Indianapolis-based local education nonprofit, received a $385,000 contract from DESE on August 8, 2013, to study the state’s struggling school districts…
Jack White, with Curtis Harding The Midland, Kansas City Monday, August 18, 2014 For the full slideshow from last night, go here. It’s hard not to be impressed with the expanse of Jack White’s 15-year career. White has released nearly 20 albums among three bands and now, at last, his solo work. He has produced for legendary performers including Loretta…
Nickel Creek shattered hearts of Americana fans across the country in 2007 when it announced an “indefinite hiatus.” The band had risen to the same commercial fame as the craftsmen behind O Brother, Where Art Thou? only to hit the brakes. Reigning Americana queen Alison Krauss had even produced the band’s seminal 2000 self-titled album and its 2002 follow-up, This…
On Monday, the rift between Kansas City police officers and firefighters deepened over the shooting death of firefighter Anthony Bruno, who was killed by an off-duty Kansas City police officer last December. To honor Bruno’s 27th birthday, his wife, Stephanie Bruno, and about 40 family members, friends and off-duty firefighters tied several thousand ribbons to poles and trees in downtown Kansas City Sunday…
After today’s series finale against the Minnesota Twins, the Kansas City Royals will continue their nine game road trip with a quick pit stop in Colorado for games Tuesday and Wednesday, before heading to Texas on their day off Thursday and finishing up the road trip with a three game set against the Texas Rangers. The Royals have taken two…
Last month, The Pitch ran a story about how few local restaurants could afford to employ a staff pastry chef, and that many new restaurants bought their desserts from commissary kitchens or big-box stores, like Costco. The dining spot that surprised us for having its own in-house baking program was d’Bronx Authentic Deli and Pizzeria, the locally owned chain of four…
The only thing that remains constant among Jack White’s visits to various different baseball venues this summer is his scowl. Late in July, the guitar virtuoso was spotted at Wrigley Field in Chicago wearing an expression of contempt. He hardly flinched from a surly gaze as he threw out the first pitch at a Detroit Tigers game three days later….
At the beginning of this year, bike-share program Kansas City B-Cycle announced an expansion strategy for 2014 that would include eight new stations in the Westport and Plaza areas, with more on the way in other parts of the city, like Brookside, Waldo, and 18th Street and Vine. That has not yet come to pass. Sarah Shipley, director of communications…
The second release in Boulevard Brewing Co.’s experimental Backroads Beers series, Hibiscus Gose, gets a special tasting party tonight at Bridger’s Bottle Shop (510 Westport Road). The kickoff party starts at 5:30 p.m. On Tuesday, the new release hits restaurants and bars, and liquor stores will start getting six-packs, too. A gose (pronounced goes-uh) is a traditional sour and salty wheat…
Gov. Sam Brownback has tried to brush away the increasingly clear prospect that his Kansas tax experiment is failing by saying that it will just take time for his idea to start working. He has compared it with surgery: Deep cuts in income taxes require a period of healing. But the procedure seems to show signs of lingering infection. In…
Katy Perry is the most followed person on Twitter (right ahead of Justin Bieber and President Obama). Logic follows that someone with such an elevated position in society would dominate in her chosen field, which, luckily for Perry, just happens to be international pop superstardom. Perry counts 17 Top 40 hits. Not bad. The reviews from Perry’s Prismatic tour (in…
