Somehow, Missouri state Rep. Bill Lant, of Pineville, thought that a blog post that started out about the increasing instances of child abuse in the state was an appropriate venue to also reminisce about the breasts of one of his high school classmates from 50 years ago. Lant sits on the Joint Committee on Child Abuse and Neglect, so you’d…
Mountain (demos) by Sacred Destinies
October marks the beginning of the Day of the Dead season, and two art spaces are celebrating that cultural heritage this month. Hilliard Gallery (1820 McGee) has invited 11 artists to be part of Sugar Skulls: A Tribute to Día de los Muertos, and the Mattie Rhodes Art Gallery (919 West 17th Street) is starting its 16th Annual Día de…
The Kansas City, Missouri, City Council in May approved a pair of contracts totaling $8 million related to pre-engineering work for the streetcar expansion beyond the two-mile downtown starter line. Ed Ford, a Northland councilman, thought it was strange that the city was awarding those contracts to HRD Engineering and Burns & McDonnell when the voters hadn’t yet spoken on…
The stage has been set for the MLB’s Divisional Series after the Kansas City Royals and San Francisco Giants took away wins in their respective Wild Card Games earlier this week. After an extra-inning affair with the A’s on Tuesday that ran well into the night, the Royals solidified their first Divisional Series entrance since their World Series Championship run…
Last week, I posted a short item about a humorous campaign ad by Democrat Kelly Kultala, who is running against Republican incumbent Kevin Yoder in the race to represent Kansas’ 3rd Congressional District in the U.S. House of Representatives. Kultala’s ad makes fun of Yoder for getting busted skinny-dipping in the Sea of Galilee during a fact-finding trip to Israel….
B.B. King with Madisen Ward and Mama Bear The Midland, Kansas City Wednesday, October 1, 2014 Every music fan – especially a blues fan – sets aside a little cash to make that “What if I never get another chance to see them?” show possible. And with so few musicians – especially blues musicians – making it to B.B. King’s…
Sean Van Vleet’s voice is the kind of ultra-powerful baritone that seems destined for rock arenas and radio hits. That talent is why, on 2012’s Garage Hymns, it was disappointing to hear Empires dipping dangerously close to soulless, Kings of Leon–variety rock ballads. Thankfully, on the Chicago band’s latest, Orphan, Empires has grown into its songs a bit more, rounding…
The Kansas Republican establishment’s greatest wish in this midterm election cycle — a Democratic challenger to Pat Roberts — continues to elude the party. A Shawnee County panel of judges ruled unanimously on Wednesday afternoon that the Kansas Democratic Party cannot be compelled to file another Senate candidate in Chad Taylor’s absence. Usually it’s a luxury for one party’s nominee…
The next seven days of beer events features the release of Boulevard’s Bourbon Barrel Quad, a whole lot of Goose Island and more. Get the day-by-day lowdown after the jump. Thursday, October 2 Lagunitas Hop Stoopid tapping, at all three Barley’s Brewhaus locations, 5 p.m. The final Goose Migration event: “Life Line of Bourbon County” taps 2013 Bourbon County Stout,…
It has taken only seven years, but Rene Bollier’s dream — a combination coffee shop and wine bar — is now open at Andre’s Confiserie Suisse, 5018 Main. Rene Bollier, the son of noted local confectionary maven Marcel Bollier and grandson of the founders of the original chocolatiers, Andre and Elsbeth Bollier, had hoped to start construction on a separate…
Look north from where the 12th Street Bridge dumps you into the West Bottoms, and you’ll see a trapezoidal brick warehouse. Its occupant is Equip-Bid Auctions, and according to its owner, Andy O’Hanlon, it’s the largest auction company in Kansas City. Equip-Bid typically holds online auctions for entities that are upsizing or downsizing — liquidating a dead restaurant’s kitchen supplies,…
Arrowhead Stadium and Sporting Park have earned reputations as rather difficult places for visiting teams to play on account of energetic crowds that show up to the games. Kauffman Stadium, by contrast, hardly warrants renown as one of baseball’s toughest environments. It’s a place where the team between innings will fill the relative silence at times with silly promotional gimmicks…
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By now you know: The Kansas City Royals beat the Oakland A’s on a 12th-inning walk-off hit by Salvador Perez. Final score:9-8. Even better, this woman is getting a puppy. We all deserve puppies after last night. And here’s your game hero. %{}% Why, yes, Perez is holding an engraved bottle of Johnnie Walker Blue Label, which he gave to…
The upscale ’37 Steak isn’t your typical casino restaurant. Read Pitch critic Charles Ferruzza’s review here of the Harrah’s Casino steakhouse, and see photos by Angela C. Bond
Name: Dustin Burleson Occupation: Speaker, teacher, author and orthodontic specialist Hometown: Portsmouth, Ohio Current neighborhood: Union Hill What I do (in 140 characters): Help patients achieve healthy, happy smiles and proper tooth and jaw alignment. What’s your addiction? Reading What’s your game? Tennis What’s your drink? Black coffee. I’d take it in an IV most mornings if I could. Where’s…
No book is really unfilmable, though of course watchability is another matter. But some movie adaptations prove to be uncastable. That’s the main problem with David Fincher’s flawlessly engineered but inert Gone Girl, which asks more of Rosamund Pike than she can deliver. More, in fact, than just about anybody else could have, either — a limitation made plain by…
Gillian Flynn is a Kansas City native who pronounces her home state’s name Missourah. Her mother taught reading, and her father was a film instructor at Penn Valley Community College, so her career trajectory — Entertainment Weekly reporter turned best-selling novelist — doesn’t seem like a stretch. And now she’s coming to movie screens, having written the screenplay for David…
It’s squid or it’s eel, the sea beast prepared by Warren Ellis to share with his bandmate Nick Cave over lunch in 20,000 Days on Earth. A few months have gone by since I saw Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard’s shape-shifting documentary on Cave — one of the year’s best movies, regardless of category — but I remember thinking, about…
Nick Cave is not your typical rock star. The Australian-born musician and writer’s most recognizable song (thanks to Johnny Cash’s cover) might be “Mercy Seat” — written in the voice of a man dying in the electric chair and sung as though Cave himself somehow survived the executioner’s jolt. Cave, come to think of it, isn’t even your typical human…
Black on Black, Firebrand (Self-released) Name a five-song EP that would benefit from a breather. Got one? Probably not. But the first two songs on Black on Black’s latest, Firebrand, burst out of the speakers like explosions, and when that battery is done, you could use a moment to gather yourself and make sure no one has declared war. This…
