Last night, I found the one place in Kansas City where Royals fever did not register on any thermometer. I counted at least 20 monitors on the gaming floor at the Isle of Capri Casino, all of them tuned to the Royals and most turned up loud. But most of the patrons stayed glued to their slot machines, even those…
The Eagle Point Companies, a Maine-based firm that owns three Section 8 apartment buildings on Armour Boulevard, says it saw no alternative to dealing with Kansas City over a blight finding from earlier this year, so it has filed a complaint with a federal agency against the city. Eagle Point, which bought and renovated the Bainbridge, Georgian Court and Linda…
When songwriter Jeff Black left Kansas City for Nashville in 1989, he hoped to make it as the classic Music Row writer — Alison Krauss, Sam Bush and many others covered his songs. But before he knew it, Black had a double handful of his own solo albums (including two collections of B-sides). This year, Black, on his own Lotos…
Monday night’s edition of Raw at the Sprint Center is shaping up to be a big night for WWE. Hulk Hogan is advertised to make his first appearance in Kansas City in more than a decade. “Nature Boy” Ric Flair is also rumored to be walking that aisle. John Cena and Dean Ambrose are scheduled to for combat against Seth…
Following tonight’s game, KMBC nabbed a quickie on-field interview with Paul Rudd, Kansas City’s greatest homegrown celebrity. In addition to a hilarious zoom-in on Rudd’s KC T-shirt while he was talking, the spot included Rudd’s answer to reporter Johnny Kane’s question of where he’d be taking his postgame celebration. “I’m gonna be partying at my mom’s house,” Rudd said. “She’s out…
The Kansas City Royals are going to the World Series after sweeping the Baltimore Orioles (as you can see from my crappy iPhone shot of my TV). There’s nothing else to say but woooooooooooooooooooooohooooooooooooooooo! Oh, and don’t forget to check Eric Hosmer’s Twitter for party plans. Categories: News Tags: kansas city royals, World Series
In 30 minutes or so, the Wednesday-afternoon Royals game — playing the Baltimore Orioles — is starting, but Richard and Theresa Ng, the owners of the Bo Lings restaurants, are still working with their bartender at the Plaza location to come up with an appropriate cocktail-and-sushi combination special to serve to customers who come in to watch the game on…
Chuck workplace productivity out the window today, Kansas City employers. In fact, give your worker bees some leash to play hooky this afternoon. Sure, have them put their nose to the grindstone. Tell them to eat lunch at their desk. But by midafternoon, call it quits. Let them witness some once-in-a-generation local history. The Kansas City Royals are primed to…
Temples with The Districts Riot Room, Kansas City Tuesday, Oct. 14 Coming off a late Royals ALCS win there wasn’t really a need for more energy in the packed Riot Room, but Temples brought it anyway, sizzling off an action-packed – if short – burst of songs from their acclaimed debut album, Sun Structures. The band’s classic throwback psych-rock brought…
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Fifty years ago in London, Roger Daltrey, Pete Townshend, John Entwistle and Keith Moon united to form the Who. More than three decades after the band’s first farewell tour, the group is rousing itself once more. Well, sort of – only Daltrey and Townshend remain from the founding four, and they tour these days with a full band. “The Who…
Soon, you won’t have to go to Martin City to drink Martin City Brewing Co. beer. The company is set to begin distributing on both sides of the state line, via Central State Beverage, by early November. Exact locations are still being worked out, but it’s a safe bet that wherever there’s a good selection of craft beers, you’ll find…
Name: Zachary Mallory Occupation: LGBTQIA activist, youth mentor and LGBT advocate Hometown: Kansas City, Missouri Current neighborhood: Independence What I do (in 140 characters): I empower young people to rise above hate and discrimination. Everyone deserves a voice. What’s your addiction? Combating LGBT bullying, harassment and discrimination. What’s your game? Soccer What’s your drink? Anything from Coca-Cola, but my favorite…
When Trent Hudson moved into the Armour Tower Apartments, in 1995, he learned to walk the long way home. Hudson, then a lab employee at Truman Medical Center, lived at 640 East Armour Boulevard, three blocks from the Bainbridge Apartments, a police-blotter bull’s-eye for one of Kansas City’s most crime-ridden stretches. “I wouldn’t walk by the Bainbridge because of the…
%{}% %{}% 40 Watt Dreams Katie West’s ceaseless creative output is a little unnerving. When she isn’t writing songs and performing with her husband, Mike West, in the quirky duo Truckstop Honeymoon, she’s churning out spirited folk tunes for 40 Watt Dreams. What began as a solo project about a year ago has now been fleshed out to include four…
An appearance here by Kansas City native Harold O’Neal is an all-too-infrequent treat. O’Neal is a Paseo Academy alumnus who was mentored by KC jazz greats Bobby Watson and Ahmad Alaadeen, and he has produced records for the hip-hop, pop and R&B worlds. On his acclaimed 2010 release, Whirling Mantis, you can hear hard bop rolling off the keyboard, taken…
When British heavy-metal band Judas Priest released its 17th studio album, Redeemer of Souls, in July, longtime fans drew a collective breath of hesitation. This was, after all, the first record assembled without legendary guitarist K.K. Downing, who retired from the band in 2011. But the doubt proved unnecessary: Souls is an incendiary collection, and it sounds quintessentially Priest. Lead…
%{}% %{}% When you walk into the Drunken Worm and see David Herron and Brett Carter on their stools, you could mistake them for brothers. They share a medium build and an average height, and when they speak to you, what comes out is an identical Missouri drawl. On this quiet Wednesday night at the 39th Street bar, Herron and…
It’s a simple idea: Get a bunch of restaurants to sell you $5 burgers for seven precious days. So simple, you’d think we’d have done it a long time ago. So simple, it sounds too good to be true. But this is The Pitch’s first Burger Week, and I’m telling you that it’s real — 14 restaurants (as of press…
It takes quite a few words to explain Wordless, the musical and spoken-word collaboration of Pulitzer Prize–winning author and illustrator Art Spiegelman and jazz composer Phillip Johnston. Ahead of the pair’s tour stop here Sunday evening at the Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts, The Pitch called Spiegelman at his studio in New York. The Pitch: Wordless is billed as…
To find order in disarray — to master what one can control while moving calmly down the current of all that can’t be predicted: This is how you sense that Jason Pollen has lived and worked, when he talks to you about his art. And there’s a lot to talk about in Unfurled: Thirty Years in Kansas City, the hypnotic…
