The wait for Martin City Brewing Co.’s beer in Kansas City ends Monday. Distribution of MCBC kegs begins Monday with a launch party at the Well and Lew’s Grill & Bar. Last month, The Pitch reported that MCBC would begin distribution through Central States Beverage (see also: Martin City Brewing Co. is about to send its beer to a bar…
Sza, with Kawehi Liberty Hall, Lawrence Thursday, November 6, 2014 When 24-year-old R&B artist Sza took the stage at Liberty Hall last night a few minutes after her 10 p.m. call time, the generous (for a school night, anyway) crowd of mostly college kids welcomed her warmly. She strutted out to the heavy, warped opening beats of “UR,” a wide…
As the holiday season nears, so do the shopping shows and the sprawling exhibitions. On the take-it-home-with-you tip, MLB Designs (2020 Baltimore) is open Thursday, First Friday and Saturday for anyone who covets large-scale woven installations as well as wearable hand-dyed pieces from Debbie Barrett-Jones; handmade jewelry from Flannery Grace Good; and custom headwear from Amina Hood, of Amina Marie…
The developer of Mission Gateway keeps shrinking Johnson County’s endlessly stalled development project, but still expects taxpayers to grease its wheels. Tom Valenti, the man who owns 26 acres of prime real estate upon which the Mission Center mall once stood, returned to Mission this week to speak to that suburb’s leaders. The news wasn’t good. The Pitch earlier this…
City and Colour Liberty Hall, Lawrence Wednesday, November 5 A nearly sold-out Liberty Hall greeted City and Colour with roars of approval as the band walked out to the strains of “Back to Life” by Soul II Soul. They immediately went into “Harder Than Stone,” and the crowd went into swaying, lifted hands-mode. I’ve been to Christian rock shows (yeah, yeah)…
Boulevard Brewing Co. begins its 25th anniversary celebration a little early with a full calendar of events (see also: John McDonald reflects on 25 years of Boulevard beer and looks to the future). Also this week, Flying Saucer wraps up Stout Week, Grain to Glass holds a couple of classes and more. Thursday, November 6 Intro to Micro class, discussing sanitation…
Call this my lucky day: After standing in line for five minutes at the window of the one-month-old Plantain District food truck — parked today near Research Medical Center — I got the last Cuban sandwich of the day. The time? 12:30 p.m. The truck had been serving only since 10:30 a.m. “It was the first time we’ve ever run…
It’s almost unfair how easy it is to make fun of Nickelback. I’ll save myself the time and earache of listening to one of the songs from the band’s latest album, No Fixed Address, and let y’all take care of it with your burning witticisms in the comments. Just be prepared: Nickelback is coming to Kansas City on Monday, March…
The debate over the fate of Kemper Arena has taken some particularly ugly turns in the past few weeks. Briefly, the background: The American Royal, the primary tenant of Kemper Arena, wants to demolish it and build a new, smaller venue for its agricultural shows and events. They’re seeking $30 million from KC taxpayers to do this, plus $20 million…
Polsinelli Letter to Foutch
In Italy, a lazzarone is a scrounger, a bit of a bum. In St. Joseph, though, a lazzarone just might get some respect. Or, anyway, a great pizza. “In Naples,” says Erik Borger, a former competitive bodybuilder who this year opened a pizzeria called Il Lazzarone in the Missouri city, “a lazzarone might only work just hard enough for a…
Name: Robert Baconwurst (but my employer thinks my name is Adam Yarnevich). Occupation: When I’m not obsessing over Sporting Kansas City, I design stuff for the interwebs. Hometown: The ’Dotte Current neighborhood: World–famous Mission, Kansas. We have a Chipotle and a Freebirds. Booyah. What I do (in 140 characters): Design. Cheez-Its. Sleep. Repeat. What’s your addiction? Crazy socks. I have…
Gov. Sam Brownback explained away fears of plummeting revenue collections and sluggish job growth in Kansas (due primarily to his idea to take a whack at state income-tax rates) by comparing his policies with an invasive medical procedure. “It’s like going through surgery,” the Kansas governor told the Wall Street Journal in June. “It takes awhile to heal and get growing…
John McDonald limps into Boulevard Brewing Co. on Election Day. The brewery’s founder took a spill on the stairs of his West Side home, and one of his feet hurts. He’s in a sunny mood anyway, though, and he greets everyone he passes — in cubicles, desks and offices — with a “good morning.” McDonald, wearing comfortable blue jeans, boots…
Interstellar, director Christopher Nolan’s latest beautiful colossus, is a little less than three hours long. As with most of Nolan’s movies, it’s not light on visual astonishments, this time adding to his IMAX palette sweeping panoramas of romantic farmland Americana, Kubrickian deep-space loneliness and (also Kubrickian) spiritual-temporal-dimensional freakouts. Eyeful after eyeful after eyeful. The ears, though, are another matter. Everything…
At the risk of sounding aloof, I’ll cop to a distaste for selfies. I like my landscapes unmarred by ironic mugging, and my aversion extends to the word itself. Its diminutive ending begs to be read in a sexy baby voice. But grumping about generational self-indulgence has become its own cliché, so when I entered Haw Contemporary for Unicorn, Peregrine…
I failed to wear a jacket the first time I dined at the American, in the 1980s. Back then, some restaurants still insisted on a dress code, and the American was, around here, perhaps chief among such places. With all the hauteur of the maitre d’ in Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, a manager regarded me for a moment and then…
On August 8, 2013, a St. Louis man named Calvin Williams received a phone call from a collections agent at a company in Hutchinson, Kansas, called National Credit Adjusters. He was informed that NCA had purchased debt that he owed from a payday loan he had taken out from an online lender called Castle Payday. He was then told, his…
Peelander-Z We’ve all seen some weird shit. We all have stories. But it’s unlikely that you have anything on a par with the total weirdness of Peelander-Z. The New York City punk-rock band has been around for 16 years, and its members — who present themselves as colors onstage, hair dyed to match their names — refer to their project…
Twice a year, tenor saxophonist Rob Scheps — a Kansas City native and a New York transplant — returns home, usually bringing with him a special guest musician of great talent. On this trip, he’s joined by baritone saxophonist Roger Rosenberg, who has worked with such superstars as Sarah Vaughan, Miles Davis, Quincy Jones and Gerry Mulligan during his 30-year career. Since…
Some things get better with age: wine, whiskey and Lucinda Williams. The proof is in the 61-year-old singer-songwriter’s latest album, Down Where the Spirit Meets the Bone. Bone, the first release on Williams’ Highway 20 Records label as well as her first double album, is the embodiment of what longtime fans have come to love about her: sage lyrics, searing…
It’s late on a Sunday night when I meet four of the five members of the Conquerors at the 403 Club. All of Kansas City is engulfed in Royals mania, and the patrons inside this Kansas City, Kansas, dive are no exception. The bar teems with powder-blue clusters giving off cheers and groans as Game 4 of the World Series…
