Two years after Todd Akin sunk his candidacy for the U.S. Senate with his infamous “legitimate rape” utterance, the term still isn’t off-limits in Missouri, at least as far as one lawmaker in the Show-Me State is concerned. Rep. Rick Brattin, a Harrisonville Republican, wants to make sure a woman gets permission from her father in order to proceed with…
Last month’s Third Thursday party at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art — the series’ debut, pictured above — drew hundreds of people to the Bloch Building for coffee, beer, music, crafts and a gallery talk. Tough act to follow, we thought. Now comes Rad Tidings, from 6 to 9 tonight, and it sounds at least as cool: Katy Guillen &…
Kansas City’s Bummer puts out an insane amount of volume for being just three dudes. The grunge punk trio has become known for short sets which pack hooks and volume in equal measure. It’s that mix which makes their sludgy rock appealing to more than just guys who smoke dope and listen to Kyuss, and a likely factor in their…
The brewers at Free State Brewing Co. must be Seinfeld fans. The Lawrence-based brewery is releasing Festivus Ale — named for the holiday for the rest of us and popularized by the Costanza family’s airing of grievances and feats of strength — on Tuesday, December 23. Festivus will tap all day at BRGR (4038 West 83rd Street, Prairie Village), Burg &…
The Los Angeles Kings and the St. Louis Blues play the second part of a home and home series on Thursday night at the Staples Center. These are two of the best teams in the NHL, and especially the Western Conference. The first game was played in front of a raucous St. Louis crowd on Tuesday night. St. Louis was…
Boulevard released its 2015 lineup on social media today, and there are several new beers on the slate. Brewmaster Steven Pauwels had already told us to expect of series of imperial stouts throughout the year, and now they’re on the calendar (a coffee, a rum and two TBDs). We’d also heard rumors of a pumpkin beer and Funky Pumpkin is…
Thursday, December 18Boulevard Smokestack Series celebration, featuring Imperial Stout, Collaboration No. 4, Harvest Dance and Silver Anniversary Ale, at Local Tap (7300 West 119th Street, Overland Park), 6:30 p.m. Cinder Block ugly sweater party (110 East 18th Avenue, North Kansas City), 5 p.m. North Kansas City Beverage Co. happy hour, at Side Pockets (600 Northwest Englewood Road), 4–7 p.m. Odell…
Last week, indie-rock heavyweights TV on the Radio announced a string of tour dates next spring in support of the band’s excellent recent full-length, Seeds. It’s a pretty short U.S. run, so Kansas Citians can feel lucky about getting a piece of the action. You can catch the band at the Midland on Saturday, March 21. Details here. Categories: News…
The tumultuous political career of Kansas City’s 5th District councilman is coming to an end. Michael Brooks informed the City Council and Mayor Sly James that he will resign his seat, effective January 2. Brooks sent the notice on Wednesday, one day after Kansas City’s legal department sent the council a memo outlining the procedures for disciplining and/or removing a…
Recommendation for Hearing on Discipline of a Council Member – Geary 12-16-14 (Corrected Date Par 1)
Last night was the first night of Hanukkah, a holiday that all but demands fried potato latkes as part of the menu. If you’re craving the dish but not so interested in actually making the potato pancakes, it’s not so easy to find this delicacy on local menus; Grunauer in the Crossroads offers them, but only on special occasions, according…
Boxes of empty bottles sit outside the glassed-off brewhouse of McCoy’s Public House. Soon, those bottles will be filled with Ursa Major, the brewpub’s Russian Imperial Stout, named for the constellation and made to mark the winter solstice. This year’s Ursa Major is astronomically on-target, arriving at 4 p.m. Tuesday, December 23, at McCoy’s (4057 Pennsylvania) and at the neighboring…
Fifteen minutes on the phone with Hannibal Buress feels like catching up with your most ridiculous college friend. The 31-year-old comic and co-star of Comedy Central’s Broad City doesn’t deliver zingers or punch lines — he’s just an unusually amusing conversationalist. And lately, he has been in the middle of a significant cultural conversation. It was partly Buress’ onstage labeling…
It’s easy to find lots of good things to eat on Prospect Avenue. Last week’s Pitch cover story, “Comeback Street,” detailed the restaurant resurgence going on along the historic East Side thoroughfare, which was the racial dividing line in Kansas City for decades, until the late 1960s. A new generation of restaurateurs has taken over — even on the most…
Stuart Aldridge cannot stop smiling. On a Friday afternoon, as customers peer into the illuminated cases at the Broadway Butcher Shop, where Aldridge has been owner-operator for a little more than a year, he is an enthusiastic blur of energy. I am here to ask him about charcuterie: cured meats, sausages, terrines and pâtés. And there seems to be no…
Name: Luke Wade Hometown: Cape Girardeau, Missouri Current neighborhood: Coleman Highlands Occupation: Creator and operator of KC Crew; co-founder of SocialHeart; owner of Liquid Knowledge Consulting and Tasteful Touch What I do (in 140 characters): I like to say I solve problems through multiple ventures, but I also create fun through recreational leagues, pub crawls, happy hours, charity events and…
%{}% %{}% Top Five is Chris Rock’s Woody Allen movie. Its romantic tensions evoke those of Annie Hall, and its disgust with celebrity culture, with fame, recalls Stardust Memories. (Rock plays Andre Allen, recovering user, recovering comic and soon-to-be-recovering badly reviewed serious actor.) Top Five is also writer-director-star Rock’s Richard Linklater movie — the Linklater of Before Sunrise and its…
%{}% %{}% There’s the suffering you choose, and there’s the suffering that chooses you. Walking the sometimes desolate, sometimes beautiful border between the two is Wild, Cheryl Strayed’s essential 2012 memoir and, now, this haunting film version of it, starring Reese Witherspoon. Strayed’s book is as interior as its setting is exterior. It recounts her 1995 hike from the Mojave…
%{}% %{}% Sue Mengers wasn’t larger than life, but the Hollywood superagent lived large. A major player in the industry from the 1960s to the ’80s, she suited herself for a man’s game, one in which the rules of the time didn’t include female competitors. In the Unicorn Theatre’s one-woman show I’ll Eat You Last: A Chat With Sue Mengers,…
%{}% %{}% In the 1990s, Ray Velasquez was the DJ you wanted in your venue, at your party, running your show. From 1993 to 2003, he was the voice behind popular radio show Nocturnal Transmissions, on what was then the Lazer (KLZR 105.9). Before that, KC’s house-music authority had been on KKFI 90.1 and KJHK 90.7. And after, Velasquez moved…
%{}% %{}% Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre was perhaps English literature’s first feminist, an independent woman guided by heart and instinct rather than by society’s expectations. The four young women in Miry Wild have taken their band’s name from a phrase in Brontë’s 1847 landmark — a reference I keep in mind when I drop in on their weekly practice at…
