Yes, I do own a vintage Veg-O-Matic. And a set of Ginsu knives. Hell, who could live without them? But a local inventor, Vijay Malik, has a new kitchen tool that, while it may not have as many uses as a Veg-O-Matic, fits more comfortably in a kitchen drawer. Malik introduced his newest kitchen device, the Grate Spatula, at a…
Yesterday was the anniversary of the death of former Beatle and incredible human being John Lennon. In his honor, local rock outfit Dolls on Fire has just released a cover of “Isolation.” Aside from being a massively killer take on Lennon’s 1970 song, the track is also available as a free download here. Listen after the jump. https://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/album=4289173574/size=large/bgcol=ffffff/linkcol=0687f5/tracklist=false/transparent=true/Dolls on Fire…
In 1996, Joan Crotts got a new neighbor, and not a particularly neighborly one. Crotts, a widow in her 60s at the time, lived next to a boardinghouse in St. Louis. Paul Goodwin, an imposing 6-foot-7-inch man who took up residence in the boardinghouse that summer, made a habit of lobbing vulgar insults toward Crotts. Later, Goodwin intensified his harassment…
For those of you who were heartbroken by the news that Sleater-Kinney was skipping over our fair city on its first tour in eight years, rejoice: The beloved rock band has just announced additional tour dates, and Kansas City – along with Columbia and St. Louis – is on the list. After the group gets back from its European tour,…
Isolation – John Lennon Cover – Synesthesia Sessions by Dolls on Fire
UPDATE: Erik Borger, owner and operator of the seven-month-old Il Lazzarone pizzeria at 1628 Frederick in St. Joseph, signed the lease today for 412 Delaware, in the River Market. He says he’ll start construction as early as tomorrow, turning the 3,100-square-foot space into the second location of his Neapolitan pizza restaurant. Borger is hoping to open the venue March 1,…
Kansas City Chiefs safety Eric Berry has been diagnosed with Hodgkin lymphoma by doctors at Emory’s Winship Cancer Institute in Atlanta, the team announced Monday. “This is a diagnosis that is very treatable and potentially curable with standard chemotherapy approaches,” Christopher R. Flowers, M.D., director of the Emory Lymphoma Program at Emory’s Winship Cancer Institute, said in a statement released by the…
Many — too many — restaurants have opened and closed at 900 West 39th Street since the original tenant, Pangea, closed in 2008. That bistro was followed by a Mexican concept, then a Peruvian one and then, of course, the high-profile but short-lived Peanches. The newest restaurant in the space, a cheery pizzeria called Artego Pizza, may be the place…
Attention, lovers of 1980s synth-tastic baby-making music: Brooklyn’s Haerts is here for you. The group’s self-titled debut is a dreamy listen, suited for equal parts true love and bad decisions. To be fair, it’s not all “Sexual Healing”–themed cuts. “No One Needs to Know” finds lead singer Nini Fabi bemoaning an unfulfilling relationship, while “Giving Up” — clearly written for…
Sporting Kansas City handed off its Major League Soccer championship from a year ago to the Los Angeles Galaxy, which defeated the New England Revolution 2-1 in extra time Sunday to claim the league’s top prize for 2014. For Sporting Kansas City, the 2014 campaign was a difficult one — a season fraught with injuries, a busy slate of competitions…
There aren’t a lot of local platforms for KC’s fiction writers, poets and assorted wordsmiths. There’s the Writers Place, New Letters, some zines. But it seems like there should be more. So we are giving a big thumbs-up to KCUR’s recent announcement that it plans to start a new literary series called WORD. What’s the word on WORD? WORD is an…
Jenny Lewis with Orenda Fink Liberty Hall, Lawrence, KS Friday, December 5 For more photos, go here. Jenny Lewis strutted on stage last night at Liberty Hall dressed in her trademark rainbow-printed white pantsuit, looking for all the world like the gangster boss of sunshine and unicorns. She kind of acted like it, too: As she opened with “Silver Lining,”…
Eric Church with Dwight Yoakam and Halestorm Sprint Center Friday, December 5, 2014 With country shows, the audience knows what to expect. They’ve read the script. Tradition allows for a few variations – the name of the current city tucked into a favorite lyric, maybe, or a “new one” here and there, but even in an arena, mainstream country concerts…
The Dallas Cowboys were on top of the world just a couple of weeks ago. One big home loss to the Philadelphia Eagles on Thanksgiving Day later, and things are inches toward an unraveling. That doesn’t mean everything to this point has been wasted, however, as Tony Romo and co. have plenty of time to bounce back and solidify their…
The goal for Boulevard Brewing Co.’s Imperial Stout is “motor oil,” according to Boulevard brewmaster Steven Pauwels. “Our goal has always been: how can we make motor oil?” Pauwels says. “How can we make something that looks like motor oil? That’s always our goal: real black, high viscosity, that big round mouthfeel.” Boulevard’s Imperial Stout starts hitting store shelves in 750…
Here at The Pitch, we’ve become intimately familiar with open records laws in both Missouri and Kansas. The right, not privilege, to view official records is one of the few tools that the public has to keep tabs on what is done in our names. And it’s a right we exercise often. Sometimes, government institutions fight to absurd extremes to…
Saturday night at the Turner Rec Center is the beginning of a rebirth for Chris Gough’s Metro Pro Wrestling. The show, featuring the stated “last battle in Kansas City” between “Scrap Iron” Adam Pearce and Ace Steel, begins a stretch of a seven-show schedule through the end of 2015. “I missed it,” says Metro Pro owner Chris Gough. “It gets…
Since Saturday, local venue RecordBar has been closed due to some very un-festive sewage issues. The fixing took far longer than anyone anticipated, including co-owner Steve Tulipana, who explained the hold-up over the phone. “We’ve always had problems with that building, it’s just old,” Tulipana said. “So on Saturday, when the water stopped working, we had our guys came out…
The 10-seat communal table near the counter of the new Sundry Market & Kitchen, at 1706 Baltimore, was completely full during the lunch shift today, with patrons eating house-made pastrami sandwiches on chef Aaron Prater’s fresh-baked rye, a salad with red-lentil falafel or steaming bowls of polenta. The prepared foods and hot meals are major components of this new Crossroads…
