Wynton Marsalis and Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra will play three concerts (Friday and Saturday) at the Symphony Center in Chicago, Illinois, this weekend. Friday’s show will feature selections from Jazz Titans: Duke, Dizzy, ‘Trane and Brubeck. On Saturday, Marsalis and the JLCO will be performing Jazz For Young People®: Who Is Dave Brubeck? The ensemble will inspire children of…
The Kansas Jayhawks are winners of 10 consecutive Big 12 conference regular season championships and are looking to claim their 11th. They are currently 19-4 and in first place in the conference yet again. A huge part of their success has been their play at Allen Fieldhouse in Lawrence, Kansas, where they only have lost once this year to the…
The Calling, the newest Boulevard Smokestack Series beer, is scheduled to hit Kansas City area taps Monday. Boulevard announced the Calling’s arrival on social media this afternoon. If you’ve been to Boulevard’s taproom lately, you’ve likely sampled this IPA (8.5 percent ABV, 75 IBUs). And there’s no need to get panicked about finding it: The Calling is a year-round beer….
The resurgent KSHB Channel 41 Action News climbed the local-ratings ladder in recent years, undoubtedly in part due to the work of its ace political and investigative reporters, Ryan Kath and Garrett Haake. By the end of the month, both men will be gone, not only from KSHB, but Kansas City entirely. Haake announced yesterday that starting in March, he…
The last time that The Pitch caught up with confectioner Natasha Goellner, in October, the local sweets maven, who operates her namesake Natasha’s Mulberry & Mott at 320 Ward Parkway on the Country Club Plaza, was three months pregnant and had developed an unexpected craving for sweet things. Now she’s just weeks away from her due date but still working hard,…
It has been a whirlwind few months for Independence act Madisen Ward and the Mama Bear. Last September, the mother-son duo performed at the Americana Music Fest and were given the thumbs-way-up approval of Rolling Stone. Since then, Madisen Ward and the Mama Bear have signed to the esteemed Glassnote Records and joined the lineup at Bonnaroo Music and Art…
A staggering 26 Kansas state senators have lined up to tongue the NRA’s boots co-sponsor S.B. 45, a reckless new gun bill that will eliminate permit requirements, including training and background checks, for concealed-carry gun holders. The Kansas Senate contains 40 members, so S.B. 45 has, uh, pretty good odds of passing through the Senate. If enacted, Kansas would become the fifth…
Tickets for the second installment of Boulevardia are set to go on sale at 10 a.m. Wednesday, February 25. The urban street fair is scheduled for Father’s Day weekend (June 19-21) in the West Bottoms. And for those of you planning on snagging tickets to the festival’s Taps & Tastes beer fest, which sold out in less than 30 minutes last…
Josh Berwanger is an artist in his own right these days, with his Josh Berwanger Band allowing him to step out from the shadows of the Anniversary and the Only Children. That being said, though, Berwanger made some great music with both of those bands, and the Anniversary’s Designing a Nervous Breakdown doesn’t often get the recognition it deserves. In…
Whenever Jon Stewart leaves The Daily Show later this year, he may take a moment to thank the state of Kansas for filling so much air time over the years. Kansas is a wonderful place in many respects, but the actions of its elected leaders make ample fodder for The Daily Show’s writers. Just late last year, Daily Show correspondent Jessica Williams…
The True/False Film Fest, Columbia, Missouri’s annual documentary film festival, celebrates its 12th year next month, from Thursday, March 5, through Sunday, March 8. Yesterday, the festival revealed the 2015 lineup. Here are some films that we thought looked promising: Best of Enemies, a look at the relationship between public intellectuals William F. Buckley and Gore Vidal in the 1960s. …
Next Wednesday kicks off the Lenten season — and yes, we’ll be posting our list of local fish-fry meals next week — when many local restaurants offer seafood specials for dining patrons who observe meatless Fridays (and Ash Wednesday, February 18, which is also a no-meat day for Catholics) during this period. In the case of Jax Fish House (4814…
Thursday, February 12Boulevard Chocolate Ale, Southern Tier Choklat, Odell Lugene Chocolate Milk Stout, Bell’s Two-Hearted Ale and Smitten Golden Rye, at Waldo Pizza (7433 Broadway) De Molen Hemel & Aarde Imperial Stout, at Flying Saucer (101 E. 13th St.), 7 p.m. Perennial Beer Dinner, at Happy Gillis Café (549 Gillis) Friday, February 13 Founders Canadian Breakfast Stout tapping, at Bier…
There’s a lot of debate about the origins of vodka,” Berto Santoro tells me. He leans against the bar at Extra Virgin and goes on: “Where, when, who first did it — it changes depending on who you’re with. If you talk to a Russian guy and say the Polish invented vodka, you might have a fight on your hands,…
Saturday is Valentine’s Day — one of the busiest nights of the year for restaurants. Your romance is their money. But would anyone working at a restaurant that night rather be eating in one with a date? Don’t bet on it. “If you really loved someone,” says Succotash owner Beth Barden, “you wouldn’t subject them to going out on Valentine’s…
