Archives: March 2015
Elvis Costello delivered an intimate, lengthy set at the Uptown last night
Elvis Costello with Larkin Poe Uptown Theater, Kansas City Thursday, March 5 For more photos, go here. Anyone who remained at Elvis Costello’s Uptown show last night until the very end – nearly two and a half hours after he started the night – left happy. Over the course of 31 songs – a setlist of both radio hits and…
Elvis Costello at Uptown Theater, 3/5/15
Elvis Costello performed an intimate, lengthy set at the Uptown Theater on Thursday, March 5. Openers Larkin Poe joined him for a seven-song portion of the set. All photos by Zach Bauman.
Goodbye, Vandals Punk Rock Club, hello…Jock Bar?
It’s official: Vandals Punk Rock Club is on its way out, despite the game attempt by that venue’s bartender and manager, Michelle Wyssman, to buy the bar and music venue at 3740 Broadway through a grassroots, community-sourced GoFundMe campaign to raise $10,000 to help her purchase the space. (That campaign, still posted on the GoFundMe site, had raised only $798 since being…
Dwight Twilley talks his split 7-inch with Josh Berwanger, at Love Garden on Saturday
Musician Dwight Twilley has been making music since the mid ’70s, when the Dwight Twilley Band had a Top 20 hit with “I’m On Fire.” His music’s often pigeonholed as power pop, but the bluesy aspects of the rock ‘n’ roll Twilley plays can’t be ignored, either. The Oklahoma-born musician’s career paused for a bit in the late ’80s and…
Need some bread? Don’t loaf, listen to KCUR’s Central Standard tomorrow
“Man shall not live by bread alone,” may be one of the most-quoted lines from the Bible. But what is life without a slice of yeasty, crusty, delectable bread? Local bakeries — and the breads they bake — will be the topic tomorrow at 10 a.m. on Central Standard, the KCUR 89.3 weekday program hosted by Gina Kaufmann. I will…
Your March First Friday hit list
Vera Mercer’s photographs are, in a word, huge. They take you in, her images now at Sherry Leedy Contemporary Art (2004 Baltimore). Each is a carefully composed table setting, in the style of 17th-century Dutch and Flemish still-life paintings — think bread, flowers, fruits, fish, fowl, cheese and crabs, arranged amid shiny silverware, sparkling glasses and dwindling candles. Everything is…
Helmet’s Page Hamilton on the 20th anniversary of Betty, playing at RecordBar on Sunday
Since their formation in 1989, Helmet can be said to be one of the forerunners of metal for the thinking man. With complex rhythms, powerful riffs and lyrics speaking of alienation, their music helped set the scene for bands like Deftones who followed in their wake. While the band broke up in the late ’90s, Helmet reformed in 2004. Since…
Did Missouri House Speaker John Diehl intentionally misrepresent himself to the EPA?
Last year, as part of President Obama’s Climate Action Plan, the Environmental Protection Agency put forward a plan to cut carbon pollution across the country. It calls on states to reduce their carbon via increasing the efficiency of existing power plants and encouraging development of wind and solar sources. The goal is for a 30 percent nationwide reduction of power-sector-generated…
With the possibility of a work stoppage averted, Sporting KC’s season set to start on Sunday
Sporting Kansas City fans got a double dose of good news at a pep rally at the Uptown Shoppes on Wednesday night. First, fans got a look at the team’s new uniforms, which have this graph-paper-style design, that make for a substantial upgrade over last year’s primary jersey. Then they learned that the Major League Soccer regular season would, in…
Cinder Block launch week events, Sierra Nevada Spiegelau glass night, Beers and Best Friends benefit for Wayside Waifs and more beer events
Thursday, March 5Cinder Block launch party, featuring Northtown Native, Rivet Rye, Weathered Wit, Block IPA, Pavers Porter, and Cinder Noel, at the Foundry (4057 Pennsylvania), 4–6 p.m. Cinder Block launch party, featuring Isle of Cinder Wee Heavy, Northtown Native, Rivet Rye, Block IPA, and Weathered Wit, at Rock & Run Brewery (110 E. Kansas, Liberty), 5–7 p.m. Dieu du Ciel…
Il Lazzarone pizzeria plans a March 14 grand opening
Erik Borger, the chef-owner of the Il Lazzarone pizzeria in St. Joseph, is still waiting. The former competitive bodybuilder had hoped that his new Kansas City restaurant at 412 Delaware might open this week, even though his stretch of Delaware is still virtually impassable because of the streetcar construction in front of his venue (there is an easily accessible parking…
Poco’s closed on Southwest Boulevard, moving to much smaller location
Last Sunday, March 1, was the final day of business for Pocos Mexican Cuisine at 3063 Southwest Boulevard. Later this month, a scaled-down Pocos will open in the tiny building at 240 East Linwood, across the street from the midtown Costco. This new venue, which will serve breakfast and lunch only, will be operated by Claudia Endicott, who has run…
Big XII Champs Kansas Close Out Regular Season With Tough Oklahoma Team
Kansas clinched an outright Big 12 regular season championship with their thrilling victory over the West Virginia Mountaineers last night in Lawrence, Kansas. Kansas was down 18 points, 14 at halftime, to force overtime where they came away with a victory. For Kansas, forward Perry Ellis had to leave the game and was unable to finish due to a knee…
A trend worth milking: figuring out the flat white
Six months ago, I’d never heard of the flat white. It could have been matte paint or fancy cheese, for all I knew, or perhaps an exceptionally pretentious craft beer. One day, I was reading about the frothy espresso drink on a New Zealand travel blog, and seemingly the next, it had popped up on the menu at my neighborhood…
Going Clear and four other True/False 2015 musts
In 2008, shortly after receiving the Best Documentary Oscar for Taxi to the Dark Side, director Alex Gibney told the crowd at the True/False Film Festival in Columbia, Missouri: “This is my first stop after that event in Hollywood. I looked at that as a warm-up to True/False.” For people who want to see some of the most essential, enlightening…
Shania Twain announces farewell tour, stops at the Sprint Center in August
After a successful two-year residency at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas, the queen of country pop is easing into retirement at a cool 49 years old. Shania Twain has just announced a farewell tour called Rock This Country. She stops at the Sprint Center Friday, August 7. Twain’s last album, Up!, was released in 2002, but it’s a testament to…
Sporting KC looks to return to championship form as it moves west
It’s hard to imagine that only two years ago, Aurélien Collin equalized Real Salt Lake’s late one-goal advantage over Sporting Kansas City in the Major League Soccer Cup final, sending the game to overtime where the French defender later scored the championship-winning penalty kick. The championship team fielding a starting lineup that day included staunch defensive midfielder Oriol Rosell and…
Tarence Maddox’s re-election chances took a hit after Tuesday’s primary election in Kansas City, Kansas
Tarence Maddox’s turbulent political career lives on for at least another month. The embattled Unified Government of Wyandotte County/Kansas City, Kansas, 4th District commissioner advanced out of a three-candidate primary election Tuesday night. But the bad news for Maddox is that he has plenty of ground to cover and little time to do it against top vote-getter Harold Johnson if he…
Dan Pflumm and Michelle Distler advance out of primary for Shawnee mayor
Tuesday’s primary election thinned the herd of four familiar Shawnee faces seeking to become mayor down to two, with Dan Pflumm and Michelle Distler moving ahead to the April 7 general election. Pflumm, whose family lineage tracks back to the early days of Shawnee’s history, was the top vote-getter with 1,259 cards cast in his name, or 30 percent of…
Kacie McDonnell, Sporting KC sideline, pre- and postgame reporter, talks KC love, meeting Derek Jeter and Bradley Cooper and scoring her new gig
Name: Kacie McDonnell Occupation: Reporter and anchor for KSHB Channel 41 Hometown: Pottsville, Pennsylvania Current neighborhood: KCMO What I do: I talk news on TV and now I get to talk sports when I should be sleeping. Who needs sleep! What’s your addiction? Pizza, red wine, Instagram, Chipotle bowls What’s your drink? Red wine, tequila and water, or Champagne (if…
Brady Vest ushers Hammerpress into its third decade with a new Crossroads space — and a rising national profile
Hammerpress has occupied a lot of Crossroads-area real estate since 1994, when owner Brady Vest founded what is today one of the most admired letterpress print shops in the country. “My first place was in the Leedy-Voulkos building,” Vest tells The Pitch. ” Hugh Merrill let me put my press and all my crap in the back of his shop…
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