Archives: May 2015
Shia LaBeouf is in Kansas City?
Both the Prairie Village Post and the Star report today that Shia LaBeouf, a Hollywood actor best known for being a generally ridiculous person, was in town yesterday, and possibly still today, filming scenes for an upcoming indie flick. The film, American Honey, which is also the name of a sweet, honey-flavored whiskey made by Wild Turkey, is about a…
Beer floats at Bier Station, Jolly Pumpkin sours at Flying Saucer, breakfast at Martin City and more beer events
Thursday, May 28Root Sellers float night, with Row Hard Root Beer, at Bier Station (120 E. Gregory Blvd.), 4–11 p.m. Jolly Pumpkin sour night, with La Roja du Kriek and Rozjilla, at Flying Saucer (101 E. 13th St.), 7 p.m. Friday, May 29 Beer and wine tasting, with New Belgium, Goose Island and Classique, at Brookside Wine & Spirits (600…
Drink This Now: Melon Margarita, a limited-edition cocktail, at 715 in Lawrence
Every day at Lawrence’s 715 restaurant, the bar debuts a limited-edition daily cocktail. A recent jaunt across the state line revealed such a pleasant invention that we couldn’t suppress our desire to tell you about it. Introducing: 715’s melon margarita. The daily menu described the ingredients as Camarena tequila, Vida mezcal, Cointreau, watermelon, cucumber, lime and agave. Nothing about that list…
Michael Rucereto, owner of KC Kickball Club, discusses Christmas at Paul Rudd’s house, sending Gordon and more
Name: Michael Rucereto Occupation: Owner of KC Kickball Club Hometown: Parkville Current neighborhood: The Northland What I do: By day, I am an architectural illustrator. But at night, I manage a kickball league in the best city in the U.S. of A. — made up of young professionals trying to relive their playground glory days. What’s your addiction? Right now,…
Jazz Beat: Roger Wilder Trio, at Take Five Coffee + Bar
Pianist Roger Wilder this weekend wraps up his month of hosting the Sunday Jazz Brunch at Take Five. His playing — with such no-holds-barred groups as Parallax — covers the jazz gamut, from classic ballads to intelligent, contemporary arrangements. (And he’s got a fun side: Ask him to play a few bars of the theme to The Simpsons.) Sunday, he’s…
Music Forecast May 28-June 3: Alabama Shakes, Father John Misty, Sundiver, Tame Impala, Shakey Graves, Lindsey Stirling, and more
%{}% %{}% Alabama Shakes, Father John Misty Brittany Howard’s voice is a stealth weapon of the first order, one moment softly promising peace, the next an explosive, devastating wail. She works her instrument thusly on Sound & Color, the latest from her band, Alabama Shakes. Released in April, the hotly anticipated follow-up to the band’s smash-hit 2012 debut, Boys &…
Going behind the scenes with Eleven Productions founder Jacki Becker
Jacki Becker isn’t an easy person to get face time with. The owner and operator of booking agency Eleven Productions is often working in the trenches, behind the scenes at concerts in Kansas City and Lawrence. But Becker is a ubiquitous presence on the scene and beyond. (The reach of the nearly 15-year-old firm is throughout Missouri, Iowa and Nebraska.)…
Arc Flash stays grounded despite stalker cyborgs
On a drizzly weekday, I meet the members of Arc Flash on the rooftop of a parking garage in downtown Lawrence. “We were kinda feeling the whole Deep Throat thing, ya know?” one of their e-mails had explained. The three members of this Lawrence garage-rock trio are strikingly dressed for this meeting. Drummer Mark Osman wears a paint-stained overall snowsuit…
You can still get grease on your upholstery at a few drive-in diners
I wish someone — one of these up-and-coming, hip young chefs — would reinvent the drive-in concept for the 21st century,” says Colby Garrelts, the James Beard Award-winning chef who co-owns Bluestem and Rye with his wife, pastry chef Megan Garrelts. He recalls meals at one of the local A&W drive-ins during his childhood. “We also had a local chain…
Summer guide 2015: Filling up three full months of summer events
JUNE Monday, June 1 Negroni Week Various restaurants Through Friday, June 5. Thursday, June 4 Avett Brothers Starlight Theatre kcstarlight.com Nick Offerman Unity Temple on the Plaza rainydaybooks.com Jesus Christ Superstar Musical Theater Heritage musicaltheaterheritage.com Through Sunday, June 21. The musical by Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber gets the professionally mounted Musical Theater Heritage treatment, with a talented ensemble…
Ronda Rousey strikes a balance inside and outside the Octagon
Being the best isn’t enough for Ronda Rousey. Since joining the UFC, the 28-year-old has dominated mixed martial arts, arm-barring her way to the Bantamweight Championship while ascending to an athletic elite. Watch her at work and you feel like she’d be tops at whatever sport she chose — including that other blood sport: branding. Over the past two months,…
The Pitch writes about the Star writing about The New York Times writing about Kansas City and other news from the Internet
Yesterday, The New York Times published a short item in its Travel section about Westport. The piece, titled “In Kansas City, All Things Craft,” highlighted five businesses in the ‘hood with a local/craft/artisanal bent: Julep, Port Fonda, Oddly Correct, Ca Va, and the Bunker. Westport’s emergence as a place to eat, drink and shop well, as opposed to just party,…
Missouri Supreme Court puts Kansas City lawyer Allison Bergman on probation
The Missouri Supreme Court on Tuesday placed the law license of prominent Kansas City lawyer Allison Bergman on two years of probation for violations of professional conduct while she represented Kansas City Terminal Railway. In disciplining Bergman, the court stopped short of accepting the Missouri Chief Disciplinary Counsel’s recommendation of indefinite suspension of her law license with no prospect of…
Can you still pu pu in Kansas City?
%{}% It used to be a hell of a lot easier to find a pu pu platter in Kansas City. I guess it helps to know what a pu pu platter is: a combination plate of popular Chinese-American appetizers, typically crab rangoon, fried chicken wings, spare ribs, egg rolls, and teriyaki beef on skewers that could be heated up on…
Kansas City Among the Least Expensive Stops On Rolling Stones Zip Code Tour
Just this past Sunday May 24, the Rolling Stones kicked-off their North American Tour with their first concert in San Diego’s Petco Park. According to international ticket reseller Ticketbis, the San Diego show has so far been the best selling among the Zip Code shows despite the high prices. In fact, fans have paid up to $380 on the secondary…
Of Monsters and Men stop at the Midland in October
Icelandic folk-pop group Of Monsters and Men have just announced a slew of tour dates in support of their forthcoming album, Beneath the Skin, due out on June 9. The band stops at the Midland on Friday, October 2. Tickets go on sale Friday, June 5, at 10 a.m. Details here. Categories: Music Tags: concert announcement, just announced, midland, of…
Kansas City Club closed suddenly, building is for sale
Chef Joe Shirley still plans to host his May dinner for Uberdine — his inventive pop-up restaurant business — tomorrow night, Tuesday, May 25 — in the Kansas City Club’s building at 918 Baltimore. It will be, in a way, the last hurrah for the club’s kitchen and the club. As of Saturday, there was officially no more Kansas City…
New Texas Tom’s restaurant opened today at 3360 Troost
Restaurateur Ali Nazam says he knew a good location when he saw it. The vacant storefront at 3360 Troost, which had been previously occupied by Teeshia’s Taste Cafe, looked like a good site, he says, for another Texas Tom’s fast-food restaurant; Nazam already owns a Texas Tom’s franchise at 6950 Prospect. Like that location, customers at the Troost venue order…
12 Baltimore’s Frank Lalumia wins Golden Fork competition at Taste of Kansas City
There were only five competing chefs at yesterday’s Taste of Kansas City event, sponsored by The Pitch (one chef dropped out of the contest at the last minute), but the dishes served to the judges were among the best ever at this annual test of creative improvisation and culinary skills. But it was Frank Lalumia, the executive chef for the Hotel…
The Kansas City Symphony, Diverse Jazz and more perform at Celebration at the Station on Sunday
If you prefer a more active, fun-filled Memorial Day weekend – as opposed to, say, the massive amounts of napping yours truly shall be undertaking – then the Kansas City Symphony has organized just the event for you. On Sunday, May 24, get down to Union Station for the annual Celebration at the Station. The Kansas City Symphony will be…
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