Before the band heads out on tour, Beautiful Bodies will be playing a free, all ages show at Mills Record Company on Saturday. This would be a good time to catch the energetic rockers before they head out on the road with the Vans Warped Tour. The band is preparing to release its first full-length album with Epitaph Records, Battles,…
Stuffed grape leaves, custard-filled galaktobouriko pastry, marinated pork souvlaki skewers. It’s all on the menu this weekend at the 54th annual Greek Festival; the community of St. Dionysios Greek Orthodox Church in Overland Park has hosted a summer festival for over a half-century celebrating the native cuisine and culture of the Hellenic Republic. It draws huge crowds, so be prepared…
Need another reason to go to Chipotle’s Cultivate Festival on July 18? How about a one-off beer from Boulevard? The Kansas City brewery has made a beer — Cultivate Farmhouse Ale — that will only be served at Penn Valley Park during the festival (well, and last night’s media preview). As you can see, I couldn’t wait to try the…
How bad is the situation in Topeka right now? It is a shitshow of historic proportions. The state is $400 million in the hole and its lawmakers are too dysfunctional to fix it. The session is into overtime by 21 days — the longest session in the state’s history, with a cost to taxpayers approaching $1 million. Giant cuts to…
“The American Dream” Dusty Rhodes, the silver-tongued professional wrestler, has died at the age of 69. Rhodes (real name Virgil Runnels Jr.) was by far the best talker that the business had ever seen. Rhodes was a fixture on the biggest circuits — WWE, WCW, NWA, AWA, Mid-Atlantic, Florida Championship Wrestling — and he frequented the Kansas City territory. In…
%{}% Before they learned to love taxes, local Kansas House Republicans Ray Merrick, Jerry Lunn, Marvin Kleeb, Erin Davis, Ron Ryckman and Scott Schwab loved to hate taxes. All of those Johnson County House members have proclaimed in one fashion or another how taxes are too high in Kansas. And why not? No one gets elected in Kansas by promising…
Bon voyage, Westport Blanc Burgers + Bottles. Hello, Dempsey’s Burger Pub. The Lawrence burger restaurant is putting its first KC outpost in the heart of Westport in mid-July. Ernesto Peralta, co-owner of two Blanc Burgers + Bottles in the metro, announced today in a press release that he has reached a deal with Steve Gaudreau, owner of Dempsey’s Burger Pub, to…
If you haven’t been paying attention to the Tank Room’s calendar, here’s a regular thing to stamp into your own: Every third Sunday, the venue hosts Communion Residency – a showcase of up-and-coming national and local talent. This month, some exciting – and completely underrated – acts compose the lineup: Australia’s Jakubi, a five-piece that seems to have soul on…
Everything old is new again. For a while, it seemed like hardcore had started to mean something less than pummeling riffs and hoarsely shouted vocals; as the genre now starts to experience a nationwide roots resurgence, a band like Punchline starts to take on a certain sense of importance. Thus, it’s with an anxious eye that we continue to monitor…
The photo on this page shows all of the KC millennials who voted in the February primary. OK, not really — but the turnout was embarrassingly low. So from 5 to 7 p.m. Friday, ahead of the June 23 City Council election, The Pitch, LiveKC and MySidewalk are putting on a free candidates’ forum at Barney Allis Plaza. (June 5’s…
Update: Evidently I subconsciously wanted the Michael Smith anniversary dinner to be held earlier than it was planned, In an earlier version of this post, I reported that the dinner was to be held this month. The actual date of the event is Sunday, July 12, beginning at 6:30 p.m. Apologies to the readers and to the staff at Michael…
Boulevard Brewing Co. is releasing a lot of new beers this year. In fact, the brewery is putting out 12 new beers. Already out: The Calling, Heavy Lifting IPA and fresh takes on Imperial Stout (Aztec Chocolate came out last week). The latest is Tell-Tale Tart, which the label boasts is “a slightly sour ale.” Tell-Tale Tart started hitting Kansas…
Thursday, June 11Boulder Beer Co. night, with Shake, Cold Hop IPA, and a randall of Buffalo Gold, at Barley’s Brewhaus (16649 Midland Dr., Shawnee), with Boulder Beer’s Eric Minning in attendance, 4:30 p.m. Martin City Brewing Co. flight night, with 15 Pound Brown, Bitter Ale, Oak Black IPA and Mr. Vacation, at the Other Place (16590 W. 135th St., Olathe),…
They say that when one door closes, another opens. Chef Joe Shirley, the former executive chef at Kansas City’s Federal Reserve and the creator of the Uberdine pop-up dining events, wasn’t quite convinced of this platitude when his new employer, the Kansas City Club, closed its doors last month. Shirley, who started his new position last January, had been unprepared…
Sporting Kansas City’s current unbeaten streak takes a long break, as their next matchup doesn’t take place until June 21 against Real Salt Lake. The club’s last loss was on April 18 to the Los Angeles Galaxy, and since then, the team had a draw against the Houston Dynamo, a win against Chicago Fire, a draw against DC United, a…
From 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. today, Uber is celebrating a year in Kansas City by delivering Char Bar barbecue to you for $10. I made an order after 11 a.m., and it took me about five minutes to get through, but once I did, the driver arrived within about two minutes. He opened up a warming bag, handed me…
Hometown: Overland Park Current neighborhood: River Market What I do: I’m part owner of a personal-injury law firm, Meyerkord, Russell and Hergott, and I’m married to Stina, my best friend for more than 15 years. What’s your addiction? Reddit — everything from breaking news to cute pictures of cats. What’s your game? Camping. I’ve both won and lost, and the…
In this week’s edition of The Pitch, we have a roundup of all the folks running for Kansas City, Missouri’s City Council. We figure more information is better than less for a voting public. The piece, which you can read here, rounds up background information on candidates, who supports them (and for how much) and other pieces of information to…
Electronic duo Ratatat has just announced a string of summer dates in support of its forthcoming album, Magnifique, due out July 17. The band stops at the Uptown on Thursday, September 10. Magnifique will be the NYC band’s first full-length in five years, and if it’s going to sound anything like their latest single, “Cream on Chrome,” we’re ready for…
