Long-running litigation between Ideker Inc. and an environmental group and Grandview officials may have reached its conclusion, with a Missouri court’s blessing that it can continue operating. The Missouri Court of Appeals on Tuesday dismissed a lawsuit, filed in 2013, that sought to keep Ideker from obtaining a permit to run an asphalt plant in Kansas City, due to concerns…
Chipotle’s Cultivate Festival has been stopping at various cities since the summer of 2011, but this is the first year the food and music event stakes its flag in Kansas City. In addition to some tasty eats and libations — provided by Chipotle and a couple local vendors — Saturday’s fest will also offer food exhibitions and chef demos. That’s…
Crane Brewing Co. is going to have a busy first year. Besides opening a 15-barrel brewhouse in Raytown, Michael Crane and his team is hosting a beer fest Labor Day weekend. The Festival of the Lost Township takes place from noon to 4 p.m. Saturday, September 5, at 62nd and Raytown Road. Slated to pour: * Big Rip Brewing Co. *…
Chase Scroggins has been putting out a few fires lately. Not long after the 25-year-old coffee roaster launched the website for his fledgling business, Cafe Noble — which sounds like a coffeehouse but isn’t — he began getting comments from coffee lovers who discovered the site. A typical response: “That photo of you was taken at Pirate’s Bone Coffee. Are…
Screw patio season. With highs in the 90s all week and the humidity trying to strangle our souls, the thought of having a meal outside is enough to take away our appetite. Cooking at home? Oh, yeah, sure, let me just turn on this flaming hot oven and boil some water. Sounds delightful. There’s no reason for our suffering, friends….
Summer Kamp Fest is back! The second-annual punk-rock festival is taking over three venues and one weekend in August: Friday, August 14 through Sunday, August 16. Fest organizer Britt Adair says there is at least one more band to be announced, which will bring the grand total of acts up to just over 20. The current lineup features acts both…
UPDATE: The commissioners have decided to reassess their vote. Dent County is a place in southeast Missouri where about 15,000 people live. Today, the County Commission there voted unanimously — unanimously! — to fly the flags at the courthouse and judicial building below half-mast on the 26th day of every single month between now and June 2016. Why the 26th?…
With a berth in the Group A quarterfinals already secured, some are concerned the United States men’s national soccer team will have little to play for when they take the field against Panama on Monday at Sporting Park in Kansas City in their final outing in group play of the 2015 CONCACAF Gold Cup tournament. Or maybe that won’t be…
To hear Doug Price describe three apartment buildings he bought near the Country Club Plaza, and the Plaza area in general, he’s a property owner in a declining part of town. Price, whose family is the namesake of Price Brothers Development, wanted to make the case last Friday to the Kansas City Historic Preservation Commission that three Nelle Peters-designed apartment…
It’s a big morning for the Midland with a slew of fall concert announcements. Pull out your planner, kids. Massachusetts metal band Godsmack has a show on Tuesday, September 29. The group is currently on tour promoting last year’s full-length, 1000hp. Details on that show here. Aaron Bruno’s eletro-rock project Awolnation stops through on Sunday, November 8. For those…
Last night was the final night of business for the nine-month-old Morton’s Grille restaurant on the Country Club Plaza. Today the managers are in the process of closing down the lesser-priced spinoff of the national Morton’s: the Steakhouse chain (owned by Houston-based Landry’s Inc.). A manager confirmed today that the restaurant — which The Pitch reviewed last February — is…
Sofia Varanka Hudson, the owner and co-founder of Swoon Cookie Crafters, the catering operation she started in 2007, has joined Green Dirt Farm as director of sales and marketing. But she’s keeping a finger in the cookie business. Hudson is in the process of closing her 12-year-old furniture store in the Crossroads, Hudson Home. She says she was looking for…
Like a lot of comics who have been working since before your friends were attempting to curate your laughter with Facebook, Jen Kirkman is everywhere — once you know where to look. Her most recent standup video hit Netflix in May (it’s very funny); she published a best-selling book last year (another one is on the way); she kills it as a podcaster;…
You wanna get out of town? This weekend, Des Moines is offering Midwestern music lovers the perfect excuse. The 80/35 Music Festival, now in its eighth year, kicks off tomorrow, Friday, July 10, with a dreamy lineup — including headlining spots from Wilco and Jenny Lewis. On Saturday, the fun continues with Weezer, Run the Jewels and the Orwells ……
If you popped into Harling’s Upstairs on Tuesday night hoping to catch a set from the New Jazz Order — the 16-piece big band that has held a weekly residency at the bar for the past eight years — trumpeter Clint Ashlock, the NJO’s organizer and leader, wants to say sorry. The band wasn’t there this week. And, he adds,…
One of the oldest saloons in Kansas City — the Twin City Tavern, at 1815 Westport Road — is the setting tonight for the third “Legacy Bars & Restaurants” networking event. It’s casual and open to the public and is hosted by KC Modern and Young Preservationists KC, both affiliate groups of Historic Kansas City. Today’s 5:30 p.m. gathering is, according…
A criminal group known as the Felony Lane Gang is causing trouble in Lee’s Summit, local news media are reporting. The group is said to be expert at vehicle smash-and-grabs — locating purses in cars, breaking the windows, skidding off to a bank and quickly cashing checks. What a skill set! Their name is derived from the drive-thru lane they…
The last album we heard from folk singer and songwriter Gillian Welch was 2011’s The Harrow & The Harvest. That album came after an eight-year drought from Welch and her partner, songwriter and guitarist David Rawlings, and the reward for Welch’s loyal fans was wholly felt. The Harrow & The Harvest was dark, sparse and deeply intuitive. Who knows when we’ll see…
Brenda Wood, a woman who rose to short-lived infamy during a botched attempt to buy the New York Life building in downtown Kansas City, faces a series of new federal charges. Wood, a 47-year-old from Leavenworth, is accused by a federal grand jury in Kansas of carrying out a check-kiting scheme, misappropriating someone else’s Social Security number to open a…
The dangerous part of following the Vinyl Underground at 7th Heaven’s Facebook page is the near-constant barrage of vinyl treasures threatening to drain your wallet. The upside is the simultaenously near-constant stream of intriguing local releases. The shop’s really good at cluing customers into vintage local stuff, and last week, this gem popped up. Smoke’s Risin’ was released on Kansas…
