The members of the year-old Temp Tats are not used to talking about their band. They sit side by side, the four of them crammed onto 27-year-old bassist Chris Paul’s couch in his Shawnee home, sipping beers and occasionally eyeing the TV. The game has been switched off, but Paul’s eyes dart toward it now and then as he wonders…
Generally uncontested truths about Clancy Martin: • He is a philosophy professor at the University of Missouri–Kansas City, specializing in existentialism. • He is one of the “Ethics Professors,” a panel on KCUR 89.3’s Up to Date that once a month discusses and analyzes the ethical implications of current events. • He teaches courses on business ethics and occasionally does…
Song changes. The tradition remains. “Hey, Kansas City!” is your new TD celebration song: http://t.co/nRfKWmTcMu pic.twitter.com/eHQ0jZiYZo— Kansas City Chiefs (@chiefs) September 16, 2015
Eddie Crane is back on Martini Corner, moving into an old Haus and giving it a new name. Haus, you’ll recall, was Chris Seferyn’s German-influenced gastropub (sausages, beer, sausages, cocktails, sausages) at 3044 Gillham Road. The squat, brick former gym never really got past its looks — a vague resemblance to a bunker — and closed in 2014. Crane —…
Chef Josh Eans tells The Pitch that Kansas City’s first all-ramen restaurant, the Columbus Park Ramen Shop, will open the first week in October, with a series of low-key events — several for the bigger donors of the successful Kickstarter campaign mounted by Eans and his wife, Abbey-Jo, last March. The 20-seat ramen restaurant was constructed inside a former garage…
It’s hard out there for a Catholic priest these days. The pedophiles keep getting slapped with lawsuits for molesting children. The unpleasant task of repairing the reputation of the church falls to everybody else. The Kansas City-St. Joseph Catholic Diocese has been an international symbol for the Catholic church’s sexual-abuse crisis. Its former leader, Bishop Robert Finn, was convicted of a misdemeanor…
In February, Alabama singer-songwriter (and former member of the Drive-By Truckers) Jason Isbell wowed a packed and warm audience at the Uptown. In December, like an early Christmas present, Isbell returns to our waiting arms at the same venue with a show on Wednesday, December 9. Isbell’s newest tour is in support of July’s Something More Than Free, the long-awaited…
It’s happening: The electro-rock weirdness of KC native Cody Critcheloe, who performs as SSION, is back in town with a show on Thursday, September 17, at the Brick. Since his first release in 1999, Critcheloe has used the moniker as an umbrella for a variety of creative projects — including a flourishing presence as a producer and director. (His latest…
Broadway Kansas City, formerly the Broadway Jazz Club, is closing. The news came out yesterday on Pitch contributor Larry Kopitnik’s jazz blog, KC Jazz Lark. According to the post, BKC’s owners, Jim and Margaret Pollock, are planning on keeping the venue running with a limited menu and music calendar for the next two to three months. From KC Jazz Lark: An…
Brent Barber’s presence in Kansas City was once likened to that of a hurricane. That comparison was made by the U.S. Attorney who in 2006 prosecuted the Belton man for his mortgage fraud scheme, which left sections of midtown and the East Side in ruins. Barber pleaded guilty and received a 12-year sentence, along with an order to pay $11.2…
When Scott Kalwei finally opens the doors to the Ruins, at 1715 Main, tentatively at the end of September, the saloon will feature a self-serve beer bar with 40 taps. Kalwei says it’s the first digital self-help wall of taps in the metro. Each of the taps has a computer screen and operates from a temporary card, the size of…
Today’s New Music Monday packs a whopping punch, thanks to local label the Record Machine. On Friday, Lawrence rock band Westerners released two singles (“like a digital 7-inch,” label founder Nathan Reusch writes): the slow-building, high-powered “Tetris” and the jangly “Dog Years.” Both songs were recorded by the Record Machine’s own Alex Ellis and Gus Rechtien of local rock band…
Tetris B/W Dog Years by Westerners
How To Keep Dreaming by The Record Machine
Tetris B/W Dog Years by Westerners
Since 2007, Megabus has offered cheap transportation — sometimes as low as a couple of bucks if you time your purchase right — between Kansas City, St. Louis and Chicago. The bus service added stops in Columbia, Missouri, the following year, and has become a popular choice for college students shuttling between Columbia and KC (or St. Louis). But in…
Charles d’Ablaing, the executive chef at Chaz on the Plaza, the dining room in the Raphael Hotel on the Country Club Plaza, confirmed to The Pitch today that he has given his notice to the hotel owners and plans to leave his position. He was the hotel’s executive chef for five years. Chef d’Ablaing, who served as executive chef at Webster…
Erik Borger, owner of the seven-month-old Il Lazzarone pizzeria at 412 Delaware in the River Market, says he’s obsessed with perfection. That means he’s constantly juggling a lot of ideas and projects, including revamping his Il Lazzarone menu and signing a lease on the former Open Fire Wood Burning Pizza location at 3951 Broadway. There, he’ll test his perfectionism on…
