Patrick Ryan, the chef-owner of Westport’s popular Port Fonda, is headed back to college this fall. But not as a student. Ryan, a graduate of Western State College (now Western State Colorado University) and the Western Culinary Institute (now Le Cordon Bleu College of Culinary Arts) in Oregon, is readying a second location of his three-year-old restaurant in downtown Lawrence,…
Warby Parker, the beloved online glasses retailer launched in 2010, has recently been opening storefronts in the United States’ largest cities: New York, San Francisco, Dallas, Miami. The company arrived in the Midwest in April, with a store in Chicago. Up next is Kansas City. Its first store in our humble burg opens this Saturday, September 12, on the Country…
On Friday, math-rock trio Riala — lead singer and guitarist Nicholas Turner, bassist Kalo Hoyle and drummer Morgan Greenwood — released their debut album, Be Here | Be There, on Haymaker Records. It’s a moody seven-track experience that begs repeated listens. Turner’s voice is just a touch acerbic — any more and he’d be in danger of crossing over into emo-rock territory,…
Be Here | Be There by Riala
Something awful has happened to Pee-wee Herman: His beloved bike has been stolen. Again. While walking my dog, “The American Dream” Dusty Rhodes, through the Crossroads earlier today, I stumbled across an ’80s flashback of a reward sign posted on a telephone pole along 17th Street between Walnut and Main behind the Mainmark building. Unfortunately, the number listed has been…
%{}% The worst-kept restaurant secret in Kansas City is out: Chef Alex Pope’s full-service Local Pig restaurant at 510 Westport Road —previously Bridger’s Bottle Shop — is closing Saturday, September 12. The staff was notified of the impending closing yesterday. Alex Pope tells The Pitch that his one-year lease on the space ended this month and that he declined to…
%{}% College football is back and with it comes marching band antics. Last night, the Kansas State University marching band fired the latest shot in the Sunflower Showdown with the Kansas Jayhawks. What that shot was depends on your eye. So … is the Wildcats’ marching band boldly exploring a strange space monster or making a Jayhawk perform NSFW acts?…
Kansas City was a bus stop for Applebee’s International between its trip from Lenexa to Los Angeles County. The casual-dining chain’s parent company, DineEquity, said on Friday that it would move its corporate headquarters from Ward Parkway to Glendale, California — a suburb of Los Angeles. It will cut 100 employees or so and leave about 90 in Kansas City…
Derek Klingenberg, a farmer in Peabody, Kansas (about 50 miles north of Wichita), achieved Internet virality last year for his “cow trombone” video, where he serenaded his cattle to the tune of Lorde’s “Royals.” It is actually a pretty beautiful video. This week, Farmer Derek, as he is known, posted a new video from the Kansas prairie. In it, he…
You know what I love about Best of KC season? The opportunity to celebrate all the things I have discovered over the last 12 months in this beautiful, truly surprising city. As a non-native, nothing makes me more proud to be a Kansas Citian than flipping through The Pitch’s annual Best Of issue and pointing out all the things —…
Here’s a serious bummer to start your Labor Day weekend: Applebee’s is moving its headquarters from Kansas City to Glendale, California. That move will lead to layoffs among the 220 employees at the fast-casual restaurant’s headquarters, The Kansas City Star reports. About 90 of those folks will keep their jobs in KC, and another 10-20 percent will be asked to head…
%{}% Remember Y2K? Kelly and David Kuhn do. The couple used the turn of the century and its millennial anxiety as their cue to open Blue Gallery (118 Southwest Boulevard), which, over the past 15 years, has become a staple destination for local art. For this month’s First Friday (6–9 p.m. September 4), the featured exhibition at Blue zeroes in…
Well, here it is: Ozzy Osbourne, Tony Iommi and Geezer Butler are mounting their respective dark horses for one last time. Legendary metal band Black Sabbath has just announced its retirement, along with a final tour appropriately called “The End.” The band stops at Sprint Center on Wednesday, February 17, 2016. Here’s the official tour announcement with some impressive voice-over…
Just a few weeks ago, High Dive Records announced the signing of the Conquerors. Now, they’re adding one more name to the ever-growing roster: Josh Berwanger Band. Josh Berwanger Band’s last release was an excellent full-length called Strange Stains in 2013. High Dive will be releasing the band’s new EP, Demonios, in October. If it sounds anything like the polished,…
Summertime means bands are going on the road, hanging out on porches, and doing everything except releasing music videos. That said, we’ve scoured the tubes and found a lovely selection of music to entertain your eyes and ears while you hide out inside from the last vestiges of the summer heat. In this edition of Cine Local, we take a…
The Kansas City Royals’ surprise playoff run last fall was a boon for local vintage sportswear maker Charlie Hustle, whose trademark shirt — the “KC logo inside a heart” tee — could hardly keep up with demand as the Royals marched toward the World Series. This year, with the Royals holding a comfortable lead atop the American League Central, another…
There’s a new installation being erected on the grounds of the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, but it’s temporary and has no connection to visual art. It has everything to do with the art of barbecue. The crane, the lights, the stage — all are in position for the new Food Network series BBQ Blitz, hosted by former NFL player Eddie Jackson,…
