%{}% Today is the big day: The Pitch Burger Week has officially started with $5 burger specials offered by 16 different restaurants and bars through Sunday, October 25. It’s the best deal for handhelds in the metro — these featured burgers typically cost in the $11-$12 range. The entire list of participating restaurants and their distinctive burgers — some created…
%{}% Last week, Radkey released a new video for “Glore,” a hard-and-fast track of its August-released debut full-length, Dark Black Makeup. It’s the three St. Joseph brothers as you have never seen them before: clay-ified. The video was made in London by a rotating team of claymation artists and directed by animation master Nicos Livesey, and the whole process took about…
%{}% The Kansas City metro continues to lag behind regional and peer cities in growing employment, according to new figures published by the Mid-America Regional Council. A workforce-indicators report out on Monday shows that while Kansas City has employed 13,000 more people currently than at this point a year ago, it lost 6,700 jobs between February and August. By comparison,…
The NASCAR Sprint Cup Series Championship had its first race of the Contender 12 last week on October 10th. Joey Logano, who has automatically secured a spot in the Eliminator 8 with the victory, won the Bank of America 500 by leading 227 of the 334-lap race. The Sprint for the Chase Cup started with 16 drivers racing in a…
%{}% Horror fans have heard good buzz about the new anthology movie Tales of Halloween. Turns out the buzz is justified: Though it can’t quite surmount what I lovingly call “the anthology curse” (no freakshow crazy quilt comes without a few snags), my tally shows seven out of 10 segments here earn either laughter or a hushed and grateful ewwwwwwww. An…
%{}% Royals fans have no love for Joe Buck. The Fox sportscaster’s fawning over San Francisco Giants ace Madison Bumgarner’s domination during last season’s World Series created a chasm between the two. After Buck was named the announcer for tonight’s game 1 of the Royals-Blue Jays American League Championship Series, KC fan Adam Jones started a Change.org petition to ban…
The competition finally was a little easier for the Kansas City Chiefs after a three-week stretch featuring the Denver Broncos, Green Bay Packers and Cincinnati Bengals as opponents. After a three-game losing streak, a home game against the 1-3 Chicago Bears was a welcome sight. Unfortunately for Kansas City, it was anything but. In a game where star running back…
%{}% Toronto Mayor John Tory and Kansas City Mayor Sly James made the customary municipal bet on the outcome of the American League Championship Series between the Blue Jays and the Royals. If the Royals win, James gets a bunch of craft beer from Toronto. If the Blue Jays prevail, Tory gets — what else? — Kansas City barbecue. Tory…
.@JohnTory ‘s mayoral bat flip #ComeTogether pic.twitter.com/C9XixGX85p— NEWSTALK1010 (@newstalk1010) October 16, 2015
%{}% Prog-rock band Coheed and Cambria deviate a bit from its usual bag of mystical themes on its new album, The Color Before the Sun. This time, frontman Claudio Sanchez drew inspiration from his own life rather than the science-fiction creations of his mind — for the first time, fans will have an intimate insight into his life. Tonight, the band…
%{}% %{}% It’s easy to forget that Danny Boyle directed Steve Jobs – at least, until you see Steve Jobs. This highly contained biopic of the late Apple co-founder and alleged techno-cultural visionary (played by Michael Fassbender) isn’t an expansive visual journey through Jobs’ many achievements. (And to be fair, we’ve got at least two other films about that part…
%{}% This Saturday, October 17, marks the third annual International Cassette Store Day. CSD isn’t related to, nor is it as big as Record Store Day, an event which has now branched out to include a Black Friday event in addition to its April brouhaha. However, there’s something almost purely nostalgic about cassettes. With the spinning plastic cogs, one gets…
%{}% Have doughnuts always been known as a breakfast meal? Culinary historians — who agree that fried cakes date back to prerecorded history — say no; the pastries we now call doughnuts, or donuts, were brought to America by Dutch settlers, who called them olykoeks or “oily cakes.” These could be eaten day or night. We don’t often think of doughnuts…
%{}% If the Flying Saucer Draught Emporium at 101 East 13th Street in the Power & Light District opened earlier than 11 a.m. each day (noon on Sundays only), the burger they’ve devised for next week’s Burger Week, sponsored by The Pitch, would make a great breakfast sandwich. This burger features three staples of a traditional American breakfast (actually four,…
%{}% The previous Kansas City, Missouri, City Council led a busy lame-duck session, using its last week in power to pass a series of major initiatives. One was approving public incentives for the proposed $307 million convention-hotel deal, roughly half of which will be financed by tax redirections or abatements. A week later, nine of the 12 council members from…
%{}% This week, The Pitch released the Best of Kansas City issue, and Up-Down cleaned up. In addition to being named the Best Iowa Import, the barcade scored big in our readers’ choice vote, claiming awards for Best Bar to Meet People, Best New Bar or Club, and Best Place for a Guys Night Out. We’re big fans of Up-Down,…
%{}% Last week, the Phoenix Jazz Club launched its new fall drink menu — the first under the direction of bar manager Rachel Freeman, who took over the position in May (Freeman had previously been at Cleaver & Cork). Knowing Freeman’s love for brown spirits and spices, I was pretty excited to see what the season had inspired in her…
%{}% The Jackson County Department of Corrections and its overworked and underpaid jail guards are the subject of a new lawsuit brought by a former inmate. Megon Riedel, represented by the American Civil Liberties Union, claims that jail guards — despite being warned by Truman Medical Center physicians that Riedel was in a high-risk pregnancy and that active labor was imminent…
%{}% When Chance the Rapper opened his show Wednesday night at the Midland Theatre with “Cocoa Butter Kisses” from his 2013 breakout mixtape Acid Rap, the young Chicago MC already held the crowd rapt with attention. By the second time he and his band the Social Experiment broke into the track, late into their sprawling and intoxicating set, the whole…
%{}% Fuddruckers, the Houston-based fast-casual chain devoted to the hamburger — although it also offers chicken sandwiches, salads, and a veggie burger — is back in the metro and participating in next week’s Burger Week, sponsored by The Pitch. During Burger Week — Monday, October 19, through Sunday, October 25 — 16 area restaurants will each offer a distinctive hamburger,…
