The glass-walled venue at 500 West 75th Street had the look of success when it was called Remedy. But it lacked most of the other elements crucial to a good restaurant and, after opening with a bang two years ago, it fizzled slowly into irrelevance. Now, though, two dining veterans have given this address a very promising new start. Andy…
%{}% Marni Carlson talks about her vintage 1962 Layton camper as though it’s a member of the family. She and her husband drove to Arkansas to retrieve the vehicle in August, and they’ve now completely remodeled the interior, transforming it from camper to, as she puts it, “glam-per.” For Carlson, it was love at first sight. “His name is Puddles,”…
%{}% A group of Platte County residents have had some success drumming up opposition to a planned residential subdivision near Parkville but have yet to triumph in court. A Missouri Court of Appeals decision on Tuesday affirmed a lower court’s decision that favored the developer of a 379-lot subdivision called Chapel Ridge. Chapel Ridge, a 143-acre project near Tom Watson…
%{}% Absinthe, the famous (and allegedly hallucinogenic) liqueur banned in the United States for nearly a century (until 2007), gets the glamour treatment at the two-week-old Vom Fass, at 515 Nichols Road on the Country Club Plaza. For patrons who want to taste the potent liqueur, the store’s owners — former Sprint executives Brett and Autumn Guthrie — strongly suggest taking…
%{}% “Fuck,” the first text read. A minute later, another: “Lemmy Kilmister is dead.” Seconds later: “Fuck.” Friend and former Pitch writer Peter Rugg sent those texts to me last night, and so began a mournful end to Monday night. When I read those words — even reading them now — I’m in denial. Lemmy dead? After 70 hard-charging, seemingly…
%{}% When Lawrence EDM DJ Michael Packard went missing after New Year’s Eve in 2013, a hue and cry went up in the local music community. Packard, who DJ’d under the name Dreadheadedslut, was beloved, and when his body was found a couple days later, tributes poured forth on Facebook and Twitter. After two years, the DJ community comes together…
%{}% Two veterans of Kansas City’s Bread & Butter Concepts are now operating the RND Corner Grille in Lawrence, which opened December 18 at 801 Massachusetts, the former location of the Esquina and Intorno restaurants. The restaurant is owned by Bret Spring and Zach Marten of Kansas City’s Coal Vines pizzeria and Westport Ale House. Daniel White, who was executive…
%{}% Five months after Overland Park-based Butcher Block Concepts — the company created by local father-and-son team Thomas Hughes Sr. and Thomas Hughes Jr. — opened its first Korean-style chicken-wings restaurant, Bonchon Chicken, the venue has closed. The restaurant was at 1740 Northwest Chipman Road in Lee’s Summit. This was, as The Pitch reported last July, the first local outpost…
%{}% On Christmas Eve, Info Gates gave the gift of music with the release of a new EP called A Kansas City Story. There are some great surprises on this seven-track collection as Gates — born Justin Gillespie — takes the listener through a host of KC scenes that ping-pong from positive to gritty. (Given the holiday, it almost…
%{}% At last, winter has come. As Kansas City prepares for an onslaught of snow through this afternoon, it seems entirely reasonable for you to bar the door and bury yourself under the blankets. If you choose to leave the comfort of your home, though, know that there are a few hot liquid antidotes for the winter blues out there…
%{}% The Kansas City Chiefs are in the NFL playoffs after reeling off a ninth-straight victory Sunday, and head coach Andy Reid is pretty excited. The Chiefs held off a late rally by the Cleveland Browns to take a 17-13 victory. So what’s the road ahead look like? Potential more reasons for Reid to do a victory dab. An AFC…
%{}% Ah, Christmas — that day a month after Thanksgiving when you get a side of presents with your holiday meal. That day when you joyfully sit around in a circle in your grandmother’s living room, holding hands with members of your extended family, lovingly enjoying the company of people you rarely see — people who definitely share your values,…
%{}% THURSDAY, DECEMBER 24 Crooked Stave Surette Provision tapping, at Flying Saucer (101 E. 13th St.), 7 p.m. Brandy-oaked Tripel and Dark Horse Rye Barrel-Aged Baby Quad tappings, at Green Room Burgers and Beer (4010 Pennsylvania), 11 a.m. SATURDAY, DECEMBER 26 Best of the Midwest, at Bier Station (120 E. Gregory Blvd.), 11 a.m. MONDAY, DECEMBER 28 Goose Island Bourbon…
%{}% If Kansas law requires that a woman undergo counseling before seeking an abortion, is it too much to ask that Kansas legislators undergo some training in basic civics before voting on legislation? The Kansas Legislature over the last two years has attempted to bypass the separation of powers between it and state courts, in the process throwing dirt on…
%{}% Every year, local musicians get into the spirit of the season with covers of classic songs, as well as originals that get to the heart of the holiday. We’ve scoured the web to find you some of the finest music to soundtrack your holidays. Be it indie-pop, jump boogie or smooth R&B, your tastes are covered this Christmas. Sam…
%{}% Twitter handle: @fritzakakickass Hometown: Louisville, Kentucky Current neighborhood: Mission What I do: I’m lucky to be hosting The Pit on 98.9 the Rock. My boss is smart enough to know how passionate metal fans are. I have the honor of hosting the loudest hour of radio in KC! What’s your addiction? Coffee, music and answering questions What’s your game?…
%{}% If you think a movie centered on establishing a link between pro football and a brain condition disproportionally suffered by NFL players — called chronic traumatic encephalopathy — sounds maybe a little slow, let me reassure you on three points. One, have you watched an NFL game lately? Pretty fucking slow. Two, Concussion — the bluntly titled, fact-based-ish movie…
%{}% Smart, profane and funny, The Big Short is Hollywood’s most welcome surprise of 2015: a hugely entertaining movie about the credit-default swaps that tanked our economy at the dawn of the Obama administration. Somehow, Adam McKay (previous high watermark: Step Brothers; no, I’m serious — it’s desert-island good), directing a screenplay that he wrote with Charles Randolph, has turned…
%{}% %{}% Articulating exactly what is wrong, insulting and grotesque about The Danish Girl — The King’s Speech director Tom Hooper’s latest bit of corporate Oscar bait — is a job unto itself, and I’m by no means the most qualified applicant. The film is a symptom of a culture in which cisgender people, some gay but mostly straight, take…
%{}% The first 45 minutes or so of Joy, writer-director David O. Russell’s feature-length attempt to pass the Bechdel Test (A plus, not for nothing), taps into the self-assured giddiness of his previous couple of movies, using three of their key actors. But unlike the sparkling Silver Linings Playbook and its more panoramic but less focused follow-up, American Hustle, Joy…
%{}% %{}% The other night, I decided to rewatch my two favorite movies this year — two movies that couldn’t be more different, except for the love I feel for them. Mad Max: Fury Road is all maximalist gestures, painted in a palette of rust, dust, fireballs and speed — a motor-psycho hellscape out of Springsteen’s “Born to Run,” monster…
%{}% If you want to talk about the best of Kansas City’s new generation of jazz musicians, you’ll have to include saxophonist and flutist Steve Lambert and trumpeter Ryan Thielman, whose tight solos are marked by imagination and invention. Over Christmas weekend, Green Lady Lounge offers four chances to hear them together. Christmas Eve, they’re joined by drummer John Kizilarmut…
