%{}% The restaurant-bar space at 1000 Broadway will become the third location for an Eggtc. restaurant next spring. Eyad Mallah, longtime partner in the two other Eggtc. venues (5107 Main, and 7182 Renner Road in Shawnee), confirmed that his partners in the new location are Price Brothers Management Company and veteran restaurateur John Geiger. Mallah says he hopes the new…
%{}% The last time I saw Jake Randall, he was being followed by a film crew. The fledgling fried-pastry entrepreneur had stopped by The Pitch offices to pass out samples of the delicacies he planned to serve when his proposed Doughnut Lounge — a bar, coffee café and doughnut emporium — finally opened. Back in June, he was still shooting for…
%{}% At the end of this month, Approach and MilkDrop release their collaborative album Poet at Heart on Datura Records — the first, MilkDrop says, in a slew of local releases from the Lawrence label. The first taste of Poet at Heart comes in its debut single, “Welcome Home,” produced by Approach and featuring DJ G Train. Over slick electronic…
%{}% Jim Norton, notorious funny person (and bestselling author of I Hate Your Guts and co-host of Sirius XM Radio’s The Opie with Jim Norton Show), has just announced a spring comedy tour. He stops at the Midland on Friday, April 15. Tickets go on sale Thursday, December 10, at 9 a.m. Details here. Categories: News Tags: jim norton, just…
%{}% BadSeed Market, the downtown Friday-night farmers market that opened in 2007 by husband-and-wife urban-agriculture pioneers Brooke Salvaggio and Dan Heryer, will close February 26. Salvaggio and Heryer had established a loyal clientele with their produce and fresh eggs, and BadSeed has also been a busy marketplace for other local vendors. For anyone playing bingo with words like organic and…
%{}% Earlier this week, Missouri Sen. Kurt Schaefer kicked up Kansas City’s earnings tax campaign early when he introduced a bill to eliminate the 1 percent tax on workers and residents in the city. Kansas City voters were going to vote in April anyway on whether to renew the tax. But Schaefer is so upset with Kansas City and St….
%{}% The wait for Crane Brewing Co.’s wild ales is almost over. Distribution of the Raytown brewery’s beer begins Monday, December 7, with a launch party at Barley’s Brewhaus (11924 West 119th Street, Overland Park) starting at 7 p.m. Asked Wednesday if everything was ready to go, Crane co-owner Chris Meyers told me bluntly, “No.” He laughed and continued: “For…
%{}% Yesterday, the Kansas City Symphony announced that Jason Seber will take on the role of assistant conductor for the 2016-17 season when associate conductor Aram Demirjian resigns. (Demirjian will fulfill his contract through the end of the 2015-16 season, after which he will move on to pursue new opportunities.) Seber comes to Kansas City from Louisville, Kentucky, where he…
%{}% Twice a year, the Kansas City Art Institute lets everybody come survey the latest work of its students. The End of Semester Student Exhibition and Sale is a glimpse into what the class-of-insert-year is thinking, not to mention an opportunity to make some predictions of your own — and add to your personal collection before some of these people…
It has been a reversal of fortune for the Kansas City Chiefs over the last six weeks, and the surge will hope to continue at O.co Coliseum this Sunday when they take on the Oakland Raiders. Winners of their last five games, the Chiefs enter the Week 13 matchup in the thick of the AFC Wild Card hunt, though the…
%{}% In support of its forthcoming album, the 1975 has just announced a new North American tour. The Manchester rock band stops at Starlight on Tuesday, May 3. The new album is titled I Like It When You Sleep, For You Are So Beautiful Yet So Unaware Of It. It’s not long enough to qualify for any world records, but it’s…
%{}% Scott Beskow is a little old-fashioned. Grünauer’s bar manager has been at the restaurant since it opened, in 2010. It’s a position he took following a two-decade career in the corporate world (as a bartender at O’Dowd’s and M&S Grill and, later, as the national corporate trainer for McCormick & Schmick’s). It’s not that he’s stuck in his ways,…
%{}% Two new cafes opened in Johnson County this week, both offering a new brand of local roast: Mother Earth Coffee. Both are located in Shawnee Mission Medical Center facilities: one off the main entrance of Shawnee Mission Medical Center (9100 West 74th Street, Merriam) and the other, which opened yesterday, inside Prairie Star (23401 Prairie Star Parkway, Lenexa). Both…
%{}% The biggest news of the day on Tuesday was Missouri Sen. Kurt Schaefer’s introducing legislation that, if passed into law, would end Kansas City’s earnings tax. Kansas City leaders have suffered an ongoing case of heartburn over the possibility that the city’s voters might choose not to renew the earnings tax in the April election. Last time it showed…
%{}% THURSDAY, DECEMBER 3Tallgrass meet-the-brewer night, with owner Jeff Gill and brewmaster Brandon Hoag and a tasting of four Explorer Series beers, at Tapcade (1701 McGee), $18, 7–9 p.m. Odell tap takeover, with Pina Agria, Friek, Oak Haven, Rawah, Hand Picked, Russian Pirate, 5 Barrel and Myrcenary, at Waldo Pizza (7433 Broadway), 6 p.m. Winterbock tapping and Toys for Tots…
%{}% Twitter handle: @JohnLHare Hometown: Parsons, Kansas Current neighborhood: Gladstone What I do: I use art, design and imagination to visually interpret ideas. In other words, I draw stuff. What’s your addiction? Listening to podcasts. What’s your game? Tricking people into thinking I’m a good listener despite not being able to shut down my inner dialogue enough to actually listen….
%{}% %{}% If you’ve seen The Nutcracker once, you’ve seen it 30 times. That’s true enough — if you’re an unrepentant humbug or if you miss the Kansas City Ballet’s world-premiere production of this altogether reimagined holiday classic. Devon Carney, who joined the company as its artistic director in 2013, has choreographed the all-new show, marking a departure from the…
%{}%(Read part one of this story here: How does a mother lose custody of her child to a man the courts know has beaten her? In Eastern Jackson County, it’s not that hard) Part Two of Two In the spring of 2014, Christy DiMaggio lugged her file-cabinet suitcase to the law offices of William Quitmeier, in North Kansas City. She…
%{}% If you’ve ever seen the TV sitcom The Nanny, you know Ann Hampton Callaway’s voice — she sang the theme song. As an actress, she starred in Broadway’s Swing! She sang in Washington, D.C., for Bill Clinton and in Moscow for Mikhail Gorbachev. Her compositions have been performed by Barbra Streisand, Patti LuPone and Carole King. Her own discography…
%{}% %{}% Jason Isbell In February, Alabama singer-songwriter (and former member of Drive-By Truckers) Jason Isbell wowed a packed and warm audience at the Uptown. Wednesday, Isbell makes a return visit to the same venue — and into our waiting arms. Isbell’s newest tour is in support of July’s Something More Than Free, the long-awaited follow-up to his acclaimed 2013…
%{}% %{}% The Heartland Men’s Chorus has always aimed for what it refers to as a “non-traditional holiday tradition” at its annual December concert. As Kansas City’s premier gay men’s chorus, the group has plenty of room to fill that niche. After the success of last year’s Kansas City Christmas, artistic director Dustin Cates wanted to solidify the annual program…
