A year ago, the owners of the popular Summit Grill & Bar in Waldo (500 West 75th Street) told The Pitch that they’d been looking all over to find a location for the ramen restaurant they wanted to open. Chef Domhnall Molloy and general manager Andy Lock wanted about 4,000 square feet — about the size of the Waldo Summit….
Lawrence’s power-pop powerhouse and Get Up Kids contemporaries the Anniversary broke up more than a decade ago, after releasing two excellent LPs, Designing a Nervous Breakdown and Your Majesty. With band members scattering across the country and/or starting new musical projects, including Dri (from Adrienne Verhoeven) and the Josh Berwanger Band, it seemed beyond unlikely that the group would ever…
The Cordish Companies are building another apartment tower in downtown Kansas City with more help from taxpayers. Cordish, which developed the Power & Light District, will be getting $17.5 million as part of a larger bond sale that the Kansas City Council approved last week. The $17.5 million will pay for a new parking garage underneath the 300-unit apartment building,…
The recently reunited version of Guns n’ Roses — featuring original members Axl Rose, Slash and Duff McKagan — is officially coming to Kansas City this summer. When and where remain for now a mystery, but we can all crack open a Friday-night beer in celebration that Kansas Citians will be among those to see Slash share a stage with…
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Keepers of the Triforce, unite! A live orchestra is coming to Kansas City’s Music Hall (301 West 13th Street) to play music from Nintendo’s Legend of Zelda series of video games on Saturday, March 26. Listen to the symphony play in sync as key moments from the franchise play out on a big screen. Time to get out your Link…
Carrie Underwood recently wrapped up the European leg of her highly anticipated Storyteller Tour in support of her most recent record Storyteller, which was released back in October. Carrie Underwood will begin her U.S. and Canada dates on March 24, and she will then wrap up her route in London, Ontario on May 30. Tickets to see Carrie Underwood are…
Bonnie Winston, the chef and culinary consultant that The Pitch profiled in 2011, died today from injuries sustained in a serious car accident on March 17 near Sarasota, Florida. Winston was best known for creating the menu for the trend-setting Prospect of Westport restaurant three decades ago, and for her appearances on KCUR 89.3’s Walt Bodine Show. Categories: News Tags:…
Thursday 3.24You’ve seen Foxy Brown and Coffy, but your Pam Grier exploitation-flick fix isn’t quite satiated? Get Arrow Video’s release of 1973’s Black Mama, White Mama on Blu-ray, which starts as a ripoff of The Defiant Ones, with Grier and co-star Margaret Markov chained to each other after escaping a women’s prison in the sweltering heat of the Philippines. They…
