A friend of mine tells me he was scandalized by the prices at the one-week-old KC Kitchen & Pizzeria at 3906 Waddell Avenue, in the former Nichols Lunch location.“It’s obscenely expensive!” he says, his face shading toward the color of tomato sauce. “They’re charging $30 for a pizza and $11 for a basic house salad.”No, they’re not. Quite.All of the…
Jackson County political leaders and dignitaries gathered on the balmy afternoon of May 2, under a tent at a Union Pacific rail station near the place where Interstate 435 passes over Blue River. They’d come to finalize an agreement for the railroad company to sell the 18-mile Rock Island Rail Corridor to Jackson County and the Kansas City Area Transportation…
On April 12, Bloomberg published a report that described how Philadelphia payday-lending pioneer Charles Hallinan had become an investor in financial-technology companies.The report surfaced weeks after Hallinan was brought up on federal racketeering charges in connection to his predatory-lending empire. Hallinan, Bloomberg reported, was an investor in Everest Business Funding, a new generation of lender that extends credit to consumers…
As any actor might, Keith Baxter sounds happy to be plugging the New York premiere of his movie. But if his enthusiasm seems unusually pronounced, there’s a good reason: He’s had to wait half a century for that big premiere.Chimes at Midnight, Orson Welles’ adaptation of William Shakespeare’s Henry IV (both parts) and Henry V, earned a warm reception at…
As a rule, prosecutors don’t like so-called “stand your ground” gun laws — those that allow citizens to use lethal force in the face of a perceived threat without first attempting to retreat. Such laws, according to the Association of Prosecuting Attorneys, “may inhibit the ability of law enforcement and prosecutors to hold violent criminals accountable; may encourage vigilante behavior;…
Thursday 5.12Slick Rick “The Ruler” Xtraordinairs, the Faculty, Approach, Negro Scoe and moreRiot Room, 4048 BroadwayAttic SaltThe Brick, 1727 McGeeUnknown Mortal OrchestraBottleneck, 737 New Hampshire, LawrenceOJTGreen Lady Lounge, 1809 GrandReal Adults, Youth Pool, SugoReplay Lounge, 946 Massachusetts, LawrenceTrombone Shorty & Orleans AvenueSharon Jones and the Dap KingsCrossroads KC, 417 E. 18th St.Friday 5.13Jazz DisciplesThe Blue Room, 1616 E. 18th St.Bad…
Since the early 1980s, Kansas City has known Ida McBeth’s spirited mix of jazz plus blues plus R&B, a sound the singer further dips in gospel before serving with emotion and delightful sass. And even before then, this city knew hoofer “Pops” McFadden’s boys. Lonnie plays trumpet, Ronnie plays sax, and both can tap dance with boundless energy and perfect…
On a cold Tuesday evening near the small southeast Kansas town of Galena, everything seemed quiet, with the fiery winter sunset a dramatic backdrop for the surrounding miles of endless, wind-whipped prairie. For a moment, with no cars passing me on Route 66 and a traffic light blinking lazily overhead, I assumed everyone had stayed in for the night.But I…
The McClatchy Company — whose 30 or so newspapers include The Kansas City Star — is back on media watchers’ shit list, thanks to an internal memo that ended up in an unlikely place yesterday: Computerworld’s website. The long-troubled company is once again eliminating personnel in an effort to stop its Wall Street bleeding; McClatchy’s latest quarterly report shows another net…
Kansas City, Kansas, police detective Brad Lancaster was shot and killed Monday in the line of duty.Lancaster responded to help officers called to a Hollywood Casino on reports of a suspicious person around 12:17 p.m. The suspect, identified in media reports as 28-year-old Curtis Ayers, reportedly fled and a foot chase ensued.Ayers reportedly fired shots at the officers, striking Lancaster…
And then there were two. The Barley’s Brewhaus at 5031 West 135th Street in Leawood has closed. KC Hopps’ website notes that the Leawood location is “closed for business. Please visit us at one of our other Barley’s locations.”Barley’s other locations — 11924 West 119th Street, Overland Park, and 16649 Midland Drive, Shawnee — are still open and doing excellent…
The 16th annual West 18th Street Fashion Show is one step closer to putting couture, art and music in your face — if, that is, you’re sitting close enough to the runway. Reserved seating for the June 11 event, which this time around is dubbed “Wild Summer,” went on sale today. Click here for tickets. (As usual, barring rain, the curious can…
Alton Brown came hungry to Kansas City. The TV personality is at the Midland tonight for his “Eat Your Science” show at 7:30, and he’ll have a full belly by the time he gets onstage. Brown spotted the Red Wattle at the Little Piggy food truck hub on Southwest Boulevard and couldn’t resist stopping — and ordering everything on the…
Jolene, watch out. Dolly Parton is coming to Kansas City this summer on her first tour in 25 years.Parton is set to play the Sprint Center on Friday, July 29. Tickets go on sale Friday at 11 a.m. More info here. And Jolene, please, for the love of all that is good, stay away from Dolly’s man. Categories: Music Tags:…
A bit of King’s Landing is in Kansas City. Today and Saturday, the Iron Throne — the real deal from HBO’s Game of Thrones — will be at the Google Fiber Space (1814 Westport Road) from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. (Same hours Saturday.)And you don’t have to be the king — or the hand of the king — to…
It’s easy to see why Warner Bros. wanted to release Batman v. Superman: Dawn of Justice before Marvel’s Captain America: Civil War. The marketing hook is exactly the same: Watch two beloved superheroes fight it out! Promotions for the new movie have even asked fans whether they are #TeamCap or #TeamIronMan.All of this has little to do with the films’…
There was not any wasted time at last night’s Midland dual-headliner show – Foals promptly hit the stage at 8:30, launching into a danceable and propulsive hour-long set that escalated to a chaos of lights and sound. Silversun Pickups followed for its own hour, charming the crowd and heartily complimenting Kansas City on its fifth appearance here since 2010. Each…
Steve Dennis, mayor of Grandview until 2014, has died, The Pitch confirmed on Wednesday. He was 52.The Jackson County Advocate, which broke news of Dennis’s passing, identified heart complications as the cause. He leaves behind a wife and three children.Dennis was elected mayor Grandview in 2009 and again in 2013. His resigned less than a year into his second term in…
A few weeks ago, I stopped in to Torn Label’s tasting room to try some of the new beers over there. One cast a spell on me: Magic Magic.The IPA, with raspberries and lemon peel (7.6 percent ABV), pours super cloudy, and the nose has a big burst of tropical fruit. You get that juicy tropical fruit Mosaic hop flavor…
Thursday 5.5Tobey Maguire and Reese Witherspoon get deposited in the black-and-white world of a 1950s sitcom in 1998’s Pleasantville, new on Netflix this month. As they bring modern attitudes about sex, race and personal freedom to this don’t-rock-the-boat environment, the characters who change their habits begin to appear in color. Citizens who embrace these new ideas are marked this way,…
Instagram: @sex.icecream Twitter handle: @nicoleleth (Literally don’t follow me on there; all I do is make bad Guy Fieri jokes.)Hometown: Des Moines, IowaCurrent neighborhood: The Crossroads!What I do: I am the girl behind the clothing brand Sex + Ice Cream. I sew and design clothing, accessories, ceramics and prints. I am about to open my first Sex + Ice Cream…
If ignorance is bliss, awareness is bleak. That’s a lesson worth learning from Hilary Bettis’ The Ghosts of Lote Bravo, staged vibrantly on the Unicorn Theatre’s Levin Stage. The rolling world premiere delivers a sensitive mass eulogy for the hundreds of women and girls murdered in Mexico’s Ciudad Juárez since the early 1990s. But, as most eulogies must, it sands…
Delfeayo’s older brothers have long been the better-known names of the Marsalis jazz family. Trumpeter Wynton Marsalis came up through Art Blakey’s Jazz Messengers and today is artistic director of Jazz at Lincoln Center, and saxophonist Branford Marsalis once led the Tonight Show band. But Delfeayo Marsalis doesn’t lack experience: He has produced jazz albums for Harry Connick Jr., Marcus…
PoliçaChanny Leaneagh might be an angel undercover. At least, that’s how she sings. On United Crushers — the latest album from Poliça, the Minneapolis synth-pop act Leaneagh fronts — she is the light guiding the listener through dark, threatening beats and even darker themes. In some ways, United Crushers feels like a valentine to a dystopian near-future, as Leaneagh’s supernatural…
