Ticketmaster recently settled a class-action lawsuit by offering a staggering 50 million of its users ticket vouchers. This was due to its long-established habit of “excessive and deceptive” service fees. Well, the unsurprising news is that Ticketmaster is still not your friend and is still a greedy monster. Kansas City, these vouchers will not work for you. Should you find that…
Thursday 6.23Set your DVRs for the premiere of USA’s Queen of the South, and then let a couple episodes stack up in the coming weeks. Based on a favorite telenovela of El Chapo, this American series follows the rise of fictional drug lord Teresa Mendoza (Alice Braga). The series is filmed in Mexico and Dallas and features lots of recognizable…
North Kansas City now has its third brewery. Calibration Brewery (119 Armour, North Kansas City) opened last Friday, joining Cinder Block and Big Rip Brewing Co. in a growing craft-beer corner of the metro.Calibration owner Glen Stinson has hired a familiar brewmaster, pulling Pat Sandman away from 75th Street Brewery before it closed earlier this year. The brewery opened with…
Twitter handle: @unruhfurnitureHometown: Kansas CityCurrent neighborhood: My wife and I just bought a home in Coleman Highlands so that we can be closer to the old church we are currently renovating to become Unruh Furniture’s new home.What I do: I split my time between managing the 18 employees I have at Unruh Furniture and heading up our marketing and storytelling…
It’s been a couple of years since The Pitch tried to eat all of the pizza in Kansas City. We needed recovery time, medical assistance. And we tend to be stubborn about sticking to old favorites. In the meantime, though, a few new pizza purveyors have opened (and, in one or two cases, closed), as though attempting to communicate directly…
Given Lawrence’s college-town status, it makes sense that so many bands decamp for bigger burgs in order to reach larger audiences. Sometimes, as is the case of former local act Baby Birds Don’t Drink Milk, it just kind of happens.“We would just stay here in New York from time to time on tour, and then somehow we just realized we…
Guns N’ RosesThe classic Guns N’ Roses lineup — Axl Rose, Slash, and Duff McKagan — is back together for a much-anticipated summer tour, aptly titled “Not in This Lifetime.” (It marks the first time that Slash and Rose have been onstage together since 1993.) If you can barely believe that this superstar act is still able to hit the…
Let the healing begin: June 25 marks the return of Cheese Slipper Saturdays to Fervere (1701 Summit). The summer mainstay, which has in the past drawn scores of sweaty people to wait in line at the bakery, has been MIA so far this season. That’s because Fevere has dealt with a couple of recent setbacks: two flue fires in its…
With its dim lighting, its red walls and drapes, and its framed paintings, the Green Lady Lounge feels like a 1940s-era jazz club. That atmosphere is enhanced by music from groups such as OJT, a traditional organ-guitar-drums trio, or Boogaloo 7’s booty-swayin’, horn-driven jazz. But owner John Scott is spiking his schedule with new ensembles, encouraging uncommon combinations of Kansas…
Kansas City’s urban gardens are pretty much everywhere — schools, pottery studios, abandoned lots — but in many cases, you’d never know these innovative projects existed unless you were looking for them. That’s because it takes only a small space to make an impact on the food supply — we’re talking thousands of pounds of organic chow each year, from…
Is Jason Robert Brown an Andrew Lloyd Webber for millennials? Evidence suggests at least a strong maybe. The composer’s recordings (“Songs for a New World,” “The Last Five Years”) are reliable fixtures in my friends’ car stereos, thanks in part to Brown’s proprietary blend of deflecting snark and naked sentiment. But his Parade — the ironically titled musical on which…
Grouplove and Henry Rollins have approximately nothing in common, other than both are making appearances this fall at the Uptown Theater. The vibe-y, California-drenched quintet Grouplove will appear Friday, October 21, and the always-funny, politically-charged Rollins will appear for one of his spoken word shows on Friday, November 25. (Grouplove seems like exactly the kind of band that ex-Black Flag…
Chicago’s phenom, no-label-needin’ artist Chance the Rapper is returning to the Midland on Wednesday, September 21, nearly a year after his last appearance there. Chance (née Chancelor Bennett) has just self-released his new album, Coloring Book, via Soundcloud, after turning down multiple record offers – one of the songs on Coloring Book even expresses in full his hatred for music…
After 10 months at Dempsey’s Burger Pub in Westport, bartender Jenn Tosatto — her resume also includes stints at Bar Natasha and the Rieger Hotel Grill & Exchange — is poised to raise the bar, so to speak, at a different venue. On July 5, the veteran takes over the bar program at Q39, creating that restaurant’s first craft-cocktail program.”I’ve loved…
Rosanne CashFolly TheaterFriday, June 17, 2016One song into last night’s show at the Folly Theater, Rosanne Cash exclaimed, “I’ve got a feeling it’s going to be a really good night.” Her intuition was spot on — even if, technically, she was also in charge of making it happen. Cash’s show was the 10th anniversary of Bill Shapiro’s “Cyprus Avenue Live”…
North Kansas City now has its third brewery. Calibration Brewery (119 Armour, North Kansas City) joins Cinder Block and Big Rip Brewing Co. in a growing craft-beer corridor. Calibration opened Friday morning at 11 and will stay open until 11 p.m.Calibration owner Glen Stinson has hired a familiar brewmaster, pulling Pat Sandman away from 75th Street Brewery before it closed…
Bill Crooks, who rose through the ranks of the Gilbert/Robinson company before co-founding the PB&J restaurant empire in Kansas City nearly three decades ago, doesn’t limit his competitive instincts to the food business. Recently, for instance, he has become one hell of a pickleball player.With luck, so will the venture on which Crooks is consulting: the pickleball-forward athletic venue, restaurant,…
Boulevard Smokestack Series staple Bourbon Barrel Quad is graduating from a seasonal to a year-round release starting in October. No more 750 ml bottles, either. BBQ will be available in four-packs of 12-ounce bottles. Bell’s arrives in KansasBell’s, the Michigan brewery long available on the Missouri side of the state line, is set to debut in Kansas on Monday, June…
Thursday 6.16Bone up on the backstory of the Beach Boys’ all-time classic album Pet Sounds in advance of Brian Wilson’s July 20 show at Kauffman Center. In the most invigorating scenes of last year’s Love & Mercy — available now on Amazon Prime — Paul Dano plays a troubled yet single-minded Wilson in 1965 as the music courses through his…
Twitter handle: @beaugheyenHometown: Seward, NebraskaCurrent neighborhood: MidtownWhat I do: I work to transform the face of hunger at the Kansas City Community Kitchen and through conversations across the greater Kansas City area. What’s your addiction? Work. Just ask my family and friends. What’s your game? I get my best cardio workouts playing Hamburger Mary’s Charity Bingo. Nothing gets your heart…
Editor’s note: The Intercept, an online magazine dedicated to investigative journalism, published this story on June 7. Because its depth surpasses what any Kansas City media outlet has devoted to this case, The Pitch is republishing it in print this week (with minimal editing for space), in cooperation with The Intercept. Read and share the complete story, and see video,…
The Kansas Supreme Court’s latest ruling on school funding dropped with a thud at 5 p.m. on the Friday before Memorial Day weekend. The accusations quickly followed.The justices were bullies, playing politics and shredding the Kansas Constitution. Worse, they were ruining what little summer vacation beleaguered state lawmakers had been looking forward to.The timing did seem strange. Why hand down…
Chaos doesn’t always make for good theater, but the Living Room finds a winning strain of it. The theater’s latest production, Bank Job, continues its relationship with playwright John Kolvenbach. The Living Room staged his 2003 drama, On an Average Day, last season, and his new script plumbs similar themes: toxic love, paternal abandonment and the fraternal bond that grows…
Boulevardia Boulevardia returns for a third year to the West Bottoms, featuring more than 40 local and national acts spread out over three stages. Friday-night headliners include Andrew McMahon in the Wilderness (formerly of Something Corporate and Jack’s Mannequin), buzzing up-and-comer Meg Myers and local favorite Radkey. Saturday, while you’re enjoying one of the specialty beers Boulevard is bringing in,…
