A Cole County jury today recommended that 22 members of the Medicaid 23 not serve jail time for trespassing but instead pay a fine of up to $500 each for a protest inside the Missouri Capitol in 2014.The 23 clergy members were arrested after 15 minutes of the peaceful protest, which included singing, praying and chanting to express their concerns…
George R.R. Martin autograph signing5-8 p.m., Friday, August 19Marriott, Count Basie Ballroom200 W. 12th St.Also …MidAmericon IIBartle Hall13th and Central10 a.m.–11:30 p.m. Wednesday, August 17 9 a.m.–11 p.m. Thursday, August 189 a.m.–1:30 a.m. Friday, August 199 a.m.–10:30 p.m. Saturday, August 209 a.m.–5 p.m. Sunday, August 21Off-The-Wall Film Series: 10 Things I Hate About You8 p.m. Friday, August 19Central Library14 W….
As soon as the players hit the field, the capos — conductors of a supporters’ section who lead the stadium’s loudest fans in organized songs and chants — give the signal.From the bridge above the north goal at Children’s Mercy Park, a long banner is flipped over, exposing a painted design matching one that materializes among the packed crowd below,…
There’s new leadership at Boulevard Brewing Co., Brewery Ommegang and Duvel Moortgat USA. Jeff Krum, a longtime Boulevard leader, has been named its new president. Krum replaces Simon Thorpe, who will work in an advisory role through the end of this month. Krum has been with Boulevard since 1994, spending two decades as chief financial officer before assuming the role…
Alison Moyna Greene has been collecting, washing and dying eggshells for seven years. Now it’s time for her to crack.The richly toned halves are destined to be crushed underfoot (mindfully, Greene says) from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Thursday, August 18, in Oppenstein Brothers Memorial Park (922 Walnut). For this Art in the Loop project, titled Walking on Eggshells Mandala,…
The grand opening for Rock & Run’s Kearney brewery and taproom is set for 4 p.m. Thursday, August 25. If you’ve been following Rock & Run’s Facebook page, you’ve probably noticed a bunch of construction photos taken at the satellite space. Rock & Run’s Gene DeClue cautions that this is a “temporary taproom” until a new three-barrel system is installed…
Twitter handle: @KUirishgirlieHometown: Kansas CityCurrent neighborhood: LFKWhat I do: As a digital strategist, I manage social media, digital advertising and web analytics for KU. I love my job. No, I can’t get you #KUbball tix.What’s your addiction? Coffee. I actually tried to quit last summer. That was funny.What’s your game? Currently KVKL kickball … go, Johnny’s! #LFK Kickball is on…
Thursday 8.18 Remember the excitement of waiting all day in high school for the bell to ring so you could go to a big concert that night? Bring your lawn chair to the patio of the Cinder Block Brewery at sundown and celebrate that pure feeling of rock-and-roll anticipation tonight with a free outdoor screening of the underrated 1999 teen…
Strong performances and scads of charm rescue Kansas City Actors Theatre’s season opener, I’m Not Rappaport, from a 1984 script that seems ready for retirement. Like last year’s KCAT season opener, The Gin Game, I’m Not Rappaport follows two prickly seniors as they navigate the indignities and injustices of aging. Nat (Victor Raider-Wexler), once a Communist firebrand, now hides out…
Tenor saxophonist Tivon Pennicott was still in college when he started touring with jazz guitar great Kenny Burrell. At age 30, he can now also claim a resume that includes performances with Wynton Marsalis and Stevie Wonder, recording sessions with Esperanza Spalding, and two Grammy Awards. After this week and next, he can add to that CV 10 days as…
Even in a room full of treasures from around the world — an intricate beaded hat from Africa, for instance, or a pair of delicate parasols on a white-lace bedspread, or a series of hypnotic Aboriginal dreamtime paintings — the first thing I noticed was Gina the Gypsy. Sitting by the register at Amelia’s Bloomers, Deborah McLaren’s new boutique and…
Jeff Robinson’s paintings here are curiosities: tops of houses that appear, from a short distance, unassuming. In particular, the very simplicity of “Roth House” — in which everything is crisp, flat, neatly in place — exerts an oddly hypnotic appeal. A cloud over its titular structure mimics the basic shape of the roof in Robinson’s foreground — a triangle with…
The four members of Lovergurl got together just six months ago, hardly long enough for most groups to write a few songs and acquire some semblance of timing. But in Blind Tiger’s dim basement earlier this month, the young band announced itself as one of the city’s most inventive — and most bracingly political.Lovergurl takes aim at institutions, social structures…
Hers was a hard life, and it’s been over nearly 60 years, but singer Billie Holiday materializes before us in Spinning Tree Theatre’s Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar & Grill. It’s March 1959. Eisenhower is president, and Holiday, who will be dead in four months, is in decline. She’s just 44 and, by this time, not the same Billie, her…
In 2009, the state of Missouri enticed the Kansas City Chiefs to move its training camp from a college campus in Wisconsin to Missouri Western State University in St. Joseph.To secure the deal, the state provided the Chiefs with $25 million in tax credits. At the time it was announced, Gov. Jay Nixon said the agreement would create jobs and…
It’s tempting to call the Sadies’ music Americana, but that label just doesn’t feel right. First, the Sadies are from Toronto. Second, the quartet’s music incorporates all things twang: country, surf, rock, rockabilly. The Sadies recently finished recording a yet-to-be-titled 11th album (more, if you count collaborations with Neko Case, John Doe, Jon Langford and Andre Williams), which is slated…
Trying to describe a brigadeiro is no easy task. The confection sounds simple: cocoa powder, butter, sweetened condensed milk. But the traditional Brazilian truffles, which have a texture similar to that of dense fudge, deliver a creamy richness that’s memorably complex. They’re unlike any other chocolate I’ve eaten.When I ask Jessica Antunes, who owns Sweet Kiss Brigadeiro with her mother,…
The drink list at Journeyman Café isn’t meant to impress with fantastical ingredients or complicated recipes. The goal, bar manager Andy Niemeyer insists, is to lend an air of familiarity and ease. These are not cocktails, he tells me, that should need much explaining.Yet, I require detailed explanations. The drink menu is separated between various highball options — three each…
Beach HouseAlex Scally and Victoria Legrand know what they’re doing. Over the past decade, the Baltimore duo has managed what most moody synth-pop bands never quite do: staying power. In fact, as Beach House, the two have gone a step further. Last year, guitarist Scally and singer Legrand released two critically acclaimed albums, Depression Cherry and Thank Your Lucky Stars,…
As The Pitch’s Charles Ferruzza reported last week, Magnolia’s Southern Cuisine (9916 Holmes) is no more. Chef Shanita McAfee-Bryant cited an ongoing maintenance dispute with the shopping center’s landlord as a principal cause for the closing. “We are closed now,” McAfee-Bryant says. “I had to make peace with the decision before making it public.” But the Magnolia’s name may yet…
Chiefs fans will pay $40 at Arrowhead Stadium’s tollbooths this season — $10 more than last year’s price. Defending the increase, team officials have noted that parking passes bought online cost $30 and should save time at the gates as well.Taking the bus to games is an option, but it’s not as easy as it used to be. After the…
The National Women’s Soccer League is looking into a report that owners of FC Kansas City allegedly traded emails in which players were treated as sex objects. “The alleged conduct is counter to the very core principles that we expect of our league and teams,” a league spokesman said in an email to The Pitch on Monday. “We are currently…
Classic Rock Summer is a series wherein we attempt to see as many classic-rock concerts coming through the Kansas City area as possible. From May through September, we will immerse ourselves in the music of our parents, from yacht rock to oldies to hair metal, you’ll find us there.Heart, with Joan Jett & The Blackhearts and Cheap TrickStarlight TheatreMonday, August…
Janelle Monáe, the pride of Kansas City, Kansas, will appear in an upcoming movie about female African-American mathematicians who worked at NASA in the early 1960s. The movie, Hidden Figures, also stars Taraji P. Henson and Octavia Spencer and is based on the nonfiction book of the same name. Monáe, 30, is making her major film debut in Hidden Figures….
