Gwen Stefani headlined the Sprint Center Friday, August 12. She brought along Eve as a special guest. Take a walk through the spiderwebs of this slideshow with us. Categories: Music Tags: eve, gwen stefani, music, Sprint Center
Jury selection in a mass trial in which the defendants include 23 ministers from Kansas City and across Missouri began this morning in Cole County District Court.The defendants are accused of trespassing in the state Capitol building and obstructing Senate business two years ago. On May 6, 2014, the clergy, some in their 70s, led a group of 300, chanting,…
Winter is coming … and so is George R. R. Martin.The creator of Game of Thrones will be in Kansas City next Friday (August 19) from 5 to 8 p.m. for a book signing, courtesy of Rainy Day Books, at the Kansas City Marriott (200 West 12th Street) in the Count Basie Ballroom. Martin will be signing his latest release,…
The Democrat and the Republican campaigning to be the next governor of Missouri agree on at least one thing: How to say the name of the state.Jay Nixon, the current governor, pronounces the state’s name Missourah. In television ads, Democrat Chris Koster and Republican Eric Greitens say Missouri the way a network news anchor would.Here’s a new ad from Koster that…
Jeremy Farmer, who resigned as mayor of Lawrence last year, has been charged in federal court with embezzling $5,000 from a food bank. Farmer, 32, was the executive director of Just Food, the primary food bank in Douglas County. Prosecutors allege that he stole more than $5,000 from the organization from 2013 until August 2015, when he resigned from Just…
Kansas City Comic ConBartle Hall, 301 W. 13th St.1-7 p.m. Friday, August 1210 a.m.–7 p.m. Saturday, August 1310 a.m.–5 p.m. Sunday, August 14Young Friends of Art Second Friday Happy Hour6-8 p.m. Friday, August 12Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art4525 OakChiefs vs. Seattle Seahawks3:30 p.m. Saturday, August 13Arrowhead Stadium1 Arrowhead Dr.The Pitch’s Margarita Wars6-9 p.m. Friday, August 12Outdoor Waldo Pavilion7421 BroadwayBeard and Moustache…
It’s all about the past at Haw Contemporary (1600 Liberty, in the West Bottoms), which opens three new exhibitions with a 6-9 p.m.reception Friday, August 12. Each in its own way touches on the ideas of time and nostalgia, things expiring and reviving.What Remains is a “contemplative” exhibition of new works by Chris Daharsh and Molly Kaderka. Daharsh presents sculptural…
Occupation: Burkette: Actor, modelYoung: Video and photography producer at Hallmark Cards HometownBurkette: Overland ParkYoung: Kansas City, MissouriCurrent neighborhoodBurkette: North Kansas CityYoung: IndependenceWhat I doBurkette: I’m a filmmaker and actress. This year I’m co-producing the Kansas City 48 Hour Film Project with the amazing Bryce Young. Young: Lead a pretty busy life, raising four kids with my wife, have an amazing…
Somehow, it’s already fall beer season — as in, time for pumpkin beers. Funky Pumpkin, Boulevard’s first foray into autumn’s favorite squash, has already started showing up on taps around the city, and you’ll see it soon in six-packs. The brewhouse-soured ale is an easy drinker. You hear the word sour and you think of that acidic bite, but this…
Anna Marie Tutera was as adept as any grade-schooler at feigning illness. But her reason for wanting out of class was different — and signaled what would become a lifelong interest.“I’m sure my teachers would not like to hear this,” she says. “Sometimes I would pretend like I was sick so my dad would have to come and pick me…
Before the growth spurt in area theaters, far fewer options existed for local actors. So in 2004, the founders of Kansas City Actors Theatre got into the business of growing jobs. And KCAT’s intent to keep things local remains true today. “We make a point of hiring all local artists whenever possible,” KCAT core member Cinnamon Schultz (a familiar presence…
WilcoWilco’s new album, Schmilco, comes out in September. No one has explained the album title yet, but we’re not going to be bothered, because if we know Wilco by now — and we should, since Jeff Tweedy and company have been with us for more than 20 years — we know that they don’t really need an excuse to call…
When Impose Magazine founder Derek Evers sold the storied music pub to Overland Park–based television advertising concern Answer Media in April, the company found a new, KC-based editor to run it — and, very likely, to boost its coverage of the Midwest music scene. Writer and Kansas City native Meredith Schneider took over at Impose this summer from former editor…
Thursday 8.11The high-contrast, go-for-broke cinematography of Ron Howard’s 2013 Formula One race car drama, Rush, is just one of the reasons that the film rises above the usual kicks of average, feel-good sports movies. It’s also driven by ego more than by ambition. Howard amplifies the bitterness between Englishman James Hunt (Chris Hemsworth) and Austrian Niki Lauda (Daniel Bruhl) and…
The irony wasn’t lost on Rachel Mallin as she listened Kanye West’s The College Dropout on vinyl one evening in April 2015. In a month, she’d walk out of her last college class at the University of Missouri. Mallin, once a fixture of the Columbia, Missouri, music scene with her band, Dangerfield (in addition to her budding solo career), had…
Next to Normal is like an old friendship, one I’m glad to renew. I first met it in 2012 — on two occasions, in a local and a touring production. The version now onstage at Musical Theater Heritage, directed by Sarah Crawford, is as stirring as those — perhaps more so, given MTH’s intimacy.It’s a successful friend, one dealing with…
Magnolia’s Southern Cuisine Restaurant & Bourbon Bar, at 9916 Holmes, has closed after 10 months.Just a year ago, owner and chef Shanita McAfee-Bryant told The Pitch that she had signed a lease on that location, in the Gomer’s Plaza shopping development. She was ecstatic to open in a space so much larger than the one that had earned her raves…
Trumpeter Marcus Hampton’s relatives are jazz royalty. His cousin is legendary vibraphonist Lionel Hampton, and his nephew is trombonist Slide Hampton. He composes and performs with old-school finesse, his trumpet elegantly darting from note to note, his septet a single swinging voice. In that ensemble, Marcus, who moved to this area a couple of years ago, surrounds himself with some…
Chef Michael Corvino doesn’t have time to get nostalgic about leaving the kitchen of the American Restaurant — Kansas City’s best-known fine-dining venue for 42 years.Corvino, the American’s executive chef for the past three years, handed in his notice at the Hallmark-owned property in June, weeks before the announcement that the restaurant would close in early August, and the Warren…
Kansas City “advanced” to the finals of a Sorriest Bus Stop in America tournament sponsored by a news site that covers transportation and livable communities.The site, Streetsblog, asked readers to submit “forlorn bus stops to call attention to the daily indignities and dangers that bus riders have to put up with.” A stretch of the Blue Ridge Cutoff near the…
Kansas City film producer and director Rick Cowan has died. Cowan’s wife, Wendy Thompson, posted the following tribute to Cowan on her Facebook page Monday. “Goodbye, my love, my friend, my # 1 companion. I will miss those intense brown eyes of yours and the sound of your voice. Rick Cowan 1955-2016″Cowan was one of the first people who I…
Nestled into small, farm-y St. Charles, Iowa, the Hinterland Music Festival celebrated its second year with performances from country icon Willie Nelson, Grace Potter, Cold War Kids, Ray LaMontagne and Lake Street Dive, among others this past weekend. The two-day festival attracted approximately 8,000-10,000 people each day, principally out of nearby Des Moines, just about 30 miles to the north….
The 10-year-old son of a Kansas state representative was killed Sunday while riding Verrückt, the 168-foot water slide at Schlitterbahn water park.Caleb Thomas Schwab was the son of state Rep. Scott Schwab and his wife, Michele. The family released a statement on Sunday evening acknowledging Caleb’s death. “Since the day he was born, he brought abundant joy to our family…
A fiction writer and journalism teaching assistant at the University of Kansas was indicted by a federal grand jury Wednesday for falsely stating on his visa application that he had served as a translator under two U.S. Army generals in Iraq.The criminal complaint that was filed in Kansas City, Kansas, federal court in July says Goran Sabah Ghafour, 34, is…
