Season 12 of The Voice premiered this week. The third episode, which aired last night airs Thursday (the clip below is a preview) featured a performance of the old Bill Mack country song “Blue,” made famous in 1996 by a teenage Leann Rimes. On Wednesday, a 26-year-old woman named Casi Joy channeled Rimes and sang the track for the four Voice…
“Fuck,” says Wolverine as Logan opens — an immediate signal that this final X-Men film to feature Hugh Jackman will benefit from a different tone.He’s been shot and must again reluctantly rip a bunch of thugs to shreds with his adamantium claws. But this time, this R-rated movie shows us the carnage, the bloody damage that Logan has been inflicting…
The City of Independence announced Wednesday that it will close its recycling centers on March 31. City leaders indicate they are unhappy about the way the operator, Midwest Recycling Centers, has run the sites.“In recent months the city recycling centers have become unmanageable and are contributing to the litter problems in our neighborhoods and commercial corridors,” Mayor Eileen Weir said…
Crossroads KC has been trickling out its summer lineup, and two diverse announcements have hit the web this morning. First, blues legend Buddy Guy will be appearing on June 15. I saw him last summer at Loufest; he’s fun and vibrant at 76. Tickets are on sale now via ticketfly, and prices range from $38 to $86.50 for VIP seats.Also…
Canadian composer Benoit Charest has worked on numerous films and recordings, but his most popular work remains his score for the 2003 animated film The Triplets of Belleville. The oddball movie finds its ideal complement in Charest’s music, which draws strongly from hot jazz such as Django Rheinhardt’s. “Belleville Rendez-Vous,” the highlight, was nominated for Best Original Song at the…
A 2016 report that the state of Missouri refused to release shows that guards at a Kansas City prison bullied and threatened other guards and used extremely vulgar and harsh sexist and racist terms to describe female bodies and sex acts they thought the women could perform on them or may have performed on others.The 19-page report was the result of…
Playwright August Wilson set out to be a poet. That predisposition, apparent in his facility with language, translates beautifully to the stage in the lyrical — and often magical — nature of his scripts.In a league with Tennessee Williams and Eugene O’Neill, Wilson is a power hitter of his own creation, dropping out of high school and self-educating at a…
Right around the time that Missouri voters thwarted Chris Koster’s bid to become governor last fall, a panel of West Coast federal appellate judges denied the state’s outgoing attorney general another victory. They slapped down Koster’s final effort to champion the cause of egg producers who wished to confine their hens in cruel conditions.And so it seemed that the Show-Me…
Missouri Attorney General Josh Hawley took a victory lap last week after a race that had been effectively canceled.On February 20, Hawley’s office sent out a news release under the headline “AG Hawley announces victory on Obama administration energy regulation.” Such as it was, this win wasn’t Hawley’s.In early February, the U.S. Congress voted to reverse the Stream Protection Rule, an…
Talk to old-timers around midtown — I’ve put in my time — and you’ll notice that some of them never got around to calling the grocery store at 3967 Main by its most recent name. Seniors in the neighborhood still refer to this Thriftway, the sign for which went up about 30 years ago, by the names of its ancestors:…
Instagram handle: @sarahkraly Hometown: KCMO Current neighborhood: Hyde ParkWhat I do (in 140 characters or less): I work with a team of badass graduate students and design professionals to help make KC’s built environment better. I also make photographs.What’s your addiction? Rock climbing. Highly recommend this sport if you love adventure and never want to have extra money again.What’s your game?…
Elise Landry is one of Kansas City’s busiest and most sought-after culinary talents. After stepping down from the sous chef position under Howard Hanna at Ça Va last year, she accepted a job as pastry assistant at Bluestem. Yet one full-time gig wasn’t quite enough. Landry in the past two months has accepted not one but two additional positions: as…
Dave Dormire, second in command at the Missouri Department of Corrections, abruptly announced Tuesday that he is retiring, one week after a Pitch article revealed he may have been deceptive during internal investigations of discrimination and retaliation several years ago.Dormire, who made $92,000 a year, follows ex-director George Lombardi, who in December also unexpectedly announced his resignation.The department is under…
