What I didn’t learn in school growing up amounts to quite a bit. While I’ve been patching the potholes left by that long-ago curriculum, cracks yet appear. So I applaud schools and instructors who make field trips to the Coterie Theatre, where the company’s latest production, Secret Soldiers: Heroines in Disguise, discloses some lesser known, perhaps paved over, facts of…
The proposed $26 billion merger between wireless carriers T-Mobile and Sprint — really, it’s T-Mobile purchasing Sprint — seems more likely than not to go through, but it ain’t a sure thing. The deal, which would reduce the wireless market to three carriers, will require the approval of both the FCC and the antitrust division of the Department of Justice….
The music of Kurt Weill is a laugh in the dark — sorrow masked with whiskey and dancing. Helmed from the desperate gaiety that followed World War I and forced to leave Germany by the Nazi regime, Weill’s work translated naturally — both literally and figuratively — to the American scene as he took the gallows humor of 1920s Berlin music…
This post was paid for by Centric Projects. MBE/WBE/SLBE Subcontractors and Vendors invited to bid: Centric Projects is soliciting MBE/WBE/SLBE subcontractors/supplier bid proposals for three projects at the Kansas City Zoo, including the Camel Feeding Deck, Tree Kangaroo Exhibit Renovation, and Tropics Tent Catering Building. Projects are all located at the Kansas City Zoo, 6800 Zoo Drive, Kansas City, MO…
This year’s Sundance Film Festival — which opened last week and runs through the end of this week — reported a record-high 14,259 submissions from 152 countries. Of those, 9,443 were short films. Of those, 73 short films were accepted. One was Kansas Citian Christopher Good’s wild expressionistic comedy Crude Oil, about a young woman with a useless superpower who is…
Monday, January 28Take the rare opportunity to try imported wines from Switzerland at Andre’s Chocolates & Confiserie Suisse (5018 Main Street). According to Andre’s, Switzerland does not export a large quantity of wine, and thus it can be difficult to come by. Try three separate varieties along with tasting notes for $25, and add chocolate pairings for another $5. These…
If you’re not a dessicated husk of a woman like me, you may enjoy Emotional Creature, Eve Ensler’s multi-genre ode to global girlhood now playing at Spinning Tree Theatre. Subtitled “The Secret Life of Girls around the World,” the play offers snapshots of teenage girls from Bulgaria to Tanzania to America through poems, songs, and monologues. Directors Chioma Anyanwu and Andrew…
Dear Dan: I’m an early-30s hetero woman in a monogamous relationship with my mid-30s hetero guy. We’ve been together 10 years, married seven, no kids. We have a lot of fun — traveling, shared hobbies, mutual friends, etc. We have sex fairly regularly, and it’s not bad. However, his primary sexual fetish and main turn-on is furry porn — namely,…
I wish I could tell you what to order at Freshwater. If I could, I would guide you to the striped bass sashimi, a tender valentine to Midwestern fish with the delicacy and depth of a slice of cold French butter. I would tell you to linger over a perfumed nameko mushroom and caramelized onion dip, to let its nostalgic…
Calling all fiancés, couples, and singles: The Pitch’s UnBridaled is this Sunday, January 27, from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Uptown Theater. There’s a long list of not-so-traditional vendors — including pole-dancing lessons from ImpropHER Fitness, drink samples from Explore Mobile Bar, and bachelor/bachelorette ideas from The Create-It Studio and Mission Bowl. And there’s a live wedding.Jasmine Diane, a…
LK Ultra calls itself an “indigenous-fronted queer indie rock band,” which is not untrue. That hefty description still leaves out a few things, though, namely that its members are quite young — high school-aged. And they’re tight — super tight, in a way people that high school-aged people sometimes are. “We’re kind of a hive mind,” says August Hyde, keyboard player…
Kansas City produced a bumper crop of new and ambitious restaurants in 2018, and the forecast calls for a bountiful harvest in 2019. Below, a preview of where we plan to drain our bank accounts in the coming year. Farina 1901 Baltimore, KCMOLikely the most anticipated opening of 2019 comes from James Beard Award winner Michael Smith. Farina, located at the corner…
Singer-songwriter Nate Allen has worn several hats over the course of his musical career. Best known for the duo Destroy Nate Allen with his wife Tessa, he’s also fronted the folk rock ‘n’ roll combo Nate Allen & the Pac-Away Dots. At the heart of it all, though, is a songwriter who, despite making music that inspires thoughtful creativity, is…working…
In November 2011, Lawrence’s Replay Records released its first piece of vinyl, the punk and garage-centric compilation LP, Cheap Beer. In the intervening years, the label — an arm of sorts of Lawrence institution the Replay Lounge — has issued thirteen 7-inch singles, a cassette, and one full-length album. Despite the fact that the bar is the college town’s hub…
Panic Fest just keeps expanding. Now in its seventh year, Kansas City’s premier genre film festival returns to Screenland Armour this Friday, January 25, and runs through next Thursday the 31st. In all, the fest includes 21 feature films, 18 shorts, three live podcast tapings, and one tongue-in-cheek live script reading. The rest of the country is starting to notice,…
Fun fact: a pre-mega-fame Cardi B rolled through Kansas City back in 2016. She stopped in at Mingles, off 86th and Troost. Things have changed since then. Cardi is now a Grammy-nominated rapper, a very famous person, and indisputably one of the greatest Instagrammers of all time. Today it was announced that she will headline this year’s Flyover fest at Providence Medical…
The Pitch’s Specialty Sandwich Week starts today, which means thirteen KC-area restaurants are offering one featured sandwich at half the price during lunch and dinner. Mo Brew is featuring the Bippity Boopy, a pop up from Muncheeez Deli (which we wrote about here before it closed). It’s made up of turkey, salami, pepperoni, pepper jack cheese, lettuce, tomato, onion, oil/vin,…
Wednesday, January 23Over at P.S. Speakeasy (106 West 12th Street) they’re hosting Andy Rieger, descendent of the original Rieger distillery family as well as partner in today’s J. Rieger & Company brand, for “Cocktails and Conversation,” an event that highlights successful KC entrepreneurs. Each $10 ticket includes admission as well as one cocktail. Pick up tickets in advance here.RecordBar (1520…
Dear Dan: I’m a middle-aged man dating a younger guy. He wanted to be a “boy” to a Dom top daddy, and I was happy to oblige. The sex is amazing, and we click as people, too. Then a couple days ago, he told me he wanted to explore small penis humiliation (SPH). I was taken aback — not by…
We find we require something a little stronger to get us through these long, dark winter months. Boulevard’s new limited release, Plaid Habit, understands. It has a hearty 13.9% ABV (and you can taste it — very boozy!), but this Imperial Brown Ale is also smooth and sweet, having aged gracefully for 18 months in just-emptied, 10-year Canadian rye whisky…
