| | | City Council members want to take on the Port Authority debacle. But their fetish for foiling the mayor made them late to the fight BY DAVID MARTIN  A city agency's simmering implosion is making life uncomfortable for the people who run it. But there's plenty of embarrassment to go around. Members of the City Council in Kansas City, Missouri, for instance, may want to take this moment to re-evaluate their fixation on gamesmanship. As I wrote in November, the Kansas City Port Authority paid lawyer William T. Session almost $500,000 over the first 10 months of this year — a nice payday from a relatively small city agency. But for Session, billable hours have been but one path to Port-provided prosperity. It turns out that Session once operated a construction company. And in 2007, that company received a sweetheart contract to exca... more >>
| | | | | | | | We break down the best 10 concerts of 2010  At The Pitch, we go out. Scratch that: We go out a lot. And in 2010, we saw you, Kansas City. We saw you cheer, dance and roar at dinosaur acts at the Uptown Theater, at steamy rock shows at the Replay Lounge, at hard-charging DIY punk sets in warehouses, and at crusty blues riffs at Knuckleheads Saloon. After all, we were there, too. Here are 15 of the best shows we saw all year and what ma... more >> | | | | | | | | Kansas City's best new restaurants of 2010 BY CHARLES FERRUZZA  Despite the Great (and So Persistent!) Recession, plenty of new restaurants opened in Kansas City in 2010. They came in many forms, from stylish hot-dog shop (Dog Nuvo) to the much discussed partnership between bon vivant bartender Ryan Maybee and chef Howard Hannah (The Rieger Hotel Grill and Exchange) to the return of short-order cook Jerry Naster, this time as the proprietor of Jerry's Caf&eac... more >> | | | | | | True Grit BY J. HOBERMAN  Boldly reanimating the comic Western that secured John Wayne his Oscar 41 years ago, the Coen brothers' True Grit is well-wrought, if overly talkative, and seriously ambitious. Opening with a strategically abbreviated Old Testament proverb ("The wicked flee when none pursueth"), the film returns the Coens to the all-American sagebrush and gun-smoke landscape that has best nourished their wise-gu... more >> | | | | | | | | Wayward Blog Local music video phenom Zac Eubank has crafted artful little movies for several local bands this year. Now, he's trying to get the attention of creepy film god-turned-electronic musician David... Fat City You might not be able to find great bagels in Kansas City, but at least you can kvetch about it at Bagel Bash 2010. The annual party organized by the Jewish Federation of Kansas City is Thursda... Plog Henry Klein says over and over that he wants to run for mayor again in his It's a Wonderful Life spoof, It's a Wonderful Kansas City. He let's out an awesome Howard Dean scream, and runs around... | | | | |
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