By CHARLES FERRUZZA I’ve learned that if I tell my friends about Marche Du Jour — the Saturday-only, Paris-inspired outdoor market in Prairie Village — I have to be very specific about the details. I got an angry phone call one Sunday morning from my friend Liz, who yelled: “I didn’t see any of the vendors you promised me that…
By CHARLES FERRUZZA If you can’t wait until August 3 (National Bratwurst Day) for one of the true joys of summer — a plump, steamy bratwurst sausage taken right off the grill, popped into a soft bun and slathered with mustard and sauerkraut – there’s the Saturday sandwich stand outside Werner’s Fine Sausages at 5736 Johnson Drive in Mission. Each…
By CHRIS PACKHAM There’s nothing funny about the creepy outbreak of brain tumors in Cameron, Missouri or, really, any news story that makes me push back my plate of vegetarian enchiladas and speculate about the inevitability of my own death. %{}%According to the audio version of Physics for Dummies, the poopy second law of thermodynamics pretty much guarantees that all…
by NADIA PFLAUM Caught this very cool metal plate affixed to a pole at 17th and Main — those are our offices in the background. Nicely done. Categories: News Tags: Crossroads, graffiti, Main Street
The three-day Lawrence wine festival kicked off with a 12-venue tasting on Massachusetts Street Thursday night.
By ANDY VIHSTADT L.A.’s Bodies of Water are joining forces with Secretly Canadian Records for its sophomore LP, A Certain Feeling. Grab the first single below and another new track at RCRD LBL, right here. The band also has a few MP3s from its debut posted here. MP3: Bodies of Water, “Under the Pines”, A Certain Feeling (Secretly Canadian) Categories:…
By JORDAN HARPER “My Lord,” you might be saying, “Ween is still around?” And how, brother. Dismissed for two decades as a joke band, Ween has labored in sorta-obscurity while somehow simultaneously selling out shows and winning die-hard converts. How do they do it? Easy: Ween rules. In fact, the Pennsylvania group is much better than your favorite band. Need…
By OWEN MORRIS A KC coffee shop dies.A KC coffee shop is born. (KC Perky) Doing God’s work. Another Kansas Citian tries to win over the East Coast, with KC-style barbecue. (Brooklyn Paper) Cyclists are currently competing in The (Le) Tour de France and the Olathe based company Garmin sponsors a top team named Slipstream. Slipstream explains how exactly they…
311 may have been the headliner, but Snoop Dogg brought the party last night — especially in the lawn section, where folks got crazy.
Earlier this week, Super Black Market arrived at our office dressed like Kevin Spacey from Se7en when he arrived at the police station covered in blood. We have a shoot-first-interview-later policy at The Pitch. But when we realized the Warrensburg trio just wanted to pass along some new demos, we decided to put the air rifle away and smokum peace…
By CHRIS RASMUSSEN This belly was never coming to KC. Yesterday, in a column answering a question posed by only drunken callers of sports radio stations, Jeff Flanagan concludes that the Royals were not a contender to acquire CC Sabathia (he recently lost the initials in his first name but shed no weight in the process). That came as no…
By ALAN SCHERSTUHL Each week, your Crap Archivst will bring you the finest in forgotten and bewildering crap culled from area basements, thrift stores, estate sales and flea markets. I do this for one reason: Knowledge is power. Someone You May Know: A Heterosexual Looks at Homosexuality Author: William Konraad Date: 1965 Discovered at: Family Thrift in Mission The Cover…
By NADIA PFLAUM Click on the photo for a slideshow. Q. What’s brown and rhymes with Snoop? (Find the answer at the end of this mini-review.) Let me just say that the last time I saw Snoop Dogg perform, it was with Eminem when Eminem still had a career, and he and Snoop shared the stage with a giant, inflatable…
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By JUSTIN KENDALL Don’t cry for Phill. Phill Kline is a noose around Mary Pilcher Cook’s neck. Two nights ago, Cook faced Sue Gamble, the roaring mouth of the Kansas Board of Education, in a Johnson County Young Republicans’ candidate forum at Barley’s Brewhaus. Three times, Cook was asked if she supports Kline, the controversial anti-abortion Johnson County District Attorney,…
By FLANNERY CASHILL Who remembers Woodstock ’99? Well, okay, no one remembers anything about Woodstock ’99 except the orgy of violence that ensued after the portable toilets overflowed and vendors hacked $4 bottled waters. But that was the nineties, and this is the aughts: trash fires have lost their radical appeal, and eco-consciousness has changed outdoor concerts for the better….
Many folks in Kansas City still aren’t hip to Dri, but that hasn’t stopped the Lawrence songbird from booking a West Coast tour leg with Conor Oberst and the Mystic Mountain Valley Band. Now, this development will preclude Dri from playing our Pitch Music Showcase on August 7, but … we understand. Dri, along with her other band, Fourth of…
By CHRIS PACKHAM In his column, The Kansas City Star’s Yael T. Abouhalkah does, admittedly, use the cliche “rose-colored glasses” in reference to the “cheerleaders” pushing for a new 1,000-room hotel in downtown Kansas City, which made me grind my teeth, %{}% resulting in a broken filling and a painful dental procedure — not that I’m holding any grudges —…
This week’s guest post comes from Dan Conley, a resident of Chicago and former aide to Virginia Governor Doug Wilder and Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley. He writes for Salon (you can check out his perceptive writing on the ’08 campaign here and here). I asked him about Chicago’s perception of the White Sox and whether people care about the…
By Owen Morris Pete Licata is a world class barista who practices his art at PT’s Coffee on the KU Edwards Campus in Overland Park. In May, he placed second at this year’s United States Barista Championship, a national competition amongst serious baristas in Minneapolis. We caught up with him at PT’s, where we heard about how coffee competitions turned…
By ANDY VIHSTADT Producer Steve Lillywhite submitted the second episode of his new venture with NPR’s World Café. It debuted last month with She & Him (listen here) and yesterday he posted the Goldfrapp Lillywhite Session. Stream the three song performance and interview at NPR, right here. Categories: Music Tags: Goldfrapp, NPR, She & Him, streams
By ERIC BARTON During a recent road trip, I was given a room key at the Drury Hotel in Amarillo that seemed to be asking me to do weird things with my family. Here’s the key: After I got back, I e-mailed the spokeswoman for the Missouri-based hotel chain to ask if the message was personalized or if the typo…
