Delaware Cafe’s Spontaneous Brunch
From the farmer’s market to a plate within an hour. Delaware Cafe’s executive chef Joe West buys, plans and serves a spontaneous brunch all in the same Saturday morning.
Archives: July 2008
Jimmy Gobble Injured by Ineffectiveness
By CHRIS RASMUSSEN This week, the Royals placed Jimmy Gobble on the disabled list. This comes even though the only visible pain he’s been pitching with is that which he inflicts on those rooting for him. According to the Royals, he “admitted to back pain,” which I suspect was not a product of a Gitmo interrogation or an examination by…
No Longer Lost in the Liquor Store
BY OWEN MORRIS Yesterday, sommelier Kelly Wooldridge gave Fat City readers ten tips for what clueless joes should look for when they’re buying wine. Today, two clueless joes puts that advice to the test. The joes would be me and my friend, whose name actually is Joe. With Wooldridge in tow, we went to the Costco at 24th and Linwood….
Chewbacca and the Naked Man Storm KC Live, with Super Black Market and the ACB’s
By JASON HARPER Yesterday evening at Power and Light started out tame enough, with the fantastic ACB’s playing before a crowd of large-calved adults in shorts, many of them sitting on the steps 40 feet from the stage, few of them realizing how talented the band they were watching really was. Photos by Crystal Wiebe Because even people who seek…
Buy Music Showcase Wristbands and Shirts Online
The $5 wristbands for the music showcase (August 7!) will be available at all the showcase venues, but if you want to get yours before the other kids, you can buy ’em online at the link below. And for a limited time, we’re giving out 2 free movie passes to Cinemark Palace on the Plaza with each wristband purchase. Nifty….
Breakfast Buffet: Thursday 7/24
BY OWEN MORRIS The coffee recession continues to have its effect on coffee stores in Kansas City. (KC Perky) Way to be neighborly St. Louis. Two of KC’s finest beer connoisseurs drive all the way to your town just to visit the Schlafly Brewery and it’s up and closed. Oh well, at least they managed to find some other brewer…
The Download Extra: New Murs & 9th Wonder MP3s
By ANDY VIHSTADT Before he unofficially joins the race on September 30 with Murs for President, Murs has issued a free LP of new material with producer 9th Wonder. Download the entire thing right here. Categories: Music Tags: Murs, the download extra
KMBZ Drops Ferruzza … Again!
By CHARLES FERRUZZA Honestly, I don’t know how long I had been blabbing about restaurants on Thursday mornings on NewsRadio 980-KMBZ with E.J. Becker and Ellen Schenk this time. A couple of years, maybe? Perhaps not even that long. Getting my tired ass to the Entercom studios in Mission (or, more often than not, calling in) each Thursday at 8:20…
World Week, Volume 27, Number 7
By ALAN SCHERSTUHL Each week, your Crap Archivst brings 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. World Week, Volume 27, Number 7 Author: An all-American staff of fact-loving, kid-informing, Commie-hating bores. Also: Gay Head and the Nestle chocolate company….
A not-independent analyst might have skewed local media coverage of Sprint
In June, when Sprint introduced the Instinct, its rival to the iPhone, industry analyst Jeff Kagan gave the launch a good review. Quoted in a June 19 Kansas City Star story by business reporter Jason Gertzen, Kagan said the launch was a sign that the company had started managing its business better and positioning itself to compete. Sprint, Kagan said,…
Open Mic with The Recipe Poetry Guild
Open Mic Night hosted by The Recipe, a spoken word duo. We are shopping for seasoning and growing ingredients of talent at our events, marinating the stage for local success. It requires flavor to be considered good tasting So Poets, Rappers, Dancers, Singers, Musicians, Visual Artists – come on out and bless the mic and breath life into The Recipe….
Purty Hat Night
The team the Royals would like to become visits the K on Thursday. The Tampa Bay Rays are everything Royals fans have been promised but has never come to fruition: a young, exciting team built from a strong farm system and shrewd trading. The Rays take on the Royals at 7:10 p.m., continuing Tampa’s attempt to make the playoffs for…
Sick Jokes
What do corn chips, George Carlin, Fred Phelps, Kirk Cameron and Vaseline have to do with one another?Ew. No, that’s not it. They’re all references sprinkled like confetti through songs from Mac Lethal’s most recent album, 11:11. Mac’s known for inducing gasps of recognition from the audience when he makes these pop-culture references, as when he raps about his addiction…
Boys Will Be Boys
Traditionally, outdoor screenings feature kid-friendly movies, the type families can watch together on a jumbo-sized picnic blanket. Animal House, which begins at 9 tonight at City Market Park (Third Street and Main), is not such a film. Its characters discuss sex constantly, in language that’s alternately euphemistic and crudely graphic. Its heroes, the man-children of the Delta House fraternity, lack…
the road to houlihan’s
The intrinsic appeal of the Country Club Plaza has always been more than merely highbrow shopping and people watching. No, the draws for natives and visitors alike are the Plaza’s iconic architecture and design: the neat rows of balustrades, the European-style towers, the still-stunning pedestrian accessibility. Edward Buehler Delk may lack the household-name recognition of the Peis, Wrights and Gehrys…
Common Grounds Book Group
The Common Grounds Book Group hosts author Thomas Fox Averill for a discussion of his novel, Secrets of the Tsil Cafe. Sat., July 26, 10:30 a.m., 2008 Tags: Night & Day, Thomas Fox Averill
Coffee, Tea or Me?
Long before ’60s-era flight attendants became icons of grace and wholesome beauty, the Harvey Girls held the nation’s heart. In 1876, freight agent Fred Harvey opened a depot diner in Topeka. At the time, railroad passengers didn’t have much in the way of food options at the stops. Choices were limited to roadhouse fare, which usually consisted of spoiled meat…
Loads of Laughs
Watching his various specials on HBO, Comedy Central or Showtime, one zeros in on Patrice Oneal’s skyrocketing eyebrows, jutting chin and bewildered eyeballs and marvels, “Can the guy really have that many issues with women … and humanity in general?” He’s an equal-opportunity offender wherever he appears, from The Opie and Anthony Show to VH1’s various I Love the ……
They Throw Like Girls
In modern baseball, pitchers are like china dolls, treated with dainty care and limited pitch counts so their precious arms don’t break. One glance at the herky-jerky motion of a fast-pitch softball hurler would have you believing that girls have it even worse, but in fact, it’s just the opposite. “It’s more of a natural motion than overhand,” says Tom…
Busking for Better Days
When Winston Apple retired after 21 years of teaching social studies, the local songwriter set his sights on something more realistic than inspiring punk teenagers: ending America’s unemployment crisis. Well, Apple at least hopes to create a bunch of jobs in Kansas City through his newly created nonprofit, Workfare Inc. Once Workfare raises some startup dough, Apple plans to embark…
Pryor Engagement
Matt Pryor has turned out music over the years with the Get Up Kids, the New Amsterdams and the Terrible Twos. But finally, he’s just Matt Pryor. Be one of the first to pick up Pryor’s new solo disc, Confidence Man, tonight at his CD-release show at Love Garden Sounds (936 1/2 Massachusetts in Lawrence). The album doesn’t hit stores…
Water Dragons
When city planners first set about developing Brush Creek along the Country Club Plaza, they envisioned an inviting and lively strip where vendors would sell their wares and pedestrian traffic would rule the day. That hasn’t quite happened. Still, Brush Creek is occasionally home to welcoming events. The Fourth-Annual Kansas City Dragon Boat Festival is one such example. Today, Brush…
thought for food
One of the best books of 2006 was Cormac McCarthy’s The Road, a postapacolyptic trek through a barren wasteland. With the world turned to ashes, the main problem for the book’s heroes — aside from torturous introspection — is bands of roaming cannibals spit-roasting babies and keeping gardens of crippled people in the attic. Learn to put off this bleak…
Find The Pitch
