Archives: August 2008
Reports of Dave’s Stagecoach Closing/Becoming Gay Greatly Exaggerated, Bartender Says
By JASON HARPER The following press release wafted in on an e-breeze lightly scented with the cigarette smoke of days past and the tang of copper bar railing. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Bar Talk There have been rumors floating around about Dave’s Stagecoach Inn recently. To set the record straight: the bar has not been sold, the bar has not closed,…
Funk, City Manager Thinking More Alike
By DAVID MARTIN Kansas City, Missouri, Mayor Mark Funkhouser and City Manager Wayne Cauthen appear to have found some common ground in their ongoing budget feud. Cauthen has outlined steps for controlling personnel costs that comport with the mayor’s ideas. In this memo sent Friday to Deb Hermann, the chair of the Finance Committee, Cauthen said that he’s instructing department…
Emily Jenks in Westport
By JEN CHEN At last Thursday’s Pitch Music Showcase, I was at the Westport Beach Club for CES Cru when I saw Emily Jenks and her leopard-print dress. I love leopard print, though I think it’s sometimes tricky to wear – too much of it, and it’ll overwhelm your entire look. Or, you’ll look like you should be on the…
Daily Briefs: Why don’t you shake your hot little ass in here and fix the copier?
By CHRIS PACKHAM %{}% Kansas City’s Hispanic population is growing four times faster than the overall population growth, according to prolapsed local TV news orifice WDAF Fox 4. Yeah, yeah, this is likely to annoy the racists. If I were an exaggerating man, I’d predict calls for English-only everything, including Spanish classes, increasing immigration from Denmark and surrounding the state…
Brewing Up a Good Time
BY OWEN MORRIS The Brew Ha-Ha crowd around 6 p.m. The American Royal’s first Brew-Ha-Ha was this past Saturday. With more than 100 beers to be sample, festival-goers wasted no time. “Back already?” The volunteer at the Sam Adams table asked the man in front of me. I checked my watch; the event had only been open for five minutes….
Wakarusa Organizer Threatens to Move Festival if Kansas Doesn’t Cut Him Fairer Deal
BUZZKILL! In an awesome Sunday Lawrence Journal-World article, Pipeline Productions owner and Wakarusa mastermind Brett Mosiman claims that he may move his festival out of Kansas if he don’t start gitting the kind of deal them cowboys git. He’s mad that the organizers of the Country Stampede festival, held at Tuttle Creek State Park near Manhattan, pay less for security…
METALLICA coming to Kansas City
All kindsa news came in after I left early yesterday, including… Metallica has announced its first North American trek in four years in support of upcoming release Death Magnetic. Where: Sprint Center When: October 25 Opening acts: Down, the Sword Details forthcoming at Metallica.com Categories: Music Tags: metal, Metallica
Breakfast Buffet: Tuesday, 8/12
BY OWEN MORRIS Fortune cookies aren’t the only food that can hand out advice. As one local blogger finds outs, Dove Chocolates are full of inspiration too. (Kansas City With a Russian Accent) A moving story of a chef who gave up the fame and fortune of haute cuisine to focus on feeding those who just need food — the…
Blogger Just Cara Scores Book Deal
By Justin Kendall Go ahead and dip a blogger in that. Just Cara blogger Cara Freie has a paperback book coming out titled I Love Ranch Dressing: And Other Stuff White Midwesterners Like. The book appears to be a Midwestern take on the blog Stuff White People Like. Categories: News Tags: Just Cara, white people
Vincent Gauthier at Bo Ling’s
by Nadia Pflaum Vincent Gauthier is the Executive Director of the Port Authority of Kansas City, Missouri. He is also the only person in Kansas City who could give me the occasion to employ the adjective “natty,” as in, “a natty dresser.” I’ve seen him appear at public meetings wearing a bow tie, which is emphatically not something most men…
Maggie Adams in Westport
By JEN CHEN I was walking through Westport when I passed Maggie Adams. The 19-year-old was on her way to lunch at Thai place, and her bold, casual look definitely caught my attention. I loved her accessories, which included black suede flat boots from Urban Outfitters, bright red lipstick, a red bow in her hair and ball-shaped leopard print earrings….
Guilty Pleasures: Colby Garrelts
BY OWEN MORRIS Colby Garrets has worked at such fine-dining institutions as the American Restaurant in Kansas City, the Paris Casino in Las Vegas and TRU in Chicago. Along with his wife, Megan, he owns and is chef at Bluestem, the progressive restaurant located in Westport. I asked Colby what he eats when no one is watching. The thing that…
Lamb Chops stencils at 17th and Baltimore
by Nadia Pflaum I love the prehistoric-cave-drawing aspect of these, and also the silver word bubbles. Categories: News
Daily Briefs: Contra-Garfield Monday love
By CHRIS PACKHAM Don’t Vote: According to Steve Kraske, Robin Carnahan says voter turnout this November could approach 80 percent in Missouri — embarrassing! %{}%It’s not like we’re a new Republic rising from the ashes of totalitarian rule. We’ve been at this for over a hundred years, or something. I’d say we should act more detached, jaded and world-weary, like…
Breakfast Buffet: Monday 8/11
Staying on the subject of debunking myths, there are still a lot of inaccuracies surrounding caffeine that this article clears up. Though short of it causing death or hair loss, I don’t think anything could make me give up my six cups of coffee a day. (NYT) This is by far the best reason I’ve seen to actually watch the…
The Pitch Music Showcase in VIDEOS
By JOHN KREICBERGS In allegiance with Patchchord.com It’s Over In this video: Roach of It’s Over talks about the band calling it quits. It’s Over plays “Angela.” Click More for videos of Nomathmatics, Bacon Shoe, Pink Socks and Barclay Martin. Categories: Music Tags: Bacon Shoe, It’s Over, Nomathmatics, PMA 2008
The Pitch Music Showcase In Photos, Part 2
Click the photo of Allen Epley for a slide show of this past Thursday’s 2008 Pitch Music Showcase starring the Roseline, the Noise FM, Kiko De Gallo, the Jen Say Kwahs, Tactic, the Life and Times, Expassionates, Lights & Siren, the Beautiful Bodies, some partygirls and a beer shark. BY RICHARD GINTOWT And click the photo above of Chris Wagner…
Find The Pitch
