By Owen Morris Hal Brody, owner of Tea Drops in Westport (and founder of The Pitch; he sold the paper in 1999), is handing over the tea shop to Robert and Janet Bloom of D’Bronx restaurant fame. Brody, who moved to California in 2007, said by e-mail that he has been “looking for the right people to take over and…
By Owen Morris I’m fascinated by the preparation of food, especially meat. Yesterday I went to Fritz’s Superior Sausage Company at 103rd and State Line to see how professionals do it. Rob Reeves is a fourth-generation butcher, and his father, Bob, has more than 30 years of experience. Together, they cut, smoke and prepare cows, hogs, chicken and sausage. I…
WOOOOO! One of my favorite British bands, Elbow, was awarded the Mercury Prize last night for its fourth album, The Seldom-Seen Kid, beating out weightier contenders such as Radiohead and Robert Plant & Alison Krauss. “This is quite lit-rally the best thing that has ever happened to us,” said perpetually unshaven singer Guy Garvey. One day like that a year…
By NICOLE REINERTSON To: Jason Harper Subject: Bad News Bears! I regret to inform you I was unable to enter the *amazing* Melissa Etheridge show with my big camera. We were allowed to use point and shoots, but our tickets were on the fourth level, so the pictures were in the style of something I like to call: Just another…
By OWEN MORRIS “It’s 80 percent entertainment and 20 percent hunger…. A meal is one trick airlines use to keep passengers diverted during a long flight in a narrow, sterile metal tube.” The above is a quote from Aer Lingus executive Jack Foley in this Portfolio article by Joe Brancatelli talking about how airline meals are overrated. Brancatelli’s message seems…
By CHRIS PACKHAM digg_url = ‘http://blogs.pitch.com/plog/2008/09/daily_briefs_large_hadron_collider_fails_to_de_stroy_earth_dammit.php’; Hey, Science! Gather observable, empirical and measurable evidence about THIS! Scientists in Geneva activated the Large Hadron Collider without actually destroying the Earth. Maybe it’s, like, broken or something? For a couple of months now, I’ve relaxed my stiff facsimile of social propriety and stopped paying tabs at bars and restaurants, and also stopped…
By ANDY VIHSTADT Phonte (of Little Brother) and Dutch producer Nicolay follow up their 2004 debut, Connected, next month. According to their MySpace page, here’s what we can expect. “Leave It All Behind finds the Foreign Exchange much closer in geography (Nicolay has since become a resident of Wilmington, NC), but located much further from their hip-hop origins. The duo’s…
Ice Cube Tuesday, September 9 The VooDoo Lounge at Harrah’s Casino Better Than: Higher Learning By JASON HARPER Photos by JOHN BERSUCH In modern music, there are many boys, there are few men, and there are very few men, period, like Ice Cube. Founding member of N.W.A. and Da Lench Mob and a successful solo artist at the same game,…
By NADIA PFLAUM Emily insists that she wears the same thing every day — she says she owns one shirt, one tank top and two pairs of jeans. If that’s true, I bow to her minimalism. Emily and I do not share the ability to maintain a skinny wardrobe but we do have two things in common: a hatred for…
By OWEN MORRIS Halfway environmentally conscious people have known for a while that meat is bad for the environment. Like really, really bad. But will going vegetarian really save the environment? (Time) An economic study finds no evidence for the Wal-Mart Diet, which was a theory linking increased obesity to placement of Wal-Mart Stores. Weirdly though, it does find that…
By Justin Kendall U.S. District Judge Dean Whipple sentenced Dyshawn Johnson to three consecutive life sentences today for the murders of Olivia Raya and Anthony Rios. Last December, a federal jury convicted Johnson and Michael Dale of first-degree murder and conspiracy to distribute more than 5 kilograms of cocaine. On June 11, Whipple sentenced Dale to life in prison; Dale…
Over the past week, I’ve seen about a dozen wistful blog entries, Facebook “notes,” and the like, all waxing on the cooling of the weather and the approaching autumn. Well, up yours, motherfuckers. from The Fantasticks Original Cast Album (Polydor) Categories: Music Tags: callow fellows, MP3, orbach
%{}% By CHRIS PACKHAM digg_url = ‘http://blogs.pitch.com/plog/2008/09/daily_briefs_i_think_i_heard_somewhere_that_sarah_palin_is_a_muslim.php’; If I assembled a tag cloud of keywords from the letter I received from the National Weather Service this morning, it would include heavy use of the words “distasteful,” “regrettable,” “cease and desist,” “never in a million years” and “horrible human being.” So there goes my campaign to get federal meteorologists to start…
Photos from Sunday night’s Rock the Vote concert, featuring St. Louis’s Ludo. Click below to view our slideshow. Categories: Music Tags: Ludo, Power & Light District, Power& Light District, Rock the Vote
By ANDY VIHSTADT San Francisco’s Deerhoof gave AOL’s Spinner an exclusive test drive of its upcoming album, Offend Maggie, out October 7 on Kill Rock Stars. Get the title track below and a handful of older MP3s at the KRS Store. MP3: Deerhoof, “Offend Maggie,” Offend Maggie (Kill Rock Stars) Categories: Music Tags: deerhoof, download extra, MP3
%{}% By Owen Morris Last night’s class was all about sauces and making the classic five sauces. The mantra: there is no harder station in the kitchen than the saucier’s. All five of the leading sauces require constant attention and stirring and skimming over long periods of time lest they turn out murky and too thick, or the the vegetables…
Ludo helped rally would-be voters this weekend at the Rock the Vote concert in downtown’s Power and Light District. Photos by Scott Lauck.
By CHARLES FERRUZZA If all goes according to plan – and in the restaurant business, it almost never does – Grinders West, the newest restaurant concept created by artist and entrepreneur known as Stretch, will open at the end of this month. I stopped by the nearly complete space, in the mustard-colored building next to the original Grinders. This building…
By NADIA PFLAUM For this one, I need to set the scene: Ces Cru is on stage at the Riot Room on Saturday night, and the foot of the stage is a blender of bobbing heads, flailing hands and charmingly scruffy college girls dancing. Most of the guys in the crowd are wearing the hip-hopper’s uniform of an over-sized printed…
By OWEN MORRIS A local blogger totally takes apart the new awareness campaign running for high fructose corn syrup. (Where to Eat in Kansas City) The fructose corn syrup issue is raising a lot of press and here’s a local doctor discussing how and where you should get your sugar. (Fortunately our bodies do need sugar.) (KC Infozine) Kind of…
By Justin Kendall The grand jury investigating the Kansas City, Kansas, Board of Public Utilities has adjourned without handing down an indictment against the utility. However, two indictments issued by the grand jury will remain sealed until an arraignment hearing is held on the charges. T.J. Reardon of Kansas City, Kansas, used a petition drive earlier this year to seat…
