By PETER RUGG If you’re one of those people who’s been stressing over the tiniest minutia of the presidential election, this is fair warning to stop reading now. If you choose to follow us down this rabbit hole of nonpartisan research predicting a total disaster in Missouri on November 4, please don’t blame The Pitch for the sudden urge to…
With her first new album in four years, Flavors of Entanglement, Alanis Morissette rocked it Gen-X-style in Kansas City Tuesday night.
%{}% By OWEN MORRIS A drunkard couldn’t do much better for a drunkard’s lunch than Aixois but then again, neither could any non-drunkard either. (KC Lunch Spots) Keep a look out for this one. The once-excellent-but-recently-on-hiatus coffee blog KC Perky is being revived. Not only revived but improved with new reviewers. (KC Perky) Advanced pumpkin carving technique. First person to…
By CAROLYN SZCZEPANSKI David Quinly is used to getting trash tossed into his yard and taking unconventional steps to protect his home turf. Before the U.S. invasion of Iraq, the Prairie Village resident started painting anti-war signs and posting them in his front yard on Roe Avenue. Over the past five years, his slogans have included cryptic messages (“Be thankful…
By OWEN MORRIS I have no interest in pimping Taco Bell’s promotion giving a free taco to any person who wants one that badly from 2 to 6 p.m. I will say that it is free food and that you don’t need to buy anything else at Taco Bell to get it. Let’s face it, one taco isn’t really worth…
%{}% By OWEN MORRIS I woke up Sunday with a mild stomach flu, and things were worse by the time class rolled around last night. I probably should have stayed at home and been relatively miserable in private. Instead, I decided to chance it and just wash my hands a lot during class. Mine was a dilemma that many people…
%{}% By CHRIS PACKHAM Dementia pugilistica is a neurological disorder caused by repeated blows to the head, bearing a symptomatic resemblance to drunkenness, and characterized by slurred speech, dementia, confusion and inappropriate behavior. Therefore, if you see me in public, and you’re a lady, and I happen to come up and grope you in a socially unconventional or quirky, unorthodox…
By CHARLES FERRUZZA I get so many questions about food and eating out here in the Fat City that we’ve added a new category: Ask Charles Ferruzza. Ask me a question and I’ll do my best to answer it or, if I’m stumped, throw it out to you, our loyal readers. After all, you not only have excellent taste and…
By CHARLES FERRUZZA Yes, this is the window of a restaurant. Get your mind out of the gutter! Now just where is it? Categories: Dining, Food & Drink
By PETER RUGG The Ginger Man, Daily Briefs and I were heading back from lunch in the Power & Light District Monday when we came across a street preacher on the sidewalk outside Chipotle on 14th Street. It’s OK if he didn’t bring anyone to Jesus that day, because what he did do was give Power & Light’s owner, the…
By ANDY VIHSTADT The prospects of a Tribe Called Quest reunion album are looking slim these days, which is probably for the best, but midnight marauders out there can take comfort in the fact that Q-Tip’s long awaited solo LP, The Renaissance, comes out next Tuesday. It’s been nine years since the rapper’s last official release (his last two attempts…
By CHARLES FERRUZZA A few weeks after The Pitchgave a Best of Kansas City award to the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art’s one-year-old Museum Cafe for Best Place To Meet Intelligent Women, the little restaurant in the Bloch Building has closed! Categories: Dining, Food & Drink Tags: Museum Cafe, nelson-atkins museum, Rozzelle Court
%{}% By OWEN MORRIS It may be true that you are what you eat (in which case I’m at least 50 percent Cheetah ala Chester) but scientists have now proven what anybody who has ever drank alcohol already knew: you feel more like what you drink. Surprisingly, this goes for non-alcoholic drinks too. (Time) Remember those Road-Kill Cafe shirts? Well…
Alanis Morisette Pre-Party
By NADIA PFLAUM If Dolores Royston had read this story, she might have known better than to rent her house at 6837 Bellefontaine Avenue to Richard Tolbert. Tolbert — the former City Council member, unsuccessful candidate for county executive and lone activist for saving the economically depressed Bannister Mall, now scheduled to become a soccer complex — seemed to have…
It’s a longstanding dream of mine to get to put on really expensive clothes and pose for one of those magazines where they not only interview you but list what clothes you’re wearing. Just like they do in, you know, GQ, which I’ll never be in unless they put out an unfamous-shlub issue and I win the raffle to be…
By OWEN MORRIS Over at Slate, resident business expert Daniel Gross has an interesting article that, in essence, makes a correlation between the state of a country’s banking crisis and how invasive Starbucks has become there. For instance, London and Spain are being hit extremely hard by the financial crisis and they both have high densities of Starbucks. It’s an…
By C.J. JANOVY Not that we’d advocate going back to the days of the not-too-distant past when entertaining wackos like Connie Morris ruled the Kansas Board of Education, but we have to admit we kind of miss the ol’ reformed high school slut who pals around with evolution deniers. It’s been a couple of quiet years as far as the…
By ANDY VIHSTADT London jazz-funk-hip-hop outfit the Herbaliser is getting ready to play this side of the Atlantic for the first time in over a decade, although the closest the group will get to Kansas City are a couple of mid-November dates in Chicago and Minneapolis. If a road trip isn’t in your future, head over to RCRD LBL to…
By CHARLES FERRUZZA Well, no. But I did cringe just a bit when I heard that the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art was outsourcing its food-service management to the Syracuse, New York-based American Food and Vending. I had this horrible vision of beautiful Rozelle Court lined with coin-operated machines. But Mark Zimmerman, the museum’s director of client services, assures me that’s…
Jolie Holland and Herman Dune October 24, 2008 The Jackpot Music Hall Better Than: 500 mg of Doxycycline. By GRANT SNIDER To paraphrase Adam Duritz, poet laureate of ‘90s Top 40 Radio, I want to meet a girl who looks like Elvis. As Jolie Holland sings, one side of her upper lip curls into a King-like sneer you’d swear was…
