By OWEN MORRIS In what will be a blow for downtowners, Cosentino’s says it is not opening until next year. The supermarket in the Power & Light District was slated to open this past summer, but that was pushed back to sometime in November. Now, in this interview on Fox4 News last night, John Cosentino says the grocery store will…
By OWEN MORRIS As reported in Pitch Forks this week, Songbird Café in Kansas City is holding a pro/am Chili-Bowl Contest this Saturday at 11 a.m. Chili is such an idiosyncratic food that eating someone’s chili is like peering into their soul… or their gut. Two weekends ago several Pitch staffers participated in the Art Incbuator’s successful chili fundraiser, which…
Thanks to A to Z for picking this one off the newswire. LONDON (Reuters Life!) – Rare film footage of an unscheduled concert by the Beatles in Kansas City during their first U.S. tour 44 years ago fetched 4,100 pounds ($6,600) when it went under the hammer on Tuesday. The two-minute silent, color 8mm film was uncovered by American Drew…
By CHRIS PACKHAM McCain could still pull this out: Well, here it’s Friday, and Missouri hasn’t awarded any electoral college points to any Presidential candidates. Is there anybody discussing this, anywhere? The final, still unofficial results have Sen. John McCain narrowly leading gigantic loser Barack Obama who has nonetheless presumptuously embarked on his “transition planning” with or without Missouri’s coveted…
By OWEN MORRIS Here’s a fact: Absinthe was considered such a problem in the United States that it was banned in 1912. Cocaine and heroin were not banned until two years later. That absinthe must have been powerful stuff. Actually, scientists have tested surviving samples and decided it wasn’t. It got a bad rap as the problem-de-jour, though, and was…
%{}% By OWEN MORRIS “I’m mad as hell and I’m not going to take it!” Seems to be not just the mantra of crazy news anchors (and really, with as many cable networks as we have today, how come there hasn’t been a Howard Beale meltdown?) but also grocery shoppers. Instead of taking it, one blogger works around the high…
By DAVID MARTIN Grant Hinkle and Blair Hinkle, the brothers who grew up in Weatherby Lake and each won bracelets at this year’s World Series of Poker, will be spectators when the Main Event resumes in Las Vegas on Sunday. The tournament sponsors invited the Hinkles to return and watch the finale from prime seats in the theater of the…
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This Saturday, our local Friends of Chamber Music continue their Early Music Series with a performance of Judith, composed and performed by world-renowned, Croatian-born, medieval music singer Katarina Livljanić, with accompaniment by medieval drums, flutes, stringy-things. It’ll be at Grace & Holy Trinity Cathedral at 11th and Broadway (the gold domer) at 8 p.m. Tickets cost $15. Why should you…
By OWEN MORRIS Construction went on for what seemed like forever (but in reality was more like six months) in the space that was formerly Mama’s Diner, in the busy 39th Street and Bell area. This past Friday, Thai Garden opened. I stopped by the restaurant yesterday to see the new space and check out the menu. Thai Garden is…
By ANDY VIHSTADT While Nick Diamonds is moving ahead with his Reefer, Islands, Th’ Corn Gangg and Human Highway projects, his former Unicorns band mate is dropping Clues. Alden Penner has teamed up with the Arcade Fire’s Brendan Reed for his first post-Unicorns release. Grab a track below and expect the debut sometime next spring on Constellation Records. MP3: Clues,…
By CHARLES FERRUZZA Hey, I’m all for getting away for a petit vacance when there’s an opportunity to take a little vacation time. But fans of Overland Park’s Artisan Francais, A French Bakery are wondering whether the “vacation” that owners Sebastien and Brianna Saint-Ouen have taken from their business at 6759 West 119th Street might be permanent. The phone number…
By ANDY VIHSTADT Brooklyn’s Bitch + the Exciting Conclusion is hitting the road to test out new material, including tonight’s stop in Kansas City at the Riot Room. The lead singer, simply known as Bitch, sounds a bit like a cross between PJ Harvey and Chan Marshall and is known for throwing electric violins and ukuleles into the mix. Download…
%{}% By CHRIS PACKHAM EXTRY, EXTRY! Apparently, all the ailing print industry needs is for Barack Obama to be elected President every day of the week, because special commemorative editions of Wednesday papers sold out across the country, including Wednesday’s Kansas City Star. By contrast, the Northeast News starts out as trash and then gets dumped in your front yard…
By OWEN MORRIS Driving through Westport yesterday, I noticed a lot of construction going on in the space that was previously Napoleon Bakery on the western end of Westport Road near PotPie and Bluestem. So I stopped in to see who was making all the ruckus. Turns out, its new owner, James Holmes (he’s the man near the back in…
Stephen Malkmus & the Jicks, with Blitzen Trapper November 6, 2008 Liberty Hall By RICHARD GINTOWT The last time I saw Stephen Malkmus at Liberty Hall, he was drunk as a skunk. I vaguely remember him coming out before the show and rolling around on the stage while singing “tiptoe through the tulips.” For a brief moment I wondered if…
By JUSTIN KENDALL The election is clearly still on everyone’s minds this morning. I can’t stop reading about it, either. Here’s today’s: Ain’t no party like a Slattery party because a Slattery party don’t stop. Erin in the Real World shows off some awesome pics from the father and son election night party. Bottomline Communications wonders if it’s time for…
By OWEN MORRIS The day before the election I wrote about how food chains like 7-Eleven and Flying Saucer had conducted their own polling of sorts and had showed Obama winning the election. Well, call me biased for Obama, but in a snafu of voter fever, I left out the voice of another true American food classic: Waffle House. According…
%{}% By OWEN MORRIS In case you didn’t take advantage of all the free stuff yesterday, Chimpo at his new blog will let you know what you missed. I would watch a television show if it had Red Balloon Wayne in it. What a great nickname from this post on the classic bar Red Balloon. The CEO of YUM! which…
by ALAN SCHERSTUHL Each Thursday, your Crap Archivist brings you the finest in forgotten and bewildering crap culled from area basements, thrift stores, estate sales and flea markets. He does this for one reason: Knowledge is power. The Teacher’s Aide Volume 2 Publisher: Homemaking Research Laboratories, Tony, Wisconsin Date: 1978 Discovered at: Bargain Haus Thrift, Lee’s Summit Sample crossword and…
Twenty-seven voices described by The Wall Street Journal as “pure and impassioned, astounding choral artists” join with the Tallinn Orchestra performing music of Arvo Pärt and Erkki-Sven Tüür. Fri., Nov. 7, 8 p.m., 2008 Tags: Arvo Part, Night & Day, Tallinn Orchestra, The Wall Street Journal
Not so long ago, the Bush administration was arguing against the nation’s right to see flag-covered coffins shipped home from Iraq. This alone is a sad critique of how much access U.S. citizens have to the lives of troops overseas. The “greatest generation,” as it is often called, kicked Hitler’s ass without undue restrictions on journalistic access. You can see…
Just a few years ago, musical comedian Stephen Lynch was unstoppable. Three aggressively witty CDs and an impossibly high-energy DVD rocketed him through the college circuit and onto Opie & Anthony and Comedy Central. Then he scored a co-headlining spot on the network’s juggernaut 2004-05 “Comedy Central Live” tour. So it wasn’t entirely a surprise when he tackled the Tony-nominated…
