I visited the Power & Light District Saturday afternoon for a fundraiser to assist Big Brothers, Big Sisters. I have to say, it seemed like a good thing. While I applaud the fund-raising effort, Cordish’s latest decision has left me more confused about the district then before. Categories: News Tags: Beer League, Big Brothers and Big Sisters, Cordish, Mini Golf, power &…
About five hours ago, Missouri Sen. Claire McCaskill thought about introducing Barack Obama and Faith Hill later tonight. She also drank coffee. And she’s happy to be with her family. She’s also got an excited little girl who can’t wait to see the Jonas Brothers and Miley Cyrus tonight. It’s all coming in 140-character oversharing doses from McCaskill’s Twitter. She’ll…
So you’re in KC, not D.C. That doesn’t mean you have to ring in change all by your lonesome. Come yell “Yes we did!” with the cool kids at these hot spots: Categories: News, Politics Tags: californos, Czar Bar, granada, inauguration party, Juke House, KC Live!, Obama
Yesterday, I got my hands on Boulevard’s Imperial Stout. Released this past week, it’s the brewery’s seventh Smokestack outing. I was going to wait for a special occasion but with a sizable wager on the Cardinals to beat the Eagles, I decided there was no better occasion than the playoffs. I had been excited about this beer since a couple…
So go pop up yourself a healthy bowl of this all-American treat! And I was wondering, writing this, if the fantastic stove-top popcorn treat from my childhood, Jiffy Pop, is still manufactured. It is! Categories: Dining, Food & Drink Tags: popcorn
%{}% I was shocked — simply shocked, I tell you — that only two Fat City residents ventured a guess as to this location. One was correct, the other was semi-correct. Fred couldn’t decide whether the vintage postcard was of the old Tiffany’s Attic Dinner Playhouse or its sister location, the Waldo Astoria Theatre in Waldo, so he sort of…
Organizers announced over the weekend that this year’s St. Patrick’s Day parade is moving. Erin Kiekbusch, co-chairwoman of the St. Patrick’s parade committee, said the parade will start on Broadway at 33rd Street and go south 10 blocks, well, away from downtown. This is the first time the event has strayed from downtown since its 1974 inception. Personal to the…
President Harry Truman is throwing a party from beyond the grave tomorrow to celebrate the inauguration of Barack Obama. The Harry S. Truman Library and Museum (500 W. U.S. Hwy. 24) in Independence will broadcast CNN’s coverage of Obama’s swearing-in ceremony on its “theater-sized screen” at 10 a.m. Sorry, MSNBC and Fox News fans. The party lasts until 4 p.m….
Rachel Maddow bullies political pundits on MSNBC show but she says if she couldn’t do that she’d “bully people about what they drink.” So begins another round of Rachel Maddow, classic cocktail expert. I’ve previously written about Maddow’s excellent Jack Rose recipe and this audio clip is no different. Here she riffs about why classic cocktails are the only way…
Today’s the National Day of Service, designated by Congress in 1994 so that Americans do more to celebrate Martin Luther King Day than sit on the couch, scratch themselves and watch Oprah. It’s not too late to volunteer. Check out these events: Categories: News Tags: MLK Day, National Day of Service, Oprah
We don’t call this blog Fat City for nothing. When you Google fat+Midwesterners the third result is BlogKC, and a Kansas City blogger Just Cara recently released a book called I Love Ranch Dressing: And Other Stuff Midwesterners Like. In 2000, the American Obesity Association named Kansas City the second fattest in America and the following year we came in…
Midtown Miscreant tries to temper expectations for Barack Obama’s pending presidency. Otherwise, Obama will be the next Jimmy Carter. A great post from one of Kansas City’s best bloggers. Categories: News, Politics Tags: Arrowhead Pride, barack obama, Bill Cowher, Dirt Diver Kansas, Fecal transplants, General Blather, George W. Bush, Jim Slattery, Jimmy Carter, Kansas Meadowlark, Midtown Miscreant, Pat Roberts, Phill…
Last week, we all had a hearty laugh at the expense of the horrible commercial for the ridiculous, yet somehow impressive Microsoft Songsmith Embarrassment Software Suite For Singing. In case you missed it, here’s the video: America came together as one people to make fun of this horrible video. Then, a brave pilot summoned a lifetime’s experience to safely land…
If you or someone you know is in need of a job and has some experience in sustainable agriculture or community organizing, the best nonprofit in the city — the Kansas City Center for Urban Agriculture in Kansas City, Kansas — is filling two positions right now. It needs a farm manager and a farm business developer. If you’re interested…
I cleaned up and updated the blog roll last week, but I know I’m missing some really good blogs. If you’re not on the list or know of a local blog that should be, shoot me an e-mail — justin.kendall@pitch.com — or leave the URL in the comments, and I’ll add it. Thanks. Categories: News Tags: Bloggers, Plog
I gotta work today, but if your employer is good enough to give you Martin Luther King Jr. Day off, you should pay tribute to Dr. King. If you’re not sure where to go, Crystal K. Wiebe highlighted a few local MLK Day celebrations in this week’s Pitch. The Kansas City Star has a pretty great round up. Categories: News…
%{}% The importance of a “go-to chili recipe” cannot be overstated. A sad story that shows just how far some people will go for beer. A California man sold his 14-year-old daughter for $16,000, 100 cases of beer and several cases of meat. Now the FDA is advising people to stay away from all peanut butter products while they try…
Image courtesy jlwlp.blogspot.com. Last month, local musician Justin Lake Whedon started a new ritual of musical mind expansion at Record Bar — a themed listening party. During Justin Lake Whedon’s Listening Party, the DJ puts on a bunch of songs that fall into the same genre group, like shoegaze. His goal is to play some tracks that a lot of…
There’s a lot going on for Hall of Famers today. Springsteen’s upcoming LP is streaming a week early via NPR. The first single from U2’s next one got its first airplay and another new track from the Red Hot Organization’s upcoming Dark Was the Night compilation is streaming (download the Dirty Projectors + David Byrne contribution below). From the album’s…
It’s going to take more than a great big stimulus package and a giant dose of optimism to dig the country out of our transit and infrastructure challenges. So says a new report from the University of Kansas Transportation Research Institute released last week. “Humankind confronts interrelated crises of energy and transportation in a rapidly changing world where we must…
We know that the folks over at New Letters, the University of Missouri-Kansas City’s quarterly literary magazine, put out one of the best publications around, but with their current issue — their 75th anniversary edition — they seem to have outdone themselves. I don’t know enough about the art form to speak on the poetry collected here, but the essays…
Mark Vasto, publisher of the Parkville Luminary, says he’s rushing in to fill the void left when, on January 10, New York-based GateHouse Media stopped printing the Kansas City Kansan and became an online-only newspaper. “The Kansas City Kansan’s last headline was ‘News will now be only online,” Vasto says in a press release. “The Luminary begs to differ.” Over…
Thank you, New York Daily News. Thank you for showing the way to these bikini shots of Kansas City American Idol contestant Casey Carlson. I’m sure she’s got a great voice. Categories: News Tags: american idol, Casey Carlson
Are we human or are we … awesome? The Pitch and 96.5 FM The Buzz present the Killers … at the Czar Bar! Tomorrow night! $3,500 or 5,000 cans of food. Hurry — only 25 people allowed! Just kidding. Instead, mark your calendar for May 2, 2009; that’s really when singer/keyboardist/Chiefs-cornerback-namesake Brandon Flowers and his Las Vegas pop-rock pals come…
