I totally geeked out this weekend when I stopped in Poptopia, 4126 Pennsylvania Ave., the new vinyl toy store in Westport (in the horseshoe circle with Californos and Murray’s Ice Cream & Cookies). As far as I know, Poptopia is the only vinyl toy store in KC. After the jump, a peek at some of the toys. Categories: News Tags:…
RocknRollDating.com is like Match.com for people who don’t want to sift through all the cubicle stiffs in the quest for a real, live rocker boy or girl. Now, I’m pretty sure Architects frontman did not meet his wife through the Web site, but the story of their engagement does appear there. In a March 1 entry to RocknRollDating.com’s Dates from…
Here’s something to look forward to: director Sascha Paladino’s documentary Throw Down Your Heart , now on the art-house-and-PBS circuit, in which banjo genius Béla Fleck goes to Africa to trace his instrument’s roots. The film opens for a week at Tivoli Cinemas (4050 Pennsylvania, 913-383-7756) on Friday, April 10. Writing for The Pitch’s sister paper the Nashville Scene, Jack Silverman…
Library of Congress Waiters Strike, 1910 Tomorrow, a delegation of servers wearing customized aprons (“Save Our Tips” is embroidered on the front, “Stop House Bill 258” is on the back) will arrive in Jefferson City to lobby members of the Missouri House of Representatives to vote no on House Bill 258, which would roll the minimum wage for tipped servers back…
What started as a request by Michael Pollan in October has turned into reality. In October, the food author wrote an article specifically asking then-president-elect Obama to build a garden at the White House: I don’t need to tell you that ripping out even a section of the White House lawn will be controversial… the South Lawn is one of…
Recently, 4:20 enthusiasts Shanin & Parks have begun fobbing off T-shirts to anyone willing to whisper “cooter” to them. Your friends at The Pitch at first assumed S&P gear would appeal only to 980 KMBZ’s niche audience: angry old men with nothing better to do than listen to complaints about everybody else’s crazy, no-credit mortgages in between commercials for crazy,…
I love good Chinese food and I love a bargain, but I’m telling you: Panda Express offers neither. Shortly after the new location of the fast-growing California-based chain opened at 7920 State Line Road, I heard mixed reviews from friends: one calls the chain “Chipotle with egg rolls” and my friend Bob, who doesn’t really like Chinese food, loved it….
I’m not sure who Dorothy is, but she’s starting a campaign to fight Kansas’ book banning, intelligent-design-loving hordes. Life in Oz uses The Wizard of Oz allegory — and a spinoff of Sean Tevis’ amazing (but unsuccessful) cartoon campaign for Kansas state representative — to tell Dorothy’s fight for progressive change in Kansas. Dorothy isn’t getting much help from the…
I’m sure, at one point in Kansas City’s wilder and crazier past, the city had a red light district (I mean after Annie Chambers and the River Market neighborhood). But the name comes from the tradition of hanging a red lantern or light in front of a bawdy house. This restaurant uses this red light fixture for purely decorative effect….
Having lived in Kansas City for nearly three years now, I’ve run the Trolley Trail about seven trillion times. So the sight of bright graffiti along this peaceful path, where runners and riders greet each other as they pass, immediately caught my eye Sunday morning. Apparently, some Brooksider got swindled or an art student chose a spot with heavy foot…
Fat City doesn’t get many things free but every now and then a surprise does show up in our mailbox. Fat City’s rule is that if we ever get anything free, we disclose that if we review it. Soon that will be more than a house rule — it’ll be a federal law. New FTC rules are about to demand…
My favorite aisle in the grocery store is the cereal aisle, where some grains we put into milk burst into a sugary, multi-colored, multi-mascoted wonderland. I normally buy the same two or three cereals, but I like looking at all the new promotions and cereals. Which is how I came across Jumbo Krispies. I have been enjoying Rice Krispies for…
Flickr: Scuff Productions The slow food movement claims more than 16,000 believers nationwide. It was created to counteract fast food’s run-and-gun attitude towards meals, so it promotes the opposite. It’s now also about keeping food local, using sustainable grains and produce, and attacking industrial agribusiness. It’s still about getting the most out of food and tonight’s event at Jasper’s Ristorante…
If compact discs were outlawed tomorrow, the 1,000 Madeleine Peyroux fans who crowded the Folly Theater Friday night to hear the singer would be out in front at the protest — as long as NPR broke the news. Peyroux, a 34-year-old natural with one foot in Brooklyn and the other in Paris, attracts a decidedly old-school crowd, one that buys…
%{}% APOCALYPTIC NEWS IN BRIEF AND SON: Look. I’m no economist. I’m just an ol’ widowed junk man who lives in Watts with his only son, Lamont. So I’m completely unqualified to judge whether or not Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner is an idiot. “GIVE HIM THE BENEFIT OF THE DOUBT,” I said in January. Then my son tried to have…
%{}% You never know what the text message is going to behold when the passenger next to you on the train asks you to proofread it. Easter is traditionally one of the busiest days for the food service industry, but restaurants are anticipating a steep decrease in sales this year. Eighty-three percent of coffee drinkers are now brewing their own…
This week: Get cinematically inspired to stop buying tap water in pointless and polluting plastic bottles, help the cash-strapped city deal with its bank-breaking storm water problem by learning to contain with your own dirty run-off and strike fear into the hearts of politicians who hate to see a crowd of protesters on their lawn by enrolling in a free…
A 48-year-old Kansas City man was stabbed to death Saturday near 23rd Street and Interstate 435. Crime Scene KC says the victim was apparently stabbed in a street fight near the 400 block of East Elm. View Larger Map The victim died at the hospital from his wounds. Investigators were seeking 19-year-old Anthony D. Gillen and 18-year-old Christopher M. Vasquez…
Early Saturday morning, several people were shot in Kansas City, Kansas. KCK Police found several wounded people and one man — a white male in his early twenties — dead in the 2400 block of South 13th Terrace at about 2:09 a.m. Police won’t release the victim’s name until his family is notified. The other shooting victims were taken to…
Kansas City, Kansas Police need the public’s help in finding and identifying this guy. He goes by the name of “Chava,” KCK Police consider Chava a “person of interest” in the February 27 homicide of 24-year-old Victor K. Dominguez-Gardea outside of La Cascada (6550 Kaw Drive). Police say Chava is a Hispanic male between the ages of 18 and 21….
I’m writing this blog entry from my basement couch in Overland Park. Besides the ringing in my ears and a pain in my back and ribs that I can’t remember aquiring, this seems like a world away from the aural and visual shitstorm that is Austin during South by Southwest. But I mean that in the nicest way. If anyone’s…
The following is a guest dispatch by Riverfront Times music editor Annie Zaleski, who is courageous and awesome. By day four of SXSW, everything is a chore. Waking up. Standing up. Drinking beer. Even mustering up enthusiasm to see bands becomes more difficult, mainly because the constant barrage of music – we’re talking from the moment you land in the…
CNET UK The staff at CNET in the United Kingdom checks out the high-tech Inamo Restaurant in London, which is so much more than an Asian Fusion restaurant. Inamo likes to tell customers that “control of your dining experience is firmly in your hand.” That’s because the restaurant features interactive touch-sensitive tables that take your order (effectively putting waiters and waitresses…
