myburningkitchen.blogspot.com We’re thinking these were the top stories posted on Fat City this week: The saga of the Whole Foods employee and the “stolen” tuna fish sandwich and this local follow-up. The iconic restaurants of Kansas? No wine in Cherokee County The “Best Sandwiches in America?” You decide. Do you know your cooking personality? Categories: Dining, Food & Drink
The only reason the name Brokencyde or (blarf) brokeNCYDE means anything to me is because of regular contributor and former Pitch music editor Andrew Miller’s comprehensively scathing and hilarious look at the band’s career on SomethingAwful.com a few weeks ago. My stomach still hurts a little now from laughing so hard. At the same time, I’m also hurting from the…
Monta at Odds is offering not one but two opportunities to step outside your own head this weekend. Tomorrow (Saturday the 21) the KCK-based instrumental-dreamweavin’ band is starting with an in-store at 2 p.m. at Streetside Records in Westport, celebrating the national release of the group’s new one, Outono. They’ll have vinyl and shirts on hand, says Dedric Moore, one-half…
We’ve decided to let you know when we see any kind of job openings. This morning, we spotted a help-wanted sign in Town Topic’s window. Town Topic is looking for a jack-of-all-trades to flip burgers, wash dishes, scrub down the place and make those amazing shakes. “I don’t hire, and I don’t fire,” the waitress said. She just forwards the…
A week ago, Independence City Manager Robert Heacock got off on his driving-while-intoxicated case. We’re just now hearing about the case getting dumped by Lee’s Summit Municipal Court. (Thanks, Independence Examiner.) Apparently, there wasn’t enough evidence to move the case forward. In late January, Heacock was charged with DUI. He blew a .09 — just .01 above the legal limit….
Scanning Lawrence.com’s blogs today, I noticed a new arrival: Peterworth, Drunk Concert Reviewer. Peterworth. Awesome name. Peterworth’s Andrew Bird review starts out clever and well-meaning, but it quickly descends into flatulence and, well, absence. That’s kind of why it’s funny — we’ve all been there. You go to a show really stoked to see the band and, like the man…
I can’t let this horrible week in Kansas City journalism end without making note of some news about The Kansas City Star that might have been overshadowed by the paper’s Black Monday layoffs. Yesterday, news broke that Chris Lester, the paper’s assistant managing editor for business, was leaving to take a job as senior vice president for business growth at…
Playboy’s got a new site that catalogs 53 of its old issues, running all the way back to the early ’60s.I recommend you visit, if only to run Kansas City through the search engine. It’s a great way to see how the national erotic arts community has viewed our town over the decades. It’s not always good, but it is interesting….
When you think “food in Kansas City,” chances are seafood doesn’t come in the top 10. Maybe not even the top 100. Yet it’s on menus all over the city. But before you bite into that succulence from the sea, you should know whether what you’re eating is sustainable or not. Overfishing is such a problem that a report by…
Last month new country’s agriculture secretary, former governor of Iowa and friend to some people in the local food movement Tom Vilsack, announced the COOL program would go ahead as planned. COOL stands for “Country of Origin Labeling” and, after a delay of nearly four years, the law finally went into full effect on Wednesday. (Portions of it became law…
%{}% BULLET POINT: While you were distracted watching President Obama give a diversionary interview on Jay Leno’s Pre-taped Retirement Community Entertainment Program for Olds, he was SECRETLY recording a Muslim message of hope and brotherhood to the Satanic people of Iran, offering a “new day” of bowing to Mecca and forging Hawaiian birth certificates for socialist/Islamic Manchurian candidates. Three months…
Today is the Great American Meatout. Developed and promoted by the Farm Animal Rights Movement, the meatout celebrates its 25th year by encouraging people to go vegetarian for environmental and ethical reasons. Activities around the country include dinners, feed-ins, food samplings and information tables — but none are happening in Kansas City. The only activities I could find were on…
Early this morning, a guy from St. Louis named Benjamin Ammon e-mailed me a link to photos he shot of the Power & Light District’s St. Paddy’s Day party. Ammon wrote that he’d normally just breeze through KC on I-70, but this time, he made a pit stop. We’re glad he did. He says that because he had a camera,…
It’s no coincidence that National Corn-Dog Day coincides on the first Saturday of the NCAA tournament. The 17th annual National Corn Dog will commence promptly at noon tomorrow — “the only day all year that one can watch a quadruple-header of college basketball games (that’s a good 7-8 hours of college hoops) from start to finish without having to change…
For the second time in as many years, hundreds of Kansans rallied in front of the Capitol in Topeka yesterday to deal another public blow to the coal-fired power plants that just won’t die. This time, though, instead of sheer frustration aimed at conservative Republicans who see dollar signs billowing from smokestacks, the demonstrators came with the political wind at…
%{}% If this post looks familiar it’s because it was first featured on The Pitch’s musical Wayward Blog yesterday. Our wonderful music editor Jason Harper went exploring the former midtown space that was Jilly’s and came away with this gem. BY JASON HARPER As a Westside dweller and Crossroads worker, I’ve been curious as to the progress of Coda, which…
Forget that rinky-dink Kauffman. A little gravel here, a few picturesque and functional rocks there, and Kaw Point Park is where it’s at. I kid — the language of the press release is such that I couldn’t resist (“Organization Uses Discarded Materials to Form First Class Performance Venue”!) — but this is actually pretty cool. I mean, when was the…
I’ve been in Austin for eight days now and leave tomorrow, so needless to say, the chaos of downtown Austin — particularly 6th St. — is starting to give me some serious sensory overload. That may explain why our journey away from 6th yesterday was so refreshing. As I mentioned in my last post, my two friends and I are…
Earlier this week, Kansas City filmmaker Gary Huggins’ Happy 95 Birthday Grandpa won a Special Jury Award at the South By Southwest Film Festival. The Star says the award in the Reel Shorts category is the top prize for short films at the Austin festival. Happy 95 shows the enlightenment of a little boy at his grandfather’s birthday party. Children…
The Kansas Sampler Foundation is an organization that encourages tourism and promotes growth in rural areas of Kansas. Now searching for the “8 Wonders” of Kansas Cuisine, the foundation wants your nomination for the most iconic/best/friendliest restaurants or foods in the wheat state by March 31. (There have been similar contests for Kansas art, architecture and commerce.) The contest is…
