%{}% Flickr: Herkie If brewmaster Steven Pauwels’ words weren’t enough, Boulevard Brewery’s director of marketing Jeremy Ragonese has confirmed with Beer News the release of the brewery’s witbier Two Jokers along with the other two seasonals discussed on Fat City last week. The current Boulevard seasonal Irish Ale (which just tied for best Irish ale above yes, Murphy’s, according to…
That’s the face of a happy rocker, folks. And you can get lots more where that came from by clicking on the photo for a slide show featuring this man’s band (Silversun Pickups), plus Dead Confederate, the Von Bondies and happy drunk people in the afternoon. Notes: I had hoped to catch part of the Von Bondies’ set, but the…
I shot some video yesterday during the Power & Light District’s St. Patrick’s Day party. They called it “Shamrocks and Shenanigans,” and you can’t beat seeing Silversun Pickups for free. I had a good time but not as good as this leprechaun. The ladies loved the little guy. Not sure if they were just trying to get the gold from…
Tuesday your Pitch action news team assembled to make sure people were enjoying St. Patrick’s Day. Since we were already downtown, and some good bands were booked, we thought we’d check out the Power & Light District. Come, navigate green vomit and leprechauns with us.
Rieslings are Germany’s main source of wine pride. The country knows how to produce the sweetish white wine. As first reported in our weekly newsletter Pitch Forks, tonight Bluestem hosts a wine dinner featuring some of the finer Deutsche rieslings from respected wineries like Heinz Schmitt, Karl Molitor and Clusserath-Weiler. Reislings are not the easiest wine to pair with food,…
%{}% This description of the Irish Gut Bomb sandwich is nearly enough to cause a heart attack by itself. A report on grilling with infrared heat as opposed to charcoal or (shudder) propane. It makes me jealous of infrared heat owners. Hopefully this news doesn’t mean any Fat City readers have to change their eating habits, but scientists have proven…
The Metro Squad has taken over the homicide case in Raytown. The bodies of two adults and two children were found in a Raytwon apartment near 61st Street and Raytown Road Monday. I just spoke with Kansas City Police Detective Robert Delameter, who told me that there will be a press briefing at 11 a.m. Delameter told me that there’s…
This past St. Patrick’s, 96.5 the Buzz brought three indie bands to play before a sea of green-shirted, beaded and beery revelers in downtown Kansas City.
Last night, Daily Show host Jon Stewart was talking about President Barack Obama’s plan to have veterans use private insurance to pay for their combat wounds when the crowd started booing. “Are you booing the fact that I spend my days browsing KansasCity.com?” Stewart asked. “Because I do.” mentioned tooling around The Kansas City Star’s Web site. .cc_box a:hover .cc_home{background:url(‘http://www.comedycentral.com/comedycentral/video/assets/syndicated-logo-over.png’)…
The New York Times has a fun story about North Dakota State, Kansas’ opponent in the first round of the NCAA men’s tournament. The Bison play in the Summit League, also the home of the University of Missouri-Kansas City. NDSU made the NCAA field in its first year of eligibility, making it an especially cuddly entry from a non-power conference….
Well, the hippies around these parts lost their annual festival when Wakarusa moved to Arkansas. But local metalheads now have a reason to rejoice. On June 6 and 7, the Beaumont Club will host a two-day hardcore and metal fest that’s sure to wreak some major aural damage. Consider American Waste a sort of regional Ozzfest, featuring more than 30…
I’d like to say that I’m making this up, but I can’t. Mayor Mark Funkhouser has declared Thursday, March 19, “Man Date Day” in Kansas City. Don’t believe me? Click on the proclamation below. It’s all part of the promotion for Paul Rudd’s new flick, I Love You, Man. I’m not sure I can top the press release: To celebrate…
myburningkitchen.blogspot.com The excellent culinary blog slashfood.com has some great stuff on it, including a hilarious post about a man who had his resignation letter to his employers written in blue frosting on a vanilla sheet cake. What caught our eye was this list of “The Best Sandwiches in America” compiled by the blog’s readers. Pitch managing editor Scott Wilson…
Last night, KCTV Channel 5 aired an interview between Alonzo Washington and Shon Pernice, the husband of missing woman Renee Pernice. It was a big “get” of an interview. Shon Pernice hasn’t talked much with anybody. Washington had been promoting the interview on his MySpace blog, urging detectives to consider all suspects. After seeing KCTV’s story, I came away feeling…
Word just reached us that Joel Ekman, who parted ways with the Grammy-nominated Stone Sour in 2006, has formed a new band that aims to raise money for a good cause this weekend. From the MySpace bulletin: Joel Ekman former drummer for Stone Sour and his new band Issac James have teamed up with Twilight 2 Dawn, a foundation to…
Though Kansas City has more than respectable representation in the official SXSW showcase, our biggest coup this weekend in Austin is sure to come from the three-day non-showcase party that local DJ duo Nomathmatics, with help from a lot of friends, is throwing in defiance of God, the Man and Everybody. More than 60 individual acts, a few bands and…
As I’m sure you’ve all heard by now, AIG is using an estimated $165 million of its government bailout money to hand out bonuses to the assholes who helped hobble the economy. You have to retain talent, right? I’ve been thinking and I would like it if you all would consider, just for a second, meeting me outside their offices….
Flickr: nettsu There’s a news story in today’s New York Times that sounds like it was taken from the pages of Les Miserables. In the Victor Hugo novel, Jean Valjean is jailed for stealing bread to feed his starving sister and her family. Whole Foods fired an employee for misconduct when the employee, Ralph Reese, retrieved a tuna fish sandwich…
Jayceon Terrell Taylor, who goes by the Game when he’s laying down iron-hard verse over tough, angry beats, is coming to the Granada in Lawrence on April 4. I guess this was announced a while ago, but I just found out. Heck yeah! Game’s 2008 release, LAX, was highly acclaimed, but I’m more a fan of his previous work, such…
Students at the University of Missouri- Kansas City may be going hungry today. As part of its Hunger and Homelessness Awareness Week, the campus chapter of the NAACP is asking class-goers to skip a meal and drop what they would have spent into a collection bucket for Harvesters food pantry. It’s not the group’s only effort this week to get…
