Flickr: Ninjatoad Love is like oxygen. Love is a battlefield. Love is like shrimp cocktail? That’s the metaphor in the musical revue Love and Shrimp, based on the poetry of Judith Viorst with music by Shelly Markham. A script-in-hand production will be presented by the Metropolitan Ensemble Theatre at the Writers Place this Thursday, Friday and Saturday nights. A friend of mine,…
There’s that inspiring lyric from a Stephen Sondheim song that goes, “In the Depression, was I depressed? Nowhere near…” Eating is always a mood-elevator (for me anyway, so pass the tuna noodle casserole this way). During the most grim days of the Great Depression, my great-grandmother (who had once run a boarding house), put terrific meals on her family’s table…
Flickr: Roboppy Whether it’s green clothing, green balloons or pets painted green, that’s the color people want today. That includes cocktails, though there are only a few green liquors — creme de menthe, Midori, Chartreuse and absinthe. Never mind that none of the above are Irish and that only the Chartreuse doesn’t use artificial coloring. Since those liquors are green…
Flickr: CHAD COOMBS I could be wrong, but I don’t think Kansas Citians would even blink if a local restaurant put a hamburger called a Boobie Burger on a menu. In fact, it would probably be a big hit. But in the more conservative state of Idaho, a new Boise restaurant named Boobies is causing a stir, even though the…
%{}% Whether fact or fiction the debate about food miles — the distance your food must travel before you eat it — makes for an eventful discussion. No matter how hard you party today just remember the Greeks and Romans did it just as hard. Here’s a look at the era of the original toga party. Giant grocery chain Safeway…
%{}% Póg me hón: NPR’s shrill, reedy Thistle and Shamrock, which you may have mistaken at one time or another for a gigantic Irish mosquito buzzing around the inside of your car, or a lengthy and very Gaelic test of the Emergency Broadcast System, pretty much lives for the week of St. Patrick’s Day. At least, I imagine they do,…
This past Friday night, students from the Paseo Academy of Fine and Performing Arts put on a show that the whole town should have seen. That would have laid to rest criticisms that the Kansas City, Missouri, School District is beyond hope. In fact, the night made me impatient to see these kids get out into the world and start…
Happy St. Patrick’s Day, Kansas City. Please watch for merging drunks. Pick up our St. Patrick’s Day guide in this week’s Pitch for a comprehensive list of bands ‘n bars. Here are just a few select events: The Power & Light District: Starting at 6 a.m., the Buzz is hosting a big fuckin’ party that’s set to climax in the…
Boy oh boy – Chairlift is a tough act to pin down. The trio’s ski-tastic nickname would have pegged them as a jam band if they had stayed in their native Boulder, Colorado, where they purportedly formed for the purpose of creating background music for haunted houses. When that didn’t pan out (god bless ’em for chasing the dream), the…
Drinking and driving today is gonna be a real bad idea, especially with the DUI checkpoints and extra patrols. The Kansas City Police Department will be out late. Starting at 10 p.m., they’ll be running a sobriety checkpoint. Where? They’re stingy with the details. All you get is “a location in Kansas City, Missouri that is known for occurrence of…
Your Crap Archivist brings you the finest in forgotten and bewildering crap culled from basements, thrift stores, estate sales and flea markets. I do this for one reason: Knowledge is power. Those Who Trespass audiobook Author: Bill O’Reilly Publisher: Random House Audio Date: 2001, though the book was published in 1998Discovered at: Goodwill, North Oak TraffickwayThe Cover Promises: A bold,…
Midtown Miscreant just wanted to tell people’s hard luck stories. The Miscreant, KC blogger Mark Smith’s screen name, ended up hearing about a man’s fight to keep custody of his two kids — and wound up with trying to parse the truth from the bullshit. It’s worth a read. Plus, he tells me he’ll be doing more interviews — next…
