For some reason, the internet is in crazy recipe mode with Web sites such as This is Why You’re Fat drawing one million viewers and the bacon explosion creators landing a six-figure book deal. Every day it seems another food Frankenstein pops up, gets e-mailed about and forgotten a week later (100 stuffed Oreos, anyone?). Saturday Night Live was ahead…
Over the past week I’ve heard that Murray’s Ice Cream and Cookies’ winter hibernation was over and the open sign was back. One person told me it opened last Saturday, while another thought it opened today. Both are wrong but not by much. Dust-off that punch card because Murray’s opens March 17. People have been anticipating it so much that…
%{}% Colonel Sanders was just pulled from a river in Japan. Trust me, it’s not as weird as it sounds. Oatmeal cookies are the first item many of us ever baked, yet most people never bother to improve upon that initial recipe. Here are 25 tips for better oatmeal cookies. Fans of hot salsas will enjoy this huge list and…
%{}% SCARY STORY, if you’re a newspaper person such as a Dan Margolies, Legal Affairs columnist for The Kansas City Star and undefeated 1987 Missouri State arm wrestling champion, or a Jim Davis, the cartoonist who has personally slaved over every panel of the Garfield comic strip for the last 30 years because of his awesome integrity. Or really, anyone…
One of Kansas City’s best-known and best-loved psychics, David Schneider died Tuesday after a long illness. The Pitch named Schneider as “Best Psychic” in the 2003 Best of Kansas City issue, although the tiny man with the very big mustache had, by that point, been giving professional readings for decades. His local fame grew out of numerous call-in radio show…
Each Thursday, your Crap Archivist brings you the finest in forgotten and bewildering crap culled from area basements, thrift stores, estate sales and flea markets. I do this for one reason: Knowledge is power. The O’Reilly Factor For Kids Author: Bill O’Reilly and Charles Flowers Publisher: Harper Collins Date: 2004 Discovered at: DAV Thrift Store, Southwest Boulevard The Cover Promises:…
Gloria Mengel is a 10-year-old with a brain tumor that is impairing her vision. This fundraiser is to help her family while she is in treatment. The concert includes the JACOMO Chorale, who will sing chorale pieces composed by Mengel’s father Dana Mengel. Also, Velma Tyson will play piano and Terry Foster will play the organ. There will also be…
A couple of hours spent gazing upon the lovely Catherine Deneuve is the payoff. The catch? A couple of hours (and then some) of director Roman Polanski messing with your head as he puts Deneuve’s Carol (a naïve, neurotic beautician) through the psychosexual wringer in 1965’s Repulsion. It’s part of the Kansas City Public Library’s fourth-annual series “Searching the Psyche…
On the final days before St. Patrick’s Day, leprechauns are lurking. But it’s not enough to be just Irish and drunk tonight at the Beaumont Club (4050 Pennsylvania, 816-561-2560). Revelers should be Irish, drunk and punk — or at least have an appreciation for the combination — during the KC Punk Irish Fest. The mean, green lineup includes Pist-n-Broke, the…
This performance is part of a series of free community concerts being presented by the Kansas City Symphony. The string quartet performing features: Andrew Fuller, violin Kevin Hao, violin Sean Brumble, viola Richard Bell, cello Tue., March 17, 6:30 p.m., 2009 Tags: Andrew Fuller, Kansas City, Kevin Hao, Night & Day, Richard Bell
Part existential fantasy, part romantic affirmation, part absurdist parable, Groundhog Day is also just plain funny, whether you spelunk its philosophical depths or just want to see a bucktoothed quadruped at the wheel of a truck. An essay last month on the high-minded film blog the House Next Door praised the 1993 Bill Murray comedy by evoking — convincingly —…
Improvisational comedy troupe Full Frontal Comedy presents a show of short-form improvisational games based on audience suggestions. The show will also include the long-format, Lotus. Fri., March 13, 8 p.m.; Sat., March 14, 8 p.m., 2009 Tags: 249, Night & Day
This group exhibit features a variety of works in which the artists meditate on the theme of trees. Opening reception runs from 7-9pm. March 14-April 26, 2009 Tags: Night & Day
Naka-Kon is an anime convention offering a 24-hour anime screening room and an around-the-clock gaming center stocked with everything from the original Nintendo to the PlayStation 3. For true enthusiasts, omnipresent access alone justifies the $45 weekend pass. However, Naka-Kon (translation: middle convention) presents a mind-boggling assortment of attractions, including a concert from geek-pop band LeetStreet Boys; a late-night dance…
Marking a milestone in the Power & Light District is downtown’s only bowling alley and lounge, Lucky Strike Lanes (1370 Grand, 816-471-2316), which celebrates its first year of business tonight with an anniversary party called Cirque. As the name promises, the blowout will find room for fire performers, clowns, go-go dancers, Britney Spears impersonators and little people. The ringleader of…
Forget clichés about the banalities of teenage poetry. Each year, young creative minds at Paseo Arts Academy (4747 Flora, 816-418-2275) impress hundreds with their original spoken-word and musical expressions during an event called Coffee House. “Many students choose to use the platform as a means to tell the people in attendance, or perhaps those in our city, about their own…
On the final days before St. Patrick’s Day, leprechauns are lurking. But it’s not enough to be just drunk and Irish tonight at the Beaumont Club (4050 Pennsylvania, 816-561-2560). Revelers should be Irish, drunk and punk – or at least have an appreciation for the combination – during the KC Punk Irish Fest. The mean, green line-up includes Pist-N-Broke, the…
Want to talk about pictures with all-star lineups? Meet the 1955 New York Yankees of cinema: producer-director Otto Preminger helming an adaptation of a Nelson Algren novel smudged with Ben Hecht’s fingerprints, accompanied by a searing Elmer Bernstein jazz score executed by Shelly Manne and His Men, featuring a luscious pre-Vertigo Kim Novak and, batting cleanup, Frank Sinatra in an…
If you don’t know what Snake Saturday is, then you’ve never spent the Saturday before St. Patrick’s Day in the Northland. For 25 years now, a big ol’ parade has crawled through that part of the metro on that day. This year’s parade is supposed to be the biggest yet — it starts at 11 a.m. at 14th Street and…
You’ve never heard of St. Baldrick’s? Don’t worry, the Vatican hasn’t, either. (The patron saint of hairstylists, by the way, is Martin de Porres.) But the fictitious saint — the name is a play on bald and St. Patrick — will be an inspiration for good works today when the St. Baldrick’s Foundation raises money for childhood cancer research. Volunteer…
In just the first pages of Nancy Pickard’s suspense novel The Virgin of Small Plains, a senior citizen with early onset Alzheimer’s wanders through a cemetery during a blizzard, wearing only a bathrobe; a woman loses control of her truck on icy roads; and two teenagers enjoy a heavy make-out session, as the 16-year-old girl contemplates losing her virginity to…
D.B. Cooper’s (1804 West 39th Street, 816-753-9800). Been up all night? This 39th Street favorite opens at 6 a.m. Monday through Saturday. Forget about specials, but domestic pitchers are $7, domestic bottles are $3 and single Crown drinks are $4. Mondays-Saturdays, 6 a.m., 2009 Tags: D.B. Cooper, Night & Day
Zoo Bar (1220 McGee, 816-842-6060). Need to meet up with a bail bondsman or your divorce attorney? Get friendly downtown at 10 a.m. with $3.50 wells, $2.25 cans and $5 bottles of Okocim Porter. Mon., March 16, 10 a.m., 2009 Tags: Night & Day
