Yesterday Boulevard Brewing Co. announced it was going to start selling Boulevard Wheat in aluminum cans very soon. It used to be rare for microbreweries such as Boulevard to venture into the world of aluminum. Similar-sized breweries such as Sierra Nevada and O’Dell’s have yet to turn to aluminum. It was only last year that Colorado’s New Belgium started canning…
Heavy equipment reduced the old First Baptist Church in downtown Raytown to a pile of bricks and metal. The demolition was a long-time coming. The City of Raytown bought the building in 2001 for $500,000. (The church moved into a larger facility on 350 Highway.) Last year, U.S. Rep. Emanuel Cleaver II and Sen. Kit Bond came up with $539,000…
%{}% No surprises here. Older drinkers have a hard time distinguishing between being a little tipsy versus three sheets to the wind. Moral of the story: Don’t let grandpa drive. Which is sadder: Childhood obesity has reached such an epidemic that we don’t have seven-pronged approaches to curing it or the fact that one of the steps is gastro-bypass surgery…
Watchmen finally opened early, early this morning. I didn’t get to see it but will some time this weekend. Yesterday, we got a peek at the four sculptures Warner Bros. leased from Kansas City’s Leopold Gallery. The pieces were from Kansas City artists Brent Collins and Arlie Regier. The Leopold Gallery’s Paul Dorrell was cool enough to e-mail over photos…
So the bad news first: No longer will punk shows, pancake breakfasts and movie screenings have their own venue at the back of the Solidarity Center. The good news: Kansas’ only infoshop is moving closer to the action in downtown Lawrence. The best news: Supporters shouldn’t be getting nearly as many frantic emails suggesting the gathering spot is in imminent…
Flickr: DistractedMind Chef Jasper Mirabile, Jr. and Kay Tucker, both members of Slow Food Kansas City, will host a small plate dinner and cooking class on the art of cooking with pig — from snout to tail — on Monday, March 23 at 6:30 p.m. at Jasper’s Restaurant, 1201 W. 103rd Street. Among other things, they’ll offer suggestions for cooking…
This weekend marks the one-year anniversary of one godawful-bad night for musician and artist Jeff “Git” Hagan. On March 5, 2008, Hagan was hanging out with a friend at the News Room on Broadway. Hagan ended the night being beaten within an inch of his life by two men at the bar. I posted the police report at the time….
Gordon Ramsey may be the best-known of the current British celebrity chefs, but Darren McGrady, the former Buckingham Palace chef and author of Eating Royally has an exceptionally elegant resume. McGrady, who now lives in Dallas, was personal chef to the late Princess Diana until her death; prior to that, he was senior chef in the kitchens of Buckingham Palace…
Flickr: MarkDM The location of New York City’s Smokin’ Q was the real problem for this Steven Levy restaurant — it was the unlucky 13th tenant in a cursed restaurant location — but maybe it was the restaurateur’s money-back guarantee too. Levy delighted in telling his customers, this New York Times story reports, “If you don’t like it, give me…
Staten Island’s PS 30! Just minutes after the most recent Studies in Crap post went up, intrepid reader (and celebrated improv comic) Josh Steinmetz had solved the mystery your Crap Archivist never quite managed to: Where was PS 30, Richmond, the school featured in this 1946 senior autograph book? The answer, as Steinmetz wrote in an e-mail: “Westerleigh School (PS 30)…
GQ Magazine Unlike the Kansas City Star’s late restaurant critic Lauren Chapin, who often brought her two young daughters to dine with her on her restaurant excursions, I rarely take children to eat with me. For one thing, I don’t have children. And, I have to confess, I prefer not dining with small children. As a waiter, I would beg…
Flickr: Dr. Mo You don’t need to tell me that restaurants come and go. I know all too well. Before I gave up my illustrious career as a server, I worked in six or seven Kansas City restaurants (one was such a torture chamber that I’ve completely erased the experience from my memory bank) that are now all closed and…
St. Louis Post-Dispatch reporter Tony Messenger caught Missouri state Rep. Patricia Yeager of St. Louis sleeping on the job. Messenger Tweeted about the sleepiest Democrat in the statehouse this morning.. I just can’t bring myself to snap a picture of state Rep. Patricia Yeager of St. Louis County, who has been asleep for almost an hour. She’s awake! Ah, the…
Kansas City, Kansas, Police have identified the man killed outside La Cascada, 6550 Kaw Drive, last Friday. The victim was 24-year-old Victor K. Dominguez-Gardea of KCK. View Larger Map In an unrelated case, the KCK PD announced that Pearlina M. Henderson died from injuries sustained in a violent beating in Klamm Park on November 18, 2008. Henderson was 40-years-old and…
Even though we’ve shed some ink on this band, many of you may still not have heard of Spidermums. That’s probably because they live in a dark, green-lit basement, riding bicycles and burning incense and never bother to play out anywhere. But they must be doing something right, for the group has developed a knack for getting mentioned in high…
Should you find yourself in Westport environs tonight and in need of salve for the soul, then we officially and with all seriousness recommend you go either to Dave’s Stagecoach Inn for jukebox roulette, or consider checking out some spins from our boys Robert Moore and Steve Tulipana, aka the Aural Exciter. The Exciter gets cracking ’round 10 and will…
In the fight of high-end grocery store ice creams there are really only two players. Ben & Jerry’s, with its pun-named flavors and hippy packaging, and Häagen-Dazs, with its gold-colored leafing and Germanic umlauts. They don’t just represent different ends of the packaging spectrum. Due in part to founder Ben Cohen’s inability to taste or smell, Ben & Jerry’s put…
Watchmen opens tonight at 11:55. I won’t be there, but I’m tempted to go and see what Zach Snyder has done with Alan Moore’s graphic novel (even if Moore has cursed the film). When I finally see it, I’ll be watching for a couple of sculptures from Kansas City artists. Warner Bros. leased four sculptures from Paul Dorrell’s Leopold Gallery…
%{}% Radio Free Assmunch: I know Rush Limbaugh is supposed to “be funny” and to “have a sense of humor” and be a real “big-and-tall giggle-pants laff factory outlet” on his show every day. Heck, I’m on-record as a GIANT FAN of things that are funny, such as anything Zach Galifinakis says, or when I give my dog peanut butter….
Nearly a month after taking the Internet by storm and having a write-up in The New York Times, the bacon explosion is going strong. Co-founder of the bacon explosion and Web site BBQ Addicts Aaron Chronister confirmed that a book is in the works. “The deal is nearly done. We haven’t signed the papers yet but they accepted our proposal.”…
I don’t know much about casting calls, but this one caught my eye. Guys, if you’re a non-union actor between the ages of 18 and 40, here’s a strange pilot to consider. See, there’s this guy named Tim Bartow. He’s in his 20s, has cerebral palsy and uses a wheelchair. He’s “kind of a jerk … but he is very…
Flickr: Hotdirt21 Call me and old fogie, but when I was in high school and of prime beer-game age, we didn’t play a ton of Beirut. (I’ve never figured out why anyone called beer pong Beirut, but in high school you don’t ask questions.) Now, apparently kids play so much of it that people are forced to make lists like…
