When I interviewed Lidia Bastianich earlier this week, she was extremely excited for what she called the “murder play.” The Murder Mystery Dinner is a performance and dinner at Lidia’s this Sunday. This won’t be the first Murder Mystery Dinner at Lidia’s. In the previous performance, Bastianich said, “There were five chefs and they were competing against each other Top…
Last night, the Pitch Action News Team assembled to drink free wine and booze at the Red X in Riverside. I didn’t expect to learn so much. Now, here’s where I lament not taking a picture of the giant sculpture of a naked man or the display case full of replacement teeth and eyeballs. And the girl who brought her…
Afrobeat rhythms, vocals and guitars collide with Euro-club dance hooks on the latest single from Jack Peñate, a British singer with an infectiously soulful, hoarse, Cockney-schoolboy voice. I’ve been unable to get this song out of my head since I got it on a sampler from Peñate’s label XL Recordings. (The disc also features a fantastic cover of Vampire Weekend’s…
A Britney Spears concert is the ultimate girls’ night, but the official concert tees are so damn expensive. Check out these heartfelt expressions of Britney fandom.
One thing I’ve noticed in compiling in this blog’s daily Breakfast Buffet entry: One week there’s some story about on how alcohol is good for you; the next week it’s bad for you. Good for you. Bad for you. It’s as if every study is being conducted by a bi-polar scientist. Fortunately I am not alone in my frustration. Liquor…
Dogfighting impresario Michael Vick is fondly reminiscing about his hard times in Leavenworth’s federal penitentiary. Vick told a bankruptcy court today that he spent his time in lockup reading, writing, playing basketball and mopping the floors for $.12 an hour. Vick’s foray into dog-eat-dog combat lost him hundreds of millions of dollars and led him to the lucrative world of…
For a very short time I worked in a restaurant with a guy from Russia named Dan, who fancied himself quite the knife handler. Given an extra moment, he would throw his knife in the air and twirl it between his fingers and behind his back. The only problem was that Dan wasn’t very good at knife skills and every…
On my way to work this morning, I snapped this photo of union workers picketing at the gates of the Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts construction site. The local news has mostly focused on the picket lines at the Truman Sports Complex, pretty much ignoring the other work stoppages throughout the city. So here’s a look at one in…
Lawrence’s Replay Lounge was built for bands like Spindrift, a large ensemble of freaky West Coast psych-rockers who play the sort of music you might imagine emanating from the venue’s jukebox right before a squinty-eyed gunslinger walks in. Led by former Brian Jonestown Massacre guitarist Kirpatrick Thomas, the seven-piece ensemble takes inspiration from Ennio Morricone’s spaghetti westerns and Anthony DiLorenzo’s…
If the phase “college literary magazine” strikes fear into your heart, you’ve obviously never picked up a Kiosk. The long-running University of Kansas publication bucks the trend year after year with great short stories and poetry woven together with immaculate graphic design. The kids who put it together take great pride in it, and it gets out to the people…
Let’s finally get make this official: Gate’s Barbecue is gone from Kauffman Stadium. It’s a move widely met with contempt, but don’t be so quick to judge. In its place is KC All-Star Barbecue. A much larger, completely new area that might be more appropriately named Fiorella’s Jack Stack Kauffman. No, KC All-Star Barbecue is not run by the Fiorella…
We were unable to get a reviewer into Britney Spears’ Circus Tour stop yesterday at Sprint Center, but we did get photos (for the first three songs, at least). Click on the hot pole action below for images from the extravaganza. Categories: Music Tags: Britney Spears, Circus Tour, midgets, Perez Hilton, photos, slideshow, Sprint Center
Wendy’s misses Dave. The chain’s sales have stayed as flat as its square burgers since the lovable founder died in 2002. Since then, Wendy’s advertising campaigns have been — to put it lightly— less than memorable. Wendy’s was the first fast-good chain to do a dollar menu and the first to have a healthy menu, but for some reason it…
%{}% I really enjoyed this post, even if I suspect the story may be fictional. Is it really possible for a 30-something Midwestener to have never been to a Waffle House? They sure are eating funny up in Detroit. I smell trend alert! More restaurants are putting ampersands in their titles. Pretty soon it will be difficult to tell what…
Loved this quote from former U.S. Sen. Bob Dole on hurrying up and getting Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius confirmed before the Senate goes into recess. “So if you guys can all, you know, do something.” Beautiful. Doesn’t sound like it’ll happen before the recess but does sound like Sebelius will be confirmed. Categories: News, Politics Tags: Bob Dole, Health and…
%{}% A couple of days ago, I thought about driving out to the Truman Sports Complex to take photos of striking workers. I’m glad I didn’t go. The strike was over just in time for the noon news. This morning, the cement masons are supposed to “be in full strike mode” after talks between the Cement Masosn Local 518 and…
Britney brought her Circus to Kansas City on Thursday, April 2. Whips and midgets and acrobats, oh my!
Back in 1995, I inadvertently irked someone by wearing a metal shirt to a punk concert at the Daily Grind (long-defunct Midtown all-ages club, which operated near the more recently defunct Grand Emporium). A crusty teen with a slight limp, a stink eye and a ripe odor shambled up to me, lowered his disgusted gaze from my Mohawk to the…
