Talking about and drinking so much beer from Boulevard, Schlafly, New Belgium and other midsized breweries, it’s easy to forget that microbrewers combined make up a small minority of the beer business. Eighty percent of the beer brewed in this country comes from only two giants — SAB, which owns MillerCoors, and InBev which owns Anheuser-Busch. As the new movie…
Yeah, I know this is late notice, but if you’re out and about and want to talk about Iraq — and there’s plenty to talk about (war, country, culture, geography and America’s role) — then you’ve got four chances to do so today at locations throughout the city. Grand Arts is hosting It Is What It Is: Conversations About Iraq,…
Infamous pop-rock nannygoat Rod Stewart is coming to Sprint Center on July 28. A special presale begins tomorrow. Here’s the info. Presale Begins: Thurs. April 2 at 10:00 AM Presale Ends: Fri. April 3 at 10:00 PM Password: TONIGHT Public On Sale: Sat. April 4 at 10:00 AM Where do you get them?: Ticketmaster, duh. Since today’s April Fool’s, I’d…
This Saturday marks the grand opening of Mochi-Yo, a yogurt shop offering the Korean-style tart yogurt that’s popular on both coasts. To celebrate, owners Kirk Goza and Wes Bergmann (yes, that Wes Bergmann) are giving away free yogurt the entire weekend. Goza said he got the idea to open a frozen yogurt store while he was a student in New…
Local motorcycle rockers the Shaker Hoods are callin’ it quits. The trio, led by bassist and singer Jon Freeman, had been blasting local clubs with balls-out guitar rock for about a year and a half. Pitch contributor Richard Gintowt profiled the band back in April 2008. Freeman announced the break-up and offered bitter advice to the music scene in a…
Forbes hasn’t always been so kind to Kansas City. Just a couple of months ago, they called KC a ghost town. Buck up, KC. You are now a part of the “zone of sanity.” I had no idea. But since housing prices only dropped 7 percent and the job market has only experienced a “ratcheting down” without the job losses…
Readers, it’s with great pride and pleasure that I can finally inform you that after two months of secret negotiations between The Pitch, Charles Ferruzza, myself and a developer, Fat City will be opening a restaurant just south of the Plaza. It’ll be called, appropriately enough, Fat City. The menu will feature items that are fattening and represent Kansas City….
When Governor Kathleen Sebelius tapped Lieutenant Governor Mark Parkinson to co-chair the Kansas Energy Council in 2007, it signaled her attention to pressing issues like renewable power and global warming. Now, with Sebelius heading to Washington after standing defiantly against the construction of new coal-fired power plants, many environmentalists in the Sunflower State are hoping Parkinson will step into his…
Another day. Another nut recalled by the FDA. Yesterday the FDA said it was recalling pistachio products from the California-based Setton Pistachio. The company has issued what is so far a voluntary recall but it could get ugly quick. From the FDA: “Because the pistachios were used as ingredients in a variety of foods, it is likely this recall will…
%{}% Some expanding chains aren’t just hoping but counting on their competitors going out of business so they can take their locations. Tips on how to stay trim and healthy while living the very unhealthy life that is business travel. Wouldn’t you know, turns out there’s an evolutionary mindset behind why many consumers pick a local brand over a world-known,…
%{}% The first day of the rest of the month: Happy April Fool’s Day, or as we knew it in my family, The Father of Lies. I came from Christian snake handlers, and to them, pretty much everything was either “Satan” or “Sodom and Gomorrah.” That was the simple binary through which we lensed the whole world. I eventually lost…
Now that we’re skirting the precipice of a depression, if we haven’t already fallen in, we should have some new respect for those men and women who grew up in the ’20s and ’30s. Be a cynic about that Greatest Generation title all you want — it is a damn fine way to sell books — but the people in…
Here’s something you don’t see every day: On April 24, the Jazzhaus in Lawrence is featuring a tribute to that world-class, three-man jazz jam Medeski, Martin & Wood. Rendering covers of earlier, funkier MMW will be Luke Stone (Cosmopolitics) on drums and percussion, the mighty Jeff Harshbarger (People’s Lib, Snuff Jazz, various others) on bass and Ken Lovern (Ken Lovern’s…
I must have missed this e-mail from the Kansas City Police yesterday, but noticed it on Crime Scene KC. Kansas City Police responded to a 911 call from a woman saying her husband had been shot at 6407 Manchester Avenue. View Larger Map Officers found a man’s body in the second-floor breezeway of an apartment building. The man, in his…
Just saw this sign yesterday. We don’t know what kind of positions Lulu’s Noodle Shop & Satay Bar at 333 Southwest Boulevard is hiring for — we just know they’re hiring, and we know people need jobs out there. Lulu’s phone number is 816-474-8424. Update: The “Now Hiring” sign was down by the end of the day. Categories: News Tags:…
