The Kansas City Kansan has a pretty great photo (and the below video) of the aftermath of a car versus apartment complex fight in Turner. Apartment beats car. Categories: News Tags: apartment versus car fight
What happened to New York City? I thought it was supposed to be a city of tough guys, vicious models and determined immigrants. Yet they cancel a Cinco de Mayo parade over a little swine flu scare. Fortunately we have thicker skin here in the Midwest (plus, more experience with pigs alive and dead). So swine flu be damned! There…
To paraphrase former Vice President Thomas Marshall, what this country needs is a good one-dollar cup of coffee. Yet McDonald’s and Starbucks are determined to take coffee to a higher (and more profitable) level. Two days ago, I was sent this incredibly boring Starbucks’ promotional video in which CEO Howard Schultz sits around a table with some frightened baristas and…
The Golden Ox got a little smoky yesterday, but the 60-year-old steakhouse didn’t burn down. Pitch food critic Charles Ferruzza reports over on Fat City that firefighters quickly extinguished the blaze and the Golden Ox suffered little damage and could be open as soon as Wednesday. Here’s a clip: A fire in the grill tonight wafted up through the restaurant’s…
%{}% In case you haven’t had the misfortune — and horror — of driving across the 12th Street bridge lately, then you might not realize that the bridge is down to just two lanes while the eastbound lanes are under construction. I snapped this photo from my car last night on my way back from the West Bottoms. Finally, a…
Third time was not the charm for Bluestem owner Colby Garrelts. He flies home to Kansas City without a James Beard Award once more. On the plus side, he’s probably guaranteed another trip to New York City next year. The winner of the best chef Midwest went to Tim McKee from Le Belle Vie in Minneapolis (pictured with his award)…
The petition drive to recall oversized novelty mayor Mark Funkhouser is down to the wire with only three days left to get the 17,000 signatures needed to put the issue before voters. Kansas City Star columnist Steve Kraske’s Up To Date talk show — 11 a.m. today on KCUR 89.3 — will be devoted to the recall effort with a…
REVIEW AND PHOTOS BY IAN HRABE The hardest part about seeing Vivian Girls live is trying to see through their ineffable charm. When the ladies take the stage and fill a 45-minute set with noisy, garage-rock-influenced indie-pop, it’s easy to fall in love with the way they’ve reinvented the girl group. Despite pretty much adoring their eponymous 2008 debut, I’ve…
%{}% A roundup of Parkville’s Microbrewery Festival. It sounds like it was a fantastic time and the weather couldn’t have been better. Here are some nice sipping tequilas to celebrate Cinco de Mayo with flair. This article examines whether the alarm over swine flu was justified. To which the answer is no, no, no! Oh please somebody stop this from…
KCTV Channel 5’s scary voice terrified the shit out of us for a couple of days, promoting a freaky-ass story. “Hundreds of bodies,” the raspy voice said as the screen flashed like something out of The Ring. “What makes it even more haunting is what’s built right next door.” Oh, my God. Hundreds of bodies. Where could they be? Uh,…
Rap and rock are about rappers and rockers, about virtuosity or bad-assedness or some other salable trait specific to an individual performer. Country hates all that. Instead, it takes as its subject its own listeners. The only boasting you’ll hear from the hatted pros concerns their audience: that they’re decent, humble, and everything that’s right with America. It’s no coincidence…
Each Thursday (and, for the hell of it, today), 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. Mallorca: English Edition Author: Antonion Campana and Juan Puig-Ferran Publisher: Postales Color CYP, Barcelona Date: 1975 Discovered at: 2nd…
Kansas City police released the name of Sunday morning’s homicide victim Monday. They say 21-year-old Pierre E. Parker was the man shot to death in a parking lot near Grand Slam Liquors, 631 Grand Boulevard. Parker was also known as Keyz, a local rapper, and his MySpace music page shows a handful of albums, including this one: The album, “Come…
Margaritas Cinco de Mayo celebration
Pat Paton, the publicist for the Golden Ox restaurant, is eager to get publicity for the venerable steakhouse this month — as Fat City reported last week, the oldest steak joint in Kansas City just turned 60 years old — but the big story on many TV newscasts tonight (including this blurb from KCTV-Channel 5) wasn’t exactly what he had in…
Stop! Don’t eat that chocolate chip cookie! Spit it out! Spitting out the cookie, after tasting it, is the secret to being a “sensory panelist” at Consumer Reports magazine, which — just over an hour ago — officially released the findings of its report on packaged chocolate chip cookies. The “sensory panelists,” I learned from Consumer Reports’ Erin Godeux, don’t…
A number of things plopped into my inbox, across my RSS reader and into and out of my pants today, so I thought I’d share with a quick little mixed-bag post here at the end of another day in Pitch-land. Bill Brownlee is jazz hero man of the day. Not only did the local blogger write this killer review of…
