Ruby Isle is totally bomb. Half Mark Mallman, half Dan Gellar of I Am the World Trade Center, the duo makes dancey-pantsy fun. They’ve got a new album coming out soon on Kindercore, which is their 2008 album Night Shot remixed. Hence the title Night Shot Remixes. The compilation has remixes from Immuzikation, GraveRobbers, La Chansons, and The Gold Party,…
Who’s hotter? Holly Starr’s dog or Bryan Busby’s cats? I have no idea. But Wayside Waifs’ Hot Tails of Kansas City has pitted well known locals pets against each other to raise money for the shelter. Starr and Busby are lending their names to raising bucks for Wayside Waifs (each dollar counts as a vote). So far, Starr hasn’t raised…
As you may or may not know, the Kings of Leon will be performing in Kansas City at the Sprint Center on October 13, with openers White Lies. LP33.tv is giving away tickets, and you can find their contest page via this link. LP33.tv has an interview with White Lies (their first North American interview, actually) done at SXSW, which…
Behind the bar, Café Europa cocktail guru Susan Avery — profiled in this week’s Best Of issue (“The Mixmaster”) — balances classic style with curiosity and restless invention. But she’s no snob. When we asked what to put in our liquor store shopping cart to start a good home bar, she offered some down-to-earth advice. All right, then — how…
U.S. Sen. Pat Roberts’ request for 72 hours so that lobbyists can review, er, change the proposed health-care legislation was applauded mocked on last night’s edition of The Colbert Report. The Colbert Report Mon – Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30c The Word – Out of the Closet www.colbertnation.com Colbert Report Full Episodes Political Humor Michael Moore Wonder why Roberts would want…
Catching up with the Best of Kansas City 2009 Readers’ Choices over lunch, you guys’ choice of Best Media Personality — KSHB Channel 41 meteorologist Gary Lezak — struck me. Lezak’s worthy of the honor (we picked Twitter machine and KMBC Channel 9 morning anchor Kris Ketz) and hard to dislike. Plus, I remembered my tour of Weird Stuff Antiques…
On Monday, the Flying Saucer Draught Emporium in the Power & Light District hosted a beer tasting with selections from the Founders Brewery in Grand Rapids, Michigan. This year, Founders will roll out approximately 23,000 barrels of beer aged in gypsum mines (by contrast, Boulevard Brewery will produce about 141,000 barrels) for distribution in 14 states. Michael Bell, Founders’ director…
The Power & Light District was the clear choice of readers who voted in the Best Place to Break Up category, which makes sense: In the span of a single night in this packed entertainment district, it’s easy to see a number of make-outs and break-ups — sometimes from the same couple. And if you have a breakup in one…
Anti-pride. That’s the best way to describe this town’s inferiority complex. It sounds like a bad thing, but consider this: Commiserating is probably the number-one way that people bond with each other. And though we’re the first to complain amongst ourselves that Kansas City isn’t a Boston, Chicago or Denver, let someone from out of town tell us that our…
Even though AC/DC had to postpone their KC date, they have something that might cheer you up. It’s called Backtracks, and they’re billing it as “the ultimate box set.” Sonic Spectrum’s Robert Moore hyped me to this via a Facebook link, and I’ve spent most of an hour going through the craziness that it offers. For $199 plus shipping, you…
We had a few guesses and one correct answer to this week’s “Where Is it?” question. Only commenter Rob Torfulson correctly guessed — on his second try — that this creative patio ornament was on the patio behind the Cook’s Shack Cafe at 8950 Wornall Road. Categories: Dining, Food & Drink Tags: Where is it? Cook’s Shack Cafe
It was bound to happen. With the opportunity to post pictures and text from nearly any location instantly, we were going to turn into foodiots. The phrase has been making the rounds of the Interwebs this week as snarky writers attempt to encapsulate our new-found love of food minutiae. The New York Observer laments the insipid way that an ingredient-by-ingredient…
Mark Webster, the executive chef at the New Theatre Restaurant, was honored as “Chef of the Year” by the Greater Kansas City Chefs Association on Sunday; Webster received the award at the 34th Annual Chefs Benefit at the Muehlebach Hotel. “The benefit raises money for scholarships,” said Webster — who was also a nominee last year, but didn’t win — “and Operation Breakthrough.”…
David Cross hasn’t been to Kansas City since suffering the drunken mindfuck he describes at length on his Grammy-nominated first album, 2003’s Shut Up, You Fucking Baby. Launching into his tale of how he came to be undone by booze and the medium-lousy band Harlow, he says he started the night alone because he had no friends in Kansas City….
David Cross hasn’t been to Kansas City since suffering the drunken mindfuck he describes at length on his Grammy-nominated first album, 2003’s Shut Up, You Fucking Baby. Launching into his tale of how he came to be undone by booze and the medium-lousy band Harlow, he says he started the night alone because he had no friends in Kansas City….
The Pitch’s annual Best Of Kansas City issue is here once again. Over the past year, we’ve searched the metro area to find the very best that Kansas City has to offer. We continue to be surprised, inspired and overjoyed by what we find. The section on food heralds the best grilled cheese, best ice cream, and four best barbecue…
Two men accused of murder in Jackson County will go on trial in October. The first-degree murder trial of Warren E. Frazier is scheduled to begin on October 19. Frazier, 56, is accused of killing Danielle Gray at an apartment in the 2100 block of East Linwood in February. Prosecutors allege that Frazier shot Gray in head during an argument…
Starbucks is hoping that a product from the past can bring the coffee chain into the future. Yesterday, the Seattle-based company rolled out a new instant coffee product — Starbucks Via — that it’s been test-marketing for nearly eight months. If this were 1989 instead of 2009, I’d be excited about the prospects for Starbucks. But in reality, the age…
When the discussion about a dress code at Power & Light stopped being polite and started getting real, Councilwoman Sharon Sanders Brooks mentioned the unmentionables. Her political theater of airing out the undies (pink, no less) at a Planning and Zoning Committee meeting on March 4 earned our approval as 2009’s Best Use of Underwear in our Best of Kansas…
