The Victor Hugo Inn — where cocktail drinkers were “Les Miserables” I have yet to meet someone in Kansas City — including veteran newscaster and restaurant fan Walt Bodine! — who can remember dining at the Victor Hugo Inn, which once stood, in a long-razed stone mansion, at the northwest corner of 85th and Wornall Road. I think I know why Walt missed the restaurant:…
We didn’t have to look very hard for today’s “as seen in the city” item. It was right out in our parking lot. Add it to the Kansas City date, and bikini rapture, and we’ve got the first three pages of Kansas City’s next tourism brochure. But what, oh what, type of pipe is it? Could it be a crack…
Missing Missy? Try the Piano Room Now that the space at 1911 Main Street that was formerly known as Bar Natasha — cabaret, restaurant and watering hole — is the much more flamboyant Flo’s Cabaret (which is also a restaurant and bar, although the live entertainment is now less about live singing and more about lip-synching), fans of the old…
Earlier this year, the Army promised to make suicide prevention its number one priority in 2009, rolling out a series of new training tools designed to keep soldiers from taking their own lives. But this year is looking worse than 2008. In 2008, 140 active-duty, Army soldiers committed suicide, the highest number since the service started keeping track 30 years…
Your favorite Joy Division cover band that plays original music, She Wants Revenge, plays the Bottleneck on October 3. If they got Interpol to play this show, it’d be like you had New Order on the bill, too. All joking aside, catching them in an intimate environment like the Bottleneck is a pretty notable thing, considering the last time they…
You need plans. Fat City has a recycle bin full of event listings. In this post, all of our problems are solved. The festival circuit continues and there’s still something for everybody. Beer lovers, meat lovers, and vegetarians — get ready to overeat. It’s not October, but that doesn’t mean your lederhosen can’t make an appearance at Oktoberfest. Learn how…
A New York City polling company is calling Kansas Citians to ask how they feel about a potential mayoral run by KCMO 710’s flaming conservative pundit Chris Stigall. A member of The Pitch Action News Team received a call from a polling company asking questions like “Do you feel strongly in favor, strongly negative, no opinion” about a slate of…
In terms of video games inspired by food, it might not get better than Burger Time — where you must assemble burgers from ingredients on a series of ladders before a fried egg (Mr. Egg) or hot dog (Mr. Hot Dog) touches you. But because a lot has happened since the game’s release in 1982 (including a re-boot of the…
And once again, we bring you Friday Freebies, wherein we present things to do this weekend that won’t cost you any more than the gas it takes to get to ’em. Artsy type things in Lawrence this weekend include two art openings. Friday night is the opening reception for “Heaviness,” an exhibition by Donika Wiley, at the Lawrence Arts Center…
Most foods have changed between the time your parents ordered them and today, but milkshakes are one of those items that have withstood the test of time. Restaurants have flirted with reinventing the frosty drinks — mostly by adding alcohol. But when Adam Ried, the kitchen equipment specialist from America’s Test Kitchen on PBS, suggests it may be time to…
Tonight at the Brooksider is the second Twestival, a charitable event being pushed by the Kansas City Social Media Club and a few other social media users to raise money for Wayside Waifs. Here’s the deal: A $15 donation gets you in the Brooksider (6330 Brookside Plaza) and you can stuff your face with pizza from Pizza 51 (and food…
No one in the boneyard got swagger like the Lucky Graves. The power trio is playing tonight at the Czar Bar at 10:45 as one of those Crossroads Music Fest pre-parties and if you’ve heard somewhere, at some point in your life, that blues-rock can still, in this woebegotten, post-1974, indie-pop-electro-corn-syrup day and age, actually be good, then you better…
We lost clever somewhere. Subtlety wasn’t strapped in properly, either, and got left by the roadside. Innuendo comes and goes, but everybody is tired of its schtick. Respect gave up and humor got downsized — it is a recession. That’s the only way I can think to explain the latest advertisement for Bud Light Lime. Tied to the release of…
By Michael McClure Ex-prostitute Amy Ford When ex-prostitute Amy Ford walks down Independence Avenue now, she’s a pedestrian and nothing more. In this week’s cover story, “The Oldest Professional,” The Pitch explored the dark cycle of prostitution and addiction; Amy’s story begins where that ends. She’s been sober since October, when she had a spiritual awakening in prison and decided…
Every food purchase you make has an environmental impact — that is a fact. But what if you decided to try to eliminate that impact? You’d have to apply the same rules as every movie involving time travel — do your best not to change the world around you, knowing that it’s likely impossible. That’s the premise for a documentary…
%{}% Get a bit adventurous with zucchini-ginger bread — it’s a tastier way to get your servings of vegetables. A review of seven locally available pumpkin ales — welcome to fall. $83 million. That’s the going rate for a master cheese grader’s nose, based on the insurance policy taken out by Wyke Farms, a cheese manufacturer in England. Sometimes we…
ROIR, the label behind Bad Brains and Dub Trio, has a contest wherein you can win one of the odder pieces of band merchandise: a pair of a flip flops, based on the cover art to Bad Brains’ self-titled album. They’re evidently limited edition, and from Japan. I guess the Japanese equate a Rastafarian hardcore/reggae fusion act populated by former…
In addition to recording his new album, Skitter On Take-Off, live with no overdubs, Vic Chesnutt got the legendary Jonathan Richman to produce and play on it. Richman wrote a short essay explaining as to why he decided to take it on, entitled “The Vic Chesnutt Record And Why Me And Tommy Wanted To Do It.” My drummer Tommy Larkin…
No official word from the Kansas City police yet on the shooting at 5400 block of Bellefontaine but multiple reports say one person was fatally shot and three injured in a shooting Thursday afternoon. View Larger Map KMBC Channel 9 reported that the person killed was an 18-years-old man. KMBC also reported that the shooting victims were being treated at…
Scott Hattrup, a Johnson County attorney and unsuccessful Republican candidate for the Kansas statehouse and for Johnson County District Attorney, is scheduled to go before the Kansas Supreme Court next Friday to try to stop his law license from being temporarily suspended. On August 21, Hattrup was supposed to appear at an ethics hearing before the Office of Disciplinary Administrator,…
1. Appreciate art in the West Bottoms. Tonight, the Emerald Space hosts The Proper Assortment, a group show by Phil Shafer, Tyler Coey and Matt Hawkins. 2. Contemplate rape, society and victimhood. Those are the themes of Extremities, the heavy show opening tonight the Just Off Broadway Theater The production is presented by Minds Eye Theatre company. 3. Laugh your…
