Over the next few weeks, there are plenty of opportunities to dip your toe into a bit of booze. It’s short notice, but worth re-arranging your schedule for a scotch tasting tonight at Anthony’s Restaurant & Lounge. The Balvenie and Glenfiddich tasting begins at 6 p.m. and costs $30 to sample five different malts. If you can’t make it to…
If it seems like energy drinks have taken over the world, that’s because they have. But one place where the growth of energy drinks has stalled is Thailand. Now a study from market research firm Zeneath suggests that might be the reason for an international energy-drink slowdown. Energy drink sales in Thailand declined 41 percent in 2008 as a sluggish…
It’s rather fortuitous that Let Them Know: The Story of Youth Brigade and BYO Records came out right around the same time as Our Noise: the Story of Merge Records. Both books relate the tale of a band and record label inexorably linked. In Merge’s case, it was Superchunk, and with BYO, it’s Youth Brigade. However, while both books have…
There’s been so much happening in Fat City — lots of new restaurant openings — that it took us awhile to reporting on last month’s restaurant closings. There was Hope Loehr’s Adam’s Rib barbecue joint in Overland Park, of course, closing just on the heels of its Best of Kansas City award. Also gone is the pallid McAlister’s Deli at…
According to Louisiana’s the Advocate, a settlement of $225,000 has been reached in a child sex abuse case naming former Kansas City auxiliary bishop Joseph Sullivan. After Kansas City, Sullivan went on to become bishop of Baton Rouge, from 1974 until his death in 1982. The settlement money goes to Glenn Hymel, 45, of Houston, who claimed he met Sullivan…
A month ago, three NFL players became the first active players to donate their brains and spinal cord tissue to Boston University’s Center for the Study of Traumatic Encephalopathy, a collaboration of the Sports Legacy Institute and BU’s medical school to study the effects of repeated concussions. Baltimore Ravens center Matt Birk, Seattle Seahawks linebacker Lofa Tatupu and Arizona Cardinals…
Yep, it’s cold outside. That makes us think about hot drinks. Here are the metro’s Top 10 non-alcoholic warm-ups, according to Fat City: 10) Arrowhead Stadium — Hot Chocolate. There’s something about concession-stand hot chocolate: It’s the right amount of sweetness and chalkiness that makes you feel like a kid again. 9) Madame Hatter’s Tea Room — Kansas City once…
My new favorite way to find fun crap on the Internet is to go to YouTube and punch in ” cover.” The results that appear are usually kids with digital cameras recording themselves playing along on drums, bass, guitar, or whatever. Occasionally, you’ll get major bands covering their influences, or minor bands tossing off big name hits. However, my favorite…
Jackson County prosecutors charged DeJuan A. Suttington in the death of Rodney S. Coleman last week, The Kansas City Star reports. Prosecutors charged Suttington, 20, with first-degree murder and armed criminal action. Police found Coleman, 18, shot to death in the street at 4005 St. John on October 7 around 11 p.m. He was pronounced dead at the scene. Later,…
Lord of the Rings did a symphony tour last year, and that was a fairly nifty idea. However, that’s a fairly geek niche. Because as popular as those movies were, they’re nowhere near the iconic films that are the Star Wars series. Hence the fact that the massive Star Wars In Concert tour is landing at the Sprint Center this…
The City Diner can flip one flamboyant flapjack Lots of you weighed in on this week’s Where Is It?, suggesting various restaurants that might serve the oversized pancake shown above. There were some interesting answers, but let’s wave a stack of flapjacks in the direction of the highly astute ScooterJ, Darin and blini-loving Meesha V., who all came up…
Awesome report on the red-light cameras possibly costing Kansas City money by KMBC Channel 9’s Micheal Mahoney. Mahoney’s reporting showed that the city isn’t pulling in as much money from the tickets as it thought it would, and there’s a huge ass backlog of tickets in muni court. It’s so bad that the police have to pay officers overtime to…
When comparing two similar cookbooks head-to-head, it’s hard to know which one to buy. It’s time a bit of March Madness came to the cookbook selection process. Enter Food 52’s The Tournament of Cookbooks, which is going to pit 16 cookbooks released this year against each other in a bracket-style, single-elimination tournament. The judges are chefs, food writers and Gwenyth…
Kansas Sen. Pat Roberts is becoming a favorite target of Stephen Colbert on The Colbert Report. Last night, Colbert applauded Roberts’ mastery of words. The Colbert Report Mon – Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30c Pat Roberts Warns Against Health Care Box Canyon www.colbertnation.com Colbert Report Full Episodes Political Humor Michael Moore Judas Priest! What the hell is Roberts talking about? Roberts…
A local station and the Star’s celebrity blog both reported today (along with lots and lots of other people) that Garth Brooks is coming out of retirement. The Elvis-outselling country artist was apparently retired. No word yet on whether Garth’s alter ego, the high-concept-emo-suck-bomb Chris Gaines, will soon follow. If so, we are grabbing the nearest Bible, flipping to the…
Just as he has done with pizza and airline food, celebrity chef Wolfgang Puck is hoping to change the iced coffee market. Nation’s Restaurant News reports that Puck will be rolling out a line of bottled iced coffee drinks along the line of Starbucks’ Frapuccinos. The Wolfgang Puck Culinary Iced Coffees will come in four flavors: Vanilla Fusion, Double Blend…
If you read this morning’s Kansas City Star, you wouldn’t know that the Miami Heat and the New Orleans Hornets are playing tonight at the Sprint Center — unless you saw the tiny ad on page three of the sports section. Two of the NBA’s biggest stars — Dwayne Wade and Chris Paul — are in Kansas City and not…
%{}% The many delicious uses of onion soup onions — hint, it’s not just soup. Imperial Stout is back at McCoy’s Public House and the next Brewmaster dinner is coming up shortly. A taste test involving the Jones Soda Halloween flavors — candy corn might not have passed. There’s a lot more in the world than spaghetti and meat sauce….
Copyright Criminals, a film that takes on the tough topic of sampling, and where it fits in both the legal and artistic realms, comes to the Tivoli on October 22, at 7 p.m. Executive producer and writer Kembrew McLeod will be on hand at the screening. (Thanks to DLC for the tip.) It’s something that has many facets, such as…
