%{}% After a visit to both locations, D’Bronx gets a thumbs up on the over-topped slices of pizza and the Reuben sandwich. A recipe for a meatless version of cannelloni that swaps in two kinds of cheese and spinach. 7-11 tries to win over foodies in Hong Kong — udon noodles with curry are the new go-go taquito. A Texas…
Halloween is my favorite time of year. I spend ages obsessing over costumes, Halloween Spirit makes its appearance, and I get to hit up every store in town for spooky Halloween decorations (or, as we refer to them in our household, “decorations”). The best part of this holiday for me, however, is the music. I have have scads of music…
Every since the Tragic Snake Bite Kit Mishap of ’98, we here at The Pitch have been reluctant test new products. And that’s why we’ve enlisted professional help to test this little gadget, the Tonium Pacemaker “pocket-sized DJ system.” Collapsing turntables, mixer, record crates into one smaller-than-a-Gameboy handheld device, the Pacemaker claims to possess all you need to DJ anytime,…
The University of Kansas tried to stop the bleeding after the ego-tripping feud between football players and basketball players. Now more details are out, and a former Jayhawk star is listed as a witness in a July battery case involving the mother of his child. The Lawrence Journal-World reports that University of Kansas police have linked an altercation outside Burge…
Next time you’re crawling across the Paseo Bridge (like 101,999 other people every day), look north at the birth of a Kansas City icon: the Christopher S. Bond Bridge. The 4.7 mile span over the Missouri River cost us only $245 million. Huzzah! When it’s done, cannon lights will bathe the bridge in a seasonal colors (like green for St….
1. Do the art thing. It’s already First Friday again. (While you’re in the Crossroads, head over to Union Station, for the opening night of Andy Warhol Portfolios: Life and Legends. Get a free beverage if you arrive between 5 and 9 p.m.) 2. Get some culture in Lee’s Summit. Today and Saturday, the Longview Campus of Metropolitan Community Campus…
Before the age of modern landfills, Kansas City disposed of its garbage by feeding it to hogs — and dumping it in the Missouri River. Technically, our refuse is buried in Deffenbaugh’s massive hole in the ground these days, but plenty of trash still goes astray. And, like days of yore, it finds its way into the Big Muddy. Since…
First Friday
We just received the news that Passion Pit, the headliner at tonight’s free, KRBZ-sponsored show at the Back Yard at the Beaumont, has canceled its performance. Printed announcements were tacked up, including the one below, which had an additional message scrawled on it. At approximately 6 p.m., the band posted the following on Twitter: Kansas, we are sorry we had…
German occult black metal collective Secrets of the Moon hit the Beaumont Club on October 24. They’re opening for Portuguese gothic metal band Moonspell, along with Switzerland’s Samael, and touring in support of their forthcoming album, Privilegivm. To describe what it sounds like, here’s the quote from the press release: “it’s a darkly progressive journey through the Stygian fields of…
What is music but people and machines making sound? Last night Chicago art-rock band Tortoise played the Beaumont in support of its new album, Beacons of Ancestorship, out now on Thrill Jockey. Prefuse 73 opened. In the array of shots that photographer Forester Michael got, there was an interesting — and rather remarkable — dichotomy between man and machine. So…
The Northern lilt of Ojibwe poet Heid E. Erdrich bounced off the bookstacks in a room on the fifth floor of the downtown library last night. “I love reading in libraries because I get to talk out loud,” she said with a chuckle before cracking into National Monuments, her latest volume of poetry. Erdrich, who hails from Minnesota, is a…
The talk of building a convention hotel will only intensify with the news that Sam’s Club is pulling its convention out of Kansas City. We did a slideshow of the potential sites. Today, the city released these aerial shots by HNTB of potential locations. After the jump, the full list of potential sites from the city’s release. Categories: News Tags:…
Best Song: “Caked Up (Remix w/Ron Ron)” by Stik Figa It’s like something out of West Side Story — two rappers from opposite sides of the tracks making beautiful music together. “Caked Up,” which originally appeared on Stik Figa’s Babylon EP, is one tasty cut — a slow, sugar-drizzled Greg Enemy beat with a moaning bass line and slinky vibraphone….
We picked Jason Rosenbaum as Best Blogger in the Best Of Kansas City 2009. Rosenbaum’s Capitol Calling is one of the foremost resources for political news from Jeff City. Rosenbaum graciously accepted the award in this video (he also admits he likes the Milwaukee Bucks and Degrassi: The Next Generation; he’s also apparently good at karaoke). But make sure you…
I take back everything I’ve ever said about Brokencyde and the crunkcore movement. Seriously, I didn’t think it could get any worse in terms of vacant lyrics, and then Rammstein decided to put out a new single. The song is called “Pussy,” and is unfortunately not a cover of the Lords of Acid song of the same name. Lacking any…
Chicago art-rock act Tortoise came to the Beaumont on Wednesday, September 30, 2009. We sent photographer Forester Michael, who captured the evening as two-sided story: of people and of machines. For the other side, go here.
Chicago art-rock act Tortoise came to the Beaumont on Wednesday, September 30, 2009. We sent photographer Forester Michael, who captured the evening as two-sided story: of people and of machines. For the other side, go here.
You can eat corn or walk through the stalks at Ciderfest The first weekend of the Louisburg Cider Mill’s annual Ciderfest & Craft Fair started last weekend, but another weekend of festivities is planned for Saturday and Sunday, October 3 and 4 on the grounds of the cider mill on Highway K-68. It’s about 30 minutes from Midtown — here…
This week’s Martin column describes a $421,200 subcontract that a politically connected consultant, Gayle Holliday, received after the City of Kansas City, Missouri, reached an agreement with an Arizona company to install red-light cameras. Holliday, who is African-American, represents the lone “minority business enterprise” (MBE) that the camera company, American Traffic Solutions, says it intends to use in the course…
Not all inventions have managed to improve our lives. In fact, some should have been taken out behind the Patent Office and forgotten. And when Life magazine set out to find 30 dumb inventions, a few food choices naturally made the list. The prime example is something called Honegar: Inventor of a honey and vinegar mixture, called Honegar, Dr. DeForest…
And the winner is… Oh, we wait. We screwed up. The print version of our Best Of Kansas City issue awards the best jingle to Shawnee Mission Kia. But the jingle we describe promotes Shawnee Mission Hyundai, a dealership under the same corporate umbrella as Shawnee Mission Kia. Leawood-based BicMedia produced the Hyundai ad. Shawnee Mission Kia uses a jingle…
