With this city’s appetite for seafood, lobsters don’t last very long in Kansas City. That theory gets put to the test tonight with the Bristol Seafood Grill’s fresh lobster special. The downtown seafood restaurant will sell you a live, one-pound, Maine lobster at cost between 4 and 7 p.m. if you sit at the bar. That’s convenient because it also…
Winter is about root vegetables and one of the hidden gems is rutabagas. The cross between a cabbage and turnip — also known as a Swedish turnip — it’s slightly sweeter than a turnip with less water (which means it can sometimes be woody if not cooked properly). The flesh is yellowy-orange, so it can add nice color to an…
Rod Jetton didn’t appear in court today but his defense attorney reportedly entered a not guilty plea for him to second-degree felony assault charges in connection with choking and punching a woman during a night of sex. Jetton will also get a new judge to hear the case. There’s at least three versions of what Jetton, the former Missouri Speaker…
Intrepid, Kansas City-based journalist J. Malcolm Garcia got a name check in an Onion A.V. Club interview with writer and publisher Dave Eggers. Garica, the author of a recent feature story in The Pitch, contributed to Panorama, the print-journalism extravaganza that hit the streets of San Francisco last month. The 320-page broadsheet represents Eggers’ belief in and hope for newspapers….
Are you supposed to tip when you pick up carry-out? For some people, a tip might be hard to justify. The order isn’t being brought to your table or delivered to your door, and the hostess or bartender who presents you with your order might only be involved in the sales portion of the transaction. In addition, you can certainly…
Kansas City, Kansas, police say Verner David Estrada-Duran was the man who fell off the northbound Interstate 635 bridge during Tuesday’s morning commute. Estrada-Duran, 35, fell about 80 feet to his death while trying to avoid being hit by sliding vehicles. Estrada-Duran was from Merriam. View Larger Map Categories: News Tags: Interstate 635, kansas, Kansas City, kansas city, Verner David…
%{}% After an extensive donut discussion on The Walt Bodine Show, 52 Donuts has given way to 52 sweets in a year. Chef Jasper Mirabile, Jr. pens an ode to Sprinkled With Sugar — a cake delivery service in Johnson County. The tale of Little Yeoman Brewery — a micro brewery in Cabool, Missouri, that you have to visit if…
Have a happy holiday? That’s cool. Darryl Burton did, too. He got to spend Christmas with his daughter for the first time in 24 years. The last time Burton saw his daughter, Tynesha Lee, she was 2 years old. Their relationship was put on a 24-year pause after Burton was sent to prison for a St. Louis murder he didn’t…
What the hell does it mean when something is “instrumental hip hop”? Most of the music described as such falls somewhere in this weird void. It’s not quite funk, not quite electronica, and not really dance music. Still, it’s more full than the name would suggest. Most instrumental hip hop would fit nicely as a backing track, but is strong…
While we sit around and await the follow-up to the Knux’s Remind Me In 3 Days…, they’ve been kind enough to grace us with The Fuck You EP. The five-song EP doesn’t necessarily contain anything approaching the infectious ass-shaking groove that made “Cappuccino” such a hit, but we can hope that their new full-length (on which they are working) is…
The ranks of Missouri political reporters are getting thinner. First, Springfield’s KY3 News loses Dave Catanese to Politico, and now excellent reporter and blogger (The Pitch’s pick as Best Blogger of 2009) Jason Rosenbaum says he won’t be covering the Missouri Legislature on a regular basis because he’s taking a job as web editor for Missouri Lawyers Media in St….
Jackson County prosecutors charged Tony D. Garrett Tuesday with second-degree murder in the death of Antwan Clark. Kansas City police say the recommended bond for Garrett, 27, is $150,000 cash. The 22-year-old Clark was shot Sunday afternoon in the 2500 block of Chestnut and later died at a local hospital. Witnesses told police that they heard gunshots and then saw…
Javier Reynoza was shot to death in the 1700 block of Central Avenue on January 2. Now, Wyandotte County prosecutors believe they know who killed him. Wyandotte County District Attorney Jerome Gorman charged 35-year-old Ruben Richardson Tuesday with second-degree murder in connection with the death of Reynoza. KCK police found a wounded Reynoza, 37, around 10:05 p.m. Reynoza was taken…
Three men involved in a heist timed to coincide with Super Bowl XLI pleaded guilty Monday to charges that they conspired to make and distribute meth between June 2006 and May 2, 2009. James Robert Everson Jr. (known to his friends as “Bimbo”), Micah Lee Boley and Eugene Edward Dove all pleaded guilty in federal court (they also missed a…
Youth in Revolt, indeed. Charmingly awkward indie poster boy Michael Cera is taking a walk on the wild side – on screen, at least. Starring in the a new music video from synth-loving Montreal band Islands, the Superbad star appears in rare psychedelic form when Cera pops some unidentified pills and essentially trips balls the entire video. Here’s some electro eye…
Kansas City police are after an irate McDonald’s customer who threw a temper tantrum at the fast food restaurant in the 3200 block of Main. Kansas City police Chief Jim Corwin wrote on his blog that the woman caused more than $3,000 in damage after knocking the cash registers off the counter. If you know who she is, call the…
From the kind, generous folks at Jump Start Records: Every month we’re going to list one LP, one CD, and one 7″ that you can pick up ABSOLUTELY FREE! All you have to do is pay for the shipping. How can you go wrong with that? Combine that with any one of our awesome sales and you can literally walk…
Here are a couple videos of Dirtnap Records garage punks Mean Jeans live at one of Portland’s Burgerville locations. Evidently Burgerville is somewhere Mean Jeans has been playing fairly regularly, according to the bands’ MySpace. Now, it’s nowhere near as crazy as the infamous In Defence Taco Johns video, but they’re still pretty entertaining. Categories: Music Tags: Burgerville, Dirtnap Records,…
Shawnee man Jake Ruether, 18, was charged with aggravated battery causing great bodily harm and aggravated assault today after allegedly stabbing a man multiple times in the chest during a fit of road rage. According to initial reports, the stabbing took place at 4 p.m. Sunday near 95th Street and Quivira Road. The victim was taken to a hospital and is expected…
Once the solitary domain of pirates and sailors, grog is thankfully open to the rest of us law-abiding, land-loving folk. And in the interest of discovering additional uses for a new Christmas Crock-Pot, I’ve been looking for a warming drink — particularly in light of Friday’s expected temperature of -15. That kind of weather calls for the home bar to…
