Cat and dog lovers might not be ready to break bread together — but they can each buy their own burrito at a fundraiser for The Humane Society of Greater Kansas City. Today all Kansas City area Chipotle restaurants are donating 50 percent of their proceeds — up to $5,000 — to the Humane Society. But to make sure your…
%{}% What ketchup can teach companies and the rest of us. A first-hand account of what it’s like to have your beers judged at a homebrew competition. The Bristol is raising money to help disaster relief efforts in Chile by donating $1 to the American Red Cross for each bottle of Chilean wine sold through April 8. The pet peeves…
%{}% Kansas City, Kansas, police are investigating a suspicious death at an apartment at Ninth Street and Tauromee Avenue, according to a couple of news reports. A man in his forties was found dead in a second-floor apartment around 11 p.m. Monday, KMBC Channel 9 reports. Officers told KMBC that the death appeared to be suspicious, but they’re waiting for…
Usually, a Monday night punk show means a total lack of crowd. Happily, at the Jackpot last night, there was a healthy number of people to see San Francisco’s Dead to Me with Reno’s Cobra Skulls and Kansas City openers Bent Left and Fists Up. Dead to Me rocked it from start to finish. Despite the fact that the incarnation…
Glassroots, a relatively new business at 809 West 39th Street, sells glass smoking accessories. (Which, by the way, seems like a vast improvement; the store formerly occupying that space sold candles, incense and the kind of kick-knacks you’d expect to see buried under four feet of dead cats on Hoarders.) Glassroots also sells K2, the fake-weed blend that Pitch staff…
In an effort to get you drooling over the new Approach record, Aloe Park, the first single’s been released. “Mutombo,” from the Ill Poetic-produced record, features the producer and Topeka’s omnipresent Stik Figa. It’ll blow the damn speakers off your computer, kids. The drum kit hits hard and the horn stabs are vintage Approach style. This album’s going to be…
Most of the other statues around me have their pee-pees covered with bronze leaves or diaper-like drapes — but not me! Some of Kansas City’s most powerful men hang out around me. They like to look at paintings of important buildings that have been erected around town. And they like to suck cigars, good ones like Arturo Fuentes that sell…
When animal rights activists first targeted research at the University of Kansas Medical Center last year they trotted out gory posters of crazed monkeys with weird electrodes poking out of their skulls. Their latest posters have moved from bizarro horror flick to gun-sliging Western. Last week, activist Jason Miller, best known for his sometimes-bloody defense of deer in Shawnee Mission…
Just when you thought Back From the Grave, Lux & Ivy’s Favorites, Las Vegas Grind, Nuggets, and Pebbles had raided all the garage punk unknowns to be found, comes Saved From the Trashcan. The blog, ran by a gentleman from Amsterdam who goes by the name of Fedor, shares long out-of-print comps that go for major bucks on Amazon. The…
A few of Kansas City’s most talented indie bands from across the metro battled for a spot in PopWreckoning’s Showcase at South by Southwest 2010 on Friday night. The winners, as judged by PopWreckoning and Jeff Tafolla of Saddle Creek Records: The Grisly Hand, Roman Numerals, and Thieves. Here’s the lineup: Dreams Are For Rookies The Grisly Hand Olympic Size…
This is officially the beginning of my campaign to get area bars to use blood oranges in their cocktails. The bumper stickers are at the printer. Blood oranges — which will likely be available for another month or so — are bright and sweet with a hint of tartness when they’re ripe. When balanced with another citrus or herb flavor,…
Topkea’s gay hating Westboro Baptist Church will get a shot at arguing before the U.S. Supreme Court that picketing dead soldiers’ funerals is well within their First Amendment rights. The nation’s high court announced today that they’ll hear the beef between notorious preacher man Fred Phelps and his kin and the father of a Marine killed. Categories: News Tags: Albert…
A few of Kansas City’s most talented indie bands from across the metro battle for a spot in PopWreckoning’s Showcase at South by Southwest 2010 on Friday night. The winners, as judged by PopWreckoning and Jeff Tafolla of Saddle Creek Records: The Grisly Hand, Roman Numerals, and Thieves.
Croque Monsieur? Oui, oui! This version of the French sandwich croque monsieur is not served in a French restaurant. In fact, the place that serves this particular delicacy doesn’t offer it every day. Ah, that’s enough clues. Can you guess which area restaurant offers this croque monsieur? Categories: Dining, News Tags: croque monsieur, Where am I eating?
Der Todesking is the best American punk band with a German name since Die Kreuzen. Drawing from disparate influences like the low-end throb of latter-era Black Flag and the disjointed yelp of the Jesus Lizard’s David Yow, the band operates on a level of punk not usually emulated by local groups. Rather than going for ’77 style anthems or ’80s…
Ted T. Cable, who teaches conservation and park management at Kansas State University, is a man who likes a challenge. He’s written guidebooks describing the fun to be had taking the interstate across Kansas (bleak) and Missouri (cluttered). Cable’s book about I-70 in Kansas (co-written with Wayne A. Maley) came out in 2003. He and co-author Luann M. Cadden have…
The Country Club Plaza has been a dining destination for more than 80 years, although it currently boasts more chain restaurants than independently owned dining spots. But this neighborhood has rich restaurant history — including the location of the very first Houlihan’s Old Place. We celebrate the Plaza’s culinary history with this week’s Fat City quiz. The first reader to…
Listening to James Wolcott on the most recent edition of the WTF with Marc Maron podcast, and hearing him say, “I have seen some really rotten Martin Scorcese films in recent years. When I saw the Departed after everyone else, I thought, ‘This is just junk.,’” has really made me re-evaluate my whole take on that film. When I first…
It was man against beast over the weekend at the Sprint Center, as 40 professional bull riders tried to land an eight-second ride during the PBR: Built Ford Tough Series. Among the things Pitch photographer Scott Spychalski learned while photographing the three-day event: 1. Bull riders pray a lot. 2. Brahma bulls’ snot flies out about 15 feet. 3. Ford…
%{}% There were six men of Hindustan/ to learning much inclined,/ Who went to see an elephant,/ though all of them were blind,/ That each by observation/ might satisfy his mind. After John Patrick Bedell shot two policemen outside the Pentagon and was killed, details, as they say, emerged. He appeared to have suffered from bipolar disorder, and had been…
Norah Jones played to a sold-out, rapt audience on Saturday night. The majority of the songs she performed were from her fourth and latest release, The Fall, a collection of songs inspired by a painful break-up and classified by one critic as “avant-roots.” It’s hard not to like Norah. She’s adorable and magnetic. (Even though we’ve never met, I find…
Noodles & Company opened its fifth location in the Kansas City area, at 540 Nichols Road, on Sunday. The Plaza restaurant had the accordion windows open and the four tables on the front patio were filled with shoppers curious about the fast-casual restaurant that occupies the former McDonald’s. Noodles & Company offers customizable pastas, soups and salads. In addition to…
