I’ll just have one. It’s only 50 cents. What’s the harm in eating a roll on the way home from the grocery store? That’s what I told myself last month when I tried my first Farm To Market pretzel roll from Cosentino’s Market. And so began my downward spiral. The pretzel roll is about the size of a dinner roll,…
Abandon all hope if you have to drive on any of these intersections, which pretty much means all of you. Police Chief Jim Corwin released Kansas City’s top 20 crash sites of 2009. Topping the charts — and, really, it wasn’t close — Interstate 435 and Interstate 70 with 107 crashes. View Larger Map Unfortunately, I know too much about…
“I wish that 11-year-old girls could work at strip clubs,” Travis Cook wrote once on an Internet forum dedicated to child porn. The 37-year-old Kansas City man admitted this when he pleaded guilty in federal court yesterday to receiving child pornography over the Internet and the story gets twisted and desperate from there. According to U.S. Attorney’s Office, federal agents…
A new survey in the March edition of Consumer Reports suggests that consumers should wash packaged greens or salad even if the packaging states that it has been pre-washed. The consumer advocacy group used an independent lab to test 208 bags of salad from 16 brands sold in New York, Connecticut and New Jersey. It discovered that 39 percent contained…
%{}% A serious tour of burger joints in Kansas City leads to an unlikely victor. After 200 posts, one blogger looks back at her favorite recipes from the past several years. A visit to several restaurants in the Power & Light District and a suggestion that Cordish is attempting to court more local owners. Get your favorite dessert recipe together…
Superintendent John Covington’s latest “right-sizing” list came out last night (read Covington’s full “Right-sizing Recommendation” after the jump). I can’t stand the term right-sizing. I cringe every time I hear it. It pains me that it’s in the dictionary. It’s deceptive. Corporate types started saying right-sizing because downsizing was just too damn negative. They mean the same damn thing. Schools…
While we love Lawrence’s Rooftop Vigilantes — the Pitch gave Carrot Atlas “Best Debut Album” in the 2009 Best Of issue, and I did this feature on them — it’s certainly nice to see that the love transcends local boundaries. National music blog the Tripwire had this to say about the Vigilantes’ tune “Punched By Guarev” on Monday: lthough we…
Oh, no! Someone left their journal backstage Friday night after the Conspiracy Room’s Night of Fame party. Its owner probably wants it back, so as a public service, here are a few entries. Categories: News Tags: bill cosby, Conspiracy Room, curling, Lost & Found, Night of Fame, Olympics
The new Gorillaz album, Plastic Beach, comes out next week. NPR put up a stream of the record yesterday, and after having a good couple of listens, I’ve made my opinion. I loved the first, self-titled, album and Demon Days was a revelatory record. Gorillaz are an art project that makes music to which one can get the fuck down….
Do you want to fight on national television in the Power & Light District? Then you want to be in Lenexa on Saturday. The Bellator Fighting Championships and Everlast are sponsoring an open tryout on Saturday, March 6, at Ringside Inc.’s John Brown Training Center in Lenexa, Kansas. Registration starts at noon and tryouts begin at 1 p.m. Bellator wants…
Empty Glass is a weekly post devoted to furthering the alcoholic rock star image and mythos. That’s right, kids — drinking has no negative side effects and makes you look cool, to boot. For the debut of this feature, we talked to the gents in Kansas City pop-punk act, Fists Up. They’re playing this coming Monday, March 8, at the…
%{}% A writer at Vanity Fair’s group blog calls out Kansas Sen. Pat Roberts for acting like a creep on the subject of the CIA’s torture of terrorism suspects. CIA records that emerged last week show that Roberts, as chair of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, knew that the agency’s “enhanced interrogation techniques” had been captured on video. Roberts…
Update: Daily RFT confirms that the Show-Me Institute is closing its Columbia office. Crosby Kemper III says the closing isn’t related to the grand-jury probe. Speaking of probes (or, one hopes, not), Kemper tells the RFT this about the investigation: “Let’s just say a lot of things were happening that don’t usually occur at a think tank.” The news blog…
To reiterate from the subject line, but with the full reaction I had when I saw the news in my inbox: HOLY FUCKING SHIT!!!! PAVEMENT’S COMING TO KANSAS CITY!!! Specifically, Pavement added a bunch of dates to their already sold-out dates all around the world. From what originally seemed like it was going to be a one-off, the band has…
When they started the True/False Film Festival in 2003, Paul Sturtz and David Wilson wanted to create a venue for the best documentaries in current cinema. But their annual festival does more than that: It brings out the best of Columbia, Missouri (to get a taste of this year’s festivities, check out the slideshow). This weekend, True/False’s mark was branded…
Rob Dalzell in happier days The big news last month was that talented, ambitious chef Rob Dalzell had closed his flagship restaurant 1924 Main as well as his popular hot soup restaurant, Souperman. Dalzell had already turned Chefburger over to new owners and had even earlier shuttered his Yummo frozen yogurt shop. As we reported last week, the gourmet pizza…
The menu description of this exotic-looking dish explains that it’s a roasted poblano pepper stuffed with beef, apple, plantain, and Castillian nuts and topped with a white cheese sauce and fresh pomegranate seeds. So which restaurant is serving this? Categories: Dining, News Tags: Where am I eating?
If you caught As Tall As Lions when they opened for Minus the Bear at the Granada this past November, maybe you felt like Crystal Wiebe in her review of the show, missing a few of your favorite songs. Fear not — the band brings their tribal, jamming approach to indie rock to the Record Bar on April 9. Tickets…
Documentary film fans converged on Columbia for one hell of a party at the seventh annual True/False Film Festival this weekend.
Cupcake A La Mode recently opened in Leawood’s Park Place. This is the second location for owner/executive pastry chef Lisa Clark and her husband Daniel, who opened their first store west of the Plaza, at 1209 West 47th Street, last January. The new shop is awash in pink. There’s a bookshelf filled with princess hats and sparkly stuffed animals, but…
These are the stories that try men’s souls. I was excited last week when CNN reported that a 140-year-old hot dog had been unearthed by an archaeologist … until I learned the location of the great find: Coney Island. In a place known for sideshows and carnival hoaxes as much as Nathan’s Famous hot dogs, the possibility that this was…
%{}% Soon, a play within-a-play will unfold on the stage of the Off Center Theatre at Crown Center. From March 11-28, Musical Theater Heritage presents Kiss Me Kate, Cole Porter’s 1948 musical love story that’s wrapped around Shakespeare’s Taming of the Shrew. As MTH productions are wont to, Kiss Me Kate promises lots of laughs and local talent. For a…
Poor Christiaan Van Vuuren. The Aussie went into the hospital with tuberculosis, made some videos and posted them to YouTube to keep himself entertained, and ended up on the Today Show down under. Then the poor bastard got diagnosed with an even more serious form of TB, and now he’s back in hospital. At this point, he’s been quarantined to…
