If you want to eat local produce, it will get a lot easier over the next month as farmer’s markets begin to open around the city. While the Merriam Organic Market is still searching for a permanent home, the 39th Street Community Market has successfully relocated in Westport. The list below is organized by day of the week — please…
%{}% What does it mean when your fortune cookie has no fortune? A trip to Pizza Fusion finds one blogger wishing for organic salt. Here’s an exhaustive Q&A session with Anthony Bourdain on his speaking tour, celebrity chefs and what he would do if he ran the Food Network. This is a sweet slide show on how to make compound…
A mere four-win season didn’t stop the NFL from giving the Kansas City Chiefs a slot on Monday Night Football on opening weekend. Not at all. So for the first time in five years, the Chiefs will open the season in primetime, playing the San Diego Chargers at the revamped Arrowhead Stadium on September 13. The Chiefs play in the…
Scene & Heard — wherein local music scene makers give you the lowdown on the soundtrack to their lives. Robert Moore is the quintessential man about town. He hosts Sonic Spectrum on 96.5 the Buzz from 6:00-8:00 p.m. each and every Saturday night. In addition, you can frequently find him DJing at Fred P. Otts on the Plaza, hosting Sonic…
Willie Nelson is an interesting cat to see live. First of all, he’s the sort of showman the likes of which don’t come through as often as one would like. The man just gets up there and plays. There’s no pandering to the audience, there’s no flashy videos, there’s no banter — there’s Willie, there’s his band, there’s a big…
A Cass County jury has found Danial Rinehart guilty of being a sick fuck. OK, that’s not the actual conviction, but you could make a strong case given the list of charges — murder, statutory rape, child endangerment, and a couple of counts each of incest and abandonment of a corpse — of which Rinehart was found guilty Tuesday. Rinehart,…
Kansas City police say 20-year-old Michael Wilson was the man shot and killed at an apartment at 400 East Armour Boulevard on Sunday. Police found a man suffering from a gunshot wound in the apartment building’s lobby. The man, described as in his twenties, told police that Wilson had been shot in the doorway of his second floor apartment. Police…
Ginger is good at stopping what ails you — it’s the Guinness of tubers. So if I’m heading into the evening with a dodgy stomach or expecting that the next day is starting to look a bit rough, a little ginger in a cocktail is a tasty way to self medicate. One of my favorites for spring is a Pimm’s…
Yesterday’s “Where was I Eating?” question garnered a lot of terrific — and plausible! — guesses from Fat City commenters. But only Pitch clubs editor and girl-about-town Berry Anderson pinpointed the exact location of that tasty Mexican breakfast: the new Taqueria Bautista in Westport. And rest assured, she did so with no insider information. Taqueria Bautista, the latest culinary creation…
British rock band Muse is nothing if not ambitious. The band’s two heralded sound comparisons — Radiohead and Queen — place Muse squarely in commercially explosive territory (as already evidenced by the band’s opening slot for U2, in addition to several hit records, most recently with 2009’s Resistance). They’re also really into bombastic, Orwell-type narratives, and launched a treasure hunt in 2009…
Yesterday, CNN’s Anderson Cooper marked the 15th anniversary of the bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City with a segment on “the rise in rhetoric from groups on the political fringe.” CNN’s Drew Griffen interviewed Parkville native Catherine Bleish, executive director of the local Liberty Restoration Project, which has staged protests in Kansas City against the…
James Murphy and co. get hazed in the band’s video for LCD Soundsystem’s shot at a tipsy party anthem, “Drunk Girls.” Is the Spike-Jonze directed video meant to be a statement about how LCD Soundsystem feels hazed by the music world? Is James Murphy telling us it sucks to be an indie darling? Are the rowdy, creepy panda-people evil, evil…
Keith Buchanan This past Saturday, Kansas City’s venerable Temple Slug — which was this town’s Hippie Central when it opened four decades ago — celebrated its 40th anniversary, mostly with genteel cups of tea at owner Bob Gamer’s newest venture right next door: The Teahouse & Coffeepot. I always wondered where the name Temple Slug derived. An album from the…
The 1819 Gallery’s been getting some seriously impressive rock ‘n’ roll artists to show in their gallery: classic rock poster artist Carl Lundgren, as well as Commander Cody himself, George Frayne. Up next is probably the biggest name they’ve had yet: Devo frontman Mark Mothersbaugh. In addition to showing prints of Mothersbaugh’s work, there will be a selection of his…
Drunkenly dropping cotton balls around the Black Culture Center at the University of Missouri apparently isn’t a hate crime. It’s just littering. Mizzou students Sean Fitzgerald and Zachary Tucker are now accused litterbugs. Our friends at the Riverfront Times report that prosecutors charged the duo with littering because they didn’t believe they could convince a jury that they intended to…
With bigger fields than ever and the very human element of different judges’ palates, it’s tough to consistently come out on top in barbecue competitions. Somebody just forgot to tell that to Pellet Envy. The Kansas City Barbeque Society’s 2009 Team of the Year is fresh off being named Grand Champion at the Smoke on the Water competition in North…
Erykah Badu is stopping by the Midland on June 8, and she’s bringing native Kansas Citian Janelle Monae with her. Her North American tour, “Out My Mind, Just In Time,” is named after the last track on her latest album, New Amerykah Part Two: Return of the Ankh. Granted, the latest album wasn’t weird enough for some, but her recent…
Deviled eggs do make trouble for my idle hands. If there’s a plate of deviled eggs nearby and both of my hands are not filled with drinks, they’ll shortly be filled with deviled eggs. And yet as with any great temptation, I’m hoping it’s becoming more trendy. The Westside Local and The Drop feature deviled eggs as on their small…
Bill Self’s Kansas Jayhawks keep taking hits. Sherron Collins is out of eligibility. Cole Aldrich and Xavier Henry both left early to enter the NBA Draft. Now Ryan McAteer has also declared for the June draft. Who? McAteer is a KU law student, and his declaration appeared in recent edition of the Kansas Law Free Press because “there is a…
