The best things in life are freezing cold.That’s what I discovered when I stepped into Hattie’s Fine Coffee (4195 Somerset Drive, Prairie Village). The funky little coffee shop is tucked in the back of the Corinth Square shopping center to the right of the Hen House grocery store. When I pushed through the door, a blast of bright, roasting coffee…
And this shit is hot, son! Hot like the burning fires of hell, to which us sinners will be delivered in time! Megan Phelps-Roper, prolific videographer and granddaughter of outspoken gay-person-despiser Fred Phelps, is up to her old tricks again. The “Weird Al of hate,” as Pitch staffer Peter Rugg calls her, has turned her critical eye back to that proud…
Twenty-one months after a fire destroyed the legendary downtown Hereford House, a federal grand jury indicted Rodney J. Anderson, an owner of the restaurant, yesterday on arson and mail-fraud-conspiracy charges in an alleged $2.5 million scheme. Authorities believe the men who set the blaze at 2 East 20th Street on October 20, 2008, are still at large. Categories: News Tags:…
Gavino’s is named for a toddler, Gavin Vargas A friend of mine told me he got some very good head at Gavino’s Mexican Restaurant — located in the storefront space previously occupied by Tienda Casa Paloma space at 8220 Metcalf in Overland Park. I did a double-take. Good what? “Cabeza,” he explained. “The head of a roasted cow. It’s a little…
%{}% Fox Run in Fulton, Kansas, is named the best of a local 17-bar pub crawl. Although the author should be forgiven if his memory is a bit hazy. It’s not delivery, it’s a home recipe for Pizza Hut Pan Pizza. Drive-in theater concessions weren’t always the polished pretzel nuggets and nachos you see today. At one time, a meal…
Major League Baseball’s All-Star Game returns to Kansas City in 2012. When the exhibition last visited Kansas City, in 1973, baseball fans registered their displeasure that the Athletics had scooted from KC to Oakland. The crowd booed A’s manager Dick Williams, who was in charge of the American League squad by virtue of Oakland’s appearance in the 1972 World Series….
The Bieber show is part of his “My World” tour, which is a nod to both him being on a “world tour” and the fact that in one of baby Justin’s songs he sings, “My world is your world, and my fight is your fight.” (Check out how many YouTube views that thing has.) But wait, there is more news…
A bloody palm print on a vehicle inside homicide victim Latoya Hopkins’ led police to Tawanda Kunonga. Jackson County prosecutors charged Kunonga with second-degree murder and armed criminal action on Tuesday. Categories: News Tags: homicide, Latoya Hopkins, Manjaro Kenya, person of interest, Tawanda Kunoga
The trial of Bernard Jackson, the man accused of four Waldo area rapes in the 1980s, is slated for 2011. Categories: News Tags: Bernard Jackson, Waldo rapes
Oh noes! All appearances indicated that while Scott Johnson was inside Nara on Friday night, reveling in the reverse happy hour, somebody took a brick to the windshield of his 2004 Mercedes-Benz Gelaendewagen! What kind of bastard would do such a thing? Categories: News Tags: nara, Scott Johnson
There’s a huge honky-tonk party at the Jackpot this evening, with Kansas City’s own Adam Lee & the Dead Horse Sound Company and Austin’s Wayne Hancock. Opportunities for booting, scooting, and boogie-ing abound. At RecordBar, Portland’s Blitzen Trapper will be blasting through a set of their blissful, schizo Americana. I saw on Twitter last night that there were only about 25…
The safety-minded folks at Bike KC and Missouri Bicycle and Pedestrian Federation are offering free classes to riders looking to learn the ropes of urban cycling tonight from 6 to 7 at the Westport-Roanoke Community Center. Categories: News Tags: biking, safety
More from James Christos, who is currently on his Enigmatic Tour, and his show at the Jackpot last night. Aaaaaahhhh Lawrence, KS. We hit the Jackpot and it was lookin hella thin! But the rule is whether its 5 or 5000,you shoot to kill. And that’s what we did. It actually started to fill up pretty decent for a monday…
Raul Dieguez, wanted for the homicide of Juan Garcia on May 31, was found hiding in a basement yesterday. Dieguez, 20, was arrested and charged with second-degree murder and armed criminal action. Categories: News Tags: homicide, Juan C. Garcia, Killa City, Raul Dieguez, shooting
Tickets are on sale Saturday at 10 a.m. That shit will sell the fuck out. Categories: Music Tags: she and him
The widow of professional wrestler Owen Hart is suing World Wrestling Entertainment, Vince McMahon and Republican U.S. Senate candidate Linda McMahon for using the wrestler’s likeness. Hart was 34 when he died after falling 78 feet while attempting to rappel from the top of Kemper Arena in Kansas City during a live pay-per-view event in 1999. Categories: News Tags: Linda…
They have a new LP, out September 14 on Fat Possum, and they’re touring in support of it this fall. The date is Tuesday, October 19 at the Bottleneck in Lawrence. Accompanying the Walkmen will be Japandroids, who were at the Bottleneck a while back. Categories: Music Tags: japandroids, Walkmen
%{}% Just two years after Anheuser-Busch was sold to InBev, the Saint Louis Brewery — where Schlafly is made; it’s now the oldest locally owned brewery in the city — might be for sale. The St. Louis Business Journal broke the story Friday that co-founders Tom Schlafly and Dan Kopman had begun talking to senior staff about the possibility of…
The movement to criminalize K2 synthetic marijuana is using the death of an Iowa teen as proof that the compound is dangerous. The Des Moines Register reports that 18-year-old David Rozga of Indianola, Iowa, was smoking K2 with friends when he “freaked out” and said he was “going to hell.” He then started walking home, telling his friends he was…
Smokers and fresh-air lovers can now coexist this summer, thanks to a number of new patios around Kansas City. The Drop has a new deck space, which owner Eddie Crane had been hoping to unveil last summer. The drink of the moment at the Martini Corner restaurant is a sparkling blueberry lemonade martini. Happy hour is from 3 to 7…
A biologist with Missouri’s Department of Conservation suffered year-long complications from E. coli poisoning after participating in a stream cleaning event, according to the testimony of an environmental advocate at a Missouri Clean Water Commission meeting in Jefferson City. Categories: News Tags: Dan Sherburne, DNR, E. coli, Missouri Clean Water Commission
