This post begins with an apology. I’m sorry to have to bring this to your monitor. I’m sorry that such a creation even theoretically exists. And I’m sorry that there is apparently no bottom on taste standards. Geekologie posted about a new sandwich apparently being test-marketed by KFC, which the site dubbed the “skinwich.” It’s five layers of fried chicken…
Robin Carnahan must be taking Roy Blunt’s “Rubber Stamp Robin” attack ads way too seriously in their bare-knuckle brawl for Kit Bond’s U.S. Senate seat. Carnhan was in true shitty-politician mode yesterday, flipping her position on the Bush tax cuts for the wealthiest Americans. Now she likes the tax cuts — set to expire at the end of the year…
Remember that Smashing Pumpkins incoming blurb I posted yesterday? Yup, turns out that’s the headliner for 2010’s Buzz Beach Ball, on September 25 at Sandstone. The lineup for this incarnation of 96.5 The Buzz’s annual mini-festival includes: Smashing Pumpkins, Cake (the Buzz’s old standby), Anberlin, Limousines, Civil Twilight, AM Taxi, The Beautiful Bodies (who are back to support a brand-spanking-new album),…
Carl DiCapo In 1953, Carl DiCapo was a young man working for the Kansas City offices of the Internal Revenue Service when he received a phone call from his brother-in-law Ralph Bonden. Ralph’s brother Steve, the cashier at the Italian Gardens Restaurant over at 11th and Baltimore, had walked off the job. Since DiCapo had a head for numbers, could…
1. Try a Senegalese specialty. Vendors in Swope Park this weekend will serve up samples from around the world during the Ethnic Enrichment Festival. 2. Walk amongst weirdos — and really talented people. The streets of Lawrence will be all abustle during the Lawrence Busker Festival. 3. Have fun on the riverfront. Parkville Days last all weekend. Categories: News Tags:…
Kirsten Paludan, one of Kansas City’s favorite lady vocalists, is coming out with a new solo EP on September 10. It’s called All In, and it’s sure to feature more of Paludan’s haunting, world-weary croon that fans know from Olympic Size. The EP is a long-awaited followup to the singer’s 2006 solo debut, Princess In A Tower. Catch her with Nathan…
Image via Flickr: Crafty Dogma There’s no boot camp for waiters and waitresses, but there should be. Maybe such a thing would help offset the overflow of poorly trained servers now working in restaurants. Here are five annoying things that some servers — who obviously aren’t supervised by a manager or restaurant owner who gives a damn — still do….
To whet your appetite for The Pitch’s annual Best of Kansas City issue, we’re counting down our favorite Top 50 dishes each weekday until October 7. Saturday should be renamed Sausageday in Mission. Because that’s the only day of the week that Werner’s Specialty Foods sells it handmade sausages from a stand in front of the German foods shop. Categories:…
In our ongoing series of non-compliant sex offenders, we haven’t forgotten about Johnson County. With the entire state of Missouri already covered as well as KCK, it’s time to take a sad look to the southern suburbs. Lots of juvenile offenders on the list as well as the usual old creepers. Here’s Johnson County’s most wanted sex offenders (as of…
Somebody over at the Culinary Center of Kansas City likes Van Morrison so much that they want to actually eat him — or his spirit, anyway. On Saturday, November 6, the CCKC (I’m assuming that’s how they abbreviate it) is holding a musical and culinary tribute to Van the Man. Local pianist Dan Doran will play Morrison covers and dinner-goers…
Restaurant Week kicks off in the Power & Light District today with lunch and dinner specials running until next Sunday, August 29. The district has 17 restaurants participating by offering either $10 lunch menus or $25-$30 dinner menus. For each lunch or dinner you order, you will receive a $5 or $10 gift certificate to use at your next visit…
Jayhawk fans, there is the right way — and a wrong way — to clap to your fight song. This apparently so much of an issue that KU Athletics has put together a video of how to clap to “I’m a Jayhawk” (watch it after the jump). Seriously, is this a joke? Good thing this video is out now —…
“The Explanation,” an interview with Jason Whitlock on his departure from his job as a columnist for The Kansas City Star, will air at 3 p.m. today, on both 610 Sports with drive-time radio host Nick Wright, and on Time Warner Cable’s Metro Sports. Since the rotund raconteur’s extended vacation from the Star turned into a permanent one — i.e.,…
Cotton Jones Basket Ride (also known simply as Cotton Jones) was originally a side project of folk-pop luminary Page France, but founder Michael Nau disbanded that group in 2008 to pursue the more comfortable, well-worn warmth of Cotton Jones. Nau teamed up with vocalist Whitney McGraw to produce fuller arrangements of folksy, atmospheric jangle. In the short time since, Nau…
Kansas City police say 19-year-old Evangel Douglas is the city’s 70th homicide victim of 2010. Douglas’ body was found inside a town home in the 6200 block of North Pennsylvania around 10:34 p.m. Wednesday. He was shot to death. Police are still trying to figure out who killed Douglas. If you happened to be in the area and saw something…
Here in the flat, spacious Midwest, we’re all intimately familiar with the art of the driving song. A good driving song must fit a slew of criterion: it must be upbeat, but it can’t be irritating; it must compliment a mood, without being overpowering, etc. Apparently, across the pond, they’re a little bit more lenient. Check this out: The latest…
Kanye and Raekwon are doing a remix of Bieber’s smash hit “Runaway Love.” MTV News has a fine rundown of how this thing came together. It involves Twitter. Not too surprising that Kanye would be down for something like this, but the fact that Raekwon confirmed it to XXL is kind of amazing. Maybe he saw how much Young Money’s…
Oh snap! Krayzie Bone, Wish Bone, Flesh-n-Bone, Layzie Bone and Bizzy Bone are coming back to Voodoo Lounge on Thursday, October 7. They sold the venue out this past April, and are in town again with a backing band to perform their Grammy-nominated sophomore album, E. 1999 Eternal in its entirety. Tickets went on sale today ($31-$82) so you best…
To whet your appetite for The Pitch’s annual Best of Kansas City issue, we’re counting down our favorite Top 50 dishes each weekday until October 7. Like a lot of the restaurants we’ve been featuring, Stroud’s is probably home to a few of our favorites. The pan-friend chicken it’s famous for is certainly fame-worthy; the mashed potatoes and gravy are…
Missouri auditor Susan Montee announced yesterday that the Show-Me State’s sex offender registry is looking pretty damn good these days with more compliant offenders, especially compared to 2002. Yay! Not that there isn’t bad news. The feds say Missouri isn’t compliant with federal law — guess the state’s reporting requirements aren’t as strict as the feds’ (so says bad news…
