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. Do you, LattéLand idler, take this wedding-cake cookie, to have and to hold, to lick the frosting off the edge in childlike anticipation, to save until after a very light dinner, forsaking all other…
Before yesterday, I hadn’t been to Crown Center for lunch in a while. And I’d forgotten the simple truth of what the food court can be like at noon. The adults on their lunch hour stood out like tiny islands in a sea of children. One little girl repeatedly poked her head through the rails outside Fritz’s Railroad Restaurant, forcing…
Slayer has maintained its reputation as one of the monsters of metal for more than 20 years, thanks to its unrelenting force and provocative subject matter. The less tangible (though undeniable) element of the band’s success, though, is drummer Dave Lombardo, who spoke with us shortly before the band’s upcoming stop of the American Carnage tour with Megadeth and Testament….
No, not the Silversun Pickups — it’s the real Smashing Pumpkins. (Or at least, as “real” as you can call the current incarnation of the band; iconic frontman Billy Corgan is still operating under the band’s original moniker, so that’s good enough for now.) In case you haven’t kept up with Corgan’s latest endeavors, the band is currently recording the…
Where We Pee is a weekly look at the excretory facilities of the music venues and cool-kid hangouts around town. It is said that the building Kelly’s calls home is the oldest in all of Kansas City. The oldest in the entire city! Nothing to sneeze at! But times change, of course, oh do they change, and this year Kelly’s…
Noted fitness expert, master gardener, “strange tang” authority and Fox Sports columnist Jason Whitlock is leaving The Kansas City Star after 16 years. Shut Yer Foxhole says goodbye And for past comics, see the Shut Yer Foxhole archive. Categories: News Tags: Jason Whitlock, the kansas city star
Jack In The Box tends to inspire strong opinions. Since Fat City first reported back in February that a location was slated to open in Kansas City, Kansas, readers continue to ask when they’ll be able to get their hands on a Steak Teriyaki Bowl. Time has passed, but the answer hasn’t changed. A spokesman for Jack In The Box…
U.S. Sen. Sam Brownback has been pretty vague about about what he hopes to accomplish as the next governor of Kansas. But details are slowly emerging. In Manhattan last week, Brownback talked about expanding broadband Internet access in rural areas. Of course, Barack Obama had the same idea. The stimulus package, which Brownback thought was stupid, included $7.2 billion to…
How can we not repost this? Combined, these musicians brought in over 220 million dollars last year. The question of “why,” however, is something that you’ll have to figure out for yourself. We’ll start with the biggest: Jay-Z, who raked in 63 million dollars last year. (Via Buzzfeed) Categories: Music Tags: bad lyrics, money, rappers
Courtney Edwards allegedly doesn’t know how protection orders work. See, once you’re served with one, you’re supposed to avoid the person like they’re Clay Chastain. But a half hour after being served, Edwards allegedly returned to his girlfriend’s home and kicked open the locked door to her bedroom, where she was hiding. She jumped out of a window to escape,…
You’ve read about and seen a few locals who have been banned from the historic (and infamous) area in Nadia Pflaum’s feature this week. But what does a typical night in Westport look like?
Quite possibly the most boring-sounding magazine ever, Business Facilities is under the impression that “the Great Recession is behind us,” and that Kansas is among the states that will lead America into its next era of economic growth. Obviously, the folks at Business Facilities either have it in their best interest to lie about the end of the recession, or…
Image via Flickr: man pikin For the last five years, Chris Jackman has been steaming lobsters in his backyard. He’s had the shellfish shipped to him, live and squirming, from Maine. Yes, it’s a way to gather a group of friends together to eat, drink and be merry, but Jackman — a 31-year-old product manager at H&R Block — has…
Freaky story out in Johnson County. A young girl was left home alone in rural JoCo when a burglar broke into the home around 10 this morning. The girl heard a loud bang at the front door and hid inside the home in the 15800 block of Meadow Lane. About the same time, her 17-year-old brother returned home to find…
Are you still all anti-Twitter because you think it’s a bunch of self-absorbed dorks writing about what they had for breakfast? Wake up, fool! Twitter is super useful and time-saving. (Nerd voice): It’s like a mix between Facebook and an RSS feed, basically. (Pushes glasses up bridge of nose with index finger.) More and more local bands seem to understand the value…
The Kansas City Parks Board was supposed decide the future of Rockfest, the annual butt rock festival held at Penn Valley Park. But that’s not going to happen. The decision to approve a license to hold Rockfest in the park next year has been postponed, according to Fox 4. This is all because mixing rain and 55,000 rockers usually ends…
Celebrities will no longer be the only ones with a sandwich named after them when 4Food opens next month in Manhattan. The burger shop lets customers build, name and then promote their creations to the world using Twitter, Facebook, and FourSquare. The idea is to get your burger up on the leader board, because every time someone orders your creation,…
Nearly a decade ago, the 89-year-old former Oldham Hotel in the River Market became the sleek, stylish Oldham restaurant. The new place’s operator, Nick McNeil, had taken his inspiration from metropolitan urban dining concepts that boasted both nightclubs (Oldham’s was in the basement of the former hotel) and upscale dining rooms. But Oldham might have been too far ahead of…
A foreword from the author: When you’re a writer, losing your computer is like losing a limb. While most people use health insurance to safeguard their arms and legs, I had no such protection on my laptop. Thus, it is with many apologies (and a healthy amount of embarrassment) that I give you an extremely tardy review of the William…
Springfield, MO indie-pop kings Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin drop their third album, Let it Sway, today via Polyvinyl. The thing’s got hooks for days. Stream it at MBV or, better, download it for a very reasonable $5 at Amie Street, where it’s the Deal of the Day. Band members Phil Dickey and Will Knauer appeared on a Springfield morning news show earlier today to talk…
United States District Judge Fernando Gaitan Jr. issued a ruling yesterday that declared Missouri’s 2006 law against protesting at funerals to be unconstitutional because it violates constitutional rights to free speech. Missouri lawmakers introduced the Spc. Edward Lee Myers Law after members of Topeka’s Westboro Baptist Church picketed the Army Airborne Ranger’s funeral in St. Joseph in 2005. The church…
