It was local Foodie Bill Shackleford of Red Development LLC who told me about the burgers at a neighborhood lounge called Walsh’s Corner Cocktails in Waldo. “They’re the best burgers in Kansas City,” he said one day recently. I’m not sure if I’d call this joint’s burgers the best, but they are very good. Categories: Dining, Food & Drink Tags:…
Sometimes, a plain ol’ “No Parking” sign just isn’t scary enough. That’s why the owner of the 3-year-old Kansas City Cafe, a restaurant with the yellow awnings at 1532 Grand Avenue, got a sign made that has some teeth. “PARKING FOR KANSAS CITY CAFE ONLY,” it reads. “VIOLATORS WILL BE MELTED AND TOWED.” Like, melted-melted? Haaaa….um, that’s a joke, right?…
Did Weezer sell out? Even worse: did they sell out to a clothing line carried at PacSun? It looks like the answer is yes. The band’s newest album, Hurley, was supposedly named after the Lost character. At least, that’s what Rivers Cuomo told Spinner earlier this month. But, now, it looks like it’s a gigantic promotion to get you to…
A bit of island life comes to Leawood’s Park Place on Thursday as RA Sushi (11638 Ash) celebrates its one-year anniversary with a benefit luau for the Big Brothers Big Sisters of Greater Kansas City. The party with live reggae music and lots of food and drink specials runs from 6:30 to 11:30 p.m. While grass skirts are not required,…
In this week’s Pitch: I talk to the bros in Lawrence’s Fourth of July about their new album, Berry Anderson sits down with KC cowpunks Them Damned Young Livers, plus previews of shows by Alejandro Escovedo and Memoryhouse. Categories: Music Tags: Fourth of July, Them Damned Young Livers
Price and Snodgrass do an acoustic set at the Replay tonight. Watch Drag the River cover the Replacements after the jump. Categories: Music Tags: Drag the River
Missouri University students have a new place to party before football games this fall, and university officials are trying their best to make it less of a shit show than the previous lot, known as “Frat Pit.” The area, now dubbed “The Jungle,” will have no cars, no hard booze, no kegs, no glass, no sharing drinks, and no “excessive…
According to a map, the tailgate is two or three times farther from the stadium than the old Frat Pit, requiring at least seven to nine road sodas for the walk. Even worse? The old frat lot is now the property of donors.Spaces in the new area can only be reserved by student organizations, although the ones with Greek letters…
You might say that Guy Tamburello, the congenial operator of Granny’s Chicken Ranch in the Legends entertainment complex in Wyandotte County, finally decided that operating the bird business in the current economy was just too clucked up. Last week he closed his fried chicken restaurant for good. Categories: Dining, Food & Drink Tags: closed restaurants, fried chicken, Granny’s Chicken…
Our sister paper, The Seattle Weekly, recently posted a profile of Kurt Cobain’s grandfather, Leland Cobain, who is the only member of the Cobain family that is willing to talk to the press. (It’s called “About A Grandson.”) In case you keep tabs on the revolving shitstorm of the Nirvana universe, Frances Bean Cobain just turned 18 last week — do…
Jalapenos have a way of hanging around you like a friend who has overstayed his welcome on your couch. You’re never happy to see either the next day, especially when you told yourself this was the last time you’d sit down for a meal together. Jalapenos are the star of Familia Lopez salsa (the bottled version of the table salsa…
This Monday, Shirley Phelps-Roper struck a deal that stopped her from going to trial on charges of disturbing the peace and negligent child abuse. Losing the disturbing the peace thing, that I can live with. But, oh, how good would it have felt to finally – finally – have an excuse to get child services involved because negligent child abuse…
Add Drunken Fish Sushi Restaurant and Lounge alongside Imo’s Pizza and frozen custard on the list of St. Louis imports that have made their way up I-70 to Kansas City. The Kansas City Business Journal reports that the sushi spot, which has three locations in St. Louis, will be taking over the former Bice Bistro space (14 E. 14th St.)…
Last night sometime in the middle of Megadeth’s set, a kid next to me starting complaining about Dave Mustaine’s stage presence. “He doesn’t give a shit,” the boy said. “He’s just playing his guitar.” Mustaine would answer the kid’s complaining in his own way soon enough, but for the moment I’d ask you to consider purity. Just because a priest…
Fans of Metallica, are you also fans of Joanna Newsom? No? Hm. What if we told you that, instead of queasy, creepy vocals clattering over plunking notes (we’re not fans of Joanna Newsom either), there was a duo of ladies appearing at Crosstown Station tonight that played Metallica cover songs on harps? Big, heavy, ornate, classical harps? That’s pretty metal,…
More after the jump. Categories: Music Tags: concert films, Mogwai
Don’t let this animal’s trashy reputation get your goat 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. Did you know that goat meat is the most widely consumed meat in the world? That’s what this New York Times article says…
No one likes Ticketmaster. No one wants to come to Ticketmaster’s keg party, and no one wants to sit at its lunch table. (Would you want to hang around someone who’s constantly pawning dozens of dollars off of you for “convenience fees”? Hell, no.) Apparently, Ticketmaster is tired of having its proverbial car keyed in the high school parking lot….
I wish I was 8 again. I’d even settle for 12. Then I’d haul my Trapper Keeper over to the cafeteria and sit down for a school hot lunch, now that the Kansas City, Missouri, School District is back in session. Fat City took a look at the upcoming school menu for September at the elementary and secondary levels. And…
A St. Joseph man who taunted his alimony-starved ex-wife by sending her pictures of $100 bills has lost a bid to have his child support reduced. Douglas Heck waged a campaign of intimidation and harassment after separating from the mother of his three children in 2008. Stephanie Heck testified at a trial in Andrew County last fall that he disconnected…
