Nothing like lounging in a park over the weekend to take your mind off the slings and arrows of a long workweek. On any given Saturday or Sunday, weather permitting, you can find tons of families and friends sprawled out on the grass at Loose Park or the front lawn of the Nelson Atkins Museum. This long Labor Day weekend…
The Missouri Supreme Court laid down the law this week: There’s a difference between preparing food and manufacturing it.That difference means that a tax exemption that Missouri restaurateurs had been using to buy plates, tables, chairs and kitchen equipment is now a closed loophole. Bloomberg Businessweek reported the story, which specifically deals with a chain restaurant group out of Dallas:…
This weekend is the rockabilly hot rod extravaganza, Greaserama. Hit up the pre-party tonight at the RecordBar, where you can pre-register your hot rod, and catch Gibber Jabber, The Nevermores and Cretin 66. Head down to the Boulevard Drive-In tomorrow between noon and midnight for twelve sweet hours of bands, rockabilly style and kustom rides, courtesy of the Punk Rods….
Known for its psychedelic electronic beats and rowdy live shows, Sound Tribe Sector 9 (known to fans as STS9) purveys genre-spanning electro-funk jams. The group’s latest album, Ad Explorata, is based on mysterious voices that band members overheard on a shortwave radio and traced to Big Sur, where they found a metal box full of black-ops military paraphernalia from the…
Responding to complaints about lengthy wait times, the City of Kansas City, Missouri, is offering a new walk-in service for people who want to be tested for sexually transmitted diseases. The Health Department invites sexually active citizens who are not experiencing burning sensations or other symptoms to simply show up at the clinic at 2400 Troost Avenue for testing. The…
%{}% Get out your green. The Kansas City Irish Fest — the third-largest of its type in the country — comes to Crown Center today and runs through Sunday. You can work your way through a Scotch egg (hard-boiled egg wrapped in sausage and deep-fried) or Guinness Irish stew before washing it all down with a Boulevard Stout. Dessert can…
There are several facts you should know about breakout Brooklyn band Suckers. First, its swooning, lackadaisical songs are equal parts magnum-opus ambition and pub-shanty sing-alongs. Second, a National Geographic-ready baboon face looks out at you from the cover of this year’s sprawling Wild Smile (produced by Yeasayer’s Anand Wilder). Third, frontman Quinn Walker sings with the ragged rigor of Wolf…
There’s no shortage of fine acts playing the eighth annual Irish Fest, but one of the most intriguing is the Guggenheim Grotto. Wistful regret and longing fuel the Irish folk-pop duo’s tender, dreamy music. Kevin May and Mick Lynch’s supple harmonies linger over ringing guitars and keyboards. Grotto’s albums come with plenty of mandolin, glockenspiel, ukulele, cello, bass and drums,…
KMBC-TV’s relationship with some of its female talent has gone from awkward to amicable, as the gender and age discrimination suit that Kelly Eckerman, Peggy Breit and Maria Antonia filed in 2008 has been settled. The plaintiffs complained that they lost anchor-desk gigs to younger women and said the station humiliated and degraded women over 40. The station makes it…
%{}% Listen up, Arby’s. You are a fast-food roast beef sandwich joint and you need to remember your place. You have plenty of fans, a good solid business. You don’t want this fight. You do not want to bring this on your doorstep. Arby’s is running a new advertisement for the Arby-Q — a roast beef sandwich with “tangy barbecue…
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. It would take a team of food stylists half an hour to get any egg-salad sandwich looking photogenic, assuming you didn’t order it to go. The fact is, even as carefully as a friendly…
Sam Brownback was nervous. Last Friday, Kansas’ next governor announced the formation of a group called Veterans for Brownback. Brownback thought he had made a good impression on the flinty-eyed retired colonels — the fading Brownback for President bumper stickers on their LeSabres was a good sign. But he took nothing for granted. The waiting is over. On Monday, the press…
It’s safe to say that Kansas City is doughnut crazy. If you want to get into a debate that is nearly as heated as who makes the best barbecue in town, you only have to walk into a room and suggest that Lamar’s or Fluffy Fresh or Donut King outshines all the others (Please note, I’m not actually making an…
Terry Taylor plays bass with local metal monsters Hammerlord. He’s also the main guy at Hunt Industries, which books shows at the Beaumont, Granada, Record Bar and other venues across the Midwest. Perhaps not so out of step with the brutality of Hammerlord’s sound, Taylor is also a horror fan, and was recently featured in HorrorHound magazine, which is a…
1. Revel in the local art scene. It’s First Friday. 2. Go to the movies. The Kansas City Urban Film Festival starts tonight at the Screenland Crossroads. 3. Show your green. Kansas City Irish Fest takes over Crown Center Square today through Sunday. 4. Pin up and rock, Billy. Greaserama brings classic cars, rock and roll and bad-ass movies to…
In the second quarter of last night’s Chiefs-Packers preseason game, team owner Clark Hunt made his way to the broadcast booth to talk about all the exciting things happening at Arrowhead Stadium in 2010. It was a strange sight, and not just because color man Trent Green made Hunt look like he shops in the junior department. What made the…
According to reports, Axl Rose and his band, which he lamely calls Guns and Roses, took the stage late, dicked around, and then, during second song “Welcome to the Jungle,” Rose halted the music to reprimand the audience for throwing water bottles at the stage. “Here’s the deal: One more water bottle, and we go home,” Rose said, like the…
It’s finally happened. We’ve finally reached the point where paying for a lap dance is actually a meaningful, necessary form of political protest. Even if you don’t love strip clubs, if you love First Amendment rights you better engage in some nonviolent resistance this weekend. Do you guys ever think about what we’re doing? I mean we as Americans. Categories:…
Richard Mabion — a longtime activist for the urban core of Kansas City, Kansas — doesn’t think Fat City’s beat reporters cross over the Kaw River frequently enough to cover the culinary scene there. “Did you know that the restaurant in the Hilton Garden Inn near the Reardon Center does a soul buffet on Thursdays?” he asked me. I’m embarrassed…
Did you know that the term “peeping Tom” comes from the legend of Lady Godiva, who, according to Wikipedia, “rode naked through the streets of Coventry, in England, in order to gain a remission of the oppressive taxation imposed by her husband on his tenants”? Some dude named Tom watched her naked ride and was struck blind, the story goes….
