Versus 4: Hip Hop Battle at RecordBar
All photos taken by Brooke Vandever.
Archives: January 2011
Clock Tower Bakery, Blue Grotto serve the hottest breakfast dish in America
Blue Grotto’s Panne Frattau/Photograph by Angela C. Bond What dish is on the top of the “fastest growing breakfast foods” list for 2011? The breakfast pizza. A story posted on the Nation’s Restaurant News website, “Fastest Growing Breakfast Items,” lists the top 10 breakfast items, based on growth of mentions on menus in the second half of 2010. Breakfast pizza,…
Ozzy and Slash at the Sprint Center
Read our review of the concert here and see pictures from the evening in rock.
Google Offers to compete with Groupon, LivingSocial
Get out your virtual coupon shears. Mashable writes that Google is test-marketing a competing service to Groupon, the online daily deal site for shopping and restaurants. Google Offers will be the same concept, a local business offering a 24-hour coupon to Web users. News of the services comes only a month after Groupon reportedly refused Google’s own offer of a…
Aaron Snyder facing murder charge in death of an Olathe infant
UPDATE: On Saturday, Aaron Snyder was officially charged with first-degree murder in connection with the death of 3-week-old Logan Snyder. Snyder’s bond is set at $500,000. Original Story (January 21): This will make your stomach turn: Aaron Snyder is in custody and facing a first-degree murder charge in the death of an Olathe infant, according to Fox 4. Categories: News…
Zoom’s Chris Cosgrove talks new songs and old memories
It’s been 17 years since the beloved (but often overlooked) local punk-rockers Zoom put out its album, Helium Octipede. Since then, the Lawrence and Kansas City music scenes have morphed and changed, but always owe a debt to the band that helped build our little Midwest music mecca. Fans of Zoom’s signature noisy guitars, odd time changes and racing bass…
Obama hosts Chinese leader (or, translated into rightblogger: Obama sells out America to communists, pianist)
“Red China” had been effectively closed to U.S. trade for years when President Nixon began softening things up in the 70s. Subsequent Presidents from both parties have followed Nixon’s lead, and now, along with state visits like the one Chinese Leader Hu Jintao made last week to the White House, we get nearly everything from China, from t-shirts to iPhones….
LoveGarden Sounds becomes a legal adult!
Lawrence’s beloved crate-digging haven, LoveGarden Sounds, celebrates its 21st anniversary in February, and it’s hosting a throw-down of a party. They’ll be flying in garage-punk band Reigning Sound for a night of whiskey-slinging fun — a special event that is sure to sell out at the intimate Jackpot Music Hall. In fact, they’re so sure it will sell out that advance tickets…
Sick of It All brings it old-school-style at the Bottleneck
Sick of It All Saturday, January 22 2011The Bottleneck Hardcore veterans Sick of It All hold a special place in my heart. The first hardcore album I ever bought was the band’s 1997 release, Built to Last (followed shortly by Scratch the Surface and Minor Threat’s compete discography). I might be overselling it a bit when I say that they…
Name your own price for Jenny Carr’s new album
First, Priceline came along and ruined the careers of travel agents everywhere. Now, the name-your-own-price concept has come to the music industry. But that’s a good thing — it means we can get killer deals on awesome music without feeling the guilt of being music pirates. And getting a penny for a song is better than nothing at all, right,…
Ozzy Osbourne is his own special effect at the Sprint Center
Ozzy Osbourne, with SlashSaturday, January 22 2011Sprint Center Better Than: Any night at Angel’s Rock Bar. Somewhere in the middle of “Suicide Solution,” I stopped bothering to take notes on this show. What’s the point? Ozzy Osbourne is at the stage in his career where it really doesn’t matter what he does — short of murder, or becoming an American…
Funding falls through for KCPD’s cold-case sex-crimes squad
It was big news last May when police took Bernard Jackson into custody and charged him in four rape cases more than two decades old. No one has ever officially said that Jackson was being charged as the “Waldo Rapist” — and who knows if those cases will ever be linked to anyone? But as a Waldo resident, I can…
The good life can be yours if you work in Kansas City and live in Mission Hills
Everyone wants to live the Talking Heads’ “Once in a Lifetime.” Here’s how you can do it in Kansas City. Monster.com recently ranked the top 10 hottest job markets for job seekers, and guess what? Kansas City came in 10th. Not so bad, so here’s the job you should chase: United Rotary Brush Corporation’s vice president of manufacturing. Once you…
Genessee Royale: The new Bottoms bistro is this week’s review
In this week’s Pitch, Charles Ferruzza samples a week’s worth of fine farmer’s dining at the West Bottoms’ new gas-station-gone-bistro, Genessee Royale. Photographer Angela C. Bond dishes up mouthwatering photos to accompany the review. Categories: Dining, Food & Drink
Ike’s Deli: fried bologna, fried chicken, quesadillas … you know, deli food
There’s been a new delicatessen in Westport for five months now, but not a traditional delicatessen in any sense. Yes, the staff makes sandwiches (including a grilled Reuben with really chewy corned beef) and offers kosher salami, liverwurst, chicken salad and beef tongue — all classic deli favorites. Categories: Dining, Food & Drink Tags: fried chicken, Ike’s Deli, westport
Amor Picante owner says it will serve everything but Mexican fare
While maybe not serving everything, Micah Riggs — the guy recently featured in The Pitch for building a synthetic pot empire — wants future customers of Amor Picante, his yet-unopened restaurant at 900 West 39th Street, to know that it won’t be a Mexican restaurant. “This area is pretty saturated with those right now,” he says. Riggs says Amor Picante…
Restaurants using social media to entertain customers, too
This week, Fat City reported on a new texting service, Text My Food, which permits restaurant patrons to use their cell phones or electronic devices to send messages to their servers right there in the restaurant: The message is posted on a computer screen in the kitchen or in a location near the kitchen door. The New York Times reports…
William Cammisano Jr. and Michael Lombardo get a year in prison for sports betting operation
Forget omertà. After William Cammisano Jr. and Michael Lombardo found out that the feds were investigating them for running an illegal sports gambling operation, both men told their bettors to talk with the feds. This came from the Star’s coverage of the sentencing of Cammisano and Lombardo, who each received sentences of a year and a day for their roles…
Westboro Baptist Church incurs Ozzy’s rage with a parody of ‘Crazy Train’
The Prince of Darkness is looming toward Kansas City on Saturday night, and he’s already pissed at our local hatemongers, the Westboro Baptist Church. The WBC will bring its day-glo hate to the Sprint Center on Saturday night to picket the “God-hating fool” Ozzy Osbourne from 6:45 to 7:30 p.m. Ozzy is already angry with the WBC for using some…
KC Beer Blog samples Elbow/Boulevard collaboration
Whether you’re single or with someone, a potential chocolate beer release from Boulevard and Christopher Elbow could make or break your Valentine’s Day. KC Beer Blog had a chance to sample some, and here’s the word: I wanna say, drinking it was like eating a Hershey bar, but that’s not quite right, it’s like eating a whole Christopher Elbow chocolate…
William Session, Port Authority lawyer, taken off feds’ watch list
%{}% William Session doesn’t have to worry about waking up to a federal indictment. U.S. Attorney Beth Phillips announced today that her office has closed its inquiry of the Port Authority of Kansas City. Mayor Mark Funkhouser had encouraged Phillips to examine the city agency in the wake of the revelation that Session, the Port Authority’s general counsel, had received…
Keaira Brown, 16, gets life in prison for murdering Scott Sappington Jr.
Keaira Brown was only 13 years old when she killed Scott Sappington Jr. in an attempted carjacking. She’s now 16 and going to prison for life without the possibility of parole for 20 years. The Kansas City Star reported that Brown told the judge at her sentencing on Thursday: “I’m a kid, too.” She added: “Now I feel like the…
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