Not too many local restaurants serve dishes wrapped in shiny foil. The Latin Bistro, north of the Missouri River, offers a particularly snazzy shrimp dish in a foil pouch that’s opened to great effect, releasing a little cloud of steam. It evokes the excitement of opening that Epcot-like sphere of Jiffy Pop, back in its visually impressive foil incarnation, pre-microwave…
Going into Thursday’s MLS SuperDraft, soccer pundits, analysts and fans all were thinking the club needed one thing: defense. But after many of the top defenders in the draft class were snapped up before SKC’s pick at No. 10, the team chose to go for offense. The move startled just about everybody, including SKC’s selection, CJ Sapong, a standout forward…
“Never tell Rodney and Ben no.” Federal prosecutors allege that’s what now-former University of Kansas associate athletic director Charlette Blubaugh told Kassie Liebsch, who was hired as a systems analyst in the ticket office. Rodney and Ben are Rodney Jones and Ben Kirtland, who were working with KU’s fundraising branch, the Williams Educational Fund. Liebsch, 28, pleaded guilty Thursday to…
Robbing a Jackson County drug house was apparently too daunting of a task for Consuella Wright and friends. So they decided to knock off a gas station. It was around 1 a.m. September 9, 2008. Wright and her cousin Brandon Goodwin and three friends Trenae Jones, Clint Jones and Kenneth Haley were gassing up at a Trex Mart Convenience Store…
Last June, Pitch columnist David Martin wrote about the case of Linletta Woodruff, a former server at P.F. Chang’s China Bistro on the Country Club Plaza. She filed a lawsuit against the Arizona-based restaurant chain, claiming that management permitted white servers to profile their customers by requesting that black guests and other minorities not be seated in their stations. Woodruff’s…
Like, OMG! New Kids on the Block and the Backstreet Boys’ joint tour tickets are on sale now, if you’re antsy to get your hands on a pair. They range from $29.50 to $89.50 (for those of you with choreographed dance moves, bejeweled signs and such). Categories: Music Tags: backstreet boys, new kids on the block
Barry Lee has been hosting Signal to Noise for the past two decades on KKFI 90.1. Recently, he’s been doing a local showcase, and tonight he’s going to talk with some older local-music heads about some of Kansas City’s late, great record stores — including Penny Lane, the birthplace of The Pitch. “This is part two and the last part…
Kris Kobach, Kansas’ secretary of state and America’s leading provider of illegal-immigration fear-mongering, has demonstrated that he will do anything in his power, and maybe some things out of his power, to keep illegal immigrants from voting in our nation’s elections. Of course, illegal immigrants aren’t voting in our nation’s elections, nor do they appear to have much interest in…
The most hilarious event in midtown went down at RecordBar last night, and we’re betting that you weren’t there. Koo Koo Kanga Roo and the Minstrel Periods treated a small crowd to playground throwbacks and choreographed dance numbers that literally left crowd members’ cheeks sore from smiling and laughing. The Minstrel Periods opened the night with their cabaret brand of…
Should anyone be surprised that some enterprising entrepreneurs took the title of the popular 2002 Nia Vardalos movie, My Big Fat Greek Wedding, and used it as a restaurant title? The owners of the Arizona-based My Big Fat Greek Restaurant chain — the subject of this week’s Cafe review — did, and you have to give them credit: It’s clever,…
Queen guitarist Brian May says we can expect a biopic of late Queen frontman Freddie Mercury to coincide with the band’s 40th anniversary. A biopic isn’t surprising, but the man aping to play Mercury is. Borat’s Sacha Baron Cohen has the acting chops needed to play the charismatic singer — plus, in addition to being able to grow the serious…
Remember the good ol’ days when a deer cull in Shawnee Mission Park was met with animal-rights activists dumping buckets of blood on themselves and carrying around deer heads in protest? Those days are apparently over. Last month, sharpshooters killed 33 deer in the park, according to The Kansas City Star. This helped park officials reach their goal of 50…
Are you ready for your closeup? It appears that the Nanny State has struck the decisive blow in the long war between potentially life-saving but intrusive technology and civil liberties. The Missouri Department of Transportation has ended a moratorium on cameras on state-administered roads and issued guidelines for municipalities that want to put red-light and speeding cameras on those streets….
Kansas State men’s basketball suffered another letdown last night: a 74-66 loss — at home — to Colorado. The Wildcats are 0-2 in Big 12 play after back-to-back losses. And after last night’s loss, the Cats’ best player, neck-bearded Jacob Pullen, vowed that he wouldn’t play in the NIT. “This is my last go-around,” Pullen told The Kansas City Star….
The next time you go looking for grub, you may be chowing down on actual grubs. i09 writes about a new study from Dutch researchers at Wageningen University who believe that in order to lessen our impact on the planet, we should seriously think about eating insects. Categories: Dining, Food & Drink
Trey Runnion has resigned from the embattled Port Authority of Kansas City. The city agency has come under criticism for allowing its general counsel, William Session, to enter into a multimillion-dollar contract to excavate land that the Port Authority sold to a private developer. Runnion signed off on the arrangement amid a complaint that Session’s familiarity with the project at…
The Lawrence rock band is releasing its new record, Circus Act, at the Replay Lounge tonight, with the help of scene stalwarts Roman Numerals. Here’s what New Franklin Panthers says about tonight’s festivities: Please come out and see us for a drink and a big ol’ bag of rock at the Replay Lounge in Lawrence January 13th where we will…
AWOL Whiteman airman Kerby Barbe, who was being sought in connection with a possible homicide, died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound after authorities surrounded him in a Blanco County, Texas, home. The story is a strange one: Barbe and another unnamed airman didn’t show up for work at Missouri’s Whiteman Air Force Base on Monday. Authorities began searching for the…
Killing off the winter doldrums is no easy task. Kansas City’s local musicians are a wily, inventive bunch, though, and they’ve been hard at work in the last few weeks cooking up a hot batch of tribute series. Cody Wyoming is curating a tribute to the Rolling Stones’ Exile on Main Street in February, and Sonic Spectrum’s Robert Moore is…
The future, apparently, holds glowing cereal boxes that talk to your cabinets and a soup package that doubles as a pot on your countertop. Kansas City video blogger Ramsey Mohsen is at the 2011 International CES (Consumer Electronics Show) in Las Vegas. And he has discovered some interactive packaging that will blow your mind. Categories: Dining, Food & Drink
If history has taught us anything, it’s that when you criminalize something, everyone stops doing it. Take Prohibition, for example. Everyone stopped boozing because no one would think to profit from distributing a product that was now impossible to get — except through illegal means. Indeed, humans’ respect for law and order and benevolent nature in these situations has led…
The New York Post writes that the dine and dash is on the rise in New York City with the police department reporting a 20 percent increase in the number of arrests for “theft of service” last year (376 as compared with 315 in 2009). And that’s just the people who were caught trying to walk out on their bills….
