Archives: March 2011
A quick and dirty guide to tonight’s poll-watch parties
In no particular order, here are a few places you can go to drink for free watch the numbers roll in from today’s citywide election: Mike Burke: Westin Crown Center, Washington Park Place Room, 1 Pershing Rd., 8 p.m. Sly James: The American Jazz Museum, 1616 E. 18th St., 8-11 p.m Categories: News, Politics Tags: general election 2011, poll watching
Waiter and blogger David Hayden moves to the Majestic Restaurant
The Majestic Restaurant has said au revoir to a certain veteran server who has, depending on which story you believe, a reputation for being one of the biggest divas in the city (he’s hilariously funny and should probably be performing in nightclubs instead of waiting tables). So it was time for owner Frank Sebree to hire a new celebrity server…
Cafe Up Close: Chapala Restaurante Mexicano
Step inside Chapala Restaurante Mexicano in Kansas City. Photos by Chris Mullins
Capybara plays SXSW
Capybara brought some KC flavor to the SXSW Showcase on Saturday, March 19. Photos by Allie Mason.
St. Patrick’s Day Parade in Westport
It was all green, all the time, at the annual St. Patrick’s Day Parade on Thursday, March 17. Photos by Brooke Vandever.
Basketball’s impact on KC is anyone’s not-very-educated guess
%{}% Downtown Kansas City’s college basketball season wraps up tonight, when Pikeville and Mountain State play in the final of the NAIA Division I men’s basketball tournament at Municipal Auditorium. Earlier this month, Kansas City hosted the Big 12 men’s and women’s tournaments. Though tall people in sweatsuits continue to roam the streets, tourism officials have already put a dollar…
DJ Sku will DJ for Rebecca Black, singer of the infamous anti-hit ‘Friday’
No joke. The Pitch music-award winner DJ Sku will back up the 13 year-old singer, who is responsible for the roundly ridiculed Internet sensation “Friday,” on Good Morning America this, um, Friday. (Rebecca Black’s boilerplate pop song is even considered the “worst song ever” in some circles.) We got the scoop from Mac Lethal’s Facebook page: Just got the greatest…
Today is Coq au Vin Day, if you can find it
That’s right, today — March 22 — is the national food holiday set aside to celebrate the French dish known as coq au vin, or rooster braised in wine, preferably a hearty burgundy. There are references to a similar dish dating back to Julius Caesar, and it’s a timeless peasant dinner. But the earliest published recipes reportedly date to the…
Sen. Luann Ridgeway still believes in welfare queens
Welfare queens don’t exist. Most informed adults have come to accept — along with the Tooth Fairy and the Easter Bunny — that the welfare queen (a term coined by Ronald Reagan in a 1976 presidential campaign speech) is a big ol’ myth. But a recent investigation of welfare recipients, conducted by reporter Chris Nagus of St. Louis KMOV Channel…
Hidden Pictures releases its long-awaited full-length release, Synchronized Sleeping
After four years and two EPs, the Lawrence and Kansas City indie-pop duo Hidden Pictures is releasing its debut full-length album, Synchronized Sleeping. With a host of local contributors and a fresh set of buttery-smooth, brightly colored alt-pop numbers, Richard Gintowt (formerly of OK Jones) and Michelle Sanders have fashioned a tightly polished album perfect for sunny days on a…
BBQ Makes Everything Better named Best Barbecue Cookbook in the World
%{}% It’s widely thought that nobody in the world knows barbecue better than Kansas City. Now there’s proof. BBQ Makes Everything Better, the first cookbook from Jason Day and Aaron Chronister — the inventors of the Bacon Explosion — was named the “Best Barbecue Cookbook in the World,” at the 16th annual Gourmand World Cookbook Awards held on March 3…
Koch pocket pet Pompeo suddenly all ‘Koch who?’ Koch: ‘Oh, that Pompeo’
Pompeo says he doesn’t know the Koch brothers … well. Sunday’s Washington Post shined a spotlight on U.S. Rep. Mike Pompeo, the Wichita Republican whose campaign last year drew more cash from Koch Industries than any other candidate’s. The 47-year-old House freshman wasted no time finding a couple of projects: defunding a national database of product-safety complaints for consumers, and…
Jon Cohen — formerly of the Dears, and now of Jon Cohen Experimental — is but a poor, wayfaring stranger
While Jon Cohen is probably best-known as a former member of Montreal’s the Dears, it’s his new band, the Jon Cohen Experimental, that will probably allow him to best make his mark. The Experimental is a mix of indie-rock and trance-inducing loops that make a hypnotic, accessible combination. Cohen is currently traveling throughout the United States and Canada by Greyhound…
The Dodos bring drum-driven indie rock to RecordBar
The Dodos with Reading RainbowMonday, March 21, 2011RecordBar Better than: the band’s three-hour sound check. The Dodos are a thorough band. After a strategic and detailed sound check to begin the night, the band’s set was polished and tight, without crowd banter or visible set lists littering the stage. It was as if they had their stage show down to…
The five worst sins of a BBQ restaurant employee
%{}% Alicia is fired up, even if she’s a bit misguided. Kansas City barbecue is likely more well-known for being tomato-based than molasses-based, but I didn’t set out to debate the semantics of sauce because both are usually mentioned when it comes to explaining how we like our barbecue here in Kansas City. Employee ignorance is definitely an issue, and…
IDs of victims from this weekend’s carnage
Three of the previously unidentified victims from the weekend’s shootings have been made public by the Kansas City Police Department. Gary Waloke, 21, was found dead at 5400 Swope Parkway (pictured at right). The man who was found dead by his mother at 4026 Benton on Sunday has been identified as 34-year-old Keith D. Williams. He also lived at that…
Bluestem’s Colby Garrelts is a James Beard Award finalist
Will the fifth time be the charm for Bluestem’s Colby Garrelts? The finalists for the 2011 James Beard Foundation Awards were announced yesterday, and Garrelts was one of the five finalists in the category of Best Chef: Midwest. Garrelts is up against Justin Aprahamian of Sanford in Milwaukee, Wisconsin; Isaac Becker of 122 Eatery in Minneapolis, Minnesota; Tory Miller of…
The Sexy Accident wants you to make a record with them — and here’s why
Why let fans name their own price for your record when you can auction off the experience of actually making the recording? Maybe Radiohead should take note: Local band the Sexy Accident will let you — yes, you! — be a part of the band’s new record. As in, stop by the studio whenever you want; come to practices; listen…
Jack in the Box looking at Olathe
Olathe residents could be getting a taste of Jack in the Box. Joyce Smith of The Kansas City Star reports that Jack in the Box is hoping to get city approval to open a franchise at Ridgeview Falls (the intersection of 119th Street and Ridgeview Road). Categories: Dining, Food & Drink Tags: jack in the box, jack’s munchie mobile
Download a free track from the Republic Tigers — and some SXSW sessions, too
All you lucky souls who were down in Austin, Texas, last week had the chance to witness the Republic Tigers tear it up at the MidCoast Takeover, along with a slew of other local talents. If you weren’t so lucky, you can download from iTunes several of the Tigers’ live versions of songs recorded at the festival. Click here to…
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