Archives: April 2011
Free lunch is just a flip of a coin away today at Cupini’s in Westport
Feeling lucky? Then head over to Cupini’s (1809 Westport Road) in Westport for lunch. The lunch special today requires some good fortune on your part. Order your meal. And then they’ll flip a coin. If you guess correctly, then your lunch is free. Guess wrong and you’re getting out your wallet. The lunch deal is valid only for folks eating…
Give me back my chimp! Custody fight for Sueko the Chimpanzee continues
Custody fights aren’t pretty, and Kansas City is in the middle of one — over a chimpanzee. A municipal court trial on the matter of Sueko the chimp has been delayed for two weeks, and a man claiming to be the chimp’s real owner came forward to reclaim his chimp and threatened to sue the city if she’s not returned….
Have you heard about Kanrocksas yet?
UPDATE: Wednesday, April 20, 9:56 a.m.: We’ve just received a press release from the festival, and here are some more details. We’ll give you more as we get ’em: This summer, Kanrocksas Music Festival will hit the Midwest and overtake the Kansas City area as one of the top music festivals in the nation with major headliners, multiple stages and…
Five dishes that no stoner could resist in Kansas City
It’s not a stretch to say there will be a lot of hungry Kansas Citians today of all days. It’s 4/20, as Chief James Corwin notes on his blog, “a day of widespread marijuana usage.” And so, in honor of the unofficial national stoners’ holiday, here are the five dishes that no self-respecting pothead could resist. Categories: Dining, Food &…
Kansas City is not a culinary wasteland
Just when I think we’re making progress, I read something like this in The Chicago Tribune: The Republic of Eataly, which resembles an autonomous state, is found in Manhattan, not quite a year old, and judging from the line to get in, much hotter than Dubai. In fact, super-chef Mario Batali’s temple to all things Italian is so popular, and…
Ex-Shawnee Mission East teacher accused of smashing a rock into his wife’s head, pushing her off a cliff (updated)
UPDATE: Lisa Zahn Crooks Black, the woman accusing her husband of hitting her in the head with a rock and pushing her off a cliff, is now claiming her husband, ex-Shawnee Mission East teacher Charles “Reed” Black, was having an online affair and stealing from a $4 million inheritance that her father left her, according to a report in the…
Butt sex is legal in Missouri, illegal in Kansas only if you’re gay
Mother Jones put together the above map to show which states still outlaw sodomy (aka butt sex). I’m sure you all will print it off to keep in your wallet, just in case you find yourself in Montana and want to know if anal is legal. (It’s only illegal if you’re gay in Big Sky Country.) As you can see,…
Slideshow: Stone Brewing Co. is now in Missouri
You’ve got another reason to go to the bar or liquor store. Stone Brewing Co. introduced its lineup to the Missouri market yesterday with a tasting at the Foundry, a kickoff for a week’s worth of events. Stone CEO Greg Koch, out of Escondido, California, was on hand to talk about the brewery. Click on the photo above to see…
Record Store Day Celebrations
Record afficionados professed their love for all things vinyl on Record Store Day, April 16. The Pitch visited the festivities at Zebedee’s and the grand opening of Vinyl Renaissance on 39th Street. Photos by Ashford Stamper.
Mike Watt and the Missingmen hit up Lawrence tonight
Bassist Mike Watt, originally of legendary punk outfit the Minutemen, has charted a strange and prolific career since that group disbanded after guitarist D. Boon’s death in 1985. Adhering to the tenet of “jamming econo,” the name that the Minutemen gave their minimal approach to touring and music making, Watt has moved through a series of notable collaborations, forming Dos…
Kansas City Chiefs get two Monday-night games; NFL releases full schedule
Monday Night Football is scheduled to return to Arrowhead Stadium on Halloween night for a rematch between the Kansas City Chiefs and San Diego Chargers. That is, if the NFL lockout is over by then. The NFL optimistically released the 2011 schedule. I get it. They had to put out the schedule. But with a work stoppage and no solution…
Arcade Fire lights up Starlight tonight with the National
Is it possible that the best band in the world could also be the biggest? Montreal’s Arcade Fire makes a compelling case with The Suburbs, a Grammy-winning set of lovingly rendered tracks about life in cubicle hell. Suburban America is an all-too-predictable target, of course, but Win Butler and company enliven the familiar subject with warmth and candor. Categories: Music…
Stone Brewing Co. Comes to Missouri
The Pitch attended a preview tasting for the Stone Brewing Co. at The Foundry on Tuesday, April 19, where CEO Greg Koch talked about what’s in store for Missouri. Photos by Ashford Stamper.
Jay Nixon brokers compromise to Prop B that’s still shitty for dogs
Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon announced yesterday that he’d reached a compromise on the contentious puppy-mill law, which he called a “Missouri solution.” Nixon said in a statement that he worked with animal-welfare activists and commercial dog breeders as well as lawmakers to broker a deal to keep a few of Proposition B’s provisions, namely bigger cages for dogs, while also…
Sam Brownback criticizes Wall Street jive that he once encouraged
Politicians love to imagine themselves as Winston Churchill, shaking a pudgy, defiant fist at Nazi Germany. Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback is no different. Speaking at a Rotary Club in Wichita on Monday, Brownback summoned the wartime prime minister to make a point about meeting the challenges of “sterner days,” as Churchill put it. Brownback’s World War II nostalgia included criticism…
Twins for Rieger Hotel Grill & Exchange chef Howard Hanna
Howard Hanna, the co-owner and executive chef of the Rieger Hotel Grill & Exchange, and his wife, Krista, became the parents of twins this morning: Jack Doss Keleti Hanna and Olive Corina Atalana Hanna. Fat City asked Rieger Hotel Grill & Exchange co-owner Ryan Maybee if Hanna would be taking a leave of absence from the restaurant. “I hope so,”…
Judge says 85-year sentence is OK for man convicted of raping 92-year-old woman
%{}% A judge ruled today that an 85-year sentence for a man convicted of raping a 92-year-old Leawood woman would not be unconstitutional. Judge Stephen Tatum made the ruling today, according to the Star. Simon Angilda was convicted in January of raping the elderly woman while drunk and high on Ecstasy last June. Angilda’s defense attorney had argued that 85…
Thomas Robinson of KU cited for battery in altercation outside Lawrence nightclub
Just days after announcing that he’d return for his junior season at the University of Kansas, Thomas Robinson was allegedly involved in an altercation outside a Lawrence nightclub. The Lawrence Journal-World spoke with Adam Lauridsen, a bouncer at the Cave, and he told the paper that several members of the basketball team were outside the bar around closing time on…
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