When Frank Sebree, the owner of the Majestic Restaurant — that historic and haunted steakhouse at 931 Broadway — was looking for a new associate chef for his jazz club/restaurant, he was surprised to receive a resume from a chef best known for cooking at the organic, all-natural Blue Bird Bistro. Chef Liz Huffman will join Sebree’s culinary team in…
Pepper Rabbit with the Caves and Minden Monday, April 18, 2011 The Riot Room Last night was the start of a seven-day stretch filled to the brim with anticipated live shows from great, nationally touring bands. So it seems only fitting that I had to choose L.A.’s up-and-coming folk-pop trio Pepper Rabbit and the side project from Crystal Castle’s Cameron…
Sandwich company Quiznos recently launched a new ad campaign featuring four very bizarre characters employing various techniques for devouring the new Chicken Bacon Dipper sandwich — that’s a sandwich, with chicken and bacon (and some sandwich-style veggies), that you dip into a cup of cheese sauce. There’s a yoga instructor who eats it with her feet, the old lady in…
Living well might be the best revenge, but making fun of your former employer onstage is pretty decent revenge, too. Shaun Broyls, former KCTV Channel 5 anchor and reporter, whom The Pitch named 2008’s best TV personality, says he’s going to do the latter on Thursday, when he performs stand-up at the Mission Theatre. “You can definitely expect a jab…
While actor Jason Mewes is best known for his role as Jay, the mouthy, filthy-minded sidekick to Silent Bob in many of director Kevin Smith’s movies, he has suffered his ups and downs, going through many bouts of rehab for various addictions to smack and pills. Over the past year, however, he has become a model citizen. In addition to…
With the economic climate the way it is (translated: It’s a hailstorm of flesh-rotting acid followed by a rain cloud filled with salt), now’s the perfect time for Missouri politicians to enact House Bill 61 and Senate Bill 110. Bills 61 and 110 would repeal the minimum wage cost-of-living increase, part of a law passed in 2006, and prohibit state…
Potheads, be careful as you celebrate 4/20. Kansas City police will be patrolling the roads looking for high drivers and handing out DUIs. April 20, or 4/20, is the pot smokers’ holiday. I just got a press release from the KCPD saying they’ll “saturate the roadways” looking for drivers who are high. More specifically, they’ll keep an eye out around…
%{}% It seems apropos that the tickets for Green Dirt Farm’s ‘Farm Table Dinner’ series will start being sold at 9 a.m. on Earth Day, which is this Friday, April 22. The Weston farm’s collection of sheep’s-milk cheeses are earthy and rich — the kind of cheese that makes you glad to live where we do on this planet. While…
Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback signed a bill yesterday that will require people registering to vote to present a birth certificate or passport to prove citizenship when registering to vote for the first time. MSNBC commentator Rachel Maddow said last night that Kansas has become the “gold standard in making it almost impossible to register to vote.” Maddow interviewed Kansas state…
Home brewing is often fairly serious business. I’ve plenty of friends who part with their handmade brew with the same gravity as the knight in Indiana Jones and The Last Crusade. Although based on the amount of effort that goes into each beer and the time that it took to become competent, I’m not blaming them for not always wanting…
It’s official: The car stolen the most by Missouri thieves is the Ford Taurus. Not that we didn’t already know of the Taurus’ lusty lure. In November, Kansas City police released a list of the 10 most stolen vehicles in Kansas City. The Taurus wasn’t tops, though. Leading the way: the Ford F-150. Police chalked up the thefts of those…
You’re going to have to make a choice as to whether you want your barbecue to be spicy or sweet. The best rubs likely incorporate a bit of each into a combination that has you getting a little something different with every bite. Several grill jockeys that I respect have tried to convince me of the merits of fruit-infused barbecue…
The dead man’s house was a museum. The house had stood for more than 100 years. If Yuri Ives had lived to have his way, it would have remained for at least 100 more. The Victorian, with room enough to shelter a dozen people, overflowed with antiques that Ives had spent much of his 48 years collecting. Clutter made it…
In 2006, Kansas City, Kansas, Community College Board of Trustees member Nancy Hernandez brought back the WYCO Ethnic Festival: A Human Family Reunion, which hadn’t been held for 30 years. Well, it’s back yet again. Learn about global culture from 11:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Saturday, April 23, at the KCKCC Field House (7250 State Avenue, 913-334-1100), when singers, dancers,…
It’s been a strange ride for scuzz-rockers the Black Lips. Over the past 12 years, the Atlanta quartet has been party to an assortment of wild behavior while routinely playing florid punk rock and going batshit at its live performances. While playing in the city of Chennai, in India, during a short tour of the country in 2009, the band…
It’s easy to imagine the Black Angels recording in a hot, windowless Texas basement in midsummer. The Austin band’s languid, throbbing garage-psych swelters, all claustrophobic, with wall-to-wall guitars that buzz and snake like severed high-tension power lines. The Velvet Underground inspired the Angels’ sound as well as the band’s name (“Black Angel’s Death Song”), but the gloomy narcotic hum that…
This band knows how to make an entrance. Former Interpol bassist Carlos Dengler, known to sport a gun holster under a slickly tailored suit, was the face of the fashion-forward quartet since Turn on the Bright Lights galloped out of the gates in 2002 with alarming success. Though he left the group in May of last year (taking his fascist-friendly…
Like snuggling up in your late grandmother’s sweater, there’s something both comforting and creepy about Freelance Whales. The outfit formed in 2008 through personal ads on Craigslist (creepy). The members soon cut their teeth playing on New York City streets and subway platforms before releasing a warm folk-pop record about childhood and dreams (comforting). Weathervanes, the band’s 2009 release, is…
It takes a long time to become an overnight sensation, they say. In the case of restaurateur Kelly Manning’s Tavern in the Village — a success since its February opening — you could say it’s a riches-to-riches story. But that would be leaving out a major part of the plot. Yes, Manning had a privileged youth in Mission Hills but…
Sergio Vega first encountered the Sacramento, California, metal band Deftones on the 1995 Warped Tour, when Vega’s old outfit, Quicksand, shared the bill. After that, in 1997, the darkly atmospheric Deftones took Quicksand on the road and, in 1999, first recruited Vega to fill in for bassist Chi Cheng for a month’s worth of dates. Since 2008, Vega has been…
