Three days of interviews with chef James Landis of Blue Grotto creates craving for a piece of pizza. He recommends the Guanciale. “It’s basically a bacon and jalapeno pizza,” Landis says. “But it’s not spicy to where it’s stupid. I don’t want to start crying. I’m not doing a tough-man competition when I’m eating.” Today, he talks about the key…
%{}% It’s time to find your beer for the summer. Parkville’s eighth annual Microbrew Fest is 1-5 p.m. Saturday in English Landing Park. There’s a solid mix of regional craft brewers that will be attending. Stone Brewing Co., which just began distributing in Missouri last week; Little Apple Brewing and High Noon Saloon and Brewery from Kansas; 75th Street, Schlafly…
The Kansas City Chiefs needed another wide receiver to pair with Dwayne Bowe, and they got one Thursday night. The Chiefs selected Jonathan Baldwin out of Pittsburgh with the 26th pick. The Chiefs swapped first-round picks with Cleveland and will get a third-round pick from the Browns as part of the deal. Baldwin comes with “character issues.” He was charged…
Don’t let this show’s name fool you: the Crossroads’ Spring Dance has nothing in common with the hormone-addled formal you attended in high school. This jam features three of Kansas City’s best-known dance bands. Hearts of Darkness brings progressive Afrobeat tunes, Making Movies supplies foot-tapping Latin rock, and the Good Foot serenades the crowd with soul-swinging classics. In short, groove-inducing…
Nothing bolsters an artist’s popularity like a smidgen of controversy. In 2000, John Vanderslice released a moody rock number called “Bill Gates Must Die” on his debut solo album, Mass Suicide Occult Figurines. Rather than letting this faux death threat fade into obscurity, however, Vanderslice orchestrated a hoax that included an angered Microsoft threatening legal action over the song. (In…
Tickets are still available for the 10th annual Village Crawfish Festival, a fundraising event hosted by the Secret Order of Crawdaddies. Last year’s event attracted 650 hungry people and raised more than $18,000 for Head Start of Shawnee Mission. This year, Head Start and Kansas City Young Audiences will be the beneficiaries of the Cajun-spiced soiree. And if you don’t…
I felt that it was only fitting — in honor of the royal wedding tomorrow morning — to finally get over to the downtown Marriott Hotel and taste the featured dessert at Lilly’s Restaurant: a slice of cake prepared from the recipe used to create Princess Diana’s wedding cake (or one of them, anyway — there were several) in 1981….
St. Jo’s Little Kato (or Chris Dube, as it says on his birth certificate) has been to the top of the wrestling world. At the height of his career as a midget wrestler with the WWE, he performed before thousands of people in Madison Square Garden. Kato didn’t stay with the company long. In this week’s feature (“Little Bastard”), Kato…
Theresa Reed’s son is charged with first-degree murder in the death of Ryder Spillman, whose body was found Sunday outside an elementary school in Kansas City, Kansas. Theresa Reed told KSHB Channel 41 that her son, Stephen Reed, told her that the killing “was an accident,” and he “feels sorry for the Spillman family.” I doubt that will be of…
Chef James Landis talked to Fat City yesterday about the subtle changes at Blue Grotto since he started there last February. Today, he shares his love for his favorite food: sweetbreads. And tomorrow he’ll explain the key to making a proper pizza. What are your culinary inspirations? When I’m thinking of new menu items, I first start with the season….
John O’Leary is going to want to think up a good lie for why he’s in federal prison. His new roommates aren’t likely to buddy up to him if he tells them that he offered to pay children in his neighborhood $40 to model thong underwear and pose with their shirts off. O’Leary admitted today in his guilty plea that…
It’s not unusual for actors and actresses in Kansas City to pick up side gigs: bartending, modeling, voice-over work, vocal lessons, selling Avon products and so on. One of the city’s best leading men has had a successful sideline business — cleaning homes — for years. Theater work can be sporadic, you know? This weekend, actor-singer Seth Golay and his…
Spoiler alert: You’ll probably get drunk and lost at some point at Kanrocksas. After all, the speedway is gigantic — at the press conference, we were told that one could drop Kauffman and Arrowhead inside the speedway’s confines without touching the edges — so rest assured that there will be enough space for all this music. Categories: Music Tags: kanrocksas
Lawrence punk-rock band Mouthbreathers has been blowing up the East Coast media. No, it didn’t make The New York Times, but it was recently featured on Brooklyn’s Impose Magazine website, and just a couple of days ago, Washington, D.C.’s alt-weekly, Washington City Paper, jumped on the Mouthbreathers’ bandwagon, highlighting the group’s nod to the golden days of D.C.’s harDCore scene. …
The Wu Tang Clan wasn’t nothing to drink with … until now. Ghostface Killah is being honored with an unofficial tribute in beer form . Twisted Pine Brewing Company has created a “Ghost Faced Killah” brew, “a six peppered beer dry hopped with Ghost Peppers, the hottest peppers in the world.” The brewery based in Boulder, Colorado, was unable to…
Missouri Attorney General Chris Koster is pissed off at Sony for failing to warn nerds (like me) about the PlayStation Network getting hacked into over the weekend. Sony did take its precious time telling the network’s users that hackers may have stolen their personal info and possibly more. On April 19, Sony knew that hackers had breached the PlayStation Network’s…
Are you in the market for a badass El Camino? Do you have “a decent motor home RV”? If the answers to these questions are yes, then do we have the Craigslist ad for you. Someone in North Kansas City wants to swap for this El Camino. “just seeing what’s out there,” the ad says. “open to anything just ask….
The Wu Tang Clan wasn’t nothing to drink with … until now. Ghostface Killah is being honored with an unofficial tribute in beer form . Twisted Pine Brewing Company has created a “Ghost Faced Killah” brew, “a six peppered beer dry hopped with Ghost Peppers, the hottest peppers in the world.” The brewery based in Boulder, Colorado, was unable to…
Authorities have called Letti Strait and another man “persons of interest” in the homicide of Strait’s ex-husband, Charles Cammisano. No charges have been filed in Cammisano’s September 2007 slaying. However, a Platte County jury convicted the 50-year-old Strait of tax evasion for falsely claiming her children as dependents after the children had been removed from her home and placed in…
Ah, synergy. The fourth episode of the third season of Top Chef Masters brought together those who can’t eat anything with those who can cook anything. Yes, The Biggest Loser contestants were in the house, and the cheftestants were tasked with making a severely reduced calorie version of their favorite foods. But would two of the two most successful shows…
The NFL Draft starts tonight and will last for what will seem like 40 nights. The Kansas City Chiefs are throwing a Draft Day Party at the North Club at Arrowhead Stadium. You won’t get to hang with any current players, but the Chiefs are promising appearances by former Chiefs players as well as Chiefs chairman Clark Hunt and general…
Wearing 4-inch heels and a bell-bottomed suit that could have belonged to Dakota Fanning’s costume rack from The Runaways, Joan Wasser and her band, Joan As Police Woman, launched into its first number at RecordBar last night without a word of introduction. It was one of those nights at RecordBar when you could hear the clinks of glasses and the…
Modern pop, indie and rock music can easily be tweaked and changed into swinging jazz ballads. Sure, it was cheesy when Paul Anka recorded (and sold?) his 2005 album, Rock Swings, which contained a jazz rendition of Nirvana’s “Smells Like Teen Spirit.” But while you were cringing as the song’s “dulcet” tones flowed into your ears, you probably chuckled at…
