As you can see, we’re a day late on the Westport sinkhole at 43rd and Roanoke. This makes me so very sad. But we’ll always have these memories, thanks to KCTV5, of a car taking a dip. I’m not shocked by this and neither should anyone who has driven Kansas City’s streets. The only shocking thing to me is that…
You probably thought you left behind the evil genius at the soda fountain when you turned 12 and recognized that though it was fun to push the dispenser, your drink tasted awful. Now 7-Eleven is aiming to rekindle that poor-decision-making part of your adolescent brain. The dual-chambered Slurpee will be unveiled in June with a cup that is capable of…
In this week’s Pitch, Charles Ferruzza loses the silverware and digs into a buffet of authentic Ethiopian dishes with delicious options for meat and veggie munchers. Go easy on the Ethiopian honey wine as you read Charles’ review and feast on these photos by Chris Mullins. Categories: Dining, Food & Drink
Well, this sounds rad: On Miles Davis’ birthday, May 26, Diverse’s Hermon Mehari — who’s been an integral part of lots of awesome jazz and hip-hop tributes in this city in the last year, including the 18th and Vine tribute to A Tribe Called Quest — is putting together a jazz show devoted to the legend. Here’s what the preview…
Hmm. We noticed that concrete seems to be replacing the infamous wood chips at Crossroads KC behind Grinders at 18th and Oak. Could the Crossroads’ outdoor venue be undergoing a bit of a face-lift? Categories: Music Tags: crossroads kc, Grinder’s, grinders, woodchips
In an unprecedented Broadway event, the rock musical Memphis — winner of the 2010 Tony Awards for Best Musical, Best Book, Best Score and Best Orchestration — is hitting some area movie theaters for four showings only. Audiences will be watching a Broadway production onscreen while it’s still playing in New York City. The story of a white country boy…
The Owen/Cox Dance Group, the city’s best modern dance company, and NewEar Contemporary Chamber Ensemble, the 2011 Pitch MasterMind winner for Performance, mix hues in Chromatic Collaboration. With pieces such as “Garden of Love” by Jacob TV (written for sax and boombox), “Shadowing” by Hyekyung Lee (who will be in attendance), and “Worker’s Union” by Louis Andriessen, audiences are in…
Sunny, shady, wet and dry: Front and backyards come in all types. It’s a tossup as to what the weather will be like this summer, so think about sowing the dirt with what originally bloomed here: native Missouri plants and grasses. The City Market (Fifth Street and Walnut, 816-842-1271) has wildflowers — milkweed, blazing star, pale purple and yellow coneflowers…
Inspired by the Cringe Night series founded in Brooklyn, “Dear Diary…” is a night devoted to the mortifying moments of adolescence—a live reading of real diary entries by local writers and performers. Each show features four to six readers who bring their bad teenage poetry, self-indulgent manifestos, inane ramblings and tales of awkward, unrequited love to the stage for a…
The performance includes 16 dancers aged 5-17 who bring to life this classic story by Margery Williams. Join the soft, lonely rabbit as he meets the wise Skin Horse and the other toys and falls in love with the girl who plays with him, and in the end, enables him become a real rabbit. Sat., April 30, 10:30 a.m. &…
Open your eyes and look within. Are you satisfied with the life you’re livin’? Would a Friday-night reggae fix make things better? Of course, it would. So it’s fortunate that Patrick Brown and his Kansas City Reggae Uprising Fridays are in the house. Specifically, Brown’s event is on the patio at Californos (4124 Pennsylvania, 816-531-7878). Featuring one band and one…
If you eat food, you’ve probably noticed that staples such as milk, bread and produce have become more expensive at the grocery store. According to conservative economists and exorcists, the twin causes of price inflation are Jimmy Carter and Satan. However, even as grocery prices increase, the costs of highly processed, carb-intensive fast-food items have been relatively stable. This seeming…
Details of the royal wedding are on the down-low. We do know, however, that Kate’s dress will be designed by Sophie Cranston of Libélula, and guests are not encouraged to throw confetti at the pair as they descend from the altar of Westminster Abbey. Everyone is invited to watch the ceremony when Prince William of Wales and the luckiest commoner…
Details of the royal wedding are on the down-low. We do know, however, that Kate’s dress will be designed by Sophie Cranston of Libélula, and guests are not encouraged to throw confetti at the pair as they descend from the altar of Westminster Abbey. Everyone is invited to watch the ceremony when Prince William of Wales and the luckiest commoner…
As much as we love the prevailing American Idol singing style, whereby performers attempt to hit eight or 10 notes where only one is needed — and we really do love it, especially when the singer points to each note as it’s sung — there was an era, fondly remembered by parents and grandparents, in which pop singers weren’t so…
GaDuGi is the name of a safe center in Lawrence for rape and sexual-assault victims. Established in 1972, GaDuGi — Cherokee for “working together in a community sense” — was the first to be founded in Kansas and aims to give referrals, assistance, supportive listening and limited counseling. Help GaDuGi stay strong by attending Catwalk for a Cause, a benefit…
The phrase “culinary center” typically evokes images of chefs in crisp, snow-white jackets and rakish, soufflélike toques, manning stations in a kitchen that gleams like a surgical theater. That act may play daily at Le Cordon Bleu, but in barbecue-obsessed KC, we sometimes get our uniforms dirty. No apron is safe when the Culinary Center of Kansas City (7920 Santa…
For the last two decades, Azteca de Greater Kansas City has hosted a popular Cinco de Mayo celebration, but this year it’s holding its two-day fair — complete with live music, food vendors, a kids’ carnival, folk dancing, and Avon beauty demonstrations — the weekend before May 5 so that the event won’t compete with the Guadalupe Center’s festival on…
In her later years, Elizabeth Taylor became better known as tabloid fodder than as the greatest star of her generation. Her seven husbands, eight marriages, weight problems, addictions and rehab, health issues, and line of perfumes came to garner the most attention. But so did her humanitarianism, including her tireless efforts on behalf of HIV/AIDS research. It’s almost hard to…
Lovingly grown and gently transported, farmers’ wares at local markets are often organic and sustainable. Farmers markets throughout the city are open, so seek out produce bazaars for fresh fruits, veggies and other good-for-you products. Spring vegetables — lettuces, spinach, asparagus and snow peas — as well as annual and perennial plants are in the parking lot of the Waldo…
Lovingly grown and gently transported, farmers’ wares at local markets are often organic and sustainable. Farmers markets throughout the city are open, so seek out produce bazaars for fresh fruits, veggies and other good-for-you products. This midtown market runs from 4:30 to 7:30 p.m. on the northwest corner of Westport Road and Wyoming (1550 Westport Road). It has grass-fed beef,…
May open are the operative words here. No firm funding is currently in place for Jonathan Justus — the talented chef-owner of the Justus Drugstore restaurant in Smithville — to follow his vision and open a new restaurant in historic Film Row. Justus says a Kansas City-based management team is working with him to find investors for a casual-dining spot,…
Perhaps we shouldn’t be surprised that it has come to this. After the Supreme Court ruled that the hate-filled Westboro Baptist Church clique has the right to protest at funerals, the folks in Rankin County, Mississippi, took justice into their own hands. Rather than abide by the court’s ruling and make a local ordinance requiring protesters to stay a minimum…
