The most anticipated collaboration since Tech N9ne’s “F*ck Food” is out this week — Boulevard’s Collaboration No. 2 — a White IPA made with Deschutes Brewery hits shelves and taps across the city. Bottle sightings have already popped up on OnTapKC, but please feel free to leave comments on the number of bottles and price in the comments if you…
This is the last bit of MC Lars news for a good long while, we promise. Still, it bears mentioning that Lars Attacks! hit today because KC’s own Mac Lethal shares the album cut “The Giving Tree,” where he and Lars trade verses based on the Shel Silverstein children’s classic. Categories: Music Tags: mac lethal, MC Lars, streaming tracks
Want to own a piece of the Lyric Opera? Then you better get to the Lyric’s garage sale on Friday and Saturday at 11th Street and Central. The Lyric is cleaning out its closets after 41 years and selling off photos, costumes, piano vocal scores, props and more. The garage sale runs from 10:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Friday and…
Have you seen this guy? He’s accused of watching a woman shower in the locker room of the Matt Ross Community Center on Monday morning. Overland Park police would like to have a few words with him. The woman told police that the guy took off after she yelled at him. At least the creeper had the decency to leave….
Lemonade is like the liquid equivalent of barbecue — everyone’s got an opinion about how to make it, and your opinion, if it differs, is most likely wrong. But we may be able to strike a peace accord with a heavy glass bottle of Shatto Lemonade. The Osborn, Missouri, dairy has been making juices and teas — lemonade, sweetened tea,…
Over the weekend, The New York Times did an interesting profile of Mila Means, the Kansas doctor who wants to provide abortions in Wichita. She’s also the doctor who received this warning from an anti-abortion activist: “You will be checking under your car everyday-because maybe today is the day someone places an explosive under it.” The Times story gives a…
Hey, did you hear? The Koch brothers aren’t very fond of Democrats and progressive causes. Breaking news, truly. Apparently Sen. Patty Murray, chairwoman of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, didn’t get the message. But she no doubt knows the Kochs’ political leanings now. Murray attempted to hit up the Wichita-based Koch Industries for cash to elect Democrats in the 2012…
Remember the tornado that blew through Joplin, Missouri, and almost destroyed the entire city? Kind of hard to forget. There have been plenty of area benefit shows including local musicians to help raise funds and collect food and clothing for the victims. This week, two more are on the horizon, so if you haven’t attended an event yet or want…
Waxy O’Shea’s Irish Pub & Restaurant (11900 Shawnee Mission Parkway) in Shawnee has closed just a week shy of its second anniversary. The Kansas City Star reported that it was a victim of the economy, although the pub’s sister restaurant in Branson will remain open. The Shawnee pub, named after the Irish nickname for a candle maker, opened in 2009…
Photographer Sabrina Staires stopped by the first annual Westport Food Truck Festival this past weekend. Were you there? Did you graze upon salted meats? Categories: Music Tags: westport food truck festival
We’re a little more than halfway through the culinary calendar, and it’s time to look back at what’s been popular so far in 2011. In many ways, this year has been a continuation of last year with bacon and cupcakes and, in some cases, bacon cupcakes continuing to overwhelm the metro area. Kansas City has also seen an explosion of…
A former police officer in Sugar Creek who alleges that he was fired after he arrested a prominent business owner won’t be able to tell his story to a jury. Jim Brooks filed a wrongful termination lawsuit against the city of Sugar Creek in 2008. Citing the doctrine of sovereign immunity, the city said the suit should be dismissed. The…
Most KC head-nod rap hovers around 90 beats per minute. The production on The Fountain of Youth, the just-released album from the rapper who bills himself as thePhantom*, bucks that trend. “I figured if I could blend dance with rap, I could be onto something fresh,” Kemet Coleman (the man behind the mask) tells The Pitch. “I think what I’m…
Even people locked in a persistent vegetative state know that late in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, the teenage wizard absorbs a lethal spell cast by evil Lord Voldemort. At that point in J.K. Rowling’s seventh and final Potter novel, the Boy Who Didn’t Die encounters his late mentor, Albus Dumbledore, who offers a warm and tidy explanation of…
If you’ve spent time haunting Broadway-corridor dives like the News Room and Fitz’s Blarney Stone, there’s a good chance you’ve run across Billy Beale playing a gig. The 58-year-old has pierced ears and a white pompadour that he tends to cover up with a fedora. He favors a loosely buttoned shirt with a pack of Lucky Strikes in the chest…
One recent Tuesday, a physician named K. Allen Greiner paid a house call. Greiner has known the patient for eight or 10 years, but the home visit was a first. The two had met at a clinic in Kansas City, Kansas, where Greiner was working as a volunteer. The patient came in with an infection. He had recently been released…
Free Energy, with Fall Down Running and Delicate Steve If bands like Cheap Trick, Thin Lizzy and T. Rex caught wind of what Free Energy was up to, they might start lawyering up. With its fat ’70s power-chord crunches, thumping bass lines, sing-along choruses, and twin guitar solos, this Philly crew is unsubtle in its affinity for classic rock. But…
Not a lot of restaurants in Kansas City are true survivors. The Savoy Grill, which celebrates its 108th birthday this year, is the only local fancy dining room to have lasted a century. The other old-timers on the list — the downtown locations of Town Topic, Hayes Hamburgers, Kitty’s Café, Cascone’s Grill — are mostly diners of a certain age…
The good folks of Clayton, Missouri, made this video compilation of celebratory reactions to the U.S. women’s soccer team beating Brazil behind Abby Wambach’s “Equalizer” and Ali Krieger’s penalty kick winner. Some are clearly faked, but the Clayton celebration looks genuine (it’s at the 2:50 mark of the video above). The original video, shot at Barristers Pub, is after the…
The team that created 119th Street Diner in Olathe — Doug Price, Scott Buescher and chef Pat Legler — is branching out into territory already established by the Mixx and Ingredient: a fast-casual venue serving fresh salads, sandwiches, daily pasta specials and soups. The new restaurant, called the Fresh Mix Grill, is scheduled to open at 133rd Street and State…
Did Sporting Kansas City fans stuff the Major League Soccer all-star ballot? OK, that sounds like an unlikely conspiracy. But consider 24-year-old defender Matt Besler’s election to the MLS all-star team. The league announced yesterday that Besler had received a full 30 percent of the votes texted by fans. Besler, who is in his third MLS season, raked in almost…
