Jardine’s is hiring, but it has a big public relations problem now. (Via Pitch food blog Fat City): There isn’t much that Fat City can add to all the media drama stirred up after Beena Rajah, the owner of Jardine’s restaurant and jazz club, impulsively fired every member of her venue’s staff last week. All kinds of accusations are flying…
Jardine’s is hiring, but it has a big public-relations problem right now. There isn’t much that Fat City can add to all the media drama stirred up after Beena Rajah, the owner of Jardine’s restaurant and jazz club, impulsively fired every member of her venue’s staff last week. All kinds of accusations are flying about Ms. Raja’s management style every…
Mizzou might be gone, but the Big 12 is staying in Kansas City. Finally, we have definitive word that Kansas Citians won’t be losing the Big 12 men’s basketball tournament. The conference wrapped up its annual meeting Tuesday in New York and announced that the championship is staying here through 2014 as scheduled. “Kansas City has a rich college basketball…
County Beverage and its Bud delivery drivers have struck a deal. Budweiser fans, rejoice. Teamsters Local 838, which delivers Budweiser products for County Beverage, Missouri’s second-largest Bud bottler, has ended its strike against the Lee’s Summit company. The labor dispute began November 17, after the union’s contract with the bottler expired. Truck drivers had requested a small raise for some…
Tonight: 311, the Naked and Famous, Surfer Blood, Soft Reeds, DJ Soulman at the MidlandWhite Rabbits at RecordBarThe Cave Girls, Bad Ideas, B.O.D. at Davey’s Uptown Categories: Music
Gage Skidmore Newt Gingrich doesn’t want to be part of Missouri’s “beauty pageant.” Newt Gingrich doesn’t think much of the Missouri GOP primary. So he’s kept his name off the ballot. Gingrich has been surging in Republican polls lately, so many pundits were befuddled when his name was left off the ballot. Don’t worry, Gingrich now says, he intentionally stayed…
J Neil Jednoralski is not happy that he won’t be allowed to arrest the president. J Neil Jednoralski is not welcome at President Barack Obama’s speech at Osawatomie High School today. The Salina man took to Facebook recently to announce that he was planning on arresting the president during his Kansas appearance. KSAL 1150 reports that Jednoralski believes that Obama…
Photo by Scott Olsen Will Albert Pujols turn his back on the Cards? Will Albert Pujols be taking his talents to South Beach? Yes, I realize you’re going to be seeing 100,038 versions of that lede. Ugh. Anyway, the Miami Marlins have offered Pujols a 10-year contract, according to ESPN the Magazine’s Buster Olney. How much money is on the…
POTUS is on his way. President Barack Obama will be making a stop in Kansas this afternoon. Obama will be speaking about the economy and the middle class at Osawatomie High School. Why? I’m not sure anyone knows. It’s not like he’s going to turn Kansas blue. The last president to speak in Osawatomie was Theodore Roosevelt in 1910, The…
Facebook: Marble Top Cafe The Marble Top Cafe is now open. Kansas City has got its yummy back. Chef Yahia “Yummy” Kamal opened the Marble Top Cafe last week at 8435 Ward Parkway in a space previously occupied by a Quizno’s. Categories: Dining, Food & Drink
Christian Academy kids better get comfortable with grammar. Students at Summit Christian Academy in Lee’s Summit better wean themselves off text lingo and the annoying habit of typing in all lowercase letters and invest in a copy of The Elements of Style. A harsh new homework policy at the private school mandates that papers with more than five grammatical errors…
Serious Eats In-N-Out’s one-day menu in Shanghai, China. I’m not encouraging trademark violation, but let’s just say for a minute that we’ve got an enterprising young man by the name of Mr. In. And Mr. In just so happens to be good friends with another Kansas City resident, Mr. Out. Well the two get together and, seeing how many burger…
Taste Food Blog Is this the winter of our content? It’s quaint how the rest of the country is catching up to the meatball craze. In Kansas City, we’ve got a meatball truck (The Magical Meatball Tour), a whole host of meatball grinders (Grinders and Cascone’s having champions around the city) and one meatball that should be an eating challenge…
Erin Archer The Pitch last checked in with the experimental music of H Stewart in the summer of 2009, after her album Letters to Kansas City, was released. Since then, she has put out Dora Elizabeth on Moving Furniture Records and, most recently, the EP Parker Square, out now via Withering Trees, an Internet-based label out of Germany. Stewart recently…
This dining room is, reportedly, getting a makeover all right. A big one. The only restaurant story-of-the-moment getting more buzz than the tale of Jardine’s owner Beena Rajah firing her entire staff last week? The rumor that Sharp’s 63rd Street Grill — the inexplicably popular diner in Brookside — was under contract to be purchased by a well-known local restaurateur….
Tonight: Florence + the Machine, Two Door Cinema Club, Cowboy Indian Bear at the Midland. Brandi Carlile, Secret Sisters at the Beaumont ClubCherokee Rock Rifle (video shoot), Supermassive Black Holes, the Delighted at the Riot RoomUncouth, Continental at Davey’s Uptown Categories: Music
Mizzou will play its final Big 12 game in Shreveport. If Mizzou really thinks it’s ready for the big time by joining the SEC, they might want to devote some time to meditating over bowl game announcements that came out yesterday. While two of the Tigers’ new SEC competitors — Louisiana State and Alabama — will play for the BCS…
Via Pipeline Publicity Wilco invaded Kansas City a little bit this weekend. Guitarist Pat Sansone was hanging out at Harry’s in Westport on Friday night. On Friday afternoon, somebody sent me a photo of Jeff Tweedy eating alone at the Chipotle on Main by the Plaza Library. His left cheek was puffed out, full of burrito, and he was frowning…
Well, hot damn. Cowboy Indian Bear’s Daytrotter session is finally out. Over the weekend, the four-track session went live. Take a gander at the short write-up and be sure to listen to the session here. Congrats, guys (and lady)! Categories: Music Tags: cowboy indian bear, Daytrotter
Facebook: Murray’s The scoops have gone into hibernation at Murray’s. Murray’s Homemade Ice Cream closed down for the season last night. And so now, we must face winter’s shadow without warm cookies (or a homemade ice-cream-and-cookie sandwich). But take heart, ice-cream lovers, Murray’s will reopen March 14, just as it has done each spring since opening in 1984. Categories: Dining,…
International Styles One day these numbers might stand for genomes. It’s a little bit of CSI meets CSA, but in the future, you could be picking your ground beef based on its genes. The Lawrence-Journal World has the story of Lawrence-based IdentiGEN, a company that has figured out how to use DNA to allow restaurants and food processors (and theoretically…
