Devour Bilet believes he has successfully deconstructed and then reconstructed the ultimate burger. Restaurant culture is littered with hyperbole — best cup of coffee in the world, hottest wings in the country, meanest hot-dog counterwomen in Chicago. Thus, it’s no surprise that Chef Maxime Bilet, co-author of Modernist Cuisine, believes he has designed “the ultimate burger.” They took it “layer…
Another local CD release is afoot! Kansas City’s Honeywagen releases a tribute album to Big Star titled Black and Gold tonight (December 8), at RecordBar. Support from the Panda Resistance and Elaine McMilian (and friends.) Doors open at 9 p.m. The show is 18-and-older and costs $7. Categories: Music Tags: Elaine McMilian, Honeywagen, the Panda Resistance
Ashford Stamper You can’t have a ball over the holidays without a ball … a cheese ball. Do you love cheese balls? More important, do you make cheese balls? If you answered both questions with a resounding yes, The Pitch has a special holiday contest for you. Want to know more? Read on. My mother didn’t think the winter holidays…
We knew Brandi Carlile could make the wind move with her vocal pipes. We knew she wrote masterful, soulful rock songs with a twangy twist. Generally, we knew she kicked ass. But we learned a few things when she played the Beaumont Monday night. Categories: Music Tags: brandi carlile
For the last four years White Rabbits have circumnavigated the globe opening in the shadows of Interpol, the Walkmen, Spoon, and Kaiser Chiefs, but last night, band leader Stephen Patterson said — a bit perversely — that it was their first time playing at a club in Kansas City, and they’re from Missouri. Patterson introduced the Kansas City native, bassist…
Chai Shai is producing samosas with big flavor inside a tiny Brookside kitchen. The Pitch was lucky to grab a seat in the cozy dining room, which is popular with nearby University of Missouri-Kansas City students. Photos by Angela C. Bond.
Owen Morris Perhaps we could just solve all this hate with a LaMar’s Cinnamon Twist. The closest I ever got to being a drummer was being a pseudo-roadie for a roommate in a band, but allow me to start beating the drums in this space. Let me say this as plainly as possible: Kansas City is not a culinary backwater….
If you missed President Barack Obama’s speech in Osawatomie, Kansas, yesterday, here’s your chance to catch it. I’ve yet to see it but will be watching the hourlong video at some point today. Obama does give shout-outs to former Gov. Kathleen Sebelius and KU basketball coach Bill Self. He also talks about his roots in Kansas. Categories: News, Politics Tags:…
Obama Foodarama Former Gov. Kathleen Sebelius and President Barack Obama stopped for ‘cue. It was the barbecue in Paola, Kansas, that had a turn in the spotlight Tuesday as President Barack Obama stopped at We B Smokin’ in the Miami County Airport (32580 Airport Road) after his speech at Osawatomie High School. He was accompanied by Health and Human Services…
The dudes in Capybara have made themselves scarce on local stages in 2011, instead hunkering down and recording their follow-up to 2009’s Try Brother. Dave Drusky, as the new record is called, is out in February. (That’s the cover, up above us there.) Sneak-peek it in the meantime by listening to the album’s opening track, “Late Night Bikes,” after the…
The Wip It’s like nature’s freezer. We always ask people what they’d want to be stuck with on a desert island. We never go the other way and ask what you would want to have with you if mounds of snow trapped you inside your truck. That said, this is not a post intended to make light of what was…
Watch live video from OccupyKC on Justin.tv After more than two months of peaceful, low-drama demonstrations and living at Penn Valley Park, a grand total of zero Occupy Kansas City protesters have been arrested. But when a group of the local occupiers took a bus trip to Washington, D.C., to meet with our elected officials, a man associated with the…
Come July, it’s all over. Next summer, the University of Missouri embraces its Southern roots and leaves the Big 12 to play ball with Alabama, Auburn and LSU. SEC Commissioner Mike Slive swooped in like Rhett Butler and wooed the Tigers, who apparently don’t mind letting go of 120 years of border warfare. While the final battles on the basketball…
Sad news for local folk fans: The Wilders announced yesterday on their website that they’re going on an “indefinite hiatus.” After 12 years of the Ike, Betse, Nate, and Phil show, we’re gonna take a well-deserved break. I believe the Funk & Wagnalls word for that is “hiatus”… basically a fancy way to say we don’t know what the future…
Andrew Bird: Very handsome man, I’ve always felt. The headline says it all. Friday, March 23, at the Uptown. Tickets on sale Saturday at 10 a.m. Music and comedy. There should be more tours like this. Bird will release Break It Yourself, the follow-up to 2009’s Noble Beast, in early March 2012. Categories: Music Tags: Andrew Bird, andrew bird
Photo by Able Parris Occupation: Explorer/artist Hometown: The ’Dotte Current neighborhood: Hyde ParkWho or what is your sidekick? Jane. She’s the Internet in my pocket (Ender’s Game). Sometimes I question who is the real sidekick. What career would you choose in an alternate reality? Ayurvedic doctor/nutritionist Categories: News Tags: Etch A Sketch, John Lawrence Raux
Lunar Eclipse, Saturday, December 10, at 8:38a CST. Where are you being called to explore now? Sagittarius/Sagittarius Rising* (Nov 22-Dec 19): Taking a definitive stand on your personal beliefs is one thing we’ve come to depend on from you. It’s only when you allow your, shall I say, enthusiasms to get the best of your ability to assess the facts…
Like presidential hopeful Rick Santorum, the men in Muscle Worship have a bit of a Google problem. Search for either entity on the Web and you’re likely to be greeted with some gnarly, not-safe-for-work words and images. Unlike Santorum, though, Muscle Worship seems to enjoy the confusion that its name elicits. “I’ve always been a fan of the uncomfortableness of…
Mavis Staples is maybe the greatest singer of all time, and more than 60 years into her career, she remains a compelling, relevant figure in popular music. That’s a result of the power of her voice and the sheer force of her personality but also of her many productive collaborations: Bob Dylan, Prince, Curtis Mayfield, Ry Cooder and, most recently,…
Kansas City International Raceway sits empty under an exhaust-gray sky on a blustery late-November afternoon. No spectators fill the grandstands. A chain wraps around the entrance gate. Signs on chain-link fences implore fans not to bring glass bottles or alcohol onto the grounds. A stool is overturned in the tiny ticket-taker stand, and an empty ashtray sits on the desk….
Victor and Penny, Latenight Callers R Bar’s future is uncertain at the moment — the West Bottoms saloon and restaurant is for sale and now closed during the week — but the crowds still arrive Thursday-Saturday nights. So do the bands. This Friday, see two of the more drama-club-ish acts in town. The boy-girl duo Victor and Penny play adorkable…
If I had a buck for every time somebody told me about a great new restaurant concept that was going to set Kansas City dining on its ear, I’d have more than enough dough to open my own restaurant. Not that I’d ever indulge in that kind of madness. Besides, these great new ideas hardly ever get off the ground,…
