SSION was at RecordBar last night, as we noted in last week’s paper. Also yesterday: main dude Cody Critcheloe was interviewed in The New York Times’ T Magazine. He gives shout-outs to some KC people, places and things. Worth a read for sure! Here! Categories: Music Tags: ssion
Barnezy OK Joe’s has a line in every city. While Kansas City’s male population is healthier than men in only a handful of cities (91st out of 100 cites, according to the 2012 Men’s Health Best & Worst Cities for Men’s Health), it looks like we won’t have to worry about Tulsa, Oklahoma’s fitness level (93rd) anytime soon. That’s because…
Jason & the Scorchers, on a quick photo shoot at Olan Mills. In the first issue of this blessed new year: Jason & the Scorchers stage a comeback, Les Izmore enjoys Granny Smith-flavored things, and the Forecast. Read it and spread the good news. Categories: Music
BBQ Addicts We invented the Bacon Explosion. Is this really a shocker? Men’s Health believes that Kansas City lacks exactly that: men’s health. In its yearly dude-fitness survey — The Best & Worst Cities for Men’s Health — the lad mag slapped Kansas City as the 91st healthiest city out of 100 cities surveyed. In the past year, we’ve slipped…
The Kansas City Food Circle is highlighting area restaurants that have chosen to support local farmers and organic practices through a new Eat Local and Organic Dining Card that launched on January 1. The card entitles K.C. Food Circle members to a one-time, 10 percent discount at nine area restaurants. “This is a thank you to our eater members and…
Wallabies just can’t catch a break in the metro. It looks like Noah, the Platte City wallaby made famous during a Thanksgiving Day escape from his owner’s yard, might not be able to hop back home after all. The Platte City Public Safety Sub-Committee ruled this week that wallabies fall under the city’s definition of “exotic” animals, which are banned…
Tech N9ne and Twista are no strangers. Tech had Twista on his All 6’s & 7’s cut “Worldwide Choppers,” returning the favor after guesting on Twista’s “Problems,” from 2009’s Category F5. Now, Chicago rap blog Fake Shore Drive is reporting that the two Midwest giants are set to release a joint mixtape, Midwest Fury, later this year, which is pretty…
anth0nyc We’re all not always on our best behavior in restaurants. All chefs have a vision for what they’re serving you — an idea of what the food is meant to convey through the engagement of your senses. Some hope you’re respectful enough to recognize that a lot of thought went into a given dish; others know that you’re paying…
Up above, you’ll find Adam Lee & the Dead Horse Sound Co.’s new video for “Lonely, Broke, and Busted,” off last year’s When the Spirits Move Me. Put together by Jay Meyers, the live footage is from the Big C Jamboree in Chicago, with additional material shot on the back roads of Clinton, Missouri. Those of us jonesing for a…
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Heroin’s popularity is on the rise in KCMO. If you want to know what’s happening in Kansas City’s drug culture, just ask the narcs. The third-quarter report of the Kansas City Police Department’s Narcotics and Vice Division reads like a Zagat guide to what people around here are smoking, snorting and shooting. In 2011, more Kansas Citians were shooting heroin….
Fo Thai, a new Asian-fusion restaurant in Leawood, offers a dramatic interior ? and leisurely dining ? with its culturally diverse fare. Photos by Angela C. Bond.
KCMO had 114 homicide victims in 2011. Last week’s Pitch cover story looked at homicides in Kansas City, Missouri, across 2011. By the time the issue went to press, the statistics in the story were already outdated. Kevin Thomason, 37, became victim No. 114 around 11:30 p.m. Tuesday, December 27. Police officers found Thomason mortally wounded in a driveway at…
Facebook: Magical Meatball Tour Meatballs, meatless dishes and cocktails are in the works at Czar. Some of Kansas City’s kitchens, like some rock bands, have engendered unusual collaborations, leading to unexpected dining choices at bars around the city. One example: the short-lived but fondly remembered Broadway Crepes inside the now shuttered Gusto Lounge at 3810 Broadway. So it seems fitting…
The Big Biscuit. The Big Biscuit is getting bigger. Get ready to kiss your grits and butter your biscuits, Prairie Village. The Big Biscuit is coming. The Kansas City Star reported yesterday that the Big Biscuit Co. will be taking over the former Le Peep space at 5400 West 95th Street. Le Peep closed its doors after 15 months of…
It might be a little difficult for some to party so soon after New Year’s, but it’s never too early to start practicing for St. Patrick’s Day. If you’re a fan of Flogging Molly, the Pogues, Dropkick Murphys, et al., you’re certain to take a liking to Milwaukee’s Whiskey of the Damned. The quintet kicks out rock and roll with…
Flickr: yurilong I’d make the 1,700-mile trip to Maine for a lobster roll. The best road trip is always about food, whether it’s Corn Nuts or a hamburger shack that has the blessing of Guy Fieri or Jane & Michael Stern. And with the news breaking recently that chef Charlie Trotter will close his self-titled restaurant in August after 25…
Capricorn/Capricorn Rising* (Dec 21-Jan 19): Inspiration for you can sometimes feel like a part-time job. You have an uncanny ability to make your life more difficult than it has to be. 2012 will require a conscious choice of dissolution of your attachment to how you think about what you own. If you haven’t learned it already, everything works out in…
The Kansas City Chiefs’ 42nd season in the National Football League began with a lockout and ended with the team outside the playoffs. The season is mercifully over, and only one word properly describes the 2011 campaign: cursed. This season will be remembered for torn ACLs. (Chiefs players could probably get a bulk discount on the surgical procedures. At least…
Track No. 9 on the latest album from Les Izmore and D/Will is just the Drake radio hit “The Best I Ever Had” with verses added to it that transform it into an ode to Izmore’s best girl. “He always got a Granny Smith with him,” says D/Will, who produced the record, fittingly titled The Granny Smith Theorem. “During the…
Before there were Bottle Rockets and an Uncle Tupelo — let alone Mumfords and Avetts — there were the Scorchers. Going back to a moment in the 1980s when tastes of the typical underground music fan ran “anything but country,” Jason & the Scorchers were fomenting a cow-punk revolution on college radio alongside such acts as the Bad Livers and…
A self-effacing highlight rising above a rather dismal field of Oscar bait, Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy is an expertly mounted, exquisitely old-fashioned espionage thriller that capitalizes on two meanings of the word intelligence. Adapted from the 1974 novel by John le Carré — the first book in his trilogy centered on British spy George Smiley and his nemesis, the Soviet…
