Archives: February 2012
Update: Overland Park’s Taste will become The Peanut
Owen Morris After three years, downtown Overland Park will be Taste-less. Yesterday, Fat City reported that chef-owner Jonathan Dallen’s three-year-old Taste restaurant would be closing after Friday night. Today, the current executive chef of the restaurant, Bobby Stearns, called us to say that soon (“Maybe as soon as next week,” Stearns says), the restaurant will become yet another location of…
Chef Ali Shirazi loves testing his limits daily at Original Juan
Chef Ali Shirazi loves his test kitchen. The concoctions arrive in jelly jars and glass bottles — barbecue sauces and brining mixtures that have been in the family for generations. The recipes are handwritten, typed or never put down to memory at all. Still, each comes with the same plea. You are the first to see this outside of the…
The Kansas City Royals are due for an all-timer
Royals It’d be nice to see the face behind the mask stay the same for a while. The Boston Red Sox are expected to lose another link to the 2004 World Series team tomorrow when catcher Jason Varitek announces his retirement. “Tek is somebody, I think, this organization is going to need forever,” slugger David Ortiz told ESPN. The same…
Google exec Eric Schmidt takes cheap shot at KCK (Update)
Update: Unified Government of Wyandotte County public information officer Edwin Birch contacted The Pitch late this afternoon to say CNET got it all wrong. Birch sent along the above clip (it isn’t publicly listed in YouTube searches) and described it the following way: “As you can see, he’s being completely earnest: He thinks people will want to move to Kansas…
The Martin City Brewing Company
The Martin City Brewing Company is going well beyond standard pub fare while the brewery component of its restaurant is still in development. Photos by Angela C. Bond.
Scenes from the Syria Freedom Rally in Kansas City (Slideshow)
Angela C. Bond A rally to call attention to the plight of the Syrian people and to protest the actions of President Bashar al-Assad’s regime was held Sunday, February 19, at 47th Street and J.C. Nichols Parkway on the Country Club Plaza. Click here or on the picture above to see the photos by Angela C. Bond. Categories: News Tags:…
Listen Before the Show: Rusko, tonight at Liberty Hall
Is this dubstep, or is this just dance music with a hot name thrown on it to make it sell? Either way, Rusko’s new album, Songs, due out March 27 on Mad Decent, is hyped to do pretty well. Catch a slew of those new tunes when he hits Liberty Hall tonight (Wednesday, February 29), as part of the tag…
No Liquor? No Problem. Order a Mocktail.
Jaimie Warren Fud’s Heidi VanPelt-Belle will make your liver happy. That first cocktail of the night is the best. Your senses are still collecting data, and your taste buds have yet to be muddled. That third cocktail, though? Boy, howdy. There you sit, piping blue slush down your gullet, ruining tomorrow in advance. Alcohol abstention is in your immediate future….
Oils, Fake Natives, CS Luxem celebrate the leap year tonight at the Replay
Chris Cunningham CS Luxem Oils, Fake Natives and CS Luxem will most likely present some interesting new music at the Replay tonight (9:30 p.m., cover at door). That hunch is fueled by these facts: Categories: Music Tags: cs luxem, Fake Natives, oils, Pizza Power, Whatever Forever
What have you eaten lately that’s been amazing?
This is beer that is truly cold. We’re on the cusp of spring, which means that a lot of restaurants are in the process of turning over the menu. A healthy part of the reason for Fat City’s existence is helping you determine what you should be eating right now in Kansas City. One idea? The BLVD Two Jokers Sorbet…
Mr. Ptacek Goes to Washington: KSHB’s Russ Ptacek lands his dream job — and it isn’t here
Photo by Brandon Vogts A year ago, a middle manager at KSHB Channel 41 was making reporter Russ Ptacek miserable. So Ptacek hired an agent to get himself out. The job offers didn’t come quickly, and the manager left KSHB. Meanwhile, Ptacek, Keith King and Ryan Kath molded themselves into Kansas City’s finest TV investigative team. But the agent eventually…
The Kansas City Cardiogram: A naked man and a meth lab, Shon Pernice’s confession and more
Categories: News Tags: fire fighters, Google TV, meth, Shon Pernice, Time Warner Cable
Checking the facts with True/False co-founder David Wilson
The streets of downtown Columbia, Missouri — the District, as the college town’s tourism agency would prefer that you call it — will teem with roving bodies this weekend, and not just with the usual blacked-out-drunk undergrads. The True/False Film Festival is celebrating its ninth year, and David Wilson (who co-founded the fest in 2004 with Paul Sturtz) is expecting…
A Separation
The first Iranian film to win an Academy Award — Best Foreign Language Film, in case you missed writer-director Asghar Farhadi’s stirring speech Sunday night — the domestic drama A Separation is a story of dilemmas within dilemmas, of moral, legal, cultural and religious quandaries that only spawn more quandaries. It will not spoil anything to tell you that A…
The Great Immensity at KC Rep takes on global warming
When I told a friend I was going to a play about climate change, his response was “ugh.” And I have to admit that I agreed: What a dispiriting topic — and what an undramatic one. I wondered how an issue so complicated and daunting could be made into theater — musical theater. Kansas City Repertory Theatre and theater group…
Molly Picture Club, Molly Picture Club
Molly Picture Club Molly Picture Club (Self-released) The full-length debut from this local trio is heavy on dark-wave electronica and shirt-sopping disco grooves — a little like Depeche Mode, the B-52s and LCD Soundsystem having a boozy threesome that produced a music baby. Across 13 tracks, the band hits varying degrees of danceability, with opener “Idears (You Don’t Dance Enough)”…
The high-flying Bill Goffrier
The Embarrassment, a group of Wichita smart alecks who tasted underground fame playing twitchy post-punk in the early 1980s, is correctly remembered as one of Kansas’ musical treasures. Many fans of the band followed vocalist and guitarist Bill Goffrier on to Big Dipper, the acclaimed, nervy guitar-pop act that he slid into in 1985 after moving to Boston. (For those…
Cursive gets heavy on I Am Gemini
Despite his brutally honest and intensely personal lyrics, Cursive’s Tim Kasher remains a rather enigmatic, private person. But he’s adjusting well to what you might call rock-star status, emerging from his self-imposed cocoon to become comfortable in the role of frontman. “Over the years, I’ve grown from not really caring about doing live performance all that much to liking it,”…
Samie Parker’s road back to the NFL starts where it began
Samie Parker slowly flexes his gloved hands. His shoulders rise beneath a white practice jersey as he takes a single deep breath 6 yards behind the line of scrimmage. When his right foot shoots forward, it’s clear that Parker still has the blazing speed that made him a fourth-round draft pick of the Kansas City Chiefs in 2004. He hits…
Music Forecast March 1-7
Drake My defiant position that Drake’s whiny rap-singing was a passing hip-hop fad to be ignored was dealt a crushing blow last year upon the release of his undeniably compelling second album, Take Care. I still don’t like the lazy timbre of his voice or all the complaint raps about the trappings of fame. But his capacity for thoughtful self-examination…
It’s the menu that’s brewing at Martin City Brewing Company
I had to see it to believe it. A friend of mine told me that she had been taken to a tiny saloon in Martin City where the wait for a table was an hour. “An hour?” I asked, shaking my head in disbelief. “Was the food worth waiting an hour to eat?” When I think of bar food, particularly…
Rex Hausmann brings his China connection to the Crossroads
Rex Hausmann wore a homemade panda costume and painted on the floor with water on a sponge-tipped brush during the opening night of his exhibition Universal Language. The suit, water bucket and brush now share space as the centerpiece to the photographs, paintings and sculptures that fill the center gallery inside Cara and Cabezas Contemporary. Hausmann, speaking by phone from…
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