The search for the center of the barbecue universe moved one step closer to being solved this week. The Kansas City Business Journal reports that the American Royal Association has acquired the assets to the National Barbecue Hall of Fame. While the assets currently consist only of the name and a website, the purchase suggests that the project could finally…
Theresa Spencer will be serving Filipino dishes at the Pinoy Cafe this spring. It’s been several years since Kansas City has had a Filipino restaurant. The most recent attempt was the La Filipina Cafe on North Oak Trafficway, which closed several years ago. But Theresa Spencer, the charismatic bar manager of the Uptown Arts Bar, is planning to change all…
Anybody who has looked at their water bill recently knows that it’s not cheap to keep the tap on at their house. Now imagine that you had more than 200 fountains in your backyard. Kansas City is both trapped and elevated by its reputation as the City of Fountains. It’s a point of pride that the city has been building…
Ocala Are oysters your dream date? An acquaintance once told me that he was an unabashed fan of professional wrestling, even at the ripe old age of 35 years old, because it was a clean vice. He didn’t hurt anybody by maintaining his disbelief, and it was a lot less expensive, and theoretically more healthy, than drinking beer or smoking….
KCPD Wylie Garner was shot to death Sunday night. Kansas City, Missouri’s 25th homicide victim of 2012 has been identified as 31 year-old Wylie Garner. Garner was fatally shot in a triple shooting at 57th and Mersington around 9:40 p.m. Sunday. Garner was found wounded in a yard; he was transported to a hospital where he was pronounced dead. Two…
Look familiar? The sign for the Detour Coffee Shop was formerly outside the President Hotel. The Englewood Theater – which turns 63 years old this summer – is probably the primary tourist draw for the hamlet of the same name. It would be nice if the old movie house was open again, but it’s been closed since the weather turned…
AP Remember the good times, Kansas State fans. The coaching carousel is reportedly hitting Manhattan: Frank Martin is reportedly leaving Kansas State to take the head coaching job at the University of South Carolina. The State, a South Carolina newspaper, is reporting that Martin could be named coach as early as Tuesday, and the university’s Board of Trustees has called…
Duke Machine Kansas smokers can’t go out and roll their own right now. In a move characterized as a fire-safety issue, the Kansas Department of Revenue shut down around 20 operations that offer the use of “roll your own cigarette” machines to customers, according to a KMBC Channel 9 news report. Among the stores shuttered were a pair of Lawrence…
It’s tough for a comedian to open up for a famous musician. The crowd isn’t paying to see you, and if you’re Eugene Mirman on tour with Andrew Bird, you’re going to be playing cavernous venues full of very mellow crowds. Categories: Music Tags: Andrew Bird, andrew bird, eugene mirman
Facebook: Bar Louie The pulled pork sandwich at Bar Louie. Great patios should never be left fallow. One of the finest in the Northland is once again in use with Bar Louie dishing up burgers and cocktails in Zona Rosa. The second area restaurant for the Texas-based chain opened at the end of February in the former O’Dowd’s Little Dublin…
Twitter: @foxyfalafel … when someone comes here from another city to buy their truck. Rest in peace, shiny silver food truck from the City of Fountains. May you find more hungry eaters as a mobile falafel kitchen in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Anybody recognize that truck? Categories: Dining, Food & Drink Tags: buying a food truck, food trucks, minneapolis
Nick Spacek The packed aisles This weekend’s Planet Comicon was the busiest I’ve seen it in years. There was a line out the door and all the way into the parking lot until almost noon on Saturday, and parking filled the lot, the garage, and spilled over into the Quintiles lot next door. With both Billy Dee Williams and Edward…
Woodsman, a Denver quartet, creates droning avant-garde jam rock that just aboutany experimental junky would find intoxicating. The band recently embarked on a spring tour, and is gracing KC with its presence this time around (the group played the Jackpot last summer). We recently spoke with Woodsman’s Trevor Peterson and asked him how the tour’s going, about the KC show’s…
Openwalls.com A cold frosty one can put a dent in your wallet. It was nearly a decade ago that I had a gaggle of friends who had never been to Kansas City and at Tomfooleries (this was a proximity decision, rather than a question of showing the best this city has to offer). As each of the non-natives came back…
John Darwin Kurc Reckless Kelly Another week of diverse show announcements: Crosby, Stills & Nash are at Starlight Theatre Thursday, August 9. Tickets on sale Friday, April 6. Kaskade will totally enthrall you with dance beats at the Uptown on July 18. Doors 6 p.m. All-ages. Reckless Kelly, will get all boot stomp-y at the Beaumont on Tuesday, June 12….
The Kinetiks’ live shows are infectious. Not, like, “Ugh, I’m infectious,” but infectiously dance-y! Sadly, though, it’s all over for the band after this Saturday. They’re calling it quits after almost seven years, on account of Spencer Goertz-Giffen’s upcoming move to California. We recently spoke with Goertz-Giffen and found out what’s planned for Saturday night’s farewell and how the band’s…
Filmmaker Gary Huggins is approaching the deadline for his Kickstarter campaign, set up to fund his latest film, Kick Me. The project is an action comedy that’s slated to start filming this summer in KC. Just over the halfway point of reaching his monetary goal, Huggins still needs about $34,000 in the next 10 days. Don’t worry — he has…
As the above documents say, Blue Springs Ford filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy this week. In the past six years, The Pitch has chronicled several jury awards against the car dealer for selling rebuilt wrecks while not disclosing the damage to buyers (read here, here and here). Among them, a 2010 civil trial ended with a Jackson County jury nailing…
The slots at the Argosy. The allure of the spinning wheel was apparently too much for one Kansas City, Kansas, mother to resist. KCTV Channel 5 reports that Katrina Denise Roades, 31, is accused of leaving her three children — ages 9, 8 and 6 months — in the car while she played slots for about an hour and a…
It may take awhile, but Jackson County workers are closing the wage gap on their Johnson County counterparts. A study conducted by the Business Journal’s On Numbers blog found that the wages of Jackson County employees grew by 2.86 percent to an average annual salary of $48,068 as opposed to Johnson County workers, who experienced annual wage growth of 2.75…
Angela C. Bond The tiramisu at Pandolfi’s Deli. The weekend dinner service at Pandolfi’s Deli is bringing folks to Columbus Park to dine, as Charles Ferruzza discovered in this week’s review. One of the menu standouts was the “vegetarian” carpaccio. Ferruzza wrote, “Tissue-thin slices of deep-purple beets, topped with a jumble of spicy fresh arugula and tarted up with bits…
