You’re not afraid of ghosts? Prove it. The Belvoir Winery (1325 Odd Fellows Road, in Liberty) hosts the Paranormal Research Investigators on Saturday as they search and help guide participants through the possibly haunted winery. The event, from 8 p.m. to 2 a.m., costs $50. Call 816-200-1811 to reserve a spot. The event is offered monthly, and the next investigation…
Leavenworth native Jeff Johnson has an interesting claim to fame. His website, Draw Me In, documents his quest to become art. More specifically, he has become something that he might be the only one of — a comic-book extra. At current count, Johnson has appeared as an extra or background character in more than 30 different issues. Recently featured in…
Sabrina Staires Get a hot cinnamon roll — and a show — this weekend at the Neighborhood Cafe in Lee’s Summit. The home-style diner in downtown Lee’s Summit, the Neighborhood Cafe, is probably best-known for its cinnamon rolls and home-baked pies. For the next few evenings, it’s garnering a different kind of notoriety: as a dinner theater. A new community-theater…
The Terrace restaurant at the Crown Center Sheraton looks like it’s on life support. In the glory days of the midtown hotel formerly known as the Hyatt Regency Crown Center (it became a Sheraton property earlier this year), the venue operated three successful restaurants — actually four if you counted the sports bar, currently called Spectators. Two of the hotel’s…
The Million Dollar Quartet The story behind Million Dollar Quartet, onstage through Sunday at the Kauffman Center, is so unbelievably awesome that it’s hard to believe it’s actually true. On Tuesday, December 4, 1956, at the legendary Sun Studios in Memphis, Tennessee, Elvis Presley, Carl Perkins, Johnny Cash and Jerry Lee Lewis all coincidentally ended up in the studio at…
The Kansas City Bear Fighters Spring is the season when bluegrass and roots events flood local venues’ calendars. One such show is tonight (Thursday) at RecordBar. The Halfway to Winfield Stage 7 Reunion was set up by Eddie Crane of Loaded Goat, says Quinn McCue of the Kansas City Bear Fighters. “He put the show on to get people together…
Google Maps The future home of Messy’s Birds & Brews. Messy’s Birds & Brews will return. Co-owner Titus Bond (who owns and operates Messy’s with his brother, Nate) reached out to The Pitch yesterday and explained that while February 29 was the restaurant’s last day at 3605 Broadway, Messy’s will be reopening this summer at 3228 Troost. “Everything will stay…
Chef Bob Brassard talks to a student about using the grill. The four men in jackets look at the clock. They’re hungry. At this white-tablecloth-covered rectangular table in the otherwise empty modern dining room inside Broadmoor Bistro, they wonder how long they’ll have to wait. When the food starts to arrive, delivered by culinary instructor Justin Hoffman, the men take…
Pujols never stopped being from KC. When the Royals and Cardinals have gotten together on the field recently, the scoreboard has not always been kind to the hometown team. But off the field, Kansas City may have hit St. Louis where it hurts the most. First, it was a collision with Wilson Betemit that left star first baseman Albert Pujols…
Is a to-go cup of coffee part of your morning routine? When times are tough, financial advisers will often tell people to break up with their morning cup of coffee. The logic is that if you can just cut back and find your morning caffeine at home, you’ll save hundreds of dollars annually. That doesn’t account for the fact that…
© Luigi Novi / Wikimedia Commons Tim Sale We’ve got comics on the mind this week here at The Pitch. Comic artist Tim Sale’s first big work was inking the Myth Adventures comics for Phil Foglio. However, in the intervening decade, Sale has made the change from anonymous work to something with which people associate his name more readily: namely,…
%{}% I am a spiritual being having physical experiences. I am that I am. After all, it is spring. Persephone returns to her mother, Demeter. In the spirit (fire sign of Aries, the first of the spirit signs), the name of this column has been changed to Belief Is Not Required. Beliefs are subjective and conditioned by early childhood. How…
Dinners at the Broadmoor Bistro, which is open to the public on Wednesday nights, are prepared by the culinary students at the Broadmoor Technical Center. The menu in April and May will feature tapas-style small plates. Photos by Sabrina Staires.
Chef Matt Rock No, this isn’t Payton’s tattoo, but it’s from the same source material. Note: Recently, Pitch employee Payton Hatfield — an unabashed meat lover with a bacon tattoo — completed a culinary experiment: He became a vegan. For a month. This is his story, in his own words. My routine had been simple: Stay out late drinking whiskey…
Kansas City went green on Saturday, March 17, with the annual St. Patrick’s Day Parade in Westport. Photos by Angela C. Bond.
Pandolfi’s Deli in Columbus Park is offering a modern take on Italian classics, carving out its niche every Friday and Saturday night when it opens for dinner. Photos by Angela C. Bond.
The problem with trying to fly isn’t always about getting up and running; it’s that you’ve got to come back to earth some day. Messy’s Birds & Brews opened at 3605 Broadway in September 2009 and found a loyal following for the house-made sauces (creamy chipotle and Jamaican jerk were two of the specialties) and fried-to-order wings. The Bond brothers,…
Unk’s Burgers in Lee’s Summit is a family affair, operated by Jesse “Unk” Mack, left; his wife, Faye; their daughter, Jaye; sons Jesse, Junior and Justen; and nephew Tony Mack (top). Jesse Mack believes in the theory that if you build it — in this case, a fabulous cheeseburger — the people will come. It’s a theory that doesn’t always…
The future was promised in 1995’s The Net when Sandra Bullock managed to order a pizza without leaving her desktop. That’s right, she ordered a pizza delivery via the World Wide Web. The promise of that future now seems as likely as a software savant looking like Sandra Bullock. A few years ago, Papa John’s made noise by pushing online…
The outdoor concert venue in Bonner Springs was originally called Sandstone Amphitheater. It then became Verizon Wireless Amphitheater, a change which was all sorts of confusing because not only was it a name change but it also had the same name as an outdoor concert venue in St. Louis (which itself was formerly Riverport Amphitheater). Five years later, it became…
You can get Rush’s head on a stand, but not on a platter. Big-time advertisers are abandoning Rush Limbaugh’s nationally syndicated radio show. Cape Girardeau’s most egomaniacal native son has lost, by some counts, 140 sponsors — including TurboTax, ProFlowers and Geico — since calling a Georgetown University law student a “slut” and demanding that she post sex videos online….
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Name: Candace Evans Occupation: Pianist/vocalist, performing mostly jazz throughout the Midwest Hometown: Kansas City Current neighborhood: Overland Park Who or what is your sidekick? My 10-year-old daughter, Kristin, and my two rescue cats, Mitzi and Wolfie What career would you choose in an alternate reality? Horse trainer or ballerina. I grew up with horses and often dreamed of being a…
