Buildings with names like El Ranchero Discount Liquor, La Fe En Jesucristo, and El Pollo Guasave bracket Central Avenue in Kansas City, Kansas. Family Dollar and Boost Mobile are here, but these days, there’s hardly a Kowalcyzk’s Sausage Shop or a Bobak’s Europa Deli to be found. No matter: Last Saturday afternoon, the street swelled with the dizzy rattle of…
Winner, winner, free dinner — for Front Flip users, anyway. The Kansas City-based marketing company launched its free app in November 2011 and by year’s end had expanded to include hundreds of businesses in more than a dozen cities. (Locally, restaurants such as Tannin Wine Bar, LaMar’s Donuts and Minsky’s Pizza are among those playing the game.) This spring, national…
It’s been almost five years since the Polyphonic Spree’s last album, 2007’s The Fragile Army, and bandleader Tim DeLaughter has no plans to release another one anytime soon. Moving forward, DeLaughter is gearing up his efforts — which include not only the Polyphonic Spree but also the acts on his label, Good Records — around singles. According to the label’s…
Tennis, with Vacationer Hoo boy, it was easy to hate that Tennis debut before hearing so much as a note of it. The Denver duo’s buzz-generating backstory — cute couple buy a sailboat; travel up and down the Eastern Seaboard; write songs together; get married; then release an album called, oh my God, Cape Dory — makes me want to…
Well, this is new: A Republican politician in Missouri is openly gay. Reflect on that fact for a moment because, as with a lot of things in the Missouri Statehouse, it won’t be true for long. His name is Zachary Wyatt. He’s a 27-year-old representative from Green Castle, in northern Missouri. When the session and his term end May 18,…
Restaurants, like any other kind of show business, must play to their audiences. But that’s an art unto itself. Just ask Brian Miller. The dashing general manager of the four-month-old Chiusano’s Brick Oven Pizzeria looks like a theatrical leading man because he is one. The star of several past shows at American Heartland Theatre and New Theatre Restaurant, Miller is…
When George Matthew Myers had his home built, at the corner of Armour and Holmes, it was the only structure around for blocks. That’s the story told by 1905 photos of the property, kept in the Ryerson & Burnham Archives of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Designed by legendary KC architects Shepard and Farrar, 633 East Armour…
Chiusano’s brick oven pizza and a rotating cast of specials are bringing families to the former Ted’s Montana Grill space in the Legends. Photos by Angela C. Bond
Marshall Matlock AMC is apparently on the block. Wanda Group, the Chinese equivalent of AMC Entertainment, is believed to be in talks to acquire the chain of North American theaters headquartered in Kansas City, Missouri. The New York Times reports that negotiations became serious when AMC apparently decided to forgo an initial public offering at the end of April. AMC…
Indiana’s New Old Cavalry played the Riot Room last night, and they’re in Lawrence at the Bottleneck tonight, May 8, with the Fall Down Drunks. The band’s high-octane bluegrass might be just the thing to help work out any lingering hangover you might have from this weekend’s drinking. Check out the title track to their Carry Me Out This Way…
Drywell Art The watermelon has just started to be sweet, and spring is officially in swing. But put away the Country Time, we’re grown-ups now and ready for some real lemonade. Beer Kitchen makes its rosemary lemonade in-house. Panera, which opened last week in the former Beauty Express space in Brookside, has arguably the best lemonade of any chain. And…
The Royals have gotten off to their normally terrible start this season. And their record at home (2-13) is the worst in the majors. So, it would be hard to judge Royals fans like Book Guy (follow him on Twitter!) who find non-baseball ways to amuse themselves while at The K. During Sunday’s 10-4 thumping at the hands of the…
Facebook: Randy Santel The steak challenge at the Wedgwood Broiler. It can only be defeated by the Flintstones or Randy Santel. It was a record that stood for nearly five decades. A challenge that had never been beaten by the jaws of man. Then Randy Santel came to town. Seattlepi.com has the story of how the Kansas City eater (first…
Last weekend marked the opening of a new venue in Lawrence. The Dog Walk, a park across the street from the renovated Poehler Lofts, looks to be the new place to catch some bluegrass and country. Drakkar Sauna, Prairie Fire and Truckstop Honeymoon inaugurated the lot, playing from a flatbed stage Saturday afternoon. While checking it out, we snagged some…
Graham Elliot didn’t storm the stage. Andrew Zimmern still believes that chef Colby Garrelts is overdue. And at the end of the night in New York City, Garrelts was once again going home without a James Beard award. The Kansas City chef, who owns and operates Bluestem with wife, Megan Garrelts (the restaurant’s pastry chef), has been a finalist in…
Brooke Vandever Liberty Hall turns 100 years old this June, which is pretty incredible. To celebrate the past century, the Lawrence venue has invited the Flaming Lips to come perform for two nights: Thursday, June 21, and Friday, June 22. Super rad! Fuck yeah! Tickets on sale this Saturday, May 12, at noon. Categories: Music Tags: flaming lips, Liberty Hall
The inaugural Cinco de Mayo Chihuahua Parade tried to break a world record but ended up raising $2,500 for the Pet Connection, a local no-kill shelter. Approximately 500 dogs met up at Nica’s 320 on Southwest Boulevard at noon Saturday, May 5, and The Pitch found some perros magnificos out in full costume celebrating the humidity and the holiday. Photos…
Facebook: Pet Connection Just give the dogs a well-deserved rest. A costumed chihuahua parade on Cinco de Mayo is ridiculous – you’ll get no argument here on that point. It is also harmless and requires a bit of stripping away the detached shell of angry sarcasm that blights the Internet. It was a dog parade, people. And so, waking up…
The Perfectly Happy Man Leinenkugel has figured out how to get gum in a bottle. At first, I got a hint of Bubble Tape. Then just a smidge of Bubble Gum flouride. The finish was pure Hubba Bubba. I felt good about my decision to head to the first beer stand I saw upon entering Livestrong Sporting Park on Saturday…
Is it wrong to describe the new video for Ghosty’s “This Wolf” as simply lovely? Such prettiness is to be expected from the trio, but this Jon Allen-directed bit of animation really takes the cake. The song is from the band’s third self-titled album, which is out now. Categories: Music Tags: Ghosty
Tyler Florence won’t let America’s children go pancake-less. In the past year, we’ve been treated to chefs’ takes on pancakes for children, life on a food truck, and what happens on a line. Even One Direction has taken time out from styling their hairto contribute recipes to a cookbook (albeit for charity). Watching someone write could even be the next…
