Facebook: Rye It’s not just folks in Leawood that are thinking about Rye, the new restaurant venture from Megan and Colby Garrelts. The duo behind Bluestem are revamping the former Lakeside Tavern space at 10551 Mission in Mission Farms for a fall opening, and Eater has named the restaurant in the works to its list of the ’33 Most Anticipated…
MLB Francoeur’s great popcorn heist. Somebody needs to get Kansas City Royal Jeff Francoeur a sandwich between innings. Francoeur wasn’t able to catch a foul ball that ended up a few rows back in Tuesday night’s game against the Chicago White Sox, but he did manage to snag something else: a bite of a fan’s popcorn (MLB has the video…
Let the light-blue confetti fly. Kansas City’s championship drought is over. Sporting KC defeated the Seattle Sounders last night at Livestrong Sporting Park to win the Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup. Tied 1-1 after two overtime periods, the game went to penalty kicks, and hearts stopped all over Kansas City. After Kei Kamara converted, Seattle made its next two shots…
The Power & Light District’s Summer Restaurant Week kicks off next Friday, August 17, and runs through Sunday, August 26. The event is similar to last year’s promotion with $10-$15 lunches and $25-$30 dinners at 13 restaurants. For lunch, I’d go for the cup of lobster bisque and a flatiron-steak salad at the Bristol (51 E. 14th St.). For dinner,…
The annual Pitch Music Showcase tore through Westport Saturday night, August 4. Click through for shots of the action. Photos by Brooke Vandever.
The annual Pitch Music Showcase tore through Westport Saturday night, August 4. Click through for shots of the action. Photos by Angela C. Bond
The new Poco’s arrives tomorrow. Chef Robert Irvine has likely yelled and quite possibly cried at Poco’s on the Boulevard in the past 48 hours. His crew for the television show, Restaurant Impossible (a mash-up of Extreme Home Makeover and Dinner: Impossible), has spent the beginning part of this week remaking the eatery at 3063 Southwest Boulevard . Poco’s has…
Angel Dillard will stand trial. Anti-abortion activist Angel Dillard will stand trial for allegedly sending threats to an abortion doctor, the Associated Press reports. Dillard had hoped for a bench trial rather than a jury trial, but U.S. District Judge J. Thomas Marten decided Tuesday that a jury could judge her fairly. The Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division is suing…
The banh mi at Kim Long market. The cuisines of Missouri and Kansas are being celebrated without a mention of barbecue, pork tenderloins or fried chicken. Either we’re making progress or somebody only had time for a few bites. Food Network has put together a list of 50 sandwiches to represent the 50 states. The Kansas entry is a banh…
Nick Gardner Karina Parreno (left) and Casey Conner are the duo of bakers behind Milk & Honey. A blood-curdling scream filled the kitchen at the Independence Regional Ennovation Center a few weeks ago. Karina Parreno and Casey Conner looked at each other. Neither had made a peep. “The kitchen is haunted,” Parreno says. “I don’t believe in paranormal activity, but…
Ashford Stamper Swoon can make just about anything into a sugar cookie. It took 200 snowmen to convince Lauren Wendlandt that she might be in the wrong business. She walked into her architecture studio in the last few days of 2010 and saw drafting tables and counters covered with piles of Frosty-inspired sugar cookies. The iced treats represented the first…
Photo by Sabrina Staires Name: Stephanie Ramos Occupation: News reporter for KMBC Channel 9, U.S. Army reserve captain Hometown: New York, New York Current neighborhood: Kansas City, Missouri Who or what is your sidekick? My son and husband and iPhone! What career would you choose in an alternate reality? Pop star. Yep! That’s right. Categories: News Tags: Kansas City, kansas…
Major Planetary Note (MPN): After four months in flexible and lighthearted Gemini (all decked out in yellow and olive), Venus moves into sea-green and blue Cancer (August 8 through September 6). Basic Meaning of MPN: I sometimes miss albums and their covers. Do you recall the cassette tape, more importantly, the “mixtape”? Hankering for some DIY (do it yourself) home…
A short profile of Hope Springs screenwriter Vanessa Taylor in this past Sunday’s New York Times posited that her and director David Frankel’s new film might join The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel among the year’s major events for moviegoers of the osteoporosis set. Well, maybe. Helping its chances: Meryl Streep and Tommy Lee Jones and Steve Carell on the marquee….
Ruby Sparks, a film about writer’s block, feels distressingly constipated. Based on an original script by its female lead, Zoe Kazan, this second feature from Little Miss Sunshine directors Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris follows a depressed writer who falls in love with one of his characters. He develops an attraction so strong that he wills her literally to life….
So there’s this couple. She’s an anxious and unproductive writer (or something — her days are unencumbered by routine or responsibility). He works hard (he’s laboring on a chicken cookbook and therefore never far from a poultry-filled skillet or stockpot or oven) but does this at home, the better to be near his wife. Their rambling home, with its dark…
By the previous standards of the Bourne franchise — which we all thought had concluded with 2007’s The Bourne Ultimatum — The Bourne Legacy is a decidedly B-team affair. Gone are star Matt Damon and director Paul Greengrass, replaced by new lead Jeremy Renner and director Tony Gilroy (who wrote the earlier films and has since become a successful director…
This year saw a handful of minor alterations — it was held on a Saturday rather than a Thursday; there were food trucks; the Union was added to the list of venues — but The Pitch Music Showcase of 2012 was essentially what it always is: a six-hour party celebrating the diversity of Kansas City’s local-music scene. Did you miss…
The Toadies, with Helmet and UME The Toadies were always wilder and more menacing than their 1990s alt-rock radio peers. (I’m pretty sure that the song “Tyler” from their debut LP, Rubberneck, is about raping a woman — a character sketch, one presumes.) Ultimately, though, the Fort Worth, Texas, act ended up following the same trajectory as so many other…
The Governor’s Room of the Westin Crown Center Hotel is a fancy name for a small, charmless cell on the building’s fifth floor. It’s the kind of space typically rented out for corporate breakfasts or all-day training seminars. But on this hot July afternoon, it holds three suburban teenagers: 12-year-old Christine, 16-year-old Courtney and 14-year-old Da’jha. They’re awkwardly imitating an…
Pat Murray, the owner of Murray’s Tables & Tap, says at least eight previous restaurant concepts have come and gone in the location where he opened his namesake restaurant and saloon two months ago. I can remember a couple of barbecue joints and a Mexican restaurant with delusions of grandeur in this spot on State Line Road, but everything else…
Scripps Media, Inc. Chris Hernandez After at least two decades as a broadcast news reporter — “More years than I’ll ever admit in print,” he says — Chris Hernandez completes his 8-year run as political and City Hall reporter for KSHB Channel 41 today by driving to St. Louis to cover tonight’s elections. He’ll return tomorrow, pack up things from…
