Archives: September 2012
Pj Ruth on this Saturday’s MOSH Pit show
MOSH Pit (Money for Organizations Saving Helpless Pits) has booked some impressive local talent for the group’s Fall for a Pit Benefit at the Riot Room this Saturday, September 29. See Red Kate, the Lucky Graves, Hipshot Killer, the Medicine Theory, Knifecrime, and the Bad Ideas, and help out local pit rescue groups for $10. We recently chatted up Pj…
Kansas City is America’s best tailgate city, says Food & Wine
Home of the best tailgating anywhere, according to Food & Wine. If we can all take a breather from griping about the Chiefs’ play for a moment, there’s high praise regarding the team from Food & Wine magazine. Well, high praise for the parking lots outside of Arrowhead anyway. The foodie mag has declared Kansas City to be the best…
Ikea’s store in Merriam by the numbers
Facebook: Ikea USA The Great Wall of Merriam is no longer the biggest tourist attraction. Ikea made it official yesterday with its press conference announcing a fall 2014 opening for a new store in Merriam, Kansas. The Swedish furniture retailer is purchasing the scuttled Merriam Village development from Developers Diversified Realty. The strip mall will be razed and a new…
Five bars where you should be watching sports
Facebook: Mac’s Sports Pub The chicken wings at Mac’s Sports Pub pair nicely with football. Sports are best served in high definition with cold beer and hot wings. I could even live without wings if the other two arms of the triumvirate are done right. After the jump, Fat City has put together a list of the five sports bars…
Sporting KC’s Kei Kamara opens up in Grantland piece
Twitter: keikamara Kamara (right) and Jimmy Nielsen have found a home with Sporting. The crowd at Livestrong Sporting Park is used to following striker Kei Kamara’s head — he has a knack for putting it on the ball. But getting inside his head is another matter entirely. ESPN’s Grantland has posted the first of a two-part interview with Kamara (the…
Ciderfest and other weekend possibilities
Facebook: Louisburg Cider Mill Cider doughnuts are the best part of fall. When the leaves begin to turn, your brain just knows that it’s time to drink apple cider. And the local capital of the apple-cider universe is Louisburg, Kansas. Head out for the Louisburg Cider Mill’s Ciderfest September 29 and 30 or October 6 and 7 for hot and…
Shabby Hattie’s closes in Parkville and other sad tales
After nearly three years of serving tea, cookies and scones, and tasteful lunches at Shabby Hattie’s Tea Room & Boutique in Parkville, owner Marcia Cherrito decided that the tea party was over. She closed the tearoom after serving her last scone last Saturday. “Maybe Parkville wasn’t the right place for what I was trying to do,” says Cherrito, who tried…
Opening next week: Eye Candy Store & Vintage Market
Toni Hicks will manage Eye Candy & Vintage Market when it opens next week. In the meantime, she’s painting the logo. It’s been over a decade since the Bitterman family had a retail candy outlet in Kansas City. Next Thursday, October 4, the Bittermans will open the doors to Eye Candy Store & Vintage Market, a combination candy shop and…
Timothy Riley shot and killed at 41st and South Benton on Wednesday
Timothy Riley is KCMO’s latest homicide victim. The victim of Wednesday’s homicide at 41st and South Benton has been identified as 38-year-old Timothy Riley. Riley was shot around 1 p.m. Officers found him lying in the street. He was taken to a local hospital but died around 5 p.m. Witnesses told police that Riley was fighting with a black man…
Standees, a restaurant and movie concept, coming to Prairie Village
The Village Shopping Center is getting a theater attached to a restaurant. The days of movie theaters just selling you popcorn are mostly long gone, but a new Kansas City company is hoping to marry fine dining and the cinema experience. Standees, an eat-and-watch concept from Dineplex is taking over the former Macy’s Home Store space at 3935 West 69th…
Trust Women Foundation bought former Tiller clinic to reopen it
Tiller’s clinic will reopen. The abortion clinic formerly operated by the late Dr. George Tiller will reopen as a women’s and children’s health clinic where a Wichita nonprofit intends to offer abortion services. The Associated Press reports that the Trust Women Foundation Inc. purchased the shuttered clinic last month. Executive Director Julia Burkhart explained that the new clinic will not…
Approach releases new album, Continue Reading, featuring Milwaukee’s J.Todd
When we last caught up with Sean Hunt, aka Approach, in May, his label, Datura, was celebrating its 10th anniversary. Hunt mentioned at the time that there were a couple of projects he’d been sitting on for a while that he was excited about and was just waiting for the right moment to release (the guy always has so many…
Ikea looking to open a store in Merriam in 2014
Facebook: Ikea Swedish meatballs, anybody? Get your allen wrenches out of storage, Ikea is coming to Merriam, Kansas. The Swedish furniture retailer is holding a press conference this morning at 10:30 to announce its plans for its first proposed Kansas City-area store that would open in the fall of 2014. The store and development (the retailer’s first in Kansas) would…
Where to get free coffee for National Coffee Day
Flickr: Sean_Oliver Cup up. Whether you choose to celebrate National Coffee Day, National Coffee Day believes in you. And between now and the actual holiday, Saturday, September 29, you can get a serious caffeine buzz without taking out your billfold. Parisi Cafe in Union Station is offering a free cup of coffee tomorrow from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. They…
KCPD’s ShotSpotter system goes live this weekend
Police aren’t defining the 3.55 mile area within the system. The KCPD announced Wednesday that the its new ShotSpotter Flex gunfire recognition system will go live this weekend or by Monday at the latest. The system built by SST Systems features noise collectors that triangulate the location of fired shots and will cover 3.55 square miles of the city. The…
There’s a big vinyl sale at RecordBar this Saturday
Mark Prellberg and Tom Sorrells (of ye olde Titan Records) are holding their semiannual vinyl blowout sale this weekend. But instead of hosting it at a garage in Waldo, it has moved to RecordBar. It goes down Saturday, September 29, from noon until 5 p.m. There will be more than 10,000 records, spanning every conceivable genre, at this thing. See…
What’s the finest drink to recently cross your lips?
Flickr: erix! Empty glasses are like unfulfilled dreams. In a bid to hold on to summer, I’ve had a rotating cup of Toddy coffee in my car’s cup holder for the last three days — the finest one coming courtesy of the Broadway Cafe. That puppy needs no milk or sugar, just a Gooey Pumpkin Butter Bar as an accoutrement….
John Couture is busy crafting Bier Station
Couture is full steam ahead with Bier Station. John Couture walks through the door of the Waldo coffeehouse One More Cup, taking a break from gathering neighborhood signatures for Bier Station. His new tavern and bottle shop, at 120 East Gregory, is slated to open in December. “Nice T-shirt,” says Stacy Neff, the coffee shop’s co-owner, from behind the counter….
The Kansas City Star’s former Chiefs beat reporter Kent Babb recalls “Arrowhead Anxiety” as he leaves for Washington, D.C.
Babb’s leaving for Washington D.C. this week. The Kansas City Chiefs didn’t help Kent Babb pack, but the team’s general manager, Scott Pioli, probably popped a champagne cork at 1 Arrowhead Drive when he heard that Babb was moving. The Kansas City Star sports columnist and former Chiefs beat writer recently accepted a position as a sports-enterprise reporter with The…
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