La Russa’s back in KC. Tony La Russa didn’t always receive the warmest welcome in Kansas City, but that was when he was the manager of the St. Louis Cardinals (which was usually busy drubbing the hometown team). Now out of uniform, but back to talk baseball, it’s an entirely different ballgame. La Russa is set to discuss his newest…
These buff-colored bricks are what’s left of the dome on the old Rockhill Theater. When the bulldozers finally razed the sleazy porno shop — formerly the Rockhill Theater — at 46th and Troost, more than a decade ago, one portion of the building was left standing: a two-story buff-brick tower from the original entrance area. This piece of the 1923…
Flickr: Fired Up Missouri Orly Taitz really does not want Obama on the ballot. Earlier this week, the Kansas State Objections Board (well, Secretary of State Kris Kobach was the only member to actually show up) decided that President Barack Obama would appear on the ballot in the state in November. Manhattan resident Joe Montgomery had complained to the board…
Missouri Sen. Claire McCaskill faced off with Republican challenger Rep. Todd Akin and Libertarian candidate Jonathan Dine in their first debate this morning in Columbia. It was the first time that McCaskill had spoken directly to Akin since his “legitimate rape” debacle began to dominate the campaign in August. And the showdown was surprisingly civil. McCaskill was by far the…
Magic Hat We should always decide contests with beer. Just as it takes courage to come into Kansas City and open a barbecue joint, Magic Hat deserves a bit of credit for trying to sell a wheat beer in Boulevard’s backyard. But the Vermont brewer has never shied away from taking chances. Its signature beer has strong apricot notes (apricot…
Flickr: Rochelle, Just Rochelle It’s that time of year again. If you feel that your beer-drinking arm is out of practice, you can start with the Power & Light District’s 2012 Oktoberfest Brew Tour Saturday from 1 to 4 p.m. Six of the bars and restaurants will be offering Oktoberfest beers and small-plate pairings — be sure to stop by…
Facebook: Smith Electric Vehicles Smith won’t be joining Coca-Cola on the stock exchange floor. Smith Electric Vehicles was scheduled to price out its initial public offering last night. Instead, the Kansas City-based manufacturer announced plans to withdraw its IPO and pursue private financing. “We were unable to complete a transaction at a valuation or size that would be in the…
Kansas City Renegades owner Jeremy Ploeger reveals the team’s logo. Kansas City won’t be without an arena football team for long. After the Kansas City Command announced that it folded four weeks ago, it looked like the sport might be doomed locally. It was the second time since 2009 that the local Arena Football League closed shop. But Jeremy Ploeger,…
Joye The dreaded request: “May we talk to the manager, please?” Robin Abrahams, who writes the “Miss Conduct” column for The Boston Globe, had an interesting dilemma to solve recently. In her September 16 column, she took on the following letter: My husband and I recently ate at a well-known restaurant in Waltham. I brought my leftovers home and found…
It’s a sausage fest at Haus. What could be the very best hot-dog shop in Kansas City only serves sausages. The closest that Haus (3044 Gillham Road), which opened earlier this summer in Martini Corner, comes to a hot dog is a bratwurst, but the spirit is there. The ratio of pretzel bun to sausage is right, no utensils are…
A prep-school version of Mac Lethal was the surprise of last night’s X Factor — the singing talent show that stopped at the Sprint Center this June in an attempt to suss out Kansas City’s hidden musical gems. Rizzloe Jones, the towheaded rapper who unbuttons just enough of his polo shirt to be edgy, freestyled his way into the next…
Anheuser-Busch It’s beer and a geography lesson. Craft-beer freaks always talk about that moment when they got their friend to switch over from Miller, Coors or Budweiser. Well, those who drink the big boys might just be switching the tables in the coming months. Anheuser-Busch InBev, with its Project 12 initiative (fairly ominous title, guys), is looking for a way…
Neal Patterson cracked the Forbes 400 this year. On Wednesday Forbes released its annual list ranking the 400 wealthiest Americans. And, surprising no one who read our recent Answering Machine theme issue, Garmin co-founder Min Kao was the top Kansas City metro resident on the list with an estimated net worth of $2.2 billion, good for No. 218. The rest…
Michael Gullet is now charged with attacking a homeless man with an ax. A dark update to one of our stories published this morning: Last week, The Pitch visited a homeless camp along the Missouri River near East Front Street and North Kansas Avenue where Joe Loehr was found dead on September 8. A person of interest in Loehr’s killing,…
Not all women were offended by Rep. Todd Akin’s infamous “legitimate rape” comments in August. After claiming on a St. Louis television program that women who were the victims of “legitimate rape” could miraculously prevent themselves from becoming pregnant, Akin lost nearly all financial support from Republican PACs. Since then, Akin has become bent on nickel-and-diming his way back into…
Oh man, have you heard this new Aerosmith song, “Legendary Child”? They basically dig up hooks and fills from five or six old Aerosmith hits and build a terrible Frankenstein song out of them. It’s like a song equivalent of one of those Scary Movie or Not Another Teen Movie spoofs, except it’s actually just the new Aerosmith song, from…
Flickr: Stepheye It’s the adult Alpha Bits. The Goonies had the wet cave and tunnels beneath the old wishing well. Your time, bean freaks, is now. Kansas City is in the midst of Specialty Coffee Week. One More Cup has a midweek mingle today from 4:30 to 6 p.m. with free samples of Toddy coffee, root beer chai, and other…
Marv’s Original Delicatessen is hoping to evoke the feel of a classic deli in a modern Leawood space. Photos by Angela C. Bond.
Estate-sale junkies and amateur genealogists gathered in Union Station this past January to find out if the treasured items in their collection had actual historical and monetary value. National Geographic was filming an episode of America’s Lost Treasures, a new show that combines Antiques Road Show with American Pickers, in search of “lost” American artifacts. The entire episode is now…
