Downtown Kansas City isn’t exactly a mecca for first-class hotel dining. (Some people cite the Savoy Grill as the exception to this sad rule; even when I do it, though, it’s largely out of habit.) But there’s reason for new hope. The Reserve, tucked into the refitted Ambassador Hotel (at 11th Street and Grand), marks a step up in class…
Soothing the burn of the relentless depression of this post-holiday-weekend workday is the arrival of a new EP from locals Sons of Great Dane. You Can’t Lose It All, All at Once (great title) is four up-tempo alt-country tracks with a little more ’90s alt-rock hooks in them than in the band’s previous output. I’m feelin’ it. It’s out as…
Goodbye, fried chicken. Hello, Steak DeBurgo… Believe me, there were no tears shed by me — no pun intended — when the mediocre chain restaurant the Machine Shed in Olathe (my 2002 review of that joint is here) closed four years ago. Since then, the building was razed so that the company that operates the Machine Shed restaurants, the Illinois-based…
Hair and Oates Last week, I was waiting around for a call from John Oates, one half of ’80s “rock and soul” duo Hall and Oates. (The two are at Starlight this Saturday, September 8.) When the phone rang, it was Daryl Hall on the other end. There’d been a miscommunication between me and the band’s publicists somewhere along the…
Wikipedia This is why casinos usually shuffle before they deal. A judge in a New Jersey court ruled Friday that the Golden Nugget in Atlantic City is obligated to pay out more than $1.5 million in winnings secured at a single table of mini-baccarat back in April. The Philadelphia Inquirer sat in on the hearing where it was revealed that…
Esquire published a list pairing beers with NFL teams and determined that your Kansas City Chiefs go best with Boulevard’s 80-Acre Hoppy Wheat. While I have to give some praise for being up on the latest releases from Boulevard, Hoppy Wheat is not the first liquor that comes to mind when I’m thinking of the Chiefs. I’m thinking copious amounts…
lookathin Apparently, Quinn hasn’t been reading the playbook this preseason. If you’re Brady Quinn, I guess you’re just glad they know your name. Yesterday, The Onion lampooned the Kansas City Chiefs backup quarterback in the following piece: Chiefs Realize Brady Quinn Received ‘Frog and Toad are Friends’ instead of Playbook. It’s worth the 90 seconds it will take you to…
Spotht Who are the contenders for your morning cup? It’s a good time to be a beanophile in Kansas City. There are small roasters and a plethora of coffee shops and a calvacade of restaurants that have gone from just having their own blend to taking the coffee as seriously as their wine menus. All of which means that your…
