The Royals aren’t worth all that much. The Royals had a blistering spring training, which might give some fans hope that this is the year they break through and, at the very least, top the .500 mark. The team’s promising youthful core, though, isn’t doing much to goose the team’s value. In its annual list of what Major League Baseball…
Did you know Vampire Weekend went to an Ivy League school? In addition to burning a bunch of Saabs for the sake of a music video, Vampire Weekend has rescheduled its May performance at the Midland. The new one is a ways down the road: Tuesday, October 8. Categories: Music Tags: vampire weekend
Perhaps the Easter Bunny will leave a 22 in your basket. Most breweries now employ an “Enjoy By” date on a bottle rather than an expiration date. But Stone Brewing Co. has flipped that idea on its head with a new release, the Enjoy By 04.20.13 IPA. The California brewer has created a hop-heavy ale with 11 different hops added…
It’s cheap to live near the K. You might have a valid complaint about beer prices at Kauffman Stadium, but when it comes to housing prices around the ballpark, you’re looking at a bargain. Trulia chief economist Jed Kolko reports that Kansas City has the country’s cheapest housing in the neighborhood around its baseball stadium. Categories: News Tags: atlanta braves,…
Facebook: KC Food Circle Meet your neighborhood growers. The Kansas City Food Circle’s 15th annual exhibition of farmers, the Eat Local & Organic Expo, is set for Saturday, March 30, at the Shawnee Civic Center (13817 Johnson Drive, in Shawnee) from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. On the following Saturday, the expo shifts to the Penn Valley Community College Gym…
A gas station seems like an odd place to dump eyeballs. The Kansas City Police Department is investigating a pair of eyeballs that were found in a box in the trash of a Conoco station at Northwest 112th Street and North Ambassador Drive in the Northland. The peepers were in a cardboard box labeled “Keep refrigerated” when they were discovered…
Ben Palosaari Not all grinders are created equally. Sandwiched between a construction project and the Freight House, it’s easy to walk past Twenty20 (2020 Baltimore) and not know what you’re missing. But the steady stream of regulars who live and work in the Crossroads is a good hint. This catering operation that also serves lunch is worth the effort of…
Brooke Vandever Mario Fantasma is saving the small-town butcher. The subject of this week’s cover story, Paradise Locker Meats in Trimble, Missouri, is at the center of the rebirth of the local butcher. The Pitch accompanied chefs from both coasts and the staff of Heritage Foods USA, which takes weekly mail orders for the Heritage pigs that Paradise Locker slaughters…
Yup, this site exists. I am not fun to eat with. I’m a fine conversationalist. I like a lot of different cuisines. And I’ll gladly let you have a bite off my plate. But I’m still not fun to eat with. And that’s because, if we’re sitting together, there’s going to come a moment after the food arrives that I…
Nobody has lukewarm opinions about Israeli defense policies. Which means there’s plenty of potential audience for Dror Moreh’s Oscar-nominated The Gatekeepers, which assembles all surviving heads of the Shin Bet (Israeli Secret Service) and gets down and dirty about social and territorial policy. The result is historic and unprecedented, a film both matter-of-fact and willing to ask incredibly difficult questions…
Bella Swan, Lois Lane and Peggy Olson are doing housework together, catching up. (Mary Jane Watson couldn’t make it, but we’ll meet her again soon.) One scrubs the kitchen floor. Another washes dishes. All three compare notes on blow-job technique and necessity. Good fellatio, they agree, is the best prescription to ward off the domestic evil that men do. The…
Ann Murguia Executive director of the Argentine Neighborhood Development Association (ANDA) 3rd District commissioner for the Unified Government of Wyandotte County and Kansas City, Kansas The Kansas City, Kansas, Public Library’s sleek, modern South Branch is a rare bit of new civic development in a neighborhood that’s pocked with blight and vacant businesses. So it’s easy to see why Ann…
Chad Kassem doesn’t like compact discs. He never has — not now, not back when manufacturers started churning them out in the 1980s. There are CDs in his office at Acoustic Sounds, the Salina-based music empire that he runs. But he listens to those only to decide whether his company will rerelease a better-quality vinyl version of the music contained…
Sonic Spectrum Tribute to Pink Floyd Don’t hold your breath at this tribute show for the Pink Floyd songs you hear on KCFX 101.1 (the Fox). Given the lineup — psychedelic electronica act Monta At Odds performs, as does a group of thrown-together local players (Kent Burnham, Lori DeManche, Jeff Harshbarger, Mark Lowrey, Chris Meck and Cody Wyoming) calling itself…
“I never thought we’d be selling chefs fat,” Mario Fantasma says. In the off-white trailer that serves as his office, he glances at a framed photo of Mario Batali in which the celebrity chef is embracing Fantasma. “Hams, sausages, rib racks, Boston butts, sure. But fat, lardo, they just can’t get enough of the stuff.” Fat — more specifically, fatty…
Painter John James Audubon, who frequently described his meals in his journals, was once so poor that he ate only apples and bread. (For protein there was, according to one source, the occasional “cold raccoon for breakfast.”) The sculptor Louise Nevelson reportedly found sustenance in her struggling years by eating onions and drinking whiskey, when she was financially unable to…
Until you read their titles, you might mistake the claw-shaped chandeliers, studded with old-fashioned Christmas lights, for alien helmets or some device ready to take over your mind. But go ahead, step under them. Dylan Mortimer’s “Motion-Sensor Halo (with Rays)” lights up, producing a twinkly aura that surrounds you with light. Anyone looking at you can see you glow, as…
Paradise Locker Meats in Trimble, Missouri, is at the center of the rebirth of the local butcher. The Pitch accompanied chefs from both coasts and the staff of Heritage Foods USA, which takes weekly mail-orders for the Heritage pigs that Paradise Locker slaughters and process, on a tour of the Missouri butcher at the end of March 2013. Open since…
Cafe Sebastienne showcases the talent of chef Jennifer Maloney. The sunlit dining room inside the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art has lunch service during the week and adds dinner on the weekends. Photos by Angela C. Bond.
Megan Dejmal In print this week, I wrote about Acoustic Sounds, Chad Kassem’s vinyl empire in Salina, Kansas. The company retails records online; records artists; reissues classic albums; and now plates and presses records at a subsidiary, Quality Record Pressings. It’s a pretty amazing operation they’ve got going there; click through to this slideshow for a photo tour of the…
Alonzo Ruff (left) and Anthony Williams (right) have been charged with second-degree murder in the death of University of Missouri-Kansas City student Aaron Makarian. Ruff, 20, and Williams, 21, are also charged with first-degree robbery, three counts of first-degree assault and five counts of armed criminal action. Kansas City police were called to a four-person shooting at 4904 Brookside Boulevard…
CES dudes Ubiquitous and Godemis. Constant Energy Struggles, the hotly anticipated new LP from KC rhyme assassins CES Cru, dropped yesterday on iTunes and in stores that have actual walls, like Best Buy and FYE. It’s the first album from the duo since landing at their new home at Tech N9ne’s Strange Music label. Categories: Music Tags: CES Cru, strange…
Joseph Fulgenzi, left, got in hot water when his “party lifestyle” affected his ability to pay his taxes. Over a year ago, local real-estate agent Joseph Fulgenzi and his partner, Robert McCain, announced that they were interested in purchasing the shuttered jazz club, Jardine’s, on the Country Club Plaza. After discussing their proposed purchase of the venue with Fat City…
Is Missouri the next Colorado? Show-Me Cannabis Regulation, a Missouri-based marijuana-legalization advocacy group, released a poll this week that showed half of Missourians support legalization of marijuana. A year ago, The Pitch wrote about Show-Me Cannabis Regulation’s attempt to get a measure on the statewide ballot. The poll asked voters if they would support legalization using nearly the same wording…
