Flickr: twothirstycats There’s a keg at the end of this hunt. Easter eggs are easy to miss in the spring greenery; 161-pound beer kegs are not. Go for broke in the name of the Resurrection when the skating women of the Dead Girl Derby roll out their Easter Keg Hunt. Teams of four begin at Loose Park (5200 Pennsylvania) near…
flickr/kiribabe Rozzelle Court was once the only art museum restaurant in the city. It now has competition. My review this week revisits Cafe Sebastienne, the sophisticated bistro inside the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art. It’s the only restaurant in a metro museum that offers full-service dining every day that it’s open. The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art’s celebrated Rozzelle Court offers…
A Cuban roast-pork sandwich is part of the multiethnic cuisine at Clark’s American Caribbean Restaurant. Seven months after announcing that Clark’s American Caribbean Restaurant was coming to the space at 3623 Broadway formerly occupied by Kabob King, New Cafe Tandoor and Chubby’s, the Clark family opened the doors to the restaurant March 17, two weeks after the restaurant had planned…
Facebook: Big Kansas City Get your tech fix for the next 48 hours. You probably got pretty adept at multitasking at work last week courtesy of the NCAA tournament. Put all that experience to good use this morning with the live stream of Big Kansas City. The three-day conference (last week’s cover story) that brings together techies and entrepreneurs is…
Opionionated About Dining Opinionated About Dining is serious about finding the top restaurant in America. The blog and book series started by Steve Plotnicki has produced an annual listing of the top 100 restaurants in the United States since 2008. The results for 2012, culled together from more than 100,000 reviews and 3,800 people, include a familiar spot to diners…
The Umpire’s Wrap is the right call at The 9th Inning. True sports fans understand two great truths about the NCAA men’s basketball tournament: It totally legitimizes day drinking, and you’re not doing it right if the beer isn’t accompanied by fried food or cheese. Fat City has bellied up to a couple of sports bars in search of the…
Jackson carries the flag. This happens all the time,” Aaron Jackson says as he looks through his living-room window. A gold Ford Explorer has pulled to the curb. It’s idling so that its driver and a passenger can peer at the Westboro Baptist Church, across the street. They take in the upside-down American flag, the various signs declaring the church’s…
Photo by Sabrina Staires Name: Tara Cooper Occupation: Opera singer Hometown: Kansas City, Missouri Current neighborhood: Olathe Who or what is your sidekick? My husband and our dog, Brynn What career would you choose in an alternate reality? Chef or marine biologist What was the last local restaurant you patronized? 23rd Street Brewery in Lawrence Where do you drink? I…
Touring Acoustic Sounds, the booming vinyl-recording operation in Salina, Kansas. Photography by Meg Dejmal.
Gee Watts It’s possible you’re unfamiliar with Kansas City rhymer Gee Watts. He has released some solid mixtapes and albums in recent years and delivered some blistering live performances, but has flown under the radar even within KC’s hip-hop scene. But Watts’ powder keg of potential looks like it might be set to erupt: He just released a song with…
On Monday afternoon, the University of Missouri-Kansas City announced that it had poached Louisville assistant basketball coach Kareem Richardson to be the head coach of the men’s team. Well, poached might be a strong word because Richardson has spent his career hopping around from job to job. Richardson’s travels have seen him help guide some fairly high-profile programs as well…
Last October, we wrote about Ross Brown’s various musical pursuits and his pretty-excellent solo album, Small Victories. Brown also fronts the local band Fullbloods, and last week they dropped onto the webs a four-song EP called Making Face. It mines some of the same screwball retro-surf sounds as Fullbloods’ debut, The Perpetual Machine, but also mixes in some nice cokey…
A couple of weeks ago, I was getting lunch at a local deli. I ordered what I always do – half a meatball sub and a salad – and I grabbed a bag of cracked-pepper-and-sea-salt potato chips. Dirty brand. Because I love that brand’s chips. The bag promises “all natural,” kettle-cooked chips, prepared “in a premium peanut-oil blend for a…
In the name of keeping the culture alive, some of KC’s and the nation’s finest tattoo artists set up shop at the Uptown Theater this past weekend for the seventh annual Real Deal Tattoo Convention. Our photography intern, Lynn Collins, was there to capture some of the inkage.
How could you, Sluggerrr? Shaken Royals fans have been trying to come to terms with a photo that surfaced over the weekend of the team’s lion mascot getting a lap dance from a naked woman. This is surely the biggest betrayal of fan trust in team history. A guy named John O’Connor tweeted the offending image (an extremely not-safe-for-work…
At least he looks happy to be there. Kyle James, son of Mayor Sly James, is going to spend a month in a Johnson County jail, The Star reports. The younger James is on probation from a 2009 DUI arrest. Prosecutors revoked his probation after he was charged with disorderly conduct last May. On Friday, a judge sent him to…
Ho, hey, or whatever. Mumford and Sons, or Mumford, as some people who are really into the band say for short, is pretty much the most popular band in the world. We all agree that’s kind of weird, right? ANYWAY. This summer, they are coming to Cricket Wireless Amphitheater, which some people call Sandstone. They are due to arrive by…
The Reed Singers, in the early 1960s We here at The Pitch aren’t exactly known as church-going types. But we do enjoy homegrown gospel music. Kansas City has a rich history when it comes to gospel, and a part of that history will be coming to stage as part of an original musical next Saturday, April 6. Categories: A&E Tags:…
mdgovpics Celebrate Easter by going out to eat! No, it’s not too late to make Easter brunch reservations for this coming Sunday, March 31. In fact, there are plenty of local restaurants that would be – forgive me for this – eggs-cited for you to call and request a table for holiday dining. Here are a buffet of suggestions: Chaz…
Claire McCaskill supports marriage equality. The same week the Supreme Court is set to hear arguments in a gay marriage case, Missouri Sen. Claire McCaskill has announced that she supports marriage equality. On her Tumblr page, McCaskill wrote a post saying her feelings about gay marriage had shifted. In the post titled after a Bible passage in Corinthians (“And now…
Wilborn & Associates Walt Bodine’s distinctive voice – and indomitable spirit – became part of Kansas City history. “You who stand at the crossroads of history, take careful note of those of a former generation who are disappearing into the mists, for there will be no more like them.” – Jules Barbey d’Aurevilly Walt Bodine has disappeared into the mists:…
You can have lunch at Peanches – without reservations. Chef Ray “Pete” Peterman’s iconoclastic Peanches restaurant at 900 West 39th Street will finally begin lunch service next Wednesday. The lunch hours will be from 11 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Wednesday through Friday and – hold on to your seat – reservations will not be required for the lunch shift. (The…
