Ribs and rims are for sale in Smithville. A plethora of barbecue in Kansas City renders the average man as soft as an overcooked pork butt. We tend to go on autopilot and head for the nearest smoker we know. But great barbecue demands effort; just ask any pitmaster worth his pig salt. On the first day that I drove…
Facebook: Google Fiber Google Fiber is taking its act to Olathe. Olathe is officially on Google’s map. Last night, the Google Fiber Blog announced that the Olathe City Council approved an agreement to bring Google Fiber to Olathe. Google explained its decision to expand to Olathe as such: Olathe has become one of the fastest-growing cities in Kansas and has…
Facebook: Juicy’s Juicy’s has its own take on burgrs. The burger blitz continues in the Northland. Juicy’s Burgers and Spirits, the latest venture from Mike Howell (who previously ran 77 South in Leawood), has opened in Zona Rosa. The new restaurant at 8600 N.W. Prairie View Road bakes its buns daily and has scratch sauces, including mustard and ketchup. Right…
Rolon loafs Kansas City. Rachel Rolon doesn’t want to sell you just one piece of her art. She’s hoping you take three, six or even a dozen at a time – and then butter them. The Kansas City Art Institute graduate, who has a fiber studio near 15th Street and Oak, is perfecting her new medium: bread. “It’s a really…
America’s Twinkie drought might soon be over. Great news, everybody. A federal bankruptcy judge has approved the sale of the rights to Hostess Brands, the creator of everyone’s favorite indestructible snack cakes and glowingly white bread. Last November, the company (which was formerly based in Kansas City) went out of business after failing to reach a labor agreement with its…
flickr/timomcd I was riding on a bus from New York City to Atlantic City one day when I overheard two older women talking, loudly, about ravioli. “It’s a pasta,” said one. “And it’s square, like a big postage stamp. And it’s got a filling in the middle of it.” “What kind of filling? Pork? Beef?” asked her friend. “I don’t…
Photo by Sabrina Staires Name: Pete Weber Occupation: Host of National Public Radio’s 12th Street Jump, professional actor, and presentation manager for Theater League’s touring Broadway shows Hometown: Bridgewater, South Dakota Current neighborhood: Merriam Who or what is your sidekick? “Oinks,” my guard pig What career would you choose in an alternate reality? Chef What was the last local restaurant…
Westboro Baptist Church’s neighborhood just got a little brighter and much more famous. The Westboro Baptist Church’s neighborhood got a splash of color Tuesday morning. Aaron Jackson, the founder of non-profit Planting Peace and the owner of the two-bedroom, one-bath house at 1200 Southwest Orleans Street, directly across the street from the WBC, had his home painted in a gay…
Outgoing chef Daniel Breedlove, from left, Jake Hendershot and former chef Grant Cansler at Pandolfi’s Deli. The spirits that still reportedly haunt 538 Campbell in Columbus Park seem to be pleased that the restaurant in the historic building (the former Lapetina Funeral Home; the scene of several emotional mob funerals in the 1930s and ’40s) is so successful as a…
Olassa in a still from “Pretty Flowers” Who knew the Salina Masonic temple was so pretty? Or had such cool old-timey sets in its theater, which can change from vignette to vignette The Sound of Music-style? Olassa did, apparently, and has released two videos in the past couple of weeks shot in the temple by Scott Jolley Production Services. The…
Flickr: Greencolander Once Missourians pop the top, they just can’t stop. Kansans would say Missourians need something to cope with living in Missouri. Missourians would likely retort that Kansans wouldn’t know a good time if it pulled up in their pasture. Whatever the reason, the Beer Institute (the representative of the $223 billion beer industry) has issued a new report…
8183 Studio Dark Horse’s Reserve Bourbon is on shelves now. There may come a day in the not-too-distant future when we forget that Kansas was once bone-dry. Dark Horse Distillery, out of Lenexa (profiled last February as part of a piece on Kansas microdistilleries), has just released two new spirits: Reserve Bourbon Whiskey and Reunion Rye Whiskey. “A lot of…
Facebook: WestChase Grille The WestChase Grille has closed. The WestChase Grille joins 40 Sardines on the list of restaurants that were once open at 11942 Roe in Leawood. The restaurant in Hawthorne Plaza – the brainchild of chefs John Westerhaus and Chase Wilcox (the West and Chase in the name) – has closed. “It is with the deepest regret, that…
The Naka-Kon anime convention took place March 15-17 at the Overland Park Convention Center. The Pitch sent photographer Lynn Collins to document the celebration.
The St. Patrick’s Day DUI checkpoint on Southwest Trafficway is becoming an annual tradition. The Kansas City Police Department’s St. Patrick’s Day DUI checkpoint on Southwest Trafficway just south of 39th Street netted just a fewer suspected drunk drivers than last year. Police arrested 27 drivers of the 1,127 cars they stopped betweet 7 p.m. and 1 a.m. Last year…
It’s been a big year for Colby (left) and Megan Garrelts. Colby Garrelts has to be hoping that the magic happens the seventh time around. Garrelts, the chef and co-owner of Bluestem and Rye, was announced as a finalist this morning in the Best Chef: Midwest category for the James Beard Awards. He’s up for the award (his seventh nomination)…
Facebook: Donut Stop OK, the Donut Stop’s doughnuts look pretty good. If anybody knows hot fat, it’s Kansas City. But when it came time for Jane and Michael Stern (the authors of Roadfood) to compile their list of America’s 50 Best Donuts for Saveur, Kansas City didn’t make the cut. Adding fuel to the rivalry is that Donut Stop in…
Animal Collective, feeling better Looks like the illness-related cancellations are going around. In addition to Morrissey’s cancellation, it appears that Animal Collective is now out, too, due to a severe case of strep throat suffered by frontman Avey Tare. Originally scheduled for this Thursday, the Animal Collective appearance is postponed … until sometime. Original tickets will be honored on the…
KCTV5 Marise Barrett celebrated her 70th birthday on Saturday. On Sunday, the woman’s husband found her body, launching a homicide investigation. Barrett’s husband discovered the woman’s body in their home in the 4400 block of East 33rd Street and called police around 11:16 a.m. Sunday. Barrett’s cause of death hasn’t been released, but police are investigating her death as a…
Foodbeast Hash browns are no longer a side. Bread is delicious. A perfect slice needs nothing else. No butter. No condiments. No meat. But fast-food joints are not blessed with perfect bread. They are inundated with chewy, listless rolls. Sweet, sugar-enriched white bread that doesn’t so much hold the meat in as stick to it with dogged indifference. Nobody goes…
Just look for a green cap. There once was a dairy from OsbornThat chose to raise cows over cornThe whole tastes like silk Mint and chocolate milkWhen it’s empty, you’ll be left forlorn Pint bottles of Shatto’s Whole Chocolate Mint Milk – the second of five planned specialty releases (Chocolate Cherry was the first for Valentine’s Day) – are in…
