One spin through last year’s double album The Clearing/The Final Epoch, by Chicago drone duo Locrian, puts you in a dark place. It’s full of proper apocalyptic noise driven by doom and disaster – breathtaking black-metal-influenced tunes with the power to raise evil spirits and drop testicles. This bill, which also includes metal locals Boreas and Jason Zeh, is the…
A few area chefs might need to go suit shopping. Port Fonda’s Patrick Ryan and Story’s Carl Thorne-Thomsen are two of the nominees for Food & Wine’s The People’s Best New Chef: Midwest. Voting begins today in the 10 regions (each of which has 10 nominated chefs) around the country. At the close of voting on Monday, March 18, regional…
Twitter: thegoodyou Good You’s Joel sandwich at the Point. Before the dance floor shows up at 9 p.m. on Saturday nights at the Point (917 W. 44th St.), there will be burgers. Good You, the food truck and mobile kitchen from chef Kelli Daniels, is now serving its burgers and bar snacks at the West Plaza pub. Daniels’ signature deviled…
Facebook: Belvoir Winery Haunted or just old? That’s the eternal question. The ghost bros are back. Fox 4 reports that Ghost Hunters, the phantom searchers from SyFy, made their way through the Belvoir Winery in February in the hopes of discovering the spirits that supposedly haunt…the spirits. The Liberty winery has hosted paranormal investigators in the past, offering guided tours…
Facebook: Chickie’s & Pete’s These are the Pringles of fries. We’re not just getting a taste of Philadelphia from whatever came across the transom in Andy Reid’s mustache. Fooboz has the news that Chickie’s and Pete’s – a Philly sports bar – is heading west to Missouri. Chickie’s & Pete’s will apparently have a pavilion at Worlds of Fun that…
Hey Jayhawk fans – download the @fannect sports app and prove that KU has the best fans #kubball fannect.me – Bill Self (@CoachBillSelf) March 8, 2013 When the Fannect smartphone app launched at the end of February, creators Hunter Browning and Will Coatney told The Pitch that Kansas basketball coach Bill Self would be endorsing the app via his Twitter…
Nobody tells McCaskill to power down her iPad. Nobody. Missouri Sen. Claire McCaskill’s taste for technology is pretty widely known. She tweets like a fiend, and an iPad has long been her trusted sidekick. So it’s not at all unexpected that the senator was going to try to put an end to the FAA’s “No electronics during takeoffs and landings”…
There’s never a lack of excitement on 20th Street. Do you ever get that sinkhole feeling? The Kansas City Star reports that a large sinkhole – several feet in diameter and several feet deep – opened last night on 20th Street, just east of Oak. The Water Services Department has pledged to cover it with a temporary plate. But what’s…
Enjoy a bit of Irish Soda Bread this weekend. The only true way to mark holidays is with food. And so before we are inundated with green beer, the St. Patrick’s Day season returns with the limited release of Farm to Market’s Irish Soda Bread. The savory loaf is made with buttermilk, golden raisins, and chunks of butter before being…
Facebook: Maggie’s The shrimp tostada at Maggie’s. Whether or not you’re observing Lent, there are some incredible seafood dishes to tempt you on Fridays. Maggie’s Authentic Mexican Foods (100 S.E. Third St., in Lee’s Summit) has shrimp specials every Friday during the Lenten season. The four-year-old restaurant offers $3 shrimp tostadas, $12 shrimp fajitas, and three shrimp tacos for $7….
Kansas City Museum The Kansas City Museum is back. For five years it has been about the future of the Kansas City Museum, but today Corinthian Hall returns to the present. Still in the midst of ongoing renovations, the Kansas City Museum (3218 Gladstone Boulevard) opens its doors to the public this morning for the first time in a half-decade…
Andrew Folger Room 39 chef Andrew Sloan, left, roasts lamb chops for this week’s James Beard House dinner. It’s an honor for any chef to be invited to cook a dinner at the James Beard House in New York City. For Room 39’s chefs and co-owners Ted Habiger and Andrew Sloan, it was a dream that came a little earlier…
flickr/Calgary Reviews Buffet etiquette: If it looks good, take it. The words “All You Can Eat” are magical to some diners, anathema to others. Restaurant veterans often look down on them, unmercifully. “I wouldn’t eat at a buffet – any buffet – if you put a gun against my head,” said one chef who asked to remain nameless. “I mean,…
Rex Hudler needs your votes! Surprising many fans, the Royals have been ripping apart their competition in spring training. The team is a startling 11-0-1 in Cactus League play. And off the field this spring, Royals announcer Rex Hudler is piling up victories in the Preposterous Statement Tournament (PST) conducted each spring by Twin Cities sports-radio host Dan Cole the…
Facebook: Longbranch Steakhouse This may be one very costly dinner for Mize. The bill came due for a January dinner at the Longbranch Steakhouse in Lenexa. The Kansas City Star reports that William H. Mize Jr. will be in court today facing charges of aggravated battery and carrying a concealed weapon while under the influence. Mize, 66, and his wife…
Facebook: Gwar Gwar’s got sauce. The world of barbecue may very well never be the same. GWAR intends to unleash its ‘GWAR-B-Q’ sauce at Grinders (417 E. 18th St.) on Monday, April 8, from 6 to 8 p.m. The metal band’s sauce – bottled locally at Original Juan’s and created by the guitar player known as Balsac, the Jaws of…
Facebook: The Jacobson Warm your belly tonight at the Jacobson. Perennial Artisan Ales has quickly made a name for itself in St. Louis. Discover why when the new import to Kansas City takes part in a four-beer, four-course dinner prepared by chef John Smith at the Jacobson (2050 Central) from 6 to 9 p.m. The dinner in the Crossroads costs…
He got the top spot. ATL rappers T.I. and Future, plus Tyga (of “Rack City” fame) just announced a joint tour that will stop at Sprint Center on Saturday, April 20. Dog, you know what day that is. Awwww sheeeiiittt. Tickets on sale next Friday, March 15, at 10 a.m. Categories: Music Tags: t.i.
Oscar Meyer This is a rolling sausage party. Relish this time, Kansas City. The Oscar Mayer Weinermobile is in town for the next four days. “Deli” Elito Pattee wrote to inform me that he and “Cookout” Kelly Goldthorpe (a Mizzou grad for those wondering what happens when you leave Columbia) are on tour as part of the 25th class of…
Reddit This tip is a joke. What should it have been? The Internet is infatuated this afternoon with the news of a pizza delivery driver getting tipped $10 on a $1,500 order. It’s not a local story, but we’re going to post it anyway because pizza, well, it’s been on our mind lately. Really, we ate so much pizza for…
Bill HR Pizza without a homemade sauce? Fermare la follia! There’s some debate as to who first started serving pizza to Kansas City patrons. Was it downtown’s old Italian Gardens restaurant? Was it the neighboring Gaetano’s? Or was it – back in the 1950s – Antonio’s pizzeria, at 43rd Street and Main, operated by Paul Silvio and the late Jasper…
A number of local artists and jewelers donated items to the silent auction at last night’s benefit for JJ’s employees. The room in the back of the Uptown Theater featuring the silent-auction items – which ranged from original artwork to an elaborate barbecue grill – was elbow-to-elbow last night as more than 1,200 people gathered to raise funds for the…
Brooke Vandever Sugar Rush was a celebration of all things sweet. Accurso’s owner, Anthony Accurso, knew that he needed an edge to compete in The Pitch’s Sugar Rush, held February 27 at the Guild. So he called in his secret weapon: his grandmother. Angel Barelli opened her kitchen last week to the restaurant’s two chefs, Michael Clough and Joseph Jackson,…
Can the Royals topple the Tigers this year? That feeling, that little itch, next to your heart. That’s hope, Kansas City. You probably don’t want to admit that you feel it. You’ve had that tickle before, and it all too recently ended in heartache. But the Chiefs’ recent flurry of moves (including yesterday’s restructuring of Tyson Jackson’s contract to free…
