T Loft is now open. A love letter to tea is being written at 8025 State Line. T Loft, a new tea and juice bar, opened earlier this month. And co-owner Jill Minton is eager to share what she has learned from remaking her diet, after being diagnosed with celiac disease, along with her father, sister and daughter. “We couldn’t…
Boulevard keeps having love children, and we’re the better for it. Sour beer is the final frontier for many beer drinkers – the arena they build up to after countless wrestling matches with hop-forward beers and dalliances with cider or fruity brews. I’ll admit that I’m in the midst of figuring out what I think about sours myself, so I…
Front Space The arts glossy Outpost Journal is centering its third issue on KC. The magazine, which comes out in the fall in a very limited print run, is already gathering stories and images for what promises to be a must-have souvenir. And starting this afternoon, it’s putting on an event to whet your appetite. Are you ready to go…
In Kansas City, you have to buckle up or pay up. Kansas City’s City Council passed a brand-spanking-new traffic ordinance on Thursday. Starting April 28, police can pull you over for not wearing your seat belt while driving. Previously, drivers could be cited for not wearing a seat belt after they were pulled over for a different offense. Previously, the…
Facebook: Troost Festival Keep an eye out for elote (roasted corn). It’s delicious. It’s street-festival season, and one of the best block parties is Saturday. The ninth-annual Troost Festival is from noon to 10 p.m. Saturday. The party at the intersection of 31st Street and Troost is a mix of performances, live music and plenty of food. Snack on falafel…
The Kansas City Chiefs released the team’s full 2013 schedule Thursday evening. First, the bad news: The Chiefs won’t play Monday night. That’s not much of a surprise. A 2-14 record pretty much guaranteed that the Chiefs wouldn’t be playing in prime time on ESPN. The good news: The Chiefs play head coach Andy Reid’s old team, the Philadelphia Eagles,…
Penny Lane is no more, but others live on. You’ve got to hand it to the folks who conceived Record Store Day: In six short years, it’s become an international phenomenon. The momentum isn’t enough to keep most record stores from shuttering, but it definitely props up business at the ones that are still hanging in there. (An exhaustive list…
Chacko’s Eatery – and its fabulous pastries – leave Mission for good on April 27. If you want a final cinnamon roll (or several) or, perhaps, a few of those tasty cinnamon-and-sugar “downtowner rolls” from Chacko’s Eatery, in Mission, tomorrow or next Saturday, you better call in your order by noon today at 913-671-8199. Chacko’s co-owner and baker David Finn…
flickr/cumi&ciki The wonderful side dishes, banchan, served with Korean meals make this cuisine particularly distinctive. Update: This was the show originally scheduled to air on KCUR 89.3 on April 19. It has been rescheduled for today at 10 a.m. As tensions continue to escalate on the Korean peninsula, the topic of the delicious, flavorful cuisine of this region continues to…
David Hudnall Screenland’s days at its current Crossroads location are numbered. As of May 17, downtown Kansas City will be down a movie house: Screenland Crossroads, at 1656 Washington, just announced that it couldn’t come to a lease agreement with its landlord, and it will be packing up the projectors and arcades in a month. “The landlord is basically a…
Facebook: 3 Girls Cupcakes Liberty has joined the food-truck movement. People of Liberty, the food trucks are coming. The Liberty City Council approved a two-year mobile-vending pilot program earlier this month that allows for vehicles and trailers to set up in a designated area or private parking lots downtown. Food trucks will need to apply for a two-year license, which…
KC Sports Commission The Kansas City Marathon might look different after the Boston bombings. On Friday night, Kansas City Sports Commission President Kathy Nelson will present metro marathon runner and triathlete Kelly Dippold the commission’s Sportswoman of the Year award. It will cap what was surely a trying week for Dippold, who finished the Boston Marathon on Monday not long…
Facebook: Minsky’s This is really beer season. This is Hemingway weather. There’s no other way to look at monsoon season in Kansas City. With cold rain making a soup of the grass and a gray sky that suggests baseball is far away, there’s one activity that is not weather dependent. And that, Fast Pitch readers, is drinking. Minsky’s launched its…
%{}% %{}% Spent grain is caked on my forearms, like I’ve just lost a fight with a cereal mascot. And more grain keeps belching my way, from a pipe above a bin resting on the arms of a forklift. A brown mound builds, and I attack it with a garden hoe in a futile attempt to free space for more…
At its widest, the Columbus Park neighborhood is about 10 blocks by five blocks, ringed by interstate highways and sandwiched between the Heart of America and Christopher S. Bond bridges. Century-old townhomes sit alongside properties built during the last real-estate boom. The neighborhood has a credit union, a funeral home and its own community center. There’s a cul de sac…
A pretty young woman dons a robe and slippers and takes to a walker, aging within moments from a vibrant youth to an elderly and ill woman. Celia Gannon’s uncanny transformation, in the first minutes of Pride’s Crossing, gives authenticity to her characterization of Mabel Tidings — child, teenager, young woman, nonagenarian — as she travels back and forth through…
Lucero, with Langhorne Slim Once a country-punk bar band, Lucero has embraced its Memphis roots on recent albums — its songs now include richer elements: horns, pedal steel and gospel vocals. It’s a great look. Any band that’s as likely to cover Jawbreaker as Bill Withers is the kind of band I can get behind. I want to take you…
College-town vibes are alive in the dark basement of the Ohio Street house in Lawrence where Fourth of July practices: Pacifico bottles, Predator on TV, a long discussion about litter boxes. The band of brothers — Brendan and Patrick Hangauer, Brian and Brendan Costello — is prepping for the release shows it’s playing this month for Empty Moon, another unsparing…
Freezing rain, a thermometer stuck at 37 degrees Fahrenheit, grim partiers more likely to turn blue than go green — this is St. Patrick’s Day 2013 inside the Living Room, the Power & Light District’s main entertainment venue. Backstage, the six members of hip-hop cover act Dolewite (and a couple of wives) wait in the small, slightly cramped green room,…
The final whistle blew, and frustration spilled out of 100,000 fans. Cups flew. Hands cradled heads. Spanish and English curses hung in the warm, fetid air in Mexico City’s Estadio Azteca. The crowd on this March Tuesday night refused to accept that the United States and Mexico had wrestled to a 0-0 draw. Several of Mexico’s players berated Guatemalan referee…
Michael Pfeifer and Dawn Slaughter will reopen a legendary Westport restaurant, the Corner, this month. The red brick building at 4059 Broadway, the site of the old Corner Restaurant in Westport, has been empty for more than three years – just long enough for many people to have forgotten it was ever one of the most popular breakfast-and-lunch spots in…
Port Authority The old Richards-Gebaur site, where thousands in weird payments took place A city audit of expenses by the Port Authority of Kansas City says the agency should return $135,052 in sketchy payments related to work at the former Richards-Gebaur Air Force Base. The Port Authority has typically been a sleepy extension of city government that primarily oversees property…
