Pigwich’s banh mi is delicious, but it is filling. Pigwich, the yellow sandwich trailer behind the Local Pig (2618 Guinotte Avenue), throws open its windows at 10:30 a.m. daily. Not long after that time this past Saturday, the world came to eat. Construction workers stepped down from trucks to join families looking for some fuel, before a stop inside the…
Facebook: KC Royals Let’s take a minute to think about the Royals’ plan off the field. There is an art to building a good baseball-watching lineup. You need a proper mix of salty and sweet with just the right influx of beer to ensure that you’re not having to miss any action. The Kansas City Royals’ home opener is today…
Gold is headed for a new kitchen. Just a short while after being named one of the top 100 restaurants in America, the American Restaurant is losing the chef responsible for that ranking. Chef Debbie Gold will be moving on from the American to another, as yet unnamed, restaurant in Kansas City. “One can’t say enough about what Debbie has…
%{}% Randy Ortiz This is what your friends got tonight while you stayed home. It’s been a little more than eight months since Alamo Drafthouse brought one of its Mondo poster parties to town, and the wait was killing people. Tickets for tonight’s Army of Darkness screening – at which the latest Randy Ortiz movie-poster design was just revealed, following…
It’s time for a thirst party in the Kansas Statehouse. Kansas legislators may no longer have to fear the worst – they’re on their way to being able to drink in the Statehouse when they celebrate the completion of $332 million in renovations to the nicest building in Topeka this side of the David Wittig mansion. The Kansas Senate managed…
The Y is staying in KCK. The YMCA is going to stay in downtown Kansas City, Kansas. The YMCA of Greater Kansas City said on Friday that it reached an agreement with Wyandotte County to keep its Eighth Street branch open, despite announcing in March that the location would be shuttered. The plan to close the KCK location (along with…
April Fleming It has been several years since I last saw Sigur Rós in Kansas City. That performance was at the now-defunct Madrid theater, and it was memorable for a couple of reasons. First, the band was as impressive live as advertised. Heightening the performance was the added spectacle of incredible lighting and a number of visual elements that were…
The tragedy at JJ’s Restaurant has brought out the best of the restaurant community. And many of the best will be at Saber! A Celebration for JJ’s, from 5 to 8 p.m. Sunday, April 7. The event at the American Restaurant (200 E. 25th St.) features a silent auction and tasting stations with goodies from Craig Adcock of Jude’s Rum…
Sami Dowd BD’s is getting serious about craft beer. Beer nerd heaven might be in Independence. BD’s Mongolian Grill (19750 E. Valley View Parkway) recently opened the Beer Growler Taproom – a 50-tap and 50-bottle celebration of craft beer. But the revelation (and let us hope this is the beginning of a trend) is that every beer which comes from…
Ottavia Bourdain’s Twitter Ottavia Bourdain with UFC boss Dana White (middle). Ottavia Bourdain loves a good fight. And she doesn’t care whether men or women are in the cage. Bourdain, the MMA-junkie wife of celebrity chef Anthony Bourdain, will be cageside Friday for Invicta Fighting Championships 5, the biggest all-women’s MMA event in history and the subject of this week’s…
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Crown Center After 26 years, the curtain comes down forever on the American Heartland Theatre. Crown Center’s American Heartland Theatre, which opened April 1, 1987 – and just celebrated its 26th anniversary on Monday – plans to shut off the stagelights for good in August, according to a statement released Thursday afternoon. For now, the shows go on. The theater,…
What RP residents got in the mail. Linda Mau woke up pissed off Wednesday, one of several aspirants for elected office throughout the metro who lost in Tuesday’s general election. She had also joined the historical ranks of politicians who may have been thwarted by negative campaigning. The Roeland Park mayoral candidate found herself on the business end of tactics…
The Icemen cometh. Middle of the Map Fest officially starts tonight, but the best show in town is about seven miles northeast, at Starlight Theatre, where the Icelandic post-rock titans in Sigur Ros is performing. The group has a well-earned reputation as one of the finest live acts in the world. Tickets are still available. Categories: Music Tags: sigur ros
Jay Nixon is sick of hearing about mythical databases. Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon is sick of hearing about the super-scary Missouri program that sends citizens’ personal information to another super-scary federal database. He’s so sick of it, in fact, that he cracked just a little bit on Wednesday during a press conference. The bogus claims about the Department of Revenue…
Some restaurants really don’t want to do it your way. Like many former restaurant servers, I have a lot of memories of customers who were almost too impossibly difficult to deal with. I try not to think of them. I learned, over the years, to become more tolerant to the customers who insisted on customizing their dinners with a lot…
The Old-Fashioned is like a classic cocktail for your lips. You can file this one under things I never expected to be writing about in this space. But I’d be remiss if I didn’t share Stewart & Claire’s Old Fashioned Lip Balm ($6). While aiming for a classic aesthetic, the tube is really a paean to the bourbon cocktail. It’s…
Facebook: T-Bones Baseball and summer are almost here. The race to build a better stadium concession continues, and for the Kansas City T-Bones, that means adding organic and hormone-free options at Community America Ballpark. The local team has extended its concession contract with Centerplate for five more years and plans to add menu items as well as a new concession…
Twitter: redmedicinela I treat restaurant reservations like dinner with my in-laws. I always make sure there’s wine on the table when we sit down. But seriously, folks … If I’m going to be late, I call. If I have to cancel unexpectedly, I call. I’ve never been a no-show at a restaurant, leaving some poor maitre d’ with his nose…
Shannon Knapp rides the elevator to the top floor of the Aladdin hotel, in downtown Kansas City, Missouri. The president of Invicta Fighting Championships has been talking about the future of her women’s mixed-martial-arts organization: a TV deal. The elevator stops. “It’s going to happen,” Knapp says as she steps out of the lift and into the hotel’s sun-soaked, 16th-floor…
