George Brett shows a bit of a softer side in this story. Fresh off George Brett single-handedly coaching the Royals to a 4-2, eight-hour victory over the St. Louis Cardinals last night, here’s a delightful 1980s tale of Brett in a strip club. In this week’s edition of the Cleveland Scene, writer Sam Allard published a profile of Door George,…
Facebook: Shatto Shatto’s Cookies and Cream Milk is coming. The Shatto family wants to save you the effort of dunking a cookie in a cold glass of milk. Shatto’s Cookies and Cream milk, set to hit store shelves next week, is the third in the dairy’s planned series of five limited release flavors. The first two, mint chocolate and chocolate…
Flickr: Edd Prince Get some shortcakes for breakfast. Celebrate all things strawberry at the annual Strawberry Festival at Vaile Mansion (1500 N. Liberty) in Independence on Saturday. Admission is free (a tour of the mansion will run you $6) for the craft fair, antique car show and food extravaganza. Don’t miss the strawberry shortcake, ice cream or floats. The festival…
Flickr: ubrayj2 This is the voice of your inner eater. We all have a little Jonathan Gold in us. A well-rounded, jovial voice just begging us to stop for once in a strip mall we pass daily or at a restaurant where the eats are better than your attempts at pronouncing the name of a dish. But we also have…
omninate Austin’s popular Tex Mex restaurant will bring its creamy garlic dip to the Plaza. This week’s announcement that a new restaurant chain was taking an empty location on the Country Club Plaza finally answered the question “Who will take over the old Figlio Italian Restaurant space?” The answer is Chuy’s, a popular Tex Mex operation based in Austin, Texas….
Let’s just hope he doesn’t teach the players his pine tar habits. Mired in an eight-game losing streak and in their sad annual slide toward irrelevance, the Royals made a surprising change Thursday. Effective immediately, hall of famer George Brett will take over as the team’s interim hitting coach. The team said in a release on its website today that…
How many marathons did you run as a 5-year-old? When Michael King worked for the Kansas City Water Department, he must have been one hell of an athlete. He told the city’s health insurer Blue Cross/Blue Shield of Kansas City in December 2010 that he completed three duathlons, three marathons, two half marathons, one Olympic lifting competition, and four triathlons….
Hell has once again freezeth over. Apart from how “Get Over It” is stupid and terrible, I’ve never really understood why the Eagles are such a divisive band. Possibly because of The Big Lebowski? Anyway, I like the Eagles OK – you don’t like “One of These Nights”? I don’t believe you – and am at least half-interested in checking…
Bethany Day Mikkelsen was sentenced to two years of probabtion. In a Columbia courtroom on Tuesday, Michael Mikkelsen, a well-known Kansas City libertarian activist, pleaded guilty to one count of first-degree sexual misconduct. The case dates back to August 2011. A woman told police that she and her boyfriend spent a night drinking with Mikkelsen in Columbia. When she awoke…
Alamo Drafthouse The grapes are no longer screaming. It puts the chianti in the decanter. On second thought, don’t decant that chianti. Just pop the cork and try not to spill any on the couch when Buffalo Bill dances onscreen. The Alamo Drafthouse is back with cinematic wines. On the heels of a Princess Bride-inspired vintage comes The Silence of…
Pee Party is an irregular column where we investigate local bar restrooms. There are a lot of people out there who turn up their noses at the Northland. I don’t get it. Sure, there’s horrible sprawl, hideous commercial development and soulless subdivisions. But there’s also Parkville, which is quaint and cute and situated right on the Missouri River. And there’s…
Hugo Tea The new tins for Hugo Tea should be on store shelves in June. Tyler Beckett is a man of measurements. Visiting The Pitch’s offices, he heats water to 180 degrees in the electric kettle he has brought with him. He measures out 2 teaspoons of loose green tea, then lets it steep for just under four minutes, using…
The Kansas City Actors Theatre pretty much has the market cornered on experience. Its list of founders and its core artistic company include some of the city’s most celebrated players. But they haven’t let it go to their heads. “We have an unusual model,” says Audrey Porsche, the group’s development and marketing director. “There is no artistic director. It’s an…
MAY Thursday, May 30 Ragtime, Metropolitan Ensemble Theatre Through June 16 Friday, May 31 A Feminine Ending, She & Her Productions Through June 1 Great Big Broadway: The Rise of the Big Broadway Musical, Quality Hill Playhouse Through June 30 Sordid Lives, The Barn Players Theatre Through June 16 Spamalot, Starlight Theatre Through June 6 JUNE Wednesday, June 5 The…
May Thursday, May 30 Kansas City Royals at St. Louis Cardinals June Saturday, June 1 Sporting KC vs. Montreal Impact Kansas City Roller Warriors, bout three Metro Pro Wrestling: Jeremy Wyatt vs. former WWE and ECW star Stevie Richards at Turner Rec Center Monday, June 3 Kansas City T-Bones vs. Sioux City Explorers Through Thursday, June 6 Tuesday, June 4…
When Kansas State University’s football team made an unprecedented run toward the national championship last fall, some national media outlets painted Manhattan, Kansas, as the set of Little House on the Prairie. But the city isn’t storybook-quaint — in fact, its prairie heritage inspires an innovative, thriving cultural scene. Soak this up at the Marianna Kistler Beach Museum of Art,…
We are not scientists. We fear numbers. Unavoidably, however, once we set out to find a truly cold beer — thereby answering a serious and quantifiable summer need — a metric was required, a system, a tool. Hello, $8.95 Taylor digital instant-read pocket thermometer. Each volunteer outfitted with one such device, and with zero further guidance beyond a tipsy “Go…
JUNE Thursday, June 6 They Might Be Giants and Moon Hooch, Crossroads KC Friday, June 7 Crossroads Summer Block Party, with Cowboy Indian Bear, Fullbloods, Shy Boys, Hidden Pictures, Millions of Boys, Oils, Opossum Trot and Akkilles, 19th Street and Wyandotte Gladstone Bluesfest with the Cedric Burnside Project, J.P. Soars and John Paul’s Flying Circus, Oak Grove Park Saturday, June…
The season of sequels, prequels, franchises, reboots, origin stories, “true” stories and coming-of-age dramedies is now upon us. Both wretched excess and shoestring-budgeted counterprogramming abound. Consider these offerings when plotting your refuge from the heat and humidity or — given the metro’s recent propensity for Mike Thompson–defying meteorological phenomena — the occasional summer snowstorm. May 31 After Earth M. Night…
The challenge is that most people really don’t know all that much about Scottish culture outside of kilts and bagpipes, and that’s not enough to get them involved,” says Kristi Peterman, field chairwoman of the Kansas City Scottish Highland Games. “Most people are interested in some aspect of their culture already,” she adds. “They may not know much, but they…
MAY Friday, May 31 Kansas City Gay Pride Festival Westport gaypridekc.com Through Saturday, June 1 JUNE Saturday, June 1 Strawberry Festival Vaile Mansion, 1500 North Liberty, Independence 816-325-7430, vailemansion.org Sunday, June 2 Guardian Angels Parish Festival 1310 Westport Road 816-931-4351, guardianangelskc.org Thursday, June 6 New Belgium Clips Beer & Film Tour Theis Park, 47th Street and Oak newbelgium.com Old Shawnee…
Monday KCK Greenmarket at Juniper Gardens 100 Richmond, Kansas City, Kansas 7:30 a.m.–1 p.m. Tuesday Lawrence Farmers Market 824 New Hampshire, 4–6 p.m. Niles Garden Market 1911 East 23rd Street, 4–6 p.m. Wednesday Gladstone Farmers Market 525 Northeast 70th Street2–6 p.m. Lee’s Summit Farmers Market Corner of Second Street and Douglas 7 a.m.–sellout Liberty Farmers Market 1332 West Kansas, 7…
Whether fusing a contemporary lilt and old standards or rousing an audience with jazz-infused twists of pop, Dionne Jeroue has a voice that soars. She’s one of two jazz singers emerging at Everette DeVan’s Tuesday-night jams at the Phoenix. (DeVan is the master swinging a Hammond B3 organ.) But a jam session limits exposure. The solution: an entire evening of Jeroue…
When Baroness got into a serious bus accident last August while on tour in England, the heavy-rock quartet’s ability to move forward with its career was thrown into doubt. At the time, the double-album Yellow & Green had been out for just a month, and the Savannah, Georgia, band had yet to tour the United States to capitalize on the…
