Craftbeer.com Beer brings us together. May you never see the bottom of your pint glass – it’s American Craft Beer Week. And Kansas City has plenty of ways for you to raise a toast in honor of this drinking holiday. The annual weeklong celebration of craft beer kicks off today and goes until Sunday, May 19. If you’re searching out…
Samantha Gleaton The public will get a peek behind the Red Door today. It’s opening afternoon for chef Debbie Gold and the Red Door Grill. Gold left the American Restaurant last month to join Red Door Restaurants, a new local restaurant group that intends to open several neighborhood-focused eateries. The first of those is the Red Door Grill (11851 Roe)…
Facebook: Bruegger’s Bruegger’s has left the building. Shed a few schmears. Bruegger’s Bagels (13713 Metcalf) has closed in Overland Park. The round dough has left Corbin Park and with it, I think there’s a reasonable case to be made, the closest approximation to a New York bagel in the city. I remember 2010 like it was just three years ago….
Jolie Justus is tired of her legislative colleagues wasting time. It’s been another forgettable week for the Missouri Legislature. Rather than waiting to see how Kansas’ tax overhaul, panned by bipartisan policy wonks as the worst in the nation, plays out, the Missouri House on Thursday passed a bill that mirrors some of the main tenets of the Sunflower State’s…
Facebook: Brookside Farmers Market Veg out this weekend. With the danger of frost gone and warm, wet growing conditions, it’s finally time to start thinking about your garden. Conveniently, the Brookside Farmers Market (63rd Street and Wornall) is holding its annual Gardening Festival on Saturday from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. There’s a garden tool freecycle (think take-a-penny, leave-a-penny but…
Even “Mommie Dearest” Joan Crawford took the family out for brunch on Mother’s Day. It was good for her image. Don’t feel guilty: You’re not the only one, by any means, who has procrastinated until the very last minute to make reservations for Sunday brunch for your mother, your wife, your significant other, the woman who is still collecting your…
Despite his car-dealer name, Bill Callahan is a pretty odd dude – I’d argue he’s one of the strangest characters in modern American music. Last night at RecordBar, Callahan took the stage with his band – a guitarist and a bassist, both of whom sat in chairs throughout the set – and gave the robust-for-a-Wednesday crowd more or less what…
It was a cover-your-face-in-shame goal for Sporting to give up. If you work in an office with Sporting Kansas City fans, you can fully expect them to be in foul moods this morning. Last night, playing the second of three games in a seven-day span, Sporting suffered a humiliating last-minute goal to the Seattle Sounders. The Sounders are the worst…
Stephanie Springer – former teacher, pastry chef and caterer – has a burger and pastries for you. Stephanie Springer’s vivid red lipstick is the same shade of red painted on the woodwork inside her new restaurant at 553 Central in Kansas City, Kansas. The unassuming frame building, which was occupied by Sophie’s Deli for nearly three decades, has been given…
Facebook: Tilted Kilt Maker Faire won’t be the only place to see kilts in the future. Kansas City is apparently the new Tampa Bay. Or at least that’s the thought of whoever is in charge of the concepts putting together wings, female servers and men in ill-fitting suits. A month after the opening of Twin Peaks (picture servers in flannel…
Jack Stack got some national love. It just ain’t a barbecue list without a Kansas City joint. Maxim just released its list of “America’s 5 Best BBQ Hot Spots,” and Fiorella’s Jack Stack Barbecue is sitting at No. 5. It sits there alongside Franklin Barbecue out of Austin, Texas (which claimed the top spot); Black Dog Smoke & Ale House…
Facebook: Boulevard KC Pils is the newest addition to the Boulevard lineup. KC Pils officially replaces Boulevard Brewing Co.’s Pilsner on shelves this week. (Ten percent of the rebranded brew’s sales go to three local charities, selected on a rotating quarterly basis by popular Web vote.) Boulevard introduced its all-malt Pilsner in 2009 as a way into the yard-beer market….
If you pay even glancing attention to the movements of the music business, you’re by now familiar with at least a few narratives. Nobody buys CDs anymore. Everybody downloads music from the Internet, usually illegally. Record stores are dying. But also: Vinyl is resurgent! (Sales are up 17 percent over last year, when more new records were sold than in…
Al Jazeera’s Newshour is live on Kansas City’s airwaves. The Qatari network, whose reporting was described as “vicious, inaccurate and inexcusable” by former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld in 2004, broadcasts on KKFI 90.1 at 9 a.m. Thursdays. Al Jazeera has come a long way since Rummy’s rant. The news organization has expanded to more than 60 bureaus worldwide (and…
Anger, confusion, denial, isolation, longing — anyone dealing with grief knows these emotions. So do most people who have been in love. Lanford Wilson’s 1987 Burn This tells, through its effluent talk, a story of love conceived in grief. Four characters inhabit Burn This, but Wilson is mostly concerned with two of them: Anna, a dancer and choreographer, and Pale,…
Harl Van Deursen is the quiet, funny guy of the group. When you forget about him, he delivers a deft one-two punch. So it makes sense that Van Deursen is the voice behind Zippernut Press — a poetically irreverent greeting-card line that was making people laugh long before the Someecards that dominate Facebook gained in popularity. The Brookside shop Stuff…
North Kansas City’s fiber-optic network is finally coming up for air. LiNKCity, the Northland enclave’s attempt to run its own high-speed Web infrastructure, made it Missouri’s fastest city until Google Fiber showed up. Since service began, in 2006, it has also been a deficit magnet. Now, though, a deal struck with Google seems to put LiNKCity within striking distance of…
Fourth of July Empty Moon (High Dive Records) The last few years have seen a mild exodus of longtime Lawrence musicians and acts. Some have landed in San Francisco, some Brooklyn, some just across the state line here in Kansas City. Not Fourth of July. For coming up on a decade, the group (now a quartet of brothers: Brendan and…
Royce Diamond, Louiz Rip Rappers tend to be our most prolific musical artists, and neither Royce Diamond nor Louiz Rip is an exception. Both released solo albums in the last year (Mirrors and Smoke and Joe Average, respectively), in addition to a host of collaborations with other local rappers and beat makers. The two come together Friday to celebrate the…
Brenda Satterlee’s house rests on almost three acres in an ideal setting in Prairie Village. She’s close to some of the suburb’s better-known shops and amenities. She’s also near the former Mission Valley Middle School. And that’s why she and her husband, Craig, might sell their house. “Even if we lose our shirts,” Satterlee tells The Pitch. Satterlee’s home is…
You can thank popular franchise operations like the Cheesecake Factory, T.G.I. Friday’s and even IHOP for expanding our American perception of international dining. In the 1960s, America’s best-loved dining chain, Howard Johnson’s, stuck to the tried-and-true: fried chicken, broiled steaks, chicken potpie. As corporate chains expanded, competition mandated that restaurants accommodate a wider array of tastes. Ethnic food went from…
Facebook: Swagger Swagger has closed in Martin City. Martin City has lost some swagger. Actually, all of its Swagger – the burger and beer bar has closed its Martin City location at 13401 Holmes, but it will continue to operate its original place at 8431 Wornall. The first Swagger opened in 2008, and the second location, which shared a menu,…
