Archives: June 2013

KCUR’s Elana Gordon leaves for WHYY

Photo by Brooke Vandever Last week, Elana Gordon started her new gig at WHYY 90.9. After nine years in Kansas City – six of those working the health beat for KCUR 89.3 – Gordon, a native New Yorker who studied at Barnard College, headed back East to join the Philadelphia public-radio affiliate’s health and science team. If the move seemed…

Manifesto’s Beau Williams and wife Keely Edgington make a Julep

Keely Edgington and Beau Williams will open a new bar, Julep, in Westport next March. Beau Williams is such a talented bartender that he can create both a classic Southern mint julep and a mocktail version for nondrinkers like me (who used to love juleps, in a different time and place). “I use a sweet, minty iced tea,” he says….

Erika Massow’s H & C Ice Cream rolls into farmers markets

Brooke Vandever Massow hopes to keep Kansas City cool this summer. Erika Massow doesn’t drive a van that plays jangly, public-domain windup tunes. She’s got a Ford Focus with a front license plate that reads: “Powered by bacon.” And Wednesdays and Saturdays, the car is packed with Igloo coolers full of the salted-caramel, blood-orange buttermilk, and peanut-butter-cup ice creams that…

Chris Fritz, concert promoter, answers The Pitch‘s questionnaire

Photo by Sabrina Staires Name: Chris Fritz Occupation: Concert promoter Hometown: Traverse City, Michigan Current neighborhood: Leawood Who or what is your sidekick? My imagination What career would you choose in an alternate reality? A high-level hedge-fund broker What was the last local restaurant you patronized? Waffle House Where do you drink? I’m an equal-opportunity drinking-establishment customer. If the beer…

Voltaire

Voltaire is open for dinner in the West Bottoms. Here’s a look at the menu, courtesy of photographer Angela C. Bond.

Chris Hernandez leaves Unicorn Theatre for City Hall communications gig

Chris Hernandez is heading to City Hall. Less than a year after departing broadcast news, longtime Kansas City TV reporter Chris Hernandez is leaving his job at the Unicorn Theatre and setting up shop at City Hall. Hernandez, who had stints at both WDAF Channel 4 and KSHB Channel 41 surprised viewers last August when he made the decision to…

Watermelon Oreo cookies? A limited edition, thank goodness

Ashford Stampar There are few things as pleasurable as a slice of watermelon on a brutally hot day. But does watermelon really have a flavor? It does: pink sugar water with a subtle, almost evanescent hint of melon. Any melon does, by the way, including cantaloupe or honeydew. The bland sweetness of the fruit makes it ideal for salads (particularly…

The National is coming to Kansas City with Tame Impala

The National. Still warming to the new National record, Trouble Will Find Me, over here. But we’ve come around on all the others, so we’re keeping at it. The elegant brooders will be at Starlight Theatre, along with Beatles-y psych-rockers Tame Impala, on Friday, October 11. Tickets on sale this Friday at 9 a.m. Categories: Music

Three dead, 11 injuried from gunfire in two days

Edel Rodriguez In just over one day, Kansas City more than caught up with 2012 homicide stats. Kansas City was having a relatively decent year murderwise until Sunday night. Last week, the city was at 45 homicides – two fewer than at the same time in 2012. But it all went to crap over the last 36 hours or so…

Twinkies back on July 15, Hostess HQ now in KC

Flickr: Christian Cable Twinkies, like Goonies, never say die. Twinkies have lain slumbering like carbohydrate giants just waiting for American’s mass to dip below dangerous levels. Apollo Global Management and Metropoulos & Co. have now sounded the great horn of the corporate takeover. The giants awake July 15. And Kansas City will play a bigger role in the production of…

Smallcakes is now selling cupcakes in downtown Overland Park

Facebook: Smallcakes Maple bacon is among the cupcakes on Smallcakes’ menu. As Mayor Sly James would tell it, downtown Overland Park can now “stay frosty.” Smallcakes: A Cupcakery has opened an OP outpost at 7303 West 80th Street. The cupcake store is known for outlandish flavors – maple bacon and fruity pebble are two recent menu choices – but it…

Microbreweries get a legislative boost from the City Council

Flickr: Smabs Sputzer There’s plenty brewing in KC these days. The Kansas City City Council voted Thursday to ease restrictions on microbreweries and alcohol manufacturers in the city. As KCUR reports, the council amended the city’s liquor ordinances to allow microbreweries and alcohol manufacturers to sell alcoholic beverages directly to the public at the location where they are made. Under…

Pickleman’s Gourmet Cafe has opened in Waldo

Facebook: Pickelman’s Pickleman’s is now open in Waldo. The sandwich shops just keep on coming. Pickleman’s Gourmet Cafe has opened in Waldo at 7442 Wornall (corner of 75th Street and Wornall). The Columbia import has sandwiches (18 choices served on white or wheat Italian rolls), soups, salads and pizzas. With the “Pick Two,” you can also get a soup or…

Inmate charged with murder of cellmate in St. Joseph

Tony King was awaiting sentencing for one murder when he committed another, prosecutors say. A convicted murderer at Buchanan County Jail in St. Joseph has been charged with killing his cellmate, Michael Bozarth, 25, in their cell. Tony King was charged this week with strangling Bozarth, whose body was discovered by jail staff members on June 9. King made his…

What’s the best marshmallow dish in Kansas City?

Facebook: Parisi Marshmallow crisps are now on all Parisi Cafe menus. In the summertime, my body craves s’mores the way a runner craves salt in the midst of running a marathon. I think it’s the universe balancing out, ensuring that as someone else loses mass, I maintain mine. So with marshmallows leaving my brain gooey with desire, I turn to…

Browne’s Irish Street Faire and other weekend possibilities

Facebook: Browne’s My Goodness. My Guinness. Enjoy a taste of Ireland at Browne’s Irish Street Faire (3300 Pennsylvania) today and Saturday. In addition to live Irish music, find Jameson tasting, Roasterie coffee, Guinness, fish and chips, Guinness brats and corned beef. The festival runs from 6 to 11 p.m. tonight and from 4 to 11 p.m. Saturday. Tickets cost $8…

National Chocolate Eclair Day is Saturday

It’s National Chocolate Eclair Day on Saturday. Are you ready for it? Once a bake shop staple, a fabulous chocolate-covered eclair is increasingly difficult to find in Kansas City. True, they’re labor-intensive and fattening, and there’s competition from those big-box stores that sell big bags of frozen mini-eclairs very cheaply. (I know – I buy them!) But there’s nothing quite…

Vince Gill coming to the Kauffman Center

One more last chance…to see Vince Gill. Country-music big-shot Vince Gill will perform at the Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts on Sunday, September 8. Tickets cost between $39 and $79 and go on sale Friday, July 12. Categories: Music Tags: vince gill