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…
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….
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…
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 is open for dinner in the West Bottoms. Here’s a look at the menu, courtesy of photographer Angela C. Bond.
Woodside Health & Tennis Club Sometimes a club sandwich and a smoothie by the pool just isn’t enough. When did chef Celina Tio – who opened her second restaurant, Collection, in May – find time to create a new menu for the Woodside Health & Tennis Club? The same question might be posed to barkeep Ryan Maybee, who operates Manifesto…
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…
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. 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
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…
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…
The James Beard Awards likely feel like the Saturday Night Live five-timers club for Bluestem/Rye’s Colby Garrelts. He’s got a win under his belt, and now his fellow medal winners are reaching out to take his vision of Midwestern fare national. Andrew Zimmern – the food host, writer and well-traveled eater – has a Q&A with Garrelts that covers his…
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…
Mumford & Sons have a makeup date for Cricket Wireless Amphitheater: Friday, September 20. Cricket Wireless Amphitheater announced the new date earlier this morning. Tickets from the postponed June 17 date will be honored, but if you’d rather have a refund, you can get one at the point of purchase. Mumford canceled the July show in Bonner Springs along with…
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…
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…
The Culinary Greek It’s a great hot dog but maybe a little expensive. Actor and playwright David Wayne Reed spent Father’s Day at Worlds of Fun. While he was at the amusement park, he bought a hot dog, a soda and a funnel cake with strawberries. The total purchase should have cost him less than $20. The actual charge? Way…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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
