Sabrina Staires Chef Liz Huffman has a new title – and new challenges – at the Majestic Restaurant. Chef Liz Huffman had a gut feeling that a help-wanted post on Craigslist would lead to the right job for her. Huffman’s instincts were good. The gig was at the Majestic Restaurant (931 Broadway), and it would start with an unusual task….
Applewood BBQ offers really sweet sauce and tender meat in Independence. Take a look with these photos from Pitch photographer Angela C. Bond.
Brooke Vandever He’s ready to answer your questions. Sporting Kansas City is tied for first place in the MLS Eastern Conference. That’s the good news. The bad news is that the team has been strangely inconsistent this season. In one game they’ll mount a furious comeback late in the game, and in the next they’ll allow their opponents to do…
STS9 Sound Tribe Sector 9 has been fucking around with computers and dance music since Skrillex was getting wedgies out on the playground. The Santa Cruz, California, quintet started on the periphery of the jam-band scene, but as the popularity of electronic music in the United States has skyrocketed, so has that of STS9. The group separates itself by integrating…
Chris Mullins At the Folk Store If you are a person who looks at things that exist in places that are not the Internet, you might notice this week that we’ve got Louis Meyers on the cover of The Pitch. Meyers is one of the founders of South by Southwest, and the organization he now heads up, Folk Alliance International,…
The Shawnee City Council probably expected Tony Lauer to speak against a tax-increment-financing project slated for the western part of the suburban city. Lauer is a frequent guest at Shawnee City Hall, often making open-records requests and questioning City Council members’ actions. At the council’s August 12 meeting, Lauer analyzed a TIF project – 222 townhomes at Johnson Drive and…
Flickr: Damian Gadal Let’s talk about tips and checks. It’s the end of the meal, and the check comes. The server places it in the middle of your large group. And the math begins. You may soon need to add another calculation into the mix. The Orlando Sentinel writes that the Darden Restaurants – the group behind Olive Garden and…
Ashford Stamper We uncorked Billy’s Hit it a Ton sauce. KC’s surging sports teams seem to be running on smoke and molasses. Exhibit A: the Royals, a club now in the habit of dousing walk-off heroes in what players call “Rally Sauce” (Billy Butler’s Hit It a Ton barbecue sauce). Oklahoma Joe’s has played a role at the K, too….
Bastianich’s latest book will be out in October. Lidia Bastianich, the Italian grandmother you always wished you had, will be in town on Wednesday, September 4, for a celebration of her restaurant’s 15th anniversary in the Freight House building. Bastianiach will host the four-course dinner at Lidia’s (101 W. 22nd St.) that runs from 5 to 9 p.m. After the…
Name: Kathy Hanis Occupation: Owner of Entertainment Plus PR & Talent Hometown: Kansas City. Lived in L.A. for 10 years, and I miss it. Love the ocean and the energy. Current neighborhood: Westwood, Kansas What I do (in 140 characters): I am a publicist and talent agent. I pitch clients and arrange interviews and book talent for commercials or feature films….
Laura Norris has found a fireplace, investors and a concept. Will Cucina della Raguzza open soon? Not all archaeological discoveries are found buried in the ground – at least not in Westport. In the narrow storefront space at 301 Westport Road, last occupied by the Broadway Roasting Co. as a retail annex, Laura Norris discovered a gas-operated stone fireplace hidden…
Murder and pillaging and drink specials. Tomorrow at the Black and Gold Tavern (3740 Broadway), you can get a little blood and guts with your booze. The Mizzou bar is putting on a grim-sounding theme night – one commemorating William Quantrill’s infamous raid on Lawrence, Kansas. Wednesday marks the 150th anniversary of the attack, which resulted in 164 deaths, many…
Milbourn’s/Facebook It took less than six months for Milbourn’s Food & Drink Company to vanish. Three months after restaurateur Rick Milbourn – his family owns the popular home-style restaurant called Milbourn’s Family Restaurant in Faucett, Missouri – opened a full-service, comfort-food dining spot called Milbourn’s Food & Drink Company, at 6409 N. Cosby in the Northland’s Picture Hills Shopping Center,…
File Brownback wants to put one of his top employees on the appeals court. Caleb Stegall has been a dependable legal and political authority for some of Kansas’ most prominent and controversial Republicans. Most recently, he has served as chief counsel to Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback. Stegall’s work must have left an impression on his boss because Brownback is now…
Facebook: KC Beer Fest The KC Beer Fest is back. After a year off, the KC Beer Fest returns on Saturday, September 28, and it’s got a new sponsor. The Flying Saucer Draught Emporium is hosting the local beer festival, and, accordingly, it’s been moved to the KC Live area in the Power & Light District. The lineup of 60…
Facebook: Organized Chaos The green-wheeled Organized Chaos food truck is ready to get rolling. It’s fusion food on four wheels. Organized Chaos, a new food truck from Bret Coker and Marissa McWilliams, is closer to being up and running, thanks to a successful Kickstarter campaign that just ended last Friday. The life and, now, food truck partners are ready to…
Eric “Mean” Melin took second in U.S. Air Guitar’s national championship Saturday night in Los Angeles. Melin fell one-tenth of a point short of Lt. Facemelter in the finals. (Take a look back at Melin’s L.A. adventure in this slideshow via the LA Weekly.) But this doesn’t mark the end of Melin’s air-guitar journey. In a blog post on his…
Google may jump to Leawood Google Fiber is spreading quickly to Kansas City-area suburbs. The Leawood City Council tonight is expected to vote on whether it will have Google Fiber come to the wealthy Johnson County suburb. An amended City Council agenda went out for Monday evening’s meeting that will have the council deciding on network agreements with Google Fiber…
The Kansas City Museum Advisory Board is having friction not only with Union Station but also from within the mayoral-appointed board itself. Kansas City Attorney William Geary wrote an August 8 letter to KCMAB chairwoman Martha Lally to explain to her what kind of legal protection the city offers its board members. The letter, Geary wrote, was in response to…
Jon Baldwin is heading west. Most fans probably won’t notice. The Chiefs have ditched draft dud Jon Baldwin in a trade with the San Francisco 49ers. In return, they’re getting one of the 49ers’ draft dud receivers. Seems fair enough. The Chiefs took Baldwin with the 26th overall pick in 2011, but he didn’t do much. His tenure in Kansas…
Beignet owner Bryan Merker and his chief barista, Cody Steffen, are bringing coffee and fried French doughnuts to 39th Street. Restaurateur Bryan Merker has had such a success with his beignet-and-coffee concept at the City Market (the breakfast-and-lunch cafe, Beignet, opened in May) that he opened a second Beignet, serving the same menu as the City Market location, on Saturday…
Mike Licht, Notionscapital.com Keep your knife and fork at 10 and two? In most states, there’s a big difference between a carhop and eating the thing your car hops over. But most states aren’t Montana. The New York Times writes about a new law, which allows residents of Montana to take what they strike, or see on the side of…
Facebook: Taste of Brazil Taste of Brazil opens today. The World Cup won’t kick off in Brazil until next summer, but you don’t have to wait until then to see what the largest country in South America has to offer. The Taste of Brazil Market (25 E. Third St.) opens today in the City Market. Owners Marco Rabello and Christian…
