Do you like crafts? How about beer? Then keep your Saturday, November 1, open. The Pitch’s first Crafts and Drafts takes place from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. at the Uptown Shopping Center (36th Street and Broadway). Expect more than 75 craft vendors and more than 25 beers. Best of all, the event is free to attend. That’s right. Free….
There’s still time to cast your ballot in the 2013 Best of Kansas City awards. Voting wraps up at 11:59 p.m. Tuesday, so if you haven’t voted, click here to do so. We’ll announce the winners in our big Best of Kansas City issue October 10. Categories: Food & Drink Tags: best of kansas city, Kansas City, kansas city
Big plate, tiny portion, serious satisfaction: the story at Friday’s Uberdine, including this deconstructed “ratatouille.” There were 10 courses – tasting-sized offerings – served last Friday night at Uberdine, the one-night-only pop-up restaurant experiment by local chef Joe Shirley and his wife, Carolina. Each course was delicate, dainty and, on those big serving plates, almost starkly beautiful. No one seemed…
Oh, Cher. A true diva’s diva – and no good with goodbyes. It’s been eight years since Cher’s “Farewell Tour,” and now the 67-year-old icon is back with bells on. Her 49-date “Dressed to Kill” tour runs from March to July next year and is in support of her new album Closer to the Truth. The Goddess of Pop arrives…
Fried arepas and empanadas are the signature dishes at the new Empanada Madness restaurant. Two weeks ago, young entrepreneur Andrea Penaloza opened her first restaurant, Empanada Madness, at 906 Southwest Boulevard. Yes, it serves Venezuelan-style empanadas, but she’s also serving arepas, pastellitos (puffier, Cuban-style empanadas), hallacas (Venezuelan tamales steamed in plantain leaves), tequeños (fried breadsticks filled with queso blanco) as…
April Fleming The Fine Times Stage With the exception of last Thursday’s crazy thunderstorms, the conditions were perfect at this past week’s Walnut Valley Bluegrass Festival (known simply as “Winfield” to many). Pecan Grove was its boozy, bustling self, the fair food was fried and delicious, and there was music everywhere. One of the best attributes of this festival is…
Over the weekend, someone climbed atop the roof at a business on the 6200 block of St. John Avenue in Northeast Kansas City, wrapped some foil around a little satellite device that transmits credit-card information and then made off with $1,665 worth of cigarettes. This elaborate scam repeated itself two other times (and maybe a third) over the weekend. Kansas…
White, boy. Best known as the comedian who sipped scotch, smoked cigars and never fit in as well as the rest of the guys on the wildly successful Blue Collar Comedy Tour, Ron White just announced a lot of dates for his A Little Unprofessional tour. He’ll arrive at the Midland for a performance of bluer-than-Foxworthy comedy on Saturday, May…
Forget the Cronut. The only croissant product you need is a croissant – especially if it’s the one stuffed with goat cheese and fig preserve at Parisi Café. It’s a delight for fans of the savory-sweet combination. The crumbly goat cheese and its natural partner, a sticky fig spread, are enclosed in a crackly, buttery crust. The ratio of goat…
Just last week, we thought Alcides Escobar wiggling out of a pickle en route to a stolen home plate was the most thrilling play for this year’s improbable Kansas City Royals season. Lacking clairvoyance, we didn’t know that Justin Maxwell had a walk-off grand slam in him. The 29-year-old journeyman, whom the Royals got in a late-summer trade from the…
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President Barack Obama arrived at the Ford Stamping Plant in Liberty carrying with him a page from the Republican Party’s annoying and specious rhetoric playbook. In order to explain the complexities of the economy to a crowd of regulars, Obama decided to compare personal finances with federal budget, even though it’s well-established that neither is related in any functional way….
If you were planning on seeing Drake perform at the Sprint Center on Sunday, October 6, with Miguel and Future, you’re gonna have to sit on that ticket for a little while longer. Drake has just announced the rescheduling of 13 shows on his extensive North American “Would You Like a Tour?” including his Kansas City date. The rearranging is…
David Bromberg. A quiet breed of folk icon, David Bromberg collaborated with some of the greats in the 1960s and ’70s: Dylan, the Dead, George Harrison. In the ’80s, he quit touring and recording in order to study violin making. He has since returned to the biz and releases occasional albums, like 2011’s Use Me (which featured appearances by Levon…
Barfology.com (seriously) Fares are rising for bad drunks. Manhattan, Kansas, is not a very big place. How far from one end of town to the other? Ten minutes at most? But too many Kansas State undergrads are drinking too many Fireball shots and Bud Lights, and eating too much pizza dipped in ranch sauce. Then some of them get in…
Stomp the yard. Nineties revivalists (the 1890s) Mumford & Sons disappointed several thousand local fans earlier this summer when it postponed its June show due to member Ted Dwane’s emergency surgery to remove a blood clot from his brain. The chart-topping British folkies return for their rain check tonight. Tickets are sold out, but you can likely still score some…
Laura Jane Grace. One of the more interesting stories in the world of punk last year was Against Me bandleader Thomas James Gabel’s coming out as a transsexual woman. Gabel now goes by Laura Jane Grace and is undergoing hormone-replacement therapy (her ferocious voice will be unaffected), and Against Me is expected to release its new album – the aptly…
Coming very soon. Fresh off telling the crowd at a Louis Vuitton party in Tokyo to go fuck itself, Fiona Apple has added a date to her Anything We Want tour. And it is in Lawrence, at Liberty Hall, in less than a month: Saturday, October 12. Apple will be joined by Blake Mills, who seems to have collaborated with…
Marcheski Hervey is the new executive chef at Remedy Food + Drink. Don’t worry, the eggplant fries dripping with Missouri honey are not going off the menu at Remedy Food + Drink at 500 West 75th Street. “We could never take them off the menu,” the pretty server told me. “Almost every table that comes in here orders them.” In…
Sabrina Staires Brewer Bryan Buckingham and owner Bryce Schaffter will have plenty to smile about next Friday. The pints are ready to be poured in the Northland. Cinder Block Brewery (110 East 18th Avenue, North Kansas City), part of the new wave of microbreweries coming to Kansas City (featured in this Pitch cover story from July), will have its grand…
Bloodbirds represent. I was on vacation last week and didn’t get back in until late Sunday night, so I missed the KC stop of Station to Station, a free series of “pop-up happenings” put on by Levi’s. (More on the concept here.) On hand at Union Station were local acts Bloodbirds and Conquerors, plus Eleanor Friedberger (one half of the…
