If you arrive at Mesob Pikliz a shade before the posted noon opening time and find the front door locked, just keep knocking. Haitian-born chef Cherven Desauguste and his Eritrean-born wife, Mehret, are still a little security-conscious. Their 28-month-old business was robbed this month. “They came right through the front door,” Desauguste told me last week. The thieves didn’t cause…
Mesob Pikliz makes dishes that are stewed, blackened, fried, braised, sautéed and simmered, using a more exotic panoply of spices than soul food’s African-American architects typically had on hand. But the concepts are the same. Photography by Angela C. Bond
%{}% The U.S. Attorney’s Office in Kansas City acknowledges that hundreds of Kansas City employees played a part in scamming the city’s insurance provider, but so far only five have had to answer to federal authorities, until a sixth did so on Wednesday. Crystal Burgin-Woods, a (former) 43-year-old Municipal Court employee, pleaded guilty to stealing $185,000 from Blue Cross/Blue Shield,…
Some of the paintings showed up, but the pancakes are gone forever. Three weeks ago, the owners of Simply Breakfast, the restaurant at 4120 Pennsylvania, abruptly closed the doors to the three-year-old Westport breakfast-and-lunch business. A handwritten paper sign stating, “Simply Breakfast is now closed” was posted with duct tape to the front door. Local artist James Sawyer wrote a…
Megan Mantia If you smell cigarette smoke at Succotash, the ghost is at the bar. A number of Kansas City restaurants are known to have patrons or former tenants materialize from beyond the grave, apparently unwilling to pass gently into the Great Beyond. Most of the haunted are older buildings with long and colorful histories. There’s Pierpont’s, for example, the…
It sounds like the ultimate freaky Halloween excursion: Go to a parking lot in Westport, walk in a back door and enter a business that offers hoodoo spellwork, hex breaking, psychic readings, graveyard magic and, soon, séances. What may catch an outsider by surprise, though, is the cheery atmosphere in Good Luck: A Kansas City Conjure Shop (4009 Central, 816-756-5551)….
Hometown: KCMO Current neighborhood: West Bottoms What I do (in 140 characters): Help people of all ages improve mind, body and soul. Body mostly! What’s your addiction? The Kansas City Royals What’s your game? BASEketball. Can’t believe that it hasn’t replaced hockey as one of the main sports in the United States. What’s your drink? Tequila Where’s dinner? Usually on…
We’re getting to the heart of this candy matter. Before you were into fantasy football or had to track your 401(k), the only trade that mattered was the con you’d pull on your friend after you were done trick-or-treating. When the bags got emptied, the score was simple: Swap a fistful of mystery-flavor Dum Dums (the mystery flavor, to the…
At least one resident of 2004 Grand, chef Hope Dillon, is ready to crack some nuts. Tomorrow morning, representatives from MSG Investments, owners of the Cashew Bar & Grill at 2000 Grand, will appear before Regulated Industries to appeal the denial of the Cashew’s proposed expansion of premises and addition of live entertainment. It comes down to this: The Cashew…
Nazis, along with Ku Klux Klansmen and members of Aryan Nations, are expected gather the afternoon of November 9 at the Jackson County Courthouse in Kansas City for a large rally. Buddy Rumble, a Midwestern director of the National Socialist Movement – Nazis, for short – in the United States, thinks more than 1,000 people will show up on November…
Ahh, Halloween. The one day of the year where you have a totally legitimate excuse to look as ridiculous and eat as much candy as you want. Well, actually, these days, October 31 effectively lasts seven days in either direction of its actual place on the calendar. There were plenty debaucheries to be had this past weekend, and the fun…
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Cashill takes a teenage liberal down a peg. Jack Cashill is a local writer and hilariously inept conspiracy theorist who has authored books like Deconstructing Obama: The Life, Loves, and Letters of America’s First Postmodern President, and more recently, If I had a Son: Race, Guns, and the Railroading of George Zimmerman. The former asserts that Barack Obama did not…
Rosso will have a magnificent view, craft cocktails, and free valet parking when it opens on November 6. Brian Archibald, the 33-year-old executive chef of the uncompleted Rosso restaurant atop the seven-story – and still unfinished – Hotel Sorella, has only heard about the Thanksgiving-night lighting festivities (some call it madness, but whatever) on the Country Club Plaza. “I know…
Local Celtic folk-pop act the Elders are across the pond in Ireland on an annual tour this month, and they’ve been streaming performances from the homeland. This evening, at the Arklow Bay Conference Center Lounge in Wicklow, the Elders have a performance scheduled for 9 p.m. that you can stream live at the Ustream channel here. Highly recommended for multiple…
The Boxer Rebellion Riot Room, Kansas City Friday, October 25 Friday night’s scene at the Riot Room didn’t provide the usual show backdrop for the Boxer Rebellion. To borrow words from lead singer/guitarist/keyboardist Nathan Nicholson, we all could have introduced ourselves and how we first learned of the band in the time it takes someone to use the restroom and…
