Last summer, chef Bryan Merker celebrated the second anniversary of Nica’s 320, his Southwest Boulevard restaurant, by revamping it altogether. The interior of the building is still the same, and a few of the dishes from the previous incarnation have survived the transition, but this new restaurant — now called Lagniappe: Nica’s Cajun Kitchen — is far more focused, polished…
Chef Bryan Merker’s Lagniappe: Nica’s Cajun Kitchen doubles down on Cajun flavor and wins. Take a peek, courtesy of Pitch photographer Angela C. Bond.
In the 1920s and ’30s, the red-brick building at 923 Broadway was an auto-repair shop. Now the building is being demolished so that cars can drive up to buy a Jimmy John’s. Denise Phillips, a contract administrator for the Kansas City Parks and Recreation Department, confirms that the project has been approved. “It was first approved by the Downtown Council,”…
Athens, Georgia’s Dead Confederate makes dark Southern-rock music that goes down like an acid cocktail, and the group is shaking up its special mix this Thursday at the Riot Room. The band’s recently released In the Marrow sounds equal parts Kurt Cobain tribute (thanks to lead singer Thomas Hardy Morris) and Murder By Death (with more edge). Five years…
Online code: BOWE Papa John’s is the official pizza sponsor of the NFL, according to the horrible recording that the pizza chain makes you listen to while you wait on hold to order its horrible pizza. In Kansas City, that means you can order co-branding opportunity pizzas, such as the Dwayne Bowe Special. The DBS includes a large pizza*, breadsticks…
Gawker is sometimes dismissed as a gossip website, a news aggregator and a purveyor of clickbait. But sometimes, it produces solid journalism. Yesterday was one of those days. Gawker writer Adrian Chen on Tuesday unearthed an antiques dealer named Perry Fellwock, who more than 30 years ago exposed to Americans, for the first time in any meaningful detail, the existence and…
Multiple analysts have somehow determined that Kansas City is the worst city in America for dating. Well, yeah. But instead of wallowing in that truth, Meghan Whelan is fighting back. Her weapon: humor. This weekend, Whelan’s two-night storytelling event, Dear Diary: Casual Encounters, reminds us that misery loves company. The Pitch: How did the idea for Casual Encounters come to…
Wyatt is rocking and rolling in the kitchen. A dishwasher and an aging rock star chatted about their shared love of bow hunting backstage at Bonner Springs’ Sandstone Amphitheater (now Cricket Wireless Amphitheater). “He wanted a piece of meat, so I gave him a whole chicken,” Cody James Wyatt says. “The next thing I knew, Ted Nugent was inviting me…
Pink with the Kin Sprint Center, Kansas City Tuesday, November 12 The thing about seeing Pink live in concert is that she just makes you feel really bad about yourself. Not intentionally, of course. For being such a huge international superstar, she actually seems pretty down-to-earth – that might just be her image, but she also handled a brief piano…
Name: Mehgan Flynn Occupation: Co-founder of WyCo Vintage, the largest online retailer of authentic, vintage rock-concert shirts, based right here in KC. And up until last week, I was the director of Kansas City’s World Trade Center. I’ll be opening the first boutique foreign-currency-exchange office in KC this January. Hometown: Kansas City, Kansas Current neighborhood: Morris What I do (in…
Jay Nixon came to Kansas City on August 14, 2012, for one of those ceremonies that elected officials call “groundbreakings.” Groundbreakings are a way to trick media into regurgitating old news (usually for a real-estate development or infrastructure project) as though it were fresh. It’s an opportunity for elected officials to gather in one place, slap each other on the…
Portland dream-pop duo Pure Bathing Culture is creating quite a stir on the good ol’ interweb lately, for mixed reasons. The band’s debut full-length, Moon Tides, is a hazy folk-pop record that seems to embody the mood of a shimmery summertime evening; plenty of critics pass it off as a Beach House rip-off. On the surface, there are plenty of…
JT is on the way. “Bring it on,” we said a few days ago, pondering the upcoming winter months. We were stronger then. Today it is actually cold outside, the kind where it hurts your face a little bit when you’re walking around, and already summer thoughts are creeping into our sad daydreams. To those daydreams, we can now add…
It’s hard to believe that it has been 13 years since Pink strutted into the spotlight, flaunting her trademark pink pixie cut and her tough-girl attitude with the TLC-worthy hit “There You Go.” Here, check out this little blast from the past: Now, as far as international superstars go, Pink is among the hardest to find fault with. She has…
So, Dwayne Bowe, how’d you spend the Chiefs’ bye week? Oh. Fox 4 is reporting that Bowe, who signed a five-year $56 million contract in the offseason, was arrested Sunday by Riverside police for speeding and for possession of marijuana. According to a press release sent out by the Riverside Police Department, an officer clocked Bowe’s black 2011 Audi A8 doing…
Sid Sowder has been around longer than most of the bands he has shot recently. One of Kansas City’s most omnipresent concert photographers, Sowder has a deep love for and dedication to the local music scene. Maybe that’s why he’s so willing to make limited-edition records for local bands with his own money. “I used to run a label for…
It’s that time again. Flogging Molly has just announced that the band will be bringing its 10th Annual Green 17 tour to town. The band that merged Celtic and punk music will be delivering its legendary sounds to the Uptown Theater on Wednesday, March 12. Here’s a video to remind you what Flogging Molly sounds like: Tickets are on sale…
