If you’ve landed at pitch.com in recent days, you’ve probably noticed that The Pitch is about to bring, like, a truckload of bacon and bourbon into your life. Thursday, April 16, our second-annual Bacon & Bourbon festival goes down. And we’ve added something new: the Cocktail Corner, where six local bartenders are working up six original, limited-edition bourbon cocktails. That…
On June 11, 2009, Max Seifert was summoned by Wyandotte County Undersheriff Larry Roland. Roland told Seifert that he was off detective duty with the Sheriff’s Office. Roland, according to Seifert’s account of the conversation, said the Sheriff’s Office had determined that Seifert’s credibility was in doubt. Seifert could be a liability for the department if he continued to work…
A retired schoolteacher named Tom Alexander told me recently that he makes more than a thousand dollars a week driving for Uber. He wakes up at 6 a.m. on weekdays and is logged in and ready to shuttle folks around Kansas City until about 4:45 p.m., when his wife gets home from work. Occasionally, he also does weekend pickups and…
Classical pianist, composer and teacher Seymour Bernstein, 88, has inspired hundreds to make classical music their life and has introduced countless people to the work of old masters through his concerts in unusual venues (including war zones) and on his YouTube channel. And now, thanks to four-time Oscar nominee and first-time documentary director Ethan Hawke, he’s also a movie star….
In Olathe last night, a three-alarm fire ravaged the better part of a strip mall. Destroyed in the blaze were a Fronteras Mexican Restaurant and Cantina, a Sprint store, a nail salon and a KFC. (Nobody was injured.) The Kansas City Star’s report on the fire includes the following pieces of information: As workers using heavy equipment tore down the…
If you happen to know where the young midtown entrepreneur Zaid Consuegra can get his hands on an inexpensive used three-compartment sink, you may save his four-month-old coffeehouse, Pirate’s Bone, at 645 East 59th Street, from walking the proverbial gangplank. Last Friday, Consuegra was forced to put a sign on his shop’s front door, announcing that the venue was closed for…
Today is going to be busy for local liquor-store clerks. Blame Boulevard. And praise Boulevard. The Kansas City brewery is unloading two of its biggest releases — Love Child No. 5 and Saison-Brett — this month. And that’s not even close to all: Cans of Unfiltered Wheat, Pop-Up IPA and Ginger-Lemon Radler are on the way. If your mouth puckered…
Ike Opara was set to have a break out year in 2015. Sporting Kansas City’s front office took a chance on the 26-year-old to play a major role for the team’s defense after it parted ways with Aurelien Collin during the offseason. The gamble looked like it would paid off: Opara has been the brightest spot for Sporting KC so…
The thing about Erik Mariscal is that the dude seems totally normal. When you find him behind the bar at the Local Pig Westport, where he is bar manager, he’s usually smiling, pouring a beer, mixing a drink, carrying around supplies – he’s doing regular bartender things. Nothing is out of the ordinary. But Mariscal, who comes from a cooking…
Steve Spangler carries around a card in his wallet that lists all the food products that can provoke an allergic reaction in his athletic, 6-foot-3-inch body. The list includes yeast, gluten, dairy products, broccoli, ginger, and cabbage. When he opens, in a few months, a fresh juice cafe called Simple Science Juices in the former Villa Capri location at 8126…
Last Thursday, the Kansas City, Missouri, City Council approved a revised set of rules and regulations for so-called transportation-network companies (“TNCs”) like Uber and Lyft. The intent was to make the city more friendly to such companies. But Uber says the amendments do not go far enough, and it is threatening to leave town as a result. Before the vote,…
Country music star and husband to Faith Hill, Tim McGraw, has just announced a new tour in support of his latest full-length, Sundown Heaven Town. McGraw stops at Cricket Wireless Amphitheater on Friday, July 24. Time to dust off the ol’ cowboy hat. Tickets go on sale Friday, April 17, at 10 a.m. via LiveNation. Categories: News Tags: country, cricket…
“I didn’t start in craft bartending,” Margot Thompson tells me. It’s a weekday happy hour at Farmhouse in the River Market, and Thompson, the restaurant’s bar manager, flits between pouring beer and opening wine bottles. “I actually worked at Garozzo’s and Midland, various concert halls, but that’s when I was first able to really get creative with bartending, with dessert…
Kansas’ recent passage of a reckless gun bill and a weird welfare-restriction bill (no cruise ships for the poor!) earned the state eight minutes of ridicule before a national audience on The Daily Show last night. Among other things, host Jon Stewart pointed out the absurdity of recent statements by Rep. Travis Couture-Lovelady (who believes that eliminating gun training somehow…
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The first thing Affäre’s bar manager, Chelsea Almeida, offers me is not a beverage but a spoonful of a gooey, lumpy brown mixture. “I made this bacon-raisin jam,” she tells me. “I’m not sure how it turned out.” Almeida’s sales pitch isn’t inspiring, but she has never steered me wrong – and besides, the smell is incredible. From across the bar,…
The Kansas City, Missouri, City Council today voted unanimously in favor of a new and revised ordinance that will relax regulations and lower fees for “transportation network companies” such as Uber and Lyft. In a thundering speech, Mayor Sly James stressed the importance of background checks for drivers and blasted Uber for refusing to negotiate with the city. He accused the company…
Here’s the bad news: This year’s Caffeine Crawl, featuring 13 different local coffee or tea vendors, is completely sold out. The good news? The Roasterie’s latest Latte Art Throw Down, a competition of local baristas (there’s no pre-registration for the event, any barista with $5 can enter; the Roasterie expects all 32 spots to be filled) is open to the…
It’s been two years since chef Gina Stipo last created a dinner with local chef Jasper Mirabile Jr. People remembered, though. The sequel, a “Tuscan Spring Dinner” tonight at Jasper’s, has been sold out for a while. And Stipo remembers living in Kansas City, though it’s been awhile. “I was still in the corporate world then,” she says. Stipo left…
This year’s Kansas City FilmFest is going back in time with the man who made time travel in a DeLorean conceivable. In honor of the 30th anniversary of Back to the Future, co-screenwriter and producer Bob Gale is presenting a new Digital Cinema Package 2K version of the film at 7 p.m. Saturday, April 18, at Cinemark Palace on the…
