When the new Kansas City streetcar eventually rumbles by the low-slung building at 1715 Main, the illuminated sign above the door won’t say Bulldog Restaurant & Bar. The building’s owner, Dick Snow, who opened the pub in 2004 (with partners Doug Hartmann and Bill Stoler), plans to close the Bulldog in order to lease the space to a new tenant…
Did a downtown Kansas City developer concoct a ruse in front of a city agency en route to tapping public funds for his project? That’s what we wondered after reading a curious story in the Kansas City Business Journal about the development of the Commerce Tower at 9th and Main. The story, which was posted on May 13, described how Commerce…
Chris Gough’s timing couldn’t be better. His hour-long documentary on the Woodlands, Fun on the Run: The Story of the Woodlands, premieres tonight at 7 on Time Warner Cable Sports Channel, and it comes a week after the Kansas Senate passed a bill aimed at reviving the racetrack, which closed in 2008. “Much like everything I do, it’s all about…
For everyone who has long been wanting a record shop in Crossroads, dreams are about to come true: Josey Records, headquartered in Dallas, is coming to Kanas City. The grand opening will take place in June. You can swing by the address, 1814 Oak Street – the former Promise event space location – to spy on the construction progress. According…
Thou Mayest can pour an excellent cup of coffee, but there’s no reason your beverage experience has to end there. The Crossroads roastery has just as many depressants as stimulants: On the handsome shelves lining the wall behind the bar sit dozens of spirits, waiting for their chance. For this week’s Drink This Now, I decided to seize the opportunity….
Spoon The Midland, Kansas City Monday, May 18 Walking into the Midland at a little after door time, I wondered what the hell happened. There was but a handful of people, most of whom skewed toward the NPR-listening, aging-hipster-with-kids end of the spectrum. It was a slow trickle of folks who made their way in as I nursed a beer…
One of the world’s best-selling groups is making a tour stop at the Sprint Center in Kansas City tomorrow night after spending tonight in Oklahoma City at the home of the Oklahoma City Thunder, Chesapeake Energy Arena, joined by TLC and St. Louis rapper Nelly. Tickets for New Kids On The Block for their May 18 show have an average…
It’s always best to launch into summer with a sense of good taste. Every year for the past 12 years, The Pitch’s annual Taste of Kansas City food-and-drink event has been the lighthearted bacchanal signaling the approach of summer. This year the festivities feature 23 local food and beverage vendors, including Westside Local, Waldo Pizza, Scratch Bakery and Plowboys Barbeque…
If you can’t eat fried chicken without a cold beer or a daiquiri cocktail, you may be in for a disappointment if you make a return visit to the iconic Galvin’s Dinner House in St. Joseph, Missouri. When the 75-year-old fried-chicken restaurant at 6802 Highway 371 reopened in May 2013 after a fire three years earlier destroyed the kitchen and one of…
When the Drug Enforcement Agency goes prospecting for new agents in the Midwest, who do they send out as the face of the organization? A man who is best known for perpetrating an infamous road-rage incident and subsequent beating of a Kansas City, Kansas, man, one that cost local and federal governments thousands of dollars. Tim McCue about a year…
Anyone who was dramatically slamming doors and escaping (or reveling in) teenage angst with a Discman in the ’90s will appreciate the triple bill taking over the Sprint Center tomorrow night, featuring New Kids on the Block, TLC and Nelly. If you were the girl who carefully taped the Bop magazine poster of Joey McIntyre to your bedroom wall, New…
Beck, Willie Nelson Starlight, Kansas City Friday, May 15 For the full slideshow from last night, go here. If anyone was expecting a quiet evening with Beck at Starlight last night, they were sorely disappointed. Though his Grammy Award-winning 2014 album, Morning Phase, was – for the most part – a gentle, subdued outing, his live show was anything but….
Communion Residency is an off-shoot of Communion Music’s Club Nights, which has been a thing in the U.K. since the mid-aughts (thanks in part to its popular co-founders, including Mumford & Son’s Ben Lovett). Once a month, across nine cities in the U.S., the Communion Residency showcases a host of up-and-coming talent at a set venue. Kansas City’s Communion Residency…
It hasn’t been a stellar year for movies so far — I’m looking at you, Get Hard — but you can have your first great movie weekend of 2015 and still wring yourself out in front of Mad Men’s series finale Sunday night. How? Follow these simple steps. Step 1: Get on the roof. Last summer, this is what the…
The AC Hotel Westport, which opened in the former Q Hotel & Spa building in March, is a Marriott brand intent on wooing the Millennial set. Hence, it boasts various iPhone-friendly amenities — mobile check-in, bluetooth speakers in the rooms, free wifi throughout the hotel — and local and artisanal flourishes, like an espresso bar, Christopher Elbow chocolates for sale…
The only true crepes, says master crepe maker Frédérique Guette, are the ones utilizing recipes from the region of France where, historically, the crepe — a light, paper-thin pancake — originated: Brittany. Guette is from Paris, but her husband and business partner, Frédéric Boëté, is from Brittany and a purist. “A savory crepe is called, in the Breton language, a galette. Only…
Rape is not funny. It is an atrocious, vicious, evil act. Yesterday’s Fox 4 News report about rape graffiti, though: hoo boy. It packs several LOLs into a two-minute segment. Recently, somebody spray-painted “HERE’S WHERE I WAS RAPED” on the pavement of a Westport alley on 40th Street between Broadway and Central. Very possibly, the person who tagged that pavement…
