Nashville hot mac & cheese from Taps on Main. There’s nothing that can top Sunday’s Chiefs win. So while we take this week to celebrate and revel in our involvement with season 54 (!!!!!), we can do it with mac and cheese in hand. The Pitch’s Mac & Cheese Week starts today with half-priced mac and cheese dishes at a…
Photo by April Fleming Utilizing exceptional proprietary Costa Rican roasts and the city’s only Slayer espresso machine (it’s very nice), Second Best Coffee in Waldo has been a hit among KC coffee heads since it opened in 2014. Espresso shots and pour-overs are always a solid choice here, but the current winter menu includes several standouts. One is the 511,…
Photo courtesy of Dave Eggers Dave Eggers is an award winning author, best known for his work A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius and for founding the literary magazine McSweeney’s. Amid his work running nonprofits and churning out books, he’s been touring the country in the last year, hitting up as many Trump supporter rallies as he can. He’s trying…
Up the walls at ROKC North. // Photo by Chase Castor. If, a year ago, you drove past the low-slung, red-brick building that today houses Sequence, you’d never have guessed that, soon, all day long, people would be learning how to scale boulders inside it. But to Graham and Dara Hess, co-owners of the climbing gym, this Crossroads structure was…
Dear Dan: I’m a 26-year-old bisexual woman with a history of self-harm. It hasn’t been much of an issue for the last few years, but my sex life has improved a lot in that time. I realized that I am quite submissive and masochistic, and I have found a wonderful Dominant partner who I’ve gotten to explore that kink with…
Photo courtesy of Kansas City Actors Theatre It’s a quiet Saturday night in the Cates home. Thelma, a widow with a sweet tooth and a love for gossip, is content to have a manicure and do some needlework. Jessie, her recently divorced daughter, is cleaning a gun. ‘night, Mother, the Pulitzer-prize-winning drama now playing at Kansas City Actors Theatre, lays…
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The open brick hearth showcases Fox and Pearl’s wood-fired cooking. // Photo by Zach Bauman In 2019, Kansas City’s restaurant scene felt like a Dickens novel. I couldn’t keep up with all the openings—until I couldn’t keep up with all the closings. The best of times, the worst of times. Restaurant margins are always tight; this business has few safe…
Photo by Leanne Araya You enter the Theater of Folly. Gatekeepers guard the portal. But you carry a tribute. You present it to the guards. They let you pass, lead you to your throne. Now the real mission begins. You’re here to see a chamber music concert called “A New World: Intimate Music from Final Fantasy.” Orchestras performing scores from…
Director John Alexander’s documentary, This Is Love, tells the story of Wichita soul singer extraordinaire, Rudy Love. While his name is one of those best known to crate-digging heads, his influence and talent can be heard on the recordings of Ray Charles, Isaac Hayes, the Soul Searchers, and more. Love was also Sly Stone’s bandleader and tour manager for the…
Courtesy Chef Shanita McAfee Bryant Monday, January 13 Chef Shanita McAfee Bryant (formerly of the fantastic Magnolia’s Restaurant), along with the Prospect Board, is launching a brand-new culinary training school, the Prospect Urban Eatery. The culinary school will be located on Prospect Avenue in Kansas City, Missouri, and will work to “provide quality workforce training, programs, and entrepreneurial training for…
After a whirlwind year, the KC native indie-pop band Greeting Committee returned home for a show at Uptown Theater. We spoke with Addie Sartino, which you can read here, before checking out Saturday’s packed performance. Snow and ice couldn’t stop Greeting Committee fans. Categories: Music Tags: Addie Sartino, greeting committee, uptwon theater
Outside during 2019’s Women’s March. // Photo by Kelcie McKenney. In January 2018, Randy Fikki’s daughter asked him why other cities in the U.S. were holding Women’s Marches but not Kansas City. It had been a year since the original Women’s March brought over 10,000 people to Washington Square Park, near Crown Center, to protest Donald Trump’s inauguration. So Fikki,…
Dear Dan: I have a question about porn, and I can’t think who else I can ask that will give me an intelligent, educated answer. In modern porn, anal on women is gaining popularity. I’m a fan of anal with my boyfriend. However, in porn, it seems like the gaping asshole is a thing, a sought after thing, a desired…
Photo by April Fleming Still in his twenties, Taylor Petrahn of Lawrence’s 1900 Barker has already earned two James Beard Award nominations. We’ll eat anything he prepares at the bakery and cafe, from his rustic breads (roasted garlic and salt sourdough, Danish-style seeded rye) to his daily focaccia pizzas, which feature fresh, seasonal ingredients grown in Lawrence. But perhaps the…
Photo by Elizabeth Miranda In 2014, Addie Sartino, Brandon Yangmi, Pierce Turcotte, and Austin Fraser were students at Blue Valley High School who had just started a promising indie-pop group called The Greeting Committee. Flash forward five years, and those young pups have grown from a local band into a national act that tours with heavy hitters like Rainbow Kitten…
(Courtesy Boulevard Brewing Company) Tuesday, January 7 Head to Boulevard Tours & Rec Center (2534 Madison Avenue) today from 5-7 p.m. for the first-ever release of Phantom Haze and Tank 7 beers in Tallboy cans. Free samples will be available in the gift shop, with additional specials including $5 featured flights, $5 pretzel dogs, and $5 off crowlers. Thursday, January…
“Their approach is a throwback to how democracy is supposed to work,” says Third District Councilman Brandon Ellington. // Photo by Chase Castor Tiana Caldwell had never been involved in civil activism of any kind until a little over a year ago. The 42-year-old had more pressing concerns. In the spring of 2018, Caldwell was diagnosed for the second time…
The holidays are over, we’re all crawling out of our booze and food cocoons, and arguably telling ourselves that this is the year we get our shit together. While you make your lackluster, half-hearted attempts to keep those New Year’s resolutions, take a look at the latest roundup of local music videos. With new music from Spencer Raymond & Ricky…
Dear Dan: I’m a mid-20s cis straight man. After my girlfriend and I finished college, she moved overseas to start her job. We’ve broken up twice and gotten back together twice. We are interested in opening up our relationship, but I have reservations. She wants the freedom to throw herself into her new world without the constraint of having to…
Cherven Desauguste (right) and Mehret Tesfamariam are moving Mesob across the street. // Photo by Zach Bauman It’s not just a new year but a new decade. Will the local food and drink trends of today—food halls, arcade bars, combination game-and-nosh spaces (pickleball, volleyball), breweries, distilleries—still be en vogue in 2030? Will the planet be inhabitable? Nobody knows! But here’s…
