Dana Self, art critic for The Pitch and director of marketing for the University of Missouri-Kansas City Conservatory, was eating lunch with a friend at Avenues Bistro in Brookside today. Shortly after her blackened grouper salad arrived ("They say it's blackened grouper, but it's really just grilled," Self says), the sound of shattering glass silenced conversations and the restaurant literally vibrated.
"My first thought was that the shelves had fallen in the bar," Self reports. "B
