Subject: Indianapolis

• Our Daily Bread

  July 30, 2007

• Fancy New Republic Tigers Videos

  April 30, 2008

• Parking Meters Invade Crossroads

  June 11, 2008

• Our Daily Bread

  July 30, 2007

• KC = Sixth-Worst City to be a Sports Fan

  August 27, 2008

• Where Is It? It's Here!

  September 17, 2008

• The Download: Margot and the Nuclear So and So’s Live Session

  November 3, 2008

• Why can't Kansas City have a deli like this?

  Why can't Kansas City have a delicatessen like Shapiro's Delicatessen in my hometown of Indianapolis? When it comes to barbecue, Kansas City has it all over Indianapolis, which never really embraced smoked meats the way this river city has over the decades. And Kansas City has better steakhouses, too. But as far as delicatessens go, Kansas City comes up short-handed.

  December 1, 2008

• Dim sum and dimmer memories

    While I was visiting Indianapolis this week, my younger brother wanted to go out for dim sum. "It's served in this dumpy little restaurant on the west side of town," my brother said, "but the food is really good." I was game, so we drove to the dumpy little restaurant, Shen Yang, out near one of those dying suburban malls. The building didn't look familiar to me, but the faux Colonial-style doors and the spartan interior of the restaurant looked vaguely familiar. As I bit

  November 28, 2008

• Remembering having not been there

  May 11, 2000

• Various Artists

  October 3, 2002

• All The President's Men

  January 16, 2003

• Best Hope for the Future

  October 9, 2003

• Kansas City one of the top 10 manliest cities

  Flickr: Andjam79Kansas City brings the testosterone. That is, if you believe a new study commissioned by the snack Combos and executed by research company Bert Sperling (of the semi-famous Best Places to Live list).They determined Nashville to be the number one manliest city followed by Charlotte, Oklahoma City, Cincinnati, Denver, St. Louis, Columbus and then us. Take that, Indianapolis and Toledo -- numbers 9 and 10. New York was dead last at 50, and Los Angeles was close at 49.My excitement a

  March 6, 2009

• Drive Through

  April 21, 2005

• Where's the Beef?

  May 26, 2005

• Separate Checks

  June 30, 2005

• Shrimp Vote

  September 22, 2005

• The best sandwiches in America, they say

  myburningkitchen.blogspot.com  The excellent culinary blog slashfood.com has some great stuff on it, including a hilarious post about a man who had his resignation letter to his employers written in blue frosting on a vanilla sheet cake. What caught our eye was this list of "The Best Sandwiches in America" compiled by the blog's readers. Pitch managing editor Scott Wilson was pleased to see one Kansas City entry on the list: the pork and beef barbecue at LC's Bar-B-Que, one of my a

  March 17, 2009

• Late Show

  October 12, 2006

• Margot and the Nuclear So and Sos

  November 30, 2006

• Forgetting history and ignoring evidence, Kansas City pursues a convention hotel

  May 1, 2008

• They Do It Their Way

  March 13, 2008

• Sacred Cows and Other Legends

  The food critic pauses to consider some myths about Kansas City hamburgers.

  November 29, 2007

• Malaysian Persuasion

  The Malay Café helps make the Northland an ethnic-dining destination.

  November 15, 2007

• Steak Out

  September 7, 2006

• Kids or Cigs?

  The Shakespeare Festival's food vendors rough it in the park.

  July 6, 2006

• John Larner & David Scuba

  Friday, January 13, at Kabal

  January 12, 2006

• On the Edge

  Kansas City joins the friends of Fringe.

  July 28, 2005

• The Love Buzz

  Veda's on the rise but still gets hometown props.

  May 5, 2005

• One Vine Day

  December 16, 2004

• Man Bites Dog

  May 13, 2004

• Dancing With Myself

  In the strange world of Kansas City's Dance Dance Revolutionaries, Wayne Giles didn't step so lightly.

  March 18, 2004

• Funny Business

  Boulevard Grill is washing the bad karma from its location with ... beer.

  April 24, 2003

• Rough Riders

  Dan Jackson and KC's Most Wanted dream big -- but need a little more practice.

  February 27, 2003

• No-Tell Hotel

  City Hall jumps into bed with the President, and Kansas City taxpayers might not respect them in the morning.

  August 22, 2002

• RockFour Peace

  Israel's RockFour keeps politics out of its music, but its American fans want the inside scoop.

  June 20, 2002

• Street Wise

  At City Hall, it should be easy to spend $35 million.

  June 6, 2002

• Send in the Clones

  Fake Fest's bands trace classic-rock masterpieces.

  May 16, 2002

• Run of the Green Mill

  The Green Mill’s pizzas shine, but everything else is the same old grind.

  November 1, 2001

• Back from Hell

  Tech N9ne experienced hell, lived to tell, and now he's ready to sell.

  August 23, 2001

• New York State of Mind

  It's kind of like a Big Apple deli, without hot food.

  February 8, 2001

• Strictly Mainstream

  Curbside recycling is the mainstream thing to do.

  August 3, 2000

• Monday Night Blues

  Dennis Miller is funny, but he's no Don Meredith or Howard Cosell.

  July 6, 2000

• Local psychology professor gets involved in NFL draft

  February 24, 2000

• Daily Briefs: Coffee's for closers only.

  "Meth lab" is no longer an acceptable punchline for a joke. So this federal grand jury has indicted 22 area residents for alleged involvement with the theft of $22 million of allergy medicine, an important chemical constituent for meth labs, the moonshine stills of the 21st century. The Roscoe P. Coltraines who made the arrests, probably by cutting off Coy and Vance Duke before they could reach the county line in their racist muscle car, were probably just trying to help Boss Hogg get the deed

  May 22, 2009

• For those who comment, we salute you ...

  We love hearing from you guys, and we'd like to salute everyone who commented this week. Even those of you who call us DBs!Our first-ever "Comment of the Week" is from local blogger and Red X wine connoisseur jjskck who responded to "KC Council says yes to spending $500K on convention hotel study" in this way: Thanks for the update. This is a monumentally stupid waste of money. Here's what the study will say: KC needs a hotel with 1,055 rooms (1,000 is too round a number; they have to make

  June 19, 2009

• Kansas City’s urban parks: Where leadership fails

  September 10, 2009

• Waterboy Watch, week 6: Funk's Footballers win

  ​KJ was no match for the Funk. Kansas City Mayor Mark Funkhouser's fantasy football team laid the smack down on former NBA star and Sacramento Mayor Kevin Johnson's Sack-town's Finest, 100-62. Funk's Footballers are riding a two-game winning streak. This week, Funk got a huge game out of New England receiver Wes Welker (150 yards receiving and two touchdowns for 27 fantasy points) and good games out of Atlanta wide receiver Roddy White (56 yards receiving and a touchdown) and Green Bay kicker

  October 20, 2009

• Selig promises Royals an All-Star Game

  mlb.com ​It looks like the K is all but announced as the site of the 2012 All-Star Game. The MLB Owner's meeting just wrapped in Chicago, and Commissioner Bud Selig hinted that Kauffman Stadium's recent renovation has impressed a lot of people. As a small digression, can you think of a better name for commissioner of baseball than "Bud." For some reason that just tickles me to no end. Yeah, I wrote "tickles," what of it? Selig was quoted on MLB.com: "I haven't made a final decision, bu

  November 20, 2009