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Subject: Parkville (Brooklyn)

  • South by Northwest

    March 26, 2009
  • Music

    June 4, 2009
  • Mouthing Off

    August 17, 2000
  • Best Canoe Trip

    October 19, 2000
  • Spice World

    February 15, 2001
  • Holy Grail

    April 12, 2001
  • Window Dressing

    June 21, 2001
  • Best Small College Campus Atmosphere

    October 18, 2001
  • Meatballs and Mercedes

    December 13, 2001
  • Hard Ball

    June 13, 2002
  • Market Conditions

    May 29, 2003
  • Worden Up

    February 12, 2004
  • Stage Capsule Reviews

    April 29, 2004
  • Brew Ha Ha

    June 10, 2004
  • Bully Pulpit

    June 24, 2004
  • Hat Trick

    March 24, 2005
  • Stage Capsule Reviews

    April 28, 2005
  • Stage Capsule Reviews

    May 5, 2005
  • Stage Capsule Reviews

    May 12, 2005
  • Stage Capsule Reviews

    July 21, 2005
  • Fueled Up

    September 15, 2005
  • Statute of Liberty

    June 1, 2006
  • Scott Wenzel, Knoxville, Maryland

    November 30, 2006
  • Smell of the Kill

    February 19, 2009
  • Nunplussed

    November 20, 2008
  • Buried Truth

    November 15, 2007
  • T-Shirt IQ Test

    May 24, 2007
  • A Real Spread

    January 11, 2007
  • Northland Exposure

    November 2, 2006
  • Farmer's Market

    June 4, 2009
  • A Refueling

    October 13, 2005
  • L'amour in Parkville

    Café Des Amis typifies the French proverb "The torch of love is lit in the kitchen."

    June 1, 2000
  • A beer kind of weekend

    A pint or two is the perfect way to celebrate this May Day weekend, and Saturday has two events for beer lovers to pick from.Saturday is the sixth-annual Microbrewfest 2009 in underrated Parkville, with more than 25 breweries celebrating the best the Midwest has to offer. A microbrewer is pretty much any place making beer not owned by InBEV or SABMiller. Say, Boulevard or Free State Brewery, both of which will be at the fest, along with other locals like McCoy's, O'Fallon, and the Manhattan

    May 1, 2009
  • Breakfast Buffet: Tuesday, 5/05

    A roundup of Parkville's Microbrewery Festival. It sounds like it was a fantastic time and the weather couldn't have been better. [The Wort Hog]Here are some nice sipping tequilas to celebrate Cinco de Mayo with flair. [Forbes]This article examines whether the alarm over swine flu was justified. To which the answer is no, no, no! [Time]Oh please somebody stop this from happening. Scientists are working on ways that males could get pregnant. What this world doesn't need is both sexes having more

    May 5, 2009
  • Get ready for Bike Week

    In November 2007, I talked to a number of local cycling enthusiasts, who told me about their run-ins with ignorant or abusive motorists who don't know how -- or don't want -- to share the road with their two-wheeled brethren. While Kansas City is moving in the right direction when it comes to making the streets more welcoming to all modes of transit, the best way to reduce the tension is to increase the visibility of those who travel to work and play on Treks and Cannondales, rather than Toyotas

    May 8, 2009
  • Steve Mann has hoes in different area codes

    Steve Mann I used to put smug vegetable gardeners in the same category as militant bicycle riders, self-satisfied Prius drivers and people who can afford to cover their roofs with solar panels. But when a friend invited me to hear Michael Pollan's talk at Unity Temple regarding his newest book, In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto, I was amazed at the throngs of people who showed up. People obviously want to take back control of what they're eating.The same friend who took me to hear Pollan

    June 17, 2009
  • Workers to protest more abundant paychecks

    Working Americans have a few opportunities to express confused outrage at the government this holiday weekend. Tomorrow at 1 p.m., a freedom rally/tea party will be held at the Center for God, Family and Country in Lee's Summit. On July 4 at 9 a.m., a rally for responsibility will take place along Highway 45 in Parkville.The tea parties staged across the U.S. on April 15 protested government spending, particularly the $789-billion stimulus package. Of course, the "taxed enough already" crowd mig

    July 2, 2009
  • Intercontinental Cuisine

    July 16, 2009
  • NEVER FORGET

    September 10, 2009
  • Local Flavor

    September 10, 2009
  • Parkville’s Iron Horse bistro is on the right track

    October 8, 2009
  • Now you have plans for the weekend

    ​You need plans. Fat City has a recycle bin full of event listings. In this post, all of our problems are solved.Let's start the weekend right: with free beer. Boulevard offers free samples of its fall beer, Bob's 47, paired with free offerings from the Fork & Screen at AMC Studio 30 in Olathe. The event (from 5 to 8 p.m.) is tied to the release of the movie Couple's Retreat. To attend, you have to have a movie ticket. Pizza Bar in the Power & Light District celebrates its grand open

    October 9, 2009
  • This week's Pitch and 5 things we learned this week

    ​The deer kill could start today in Shawnee Mission Park, and this weeks' cover story -- "There Will Be Blood" -- profiles animal rights activist Jason Miller's quest to keep sharpshooters from killing Bambi, which includes him toting around a blood-dripping deer head. The deer cull isn't over with Miller promising more surprises. We'll keep you updated.Also inside this week's issue, the Crap Archivist thumbed through Tom Leathers' Kansas City Town Squire and finds the late publisher with an o

    October 9, 2009
  • A new pie shop in Parkville

    You'll be pie-eyed by the selection at Parkville's Pie Room ​A couple of weeks ago, KCUR-FM's Walt Bodine Show devoted half of its twice-monthly Restaurant Critics program to the subject of pies. (You can listen to an archived edition of the show here). The program generated a lot of phone calls, including one from a Parkville resident who wanted to give a shout out to the two-month-old Hawthorne House Pie Room at 6008 N.W. Bell Road. ​The Pie Room isn't a restaurant, although

    October 14, 2009
  • Mezzaluna and Frank’s put homespun comfort before Continental glamour – and that’s fine

    October 29, 2009
  • Top 10 soups in Kansas City

    ​Soup is the ultimate comfort food in winter. There's something about a warm bowl and cold weather that just feels right. Perhaps it stretches back to the days when Julia Child used to make primordial soup. So, Jonathan Bender and Charles Ferruzza set out with their soup spoons in hand in an effort to find out bowls were worthy of a place at a table. The list that follows is the Top 10 Soup options in Kansas City.  10) Roxanne's Cafe -- This family-owned Parkville diner offers two ho

    November 5, 2009
  • Now Open: Shabby Hattie's Tea Room

    It's girly, but the portions are man-sized at Shabby Hattie's Tea Room in Parkville​Professional seamstress and former cocktail waitress Marcia Cherrito (the niece of local entertainer Frank Cherrito) had a dream: She wanted to open her own little tea room that served baked goods, breakfast, lunches and tea. Last week Cherrito threw open the doors to her turquoise-and-teal tea room on downtown Parkville's main drag (113 N. Main). Shabby Hattie's Tea Room and Boutique (named for Cherrito

    November 9, 2009
  • In an age of imitation, Rob's Café and Roxanne's Café are two classic diners

    November 12, 2009
  • This week's "Best of Fat City"

    A rainbow of culinary creativity in one week!​Remember Rainbow Brite? No, not Strawberry Shortcake, that other quasi-cartoon TV character and toy marketing device from the 1980s. Rainbow Brite was full of colorful rainbows and happiness -- just like this week's Top Stories in Fat City!  Well, it was colorful, anyway, beginning with white, as in White Castle -- one of the Top Five Chain Restaurants that Jonathan Bender wished were here in Kansas City. As Pitch readers know, White C

    November 13, 2009
  • Not your average vacation stories from The Roasterie's O'Neill

    ​Learn the story of how beans from around the globe make their way to Kansas City tomorrow morning when the Roasterie's founder Danny O'Neill talks about his coffee business and recent travels as part of Park University School of Business' Global Entrepreneurship Week. O'Neill will be speaking in the McCoy Meetin' House at the Parkville campus at 11 a.m. His lecture at Park University -- he sits on the Board of Trustees -- is free and open to the public. 

    November 17, 2009