Subject: Raytown

• Summer Drive-Ins: Mugs Up and a Whiz Burger

  June 4, 2008

• Summer Drive-Ins: Mugs Up and a Whiz Burger

  June 4, 2008

• Discovered: Another "Drug Store" Soda Fountain

  August 4, 2008

• Mail

  June 22, 2000

• Letters

  September 14, 2000

• Best Place to Get Your Saws Sharpened

  October 18, 2001

• Best Ball Handler

  October 18, 2001

• Further Review

  January 23, 2003

• Further Review

  January 30, 2003

• Water Pressure

  February 20, 2003

• Priest Collared

  March 27, 2003

• Raytown shows Jesus who's boss, demolishes church

  Heavy equipment reduced the old First Baptist Church in downtown Raytown to a pile of bricks and metal. The demolition was a long-time coming. The City of Raytown bought the building in 2001 for $500,000. (The church moved into a larger facility on 350 Highway.) Last year, U.S. Rep. Emanuel Cleaver II and Sen. Kit Bond came up with $539,000 in federal funding to pay for its demolition. So what's next for the inner-ring suburb that touts itself as a destination for young couples looking for decen

  March 6, 2009

• It's not any store, it's THE Store

  I was driving on Raytown Road the other day when I saw the sign for The Store, the "Old Fashion Meat Market" at 6624 Raytown Road. The list of daily specials included frog legs and Delmonico steaks. The building couldn't have been more nondescript -- it looked like a small-town convenience store -- but I felt some strange compulsion to go in. I'm glad I did, because I stumbled on one of the great treasures of Kansas City's East side: a little supermarket, as neat as a pin, with the most am

  March 2, 2009

• The Zip Code

  February 24, 2005

• You can eat like a pig, but don't bring one

  I was in Raytown last Saturday to do a little shopping with my friend Truman, a total fan of Dirty Don's, the salvage store for the serious bargain hunter. Truman had already been there once that week to scope out the deals and on our outing, he quickly dragged me over to the box filled with 12-ounce packets of Ethiopian Sadamu whole coffee beans priced at less than four bucks (and really superb, as it turned out) and a crate of gift-wrapped boxes of gourmet chocolates. "They're just a teen

  March 9, 2009

• Killa City: Press briefing on Raytown murders at 11 a.m.

  The Metro Squad has taken over the homicide case in Raytown. The bodies of two adults and two children were found in a Raytwon apartment near 61st Street and Raytown Road Monday. I just spoke with Kansas City Police Detective Robert Delameter, who told me that there will be a press briefing at 11 a.m. Delameter told me that there's no suspect yet in the case and only one of the victims' names has been officially released: Precious Triplett, 21, who lived in the apartment.Crime Scene KC had the n

  March 18, 2009

• Nothing new on Raytown murders, but you'll see the story on tonight's news anyway

  By Justin KendallDetective Robert DelameterIf you see a promo for one of the TV stations pushing breaking news on the Raytown murders, it's bullshit -- there isn't any.Maybe I'm a bit naive to think that the detectives working the Raytown homicide investigation have better things to do than help with sweeps. I attended the press briefing this morning and shot some video, but I should have turned my camera on the shameless TV newsies who requested a 3:30 p.m. briefing even if there was nothing ne

  March 18, 2009

• Culinary secrets from Raytown

  The first Saturday of every month, the Friends of the Kansas City Public Library set up several tables at the City Market and sell used books. Fiction, Non-Fiction, CDs, and cookbooks. I found a couple of interesting treasures at yesterday's sale, including a battered copy Favorite Breads from Rose Lane Farm (1960, Hearthside Press) which has dozens of recipes for vintage breads that are rarely available in bakeries or restaurants (Sally Lunn, Polish Babka, Election Day Cake and Marshm

  April 5, 2009

• Table for Toe

  November 16, 2006

• Gas Guzzler

  July 19, 2007

• Letters from the week of January 8

  January 8, 2009

• High-School Dunking

  December 18, 2008

• Letters from the week of December 11

  December 11, 2008

• Letters From the Week of July 24

  July 24, 2008

• High Marks

  July 17, 2008

• Fox’s Drug Store might have the last soda fountain in town – and might be the last place you can smoke where you eat

  July 10, 2008

• While the mayor and the ATA bicker over light rail plans, here’s one that makes sense

  May 29, 2008

• Killa City: Raytown police seeking tips in quadruple homicide

  Congressman Emanuel Cleaver and Alvin Brooks pleaded with the public today for tips that will help solve the Raytown quadruple homicide. The bodies of 21-year-old Precious Triplett, 33-year-old Andre D. Jones, 10-year-old Amir Clemons and 7-year-old Gerard Clemons were discovered in an apartment near 61st Street and Raytown Road in March. "Here we are with two children almost babies 7 and 10 in addition to two adults who were brutally murdered," Brooks said. "I know that none of us could imagine

  April 15, 2009

• Beach

  Don't let a little thing like being landlocked keep you from the sun.

  June 7, 2007

• One Wal-Mart Ain't Enough

  May 17, 2007

• The Home of $5 Tabs

  January 18, 2007

• Night & Day Events

  Week of July 14, 2005

  July 14, 2005

• Toto Moto

  Did the Wizard ride a scooter?

  May 26, 2005

• Backwash

  Jimmy the Fetus answers your questions about morality.

  May 19, 2005

• Just Doo It

  Responsible dog lovers, clean up your crap!

  May 12, 2005

• March Sadness

  He’s won more high school basketball games than any other coach in Missouri. But he’s losing his grip.

  March 24, 2005

• Down by the River

  Check out these park-infested waters.

  August 26, 2004

• Old Schoolers

  Don't call it a comeback

  April 15, 2004

• Basement Billiards

  Play with balls by the hour.

  February 12, 2004

• A Green Party

  Herbalists, botanists and acupuncturists, oh my!

  May 1, 2003

• Athletic Support

  Raytown finally discovers a cash cow at Kauffman.

  October 4, 2001

• Flops House

  Hits from Flops finds the beauty in busts.

  October 26, 2000

• BMX-ing the Metro

  May 18, 2000

• Tonight: "New Directions In Jazz, Experimental and Improvised Music" Snuff Jazz MP3

  Looking for something that may be a little outside your normal everyday experience of music -- in a place, no less, where you can BYOB? Because I just got word that my cousin's all-theremin tribute to the Strokes is practicing tonight in Raytown, and you're bringing the beer. And theremins. But first, stop by the Foundation Room (1221 Union in the West Bottoms), where, starting at 9 p.m. an experimental-music showcase begins, featuring Mark Southerland's Snuff Jazz, one-man-guitar-jam Expo 70,

  May 8, 2009

• Irish Pub House

  May 28, 2009

• Little Black Backpacks

  July 16, 2009

• Kansas City gets more money for cops

  ​The Kansas City Police Department is getting even more stimulus money. Kansas City's share of the Barack bucks is $2.55 million, which a release says will go to keep police on the streets and "civilian support positions."Other stimulus lottery winners:Jackson County: $1,130,734Independence: $416,746Grandview: $90,600Lee's Summit: $62,699Blue Springs: $43,276Raytown: $41,572Sugar Creek: $10,050Add the $2.55 million to the $8.3 million federal grant the KCPD scored to keep 28 recruits and 22 a

  August 14, 2009

• Best of Extra: First date winners

  ​First dates are not always the time to take risks. There is enough that could go wrong in terms of your outfit or conversation that you want to have a place that feels like a sure thing. So we understand why Pitch readers chose the Country Club Plaza as the Best Place for a First Date. There are plenty of other people around for people-watching, and even the pickiest eaters will find something. But our readers had a wide variety of alternative suggestions, too. This random list of runners up

  October 5, 2009

• 63rd Street is ready for its close-up

  October 15, 2009

• More from 63rd Street: Anastasia's Books

  ​Anastasia Hope's words are iced with sugary defiance. Smiling sweetly behind a desk heaped with used paperbacks and hard-cover books, she doesn't need any provocation to emphasize that she isn't in the business of irony. Within moments of walking into her cozy shop on my journey down 63rd Street, she hits me with a preemptive strike. "Everybody thinks people in Raytown don't read, that Raytown is full of rednecks," she says. Reality is quite the opposite. Anastasia's Books is surviving --

  October 14, 2009