Downtown KC Jones Pool Opening pics

Dj set

Here was the set before the imfamous DJ Jazzy Jeff incident.

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A full Monday night at the K

Amazing what $5 tickets and a competitive team will do for attendance.

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Urban Tour weekend

Well today and tomorrow are the official urban tour days. See the Downtown Council's site for information.

Started my urban tour last night with a pretty typical Friday night but saw a bunch of new places...so in the spirit of the urban tour weekend, here is my Friday night...I highly recommend it.

Get off work, get changed, and head down to First Friday. Still an awesome community event. Walked around, hit some galleries, really wanting to buy something but couldn't pull the trigger.

So we need a place to eat so we wander around, everything packed, then I remember the Kansas City Cafe. Always wanted to try this place but never have. they are normally just open for lunch but were open last night. Decided we weren't too hungry so just got a couple rounds of tapas that were simply chef's choice...whatever he was feeling came out. pretty cool I thought. $5 for a plate of 3 tapas. first round was a goat cheese crustini, some portabella, and shrimp over potato...all three great. next round was a cold cucumber soup, roasted red pepper and munster cheese over toasted bread and can't remember the 3rd thing. Again all awesome. Place is also cool because it has all kinds of KC pictures and trivia. Definitely check this place out.

Next we decided to head over to 801 steakhouse and check out their bar selection. Had a drink but decided no food but their lamb sliders are excellent, I've had them before. This place just isn't busy....it figures with the economy and KC's rich history and selection of fine steakhouses already...it's going to take time for them to find their niche.

Then over to Bice's deck for a drink...starting last night they are now open 7 days a week and have food up there. Simply the cheapest beer prices anywhere....Boulevard for $3 all day...are you kidding? It was bit cold last night so not many people up there....I hope this place stays a hidden gem...I love that deck.

So time for our movie at the new AMC....we had a Cinema Suite. Simply amazing. I'm not sure I can watch a movie in a regular theater again. $20 but you get $10 in food/drink (including alcohol). Food is the same that is in the Marquee downstairs. Waitresses bring all your food and drinks. Awesome. Can't wait to go back. #2 biggest improvement given by the P&L district behind the grocery store.

By that time we were beat so walked back home to get ready for the urban tour today.

Amazing night and got to check out some unfamilar places and was pleasantly surprised by all of them.

Downtown is a twitter

I've begun a downtownkc twitter at @downtownkc ( http://www.twitter.com/downtownkc ) so hit it up and follow along. I'll try and do kinda what this blog was meant to do, in a much more realtime fashion.

Also, anybody else on twitter, flag your downtown Kansas city posts with a #downtownkc . Could be anything from a happy hour special, to a wreck, to a question, to A PEDESTRIAN SIGNAL THAT DOESN'T CHANGE WITHOUT DEPRESSING A BUTTON (sorry)....really anything downtown related.

Hit me up and tweet away.

Best drink

This might be the best drink ever made
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Snowboarding at 70 degrees?

Here is the snowboard ramp being set up inside the power and light district live block. I am think with saturday's temperatures, this is about the amount of snow that will be on this ramp saturday :)

Saturday

What an awesome day it was yesterday. Went and ate downtown and then kicked back and watched KSU kill Texas on the big screen in the P&L living room.

They are really going to have to figure this whole daytime drinking outside thing out down there. Security guards kept chasing people into the McFaddens "patio" not allowing people to sit on the couches with booze....I know why, it's because nobody is carding at the entrances to the courtyard so people are free to come and go as they please, which creates zero control points for booze...but figure something out. There was a huge pub crawl there that went there obviously to drink in the huge outside area only to be denied.

if we are going to have this big open courtyard that you can drink in at night, you are going to continue to piss people off if you don't allow them to roam around freely in the daytime as well. Figure it out.

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Top 10 downtown KC pedestrian annoyances

To get this blog restarted, here are my top 10 pet peeves when it comes to being a pedestrian downtown...no real order except #1.



- Cars that come blazing out of a parking garage.



- Just because I caught a break in traffic and jaywalked against the light, doesn't mean each one of you on the other side can make it without screwing up traffic



- Cars turning left/right on red and never looking the opposite way to see people crossing



- Downtown veterans (see homeless, loiters, etc) who decide they can wander across the street slowly whenever, whereever....you are why drivers hate pedestrians



- LEARN ONE WAY STREETS YOU DRUNKS



- Hey, you, lunch foursome...could one of you step aside from blocking the entire sidewalk so I can go the other way?



- if you pull too far into the crosswalk, please don't throw it in reverse 10 seconds later, somebody is probably behind you.



- out of control condo dogs. Hey, listen, I love you are downtown and have a dog. I don't live that your dog is trying to maul/hump/bite/smell/piss on my leg.



- lack of newsstands. I know downtown isn't the most dense and pedestrian active place but can we get just a couple newsstands? Even the ones that just open during business hours, selling magazines, papers, and snacks? I mean come on.



#1 - pedestrian signals that don't change automatically with the traffic signal.



Bonus - bikes on the sidewalks. As much as I love being ran over by a bike, can't they just use the street?