Monday, October 27, 2014

Murder Mystery Party!

Your presence is requested by Riche Morte and his fiance Roxana Darius for a special event. This celebration is to showcase and view Mr. Morte's latest addition to his priceless fine art collection. Music and dancing will commence in the grand ball room at 8pm.


Cast of Characters:

Riche Morte
Art Collector, import business owner and philanthropist


Roxana Darius
Riche's much younger fiancé, heir to a Persian fortune


Michel Fourniet
Artist that had lucrative art dealings with Riche Morte.


Luis Garavito
Business Partner and longtime friend to Riche Morte.



Carroll Morte
Riche's business partner and ex-wife.

Chaz Moran
Carroll's current husband and speakeasy owner.


Be'la MorteOnly child of Riche & Carroll.


Atlanta Ripper
Investment banker and long time business associate with Riche



Prof. Charles Cullen
Art professor & Life-long friend of Riche


John Vila
Charles' nephew and school mates with Be'la


Pearle Nelson
Art Dealer, Business associate


Madame Sofie
Friend and psychic



Ellen KeyArt critic and socialite


Iranian Mafia

Wednesday, October 22, 2014

Sabrina, Sunday, Surprises!

Sabrina is always full of surprises and Sunday's Fancy Lady Date was no exception.

Surprise #1
We ended up going to neither Blue Bird Bistro OR Westside Local, but rather she made reservations for us at Webster House.Talk about fancy! This place is inside of an old Romanesque-style school and in addition to delicious food, this place also houses an antique store. But Imma gonna focus on the food. Or maybe even just the drinks because 2 words: Bottomless Mimosas.

You heard me. Bottomless Mimosas. Megan and I both were able to throw back 3 before we *had* to leave. I still wonder if I had kept the glass could I have come back after for more? And let me state that this does not make me an alcoholic but rather an economicoholic. One Mimosa was $8 while the bottomless was $12. DO THE MATH!

And now for some pictures of the food....

Yes please.



Surprise #2
Don't know how she did it, especially for what we paid, but we had killer seats. In fact, I just assumed we'd need to go up and up and up the stairs to get to our seats. The ushers told us, after checking our tickets, to head back down to the main level!


This was the end of the Alice in Wonderland run, which is a shame. If you didn't catch it you missed a very fun production with a very large company, colorful costumes and jazzy new music!

Thanks Kansas City, you did not fail to impress on our fancy lady date! Let's do it again some time!

Monday, October 13, 2014

Brunch and Ballet

This weekend Whitney and I, along with Sabrina and Megan, will engage in one of our most favorite of hobbies: Brunch. The hard part will come in deciding where to go. Blue Bird Bistro or Westside Local? Both are in the same neighborhood and offer farm-to-market food. Both are in the same price range. Both have alcohol. Some decisions are hard.

As far as menu, there are similarities there too: they both have mushroom gravy, the both have the same salmon eggs benedict and a fancy sounding French Toast (Ciabatta or Apple Bread).

But since Brunch is a journey, not a destination I dived further into the menu and found an item on each that sounds appealing and a bit unique:

Blue Bird
Sweet potato AND GRANOLA PANCAKES   0900   half order 0600  freshly prepared with organic white wheat flour, Thane Palmberg Farm sweet potatoes, granola, and a touch of fresh cinnamon; served with pure maple  syrup from Shaker Mountain Farm 

Westside Local

Still doesn't make the decision any easier. 

After where-ever-we-go for lunch we'll be pirouetting over to the Kauffman Center to watch the Kansas City Ballet's production of Alice in Wonderland. We haven't said we're not wearing costumes, so, I still might pull out my Chesire Cat jumpsuit.