Dick Vitale to speak at Washburn University College basketball analyst Dick Vitale will be speaking at 7 p.m. on April 28 in Lee Arena on the Washburn University campus as part of the Washburn Lecture Series. Vitale, a member of the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame, began his career with ESPN during the 1979-80 [...]

Bar Wars has added a side game Bar Wars Food Face-off Test your bar’s food Enter one entree and one main event item for a chance to win bragging rights and money for your charity. First Place: Receives traveling trophy for Bar Food Face-off, $300 to your charity and a food feature in seveneightfive magazine [...]

Check out Patrick Lentz this Saturday, March 27th @ Sharkey's Tiki Bar and Grill

Topeka Bar Wars, sponsored by seveneightfive magazine, was started in 2008. Bar Wars is a local competition that takes bar employees and their regulars and has them compete as a team of 12 against other bars in a variety of events and games that you would regularly find at a bar. Money raised is donated [...]

Cocktail brought to you by Ice + Olives: Your Party Headquarters ***Recipe from the former “Vintage” Club**** 2 parts Stoli Vanilla Vodka 1 part Bailey’s 1 part Godiva White Choc Liquere 1 part Kahlua Shake with crushed ice. You can drizzle the inside of glass with a thin stream of chocolate and/or use a powdered [...]

by Dennis Etzel, Jr. “What dark thing have you done to me?” becomes a mantra in Rachel Zucker’s poem “What Dark Thing.” As this experimental poem explores how women feel captured by both marketplace and cultural position, its disjointedness reflects this capture as damaging. In Museum of Accidents (Wave Books), Zucker writes her lyrical poems in [...]

Written by Melissa Sewell / photo by James Hernandez Frozen custard actually doesn’t have anything to do with custard. It’s just ice cream, plus eggs, a touch more cream. However simple, the effect is lovely. Frozen custard is creamier than ice cream, softer and melts more slowly. Unlike ice cream, frozen custard doesn’t ship or [...]

Calorie ridden food, beware. This menu proc might be a little painful for you. Harold’s Prize Package, located at 6th and Locust, is a quaint takeout eatery about the size of a large living room. Size aside, Prize Package has one of the best burgers in town. Made to order, with or with out all the [...]

Let the games begin. Participating Teams College Hill Tavern Sharkey’s Tiki Bar Oscar’s For more information, email topekabarwars@gmail.com

You no longer have the contingency of having to wait at the train crossing to get to C.W. Porubsky’s Deli, so there is no excuse not to make it for lunch regularly, not to mention that as of October 1, it’s chili season. Porubsky’s chili starts on a small gas stove behind the ages old [...]