“I could . How hard is that? They haven’t changed anything down there in 75 years, right? It’s the same medium it’s always been. You put some ink on the paper, you put the paper on the truck, you throw it in their driveway and you tell everybody what happened yesterday.” — Kevin Kietzman, WHB 810 “What a great way…
Kansas City is a mid-major metropolis that rarely sets the pace for the rest of the nation. That changed in 1994 when the Major League Baseball Players’ Union walked out on America’s pastime and eventually forced the cancellation of the World Series: No baseball fans in the country grabbed their wallets and ran faster than we did. “The last strike…
Paper Cuts When you dish upon The Star: I am so tired of the Pitch’s constant criticism of The Kansas City Star. C.J. Janovy’s attempt at digging up trash about The Star was pathetic (“Paper Money,” March 22). The Star’s cost-cutting needs are unfortunate but inevitable. Wasn’t it just a short time ago that this “independent” paper sold out to…
“U Can Touch This”: It may not have reached the level of opulence — or sophistication — of this week’s Gianni Versace auction at Sotheby’s, but by Kansas City standards, last week’s Derrick Thomas estate sale was big. Or at least it was supposed to be. Enough police officers and vehicles were stationed around the late Chiefs linebacker’s house that…
This is how famous Denis Leary is: He begins and ends a story by saying, “To this day, when I see Mick…,” and by Mick, he means Mick Jagger. They became pals, oh, seven years back, when the Rolling Stones were on that week’s farewell tour, kickin’ it in the Voodoo Lounge. The story, as Leary tells it, has…
Some Kansas Citians say the long, controversial list of Americans pardoned by President Clinton was short one name: Pete O’Neal. The former revolutionary, now in his sixties, has been a fugitive in Africa for half his life — since a 1970 conviction on gun charges. Among the disappointed is O’Neal’s cousin, former Mayor Emanuel Cleaver II, who, since 1998, lobbied…
Whoever said man is the most dangerous game never hunted gray whales. More than twice the size of the largest great white sharks, they grow to be fifty feet long and can weigh 80,000 pounds. Highly intelligent and communicative, gray whales typically are docile toward humans, if not playfully curious. Mother grays have been known to usher their calves into…
