Pledge class: In response to John Tacket’s belligerent letter in the May 29 issue of the Pitch, it’s obvious he never heard my last show. As I stated on air that night, I resigned my KKFI 90.1 show as a matter of conscience, not to lead a protest. I could not, in good conscience, ask my listeners for money during…
The only time we see cantankerous neighborhood activist Jim Grow on TV is when we’re lulling ourselves to sleep watching Channel 2 at night. Recently we saw him on the government channel railing against any change whatsoever to the city’s liquor laws. Last week, though, Grow called to brag that KCPT Channel 19 had offered him his own show. Grow…
Jim Pritchett sits beneath the massive, thousand-pound clock inside Union Station with time on his mind. “Time seems to be a commodity that has become far more sophisticated and far more important to us than ever before,” he muses. “We make decisions every day based on how we’re going to save time, even if it’s thirty seconds.” In the past…
He usually woke up a little before noon, sometimes hungover. He’d tumble out of bed and pull on a wrinkled white T-shirt and baggy blue jeans. Breakfast was a Diet Coke sheathed in a coozie. He’d head down the front porch steps and past the chain-link fence toward his new Kia Optima. Chris Reiter rented a house near Priscilla’s…
