When the 1980 U.S. Olympic hockey team, consisting of twenty raw college boys, beat the seemingly invincible, state-hardened Soviets and went on to win the gold medal at Lake Placid, the event was regarded, even in palm-lined Miami and iceless Honolulu, as the most amazing feat in U.S. Olympic history. This was not David knocking off Goliath but David blowing…
Behold a tale of true love (between a boy and a bicycle), of tireless courage (from a bitty grandmother with a club foot) and of a shocking new definition of sexy (three wizened matriarchs who ravenously slurp down frogs). This is The Triplets of Belleville, an animated extravaganza of Gallic wit and soul that delivers more wild humanity than…
Edifice wrecks: Congratulations once again to the Pitch and Joe Miller for exposing the TRUTH about an important matter that The Kansas City Star did not properly investigate and report (“If It Ain’t Broke,” January 29). The Pitch is the only news source for greater Kansas City that can be trusted to do an in-depth investigation about matters that are…
Talk about flyover country. Now even Kansas City’s UFOs are getting no respect. It’s been nearly three weeks since Bob Lindsay spotted something falling out of the sky on a security monitor at the TriGen power plant downtown. Lindsay seems like a straight-up kind of guy. He’s a chiller operator at the plant, which supplies power, heating and cooling to…
Carl DiCapo, retired restaurateur and longtime friend of the Liberty Memorial, gripped the lectern and made a sort of pledge. “Ten years from now, we don’t want another penny from the city,” he told the Kansas City, Missouri, Board of Parks and Recreation commissioners on January 20. In the meantime, KC residents can keep digging for change. Backers of the…
Like predators attracted to the scent of a meal, college coaches zero in on the nation’s most talented high school athletes year after year, bombarding them with affection and promises. Representatives from the nation’s leading universities often converge on the same target, leading to a frenzy that can leave a young athlete’s head spinning. For some supertalented seventeen- and…
