It’s 9:30 at Jardine’s, and after finishing her first set, Megan Birdsall is working the packed house like a hostess at a party, selling CDs and pounding her vocal cords with friendly banter. Her debut album, Track 13, is more in demand than alcohol. The slender, bronze-skinned, heavy-lidded strawberry blonde wears an artsy, red-and-white strapless dress. A photographer is here…
After a quick telephone introduction, the very first thing out of Blue Cheer singer and bassist Dickie Peterson’s mouth is a song. “Goin’ to Kansas City!” he bellows. “I love that song. That’s one of the first I learned as a young man.” There’s a pause. “To be honest with you, my friend, I don’t remember the last time I…
Star bright, Star lite: Kudos to all Pitch staff members who received awards at the KC Press Club 2006 Heart of America awards. Well-deserved and overdue credit, for sure. Regarding the Backwash column “Not So Bright” (June 15) and your snarky commentary about The Kansas City Star’s new printing toys: I read the Star but am not enamored of it,…
For the most part, we’re impervious to those pick-up artists who attract women with their arrogance and superiority. But there is one guy in town whom we find to be a little smug, a little self-satisfied — and really cute. That man is Carlos Lee. Smart, successful and supertall, Lee is the puppet master behind Kansas City’s Red Bull-chugging social…
The pews at the Holy Ghost New Testament Church have hymnals, Bibles and tambourines. This is, after all, a church within a block of the intersection of 18th Street and Vine. The red-brick church has stood at 1815 Paseo for 89 years. Nowadays, there’s less dancing; the flock’s getting older. That’s especially true for the minister, Bishop Herman Cubit, who…
Dear Gabachos: Bienvenidos to the world’s foremost authority on America’s favorite beaners! The Mexican can answer any and every question on his race, from why Mexicans stick the Virgin of Guadalupe everywhere to our obsession with dwarves and transvestites. Awright, cabrones: laugh and comprende! Dear Mexican: I caught your appearance on the June 19 edition of The Colbert Report….
The Strip has a word of warning for all you illegal immigrants out there: Watch out for la chota! The fuzz picked up a 31-year-old Mexican in southwest Kansas on May 31. Federal authorities allege that the man was hauling 17 undocumented aliens in a 1998 Ford van. A few weeks later, a grand jury indicted three Mexicans and two…
A guy sure looks cool when he leans against a race car. Austin Siebert is wearing a fire suit and standing next to a $35,000 machine parked on the track of I-70 Speedway in Odessa, Missouri. Siebert is 19 years old and built like a teen heartthrob — long bangs and a body thin enough to put in the…
The foamy Anti-Crew. Wooo. What’s up with this coming-into-work-the-day-after-our-nation’s-birthday business? I could have easily put in a full day’s work yesterday then celebrated at night and slept all day today. Instead, my patriotic ass is hungover, perhaps still a bit drunk, from blowing shit up and drinking stuff down until 4 in the morning. Last night’s local music highlight: watching…
SATURDAY, JULY 1 Doris Henson, String and Return, New Tragedies at the Grand Emporium The thesis of this show is “we are all young and in relatively good health, but we tend to drink too much.” I’m not sure exactly how that applies to this lineup, except that each band contains its share of brooding romantics (see: Andrew Ashby, Matt…
