Dave Strano stood at the edge of a crowd on Massachusetts with a bright-red clown nose on his face, admiring his reflection in a restaurant window. Around him, a dozen young Lawrence residents loaded shovels and work gloves and yellow boxes of Tastee-Os cereal into a green-and-purple school bus with the anarchist flag pasted above the windshield. Aware that…
Andrew Loos met the funeral director’s daughter when they were in junior high school. After that, there was always a sense of inevitability to his future. Even before he and Liz got engaged, Andrew heard the joke over and over: You know you’re going to end up running a mortuary, right? Funeral families have a habit of raising their young…
That is, they’re in Captivity, a movie coming out June 22 starring Elisha Cuthbert, torture, evil, and the song “Rule of V” by the Nooms. I asked how they scored the deal, and Num’rals head coach Steve Tulipana replied, “We have management that actively works to place our material in film and television. We were also on the GAP’s in-store…
Shirley Phelps-Roper – the new face of Topeka’s gay hating, soldier funeral picketing Westboro Baptist Church – was arrested yesterday morning in Nebraska for allowing her 10-year-old son Jonah to stand on a United States flag while picketing a soldier’s funeral, the Topeka Capital-Journal reported. She is free on $150 bond. Categories: News
Today marks the 164th anniversary of the birth of Kansas City’s most famous madam, Annie Chambers.There’s a kind of irony that just one day after national headlines reported that former University of Pittsburgh star and NFL first-round draft pick Bob Buczkowski pleaded guilty to helping operate an estimated million-dollar prostitution ring – out of his mom and dad’s house,…
A doozy of a rumor appeared on a local forum today, posted by a frequent DJ at the Hurricane, reading as follows: The man who owned Club 151 is now the operator. I’m DJing there tonight. I hear that the curved wall is now covered completely in mirrors and there are 6 plasma screens hanging above the mirrors. The sound…
Now that the Twin Oaks apartments at 50th and Oak have been reduced – after nearly five months of demolition – to a mound of rubble, it’s time for a fond farewell to the two 11-story residential towers. But not a sad adieu to the memory of the buildings at the unattractive end of their 60-year life, but…
This entry contains appended information at the end. My ever-vigilant editor, Eric, discovered today that Miles Bonny, hip-hop producer, DJ and jazz trumpeter, stands among giants on Wikipedia’s list of People from Kansas City. Unlike those suckers like Charlie Parker and Pat Matheny, who had to move and/or die to get on Wikipedia, Miles just put on his shades…
If you’ve been surfing the Web , you know today is Paris Hilton Goes to Jail Day. So in honor of the heiress in the big house, we’ve assembled a list of Kansas Citians we’d like to see behind bars: Categories: News
The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art gave the press a tour of the new Bloch Building today, and the Pitch’s Scott Wilson went along with a camera. The new wing officially opens for big shots tomorrow, and then to the public June 9. For those of us who have to wait to bump elbows with the masses, here’s Scott’s photo…
I’m comin’ down like a monkey, but it’s all right. Phil Collins’ whole life has consisted of making shit up as he goes along. Sussudio is his entire career in microcosm: A nonsensical string of syllables, one leading to the next, terminating at the nearest convenient gaping-mouth vowel and repurposed as an alleged woman’s name. It’s all stream-of-consciousness, and…
Tonight, local rapper Joe Good returns from “retirement” with a show tonight at the Mercy Seat, or, rather, behind the Mercy Seat, where they’ve set up a stage and have been putting on really fun live shows with free beer for the grown-ups. So even if you’re rolling your eyes at yet another MC who said he was quitting…
