Some people really know how to take a mug shot. Tom DeLay, for example, really worked the “You know I’m not guilty because I’m SMILING” angle. For the polar opposite, check out homeless guy Jerry Jones’ mug shot after allegedly setting fire to his baby mama’s apartment on 93rd and Bales. Wait for it … the SADDEST MUGSHOT IN…
Watch your back, Carol. That high-pitched bitch Jessica is out to get you. Yeah, I started watching Big Brother 8 for Carol Journey, daughter of quote machine and Kansas State Sen. Phil Journey. I’ll be keeping tabs on Journey’s Rock Chalk dancing daughter while she lasts, which might not be past Thursday, when the other housemates will vote to evict…
Gil Meche, the lone Royal named to the 2007 All Star Game, did not appear in last night’s contest. Meche’s absence from the box score is just the latest in a long line of inconsequential or unfortunate appearances by Royals players in the midsummer classic. The always insightful Royals Review traces the sad history. — David Martin Categories: News
Don’t get me wrong, I’m glad Live Earth reached some people who apparently didn’t know there was an environmental crisis going on. But what I couldn’t fathom, reading Lisa Gutierrez’s “Green Living” column in this morning’s Star, was how a person could get to be a reporter for a major metropolitan newspaper – even a fluffy lifestyle features reporter for…
Battles, with Singer and Pixel Panda July 10, 2007 The Record Bar Better Than: Lying on the sidewalk in the rain, stoned. Mostly. Review by Jason Harper “How can you not know about the tall cymbal?” The dude in the baseball cap had yelled in approval as Battles drummer John Stanier (formerly of Helmet) raised his 7-foot cymbal during…
Crossroads artist and restaurant owner Stretch has done nothing if not fight City Hall. His most recent battle is over his proposed outdoor concert venue behind his place, Grinders. The issue now is that Stretch needs city approval of an auxiliary parking-lot agreement with Crown Center for the venue. The meeting is at 1:30 p.m. Wednesday in the council…
The latest Pitchcast, Wayward Cast 10: It’s Hard Out Here for a Punk, is up! , and you’ll hear … (playlist after the jump) Categories: Music Tags: wayward cast
The KC-Lawrence area will be well-represented when the The World Series of Pop Culture premieres this week on VH1, thanks to teams “Westerburg High,” led by Smackdown Trivia quizmaster Andy Morton, and “Wocka Wocka,” featuring Pitch contributor Robert Bishop; his wife, Kelly; and her best friend, Rachel. Although contestants are forbidden to divulge the game’s outcome, Bishop, a senior copywriter…
A night on the town with Heartbeat City columnist Megan Metzger More often than not, our sleazy little town affords us the luxury of going to several live music happenings all in one night. Each offers something a little different, kind of like a buffet at a casino. (Have you been to one of those? They’re fucking insane. You can…
Johnson County District Attorney Phill Kline today announced new charges against Edwin R. Hall, who faces murder and kidnapping charges in the Kelsey Smith case. The new charges claim that Hall had “a sexual relationship in 2004 with a girl who was only 14 years at the time, while Hall was 23 years old,” according to a release from…
Like everyone else in town, I stopped in the Apple store on the Plaza to see if I get a turn playing with an iPhone. The place was so mobbed that I couldn’t have gotten close to one without delivering an elbow to someone’s ribcage. Luckily, I didn’t have to resort to violence. A buddy who always has to get…
It’s a rare occasion when one of our local outfits appears on the influential Pitchforkmedia site, the maker or breaker of so many indie artists via dense, earnest, self-indulgent critical verbiage overloaded with adjectives and posted up alongside rationale-free ratings. Fortunately, our latest crew of homegrown outfits to face the ‘fork fared pretty well, especially considering a 9.0 is the…
There’s something mighty depressing about seeing bands that have zero interest in staying creative in the twilight years of their career. The Violent Femmes abandoned the idea of writing new material at about the turn of the century, conceding to the pressures of nostalgia and playing their half-dozen hits into a distant “Live in Iceland” abyss. Granted, no one who…
If there’s one thing Jacqueline Patterson has learned about living in California, it’s that they have better salad dressing. It costs $30, but a bottle of her favorite dressing comes packed full of pot. “It tastes good, too,” she says. The dressing comes from one of California’s marijuana clubs, which supply weed for people who use it for medicinal purposes….
After maybe the ’85 World Series, there’s no better Royals highlight than July 24, 1983, otherwise known as the Pine Tar Incident. It had everything you could want in sports. It was a great match-up, with the Yankees’ Goose Gossage on the mound and powder-blue-wearing George Brett at the plate. It had tension, with Brett’s first smack going foul and…
Yep, yep, today’s the first Friday of the month. That means the Crossroads District will be crammed with art lovers, poseurs, babies and dogs. Last month’s First Friday coincided with KC Pride, so there may be fewer drag queens this time. Nevertheless, an ambling mass is guaranteed for the free art peeks and complimentary booze and munchies. Assuming you’re not…
PETA had a Fourth of July warning for Kansas City men: Put down that burger if you want to get it up in the bedroom. But some local billboard execs said they wouldn’t erect a bikini-clad model spouting some advice about impotence. Categories: News
Thanks to today’s Kansas City Star, I now know more about Rupert Grint than I really ever cared to know. In its effort to capitalize on the Harry Potter craze, the Star ran not one but two(!) interviews with the 18-year-old redhead who plays Ron Weasley. First, we have Robert Butler’s rather straightforward account in Preview. Then there’s TeenStar…
Before the Fourth of July holiday, our writer Andy Vihstadt caught the summer’s biggest touring band in St. Louis. Here’s his report. Like most of the 20,000 fans who poured into the Scottrade Center on Monday night, July 2, I’d been daydreaming of seeing the Police live since the band’s performance on the Grammys earlier this year, even if…
Apparently, the stop-snitching movement is active even on the Fourth of July. According to this article by the Associated press: “Up to six people were shot Wednesday night after a fight broke out at a neighborhood July 4th block party” in Independence. Two hundred people were there. According to the AP, “few witnesses stuck around to give investigators additional details.”…
Predictably, this morning’s post-4th of July issue of The Kansas City Star had a front-page photo of an adorable kid all decked out in red, white and blue regalia. Inside, reporters Kevin Collison and Laura Uhlmansiek, two poor schlepps who were unfortunately on holiday duty, delivered the required holiday overview – in as clichéd, saccharine and hyper God-bless-America hues as…
On August 6, 1945, the nuclear bomb code-named Little Boy detonated in the sky above Hiroshima, instantly killing 70,000 people and condemning an estimated 60,000 more to the nuclear aftershock of radiation poisoning. Today from 4:30 to 5:30 p.m., local activists stage a nuclear protest and peace rally at the Honeywell Federal Manufacturing and Technologies Plant at 2000 East 95th…
The ’70s might seem a dubious decade to people whose only sense of the era comes from photographs and film footage of aggressively ugly fashions and garishly funky soundtracks. The musical playing at the American Heartland Theatre (2450 Grand, 816-842-9999), 8-Track: The Sounds of the ’70s, knowingly acknowledges that tackiness while paying loving homage to one of American music’s most…
A celebration of the decade-long collaboration between Kate Ericson and Mel Ziegler. Tuesdays-Saturdays. Starts: June 8. Continues through Sept. 29 Tags: Kate Ericson, Mel Ziegler, Night & Day
