When dog owners tell those who are not dog owners about the joys of dog ownership, they generally leave out one detail: Dog owners have to look at a lot of shit. They have to look at so much shit that it’s possible to start finding small joys in the routine. There are the winter morning walks in subzero temperatures…
The cops suspect you for embezzling from a former employer. The case against you looks pretty solid. Which of the following do you do? A. Make restitution, apologize and hope that the former employer drops the charges. B. Admit your mistake and beg the court for leniency. C. Post bail and run. D. File a pathetic defamation suit against…
The voice sounds gravelly and deep, as though it’s coming from an older guy — a 45-year-old man who stayed up too late watching ESPN highlights, knocking back beers and yelling at the screen. That is, an average sports-talk-radio caller. “It’s not the pitcher’s and catcher’s fault that the players don’t know how to run,” says the voice on the…
We recently ran across this video on YouTube, which baffled us. Using a Sopranos-like logo, its plotline involves mafia-type sales reps in The Kansas City Star’s advertising department yelling obscenities into the phone and blackmailing clients with naughty pictures of adulterous encounters with Bazooka’s Showgirls. Categories: News
“I’ve been desperately pining for a vibrant, regularly updated web site dedicated to jazz in Kansas City,” wrote blogger Bill Brownlee last Saturday on his blog about life, Happy in Bag. So what’d he do? He started one. The Wayward Blog welcomes Plastic Sax to the local music blogroll. Bill’s new blog has an insanely long list of local jazz,…
Even though Kansas City’s urban center is hot, the tax-break-granting Planned Industrial Expansion Authority continues to treat developers there like pioneers. The city agency on Wednesday abated taxes on a property being redeveloped within toddling distance of the new downtown arena and entertainment district. Categories: News
One out of every three women in the U.S. will be assaulted in her lifetime, according to the Web site for Pepperface. The owners of Sugar Hill, a boutique in Overland Park, recently sent word that they’re now stocking the line of Swarovski-crystal-encrusted vials of pepper spray. Sugar Hill’s press release claims that Pepperface is carried by the likes…
Regardless of whatever important news might be in this morning’s Kansas City Star, the only thing I remember after reading it front-to-back is FYI columnist Jeneé Osterheldt complaining about her mosquito bites and lamenting her inability to operate a tube of Benadryl. I shit you not. — C.J. Janovy Categories: News
What had it been, a month or more that The Kansas City Star had Harry Potter either on the front page or the top of the FYI section? Finally, Potter’s big release came and went, and Star readers could hope they could find some other event to write about, like, say, something local. Well, Harry’s back today, on the…
Jimmy Eat World Friday, July 20 The Granada Better Than:Yelling for “Sweetness” alone in a dark room. By Crystal K. Wiebe The guy next to me must have felt very cheated by his Jimmy Eat World experience last Friday night. The drunk bastard kept yelling for “Sweetness,” but the band never played the guy’s favorite song during a sold-out show…
It’s not nearly as good as the blog review I did, but the MySpace secret shows people have posted their own review and photos from the Maximo Park and Cribs show last Wednesday at the Record Bar. The MySpace people writed: “Two bands who will probably never play in Kansas city together ever again, in a place this small, to…
Sensationally bad press — the kind when a reviewer all but tells a band or musician to stop making music and find something else to do to pass the time — is cause for commemoration in an artist’s life. It’s like in that episode from the first season of Entourage in which the rising-star character, Vincent Chase, gets a horrible…
The release of the final installment of the Harry Potter series has baseball writer Rany Jazayerli thinking about the parallels between Hogwarts and Kauffman Stadium. — David Martin Categories: News
It’s almost officially the weekend. Unless you’re one of those lucky bastards who are already off work, in which case it’s already the weekend and you’ve got your feet propped up on the coffee table, a Bud Light in your fist. Well, don’t get too comfortable, buddy. There’s plenty to do tonight besides watch a 20/20 investigation. Categories: News
Editor’s Note: Robert Bishop, a longtime Pitch freelance writer, recently competed in VH1’s World Series of Pop Culture. Below is his account of the contest. It was down to me for the championship round of VH1’s World Series of Pop Culture. I was the last man standing out of my team from Kansas City, Wocka Wocka. I faced the…
Looks like The Kansas City Starsports reporters can drop the pompoms and stop the cutesy references to the “Kansas City SuperSonics.” The NBA’s Sonics won’t be moving from Seattle to Kansas City to anchor the Sprint Center, as a certain Star sports scribe has implied. Yesterday, a spokesman for Sonics owner Clay Bennett declared that if the team relocates,…
Some churches are stocking up on lighter fuel and kindling in anticipation of the last Harry Potter book, due out Saturday. But one Kansas City flock is embracing the bespectacled pagan. Categories: News
Here’s the full lineup for tonight’s Glenefit at Davey’s Uptown Rambler’s Club. Follow this link and read “Help a Dude Out.” In addition to all the music, there’ll be T-shirts for sale, “including the infamous Hockemeir Spouse-Beater” (quoting a press release there), and cinnamon rolls provided by the Kansas City Music Ladies Auxilliary Commission. 7:30-8:00- Tony Ladeish (Old side) 8:00-8:30-…
