Dear Mexican: I am addressing this to both Ask a Mexican and Savage Love, hoping one of you will have an answer: Why do Mexican chicks yell for their papi during sex? Daddy del Diablo Dear Readers: Daddy del Diablo sent the above query to both the Mexican and Dan Savage, author of the pinche hilarious column Savage Love. Dan…
Burnt Ends, August 30 We Suck, Part I Did it ever occur to the author of the Burnt Ends headline that “Jesse Gypped” is not only half-assed alliteration but also an inappropriate ethnic slur? Gypped derives from Gypsy, or Romany, a nomadic, ethnic minority scattered over Central and Eastern Europe. Gypsies have long been stereotyped as swindlers and cheaters. Your…
Summer camps may be closed for the season, which means it’s a perfect time for Johnson Countians to send 14 county employees off to the Rocky Mountains. They’ll be attending a four-day workshop at a place called Shadowcliff, a spread of cabins and hiking trails in Grand Lake, Colorado. It’s owned by Bridging the Gap, the Kansas City nonprofit that…
In his September 3 blog entry, KMBC Channel 9 newsman Larry Moore wrote about his station’s new studio. Because of the studio’s new high-definition broadcast capabilities, Moore wrote, he’s learning to apply makeup more professionally. The station is also keeping a lint picker on the set, so viewers won’t be distracted by conspicuous spots that didn’t show up before. Moore…
A few weeks ago, Kansas City, Missouri’s City Council let a piddly $36,000 contract with an engineering company bloat all the way up to $22 million. (You read that right: three additional zeroes.) That same day, the council held up a nonprofit group’s measly $125,000 funding request. Care to guess which deal would have put money in the hands…
Conrad Dobler exhales cold air like Godzilla breathing fire. A handlebar mustache adds to the menacing look on the face of this 6-foot-3-inch, 250-pound St. Louis Cardinals offensive lineman. In the 1988 National Football League film called Tough Guys>, a seven-minute vignette shows a shaggy-haired, taped-up Dobler blazing a warpath of leg whips, trips, stomps and elbows to a…
A Garnett, Kansas, restaurant got a little national publicity last night. A commercial for the Sherwood Inn appeared on Late Night With Conan O’Brien. O’Brien was interested because the Sherwood discovered its big star via his show. The commercial features Pierre Bernard, who does this occasional Late Night skit in the video above, as a man who rages at the…
The credibility of Johnson County District Attorney Phill Kline’s office was on trial earlier today, and, in District Judge Thomas Bornholdt’s eyes, the dispute breaks down to one key question: Is it a crime to scare an employee of the district attorney’s office with a gun? The question follows an April 2 incident at the Stilwell home of Theodore Herzog….
There was an impromptu memorial service last night at the Record Bar for Greg Beck, who was behind the blog “Death’s Door: The View From the Spanish Announcer’s Table.” The much-loved Beck, whose blog won a Pitch Best Of award in 2004, was found dead in his residence by his family yesterday morning, according to his friend and fellow…
If you’re a wicked, shallow person who lives for celebrity train wrecks, Britney Spears’ phoned-in MTV Video Music Awards performance in Las Vegas on Sunday was like a collision of the Versailles train crash of 1842 and the Great New Haven Railroad drawbridge disaster of 1853. Despite all the bad press, there are still those who want to be…
Tireless, camera-wielding foot soldier Anna-Marie Perry crawled all over the Crossroads Music Fest snapping the good shots left and right. Uploading them to this blog would take all evening, and even though my boss may yell at me tomorrow, I’m going to have to direct you to Miss Anna’s own Web site. Let’s hope it doesn’t crash. Go here…
Crossroads Music Festival Saturday, September 8 / Sunday, September 9 The Crossroads at Grinders, the Gorilla Theater, the Brick Review & some crappy snapshots by Jason Harper DAY TWO: night I pussed out of most of Sunday. I admit it. I’d hit it so hard the day before that I didn’t arrive until, well … later. (Please, do go…
Though it hasn’t been that long since his 250-pound body patrolled the outfield, Royals fans may have forgotten Byron Gettis. When Gettis made his debut on May 27, 2004, the Royals were 11 games out of first place and on their way to a 104-loss season. Gettis appeared in 21 games, hitting .179, and was waived at the end…
The Pitch’s Josh Ziegler shot this video of the cow bells and cheers that kicked off the Tour of Missouri bicycle race today: And as the riders pass back through downtown this afternoon, the Pitch’s Jen Chen caught this video on Grand: Categories: News
Crossroads Music Festival Saturday, September 8 / Sunday, September 9 The Crossroads at Grinders, the Gorilla Theater, the Brick Review & some crappy snapshots by Jason Harper DAY ONE: night I got back in time to hear Eleni Mandell singing my anthem, Makeout King. Just kidding, that’s not my anthem. “Paying for Dinner and Having You Home by Ten”…
Ice cream truck service Frosty Treats happily touts church socials, birthdays, weddings and anniversaries on its Web site as a list of activities it specializes in. But judging from a recent federal court case, maybe it should add white slavery, too. According to this release from the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Kansas City, Frosty Treats local branch manager David L….
As we enter a week of relative calm – so far – regarding controversial KCMO parks board appointee Frances Semler, I’m using the quiet time to try to sort out all of the various race-related arguments that coursed through The Kansas City Star at the end of last week. Last Friday’s Star was an amazing historical document. Categories: News
Crossroads Music Festival Saturday, September 8 / Sunday, September 9 The Crossroads at Grinders, the Gorilla Theater, the Brick Review & crappy snapshots by Jason Harper In case you’re one of the thousands of Kansas Citians who failed to support the local music scene by going to last weekend’s Crossroads Music Festival and having fun, well, you missed out. Overall,…
Last Thursday, Paris Hilton filed suit in a U.S. District Court in Los Angeles against Hallmark for the card company’s use of her likeness and her trademarked catch phrase, “That’s hot,” on a greeting card. Those creative geniuses at Crown Center pissed off Paris’ people when they started selling a $2.49 card with a cartoon captioned “Paris’ First Day…
Roach was king of this year’s Crossroads Music Fest, but for a few seconds last night, Brick host David Wayne Reed took control of the ass-shakin’ department. More pictures and reporting from the festival right here tomorrow, folks. Today was spent recovering, proofing the paper, staring at the sprinkler head in the ceiling wondering if blood would shoot out of…
BY ANDY VIHSTADT Mercury Rising While the pre-ceremony buzz seemed to teeter between Amy Winehouse and Bat for Lashes, Klaxons took home the 2007 Mercury Music Prize with its debut, Myths of the Future. The Klaxons saw a 500% increase in record sales since last Tuesday’s announcement and start work on LP2 in the next couple of weeks. Klaxons-“Gravity’s Rainbow”…
For years I’ve been hearing about the legendary fried chicken dinners at the Brookville Hotel – which used to be in Brookville, Kansas, but moved in 1999 to the somewhat bigger city of Abilene. This year, the James Beard Foundation honored the Brookville as one of “America’s Classics.” It was time for a road trip. Categories: Dining, Food & Drink
Drakkar Sauna Sept. 6, 2007 The Gaslight Tavern By Crystal K. Wiebe Apparently, Drakkar Sauna was supposed to play in Des Moines last night, but that show didn’t work out. So, on the night before leaving for a monthlong tour, the Lawrence band played a midnight, farewell gig at the Gaslight Tavern. from left: Jeff Stolz, Wallace Cochran and Chris…
And we’re coming off the 10-at-10 block on Easy 104.7, your home for the best soft-rock hits of the ’70s, ’80s and today! We just heard from Mr. Kenny Loggins, found our “Lady” by the Little River Band, grokked T’Pau’s “Heart and Soul” and rounded off 10 straight commercial-free songs in a row with Stevie Nicks, who says, “Tell Me…
