Monsterladyland Jen Fridy’s ladies may look comely at a distance, but up close, they sprout fangs, claws and glowing red eyes. Fridy’s work bespeaks feminist notions of empowerment, even dominance, but they’re pushed slightly over the boundary between an assertion of strength and an indulgence in danger. Fridy’s real intent, though, is obviously to have fun. She renders her mixed-media…
Burnt Ends: October 11 and September 27 Rack ‘Em Up Thank you for raising the issue of bicycle parking in recent pieces about Arrowhead Stadium and the Leawood Town Center mall. Recently, many local leaders and politicians have made grand pronouncements about green this and green that, but so far our community has seen few actions to back up the…
All in the Timing A couple of fresh additions to the theatrical sights that Kansas Citians can experience only at UMKC’s theater department: an aphasiac Trotsky with an ax in his head, a trio of typing monkeys tasked with banging out Hamlet, and the dissolution and reconstruction of language itself. All this — here’s the proverbial and more — await…
The Adventures of Aquaman (Warner Bros.) The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Volume One (Paramount) Battleship Potemkin (Kino) Breathless: The Criterion Collection (Criterion) Commune (First Run) The Company (Sony) Fantastic Planet (Accent Cinema) Home of the Brave (MGM) Hostel: Director’s Cut (Sony) Hostel: Part II (Sony)Into Great Silence (Zeitgeist) The Little Rascals Collection (Passport) The L Word: The Complete Fourth…
Less than a year after releasing The Guerilla Movement, KC rapper James Christos is back with The Coup: A 21-Day Revolution Within. Two men figure strongest on The Coup, Christos, of course, and Jaz Brewer of 64111 Studios, a good place to have a soda and make a rap album. I haven’t had much of a chance to listen to…
Those crazy radio people. Those crazy California wildfires. Just found out that San Diego-based sex rockers Louis XIV (featuring hometown boy James Armbrust on bass) are playing from 9 a.m. to 11 a.m. this Sunday, October 28, at the Brooksider. Put on by the Buzz, the “Bloody Mary Breakfast” show also features and appearance by the station’s syndicated morning…
It has been nearly a week since Kansas made national headlines for rejecting a power plant because it would add to global warming – and the political fallout has been immediate and intense. When Rod Bremby, the secretary for the Kansas Department of Health and Environment, denied an air permit for Sunflower Electric Power Corporation to drastically expand a coal-fired…
Ever wonder what it’s like to be in a huddle with Bobby Knight yelling in your face, halitosis in full force? Ever dreamed of accepting bribes from influential boosters? What about screaming through your school president’s property on an ATV when you’re supposed to be serving time in a halfway house? Me neither. But there was one thing I did…
So I get this book in the mail, a book written by some limey about dead rock stars, and innit, I find a profile on this cat named Lee Collinson, who died of t’roat cancer — but not before singing in this killer ’70s British pub rock band called Dr. Feelgood. Collinson sang under the alias Lee Brilleaux. He was…
On Sunday night, Jon Fulton Adams and Ron Megee got married in a spectacular affair. JFA, a fashion and costume designer, and Ron, an actor who founded Late Night Theatre, are known for hosting creative theme parties in their West Bottoms loft. So it was no surprise that their big night incorporated an Edwardian-Victorian-goth theme, a touching ceremony that made…
It took jurors four hours today to convict Lisa Montgomery of cutting a baby from Bobbie Jo Stinnett’s stomach. The jury rejected Montgomery’s insanity claim and apparently believed proseuctors, who — in calling her post-traumatic stress defense “voodoo science” — came up with perhaps the best catchphrase of 2007. — Eric Barton Categories: News
Last Wednesday, Johnson County District Attorney filed 107 criminal charges against Planned Parenthood’s Overland Park clinic. Blah, blah, blah. You probably already know the score, even though the usually loudmouthed Kline is conspicuously tight-lipped. But something seemed a bit odd about a quote in last Thursday’s Kansas City Star. The paper quoted Pat Adair, the president of the Kansas…
Rogue Wave Saturday, 11-20-07 The Bottleneck Better Than: America’s Most Smartest Model Review and Photos by Richard Gintowt Rogue Wave’s jump to Brushfire Records (home of Jack Johnson and G. Love & Special Sauce) made me reconsider a band I had always heard as contemporaries of the Shins and Band of Horses. Had I given them too much credit?…
Around lunchtime today, I walked past the Phoenix Jazz Bar, which has been closed since sometime in July, and saw a slip of paper taped to the outside of the door that read “Coming Soon: Regan’s Donut Shoppe” Underneath that, someone had written in ballpoint pen: “16 October 2007 I was here and you weren’t. WAMY!?” To which I respond:…
BY ANDY VIHSTADT THE LESSON PLAN Even if you don’t recognize Steven “Steinski” Stein by name, it’s impossible not to feel the impact he’s made on DJ culture. Steinski and Double Dee’s Lessons releases are the Holy Grail for crate diggers, but soon they will be available on CD, courtesy of Illegal Art Records. Here’s what he told us via…
Over the weekend, E!’s The Soup featured this Nancy Grace snippet as its “Clip of the Week.” It’s taken from Nancy’s eponymous show, in which she discussed the Lisa Montgomery case in her usual screeching-banshee way. Despite the crappy video quality (I shot it off the TV with my digital camera), the flabbergasted look on Nancy’s face is awesome. In…
After publishing this blog entry on Wednesday about the famous Miss Douglas, Stacy Hedger, I got an e-mail from a Richard Dean of Austin, Texas. Dean, it seems, had done his homework on Miss Douglas. He found an entry for her on classmates.com from Douglas High School in Douglas, Arizona. So I called the only Hedger in the book in…
It’s been a crazy few days for the two founders of the Pitch’s parent company. First, Mike Lacey and Jim Larkin faced criminal charges for running a story in the Pitch’s sister paper in Phoenix. Then, faced with public outcry, prosecutors dismissed the charges and admitted mistakes had been made. Read more here, on the blog of the Phoenix…
It might be a while before Royals fans really get to know new manager Trey Hillman. But if you want to know how the Lord works through him, check out this video above, produced by truthwork.com. There’s more of Hillman on the net. Categories: News
There are so many things wrong with this video. First of all, there’s the out-of-tune keyboard turning this monster classic into a sonic nightmare. Then there’s Wolfgang clomping about instead of Michael Anthony* (read next week’s Pitch for more on that). Then, there’s DLR bouncing on a giant inflatable microphone. At the same time, the dudes did keep going and…
Every day takes figuring out all over again how to fucking live, but let’s assume for the sake of fucking conversation that you’re flush with cash and bored on payday and in blissful disregard, moreover, of other pressing financial responsibilities. Look, then, to the 2007 American Royal Livestock Show at the American Royal Center (1800 Genessee), where you might…
It’s tough to add anything to this headline from today’s Star. Either the headline writer snuck one through, or our daily paper has a new affinity for double entendres that imply fried chicken eaters might go blind. The possibility that the headline was sneaked through by a copy editor with a sick sense of humor seems more likely considering the…
Waddell & Reed Kansas City Marathon planners seem to have to accepted the reality of global warming. The event, on Saturday, takes place two weeks later than last year’s run and four weeks later than the 2005 installment of the race (which, in addition to being really hot, was improperly marked). Categories: News
The political battle over a proposed new power plant in western Kansas has been gaining steam for more than a year. This afternoon, environmentalists won the first round. Sunflower Electric Power Corporation asked the Kansas Department of Health and Environment last year for permission to drastically expand its coal-fired power plant in Holcomb, Kanas. Sunflower officials emphasized that the new…
