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Archives: September 2008
Summer Slam
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Suit Pits Shuttlecocks Against Tennis Balls
By DAVID MARTIN Trustees of the Nelson Gallery Foundation have filed a lawsuit against the city of Kansas City, Missouri, because the City Council blocked the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art’s plans to expand. The trustees have leased land to the Rockhill Tennis Club since 1955, a relationship that has deteriorated over the years. In 2000, the trustees decided not to…
Kilroy to Celebrate Self Tomorrow
I’ve been out sick most of the week with no energy for blogging. But I came in today, and as I coughed and sniffled while deleting e-mails and ignoring phone calls, I wasn’t sure I’d find the strength to make it through the day. Then, I stumbled upon the following missive (illustrations added). Begin forwarded message: From: Jim Kilroy Categories:…
Steve Cole Is Back on the Scene, Now at the Marriott
By CHARLES FERRUZZA Steve Cole isn’t just a local legend because he’s a polished restaurateur, but also because of his style — he can be a tough taskmaster, a true perfectionist. That’s one of the reasons that his former restaurant, Café Allegro, was considered Kansas City’s most glamorous bistro for nearly twenty years. The food was exquisite, the appointments were…
Hip-Hop & Hot Wings Moves to Midtown
By FLANNERY CASHILL Hip-Hop & Hot Wings migrates south this winter, when it relocates from the downtown Peanut to the Record Bar. Final details are still in flux, but Beatbroker is optimistic: while the Peanut had charm, the Record Bar has resources, and with a stage, backstage, and PA system, touring artists can expect well-equipped venue and well-attended welcome. Akil…
This Cake Will Last Longer Than the Marriage
By OWEN MORRIS Considering how many other things at my parents’ wedding were rentals, it’s hard to believe that the cake wasn’t too. There’s a good chance that if they were getting married today that wouldn’t be the case. That’s because now, you can rent — yes, rent — wedding cakes. Really, it’s the perfect invention for the lucrative wedding…
Vanessa and Erika in the P&L
By NADIA PFLAUM Vanessa and Erika are sisters born 11 years apart, but their fashion sense wasn’t separated at birth. If accessorizing was a sport, both these girls would be first-round draft picks. “We never go shopping together. She dresses younger than me. I’m 34, I can’t do all that,” Erika says, waving her hands in her sister’s direction. “What,…
Daily Briefs: Hemispheric Confusion
%{}% By CHRIS PACKHAM digg_url = ‘http://blogs.pitch.com/plog/2008/09/daily_briefs_hemispheric_confu.php’; · Here is an example of a well-written lede in the AP news style: Jesus, John McCain, quit going around acting like such a senile old corpse already. I am the best at the impartial standards of journalism, WHERE IS THE PULITZER PRIZE PATROL WITH MY BALLOON BOUQUET? Yesterday, in a Spanish radio…
The Download Extra: New Big Boi Stream
By ANDY VIHSTADT The long-awaited solo album from Outkast’s Big Boi will be released on October 28 and the guest list includes Mary J. Blige, Raekwon, George Clinton, and of course, Andre 3000. The third single from the forthcoming Sir Luscious Left Foot: The Son of Chico Dusty is streaming at The Fader. Categories: Music
Breakfast Buffet: Thursday, 9/18
By OWEN MORRIS You know when you see the cheap Styrofoam plate at a restaurant, the food is either going to be really, really good or really, really bad. KC Lunch Spots finds a Mexican restaurant on one end of that scale. (KC Lunch Spots) A.1. sure has some interesting meats that men supposedly like in this pamphlet from the…
Studies in Crap: Power Living PLUS Finger Plays for Little Folks!
Each Thursday, your Crap Archivist brings you the finest in forgotten and bewildering crap culled from area basements, thrift stores, estate sales and flea markets. I do this for one reason: Knowledge is power. Power Living Authors: Wayman Mitchell, Greg Johnson and Ron Simpkins Publisher: Potters Press, Prescott, AZ Date: 1987 Discovered at: 2nd Chance Thrift, 1229 East 63rd Street…
Jonathan Chester Photography Workshops
Photographer Jonathan Chester perfected his wildlife photography techniques in regions as far-flung as the Gallapagos, the Arctic and the Arctic’s arch-enemy, the Antarctic, and now you can learn about photographing animals from the undisputed Indiana Jones of shutterbugs. Today’s lecture, The Art of Wildlife and Travel Photography, is a digital multimedia presentation in the Kansas City Zoo conference room. Cost…
Columbus Park Crawl
Art in Columbus Park hosts Third Friday, an outing for those of us whose creative appetites can’t be satisfied by just one Friday art event a month. Stroll the galleries between 6 and 10 tonight in one of the metro’s most diverse neighborhoods. Third Friday of every month, 2008 Tags: Night & Day
Earth Wind & Fire with Michael McDonald
Earth, Wind & Fire were one of the most musically accomplished, critically acclaimed, and commercially popular funk bands of the ’70s. Conceived by drummer, bandleader, songwriter, kalimba player, and occasional vocalist Maurice White, the bands all-encompassing musical vision used funk as its foundation, but also incorporated jazz, smooth soul, gospel, pop, rock & roll, psychedelia, blues, folk, African music, and,…
Diary Girl
Tonight’s premiere of And Then They Came For Me: Remembering the Life of Anne Frank might not show the same Anne Frank you knew in high school. But the show is, in its way, more of the same from the Coterie Theatre — the same kind of challenging material, inventive staging, professional polish and out-of-the-ordinary thinking about what young persons’…
Greater Kansas City Pipe Club
One of the traits distinguishing pipe smoking from cigarette smoking is that pipes demand a larger amount of pocket-stuffing contraband — tampers, pipe cleaners, tobacco pouches, pipes and stuff. Then, before you can light up, you have to do a little project involving pipe-stuffing and an elaborate lighting procedure. And third, it’s pretty indisputable that pipe smoking is the single…
You’re feeling very pervy
Can a middle-aged former Nikon camera salesman in a Hawaiian shirt, armed with an invisible “sleep gun,” really turn people on? Well, if the video clips on sexy hypnotist Brad Clark’s Web site are to be believed, he can tell a hypnotized woman that his butt is “the hottest thing you’ve ever seen,” and she’ll reach out to grab it….
True-ish
Hall of Fame pitcher and longtime Kansas City resident Satchel Paige once ordered his outfielders to sit down and then worked his way out of a jam without their assistance. Bingo Long (Billy Dee Williams), a thinly veiled cinematic version of Paige, performs a similar stunt during The Bingo Long Traveling All-Stars & Motor Kings, a good-natured tribute to the…
Treasure Hunt
If there’s one event that local crate diggers don’t want publicized, it’s the annual For Your Ears Only sale in Lawrence. That’s because those vultures want to get their grubby little hands on the rare LPs, turntables, unopened eight-tracks and reel-to-reel tape recorders therein. But this is the land of capitalism, and a little healthy competition is a good thing…
All You Can Bowl
The swanky bowling lounge in the Power & Light District makes Mondays something to look forward to with Bottomless Bowling. Enjoy all-you-can-bowl action at Lucky Strike Lanes (1370 Grand) from 9 p.m. to midnight. Just like a drink that keeps getting refilled, your bottomless bowling games just keep coming. For $15, grab your shoes and play as many games as…
Script to Stage
When rock stars want to give fans a window into their creative process, they toss up webcams or leak demos on MySpace. When playwrights want to try out their new material, they host staged readings. Such is the inspiration for the In-Progress New Play Reading Series at the Unicorn Theater (3828 Main, 816-531-7529). Tonight, the theater will host a reading…
The Brick
The Brick is home to not one but eight Best Of Kansas City awards from The Pitch. Find out why we love The Brick during Wednesday happy hours, when appetizers are half-priced and burgers are two-for-one. Drinks are even cheaper, with $1 yard beers, $2 wells, $3 imports and $5 celebrity martinis. Wednesdays, 2008 Tags: Kansas City, Night & Day
Colin Quinn
You know this guy — comedian Colin Quinn from Saturday Night Live, MTV’s Remote Control and Tough Crowd with Colin Quinn. Yuck it up with him and opener T. Sean Shannon. Fri., Sept. 19, 7:45 & 9:45 p.m.; Sat., Sept. 20, 7:45 & 9:45 p.m., 2008 Tags: Colin Quinn, MTV Networks Company, Night & Day, Saturday Night Live, Tough Crowd…
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