By JUSTIN KENDALL The Pitch didn’t get its copy of the Star this morning. I called the customer service number and spoke with a rep who told me that they’d “sold out” of papers today and would be “cranking out another batch” either this afternoon or tonight. She told me that she’d fielded several complaint calls from irate customers. Meanwhile,…
By PETER RUGG At the time of this writing, Missouri’s still up in the air with a slim margin for McCain. And though it doesn’t really matter anymore in the grand scheme, it just shows how important a guy like Ralph Grigsby was last night. Categories: News Tags: limos, presidential election, voting
By JUSTIN KENDALL I’m a little late getting up this morning. Last night’s kind of a blur. It’s all in a notebook somewhere. Anyway, to the blogs. Republican Lynn Jenkins made Nancy Boyda a one-term Kansas congresswoman. Kansas Watch wonders if Boyda regrets not accepting the help of the Democratic House Campaign Committee. “There’s being independent then there’s being well,…
By CHARLES FERRUZZA Like a lot of Baby Boomers, my introduction to “pop” music was my father’s collection of record albums – and they really were albums in those days, with heavy-to-lift “collections” in book-like jackets containing two or three thick 78 RPM discs tucked into paper sleeves. Dad had very eclectic taste in music, dating back to his days…
Click on photo for naughty naughty slide show by Michael Forester. Guess what? You went to the wrong party. Indeed, while you were at home glued to the couch or out with your Young Republican friends, weeping in a sports bar, YJ’s Snack Bar owner and adventurous 18th Street artist David Ford was presiding over a crew of strippers, freaks,…
%{}% By OWEN MORRIS Going into this week, the class had been cooking seafood and poultry and learning the ins and outs of the real meat and potatoes of cooking. Also, we’d been gaining confidence. We have spent enough time in this particular kitchen to know its idiosyncrasies and where everything should be. Actually, the idiosyncrasy in this kitchen is…
By JUSTIN KENDALL “Yay, David Axelrod!” screamed the wine-drinking guy next to me. CNN was interviewing Barack Obama’s chief strategist, and Axelrod’s wife had probably never said those words with as much passion as the guy next to me. McCoy’s was definitely a partisan crowd. I expected this going in since lefties Lazlo and Slimfast from 96.5 The Buzz were…
The bars were heavily in favor of Obama Tuesday night as voters came in to soothe the last jangled nerves of the election season with tequila shots.
By OWEN MORRIS In South Johnson County across from Oak Park Mall and a Chick-Fil-A that might have been built that morning, I stopped by Saints Pub and Patio. It’s where the Lenexa outpost of Mickey’s Irish Pub used to be. Saints is billing itself as an “American gastropub” — gastropub being one of those British terms used loosely to…
By C.J. JANOVY A small but steady party was going at the Q Brew coffee shop near 18th and Quindaro when I stopped by just as CNN was calling Ohio for Obama. With the TV on mute behind them, spoken-word duo The Recipe — poets 337 (Desmond Jones, in the white vest and tie) and Priest (aka Theodore Hughes, seated…
Local artist David Ford assembled a crew of singers, strippers, musicians and freaks for his Election Night installation at Mercy Seat Tattoo, 11/04/08.
%{}% By CHRIS PACKHAM It’s a historic day, you guys, I will totally frame my November 5th issue of the Northeast News, the useless, unwanted newspaper thrown at my yard by meth-heads from the broken-out window of a 1978 Ford Pinto wagon amidst a cloud of withering black auto exhaust while simultaneously huffing gasoline from a mayonnaise jar and slapping…
By OWEN MORRIS What to say about last night? Actually, nothing from me. I am just as emotional and dazed and hungover tired as you. Let’s bring everyone back down to earth with an article reminding us all (and by “all” I mean “single people”) that Kansas City’s coffee scene is not what we would call err — spectacular. (KC…
“America’s not fired!” “All emigration orders can be put on hold!” “I don’t think I’ve ever wanted to hang an American flag on my house more than I do right now.” The above statements were issued by various happy — nay, overjoyed people — not long after 10 p.m. last night at Davey’s Uptown Rambler’s Club, where I watched Barack…
By DAVID MARTIN Obama volunteer Jonathan Sheffi stood near the bar of the Midland theater, a hard-earned drink in hand, as victory approached Tuesday night. Earlier in the day, Sheffi had served as a polling-place captain at Immanuel Lutheran Church in midtown, where a mix-up delayed the delivery of voter rolls until 8 a.m., two hours after polls officially opened….
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Barack Obama closed his campaign with a massive outdoor public event — a street party through downtown Chicago centered around Grant Park on the waterfront. The campaign distributed 70,000 tickets to the official event, but many more came down for the party.
In this 10-minute short from 1945, a 29- or 30-year-old Frank Sinatra sings a couple of stringy ballads and lectures a venomous schoolboy rabble on diversity. He even quotes statisticamabobs. FRANK: “Do you know what this wonderful country is made of? It’s made up of a hundred different kind of people. And a hundred different ways of talking. And a…
Pitch managing editor Scott Wilson: “The greatest single piece of American music played by the most brilliant champion of music in U.S. history? Sign me up.” George Gershwin’s “Rhapsody in Blue,” played and conducted by Leonard Bernstein (part two) Categories: Music Tags: Election Day, Gershwin
And now for something local: the Ssion’s electro-trashed cover of the Young Marble Giants classic “Credit in the Straight World.” The Ssion – “Credit in the Straight World” I got some credit in the straight world/I lost a leg, I lost an eye Bonus: The Ssion, “Werk” (documentary preview) I am Diana Ross, and we are the Supremes! Categories: Music…
