Sam Hartle with the Kansas City Kansan reports that the Kansas City, Kansas, Board of Public Utilities named Michael Manske the new ethics administrator last night. Manske should know the job. He served as ethics administrator in 2007 until injuries suffered in a car accident forced him to resign. I don’t know much about Manske. He quit right at the…
Santa Cruz pups the Vox Jaguars are the newest signee to local label Anodyne Records, and word just came through that they’re releasing their debut EP on February 10. Preview a track from Vox Jaguars after the jump. Categories: Music Tags: Anodyne, MP3, Vox Jaguars
Pitch calendar editor Crystal K. Wiebe told me to stop everything and remind people that the big Valentine’s Day screening of Casablanca at Screenland will probably sell out before she can tell people about it. So she wants to tell you about it. Check out this blurb from contributing writer Brent Shepherd: Casablanca. It’s arguably the most romantic movie of…
Just got this less than uplifting breaking news alert from Fox 4. They say a 22-year-old woman and her 17-month old baby “were found dead in the water in the 8700 block of Hickman Mills.” KMBC-TV reports that they were found in the Blue River. View Larger Map Categories: News Tags: fox 4, homicides
The answer is a large Baskin Robbins’ chocolate Oreo Shake. Once, I tried to eat an entire 2,400 calorie Baskin Robbins Heath Shake, believing it to be the worst thing on Baskin-Robbins menu. Although I only finished three-fourths of it (my estimate was 1,800 to 2,000 calories), it resulted in multiple brain freezes, stomach cramps and avoidance of Baskin Robbins…
%{}% A month ago I mentioned ODV — a play on the French phrase Eau de Vie meaning “water of life” — which is an unpretentious wine club. Anyone and everyone can join provided they meet one criteria: that they’re 21 or over. I went to the ODV meeting a month ago at The Drop. There was a smattering of…
By RICHARD GINTOWT 2009 is shaping up to be a banner year for Kyle Dykes, better known in the local hip-hop community as Leonard Dstroy. The lynchpin of the hyperproductive Innate Sounds crew is planning three anticipated releases in the coming months: 1. A new Deep Thinkers record with longtime co-conspirator Brother of Moses. The group’s fourth LP (and first…
It’s fitting that AC/DC’s show opens with a bawdy cartoon playing up the band’s lewd legacy. AC/DC is cartoonish. Not KISS cartoonish. But c’mon, Angus Young plays an impish, devil-possessed schoolboy guitarist. To perfection. That’s why the guy from Jefferson City can bring his 13-year-old daughter to see the show, and not feel bad when Angus is stripping off his…
Last night I crashed Fogo de Chao, which is pronounced Fogo de Shooooon or Fogo de Shawn, depending on what employee you ask. The Country Club Plaza’s latest restaurant officially opens today in the space formerly occupied by Fedora’s and most recently George Brett’s at 222 W. 47th Street. Fogo de Chao is a Brazilian steakhoues chain with 14 locations…
%{}% The next big weight-loss craze could be purposely ingesting bacteria. Remind us how this is any different from losing weight due to illness? Smoking therapies are about to undergo a revolution now that scientists have positively identified nicotine receptors in humans’ taste buds. Toothpaste erases crayon marks. Nail polish tightens screws. From Woman’s Day, it’s great uncommon uses for…
Royce Da 5’9″ can credit the mixtape revolution for a good portion of his fanbase. The Detroit rapper recently teamed up with the Smoking Section to issue his seventh free release, which happens to be a greatest hits of sorts. From the blog: “Linking up with fellow Midwesterner Trackstar The DJ, Detroit native Royce drops a collection of his grimiest…
OK, so there’s no ball, but Bannister Mall is getting a post-apocalyptic facelift. Wait, I think I left my nylon billfold at Fun Factory in 1986! Click here to see the damage. Categories: News Tags: Bannister Mall
I got a text message on New Year’s Eve from a friend who showed up to a party wearing the same dress as another friend. The matchy-matchy event was “a disaster,” according to the text, which I thought was a pretty ridiculous exaggeration. Apparently I underestimated a serious matter, because some chick named Sacha Nana (really?) in Fairway created a…
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. He does this for one reason: Knowledge is power. 1001 Ways To Be Romantic Author: Gregory J.P Godek Publisher: Casablanca Press Date: 1995 Discovered at: Turnstyles thrift store, Overland Park The Cover Promises: If you…
The Jewish Community Center presents Ragtime, a classic tale of social justice. Saturdays, 7:30 p.m.; Sundays, 2 p.m. Starts: Jan. 10. Continues through Jan. 25, 2009 Tags: 554, Night & Day
In “We So Cool,” Gwendolyn Brooks chided a group of young men to look beyond their empty swagger for a life more significant. In her “Inaugural Poem,” Maya Angelou challenged a nation to understand its foundation and fling open the curtains to a more vibrant future. In “Still Here,” Langston Hughes threw joy in the face of circumstances trying to…
Often overlooked in the chasm between his 1989 Sundance breakout, Sex, Lies, and Videotape, and his first star-driven vehicle, 1998’s Out of Sight, Steven Soderbergh’s 1993 coming-of-age drama, King of the Hill, features young Jesse Bradford going it alone in Depression-era St. Louis. It’s a film-carrying performance reminiscent of Christian Bale’s in Empire of the Sun (though on a scale…
Civil war in Sudan has gone on so long and displaced or killed so many that stories of atrocities and a lost homeland seem all too regular to Americans. But there was nothing commonplace about the flight of Ayuel Leek Deng and Beny Ngor Chol from Sudan. Tonight at 8 at the Writers Place (3607 Pennsylvania), Barbara Youree reads from…
Who is Jesus? If you’re talking to Jesus Christ Superstar fans, the answer is Ted Neeley, who has been putting on the robe for Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber’s rock opera longer than Jesus was alive. The curtain first rose on Neeley as the son of God on June 28, 1972, at Universal Studios Amphitheater. A year later, he…
Cemeteries are ideal locations for introspection, which suits painter and part-time gravestone restorer A. Lloyd du Pont just fine. Du Pont is a ponderer, and one of the topics she regularly ruminates on is her own internal workings, which she explores through the creation of large-scale multimedia journal pieces. The word journal connotes smallish dimensions, but the works in Journal…
The 2009 Roller Derby season ushers in some dramatic changes for the Kansas City Roller Warriors, including some notable departures, according to two-year veteran blocker Ruth Canal of the Victory Vixens, number twenty-tooth. “We just had tryouts, so we’ll have 13 new girls that joined,” Canal says. “We lost many girls from last season. Our team alone lost seven players…
It’s hard to know a good business investment these days. As of this writing, even successful chain restaurants in the Power & Light District are shutting down to renovate or to open as different chains that might attract more customers. But if there’s one thing we’d consider a safe bet, and actually necessary, it’s a good thrift store. The ones…
(6332 South Raytown Road, 816-353-5700). The beer here isn’t green, but it’s really cheap all day. Busch Light and Coors Light bottles are $2; Killian’s Red and Corona bottles are $2.50. Tuesdays, 2009 Tags: Busch Light, coors light, Corona (New York), Night & Day
(10012 East 63rd Street, 816-356-3009). This bar was The Pitch’s pick for 2008 Best Neighborhood Bar East. Score $2 domestic bottles and $3 wells during the extra-long happy hour from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Tuesdays, 11 a.m.-6 p.m., 2009 Tags: 4:20, Night & Day
