Listening to Stik Figa work this Kanye track over reminds one that 1) Kanye is not a very good rapper and 2) quality production is half the battle, if not more, to creating a solid creative track. In a hurry? Skip the first minute of T-Pain’s vocoder crooning, and go straight to Stik’s verse. MP3: (originally by Kanye West, feat….
We’re going to be hearing about the New York Islanders’ possible move to Kansas City until at least September. That’s when New York will play an exhibition game at the Sprint Center. Until then, we’ll be reading news stories like the one in yesterday’s Kansas City Star or today’s Long Island Business News. But the stories contradict each other. The…
Categories: Music Tags: comics, sketchbook, Soulja Boy, Wilson Pickett
Richard Tripp is having a bad run of luck. Tripp, as some of you may know, runs an organization called Care of Poor People. Twice a year, around Thanksgiving and Easter, with the help of tons of volunteers, he puts on an enormous potluck dinner and lays out tables and tables of donated clothes and toiletries. Sometimes a band plays….
If you see the guy in the photo on the right, don’t tell him that Dateline’s Chris Hansen and the Perverted Justice crew are waiting to catch a predator. Seriously, when I saw this story on Fox 4, my first thought was this guy’s totally taking his stolen sixer of Mike’s Hard Lemonade and six cartons of smokes to rendezvous…
It’s your lucky day, kids of artistic breed! In a rather unorthodox but totally cool pairing, Raleigh, NC band Annuals is giving away tickets to their shows, along with a “gift from” a museum near you. Between now and Monday, March 2, when the band plays the Record Bar, you can register to win two tickets to the show plus…
Local PBS affiliate KCPT Channel 19 announced today that Kliff Kuehl (pictured) has been hired as the station’s new president and CEO. The deal ends an eight-month search to replace Victor Hogstrom. Kuehl starts April 6. To work here, 47-year-old Kuehl leaves behind PBS station KNPB in Nevada. Before he shot shows in Reno just to watch them die, he…
If you’re in the habit of picking up the humongous, five-dollar-plus Sunday edition of The New York Times, chances are you do in part for the New York Times Magazine, which has some of the best writing and profiles this side of the New Yorker. (For instance, check out this excellent profile of basketball player Shane Battier two weeks ago.)…
When we (and by “we,” you know I just about always mean “I” — all the more so in this case) at Wayward headquarters saw the publicity e-mail subject line “COLLECTORS’ EDITION OF DOLLY PARTON’S BACKWOODS BARBIE SET FOR EXCLUSIVE RELEASE AT ALL CRACKER BARREL LOCATIONS MARCH 23,” a part of us rejoiced. What was this part, you ask? Isn’t…
At the Oscars, Bill Maher encouraged film fans to watch more documentaries. Project Save Justice, showing here Sunday, is not the best place to start, however. Retired professor Donald C. Shields will be in town with a short documentary about the politically motivated prosecutions conducted by the Bush Justice Department. A professor emeritus at the University of Missouri in St….
Earlier this month, former Pitch writer Jen Chen passed along a tip about an Olathe school teacher who does really cool sketches of Michelle Obama. Leslie Brown’s first sketch of the First Lady was featured on the Mrs. O blog. And he was considering a second version based off an Annie Leibovitz photo that was featured in Vogue. I exchanged…
Clearing out my press-release inbox for the week, I noticed I missed this important announcement from the National Restaurant Association. (The good NRA.) It has chosen the Overland Park Convention Center for its 2010 and 2011 national competition. The 2009 competition is in San Diego. The Association’s ProStart invitational for high school students involves a culinary event in which they’ll…
This week the Arkansas Times had an article about McDonald’s worker Nigel Haskett, who jumped across the counter to help a woman who was being beaten. He then got into a fight with the man who was assaulting her, and the man shot Haskett several times in the stomach. That was last year. Since then Haskett’s had several stomach surgeries…
Before yesterday, I’d never heard of Missouri State Rep. Jason Grill, but the young Democrat from the Kansas City area’s 32nd district has sponsored a bill to put calorie information on menu boards. House Bill 755 would “require food service establishments that are one of a group of 15 or more doing business nationally to display calorie information to consumers…
%{}% This has been a DQ week here in the Fat City. First we paid homage to the oldest Dairy Queen location in Kansas City, then Owen Morris wrote about bllionaire Warren Buffett insisting on being interviewed in a Dairy Queen. Now we’ve learned that the soft-serve giant has started a blog! Non-company bloggers will be rewarded with DQ gift…
Before last night, the extent of what I knew about Solange Knowles was limited to what I read about her on Dlisted (the celebrity blogger likes to make up stories about how her diva sister Beyonce keeps Solange locked away in the basement) and the crazy-ass outfits I see her going out in public with thanks to GoFugYourself. So, not…
Flickr: Mario_Groleau I’ve got a confession to make: I was still just an adorable little tot in the early 1960s, but, yes, I was around before the dramatic changes from the Vatican II Council made it possible for observant Catholic families, like mine, to eat meat on Fridays. Not just Fridays during Lent, of course, but all those other Fridays….
Flickr: Whitch Kitten The black marks on hungover foreheads this past Wednesday meant one thing. Lent is here and Catholics can say sayanora to meat on Fridays for the next seven weeks. In addition to lowering the carbon footprint, Lent’s meat ban is a windfall for seafood restaurants. As an undercover Red Lobster server points out, it’s no coincidence that…
Pitch contributor Saby Reyes-Kulkarni recently conducted a monster-length interview with producer Martin Bisi (Sonic Youth, Swans, John Zorn, Herbie Hancock and many, many more), who appears tonight at the Record Bar in support of his new album, Sirens of the Apocalypse. Having participated in so many cutting-edge recordings, not to mention graffiti culture, Bisi had a great deal to say…
%{}% If you’ve got a hankering for garlic and bell peppers, then this is your post. If not, it’s still got some great info on where to get peppers cheap. The last Cheerios in your bowl of cereal. I always thought they randomly formed bunches but it turns out there’s science behind why and how your Cheerios float on milk….
Last Thursday, the legendary Leonard Cohen performed in front of an American audience for the first time in 15 years at NYC’s Beacon Theater. NPR has graciously posted a dozen of the songs on its All Songs Considered podcast (this link will fire up your iTunes, or you can settle on the streaming version). Here’s the shortened setlist: “Dance Me…
