Cocaine is off the menu at Super Pollo. Today, a jury convicted the Independence Avenue restaurant’s owners of conspiring to distribute $2.3 million of cocaine. The jury also nailed them for a money laundering conspiracy for trying to hide their profits in the restaurant’s business and real estate transactions. View Larger Map Categories: News Tags: cocaine
The Village Voice’s annual Pazz & Jop poll is out for music year 2008. Predictably, voters named TV on the Radio’s very fine Dear Science the victor. To declare a winner, the Voice’s music desk tabulates ballots from hundreds of name-brand critics, no-name editors and writers, card-carrying bloggers, small-press holdovers, MP3 addicts and various hangers-on. Among the collateral results of…
%{}% I once thought Kathleen Sebelius taking a cabinet position would be a good thing for Kansas Democrats. Not anymore. Especially after this morning’s news that Kansas Lt. Gov. Mark Parkinson is “ready to serve” if needed. Great, Mark. You’re good to go. But you didn’t change your mind about running for governor in 2010. And that ain’t going to…
Who? The Decemberists Bringing What? Decemberism, plus songs from new album The Hazards of Love, plus crowd-participation antics Where? Uptown Theater When? Wednesday, May 27 Tickets? Yes, please. No, I mean, when do tickets become available? Oh, they go on sale this Friday, February 13. Categories: Music Tags: Decemberism, decemberists, incoming
Minsky’s Pizza has been a fixture in the Kansas City area, but for decades the name Minsky was better known for its connection to the great American art form of burlesque. The four Minsky brothers — Abe, Billy, Herb and Morton — started presenting live shows with naked or nearly naked girls in New York City in 1912 and closed…
It was Fat City blogger Owen Morris, writing today about a Swedish newspaper’s article that mentioned — among other things — Pitch writer Alan Scherstuhl, his cat, green Jell-O salad and big fat Rush Limbaugh that jolted my memory. Last Friday, on KCUR-FM’s Walt Bodine Show, when the discussion finally veered away from Valentine’s Day versus Halloween (go to the link,…
Professional snowboarders careening down a trick course in the middle of downtown Kansas City? The Midwest Scion Open sounded like a worthy spectacle that would pack the Power & Light District with curious spectators and extreme sports fans. Alas, it wasn’t just the snow that melted to muddy slush on Saturday. The spectacle fizzled, too. Categories: News Tags: dirty slush, Dress…
Valentine’s Day is on Saturday, which means today and tomorrow are really the last two days you can plan a stress-free holiday. By stress-free I mean not having to order priority shipping or bribe a maitre’d for a restaurant table or pick through the leftovers at the florist. I can’t help you with the shipping or the flowers. But getting…
Claire “Mad Dog” McCaskill’s media tour continued on Sunday morning’s Meet The Press. The fighting senator from Missouri defended the economic stimulus package and President Obama’s nomination of Tom Daschle. Categories: News, Politics Tags: Claire McCaskill, Economic Stimulus, Meet the Press
Enjoying the lovely weather this weekend, I found myself smoking a cigar. It’s a habit I picked up from my high-school graduation party when a friend’s dad gave me a Cuban as a present. I smoked half of it because he practically yanked it out of my mouth. “Anymore than that and you’ll feel sick later,” he told me. He…
I did not watch the Grammys last night. I had DJ contest submissions to listen to and a column to write about this Sunday’s Love Hangover local showcase. Apparently, one of the main stories of the 51st annual fatcat industry turkey party is how Chris Brown and Rihanna got into some shit and had to cancel their performance, evidently because…
The parking garage at Metropolitan Community College’s Penn Valley campus was a virtual show room of Fords and Chevys as autoworkers poured into the second-floor gymnasium for a Save Our Jobs rally Sunday afternoon. Missouri Governor Jay Nixon fired up the crowd, telling the union men and women, “Giving up on Missouri’s auto industry is simply not an option.” Larry…
It’s as if Subway is just messing with potheads now. Shortly after announcing they were firing-then-keeping sinner marijuana smoker Michael Phelps as a spokesperson, Subway announced it’s expanding its $5 foot-long menu from eight sandwiches to twenty. In a promotion starting today and running until March 29, Subway is offering any regular sub at $5. Regular sub means any sub…
A big Fat City congratulations to fellow Pitch blogger Alan Scherstuhl who has made the big time. By big time I am of course referring to a Swedish newspaper publishing a picture of Scherstuhl’s cat eating Rush Limbaugh’s grandma’s Jell-O salad. (How many possessives can one sentence have?) Running the caption through an online translator it reads: “Here we have…
Many thanks to Mr. Kendall for pointing out this blog recap of the latest episode of popular television show Rock of Love Bus, wherein dolled-up ’80s hair rock homunculus and his silicon-enhanced female entourage Writes the recapper… Not surprisingly, however, none of them know what state St. Louis is in. Further, none of them are quite sure where Missouri is,…
Over the weekend, the Kansas City police identified two men killed Friday morning outside of Gerry’s Silver Slipper. Police found Drell D. Fisher and Reginald L. Barnes shot to death in the parking lot outside the strip club. Both are 33-years-old and from Kansas City, Kansas. The police nabbed one suspect who was holding a gun and ran when police…
From this video I have surmised two things. People in Denmark drink a lot of beer, and they have a lot of time on their hands. This video has everything it takes to go viral. There’s beer. There’s dominoes. There’s the funny set-up at the end and then there’s the sheer amount of time this must have taken to put…
You see pencils flying out all over the place because the bottles were tilted on them to make them easier to topple. In all, the video’s makers claim to have broken only 30 bottles.Despite what YouTube might teach you, the best thing to do with bottles is recycle them. You don’t even have to wash them out. As for bottle…
NovaStar Financial, a former pimp in the subprime-mortgage game, has reinvented itself. Last August, the Kansas City company bought a business that manages home appraisers.Appraisal management companies serve as an intermediary between lending institutions and appraisers. They’ve become more relevant now that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac have adopted a new code of conduct that prohibits mortgage brokers from directly…
%{}% Don’t worry. Making soup that’s inferior to Souperman’s is a normal occurrence in life. Random beer comments about the weekend and beer. And after a weekend as beautiful as this, I would like to be reminded of it as much as possible. More proof that what you drink around young children really does affect what they’ll drink later in…
After 11 years and a little help from TV hospital dramas like Grey’s Anatomy and House, Gomez finally found a mass audience here in the US. The UK act recently wrapped up its sixth LP. From the one-sheet: “As ever, a wide range of styles is incorporated into Gomez’s matchless musical brew. Flavors of Delta blues, psychedelia, and Krautrock all…
