Pitch photog Nicole Rinertson shot some photos of muscle-bound hulks and (hulkettes) over the weekend at the 2009 Natural Southern States Classic, a drug-free bodybuilding competition held in Liberty. Click here to see the rippling results. Categories: News Tags: drug-free bodybuilding
Bishop Robert Finn declared war on behalf of pro-life activists at last weekend’s Gospel of Life Convention. Finn, of the Kansas City-St. Joseph archdiocese, apparently doesn’t care much for abortion rights or gay marriage or contraception or Notre Dame’s invitation to President Obama to speak at the campus — a decision he called “scandalous, discouraging and confusing to many Catholics.”…
The American Jazz Museum sent this press release moments ago. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – APRIL 20, 2009 – Kansas City, MO – Organizers of Kansas City’s blues and jazz festival, Rhythm & Ribs, announced today that the event will not occur on June 19-20, as planned. Citing fundraising made tougher by the challenging economy corporate sponsors are working in, the…
Starting today, you can get your tickets early for the Church and Lucinda Williams concerts, both at VooDoo Lounge. Follow the links below and put in the passwords when prompted. Who loves ya? The Church + Adam Franklin @ Voodoo June 19 password: Myrrh Lucinda Williams @ Voodoo June 17 password: Essence Categories: Music Tags: Adam Franklin, Lucinda Williams, presales,…
The theme for last week’s “Restaurant Critic’s” edition of KCUR-FM’s Walt Bodine Show was Italian food. But the caller questions, typically, had little to do with the theme. A woman called in looking for a place that served home-made, hand-breaded onion rings. A few minutes later, a gentleman called in to rave about the onion rings and everything else at…
The women one the right are 32-year-old Karen Rutherford and 37-year-old Michelle Segall. Prairie Village police accuse them of running prostitution business out of a house on Roe Avenue, the tree-lined street in the Google “street view” below, near West 67th Street. Police have watched several men come and go from the house since February and busted a married man…
What the world needs now is love, sweet love. What the world does not need, in my opinion, is another low-budget Chinese buffet. I mean, yes, the current economy has added even more importance to those words “all-you-can-eat” — I have a friend on a fixed income who only eats at buffets anymore and weighs two tons — but if I’m going…
Being a duck of limited resources and time, I decided to celebrate National Record Store Day at two places I very rarely get around to: Needmore Discs and Vinyl Renaissance, both near Nieman Road in Shawnee (ND is on 75th; VR is on Shawnee Mission Pkwy). Needmore was brisk but not packed when I got there around 3. I’m acquainted…
I find a lot of awesome pictures for this blog on Flickr. And once in a blue moon, a set of pictures there will suck me in so that I keep clicking through to see the photographer’s other work. Anyone who sees the pictures I take for this blog knows I’m no Ansel Adams, so I envy people who can…
This past Saturday, April 18, at Crosstown Station, the Center for Justice and Sustainability at William Jewell College hosted a local benefit rock show that could serve as a model for all benefit rock shows to come. These folks did a lot of things right. First and foremost, they booked bands people want to see at a good venue. They…
The Liberty Preforming Arts Theater in, uh, Liberty, hosted the 2009 Natural Southern States Classic Natural Missouri Bodybuilding Figure and Fitness contests on Saturday, April 18. This is the 14th year of the Midwest’s largest drug-free bodybuilding contest, and 115 contestants submitted to polygraph and urine tests to ensure that their bodies were 100-percent clean.
Aww dudes, you’re never going to guess what time today I originally planned to put up this post. Wait for it — 4:20!!! Yes, today you can be certain that the smell wafting from your neighbor’s apartment is what you think it is as stoners celebrate the second most annoying made-up holiday. (Valentine’s still first.) To anyone busted for pot…
Flickr: Giant Ginkgo Like cows or chickens, tuna seems like something that’ll always be around. Tuna sandwich for lunch, sashimi for dinner. That could change drastically in the next five years. Two of the three species of bluefin tuna make up a large portion of the tuna we eat (other species include albacore, yellowfin and bigeye), and it’s being fished…
Capital attorneys with the Public Interest Litigation Clinic say they expect the Missouri Supreme Court to announce an execution date for Dennis Skillicorn, a 49-year-old inmate at the Potosi Correctional Center, of May 20, 2009. Skillicorn’s previous execution date, August 27, 2008, was stayed after Skillicorn asserted that Potosi’s warden was interfering with his council’s attempts to interview prison staff…
Green Day will be buzzing through Missouri in August, landing in St. Louis on 8/11 and here on 8/12. Venues haven’t been announced, nor have ticket sale dates. The band’s latest and eighth album, 21st Century Breakdown, produced by Butch Vig, is due out May 15 on Reprise. The band recently debuted the album live with a show in their…
A couple of months ago, Pitch editor C.J. Janovy snapped some cool pics of the construction at the Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts. This morning, The Kansas City Star has a big story on the project, which is still two years away from completion. There’s a cool slideshow on the Star’s site of construction workers and steel beams. I…
Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius is expected to be confirmed as the next health secretary despite heavy opposition from anti-abortion groups and a powerful Republican senator.The next step is Tuesday when the Senate Finance Committee is scheduled to vote on whether to send Sebelius’ nomination before the full Senate. CQ Politics reports that ranking Republican Chuck Grassley is making noise about…
Look who’s racking up the wins in national and even international competitions. None other than several regional wineries. St. James Winery, about an hour south of Columbia, Missouri, returned from the 16th annual Monterey Wine Competition with three double-gold medals and one gold, for chardonel, concord dessert wine, strawberry wine and country red wine respectively. Flickr: Capn Madd Matt Three…
As the NFL Draft approaches, the football world turns its attention to Kansas City. By virtue of last season’s cruddiness, the Chiefs have the third pick in Saturday’s draft. Also, new GM Scott Pioli last worked for the New England Patriots, a team that liked to wheel and deal on draft weekend. With those factors in mind, the league’s media…
Flickr: Kater W An organic market is opening in Mission Farms, the new Leawood development that holds Zest and the Johnson County locations of Blue Koi, Blanc Burger & Bottles and Room 39. “It’s a nice fit,” Mission Farms marketing director Katie Chalfant told me. “There isn’t a market in Leawood. There hasn’t been since the one at Barstow, but…
%{}% Having just returned from Ireland, a local compares the food to Kansas City’s and we win! For those thinking about putting snot in people’s food like two Domino’s workers, be warned there are one or two laws against that. Vodka’s run as the most popular spirit is over and sweet martinis are so 2004. Now gin is king and…
By DANNY ALEXANDER As Ethan Hawke pointed out in his Rolling Stone story on the songwriting giant, Kris Kristofferson has always been ambivalent about his performance skills. “Sometimes I hate it,” he admitted in an early interview. And Friday night, he made numerous jokes about his abilities. After “Come Sundown” he made the comment, “Sounded better when Bobby Bare did…
%{}% Aruba, Jamaica oooh I wanna take you/To Bermuda, Bahama come on pretty mama/Key largo, Montego, baby why dont we go: A Jamaican gunman took a planeload of passengers hostage at Sangster International Airport in Montego Bay, just the mention of which set off a Beach Boys “Kokomo” neural bomb in my head. It’s not even the whole song, just…
