Who knew Kansas City, Kansas, was a Triple-A farm club for superheroes? According to the World Superhero Registry, a woman crime fighter named Nyx guards the streets of KCK. But she’s about to go to the show: New York. (Staff writer Justin Kendall posted a video of Nyx along with his May 7 Plog entry about her.) As though Gotham…
Dear Mexican: My wife is from Michoacán state. We’ve bought a home in the small town of her birth. I love everything about the quiet little place. Even her mother is kind to me, as if I were her son. The food is incredibly good. The puerco is killed that morning, and the taste is like nothing you ever find…
Title: HBO & ZZ99 Present Starlight ’84 Summer Spectacular Publisher: New West and Contemporary Productions Date: 1984 Discovered at: Waldo Antiques The cover promises: Starlight Representative quotes: “Today, Starlight Theatre offers the best of the entertainment industry, from the dramatic, lavish Broadway musical productions to the exciting, pulsating performances of the leading stars of contemporary music.” (page 5) “With 1982’s…
Feature: “Eat It!” April 30 Cow Madness I am disturbed by the meat industry’s justifications while it destroys our environment and causes pain and suffering to animals. A recent United Nations report, “Livestock’s Long Shadow,” concludes that eating meat is “one of the … most significant contributors to the most serious environmental problems” and causes 40 percent more greenhouse-gas emissions…
Dennis Skillicorn’s lawyers tracked down the man responsible for the murder that first sent Skillicorn to prison. James Betts is currently serving a life sentence at the Jefferson City Correctional Center. He shot and killed 81-year-old Wendell Howell while he, Skillcorn and another man robbed Howell’s home in 1979. On September 18, 2008, Betts wrote the following statement, which is…
Exciting times in the Missouri legislature: H.B. 484, a bill written to create a commission to study the state’s death penalty, passed by a surprisingly large margin in a 127-31 vote, after the 2-year moratorium component was removed. Now it goes to the Senate for a vote — if they can get to it by Friday when the session ends….
It’s just been announced that Stevie Wonder is coming to the Starlight Theatre on June 26. Starlight and Live Nation are describing it as the biggest concert in the theater’s history. (They even held a press conference this afternoon to announce the news. That’s how big this is.) Wonder recently released a live DVD titled Live at Last: A Wonder…
A member of the Mexican King gang shot a man in the abdomen last night, court records say. Kansas City police arrested 17-year-old Eduardo Escobar, aka “Scarface” and “Tomato,” shortly after the shooting at 1016 Cleveland Ave. Police say Escobar had a loaded pistol grip shotgun hidden in his pants at the time of his arrest. Court records say that…
Those looking forward to some Sex on Wheelz tonight at the Record Bar will be disappointed. My Life with the Thrill Kill Kult’s gig is canceled “due to breakup,” according to the venue’s Web site. Evidently, the 21-year-old band called it quits last night in Tulsa, just five days into its Death Threat Tour. The night’s opening acts, Justin Whedon,…
The Kansas City Tax-Increment Financing Commission has given H&R Block two weeks to respond to a report from the city concluding that minority participation was inflated during the construction of the company’s headquarters in downtown Kansas City. The TIF Commission will hold a special meeting in two weeks to make a final decision about whether an honest effort was made…
Last fall I wrote about autumn favorites like chai tea and apple cider — drinks that perfectly fit a season. With spring in full bloom, here’s what I’m sipping on the patio. Pretty much anything with ice in it sounds tempting at the moment. It’s been iced coffee weather for the past several days but at the moment my favorite…
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On Tuesday, the Royals’ Luke Hochevar’s self-assessment, “he’s clicking.” Today, he’s ugly.Eight runs in two innings. To the Oakland A’s. Welcome to the show. In other Royals news: The Onion reports that the team, unable to find themselves in the standings, has filed a grievance with Major League Baseball. David Glass is still one of the worst owners in baseball….
It’s less than shocking to say that certain restaurants and foods cater to pot smokers. Without trying, Dorito’s, Domino’s and Cap’n Crunch have become part of the stereotypical image of getting high. But I’d be willing to bet that no major restaurant chain has courted stoners as actively as Denny’s does in this new advertisement: They really don’t leave much…
Craigslist is dumping its “erotic services” ads in the next week and will replace them with an adult services section where the ads are manually approved and cost $10, the Los Angeles Times reports. Craigslist won’t be accepting new erotic services ads, starting today. This is all in the wake of the so-called “Craigslist Killer” and threats from three attorneys…
Why at Arrowhead Stadium in beautiful Kansas City, Texas. Not sure how I missed this in the countless hours that I spent playing EA Sports’ NCAA Football 2009. But Eric Barton, The Pitch’s former managing editor and the current bigshot with our sister paper in Broward-Palm Beach, caught the error while leading the Missouri Tigers to the title game. The…
A while back I was thinking about testing under-a-dollar cups of coffee. There was only one problem — I couldn’t any. (Except for at gas stations.) I phoned cafes and breakfast nooks all over the city and came up empty-handed. Turns out I was looking in the wrong places. Harry’s Country Club has coffee and espresso for only 99 cents…
Viva Voce, the two-piece, man-drummer-plus-woman-guitarist (like the Stripes in reverse, instrumentally speaking, except both sing, so maybe they’re more like their labelmates Mates of State) band from Portland known for not fucking around is coming to the Record Bar, bringing songs from their May 26 release Rose City. Grab a new track from the album below, courtesy of Barsuk. MP3:…
Allen Nicklasson, the other half of the Good Samaritan Killers, was troubled from an early age. Dennis Skillicorn’s lawyer, Jenny Merrigan, describes him as “fascinating,” and “truly mentally ill.” Merrigan told me that at age four, he stabbed a man he saw raping his mother, who worked as a prostitute and kept Nicklasson in a closet while meeting johns. At…
If you didn’t catch the local news last night, KSHB really put it to many restaurants in the area who are serving fish that’s not what they claim it to be. The station’s reporters tested 20 restaurants who serve expensive fish. Of the 20, only three — The Savoy, Bonefish and Islamorada — actually served the fish advertised on the…
Tori Amos’ piano-hands are the devil’s tools, apparently. Her new album, Abnormally Attracted to Sin, comes out May 19. The Sinful Attraction Tour follows, stopping by KC on Thursday, July 23, at the Starlight. You know what sinfully attracts me? Butter. You know what does not? Tori. But to each his or her own. For ticket info, go to ToriAmos.com…
I’m a big fan of KCPT. Frontline is the most informative program on television and it’s always a joy to randomly see Alan Alda’s face. The public television station also hasn’t been afraid to do good local programming like Check Please!. Tonight its highlight won’t be on the telly but instead at City Tavern, where Oyster Royster benefits KCPT’s cultural…
