Kansas City police released the name of the man shot to death Sunday morning in a parking lot near Grand Slam Liquors, 631 Grand Boulevard. Police say the victim is 21-year-old Pierre E. Parker. Parker was pronounced dead at the scene. Witnesses told police that they saw a vehicle with two black men leaving the scene at the time of…
This is Ricky Brooks. Jackson County prosecutors charged him with lighting up Westport with an assault rifle early Sunday morning. Court records say the shooting occurred around 2:40 a.m. after an argument between two women inside America’s Pub, which continued in the Chili’s parking lot near Westport Road and Mill Street, when a man entered the fray. Court records say…
Kansas City has no shortage of assholes, killers and fat people. It’d be fair to wonder if this was actually hell with all the sinning going on. Thankfully, scientists have finally done something worthwhile and measured everyone’s malevolence with brightly colored maps. According to the Las Vegas Sun, Kansas State University researchers spent a lot of time and public money putting together a group…
%{}% Conservatives in Missouri have a new place to congregate online. Missourians for Responsible Government, a nonprofit dedicated to free-market ideals, has unveiled The Missouri Record, an electronic source of news and opinion. Patrick Tuohey will edit the ostensibly nonpartisan Missouri Record. The last we heard from Tuohey, a Washington, D.C.-trained political operative, he was working to defeat Kansas City’s…
Warning to local guitarists: come see Richard Lloyd tonight at the Record Bar and you’ll likely want to lay your ax down forever. The man is a freak. In case you missed the Critic’s Choice in this past week’s Pitch, tonight marks an encore of sorts to the Television man’s August 1 show at the same venue. (I reviewed it,…
When you talk about “deals” and “bands” in the same sentence, you’re usually discussing record deals. But last September 11, Scratch Track was in L.A. for a different kind of deal — the NBC game show Deal or No Deal. DJ Lee, one half of the hip hop act, made it his mission to get on the show after catching…
The one and only An*l C*nt recently rolled out of its native Boston suburbs for its Wearing Out Our Welcome Tour, the hardcore, super-offensive band’s 20th anniversary jaunt. Judging by our photographer’s shots from this past Saturday’s show at the Riot Room, AxCx wore out the local crowd, too. Categories: Music Tags: An*l C*nt, AxCx, hardcore, riot room, slide show
There is a saying in the restaurant industry: You can’t make a living but you can make a killing. That pretty much sums up the boom-or-bust attitude. Even so, for most restaurant workers things can be a little bit more even. The industry magazine Star Chefs has released its 2008 report on how much one can expect to make working…
Billy Johnson does not have swine flu. So, everyone, please stop asking the drummer for Shots Fired and Paper Cities about it. Johnson and his girlfriend, Alia Castaneda, flew to Play del Carmen, Mexico, on April 26, just before the paranoia about a swine flu pandemic took over the media. “I was spraying out both ends one day, because I…
Shopping in the supermarket, it’s easy to forget that all those fruits and veggies aren’t brought in by a local Produce Pete but instead have made really long journeys from distant lands. The influx of products from abroad troubles Food and Water Watch, a non-profit consumer group working for a “safe and wholesome food supply with strong consumer safeguards at…
Today marks the second year since Kara Kopetsky vanished from Belton High School. Kopetsky was 17-years-old at the time of her disappearance. The last time anyone claimed to have seen her was at a gas station/Burger King in Louisburg, Kansas. Kopetsky’s family have posted her story on the Internet and a $30,000 reward is being offered for information leading to…
When Food Network Magazine launched late last year I stopped by a grocery store to read it (yes, I’m that guy) and didn’t notice any articles about KC. So I figured I’d check out the next issue. I waited and I waited and after two months, the same inaugural issue was still listed on the Web site and at the…
Saturday night, at the concert venue formerly known as Sandstone, Brandon Flowers and the rest of the Killers opened up the 2009 concert season with big ol’ post-yacht-rock-frat-boy-arena-pop-Vegas-y-EXPLOSION! I must admit the last time I went to Sandstone was in spring of 2004. The show? Blink-182 and Cypress Hill. I remember freely moving between the lawn, frozen drink stands and…
%{}% The next round of red-light cameras go live today. So stop running the lights at: West 79th and Wornall East 63rd and Prospect 39th and Main East 19th and Walnut 27th and Southwest Trafficway And don’t run the light at West 39th Street and Southwest Trafficway either. That is, unless you want a $113.50 ticket. KSHB Channel 41 says…
This past Friday, Christopher Elbow released his Mother’s Day bon-bons collection which is unique in that it focuses on antioxidants and power foods. In addition, he donates $5 from every box to the Kansas City-based non-profit breast cancer organization Back in the Swing. Like all of Elbow’s sets, these chocolates aren’t cheap — it’s $42 for a box — but…
%{}% It’s been a long weekend of repetitive news about the airborne death flu and nerd movies. And if you’re like me, then you’re a huge fan of pun-based entertainment headlines such as “Wolverine Claws Its Way to Box Office Top,” although a more nerd-oriented hed would have specifically mentioned that those claws were made from “nerdamantium,” and somehow worked…
%{}% Last Friday, Missouri state Sen. Jolie Justus’ relationship status on Facebook changed to “married.” Then came this update: “headed back from Iowa with the ‘ole ball-n-chain.” This wouldn’t have been a big deal except Justus married long-time partner, Shonda Garrison, in Iowa, where the state Supreme Court recently legalized same-sex marriage. Justus, Garrison and 16 other couples had caught…
Hardcore hooligans An*l C*nt (AxCx for short) brought their 20th anniversary tour to Kansas City, resulting in offensiveness, metal and moshing.
Although it won’t be televised like the Oscars or the Grammys, the cooking equivalent takes place tonight at the Lincoln Center in New York City where the James Beard Awards are announced. The only chef from Kansas City to make the finals is Colby Garrelts from Bluestem, who’s nominated for the “Best Chef Midwest” category. He’s been nominated three years…
%{}% If there were an award for Mexican restaurants and strangely colored sauces, this place would win by a mile. Please, for your sake, click on this link about the Virgin Mary being seen on a griddle in California. If that picture doesn’t sum up Virgin Mary sightings, I don’t know what does. Turns out that Hydroxycut might do more…
Animated with plenty of music, dancing and poetry, a workers’ rights rally in Washington Park Friday afternoon was an upbeat contrast to the frustrated protests that exploded across Europe in honor of May Day. Far more hopeful, dozens of union workers and immigration reform advocates mingled in the grass, listening to speakers who called for workers of all backgrounds to…
