On the same day that Owen Morris wrote about Pizza Hut planning to drop the Pizza from its name (which isn’t true, at least according to this report by mediabistro.com) the Pitch received an e-mail release from the Kansas City-based law firm of Stueve Siegel Hanson LLC announcing that it was joining forces with St. Louis-based Weinhaus & Potashnick in filing a…
Being as how this is getting tweeted everywhere, and it’s all official and everything, you might want to have all your ducks in a row for tomorrow’s Phoenix show at the Record Bar. Remember, this show is put on by MySpace Secret Shows, and it hit the web on Friday, meaning everybody and their cousin knows it’s going down. People…
Kansas City, Kansas, police say the man found dead in the 500 block of North Thompson Street Monday is 52-year-old William R. Niere of KCK. View Larger Map Police say they are still investigating the cause of death. The case is so far listed as a “death investigation.” If you know anything about Niere’s death, call 913-573-6020 or 816-474-8477. Categories:…
Lions from Austin are not to be confused with The LIONS, who are from Los Angeles. The former is a hard rock powerhouse who released No Generation last year and the latter is a reggae/dub group. Lions (the former) play around here often enough that, despite hailing from the great state of Texas, they could almost claim regional—if not local—status….
The 2010 campaign can’t come soon enough for some people — like Kansas Congressman Todd Tiahrt and his perfectly quaffed hair. Tiahrt’s already running TV commercials — demanding a repeal of the federal stimulus plan. Maybe he’d like to balance Kansas’ budget sans stimulus dollars. Speaking of now-tweet-free Tiahrt, Politico isn’t impressed with Tiahrt’s campaign logo: a “T” and a…
Our wayward hip-hoppers James Christos, PL, Jamel Rockwell and the Pyrex Kids hit the road last week for a DIY-style tour. Point your browser to the Anarchy Tour Diary to keep up with the mayhem. The latest installment, sent in earlier today… “What up KC?!!! James Christos checking in from the road. Just a little warning…on my entries, I gotta…
I remember walking out of the Quixotic performance at the Uptown Theater last year thinking, “That was the coolest shit I have ever seen.” A ballet on acid? A circus from another dimension? I didn’t even know how to describe it. Luckily, the indescribable occurs every year and, this past Friday, June 19, the trippy local troupe that mixes acrobatics,…
Two people have succumbed to the intense heat in Kansas City, Kansas, according to Fox 4. The TV station reports that a brother and sister were found dead in a home in the 2500 block of Stewart, and a Fox 4 photographer on the scene claims the temperature in the house was 115 degrees. View Larger Map The Kansas City…
In 1991 Kentucky Fried Chicken officially made the switch to the name KFC. (Despite rumor, it wasn’t to get rid of the word “fried” in its title but it was actually because of the state of Kentucky’s tax problems — the state made any entity using the word “Kentucky” pay a usage fee.) Now fellow Yum! owned restaurant Pizza Hut…
Spin mentioned this Prince tribute they were doing well over a month ago in celebration of Purple Rain turning 25 this month, and I’ve been looking forward to it something crazy. This month’s copy of the magazine showed up in the mail last Monday, and I immediately flipped to the page with the URL. I went to it, only to…
For better or worse, Massachusetts Congressman Barney Frank has seen his profile rise in the past year. He’s chairman of the powerful House Financial Services Committee and was one of the bailout’s most vocal backers, urging fellow members to pass it. Then, after losing confidence in Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson, he became one of the most vocal backers for putting…
The Kansas Capitol hasn’t been the same without self-appointed homeless lobbyist and registered sex offender David Owen. Three years ago, I profiled Owen in the midst of lawmakers’ sex-offender hysteria while Owen — convicted of possessing child pornography in 1998 — was walking the halls, which were often filled with children. Owen wanted strict penalties for sex offenders, but his…
Local experimental musician H Stewart released a freely downloadable album this weekend, entitled Letters to Kansas City. The album is experimental and ambient. The Internet label through which Stewart released the album, Clinical Archives, has this to say about it: “The songs are written about Kansas City’s neighborhoods, their moods and memories according to H Stewart. The songs were made…
People aren’t drinking as much milk as they used to, and the price has fallen. Yet, there are more dairy cows than ever, all eating feed — and the price of that keeps rising. The result is that $10 of milk can cost $17 to produce. As Bloomberg News writes, In California, the largest milk-producing state, dairies lost $1.07 per…
Avoiding sugar and its cousins doesn’t sound like it should very complicated. All you need to do is look at the ingredient list and see if sugar is one of the items. Easy, right? Wrong. Sweeteners can be labeled under a score of different names, making certain products seem healthier than they are and causing problems for diabetics. IVillage Total…
Pete Levi, the extravagantly compensated president of the Greater Kansas City Chamber of Commerce, revised history with a guest commentary in this morning’s Kansas City Star. Levi used the occasion to pat himself and his friends on the back for confronting climate change in a meaningful way. Levi wrote that chamber leadership had been “visionary when it comes to sustainability…
This has got to be the most “aww shucks” fund-raising plea ever sent (supposedly) by a Kansas candidate’s children. The 14-year-old son of Rob Wasinger, the fertile candidate running for Jerry Moran’s soon-to-be-vacant congressional seat, supposedly covertly sent out this e-mail appeal as a Father’s Day gift to dear ol’ dad. The e-mail “from” Stephen Wasinger is full of mom’s…
Multi-platinum recording artists Snow Patrol have announced dates for their upcoming headline tour of the U.S. Snow Patrol are on the road in support of their current album A Hundred Million Suns. The tour starts September 10th in St. Paul, MN, and will criss-cross the U.S. and Canada before finishing up in Los Angeles on October 20th. They play Kansas…
This past Friday, June 19, the trippy local troupe that mixes acrobatics, dance and live music unveiled its 2009 creation, Lux Esalare.
As a salad topping, a pesto ingredient and a healthy snack, the pine nut is popular. But it’s left a bad taste — or, in the worst-case, no taste at all — in the mouths of thousands of people worldwide. While people have ingested pine nuts for thousands of years, only in the past decade has “pine mouth” started occurring….
I couldn’t have come back from a four-day, computer-free weekend to better news: the Pogues are coming to the Midland by AMC on October 25. Tickets go on sale this Friday, June 26, at 10 a.m. But a pre-sale is available today beginning at 3 p.m. to anyone who signs up for the Pogues’ online community. In recent years, it…
%{}% When the weather gets too hot (like for the next three months) what better to do than stay in air-conditioning and make basil syrup. Bluestem delivers a touch of class, not to mention a rabbit-dish that sounds mind-blowing. E. coli strikes 200 more Toll House victims. Not people who are sick, but workers likely to be laid off from…
Last week’s feature story, “Story of My Life,” crack-dealer-turned-author Quentin Carter admits that his past as a criminal — plus writing all of his books behind bars — probably helped make him a street lit superstar on the Essence bestseller list. For those of you discouraged that you’ll never had the street cred necessary to be a writer like Carter, don’t worry….
