About an hour ago The Pitch’s tech priest Matt Spencer noticed a stream flowing down Southwest Boulevard all the way to the Interstate 35 overpass. He tracked it back to this alley on 17th Street between Baltimore and Wyandotte. Normally, it looks like this: View Larger Map Here’s what he found … Spencer says the yellow stream of sediment appears…
And now for some completely different Power & Light District news. Here’s how much it costs for a membership at the P&L’s rooftop pool, The Jones, which opens June 20. Full credit goes to KSHB Channel 41 for breaking it down: Corporate- $3000 (The membership card will have the Company name instead of a single person, making it accessible to…
A month ago, UMKC philosophy prof Clancy Martin graced the pages of Newsweek. The news mag was high on Martin’s more-fact-than-fiction novel How to Sell. Martin also talked to The Pitch’s Nadia Pflaum about the truth inside his novel. Now, Martin is featured in the latest issue of Rolling Stone and his book is the summer’s “Hot Page Turner” in…
A graphic artist known on Flickr as Littlepixel has posted an impressive photostream documenting his series of high-profile albums re-imagined as cheap paperbacks. Old Phil here captures the project at its best: an image familiar and yet worn and strange, altered just enough to suggest a musty thriller on a nighstand rather than a bouncy ’80s LP. Wonder what kind…
Sometimes science does some pretty cool things and demonstrating that beer helps people rehydrate better than water is one of them. This may be on par with proving the earth is not flat, overturning thousands of years of conventional wisdom! And we owe it all to the Granada University of Spain. Researchers there conducted a series of tests putting subjects…
Boss says it’s time to do some housecleaning of the Wayward Office, which means I’ve got to get rid of eight boxes containing thousands of promo photos dating from circa 2007 back to sometime in the murky early ’90s. Bands and artists of all kinds — local, national, global, extra-terrestrial, living, dead — are preserved, like insects in amber, in…
Adam Kuban is the Henry Luce of food blogging. To talk about his love of pizza and hamburgers (especially sliders) he founded two Web sites — Slice and A Hamburger Today — that took on lives of their own before being incorporated into the Web site Serious Eats, where Kuban is now the managing editor. While he lives and eats…
The Black Hollies Monday, June 15, at the Jackpot and Tuesday, June 16, at the Record Bar Hailing from Jersey City and looking like they just came from an Old Grey Whistle Test audition, the Black Hollies return to our daisy patch next week with songs that would give Count Five a psychotic reaction. When they came to the Record…
While it may not be Hatfield vs. McCoy, Coca-Cola and Pepsi-Cola have enough bad blood between them to fill a Wikipedia page and even cause skirmishes among drivers. The rivalry may have flattened a little since its Pepsi challenge/New Coke days, but things got heated again last Friday in court. At contention was whether Coke’s brand Powerade had lied in…
Tonight at 7 is Grinder’s monthly “beering,” a dinner focusing on a specific microbrewery. This month features the small St. Louis brewer O’Fallon. It’s a five course/ five beer affair starting out with O’Fallon’s trademark brew Wheach, a wheat-peach hybrid that’s been voted the best beer in St. Louis. It’s a summer ale through and through, combining a touch of…
%{}% This just in from the family of slain abortion doctor George Tiller: His family is “permanently” closing his clinic. Here’s the full release: “The family of Dr. George Tiller announces that effective immediately, Women’s Health Care Services, Inc., will be permanently closed. Notice is being given today to all concerned that the Tiller family is ceasing operation of the…
Betty Grammer was shot in the head while painting a Fariway house Monday morning. She died from her injuries around 11:30 p.m. Grammer’s death is being actively investigated as a homicide, Fairway police Lt. Mike Fleming told The Pitch. Grammer’s death is Fairway’s first homicide in five years, Fleming said. Now, Fairway police and the Johnson County Sheriff’s Department are…
Did you know that Michael Savage’s son is the founder of the popular Rockstar Energy drinks? You didn’t? Well that’s the way the radio shock-jock (to put it nicely) wants it to be. Savage is using legal means to silence Web sites and even Facebook groups publicizing the connection. “Savage Nation” holds the third-largest radio audience in the country. Just…
Someone is recruiting Democrats to run for U.S.Sen. Sam Brownback’s soon-to-be-vacant 2nd Congressional District seat on Craigslist with ads like this one. Are Kansas Democrats that hard up for candidates in 2010 that they had to take to an online classified ad? Nope. “We didn’t ,” Andrea White, communications director for the Kansas Democratic Party, told me this morning. “”Somebody’s…
It’s the collabo some local heads have been waiting for…Topeka-bred rapper and producer Stik Figa (mayne) recently teamed up with Ron Ron (the rapper so nice they named him twice) for a track called “Caked Up.” MP3: Ever since Stik leaked the joint on his MySpace page, he’s been hearing rave reviews. How did a feel-good artist from Top City…
%{}% The Browne’s Irish Market 122 anniversary party via Twitter. Deliciousness in KCK. Church’s Chicken may soon be headed to Wyandotte. The Fiddlehead is one of the odder looking plants in the northeast, so naturally people have figured out a way to eat it. White wine and rose wine traditionalists can breathe easier now that EU has abandoned plans to…
The crown of best air guitarist in Kansas City is on the line tonight at the Record Bar, and you know you want it. How could you not after seeing C. Diddy and Bjorn Tuoque rock their imaginary axes in the strange but charming documentary Air Guitar Nation? Tonight the dreamers get their shot in the U.S. Air Guitar Championships’…
This past Saturday, both the American Waste Hardcore and Metal Fest and Browne’s 122nd Annual Irish Street Faire each called upon their respective attendees to dress in the spirit of the proceedings. And that meant some mindblowingly crappy and awesome T-shirt action. Click on the Thorrior vest below for a shirt-by-shirt showdown. Categories: Music Tags: American Waste, Browne’s Market, death…
In the beginning was the Cruz. And the Cruz was with Satan, and the Cruz was Satan. This perversion of the first verse of the Gospel of John pretty well sums up my experience of day one of American Waste this past Saturday upon the newly refurbished, hallowed grounds of the Beaumont Club. The festival ran Saturday and Sunday, dividing…
Monday was a really, really bad day for former Missouri Gov. Matt “Baby” Blunt thanks to a pesky Springfield scooter driver getting in the way of his Ford Explorer. For winning the SUV vs. scooter fight clash, Blunt received a ticket for failing to yield and a court summons. Running over scooter drivers is even frowned upon for former governors….
A triple shooting in the 2600 block of Jackson has left one man dead and two injured. View Larger Map Kansas City police say the men were shot on the front porch of a house Monday evening. The other shooting victims were taken to a local hospital with minor injuries. Police say there aren’t any suspects in custody. If you…
As the Plog has just reported, the Kansas City Power and Light District has enlisted a PR firm to handle the DJ Jazzy backlash. In a press release sent out less than an hour ago, the district’s management describes the technical hazards Jazzy’s set posed to the sound system and says, “To characterize this incident in racial terms is absurd…
