The Mighty Mighty Bosstones entered the studio on the Fourth of July to begin recording their first album of all-new material since 2002’s A Jackknife to a Swan. They’ve been posting regular Twitter updates, including a master list of all the songs they’re working on. Nine of those songs have been culled from the 25 listed, leaving 16 remaining. No…
The idea of robots eating people didn’t seem likely just two weeks ago. But that was before Cyclone Power Technologies announced on July 7 that it had finished the biomass engine system that would power the Energetically Autonomous Tactical Robot (EATR) from Robotic Technology Inc. In short hand, that means a robot that draws its power from whatever organic material…
Found this bathing suit, shoes and hat on 17th Street between Baltimore and Main. Is this: a. A sign of the Rapture and we’ve all been left behind? b. A sign of someone having way too much fun at The Jones?c. Someone who had way too much to drink at a Cellar Rat wine tasting and decided to streak?d. Spontaneous…
Brian Wilson had cars and surfboards. Lou Reed had transients and smack. Neko Case, another instinctive songwriter with identifiable lyrical obsessions, has weather and animals. That’s considerable symbolic acreage, yet Case — like Wilson and Reed, to name a couple of past masters — compresses detached observation and wet hunger into distinctive miniatures. (And her gift for melodic surprise rivals…
Airick Leonard West remembers the six or seven times Dshawn Clayton knocked on his door early in the morning last year. “Airick, I missed the school bus,” the 15-year-old would say. “Can I get a ride to school?” At first it was a little bit annoying, says West, a member of the Kansas City School Board. “When I reflected on…
The Gossip’s new album, Music For Men, dropped last month, and they had a big album release party in London. The show was a split record release party, as London art-rockers Categories: Music Tags: Cody Critcheloe, record release, The Gossip, The Ssion, video
The weekend craziness wasn’t just confined to Kansas City. Early Saturday morning, an Overland Park grandmother was stabbed in an apartment complex and her grandchild kidnapped. Luckily, the 4-month-old baby was found in a Dumpster a few blocks away. Unreal. Categories: News Tags: overland park, stabbing
It’s no accident that the carnival row at state fairs has a guess-your-weight booth, because just a few rows over are some of the most artery-clogging, ingenious uses of a deep fat fryer you’ll ever see. Delish has put together a list of the Top Ten Most Unusual State Fair Foods — which range from the tame idea of chicken…
Kansas Congressman Todd Tiahrt went thought-experimenting last week, and here’s what fell out his mouth: What if President Obama had been aborted? Nothing creepy about Tiahrt fantasizing about Obama’s mother aborting him (except for the people who noticeably gasp on the video). Tiahrt probably thought he’d worked out all the kinks by lumping Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas into his…
You might not think that novels involving food could get better than Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs, but a lot has been written since you were six. Each month, the Kansas City Library assembles a list of recommendations tied to holidays or the birthdays of famous authors. To celebrate Culinary Arts Month, Kansas City librarian Angela Kille has put…
The idea of a summer drink without ice is as perplexing as the wall of drinks at QuikTrip. Vanilla or Cherry flavor shot? What the heck is a Rooster Booster? QT itself has made it clear you’re supposed to use ice, offering two kinds for those staggering in from the heat. But there might be one exception to the rule,…
Standing with a group of protesters outside U.S. Rep. Emanuel Cleaver’s office on Friday afternoon, Matt Ullman worried that his sign — “Born free. Died waiting for health care” — sent a mixed message. “I picked that one, and now I’m kind of wondering if it reads right,” he said. Ullman was troubled that motorists who passed Cleaver’s office on…
The following Anarchy Tour dispatch was sent to Wayward HQ this past Friday evening. Well alright! It’s PL, checking in with the Anarchy Tour ’09. Touched down in St. Louis late Monday evening, just after the Homerun Derby. Congrats to Prince Fielder. BOMBING! Even though our 1st show wasn’t until Thursday, there was no downtime. OK, a little downtime. On…
Celebrities can’t resist writing children’s books, so it would only make sense that a rapper would release a new cookbook. On Friday, the Chicago Tribune’s The Stew flipped through Cookin’ With Coolio: 5 Star Meals at a 1-Star Price — a new cookbook set to drop be released in November by Simon & Schuster. In advance of the book, Coolio…
Two things I need to be up front and honest about before I start this review of Saturday night’s Sonic Youth show at the Uptown: I haven’t listened to a Sonic Youth album all the way through since Murray Street, (maybe even A Thousand Leaves) and the one and only time I’ve seen Sonic Youth live was over 14 years…
%{}% Nothing beats the smell of bananas and cloves in the morning: Gone Mild explains what goes into the homebrewing of hefe-weizen. Surrounded by beer-drinking women, the Wort Hog ponders the topic of beer and gender. Tim Horton squares off against Dunkin Donuts in Manhattan, and the battle between Canadian and American donuts shows how America’s pastime just might be…
The Kansas City Art Institute’s “Whoop Dee Doo” project put a new video up last week. If you’re unfamiliar with the whole things, Whoop Dee Doo is, according to their site: “a kid-friendly faux public access television show featuring pre-planned performances accompanied by live audience participation (Kind of like a radical talent show!!).” It is pretty amazing that this is…
C-SPAN was in the house last Thursday night, when more than a hundred people gathered at the Kansas City Public Library to hear hometown civil rights activist Alvin Sykes talk about his life’s work. Sykes mostly recapped a story that Pitch readers might already know: that of a kid from a troubled family, a high-school dropout — he likes to…
