Yesterday’s Kansas City Star did not land on doorsteps with the authoritative thud of Sunday papers from late Augusts past. The Star’s multi-sectioned football preview weighs in this year at 6.2 ounces, a slimmer size than 2007’s 9.2-ounce colossus. The reduction surely says more about business of running the Star than it does about the passion for football. Newspaper revenues…
%{}% A recipe for better-than-brownie chocolate cookies that make you feel fat just looking at them. They are, of course, part of a nutritionally balanced breakfast of cookies and office cake. Mole-brushed burgers. Enough said. It can seem like the time spent waiting in lines could be a part-time job and one man has taken that literally — issuing invoices…
Come November, you’ll be able to own one of the most-bootlegged concerts in history — Nirvana’s historic August 30, 1992 headlining appearance at the Reading Festival as a color-corrected video from the original film with audio sourced from the original multi-track masters. Nirvana Live At Reading will be issued in a limited deluxe edition of the CD and DVD as…
Johnny Dare’s birthday bash was at the Midland by AMC Saturday night. If you didn’t buy tickets in advance, you were pretty much hosed, as the show featuring Steel Panther and the Federation of Horsepower sold out fast. However, you can check out the video below and see several personalities from 98.9 The Rock belt out a Journey cover (top-selling…
Saturday, August 29, 2009: the Mutual Musicians Foundation’s Bird Lives Festival competed for crowds with the American Jazz Museum’s Yardbird Jazz & Film Festival. One felt like a street party; the other, a day at the museum.
Starting today, Roy Edroso’s Rightbloggers: Exploring the right Wing Blogosphere will run here every Monday until Armageddon. After a plane crash killed liberal Sen. Paul Wellstone, his wife and daughter, and several staff members in 2002, his friends and family held a memorial at the University of Minnesota attended by 15,000 people. The theme was “Stand up, keep fighting” for…
In January, when the Army reported a record number of soldier suicides in 2008, it assured the public it would make prevention its top priority in 2009. During the recent six-month “stand down” members of every rank watched new training materials, like “Shoulder to Shoulder.” In the 12-minute video, top Army brass, like General George Casey, Secretary of the Army,…
Justin Akins, 20, was shot to death after an argument with three men in at 70th Terrace and Olive Friday night. View Larger Map Kansas City police received a call about a shooting around 10:43 p.m. The caller said Akins was being taken to a local hospital, where he died a short time later. Three suspects (all black) fled the…
Caught the Cops Kansas City marathon on G4 yesterday. 1998 Kansas City was full of feuding white trash, fast crackheads and mustached cops. The highlights: A married guy screwing a toothless hooker under a bridge, a man wearing nothing but a tinfoil loin cloth and a pet pig in a trashed house. No naked dudes or pigs this weekend. But…
Earlier this week, after hearing reports from the Kansas statehouse that Sen. Chris Steineger had shown up to a committee meeting with a black eye, The Pitch broke the story about his bar fight. The Pitch confirmed that Steineger, a Wyandotte County Democrat who is considering a run for governor, had gotten into an argument at Breit’s Stein and Grill…
And once again, we bring you Friday Freebies, wherein we present things to do this weekend that won’t cost you any more than the gas it takes to get to ’em. Tonight marks your final chances to do a few things for a while. At the City Market is the final free film of the summer, and it’s a doozy…
U.S. soldiers are committing suicide in record numbers, and the Army is struggling to fix the problem. This week’s Pitch feature story, “Exit Strategy,” looks at one solider who almost became a statistic. Also, Martin covers MoDOT’s shoddy maintenance of inner-city bridges. Ferruzza reviews Café Trio. And Buckle Bunny talks tour managing. 1. Lynn Jenkins’ “hope” for change is white….
%{}% Texting while driving is a no-no for the youngins 21 and under right now. That’s where we find our Comment of the Week on this post, “Txt swrv, crsh illegal 4 21 & yngr n MO Fri.” And the winner is … Chimpo. A couple weeks ago I tried my first ever text while driving. I would have felt…
Earlier this week, we told you about Kansas state Sen. Chris Steineger’s black eye and bar fight. Steineger finally broke his silence about the bar fight, claiming in an interview with Prime Buzz that he got “sucker punched” while arguing about health-care reform. Sen. Steineger, who is considering a run for governor, must finally “see that it’s an issue.” Categories:…
Drag the River’s been through our area scads upon oodles of times, and they’re a popular favorite amongst those “in the know” regarding alt country. They were one of the first groups of punks to catch onto the whole country music side project in the mid-90s, which had been explored by X via the Knitters in the ’80s, and never…
Tonight at Czar Bar, the fashionists of Monkey Wrench Clothing take over the runway, and a quirky but very intriguing musical lineup takes over the PA. First up, Adam Lee and the Dead Horse Sound Company — a local honky tonk duo about whom we have had no shortage of good things to say — gets the heartache locomotive chuggin’…
It takes a gutsy reporter to ask an interviewee if he’s sleeping with other women while he’s sending money back to his wife and three kids in Guatemala. Sammy Loren is wired that way. The Kansas filmmaker was attending Loyola University in New Orleans when Hurricane Katrina struck in 2005, gutting not only the city infrastructure but draining the local…
