Sick story of the morning. Michael Joy, a 40-year-old church youth leader, is accused of aggravated indecent solicitation of a child between the age of 8 and 14, Fox 4 reports. Joy was arrested at Stony Point Baptist Church last week, and the church’s pastor, Thomas Hamilton, told Fox 4 that Joy confessed to having been in prison before but…
If a Nintendo Wii and a Krups coffee maker had a baby, it might look like the BeMoved — an interactive coffee machine that was unveiled this past Saturday during Dutch Design Week. With a digital touch screen and motion sensors, BeMoved (developed for the Netherlands-based coffee maker manufacturer Douwe Egberts) literally requires you to jump for your coffee, making…
Platte County Prosecutor Eric Zahnd announced yesterday that authorities were hunting for Letti Strait on tax evasion charges. The 48-year-old Parkville woman made headlines in 2007 when her ex-husband, Charles Cammisano, was found shot several times at his Riverside home. Police considered Strait and another man “persons of interest” in the unsolved murder; Strait was taken into police custody after…
%{}% The pies at Pizza Bar gets panned as way too bland. The Roasterie’s Danny O’Neill is back from Panama with stories of the coffee farms and mills. A recipe site that breaks down the costs according to price per portion and each ingredient. The first Dunkin’ Donuts is slated to open in Kansas City on November 12,. Can the…
David George, former lead singer of Moaning Lisa, returns to KC for an acoustic performance at the Record Bar on Tuesday, November 24. George is finishing up his first full-length solo CD, due out next year. A press release described the album as a “collection of pop/folk/acoustic material, showing a whole different side of David.” Moaning Lisa formed in Kansas…
Creed reunited after five years and decided to release a new album. It’s called Full Circle. There is no God. In what has to be the biggest release in Kansas City today, we get the tenth studio release from powerhouse rapper Tech N9ne, entitled K.O.D.. The title stands for “King of Darkness,” and as you might expect, the album continues…
Update (8:56 a.m. Tuesday, October 27): The official word from the Kansas City police is they’re still investigating how the shooting occurred. Detectives are on the scene. Police were called around 5:10 a.m. Tuesday, and found the victim dead from a gunshot wound to the head. Police describe the man as black and in his late twenties. ***Kansas City police…
Starting today, G. Dallas Lee, a barber’s apprentice at Joe’s 63rd Street Barbershop (1656 E. 63rd Street in the Metro Shopping Center) is offering discounted services to criminal offenders who are participating in re-entry programs, such as those offered by the Kansas City Crime Commission’s Second Chance Foundation. Lee is involved with Beyond the Conviction, an organization that offers services…
Chris Mitchell was a close friend and former fiancée of Dennis Hess, the former owner of Denim & Diamonds. Because space constraints and other complications prevented her from being quoted in the October 14 feature, “Denim & Death,” she contributed this piece, sent to The Pitch via e-mail, for inclusion in our continuing coverage of the story. Mitchell writes: Dennis…
The Get Up Kids just announced via Twitter that they will donate all the money from their upcoming Record Bar shows on November 20 and 21 to the Anne Winter Fund: our friend anne winter has died. all proceeds from our shows at record bar in kc will go to the fund for her children. we miss you anne!!! If…
A few minutes after 6 p.m., the Sprint Center sent out the following media advisory, also posted to the venue’s website: Due to a death in Bruce’s immediate family, tonight’s show at Sprint Center has been unavoidably cancelled. All tickets will be refunded at the point of purchase. Bruce and The Band deeply appreciate the understanding of our Kansas City…
You won’t be getting happy-faced cardboard boxes filled with cases of wine any time soon, because apparently Amazon.com has decided to end its dalliance with wine delivery. After launching a trial program in March 2008, the online retailer has shelved AmazonWine. The news sent wine blogs into a tizzy about how the promise of widespread access to small-scale wineries never…
I’m starting to become that guy who gets all annoyed at the radio and wonders why all the bands I like can’t get played on the radio. Every ten minutes, I’m spouting off the usual: “Well, if can get airplay, should be tearing up the charts! They’re so much more talented!” However, since most of the bands I really really…
The Pogues played their first KC show in the band’s nearly 30-year career. Sunday, October 25, at the Midland by AMC.
Who cares about the food? Give me a gold ring! Leave it to Pitch archivist Alan Scherstuhl to find the most amazing treasures in Fat City. This 32-page special insert to the Kansas City Star dates back to August 8, 1976, just days before the city hosted the Republican National Convention at Kemper Arena. The Republican delegates not only had…
The world has had a week to digest the news that Bravo has picked up a second season of Top Chef Masters. The show, in which celebrity chefs competed in elimination challenges, regularly drew 2.22 million viewers; the new season is scheduled to air in 2010. Food and Wine writer Gail Simmons will join critics Jay Rayner, James Oseland and…
Black Wine’s last date with the Meat Puppets is the Chicago date immediately preceding the Record Bar stop on November 13. Even though I’m completely upset they’re not playing here, and we’re missing them by one lousy day, I can be happy with the fact that I got some advance MP3s of their forthcoming, as-yet-unnamed debut, due out December 15…
Since we’re tackling food labels today, it seems apropos that the Barf Blog again raises the issue of proper food safety stickers on take-out containers. The stickers could be designed with information on when a prepared food was packaged and the proper guidelines for storing, heating and consuming. SuperMarket Guru believes that food safety labels could give supermarkets a competitive…
On Friday night, the Folly Theater was full of men and women in tuxedos and ball gowns, sipping wine and greeting each other with kisses on the cheek. The audience for Ailey II was a who’s who of city elite: Congressman Emanuel Cleaver; Tom McDonnell, CEO of DST Systems; Kansas City City Manager Wayne Cauthen. Photo by Nicole Reinertson But…
Much has been written in recent days about the White House’s War on Fox News, in which Administration officials have called the Republican-friendly network “the research arm or the communications arm of the Republican Party” and such like, excluded it from the President’s media tours, and even tried unsuccessfully to remove it from pool interviews of other officials. This cold-shouldering…
