In what might have to be the craziest way to introduce a DJ mix to the world, we have the website The Beatles Never Broke Up. Alternate universes are involved, as are head injuries to the man who found the tape, James Richards (or so he wishes to be called). In the alternate reality to which Richards traveled, the Beatles…
Last week, The Kansas City Star and metro TV news were brooding over K2, a legal synthetic pot. It supposedly gives you the same high as marijuana and is legally available for purchase for $15 a bag at shops in Lawrence. Of course, the cops don’t like it. And legislators want to ban it. But in all this fuss, no…
Was it a testament to Snoop Dogg’s market value or to a hunger for ’90s nostalgia that there was an hourlong wait to get into the VooDoo Lounge at Harrah’s Casino Friday night? Of course, the wand-equipped security probably had a lot to do with the wait time, but the place was packed. And smoky. And rowdy as hell. By…
Shopping-cart handles are like seats: You never want to feel the warmth of the person who was using it before you. The Barf Blog considers how shopping cart sanitation has evolved over the past five years as grocery stores have sought to find ways to help prevent the spread of germs. And now, in light of flu season and concerns…
Kansas City police say they’re investigating the shooting death of the woman at Meyer and South Benton Sunday as a homicide. Police were called to the 6600 block of South Benton around 10 p.m. on a vehicle parked in the middle of the road. View Larger Map Officers found a Dodge minivan in the street with a woman in the…
%{}% Missouri U.S. Sen. Kit Bond is scheduled to be in the hot seat tonight on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart (hat tip to Mike Mahoney’s blog). The show preview says Bond will “talk about the spread of Islam into Southeast Asia and a new way to fight global terror.” There’s also this helpful link to Bond’s new book…
Milk Men – A Mad Men Parody Atom.com: Funny Videos | Spoofs | TV & Movie Spoofs If you yearn to know what it was like back when cold bottles arrived on doorsteps every morning, Milk Men provides a peek inside the routes of the men and women who delivered the dairy. The trailer — a clever parody of AMC’s…
Guess the days of Larry Johnson cashing fat checks are close to over. The Chiefs just released him. Here’s the official statement: The Kansas City Chiefs released RB Larry Johnson on Monday. In 75 games (55 starts) with Kansas City, Johnson rushed 1,375 times for 5,996 yards (4.4 avg.) with 55 touchdowns. He also registered 151 receptions for 1,369 yards…
It already felt like spring on Saturday during Tulips on Troost’s fall bulb planting event.
%{}% On Thursday Army Major Nidal Malik Hasan shot up Fort Hood, killing 12. Though a soldier for 12 years, Hasan apparently demonstrated, out loud, loyalty and affection for global jihad. It’s appropriate to ask what such a person was doing in the U.S. Army. Rightbloggers saw a bigger problem, though: the liberal media. Though they got nearly all of…
%{}% The documentary Food Fight screens Thursday in Lawrence and Friday at Johnson County Community College in Overland Park. . Some of the best falafel in town might be at the Olive Cafe. Recreations of the world’s finest masterpieces with an unconventional paint: espresso. David Chang and Peter Meehan write about their travels in the week after the release of…
As Valient Thorr set up before their set at the Jackpot Friday night, my friends Jason and Mike stood in front of the stage chanting the following: “P-A-R-T-Y, WE DON’T NEED NO ALIBI! WE PARTY! HEY, HEY, WE PARTY!” Sadly, it didn’t catch on, but one can dream of an entire bar, packed with Thorriors chanting that, and it makes…
Kansas City police found a woman shot to death in a van near Meyer and South Benton on Sunday night, KMBC Channel 9 reports. View Larger Map No official word yet from the KCPD, but KMBC reports that “shots fired” calls started coming in to 911 after 10 p.m. That’s when police found the woman, said to be in her…
Friday, November 6, 2009: Snoop Dogg, Method Man and Redman and Devin the Dude rolled into Harrah’s Casino.
The Sprint Center hosted a live broadcast of World Wrestling Entertainment’s Monday Night Raw and a taped-for-television SmackDown event in 2009. 2010 may be even better for Kansas City wrestling fans. WWE has tentatively scheduled a pay-per-view event for July 18 at the Sprint Center. If memory serves, the last WWE pay-per-view event in Kansas City was 2007’s New Year’s…
Kansas football fans have to be melting down after losing the Sunflower Showdown to Kansas State. Old man Snyder has the Wildcats in the Big 12 North lead. So much for the Reesing for Heisman talk. Oh, and yes, it’s basketball season. Speaking of meltdowns, Baylor shocked Missouri … in Columbia. The Jacksonville Jaguars outlasted the Chiefs. Welcome back, Larry…
More than a novel, a play or a sandwich It doesn’t seem possible that the Monte Cristo sandwich received not one, but two mentions in Fat City this week — as the subject of this week’s Where is it? question and as a menu selection featured in the post about Grand Street Cafe’s new breakfast menu. The Monte Cristo is…
%{}% Larry Johnson reports back to work on Monday. His suspension will be over, and the news about his homophobic slurs and criticism of his coach will be forgotten and everyone will kiss and make up. Uh, probably not. Fans are banding together to keep LJ on the sidelines and away from the Chiefs’ all-time leading rusher record. They’re circulating…
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. First Fridays hits the Crossroads art district tonight. You can check out the Pitch’s First Friday Hitlist for a list of what we think is worth a look. Jason…
Stop being so touchy-feely with first responders. In Peter Rugg’s feature, “Stop Hugging Us,” Kansas City psychiatrists with experience from one of Kansas City’s worst disasters — the Hyatt skywalk collapse — tell grief counselors to back off and stop making first responders talk about what they’ve seen. Also this week, Pitch Editor C.J. Janovy answers some of the lingering…
You need plans. Fat City has a recycle bin full of listings. In this post, all our problems are solved.The Hen House Holiday Celebration — a benefit for Harvesters — runs from Friday (10 a.m. to 6 p.m.) to Sunday (11 a.m. to 5 p.m.) at the Overland Park Convention Center. Public television’s Katie Brown holds cooking demonstrations on Friday…
