%{}% The parade of ex-players with stories of mistreatment at the hands of Kansas football coach Mark Mangino keep coming. The latest, former defensive lineman Cory Kipp, told the Lawrence Journal-World that in August 2003, Mangino punished him for not weighing-in earlier in the day. Kipp’s punishment: bear-crawling across Memorial Stadium’s AstroTurf on his hands and feet. Kipp began the…
Since the success of The Secret and National Treasure, it was only natural that one day the hidden language of waiters would come to light. Reader’s Digest turns out to be the publication to expose the secret world of waiters in the latest article, “30 Secrets Your Waiter Will Never Tell You.” The list walks diners through a series of…
Since I announced earlier this month that I’d be leaving my post as music editor of The Pitch at the end of the year, I’ve gotten lots of questions, such as “Can I have your chair?” the answer to which is, “Packham already has dibs.” But most of the questions from outside the office have revolved around the following two…
Here in Fat City, we hope to help reduce your annual stress of picking out gifts. To get started, here are a coffee sampler from Parisi coffee and a cheese sampler from Parisi’s parent company, Paris Brothers. Parisi recently launched the line of coffee sampler sets, which are available online and at Trapp and Company (4110 Main). The single-origin roast…
I cut out of yesterday’s World AIDS Day celebrity @ tweeting smackdown — Michael Ian Black and Rainn Wilson vs. Megan Phelps-Roper (Shirley Phelps-Roper’s daughter, Fred Phelps’ granddaughter) — way too early. I missed director Kevin Smith’s attempted conversion (a la Twitter) of Phelps-Roper. Mostly, the Clerks director tried to get Phelps-Roper to smoke up and chase Amy. Megan Phelps-Roper will…
Classic rock station 101 the Fox has a contest going where you — the fan, the listener, the discerning music consumer that you are — can pick who opens for KISS when they play Kansas City at the Sprint Center on December 10. Five bands have made it to the finals, and are as follows: Isaac James Band Xavier Sun…
%{}% An eternal question, right up there with why we’re on this earth: “Why do we have cole slaw?” What has the world come to when Chimpotle decides to cut back on Chipotle? Fat, lazy and stupid is no way to go through life and now the first of those conditions could stop some students from graduating from Pennsylvania’s Lincoln…
For everyone who hasn’t succumbed to health-care-reform-debate exhaustion, here’s some news about it for Kansas. The agency in charge of advising the state’s lawmakers on health-care policy has run some numbers and concluded that even in their sold-out, watered-down, pro-life-placating and pandering-to-holdouts condition, the House and Senate reform bills would still save Kansas money and cover almost (but not all…
This is gold, kids — comedy frickin’ gold. The Avett Brothers’ video for “Slight Figure of Speech” is tied into the “The American Budget Network” series of videos from Funny Or Die, which means it has Andrew Daly from East Bound and Down in it. Hilarity. Categories: Music Tags: avett brothers, Funny or Die, video
Who remembers the Squirrel Nut Zippers? Ah, when ragtime managed to sneak into the charts because swing had crept in the door left open by ska. The video for “Hell” even managed to get some acclaim and props simply because MTV banned that sucker. Why? Fire! Of course — thank you, inattentive mothers allowing their young’uns to watch Beavis &…
The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s annual report (PDF here) on food stamp enrollment puts Missouri at No. 1 in the nation, with close to 100 percent of those eligible for assistance receiving government aid. Kansas? Not so hot. At 57 percent, it’s doing just 10 percent better than the estimated lowest-rated states in the country. The report singles out Kansas…
Kansas City police are investigating the death of a man near East 54th and Lydia Tuesday as a homicide. View Larger Map Around 9 p.m., KCPD officers met with Rockhurst University security on an ambulance call for an unresponsive young black man. The man was pronounced dead at the scene. His cause of death has not yet been determined. According…
This has been a great week for free medical stuff. First there was the free HIV testing, now there’s free H1N1 vaccines. The Kansas City Health Department has a vaccination clinic scheduled for Thursday from 2 to 6:30 p.m. at the Northland Cathedral (101 N.W. 99th St.). It’s first-come, first-served until supplies run out so you should get their early…
Archbishop Joseph Naumann Campaign finance reports from Maine show that a Kansas Catholic organization headed by Kansas City, Kansas, Archbishop Joseph Naumann was among the largest private contributors to repealing gay marriage in Maine. The diocese in Portland, Maine, received more than $550,000 in contributions to help campaign against the Maine law granting marriage rights to same-sex couples. The Catholic…
After Derrick Thomas, there could be no other No. 58 in a Chiefs’ jersey. Come Sunday, that will be the team’s official stance. During halftime of this weekend’s game against the Denver Broncos, the Chiefs will officially retire Thomas’ number during a ceremony at Arrowhead. Thomas will be the tenth Chief in franchise history to be awarded this honor. During…
Having effectively teased us this autumn with leaked tracks off their much-anticipated full-length collabo (“Seasons” and “Knowwhere”), KC hip-hop artists Stik Figa and D/Will have just justified our love by releasing Hellogoodbye completely free on 2dopeboyz As the duo told 2dopeboyz: To delight in the wonder of the MPC is to go on a voyage of audio soul. And to…
Easily the first local band to throw some original yule into the fire this year was KC’s Sexy Accident, whose third album, Mantoloking (read our review), contained the original track “A Merry Christmas to You.” That album came out, like, in August. Now, in time for the actual holidays, the Sexy Accident is back with a remix of that song,…
First of all, if you love rock ‘n’ roll in its raw form, you should already be hip to the GaragePunk Podcast Network. The network features a wide variety of badass programming, such as Japanese rock ‘n’ roll on “Mushi Mushi,” the horror of “Haunted Shack Theater,” and the screaming savagery of “Shout Bamalama!” “Shout Bamalama!” is the newest addition…
A couple of people were hanging out with signs in front of the Blue Cross Blue Shield building near Main and Pershing Road this morning. It was a pretty unusual sight. And up close, the signs turned out to be incredibly sad. Vic Wolf, of Mission, says he’s had eight surgeries in 12 months to treat his colon cancer. He…
Boulevard Brewery’s Bourbon Barrel Quad (BBQ) was a Smokestack Series beer released in two small batches last year. But a quick sellout and local demand means it’s back on store shelves this week. “After the success of last year’s Limited Release Bourbon Barrel Quad, we decided it deserved a reappearance,” says Jeremy Ragonese, Boulevard’s director of marketing. “Many of our…
Norah Jones is one of those artists I appreciate, but can’t really get behind as a fan. Ms. Jones has a lovely voice, and is talented piano player, but she’s just an artist I can’t help but feel my grandmother would appreciate. Jones is attempting to break out of that smooth piano pop realm, wherein she dominates lite FM radio…
Attention, entrepreneurs! This one-time walk-up ice cream and hot dog stand — with a primo location on 39th Street’s “Restaurant Row” — is for lease. The place was closed all summer, damn it, so it’s time for someone to grab it. While we always love an outdoor sculpture of an ice cream cone, we’re thinking it doesn’t have to be…
You can measure friendship in a lot of ways, but She Eats has one good metric: Just how far will a friend drive or fly with one of your favorite foods? For her, friendship is best served by the slice — of New York pizza. And without true New York pizza here in Kansas City, that’s quite a friend. Because…
