I’d hoped there’d be some local flavor to throw into the Advent Calendar, and it looks like Antennas Up has stepped…up. Shit. Sorry about the pun. You get worn out from the holidays, and you go for the easy line. The video is best described as “surreal.” “Kick-ass” and “awesome” also apply. Categories: Music Tags: antennas up, Antennas Up!, christmas,…
The Kansas City Chiefs owe keg-sized canisters of Topsy’s to the following teams: the Detroit Lions (2-12), the Tampa Bay Buccaneers (2-12) and the St. Louis Rams (1-13). Those three teams, in their respective basements, are mercifully sparing our Chiefs (3-11) the national ridicule of being the worst. There’s something to be said for losing spectacularly, but there’s a nice,…
%{}% Scott Roeder, the man who admitted to reporters that he killed Wichita abortion provider George Tiller, cannot use the so-called “necessity defense,” arguing killing Tiller was justified to save fetuses that would have been aborted. Sedgwick County District Court Judge Warren Wilbert denied the defense motion yesterday, citing no evidence of “imminent threat,” according to the Wichita Eagle The…
Kansas City police say a botched robbery Tuesday night left one man dead and another wounded near 35th and Euclid. View Larger Map Officers responded to a call about a shooting around 8:38 p.m. and located two men with gunshot wounds in the area. The officers’ investigation revealed that one of the men allegedly attempted to rob the other. Two…
Each Thursday, your Crap Archivist brings you the finest in forgotten and bewildering crap culled from basements, thrift stores, estate sales and flea markets. I do this for one reason: Knowledge is power. The Unhappy Gays Author: Tim LaHaye Date: 1978 Publisher: Tyndale House The Cover Promises: Gayness is a rusty, wormy chain. Representative Quotes: “Homosexuals are regularly disinterested…
William “Muff” Eneff, 59, of Lee’s Summit was sentenced yesterday to seven years without parole in federal prison for his role in a conspiracy to distribute 50 grams or more of meth between January 1, 2002, and May 31, 2007. According to a release from U.S. Attorney Matt J. Whitworth, Eneff was released from prison in 2005. He admitted to…
Start saving your cans for the deposits, because a movement to buy the Pabst Brewing Company needs about $236 million to reach its goal. Advertising agencies Forza Migliozzi and The Ad Store have teamed up on what they’re terming a “crowdsourcing experiment.” They’re trying to raise $300 million in pledged donations to bring an offer to the Milwaukee brewer’s current…
The gift of liquor is one of the few that gives back. When you bring a bottle in a gesture of politeness, friends and acquaintances usually open it. Therefore, it’s incumbent on you to have good taste, because you’ll likely be spending time with that bottle. Cellar Rat has an “unconventional 6pk” of Smokestack Series offerings from Boulevard — a…
Kansas City residents who get a hand from Harvesters this holiday season could be setting their table with local venison. The controversial deer harvest to reduce the herd and preserve the ecological balance in Shawnee Mission Park is now in phase two, with certified archers taking down additional deer by early in the new year. But, according to the Johnson County Park…
Sally Calvin, the doyenne of Widgeonwood Farm in Columbia, Missouri (which she operates with her manly hunter husband David) is best known in Kansas City for her Saturday-only outdoor market, Widgeonwood in the Village, held in the courtyard of Prairie Village Shopping Center from early spring to mid-October. Last Saturday Sally hosted her annual holiday market, selling her jams, jellies,…
Looking to soundtrack the holidays, but don’t care for what we did with our Corrupted Christmas Mix? Local public radio has you covered. You’ve got your choice of either The Fish Fry’s four-hour extravaganza, or the slightly less epic two Retro Cocktail Hour holiday special. Both programs aired Saturday night, and I took advantage of the amazing radio to kick…
thePhantom* Destroy and Rebuild (Ripple Effect Records) Kemet Coleman, known in local hip-hop circles as thePhantom*, doubles as an Urban Studies student at UMKC. So it makes sense that Coleman gets academic on his newest album, Destroy and Rebuild. If he aspires to even higher learning, a doctorate in philosophy might suit Coleman’s sensbilities. The rapping college student is unrelentingly…
Chef Chris Hall is back where he started Chris Hall, who recently left his position as executive chef with the President Hotel in downtown Kansas City, has returned to 401 Ward Parkway — the InterContinental Hotel Kansas City — where he started his career two decades ago, when the property was still the Ritz-Carlton Hotel. Hall worked at the Ritz-Carlton…
About a million shows came through KC this past year, and Pitch photographer Scott Spychalski was at pretty much all of ’em. Here’s a gallery of some of his best shots. Categories: Music Tags: Green Day, kiss, morrissey, naked rock stars, photos, slide show
Strawberried Peanut Butter M&Ms are the turkey bacon of spherical chocolate candies. The first one you eat is outstanding and each piece you take thereafter finds you wishing you’d stopped at the one before. While this special-edition candy is a finely engineered offering, the candymakers may have lost their way. A small package contained exactly 22 M&Ms in orange, red,…
There’s been next to nothing coming out these last few weeks. Nobody wants to try and get people to pay attention to new music when there’s the holidays with which to compete. Thus, I’ve not really had anything on which to focus. This week is much of the same. There’s the soundtrack to the new film, Nine, which has gotten…
This is a partial slideshow of the men and women who died at the hands of others in Kansas City, Mo. this year.
Despite the down economy, plenty of shows, big and small, came through our little burg this past year. Photographer Scott Spychalski was there. Here are some of his best shots. Read reviews at the Wayward Blog
In recent years, local residents have wanted a seat on the troubled Kansas City, Missouri, School Board like they wanted a hole in the head. Gathering signatures and running a campaign to earn a spot among the political infighting and a responsibility to turnaround the struggling school district was hardly appealing. Three years ago, there wasn’t a single challenger to…
McDonald’s is hoping to lure back customers with a new, five-item, $1 value menu for breakfast that will launch nationwide in January. According to the National Restaurant News, this menu will include the Sausage Burrito, the Sausage Biscuit, the Sausage McMuffin, a 12-ounce coffee and a hash brown. I get the feeling there’s a high margin on sausage for the…
A lawsuit is tearing apart JP Wine Bar’s ownership. Investors, like Ryan Maybee, claim they’ve never seen a penny and accuse the wine bars’ owners, Linda and Keith Gobel, of mixing “money by using investments to prop up another, legally separate one” in a “Madoffesque ponzi scheme,” according to KSHB Channel 41. The investors’ lawyer, Jason Kander, told the TV…
If you’ve never worked in the restaurant industry but always thought you could make it as a chef — you could be on television. Producers are casting Gordon Ramsay’s new show, MasterChef, and one of the open casting calls is at The Culinary Center of Kansas City on Sunday, January 17, from 12 to 5 p.m. The show is from…
