Kansas City made the cut of 18 cities vying to host the 2018 or 2022 World Cup. The games would be played at Arrowhead Stadium. The Pitch’s David Martin is at the watch party now and will file a dispatch soon. Check back for updates. Categories: News Tags: arrowhead stadium, Kansas City, kansas city, missouri, Soccer, World Cup
The Dead Girls have dropped off Radio City’s Kansas City release show for Tonight’s Not the Night at the Record Bar on February 12. They are being replaced by Hot Dog Skeletons. Dead Girls can instead be found across town at the Uptown that night as part of the fifth annual Jayrock benefit concert. Also on the bill are Thieves…
A coalition of Kansas school districts is asking the Kansas Supreme Court to reopen the landmark school funding case. On Monday, attorneys for Schools for Fair Funding asked the high court to send the case back to a trial court to decide whether the school finance system was fixed in 2005 and 2006 and determine the constitutionality of cuts to…
A little bit of warmth blows into town tomorrow night with a Lagunitas Beer Tasting at Barley’s Brewhaus in Shawnee. Beginning at 7 p.m., the brewhaus will be featuring four beers from the craft brewery based out of Petaluma, California. The tasting starts with the Dog Town Pale Ale. After that, it’s the India Pale Ale (paired with salmon mousse…
In late November, Foibe Nibitanga spoke clearly and calmly about the challenges her family faced since arriving in Kansas City. On Sunday, her assertive demeanor had disappeared. With a handful of her eight children pouncing on an old couch beside her, Nibitanga’s words were quiet and her eyes were wet. The Burundian family is among the hundreds of refugees resettled…
Once upon a time, man ate only what he was able to hunt. Apparently that time was last week in New York City, where the “caveman lifestyle” is a burgeoning trend. The New York Times profiles a group of men who live at the intersection of hipster and naturalist, choosing to eat large quantities of meat and then fast between…
Warning! A thrash zone will be in effect at the Record Bar on January 24. Legendary Texas thrash punks Dirty Rotten Imbeciles — better known as D.R.I. — will be playing their first area show in God knows how long. The show’s brought to you by Brad of the Sex Offenders, who are coincidentally one of the opening bands. It’s…
A new branding campaign from the Center for Food Integrity hopes to increase consumer confidence in the food production system by introducing people to local farmers in five states. At the Web site, Farmers Feed Us, you can learn about farm families from Missouri, as well as Indiana, Iowa, Michigan and Ohio. The site launched yesterday and looks like an…
%{}% With the push by his public defenders to use “voluntary manslaughter” as a defense, you just knew this was coming. Scott Roeder’s public defenders claimed today that Roeder considered Wichita abortion provider George Tiller an imminent threat to the unborn, according to the Wichita Eagle. The prosecution is fighting it, arguing Tiller was ushering at his church at the…
%{}%Overland Park police have released the photo of a woman they say has habitually shoplifted perfume and makeup from a Sephora store. She’s described as a black female with short, spiky hair, wearing black pants and a black coat. According to Jim Weaver of the Overland Park Police Department, the last incident happened December 11, 2009, when the woman attempted…
This time last year, top brass within the U.S. Army were pledging to make suicide prevention their highest priority in 2009. Reeling from a record 140 suicides among active-duty soldiers in 2008 — the highest rate in three decades — the Army rolled out new training tools to prevent further tragedy. If the efforts are making a difference, they’re not…
Shaun Triplett saw a vacant space near his job and thought about what it might be like to open up a restaurant. The Reverie — named in honor of his daydreaming — opened on December 22 in Grain Valley. “My dream was always to bring that feel of the Westport coffee shops out here,” says Triplett. Since the store’s official…
The attorney for a an Independence pastor arrested and released without being charged last week in a raid of the New Covenant Faith Center now says Jackson County Sheriff’s deputies mistakenly arrested Lloyd Sartain because they thought he was a felon. John Carnes told KCTV Channel 5 that his client, Lloyd D. Sartain, is not a felon. But his son,…
%{}% A rebuttal to Fat City’s definition of a beer snob, and an explanation for why clean glasses and bringing your own beer to parties are important. A manifesto in defense of the term foodie. Thoughts on the Foundry’s redesign and its new offerings on tap. This recipe for easy strawberry short cakes is part of unresolution month — designed…
OK Go’s Of The Blue Colour Of The Sky is the band’s chance to capitalize on the success and fame that came with their world-famous treadmill clip for “Here It Goes Again.” Surprisingly, rather than go with the quirky dance-pop that’d been their bread an butter for so long (going back to their first single, “Get Over It”), they’ve opted…
Pollstar named Kansas City’s Sprint Center as one of 2009’s best concert venues. The arena was number five in the U.S., and number 16 in the world. Nice going: for a relatively new venue (the Sprint Center opened in October of 2007), this is quite an honor. As anyone who’s attended a concert at the Sprint Center can attest, it’s…
Most sidewalks in Kansas City haven’t been seen since Christmas Eve. So here’s a happy thought for those feeling immobilized by winter: Work will begin this spring on a bike lane across the Missouri River. MoDOT is going to retrofit the Heart of America Bridge, which links downtown Kansas City, Missouri, with North Kansas City. The work will include the…
James Tharp, the restless businessman who in the 1980s designed and built a one-of-a-kind hilltop home overlooking downtown Kansas City, Missouri, died January 3. According to his Kansas City Star obituary, he was 66 and lived in Mission. In late 2006, on the eve of the upside-down-L-shaped house’s demolition to make way for million-dollar homes, Tharp (who sold the property…
Last week, Kansas Attorney General Steve Six announced that his state, along with 24 others and the District of Columbia, had reached a $22.5 million settlement in an antitrust suit involving Abbott Laboratories and Fournier Industrie et Sante and Laboratories Fournier, the makers of the cholesterol drug TriCor.It wasn’t exactly headline news. For some reason, antitrust lawsuits against global pharmaceutical…
You probably look at the juice in your pantry every day and think — yeah, I could make liquor out of that. Now you can. Spike Your Juice is a new homebrew kit that includes a package of yeast and a cap designed to fit the top of a plastic juice bottle with an airlock and rubber stopper. Over a…
Torche played the Jackpot back in 2008, and I didn’t go. I have no rational explanation as to why, except that I might’ve been busy with school and running a radio station. In retrospect, that’s a shitty excuse, as anyone who’s heard their album Meanderthal can tell you. This song’s from last year’s split with Boris. Hydra Head’s putting it…
Two men accused of sexually abusing young family members were indicted Monday in Lafayette County Circuit Court. A 21-count indictment was handed down against Burrell Mohler Sr., alleging several counts of felony rape, sodomy, sexual abuse and use of a child in a sexual performance. Mohler Sr.’s son, David Mohler, was also indicted on two counts of felony rape. Burrell…
