Metalheads across the country got bummed the hell out when the American Carnage tour got postponed because Slayer’s Tom Araya needed some surgery. However, metalheads in Kansas City have reason to rejoice. When the tour got rescheduled, certain dates had to get dropped because of shows already booked in those venues. Thus, they added dates to places where the tour…
%{}% The Greater Kansas City Food Policy Coalition scored a coup last week, announcing that Missouri state Rep. Beth Low will be the year-old organization’s first director. “We are thrilled to have someone as skilled and committed as Beth Low to move us forward as we make improvements to policies that affect the food we eat,” said Gretchen Kunkel, president…
Get ready for another round of fighting over smoking. Missouri state Rep. Walt Bivins is sponsoring a bill that would ban smoking in all bars, restaurants and businesses starting in 2011. Even casinos wouldn’t be exempt. The only exceptions would be private residences, tobacco shops and 20 percent of hotel rooms. Bivins, a St. Louis County Republican, is pushing H.B….
%{}% If you’ve always wanted to know about buckwheat but have no idea how to cook it, here’s a post that will solve both of those problems. Boulevard and Schlafly make the case for small brewers at at a reception for Missouri lawmakers. This state map identifies domestic vodka producers — road trip, anyone? To those of you excited…
Overland Park youth pastor Wayne Lee Huston was charged last week with indecent liberties with a child for allegedly kissing and fondling a 14-year-old girl. Huston, 45, appeared in court for the first time yesterday. KCTV 5 reports that Huston used to be a youth pastor at Holy Cross Lutheran Church where he allegedly had an inappropriate relationship with a…
%{}% We’ve made no secret of our appreciation for Florida’s Fake Problems. It appears we’re not the only ones, as a gentleman by the name of Dr. Zilog went to the trouble of recording an 8-bit cover of one of the band’s songs. Dr. Zilog did a right-on cover of the band’s “Diamond Rings,” which is the first song on…
Lily Allen returned to Twitter this morning. You can follow her via @lilyroseallen. Shit. Kevin Smith’s tweets were kind of balanced out by the fact that she’d bid Twitter adieu back at the end of September, saying, “I am a neo-luddite, goodbye.” She’s evidently got “really exciting stuff to share with you.” Stay tuned, kids. She’s the only celebrity tweeter…
A 15-year-old girl reported to police that she was raped by an 18-year-old man at a branch of the Boys & Girls Clubs in the 3800 block of East 43rd Street. KMBC Channel 9 reports that police were called to the club last Thursday and took a man into custody but no charges have been filed. The club and police…
%{}% Burrell Mohler Sr. and three of his sons pleaded not guilty Monday to charges that they sexually abused young relatives dating back to the 1980s. Mohler Sr. and his sons Burrell Mohler Jr., Roland Mohler and David Mohler waived their preimary hearings and entered the not guilty pleas, KMBC Channel 9 reports. Indictments were handed down against the four…
Joel Rhodes, Ph.D., an associate professor of history at Southeast Missouri State University, recently sent The Pitch an e-mail asking that readers contact him with their personal stories of the 1960s. Sure, Doc. First, though, he answered a few questions himself in an e-mail exchange. The Pitch: Why the ’60s, which feels familiar and widely portrayed already? Rhodes: I see…
By WILL RATH Catchy guitar riffs and fine-tuned vocal harmonies set the mood on Sunday night at the Jackpot Music Hall as Springfield band Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin brought heaping doses of their head-bopping spin on indie pop. SSLYBY’s sound – developed over the course of two studio albums, Broom and Pershing – owes much to lead singer…
A Star Wars-themed four-part a cappella musical tribute to John Williams. The dude in the video is not doing all the voices, so it’s a little deceptive. The vocals are actually from Moosebutter, “a professional a cappella comedy group from Utah.” Categories: Music Tags: a capella, Moosebutter, star wars, video
Saeed Aquil, a Missouri prison inmate who was the subject of a December 30 press conference by Jackson County Prosecutor Jim Kanatzar, will not be released on parole. This information comes via a letter sent by the Missouri Department of Corrections to former Kansas City Police Department officer Patrick Brown, dated January 25, 2010. In 1994, Aquil shot Brown and…
Jackson County prosecutors charged Christopher L. Feitz with second-degree murder in the death of his father, Ronnie L. Feitz. Police found Ronnie Feitz, 56, dead inside his home at 507 N.W. Ivy Place in Lee’s Summit on January 21. He was last seen alive by friends in the late hours of January 18. When police found Feitz’ body, he was…
All manner of creatures turned out Saturday night for the Mardi Gras Masquerade Ball at Crosstown Station. There were horns (the musical kind) and horns (the kind that protrude from foreheads) and feathers and confetti and aerial fabric dancers and Hearts of Darkness and metallic fabrics and (gasp) — you’ll just have to check out the pics to see what…
I understand that Miami has beaches and a nightlife we might not be able to touch here in Kansas City. But our wheat beer is better than theirs. Our sister blog at the Miami New Times has a drink recipe for a wheat and mint drink — a mojito of sorts, where the rum has been replaced with a wheat…
Timmy Gibson has issued a challenge to the married couples in his congregation: “engage in hanky panky every day for the month of February.” The pastor of Mercy Church, which meets every Sunday at Indian Hills Middle School in Prairie Village, Kansas, is more frank in his frequent blogs addressing issues of sex: He advises married couples to buy a…
Last week was kind of the week from hell, so forgive me for being about 10 days late on picking this up. However, for you sad bastards (like myself) who missed this nugget of fantastical news, here’s the press release: The slumber is over and Man or Astro-Man? must see what has become of earth in the wake of their…
The gays are putting our national security at risk. And Congressman Ike Skelton, a Democrat who represents mid-Missouri, is helping them do it. That’s the message we got last week from Republican Vicky Hartzler, a former Missouri state rep and author of Running God’s Way: Step by Step to a Successful Political Campaign. Hartzler is challenging Skelton, who has held…
You might not quite be at the level of Chris Marks, but now you can at least start with the same raw materials. With a catering and restaurant business going strong — Marks owns and operates Three Little Pigs BBQ in Crown Center — he’s looking to help out the rest of us by releasing a line of five seasonings…
The 1974 Mel Brooks movie Young Frankenstein turned a serious gothic novel into a slapstick, musical farce starring Gene Wilder. Now, the movie has been adapted for the stage. A touring production of The New Mel Brooks Musical Young Frankenstein opens at the Music Hall this month. You can win tickets for opening night, Tuesday, February 16, and access to…
Local roots combo True North recently began an interesting undertaking. Ariel Hyatt (of Ariel Publicity) released a book entitled Music Success in Nine Weeks. After meeting with Hyatt at the Taxi Music Conference in November, the group was impressed enough to take on her book, and see if following the book would, in fact, grant them musical success. T hey’re…
