Archives: March 2010
Phillip Martin arrested overnight in the shooting of 7-Eleven clerk
Kansas City police last night arrested 19-year-old Phillip D. Martin, whom Jackson County prosecutors charged Monday with killing Gurpreet Singh, 35. Singh was robbed and killed as he was working the midnight shift at the 7-Eleven at 85th Street and Bannister Road. Singh had cooperated with the robber who pointed a gun at him and demanded cash, but the gunman…
Jerry Moran trots out unreliable poll during health-care scrum
U.S. Rep. Jerry Moran of Kansas reached into his bag of misinformation during the 11th hour of the health-care debate. On Saturday Moran posted this message on his Facebook page: An astonishing 46% of primary care physicians say they would leave the field of medicine if the Democrats’ plan becomes law. The source of Moran’s “astonishing” data is presumably a…
Daytrotter offers high-quality FLAC downloads
Daytrotter’s live sessions are perhaps the greatest resource available to music lovers on the Internet — legally, at least. If you love the music offered up for free at the site, but wished you could hear it in something other than the admittedly lo-fi 128Kbps MP3s they offer, you’re in luck. The site recently opened the Daytrotter Record Barn, wherein…
Roman L. LeBlanc, married Missouri rep, had sex with a teen he’d mentored
In the March 24 print edition, The Pitch recounts the investigation of Kansas City, Missouri, police and the Platte County Prosecutor’s Office of Missouri Rep. Roman L. LeBlanc, who was accused last fall of sexually assaulting an 18-year-old college student. The story was published online here first. What follows after the jump uses police records and extensive interviews with the…
Jason Kendall’s ex- accuses the Royals catcher of abusing Adderall (updated)
%{}% Update: Royals catcher Jason Kendall’s divorce is full of tabloid fare — the kind that general manager Dayton Moore once claimed he’d avoid while rebuilding KC’s fledgling franchise but ignored while collecting assholes. TMZ and Radar Online have been following the ugly divorce (although TMZ promised a court room update and never delivered). The news keeps getting worse for…
Record Review: the Ants’ Stories About Killing
The Ants’ Stories About Killing is melodic enough to be enjoyable, yet jarring enough to be interesting. The vocal stylings of the band, as well as their song structures, play like a prog-rock combination of Randy Newman and the Lovin’ Spoonful. Despite one’s inclination to lump the Ants in with the jam-band crowd, their local peers are more accurately bands…
Relic Tray: Confessions of a Sneaky Organic Cook
Back in 1971, a cook had to be “sneaky” to cook for friends in some healthy fashion, since the words organic and vegetarian had none of the cachet that they have now. In fact, if a cartoon of the early 1970s depicted “vegetarians,” they was all too frequently a lanky, bearded, sandal-wearing hippie and his long-haired girlfriend who wore granny…
Incoming: “Weird Al” Yankovic at the Cotillion, July 13
Yes, yes — the Cotillion is all the way down in Wichita. Is it worth a three-and-a-half hour drive south to go see “Weird Al” Yankovic on Tuesday, July 13? I’d say so. The one and only time I saw Yankovic, I’d been waiting something like 15 years to see him play live. My friends and I braved a jack-knifed…
Hitler finds out Kansas busted his bracket
Someone finally broke the bad news about Kansas’ loss to Northern Iowa to Hitler over the weekend, and let’s just say he didn’t take it well. His bracket was totally busted. Hat tip to Kansas Sity Sinic for the find. Categories: News Tags: Adolf Hitler, Kansas Jayhawks
McCormick & Schmick’s 10th anniversary week specials
Seafood lovers, get your peeling fingers ready. McCormick & Schmick is celebrating its 10-year anniversary on the Plaza this week. You can head there for dinner tonight, when no dinner item will cost more than $20. Tuesday, no lunch menu item will go for more than $10. On Wednesday, there’s a bar party from 4 to 6 p.m. with $3.95…
Where am I eating?
Buffet madness! Have you ever wandered through a buffet line, taken a little of this and a little of that and returned to your table, then looked down at the plate and thought, “What is all this crap?”That’s sort of the reaction I had to this plate, which includes (but is not limited to) biscuits and gravy, vegetable lasagna, pizza,…
60 Minutes features the Global Orphanage Project’s work in Haiti
60 Minutes featured the Global Orphan Project’s work in Haiti last night in a story called “The Lost Children of Haiti.” The story’s about what’s happening to the thousands of children orphaned by the earthquake and struggling for survival. The Global Orphanage Project was created by Mike and Beth Fox of Kansas City. They show up around the 6:20 mark…
Trader Joe’s to KC? Let the rumors begin anew…
It’s become a pilgrimage of sorts — driving to the St. Louis suburb of Creve Coeur to load up on cheap frozen meals, trail mix, and organic everything from Trader Joe’s. Kansas Citians are so obsessed with the grocery chain that a local entrepreneur has launched KC Grocery Service to ferry goods from St. Louis to Kansas City twice a…
Concert Review: Manchester Orchestra at the Beaumont
By CHANCE DIBBEN The music of Manchester Orchestra mimics its band members: muscle-bound, heavy, and overwrought. In the world steeped in radio-friendly alterna-rawk, the Athens, Georgia quartet proves themselves viable heirs to former heavy-hitting princes like Staind and Godsmack. This young band, fronted by lead singer and songwriter Andy Hull, is content with rocking-the-fuck-out; and during their performance at a…
Rightbloggers agree: Passage of health care bill an affront to Jesus
%{}% Jim Hoft’s obstreperous Gateway Pundit blog is associated with the conservative Catholic magazine site First Things. That may seem odd to those of us who know Hoft best for his non-sectarian ravings against Pepsi Cola and Honest Tea as “in the tank” for President Obama or, more recently, items like “The Obama Curse Continues… Top Seed Kansas Falls in…
Concert Review: The Appleseed Cast at the Record Bar
By HUGH WELSH If the Appleseed Cast’s newest album Sagarmatha escalated the group to unfathomable heights (after all, “sagarmatha” is Nepalese for Mount Everest), it was 2001’s Low Level Owl 1 and 2 that functioned as their base camp. Sunday night at the Record Bar, the Appleseed Cast played both volumes in their entirety. It was proof that the Lawrence-based quartet,…
Breakfast Buffet: Monday, March 22
%{}% A few ideas for collaborations between local businesses on new beers that could change the way you drink. Do not pass go. Do not collect $200. Just make these “bagel dogs,” which apparently taste like pretzel dogs. There’s a moment of truth when it comes to older produce that happens right before you bite into it. The Fresh Code…
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