Money Shots is a glimpse of random happenings when we’re out and about on Kansas City’s music scene. While Federation of Horsepower has been recording their new album these past couple of weekends, producer Ryan Marchman (drummer for the Shaker Hoods and Crazy Talk) has snapped off a couple of shots. Keep up with the band’s progress in the studio…
There is snow on the ground and basketball is on hiatus — it’s a tough one today because for the first time in close to a week, everyone will be putting in a full day. Maybe a free coffee will help. Dunkin’ Donuts is giving away a free medium iced (go ahead, stick it to Mother Nature) or hot coffee…
June Carbone, a law professor at the University of Missouri-Kansas City, was working on a book during the 2008 election. The subject matter helped her and her husband, William Black, who also teaches law at UMKC, win a guess-the-electoral-votes office pool. Carbone and co-author Naomi Cahn began their research after 2004 election. They set out to understand why the so-called…
TodayThink about something serious. At 4 p.m. inside Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, author Hillary Potter will talk about domestic abuse among African Americans, using the Chris Brown/Rihanna controversy as a jumping off point. TuesdayTake in a modern classic. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind screens for free at 6 p.m. at the Main Branch of the KCK Public Library. WednesdayRoot…
“Where We Pee” is a weekly excursion into a local music venue’s excretory facilities, with a premium on the witticisms scrawled onto the walls. Today’s installment of “Where We Pee” takes you somewhere few of you have probably ventured: inside the bathrooms of the KJHK studios. Being as how the station will soon leave its longtime digs in the Sudler…
Calling Congressman Emanuel Cleaver II the “n-word” and spitting on him isn’t the way to winning his vote. Go figure. Cleaver wouldn’t be bullied and voted for health-care reform, which passed the House 219-212 last night, sending the bill to President Obama to sign into law. Earlier this weekend. tea party protesters chanted “Kill the bill, nigger” at Cleaver and…
Tears were falling Saturday. Northern Iowa shocked Kansas in a controlled 69-67 victory that busted the brackets of President Obama and a lot of others (myself included). The Panthers pulled off the biggest upset of the weekend, sending the No. 1 overall team in the nation home without any hardware. Cheer up, Jayhawk fans. You still might win a national…
It’s a somber weekend, everyone — and not just because winter won’t let go. Our wars don’t appear to be ending anytime soon, either. Area peace activists mark the seventh anniversary of the Iraq War today with a vigil beginning at 3 p.m. at the J.C. Nichols Fountain on the Plaza, followed quickly by a march to Unity Temple for…
The Missouri Tigers claimed ownership of “40 minutes of hell” with an 86-78 victory over the Clemson Tigers. After a 39-39 deadlock at halftime, Missouri pulled away midway through the second half and never looked back. Kim English and Keith Ramsey led the Tigers with 20 points each. But it was Mizzou’s pressure defense, which caused 14 steals, that was…
%{}% Update: Independence police are now calling this morning’s “suspicious death” of a 69-year-old woman a homicide. The woman’s body was found in a home at 14608 East 37th Street. The woman’s name was not released. If you have a tip about the woman’s death, call Independence police at 816-325-7330 or the TIPS Hotline at 816-474-8477. Independence police likely won’t…
Pitch writer Nadia Pflaum has a lot of fashion pet peeves (at least ten). Her series of style no-nos started today with “The Floater,” dudes wearing baseball caps askew “leaving a doofy reservoir of air between cloth and crown.” Why do guys wear their hats this way? Local blogger Hyperblogal came up with as logical of any explanation as any…
School breaks mean the KJHK airwaves open up to alumni. I’ve been taking advantage of that fact and worked the board, playing tunes a couple of times this week. Since it’s a Friday evening, and the slot was free, I decided to resurrect my radio show for a one-night only rock-a-thon. Thus, from 4-8:00 p.m. today, Sunglasesses After Dark will…
You need plans. Fat City has a recycle bin full of listings. In this post, all our problems are solved. There is no work, there is no outdoors — there are only NCAA basketball games this weekend. As such, you need to find a hi-def television and a bucket of beers to enjoy watching your chances of winning the office…
Five fearless souls snared themselves a Tyrannosaurus Rex in front of Union Station Monday afternoon. They look pretty nonchalant for being in the presence of one of the most deadly creatures to ever roam the earth (not to mention one we thought was extinct). No word of casualties, and it’s not clear what these heroic hunters will do with their…
Because Kansas City plays a prominent role in the new book Appetite for America: How Visionary Businessman Fred Harvey Built a Railroad Hospitality Empire That Civilized the Wild West (Bantam, $27), it makes sense that author-journalist Stephen Fried would make one of his first book tour appearances here. Although now nearly forgotten, Fred Harvey (1835-1901) was the man whose vision…
Ssion’s Cody Critcheloe can’t keep his hands off of hot female artists—when it comes to collaborating with them, that is. Critcheloe directed the newest video from the funky and filthy electroclash artist Peaches. It’s called “Billionaire,” and it’s complete with the help of local fashionistas Ari Fish and Peggy Noland. Apparently the electro-sleaze star came to Kansas City to shoot…
Super Size Me came out in 2004. Since then, with the exception of Cokes and iced coffees, I’ve eaten exactly one half of a hash brown from McDonald’s. The dealbreaker for me was a scene wherein french fries from McDonald’s apparently failed to age or break down in any fashion while being stored under a glass jar. And yet, even…
Major C. Edwards Jr. pleaded guilty today to voluntary manslaughter in the death of Lawrence rapper Anthony Vital. The 30-year-old Edwards had been charged with first-degree murder in Vital’s death, a case profiled in a June 2007 edition of The Pitch (“It’s Hard Out Here for a Player”). Categories: News Tags: Anthony Vital, Clacc, Da BombSquad, Durrell Jones, Major Edwards…
It once seemed that the Black Keys were destined to play under the shadow of fellow Midwestern guitar-and-drums duo the White Stripes; but these two Akron, Ohio kids have quickly differentiated themselves from the average white-boy blues band. In addition to two solo projects from Dan Auerbach and Patrick Carney in 2009, the Black Keys also collaborated with an impressive list of…
