With March Madness starting right now, I intend to be knee deep in buffalo sauce and nacho cheese before the weekend hits. And if KFC is right about mankind, we don’t want to deal with any impediment to overeating, such as bones in our chicken. Because I refuse to eat the “meaty” KFC boneless filet — which the Impulsive Buy…
Here’s a great show idea: rather than the usual cover sets of songs we’ve all heard over and over again, why not keep everything local? We’re supposed to shop local, buy local, and keep an eye on our food miles. Why should we — as musical consumers — import our music? Is rock ‘n’ roll from overseas, or even New…
Mackey’s struck oil in Overland Park Santa Fe Drive, the main drag of downtown Overland Park, now has two businesses with the word olive in their names: the Olive Branch Art Gallery & Studios at 7915 Santa Fe Drive, which does not sell olive oil, and the two-week-old The Tasteful Olive, which does. It’s a sunny storefront at 7945 Santa…
Chips are bad for you — but Sun Chips, well they’re just made of good stuff. The snack-food industry’s rebranding continues with Frito Lays’ introduction of a chip bag made from compostable material. Also: Frito Lay is using solar energy at one of its plants. However, it’s only being used for the 10 1/2 ounce size of Sun Chips, and…
Scene & Heard — wherein local music scene makers give you the lowdown on the soundtrack to their lives. Nick Ray is a man for all seasons. When not holding down the bar at Lawrence’s brand new high-end taqueria, Esquina (try the fish tacos, as well as the pork ones — you’ll die of happiness), Ray DJs as the Jet…
Now you can not just live like former Kansas City Chiefs general manager “King” Carl Peterson — you can live at Peterson’s Country Club Plaza penthouse at 433 Ward Parkway (if you have $4.25 million). Credit BlogKC for finding the listing on Reese Nichols’ Web site (and knowing all of Peterson’s swanky neighbors, including Herm Edwards). Peterson’s pad has three…
It’s no Team Edward versus Team Jacob, but Team Chicken Mary’s squared off against Team Chicken Annie’s to be named the finest fried chicken in Pittsburg, Kansas, on this week’s Food Wars. The Travel Channel’s program pits two famous institutions in a given city against each other in a blind taste test to declare a victor in each episode. The…
%{}% Update: K2 synthetic marijuana is officially illegal in the state of Kansas, so Sunflower State business owners better get to destroying their supplies (or smoking them). The laws criminalizing active compounds JWH-018 and JWH-073 were published today, making them schedule 1 drugs in Kansas. The Johnson County Sheriff’s Office issued a press releasing saying it knows “several retailers in…
Earlier this week, Platte County Prosecutor Eric Zahnd sent out a press release defending the death penalty as a crime deterrent. Zahnd tells The Pitch that the press release was the Missouri Association of Prosecuting Attorneys’ response to anti-death-penalty activists who lobbied at the state capitol yesterday. The group’s press release cited the results of a 2002 Emory University study…
In what I can only assume is a critique leveled at those who question who he is, Andrew W.K. released a new song, “Vagabond,” along with a video. In it, he sings about who criticize him, and attempt to pigeonhole who he might be. Very air guitar, isn’t it? Categories: Music Tags: Andrew WK, video
Shocking news. The cops nailed 44 people for suspicion of drunken driving at 39th Street and Southwest Trafficway yesterday. I get celebrating, but drinking and driving on St. Paddy’s Day is just tempting fate. The streets were dangerous all day yesterday. I can count at least four near misses with cars pulling out in front of oncoming traffic yesterday. And…
We wanted to bring you more pictures of the downtown revelry. Then about 20 minutes in some drunk girl accused us of taking pictures of her for unsavory reasons. Then she called her drunk boyfriend over. They were not to be reasoned with. Then security got involved and we left. We’d show you a picture of her, but unfortunately we…
It was cold and rainy, but that didn’t stop the party in Westport. Pitch photographer Scott Spychalski captured the kids, the punks, one women wearing way too little — and the mayor — in Westport. Click on Mayor Funkhouser to see the pics. Categories: News Tags: St. Patrick’s Day Parade, westport
She doesn’t look like this anymore Yes, boys and girls, there is a Little Debbie. And she wants to talk to you tonight on Facebook. Since the Tennessee-based Little Debbie brand was first introduced by McKee Foods in 1960, the beaming little face with the mop of wavy hair and the straw bonnet has been the signature image of the company’s products,…
Nine companies have joined the proposed class-action lawsuit against Yelp, the San Francisco-based Internet giant, attorneys in Miami and California announced yesterday morning. The new plaintiffs are located everywhere from Tujunga, California, to Washington, D.C. They include businesses ranging from a sofa outlet to a bakery to the heart of Yelp’s business, several restaurants. Categories: Dining, Food & Drink Tags:…
President Barack Obama likes Kansas to get the “One Shining Moment” treatment at the end of NCAA Tournament. The president again filled out a bracket for ESPN, and Obama has the Jayhawks beating Kentucky in the championship game. Just like me! Also for Obama’s Final Four, Obama picks Kansas State and Villanova to meet KU and UK. As for Missouri,…
Put out the word. Deadspin is looking for “the random Asian kid of KU.” He’s the guy on the far left of this photo that appeared in the University Daily Kansan at the time of the on-campus brawls between Kansas’ football and basketball players. Have you seen him? Do you know him? If so, kindly shoot Deadspin an e-mail. And…
%{}% Is he saying bacon or beer can? And why is this so hypnotic? Blanc Burgers + Bottles is one of the 64 entries in Burger Business’ 2010 Burger Brackets. Julian has new hours: Bottles n Bites out on the patio from 2 to 5:30 p.m. The case is made for one of the world’s apparently endangered species — the…
The cover to Matthew Paul Turner’s Hear No Evil: My Story of Innocence, Music, and the Holy Ghost is slightly deceptive. First of all, the young man on the cover looks like Rivers Cuomo, and is holing up a vinyl record. The bit about the holy ghost is in small type, and fairly much overshadowed by the Away We Go/Juno/500…
It was cold and rainy, but that didn’t stop the party in Westport. Pitch photographer Scott Spychalski captured the kids, the punks, one women wearing way too little — and the mayor — in Westport.
