Kansas City police are investigating a homicide in an apartment in the 8500 block of 108th Street. Police responded to a shooting around 12:46 a.m. and found a black man in his twenties dead from apparent gunshot wounds. Kansas City, Missouri’s homicide count now stands at 36 for 2010. If you have any information about this homicide, call the TIPS…
1. Stroll through Brookside during the cutesy shopping district’s yearly art fair. The Brookside Art Annual kicks off today at 5 p.m. and lasts through Sunday. 2. Consider the pros and cons of getting a weave. And Her Hair Went With Her brings African American, female salon talk to the Unicorn Theatre, on stage through May 5. 3. Bet on…
Yesterday, our sister paper in Denver reported an incident in which two Sprint outlet store employees were fired for chasing down a shoplifter from the Apple store in Denver’s Cherry Creek Shopping Center. Mike McGee and Paul Shoemaker were on their break on April 16 when they heard a security guard yell, “Somebody stop that guy!” The Sprint employees saw…
Think you’re an air guitar bad-ass on par with “Mean” Eric Melin? Well, the 2009 KC Regional U.S. Air Guitar champ has organized the first annual Lawrence/Kansas City Air Guitar Championship. While not affiliated with the USAG — which means you’re not qualifying for anything other than fabulous prizes — it’s still a chance to get up on stage and…
O’Fallon loon (and Missouri state Rep.) Cynthia Davis is dangerous. Davis is often the butt of jokes around here. But make no mistake, Davis is powerful even if she appears folksy and dumb. As the Children and Families Committee in the Missouri Legislature, she’s the gatekeeper who decides which bills get a hearing and which die in the committee. And…
The Place: Jack Gage American Tavern, 5301 Main Street, 816-531-4243. The Hours: Monday to Friday, 3 to 6 p.m. Sunday to Thursday, 10 p.m. to midnight. The Vibe: The Double Dragon is long gone, knocked out cold by the pugilistic stylings of Jack Gage. The room has been split between the bar area with hi-top tables and a line of…
I’ll take the skinny servers, please… Even if I wanted to wait tables again — and I don’t think I could hack it anymore — I suspect I’m now a little too chubby for that demanding profession. And even though I’ve been chided by Pitch readers for preferring “young, hot servers” (see the comment in response to this review), I…
Steve Conway’s book, Shiprocked: Life On The Waves With Radio Caroline, is an odd duck. It manages to conveigh a large amount of information regarding Conway’s time about the ship Ross Revenge as a DJ for the UK’s Radio Caroline pirate station. However, at the same time, it really doesn’t manage to evoke any sort of emotional reaction from the…
%{}% Milano Italian Dining serves this decadent dessert This week’s “Where Am I Eating?” question must have been a little too daunting for our readers, since regular commenters like Meesha were much more interested in eating the featured pastry than figuring out which restaurant was serving it. The answer, by the way, is Milano Italian Dining in the Crown Center…
This is my one and only Gene Shallit moment: “Who else thinks that people should RUSH to the theater to see this movie?” I am so very, very sorry. Still, Rush: Beyond the Lighted Stage looks to be interesting when it comes out this summer. The trailer’s best quote, and the one that has me thinking this is going to…
Kansas strip club enthusiasts, your laps are still a legal landing spot for dancers of the exotic kind. The Kansas Senate deadlocked — a vote of 20-20 — Wednesday on a bill (S.B. 514) that would have regulated strip clubs and adult bookstores, sending the bill back to committee. The bill is pretty much the same thing we’ve seen in…
Locavores are going about things the wrong way. If you really want to convince someone to eat local, you start with the cookies and then you sneak in the vegetables. In that spirit, two area bakeries are selling cookies made from ingredients you likely have in your kitchen — although you’d be hard pressed to match these cookies in a…
Former Kansas Attorney General Phill Kline filed an answer to the disciplinary complaint against him, and let’s just say he denies all wrongdoing (see the full answer below). Kline has also hired a new crew of attorneys, including former U.S. Attorney Todd P. Graves. Also representing Kline will be Edward D. Greim and Ryan A. Kriegshauser. The ethics hearing has…
Update: (April 29, 10 a.m.) Flying Saucer’s Matt Gardner has finalized the lineup for the draft emporium’s anniversary party on Sunday. The tap times follow: Noon: Bell’s Batch 9000 1 p.m.: Mikkeller Single Hop Centennial IPA 2 p.m.: Kulmbacher Eisbock 3 p.m.: Founder’s KBS 4 p.m.: Left Hand Oak Aged Widdershins 5 p.m.: Schlafly Trocken Hopfen Stopfen Marzen 6 p.m.:…
Energy feeds energy. Forgive the New Age connotations, but when it comes to a rock show, the platitudes are true: the more you give, the more you’re going to get. This is why the Sean Bones show on Wednesday night at the Jackpot was less than stellar. It wasn’t any fault of the band – well, not really. It’s the…
“Bring Your Dog to Dinner Thursdays” returns to Californos tonight. “It’s a fun little way to grab people’s interest,” says Aaron Barksdale-Burns, Californos’ sales manager. Dogs are welcome on the Westport restaurant’s outdoor patio, where Californos has homemade, bone-shaped dog biscuits and water bowls. Meanwhile, their human owners can enjoy specials on Boulevard pints — $2 off Pale Ale and…
Charles Juba: not just a racist, but a lying racist When Charles Juba was confronted over his white supremacist past Monday night, he responded, “I’m a father. I’m a business owner. I’ve walked away from my past over five years ago.” But it appears as if Juba is not only an active neo-Nazi, he’s a dishonest active neo-Nazi. According to court records, as…
%{}% Here’s video from a recent presentation on urban farming in Kansas City. Grits and the eggplant and broccoli quiche at You Say Tomato get a rave review. A San Francisco dining critic suggests that the Justus Drugstore and American Restaurant would be welcomed with open arms in San Francisco. At Costcos around the nation, jokesters are putting up fake…
When you’ve been blasted by Public Enemy in the past for your racist policies, it should’ve been expected by the government of Arizona that Chuck D would step up and rip ’em a new one. That’s what Chuck does on his new track, “Tear Down This Wall,” which samples that previous indictment of Arizona politics, “By the Time I Get…
To prep you for the forthcoming video for “All You Hipsters,” off the forthcoming Planet Pluto, Spence gives you this trailer. Big props for the ironic headgear, texting, and Threadless t-shirts in the name of hipster authenticity. Categories: Music Tags: Spence, trailer, upcoming release, video
On Monday, Circuit Court Judge W. Stephen Nixon told a roomful of Jackson County citizens that they were lucky to have been summoned for jury duty. Only two trials were scheduled this week, Nixon said, and the parties in each were likely to reach settlements before noon, meaning everyone would be dismissed. I was there because I’d received my first…
