Ladies and gentlemen, be vigilant! We here at The Pitch have been informed that America is missing. She was last seen minding her own business, playing jacks on the sidewalk, when Barack Obama pulled up in a big black van and asked if America wanted some candy. Once America got inside, it turned out there wasn’t any candy and the van smelled like old…
This week’s theme seems to be weird-as-hell randomness. We’ve tweets from Ben Grimes of Soft Reeds (@softreeds), Wayne Hutcherson of Antennas Up (@Bobby_Topaz), and the de rigueur post from the Noise FM (@thenoisefm). Enjoy. Categories: Music Tags: Antennas Up!, Ben Grimes, Noise FM, soft reeds, Twitter, Wayne Hutcherson
Forcing a 15-year-old girl to give you oral sex inside your squad car will get you 14 years in federal prison without parole. That’s the sentenced former Jackson County Sheriff’s Deputy Steven W. Burgess received Friday for the July 2007 sexual assault. The 36-year-old Independence man pleaded guilty last November to violating the teen’s constitutional rights by sexually assaulting her…
This is the thick of maple-syrup season, which means that spring has sprung and we can get down to enjoying the desserts and breakfast items that were meant to be maple-flavored. Real maple syrup is a labor of love — it takes 40 gallons of sap to make a single gallon of maple syrup. The season usually stretches from late…
Bet you thought that losing nearly a hundred games annually would hurt the Royals’ value. Hahahaha. No. The Royals didn’t crack the top 10 (it wasn’t even close) of Forbes’ annual rankings of most valuable Major League Baseball franchises, but the boys in powder blue actually jumped 14 percent in value to $341 million. That makes them the 24th most…
Seeds planted in discussions about urban agriculture in Kansas City may finally be bearing fruit. At a meeting of the Kansas City, Missouri, City Council yesterday, Bad Seed Farm — an organic farm at 95th and State Line run by husband and wife Daniel Heryer and Brooke Salvaggio — was granted a zoning change on a 13.5 acre piece of…
Despite the fact that a Hum reunion isn’t exactly the long-hoped-for event it was when they played Furnacefest in 2003, the band doesn’t play all that often, making any chance to see them an occasion for celebration. The indie foursome that had a minor hit with “Stars” — a song once described by a friend of mine as “proof that…
Jason Miller had another run-in with law enforcement last night, this time at the University of Kansas Medical Center. The local animal rights activist, who went to battle for the deer in Shawnee Mission Park last year, has turned his attacks on KU Med, which uses monkeys in some clinical research studies. Last month, an activist in Maine created a…
%{}% There are bars and then there is San Francisco’s Toronado — which one Kansas Citian stumbled into while in the Haight-Ashbury neighborhood. A rundown of ballpark hot dogs across the nation, including the new Royal Blue Dog at Kauffman Stadium. Here’s how fast food chains have adapted their menus to different countries, with ham made from chicken (not a…
%{}% Because no one’s ever been ripped off during a car purchase, U.S. Sen. Sam Brownback of Kansas wants to exempt automobile dealers from new consumer protection rules. The Wall Street Journal reports that Brownback plans to introduce an amendment to the financial overhaul bill. The National Automobile Dealers Association cheers Brownback’s effort. The lobby says car loans did not…
Deer Tick plays the Jackpot this Sunday, April 11, and just in time for that show, they’ve released a song from The Black Dirt Sessions. The album comes out June 8 on Partisan Records, and if this track is any indication, may actually follow up on the press release’s description of the album as ” a deeply personal record” from…
I chased a guy around the Beaumont Club before the Passion Pit show, trying to get a good shot of his feet, until I realized that he was not unique: 7/10 of the dudes at the venue were also wearing loafers without socks. One loafer-wearing guy explained to me that he’s gone sockless ever since he was a kid and…
Punk impressario Malcolm McLaren — famously the founder of SEX, the shop where so many of the early punks hung out, as well as the manager of the Sex Pistols — passed away from cancer yesterday. There have been many, many kinds words said about a man who’s been particularly savaged in quite a few memoirs over the years. John…
REVIEW The masks made Miike Snow look creepier than it sounded Thursday night at a sold-out RecordBar. Which isn’t to say that the Stockholm, Sweden, production duo Christian Karlsson and Pontus Winnberg, also known as Bloodsy and Avant — who teamed up with American songwriter Andrew Wyatt in 2007 — failed to shake the ground with their synth-pop explosions. Judging…
1. Buy a hot rod. Muscle cars aplenty will be on the block at Bartle Hall today and Saturday during the Mecum Car Auction. 2. Stroll through art shows. Kaw Valley Arts and Humanities presents the Second Friday Artwalk in KCK. 3. Hit opening weekend of Valhalla — the Egads Theatre production. The curtain rises for the first time tonight….
In our review of the Spook Lights’ set opening for Kid Congo Powers, we mentioned how much we liked their new tune “Pink Palace.” You can take a listen with this video from their show at the Replay last week. Categories: Music Tags: Pink Palace, Spook Lights, video
Will Suarez and Sen. Sam Brownback were short-lived friends. The Peru native and Johnson County Community College student became a fan of Brownback on Facebook and started posting comments on the Republican’s wall, calling on the Kansas conservative to support a bill that would allow undocumented students obtain in-state college tuition. It didn’t take long for Suarez to find Brownback’s…
What You Do For Money Honey takes us beyond the music and into the cubicles, behind the desks, and on top of what local musicians do to pay the bills. Shawn Reynolds, bass player for old school hardcore act Iron Guts Kelly, is in an interesting position in the punk scene: he’s a cop. Considering the metric ton of anti-cop…
Having written extensively about the saga of fired Kansas City police officer Danny Holmes (who yesterday won a $6.5 million judgment against the police board), I wasn’t surprised by much of the information presented in Jackson County Circuit Judge David Byrn’s courtroom. But Lyle Gregory, Holmes’ attorney, did manage to surprise me by unearthing examples of “alleged misconduct” by KCPD…
The Kentucky Derby isn’t for another three weeks, but even horses get to practice before the big race. Humans need to get in shape, too, and there’s no finer way than with a mint julep. “It’s one of the most fantastic drinks ever created, but it’s absolutely imperative that it is made correctly,” says Manifesto’s Ryan Maybee. Maybee and mixologist…
Ice beers have a sneaky place in the market. They are not malt liquor. They come in an astonishing array of can sizes. And it feels like they’re all made by Anheuser-Busch InBev. Ice beer is stronger than the standard American lager and typically falls in the 5 to 6 percent alcohol-by-volume range. You won’t find ice beer on tap;…
When there’s a race weekend, there’s usually a plethora of activity surrounding the Kansas Speedway in Wyandotte County. Every bar has a drink special that’ll leave your liver aching, the stores at the Legends have some sort of sale, and you can find every local bar band rocking out in a parking lot somewhere. If you’d like to see someone…
