Wayward friends, here’s some breaking news: After his long tour of duty — in which he elevated our beloved Wayward Blog to worldwide renown — Nick Spacek is ready to hand over the reins to new talent. You’ll still see Spacek’s byline here at the Pitch, but we’re now officially looking for a new part-time music blogger. If you’re already tuned…
Happy Meal toys are creating fat kids? This morning’s big news about McDonald’s Happy Meals wasn’t an update on the story reported earlier this week about the British Mom who found an unsmoked cigarette in her baby’s Happy Meal (after overhearing the counter girl tell a fellow employee to “leave her a fag”). No, it was the even more shocking…
Some mornings, there’s some news that makes you grin ear-to-ear. Case in point: Three men who showed up in full Nazi regalia to a hardcore punk show at an Old City bar Friday night were attacked by as many as 50 people on the streets after leaving the venue, according to witnesses and club management. The men were in attendance…
U.S. Sen. Claire “Bear” McCaskill was chewing Goldman Sachs’ asses yesterday during a hearing. Sounds like the execs got a surly McCaskill (hell, just look at the still frame in the YouTube video below. Scary). The St. Louis Post-Dispatch’s Political Fix reels off several choice quotes from the Missouri Democratic, including McCaskill rifling through a stack of documents and saying…
The American’s Executive Chef Debbie Gold competes tonight on Top Chef Masters and the restaurant is hosting a watch party from 8 to 11 p.m. But an hour-long reality cooking competition is not long enough to get to know one of the city’s most accomplished chefs. So when I sat down with Gold last week in the lounge at the…
%{}% According to this peek at the Majestic Restaurant, steak is still the focus and happy hour is the best bet. Anchor’s Small Beer outperforms its weak brethren. This recipe for marinated leaf lettuce calls for lettuce, garlic and dill. S. Pellegrino’s Top 50 restaurants in the world — incredibly, I’ve eaten at #1 and nowhere else. Categories: Dining, Food…
Courtesy of KSHB Channel 41, here’s the story of Nathan Gilbert, who is in his twenties and doesn’t have a Facebook or Twitter account. In other news, my octogenarian grandmother doesn’t own a cell phone (she does have land line), still uses a VCR to tape her stories and refuses to use a TV converter box. But she did get…
Scene & Heard — wherein local music scene makers give you the lowdown on the soundtrack to their lives. The Architects’ frontman Brandon Phillips is a man who knows his rock and roll. In his time with that band, and its forerunner, the Gadjits, he’s been all over the country dozens of times, seeing more bands in one summer than…
Having trouble filling this out? Call our guy! Last week, I enjoyed a couple of drinks with the man we’ve chosen to call the Cranky Census Call-Center Worker, an out-of-town acquaintance who currently clocks some $15 an hour for letting concerned Americans call up and holler at him. The private-run center handles callers to the census help line from all…
The parking lot of Arrowhead Stadium sounds like a fight club, according to a lawsuit filed against the Kansas City Chiefs. Terral Cline, of Lenexa, cited police reports that showed 29 other assaults had occurred in the parking lot in the five years before an Oakland Raiders fan broke his nose and knocked him out in November 2005. One such…
The Get Up Kids are planning a summer tour, wherein they’ll be hitting Ireland for the first time, along with other parts of Europe. In addition, their Simple Science EP came out a couple weeks ago. So, the band has a lot of stuff that needs to be done with their website. Thurs, they need a web intern, or so…
The state of Kansas is cool with recognizing the marriages of cousins (but it looks like the wedding has to be out of state). Mother Jones put together an amazing map showing where getting hitched to Cousin Betsy May is a-OK. Hey, who are you to judge the love between first cousins? It’s not like Kansas is snooty, unless you’re…
%{}% A stray bullet killed 38-year-old Helen Ragan at 11815 Holiday Monday night. Several shots were fired outside of Ragan’s home, and one of the bullets struck and killed Ragan inside her home around 9:52 p.m. KMBC Channel 9 reports that Ragan was at home with her husband and four sons at the time of the shooting. She was a…
To give you a taste of what you’ll get when Spence and the Unknown Souldier team up for the first time this Friday night at the Eighth Street Taproom, the two DJs collaborated on a mix for you. As Cyrus Dayani (the Unknown Souldier himself) put it on the event’s Facebook page: We plan on tearing it up with quality…
The canning line arrived yesterday at the Tallgrass Brewing Company in Manhattan, Kansas. The only problem? The craft brewer already has a bottling line. “When we started the brewery, we were only doing draft. Nobody was asking, ‘When are you going to start canning?’ It was always, ‘When are you going to start bottling?’” says Jeff Gill, who started Tallgrass…
If you were busy last weekend, and weren’t able to make the Saturday night release show for Approach’s new album, Aloe Park, you can buck up. What seems to be the majority of the Jackpot show is now available for viewing on Youtube, thanks to a user with the unfortunate handle of “mansondahmer.” Hit up his channel, and you can…
We may get to vote on whether Kansas City gets a 1,000-room convention hotel. KSHB Channel 41 reports that the city doesn’t have the money to pay for the hotel, so guess who they want to ante up?: You. City leaders are considering putting a new tax or fee to a vote. So do you want to pay for the…
U.S. Sen. Claire “Bear” McCaskill pushed for the Senate to get moving on Wall Street reform in an interview with The Today Show’s Matt Lauer. Lauer questioned McCaskill about Republicans blocking further debate on reform, noting it’s only temporary. “Why do we play these games?” an exasperated McCaskill asked. “This is a serious problem. Let’s get to work.” Categories: News,…
The best chicken wings in Kansas City! My friend Jeff called to tell me he had found a new Middle Eastern restaurant on the East Side of town. At least he thought it was Middle Eastern and he thought it was new. Turns out it’s neither. It’s not much to look at from the outside, but the Salaam Cafe at…
A recent story in The New York Times outlined the mathematics that people should consider when they weigh a decision to rent an apartment or buy a house. It’s a question with special urgency, as a federal tax credit for home buyers expires on April 30. A graphic that accompanied the Times story described the conditions of the housing market…
