The firing of Royals manager Trey Hillman lost all drama the moment his replacement, Ned Yost, showed up in the dugout with a piece of chaw pressed against his cheek. Yost slid easily into the role. So easily, you think, “Why all the fuss?” The job, really, is not all that complicated. You fill out a lineup card. You change…
Kansas City indie supergroup the Caves will be backing the Belles as that band tours in support of their forthcoming Time Flies When You’re Losing Your Mind. The group features Andrew Ashby, formerly of the String & Return, David Gaume of something like a million local bands (Aerialuxe, Nasa’s Little Secret, the Stella Link, et al). the Belles’ Jake Cardwell,…
Update (7:33 a.m. May 17): Last week, Kansas state Sen. Chris Steineger refused to confirm whether he’d hired disgraced Missouri lawmaker Mike Sager as his campaign finance director. Sager’s history would have been an odd choice to oversee Steineger’s money in his campaign to become Kansas’ chief election official. In January 2007, Sager pleaded guilty to filing a false campaign…
Today: Get educated about Custer. Author and historian Nathaniel Philbrick talks about that famous last stand at the Plaza Branch of the Kansas City Public Library. Tuesday: Ride your bike! This is KC Bike Week. Wednesday: Buy something fresh at the Westport Plaza Farmers Market. Thursday: Meet a best-selling author. Yann Martel visits the library. For more things to do this week, see The…
Thanks to a tweet on the Get Up Kids’ Twitter feed last week, we now know that GUK guitarist Jim Suptic relaunched his side project, the Blackpool Lights. If you add the Blackpool Lights’ Twitter feed (@BP_L), you can follow the band’s progress in the studio as they record their new album. Categories: Music Tags: Blackpool Lights, get up kids,…
The odds of the Kansas City Chiefs playing in Cowboys Stadium for Super Bowl XLV are, at best, a really fucking long shot. The Sporting News released bodog.com’s Super Bowl odds for the coming season, and the Chiefs have 90 to 1 odds of playing in Dallas in February. Not very likely. Categories: News Tags: Al Davis, bodog, Cowboys Stadium,…
To quote Ryan Marchman of the Federation of Horsepower: “It’s a messed up world when Ozzy Osbourne outlives Ronnie James Dio. What the hell is up with that?” Indeed, Ronnie James Dio, the former frontman of Black Sabbath and (obviously) Dio passed away today at 7:45 a.m. His widow, Wendy Dio, posted the following message to his website: Today my…
Commenters working the Plog switchboard this week were crazy for three things: unintelligible cell-block vigilante Antonio Collins, the PETA stunt hottie pictured here, and this conjugal-stink-absorbing bedding. The three subjects excited people so much that it’s been hard to tell their enthusiastic ejaculations apart. See if you can match the comments below with the correct story. Good luck! (A) “They…
Terry Richardson just couldn’t stay away from the retail biz. The entrepreneur is a part owner of Westport 39, a new(ish) shopping center at the corner of Pennsylvania and West 39th Street (where the vintage fantasyland Boomerang is now located, along with Chop Tops, Mash Handmade, and Kathy’s Alterations). The newest addition: Colfax, 611 West 39th Street. Midtown boutique shoppers…
KMBC Channel 9 is reporting that two players with ties to the University of Kansas football team were arrested for attempted aggravated robbery. Jamal Greene, who is still on the team, and Vernon D. Brooks, who was kicked off the team, allegedly tried to rob an apartment in the 2600 block of West Sixth Street at gunpoint Friday around 1:30…
%{}% You need plans. Fat City has a recycle bin full of listings. In this post, all our problems are solved. How good is your chili? If you want to find out, bring a pot down to the Kansas State Open Chili Cookoff Saturday in Overland Park. The cookoff is being held at VFW Post 846 (8804 Grant), with both…
Stumbling out of the office after another long work week to the weekend’s limitless possibilities is a feeling we live for on Fridays. This picture from calebdzahnd captures that “I’m free!” moment — the sun’s going down, but there’s a cold drink waiting for us somewhere. This is just one of many great pictures in The Pitch’s Flickr Pool. You…
The Olympic Size crew worked on a score for a short film entitled “We Will Make You Whole Again.” The film, by Trevor Hawkins and Justin Gardner, is showing at Czar Bar on Saturday, May 29. Doors for the $5 show open at 7:00 p.m. and the film starts promptly at 8:30 p.m. Seating limited, so do show up early….
%{}% Gerry G. Grovenburg has been identified as the store clerk shot and killed at Gorvenburg’s Retail Liquor Store, 7635 Quivira Road in Shawnee, on Wednesday night. Grovenburg, 61, was found shot behind the counter of the store around 10:25 p.m. Foul play is suspected. Metro Squad detective Marcus Regan tells The Pitch that the “motive is still unclear” and…
We’re on the verge of Bike Week, which means Russ “Hot Legs” Johnson wearing spandex shorts and pedaling to City Council meetings again. The actual kickoff pedal off (?) party is this weekend with a “Ciclovia” street festival called “Sunday Parkways” — the streets of the Old Northeast are turned over to bicyclists, runners, walkers, roller bladers and anyone who…
In one of the world’s most popular professions, the concept of professional development is still a hard sell. David Hayden — a server here in Kansas City — has launched a new blog, Tips on Improving Your Tips, as the first step in his plan to change the way servers are taught to interact with guests. “You probably eat out…
Joseph Payne supposedly owed money to Cuarddarro D. Lewis, leading to a fight that cost him his life. Payne, 40, and Lewis, 22, fought at 3014 Cleveland on March 30. Payne got the better of the younger Lewis in the fight. But it wasn’t over. A few minutes after the fight, Payne accused Lewis of taking his cell phone. Lewis…
Remember how we mentioned that Jana Hunter was in Lower Dens, and how they’re coming to the Foundation Room on Wednesday, June 2, when they open for Future Islands? No? You should pay closer attention to the blog. Anyhow, that is the case, and Lower Dens just released an MP3 from their forthcoming Twin-Hand Movement, due out July 20 on…
Okay, so they’re not actually coming here, per se — but it’s worth investigating: what’s Interpol like, now that they’ve lost Carlos D.? In case you forgot they existed (hey, it’s easy enough; the band hasn’t released any new material since Our Love to Admire in 2007), the New York band is releasing a new album and going on tour this…
