So much happened during the month of May. From an epic line up of local artists wowing us during Local Artist Overthrow to Conan O’Brien taking his comedy on the road, Kansas City has seen its fair share of events. Lucky for you, we have a recap of the moments we captured in May, just in case you missed it…
%{}% Update (10:24 a.m. May 28): Police are now calling the deaths of two men found in a shopping cart behind a home at 4501 Askew a double homicide. View Larger Map The men’s names have not been released, although police anticipate releasing their names this afternoon. Their cause of death is unknown. A search warrant has been served in…
Pitch Flickr Pool member, Kevin Carlyle, found this abandoned building on 9th and Santa Fe in 2007. Though the place had seen better days, Carlyle was drawn to it — he used it for a model shoot a few months later and returned for a shoot focused on the building itself. He shared the story behind his photo “Green and…
Good for McDonald’s. At a time when fast-food franchises are trying to look like something they’re not so they can jump on the healthy bandwagon, the chain is giving a 32-ounce raspberry to everybody. McDonald’s current campaign — $1 for any size drink, with the tag line “get quenched” — means it understands that a large America still needs a…
No, it’s not a salad… The restaurant that serves this starter simply calls it “marinated filet of beef tenderloin with greens.” So that customers won’t think they’re getting a hunk of steak, the servers quickly add, “It’s carpaccio.” The actual Italian dish known as carpaccio — papery-thin shavings of raw beef — is traditionally served drizzled with olive oil and…
%{}% This recipe for Mexican pork tenderloin sounds good enough to influence your lunch decision. A homemade skillet of zucchini, potato, egg and cheese is either fuel for the day or a reason to go back to bed. An Oakland chocolatier started making barbecue sauce-flavored chocolates in collaboration with a local barbecue joint. This rhubarb gin and tonic should open…
Has it been 10 years already? Yessiree. This year’s incarnation of the West 18th Street Fashion Show, “A Decadent Summer,” will be the event’s tenth annual celebration. On June 12, Kansas City’s most well-produced fashion fiesta will shut down West 18th Street between Wyandotte and Baltimore Avenues. In advance of the whole shebang, we’d like to introduce y’all to a…
There’s really no better start to your three-day weekend than hitting up the Record Bar tomorrow afternoon. The record fair there will run from noon until 7:00 p.m., and benefits the Leukemia Lymphoma Society, ” the world’s largest voluntary health organization dedicated to funding blood cancer research, education and patient services.” If you bring five or more records to sell,…
Kansas City’s J’Adore Burlesque show performed last night at the Conspiracy Room at the Uptown, thanks to Lucky Deluxe and the Kansas City Society of Burlesque.
%{}% Update (7:31 a.m. May 28): The Tour of Missouri is officially canceled. Our St. Louis sister paper, the Riverfront Times, reports that the announcement came in an e-mail sent to sponsors on Thursday. “e regrettably inform you of the cancellation of the 2010 Tour of Missouri,” wrote Steve Brunner, sales director of marketing agency KOM Sports. “While we worked…
1. Cheer on the home team. The Kansas City T-Bones take on the Fargo-Moorhead Redhawks at Community America Ballpark tonight. 2. Laugh at puppets. The Felt Show brings its adult-oriented puppet humor to the Bottleneck tonight. 3. Eat some pez. Enthusiasts of the candy that you only bought for the collectible dispenser will convene on Saturday at the Holiday Inn…
Sugar & Gold (who are playing the Record Bar on Wednesday, June 2) premiered their new video on the New Gay this week. It’s a psychedelic, crazy, live and acoustic version of “Salty Seraphim.” salty seraphim (new gay acoustic) from jerome steegmans on Vimeo. Categories: Music Tags: incoming concert, Sugar & Gold, video
Members of the Metro Squad located Lashawn D. Jackson, who they want to ask some questions about the homicide of Ronald Burns, on Thursday. Burns was found dead Monday evening in the 4400 Northwest D’Mons Drive in Riverside. The Metro Squad announced Thursday evening that they found the 29-year-old Jackson, who was said to frequent Northeast Kansas City. Categories: News…
Thao Nguyen (of Thao and the Get Down Stay Down) and Mirah are indie-folk sirens, and they’re pairing up on a nationwide tour as “Thao and Mirah With the Most of All.” The duo is at Lawrence’s Bottleneck on July 3, where the two ladies will mix and match catalogs with the help of a backing band. The collaboration started…
Update (2:33 p.m. May 27): ESPN The Magazine editor Gary Belsky told The Pitch this morning that he has a tape of Chiefs receiver Dwayne Bowe telling one of his writers about veteran players flying groupies in for road games. Belsky even offered to play the audio file for Bowe or anyone within the Chiefs organization with a vested interest…
KC rapper Hobo Tone presents this commercial for the Slim4Life weight loss system. I’m glad I saw this on YouTube, because if I saw it on television first, I’d have to question the nature of reality and the possibility of everything being a grand illusion. “Watch the opposite sex look at you with both eyes.” Categories: Music Tags: commercials, Hobo…
Michael J. Tutera has been identified as the this morning’s homicide victim in a gated community in the 5300 block of Sunset Place. Police say they are following up “some good leads” in the death of 49-year-old Tutera. If you have any information about this man’s death, call the TIPS Hotline 816-474-8477. Tutera’s body was discovered around 1 a.m. Categories:…
Is KU letting chimps die from morphine withdrawal? Animal rights group Stop Animal Exploitation Now filed a complaint with the U.S. Department of Agriculture this week, asking for an investigation into the treatment of research primates at the University of Kansas Medical Center. The Lawrence Journal-World reports that the Mildford, Ohio-based organization alleges that three primates died of severe dehydration…
