Teenage and twentysomething girls and boys planning kidnapping hoaxes, can I have a moment of your time? Stop making up abduction stories. Just don’t. In the last two weeks, we’ve had at least three kidnapping hoaxes. Three. And it’s really becoming tiresome. First, 20-year-old Gabriella Birelas — a mother of two children — claimed she was kidnapped by three Hispanic…
As K2 synthetic marijuana makes its way around the country, more and more media outlets are picking up the story, and this morning USA Today released its take on the compound, including a good dose of the typical drug hysteria bullshit — thanks to the Missouri Poison Center’s Anthony Scalzo: Anthony Scalzo, director of the Missouri Poison Center in St….
Rico C. Warren has been identified as the homicide victim of Sunday’s shooting at 6215 Swope Parkway. Warren, 23, was from Kansas City, Kansas. He is Kansas City, Missouri’s 40th homicide of 2010. Officer directing traffic at Swope Park witnessed shots being fired from northbound car at the car Warren was driving. Warren died at the scene. Categories: News Tags:…
Members of Kansas City’s well-heeled set descended on the West Bottoms Saturday evening for the Goddess Fashion show. Models, including Simone and Gabrielle from the latest cycle of America’s Next Top Model, stomped down a 200-foot runway wearing what designer Robert Anthony called his fantasy collection. Though the show started with no fanfare, the combination of music, fanciful clothing and…
King Khan dropped trou in front of a clearly horrified Lindsay Lohan at the Cannes Film Festival. Do we need any more proof that King Khan fucking rules? I think not.* *In fact, we almost forgive you for getting arrested in po-dunk nowhere, Kentucky, and missing that show at the Jackpot last year. Almost. Categories: Music Tags: King Khan &…
The Des Moines Register reports: Urbandale police are investigating the death of Slipknot’s bass guitarist at a local hotel. Paul Dedrick Gray, 38, of Johnston was found dead at approximately 10:50 a.m. today by an employee at TownePlace Suites, 8800 Northpark Drive, police said. Gray was known as “#2” as part of Slipknot’s philosophy of separating personal identity from the…
A new cafe run by Panera Bread in Clayton, Missouri, is attracting a lot of attention for its unique payment option: “Take what you need, leave your fair share” in a lock-box at the front of the store. Panera hopes the restaurant can cover expenses from diners’ donations while providing meals for those in need. As Ron Shaich, the chairman…
Now, I’m sure the idea of road-tripping down to Remington’s in Springfield sounds like a terrible idea, especially on a Friday afternoon. Also, I’m fairly certain most of you think the idea of a five hour round trip to see New Found Glory makes said trip even less desirable. However, for those of you with an eye toward the pop…
In a local line-up of epic proportions (for one venue, that is), the Riot Room hosted three days of Kansas City musical goodness this past Thursday, Friday and Saturday for the Local Artist Overthrow. 26 bands (local and semi-local) graced several stages inside and outside. We’ve got shots of Cowboy Indian Bear, the Grisly Hand, Heroes and Villains, Be/Non, Audiovox,…
Animal rights activist Jason Miller and his bullhorn may be banned from the University of Kansas Medical Center, but he hasn’t given up his crusade to end animal research. He’s just moved his protests to the Plaza — about three miles away from the trespassing tickets that await him at KU Med. In this video posted on the Bite Club…
Update (12:58 p.m. May 24): Sounds like retired NBA player and Olathe resident Manute Bol is doing better. The 7-foot-7 center was hospitalized May 12 with acute kidney failure and Stevens-Johnson Syndrome (a potentially deadly skin disease). Bol’s friend, Tom Prichard, sent a Facebook message saying Bol has been transferred out of the intensive care unit and has started eating…
No, it’s not the duck pond… I was never a member of the Rockhill Tennis Club, the cozy urban members-only enclave across Rockhill Road from the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art. But I had friends who did belong to the club, which had opened in 1955 in the stone mansion once owned by Laura Kirkwood Nelson, the daughter of Kansas City…
Some gent by the name of Raz Ben Ari put together a short primer on the various metal subgenres (black metal, power metal, et al), and strung it together as one seamless, flowing track. If you like it, you can download it (along with his equally entertaining “One Man Guitar Quartet”) at his Bandcamp page for the low, low price…
Let’s be clear here, Pedro Guzman didn’t punch his grandma in the face. But the 21-year-old did sock someone’s 59-year-old grandma in the mouth. Why would Guzman pop a granny in the kisser? She shut his car door too hard in May 2008, and then told him to get off her property. But give Guzman credit. He did warn the…
The Pitch’s anonymous Bachelorette expert has informed me that a couple of Kansas City duders are competing to win over Ali Fedotowsky — who is giving up EVERYTHING IN HER LIFE to go on the ABC “reality” show to find love. The show premieres tonight at 8 p.m. There’s 24-year-old Jesse, who is a general contractor originally from Peculiar but…
There was a hole in my donut repertoire. I understand that now. And if Dunkin’ Donuts had never opened, I’m not sure I would have realized that I’m about a decade too late in visiting John’s Space Age Donut Shop (8124 Floyd Street). Thankfully, not much changes at the classic shop in Overland Park — it opened in 1967 —…
It’s hard to believe that Friday night at Knuckleheads was an actual show. Ray Price, Dale Watson, and Billy Joe Shaver, all in one night, with separate bands, brought together because Frank Hicks apparently can clap his hands and make such things happen. It’s just like the way he hauled Knuckleheads itself up from scrap metal, parking-lot, and so many…
Somebody’s going to get a reputation. Shawnee Mission North High School officials — out guess is coach Beulah Balbricker — busted a couple of 16-year-old students getting freaky in a field house last Thursday. After Balbricker broke up the sexing, Overland Park police arrested the teens and delivered the students to juvie hall, Overland Park police spokesman Jim Weaver tells…
The fourth annual KC Beerfest came to Westport this past Saturday. The event benefits the Kansas City Free Health Clinic and AIDS Service Foundation of Greater Kansas City. The sunshine brought out hula hoopers, brewers, and dudes in beer T-shirts eager to sample beer from the 59 tables set up on Westport and Pennsylvania Road. Click on this glass of…
