Wrestling star John Cena spent Sunday morning inside a Kansas City 7-Eleven on a shopping spree with a couple of Make-a-Wish kids. Sunday evening, Cena entered a steel cage to battle moon-tanned ginger Sheamus for the WWE Championship at the Sprint Center. We caught everything from Cena’s 7-Eleven meet up and Sunday night’s action, including two Money in the Bank…
Big Boi was scheduled to make a celebrity appearance at the posh Jones Pool Friday night. Three hours later, we hadn’t seen hide nor hair of him, though rumor has it he appeared at the end of the evening to perform for five minutes. Pitch web editor Anthonia Akitunde and staff writer Nadia Pflaum were on hand to take pictures…
As “Old White Lincoln,” the second song the Gaslight Anthem played to the 900 or so (total guess) folks at Saturday’s show at the Midland, drew to a close, frontman Brian Fallon improvised a vocal tease of the Neil Young classic, “Long May You Run.” Maybe the Beach Boys have got you now / With those waves singing ‘Caroline, no’, he…
Louvin — who just turned 83 — planned to swing through Davey’s next week, on July 31, but was recently diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. He’s undergoing an operation this week from which he is expected to fully recover, and has even rescheduled the Davey’s date, for November 20. Locals the Grisly Hand will open. Categories: Music Tags: Charlie Louvin, Grisly…
There’s generally something annoying about a server pushing a course on you — appetizers, dessert, post-dinner coffee, whatever. We dine out to escape the salesmen in our lives, to be in total control of our choices. Suggestions are fine, but we don’t go out to dinner to be talked into something we may not really want. So after sufficiently stuffing…
Two weeks ago, manager Ned Yost proclaimed that the Royals were in the race. Turns out, the race was for last place. The losing streak reached six games with a 9-6 defeat to Oakland on Sunday. Contenders (in Yost’s mind) the week before the All-Star game, the Royals now hope that the Cleveland Indians, who waved the flag several weeks…
%{}% Great veggie burgers are few and far between. So when you find one, make sure you tell everybody about it. If everybody is getting fatter, at some point there won’t be anybody left to eat the latest fast food monstrosities. Liquid nitrogen and the home chef seems like a questionable combination; but that’s where society is apparently headed. Could…
It was reported this weekend that a judge “chastised” and “scolded” former Chiefs running back Larry Johnson, who blew off community service in favor of something less sweaty. But while the judge talked tough about Johnson’s behavior, His Honor practically soiled his robe when it came time to lay down the law on the league’s leading woman batterer. Categories: News…
More Ssion info here, here, and here. Categories: Music Tags: Cody Critcheloe, ssion
%{}% Foul play is suspected in the death of a Kansas City, Kansas, man. The body of Norris Avery, 52, was found Sunday afternoon by firefighters in the 1800 block of North 38th Street in KCK. Categories: News Tags: foul play, Norris Avery, suspicious death
The body count in Kansas City continues to climb. A homicide Saturday morning at Armour and Campbell was Kansas City, Missouri’s 61st of 2010. A man was found dead on a sidewalk around 11:30 a.m. The victim was described as a black male in his mid twenties. Categories: News Tags: homicide, Killa City, shooting
Tonight: Unfortunately, the imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus only exists in Heath Ledger’s last movie. But artist Anson the Ornery’s synaklavier might be the closest you can get in real life, which is supposed to induce feelings of synesthesia. That means you might get to hear purple during his presentation at Wonder Fair: Art Gallery and How in Lawrence. Tuesday: Get…
Gaslight Anthem – part of the Pitch lost weekend
Global Dance Recovery Party – party of the Pitch Lost weekend
Wiggin rules the kitchen at the Raphael Hotel. Jason Wiggin, the 28-year-old executive chef at Chaz on the Plaza in the Raphael Hotel, had been the executive chef at the Phillips Hotel earlier in his career (which also included a stint at Maker’s Mark in the P&L District) and wanted to work for a restaurant in an upscale boutique hotel….
This isn’t going to be a popular decision, but 22 news organizations are siding with Fred Phelps and his homophobic Westboro Baptist Church in his legal battle with the father of a fallen Marine, according to Stars and Stripes. Categories: News, Politics Tags: Albert Snyder, Fox News, Fred Phelps, Matthew Snyder, U.S. Supreme Court
Prospero’s Books, at the corner of West 39th and Bell, has been a cultural touchstone in Midtown for 13 years. Now, co-owner Will Leathem is bringing some of that literary flava to … Blue Springs? Categories: News Tags: Beth King, Hope House, Parkside Books, Prospero’s Books, Tucker Max, Will Leathem, Write the Future
FRIDAY Be/Non is at the Riot Room. Big Boi is at the Jones. Band Scramble is at the Brick. Baby Birds Don’t Drink Milk and Bandit Teeth are at the Jackpot. Saturday and Sunday, with less alliteration, after the jump. Categories: Music Tags: Baby Birds Don’t Drink Milk, bandit teeth, be non, Be/Non, big boi, Chicago, Dead Girls, doobie brothers, Gaslight…
Kansas City police are looking for Paul D. Thurman, and his family is worried about his safety. The 17 year old disappeared July 9. He was last seen in the 3300 block of 24th Street. Categories: News Tags: missing persons, Paul Thurman
Boat races. Quarters. Kings. Beer Hockey. I’ve played my fair share of drinking games — many of them in the past week courtesy of a bachelor party featuring a host of ultimate frisbee players a decade my junior. But I’ve never Eyeballed vodka — wherein you pour a shot of vodka (or tip the bottle) directly into your eye socket…
By Anthonia Akitunde We caught an odd assortment of Kansas Citians dancing and sweating their asses off to the dubstep mixing of Rusko Thursday night. Bespeckled hipsters shook next to fist-pounding brosefs; glow sticks and furry boots were in abundance. But despite their varied appearances, the crowd become one mass of waving arms with each throbbing baseline and electro bleep….
Kofi Kingston wants to climb ladders, wants no part of the Undertaker. WWE wrestler Kofi Kingston could be in for a rough weekend, or the Jamaica-representing grappler could be on his way to his first world championship. Kingston, the WWE’s current Intercontinental Champion, is one of eight men in the SmackDown Money in the Bank ladder match in which muscled-up…
