Chiefs fans, if you see a 6-foot, 270-pound, face-painted Raiders fan this year, run. This man is a destroyer. The Chiefs have settled two lawsuits this year with local men who claim that a Raiders fan kicked their asses in the parking lot during a game in November 2005, according to The Daily Record in Kansas City. Categories: News Tags:…
What better way to spend a Sunday afternoon than combining two awesome things: rock, and boobs? Witness the glory — for a good cause — at Boobs Rock: A Fest for Breasts. The fundraiser is on Sunday, August 1 at the Brick, and it’ll go from 2PM to 7PM. All proceeds will go directly to breast cancer research. The bands —…
O’Fallon loon (and outgoing Missouri state Rep.) Cynthia Davis says there’s a line being drawn in the sand in the call-to-arms trailer of Don’t Tread on Me. She’s not alone. Missouri represent! State Rep. Brian Nieves ” gets out his pointing finger and says “30 years from now, somebody’s going to ask you what you did during the patriot uprising.”…
To whet your appetite for The Pitch’s annual Best of Kansas City issue in October, we’re celebrating our favorite 50 dishes from restaurants, bakeries, coffeehouses, bars, drugstores, saloons and other metro joints. Until October 7, we’ll feature one outstanding dish or beverage every weekday, starting today. Agree with us or make your own suggestions — just don’t come between us…
Have you seen Volkswagen’s “Autobahn for All” commercial, featuring the Jetta LE? The one in which a husband is test-driving a Jetta when his wife in the backseat orders him to “shoot the gap” between two semi trucks on the highway? As it turns out, actual truckers aren’t amused. The folks at Land Line Magazine, the trade publication for the…
A homicide overnight in usually quiet Parkville shows that nowhere in the metro is immune from violence. A 17-year-old boy was gunned down in a drive-by shooting near Missouri 45 and Missouri 9 around 1 a.m., the Star reports. One shot was allegedly fired from the rear of a Ford Contour and hit the driver of a Ford Thunderbird. Categories:…
, though, and you begin to notice the genius of songwriter John Darnielle’s lyrics. And that there’s an emotional heft to the songs, a pureness of intention, a maturity, that you didn’t even realize you were so starved for. Before long, you’re alone in your room, fists clenched, tears streaming down your cheeks, shouting along with Darnielle on the glorious last…
We are at a weird time in our culture. We want to recapture the spirit of victory gardens and feeding ourselves. But we don’t necessarily want to fundamentally change our lifestyle or upset the neighbors too much. And that’s how we end up with chicken babysitters — Just Us Hens — a company in Portland, Oregon, that is willing to…
No one likes to lose in court, but it must really chap the ass to know that your money is going to fund a group like the Westboro Baptist Church. It’s a severe pain Bellevue, Nebraska, is feeling all too well right now. The city just shelled out $17,000 to WBC’s favorite daughter Shirley Phelps-Roper to get her to drop…
The “indepedent” Missouri Record sure dislikes those Carnahans. When it began publishing a year ago, the Missouri Record promised to raise the level of political dialogue. At the website’s launch, the founders stated their commitment to substance and original thought. Editor Patrick Tuohey, a Kansas City-based public opinion researcher, wrote in his hello to readers last May that the Missouri…
Each Thursday, your Crap Archivist brings you the finest in forgotten and bewildering crap culled from basements, thrift stores, estate sales and flea markets. I do this for one reason: Knowledge is power. A stack of Guideposts and Plus magazines Date: Late ’80s to early ’90s Discovered at: Overland Park estate sale The Cover Promises: “Orville Redenbacher: Nobody wanted his…
They say on your first day in prison, you should prove you’re tough by picking a fight. A 16-year-old Kansas City boy had a different idea when he was locked up in a Texas juvie hall last week. He shot the place up. Nobody was injured. Categories: News Tags: juvie hall, shooting, texas
If you headed west, as Americans once were instructed to do, your promised land would probably fail to make good on all its promises. In his classic True West, Sam Shepard makes fractious poetry out of Golden State lives that fall far short of the Golden State myth. The play is so sharp and engaging that even a bad production…
Perhaps no other leading lady in film history has been tormented by her director as thoroughly as Tippi Hedren was at the hands of Alfred Hitchcock. As one of the “Hitchcock blondes,” including Grace Kelly, Kim Novak, Eva Marie Saint and Janet Leigh, Hedren may not have realized exactly what she was getting into as the star of Hitchcock’s 1963…
Watching the BP disaster in the Gulf of Mexico, blogger and green-business owner Gary Walker felt compelled to help. Among his experiences: 17 hours on a New Orleans shrimp boat. When he returned to the metro, he wanted to connect resources in the Midwest with relief organizations. That’s how Heartland Loves the Gulf was formed. From 6 to 11 p.m.,…
Mudstomp Mondays at The Granada (1020 Massachusetts in Lawrence, 785-842-1390) is turning what’s traditionally the sleepiest night of the week into a hootenanny worthy of the Soggy Bottom Boys, and it’s liable to induce picking and/or grinning among attendees. With a rotating roster of local bluegrass and Americana bands (with names like TokenGrass and Cowgirls Train Set), it’s a beer-fueled…
There’s a time and a place for everything. Bubble Wrap Appreciation Day was back in January, so stop the popping already. Focus instead on popping and locking. This is National Dance Day, as declared by the producers of So You Think You Can Dance. Around the country, Jazzercise groups and performing-arts centers are dancing for health and cultural enrichment. Meanwhile,…
Lawrence’s longest-running and most venerable dance party, Neon, has been spinning vinyl and shaking rumps since July 2001. The 18-and-older bootython unites fresh-faced college students and seasoned scenesters in the common cause of dancing every Thursday at 10 p.m. Neon has hopped from venue to venue over the years but now finds itself in the fairly intimate confines of the…
The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art (4525 Oak, 816-751-1278) observes the 125th anniversary of the Kansas City Art Institute with an exhibition of photography by prominent KCAI graduates, among them James Hajicek (class of 1970), an emeritus professor who heads the 19th-century photo-processes program at Arizona State University’s Herberger Institute; landscape photographer Lawrence McFarland (class of 1973), a professor at the…
In the first quarter of 2010, the Kansas City, Missouri, Police Department seized $3,224,714 worth of drugs. This dollar amount includes the street value of 434,433 grams of marijuana; 10,667 grams of meth; and 45 pills of ecstasy or thizz, a pill that contains MDMA mixed with various other substances (ketamine, say, or PCP). Say “nope to dope” and “ugh…
