Archives: August 2010
Local pot supply takes another hit: 465 pounds of marijuana found in car’s hidden compartment
Potheads, the local market took another hit last weekend after Johnson County authorities seized 464 pounds of marijuana during a traffic stop near Johnson Drive and Antioch Road in Merriam. A drug dog sniffed out the pot, which was found in a hidden compartment, according to reports. Police arrested two people, who will likely enter a first appearance today —…
The Hyatt’s Jeffrey Floyd: from panties to pots and pans
When Jeffrey Floyd graduated from Park Hill High School 11 years ago, he decided to take a couple years off. The goal, he says: “figure out what I wanted to do with the rest of my life.” That sounds like an excuse for screwing around, but Floyd was serious, trying out several different jobs — including as a phone operator for…
Admitted carjacker Dominic Anderson gets ass kicked by carjackee
Carjacking isn’t as easy an endeavor as Grand Theft Auto makes it look. Wannabe jacker Dominic C. Anderson found out Sunday that not all marks are just going to hand over the keys and empty their pockets if you point a gun at them. Not that it’s recommended to go all Steven Seagal in that situation. KCTV 5 reports that…
Slideshow: The bands of the Pitch Music Awards Ceremony 2010
Forester Michael David Wayne Reed: “I know some of you came here expecting Soft Reeds. Well, this Reed is rock hard.” The Pitch Music Awards Ceremony happened last night, at the Uptown. Here are some shots of your favorite boozy musicians, playing their tunes and accepting their awards. Categories: Music Tags: pitch music awards
We love calamari with lots of interesting sauces
Calamari — the delectable squid dish best-known on most local menus in its crispy, fried incarnation — has become so familiar that McDonald’s and Home Town Buffet seem to be the only restaurant chains not serving it. But not all calamari appetizers are created equal. In Fat City, we’re particularly fond of this version: plump, slightly chewy petals of squid…
Mike Vallely and U.S. Bombs’ Duane Peters kill it at KC skatepark
By: Boonie Those in attendance for Mike V’s Glory Bound Skatepark Tour at the Kansas City Indoor in Merriam Saturday were treated to a literal historical skate session. Attendees and skaters likely paid more than just the $10 price of admission for the lesson in the sweltering heat and humidity, which seemed to increase three-fold after adding a couple hundred…
Ground Zero mosque story confirms it: Conservatives are the Honky Party
%{}% Last week we considered whether conservatives and their host body, the GOP, were attacking non-white Americans so much that they now constituted America’s Honky Party. We did not then spend much time on the almost-not-quite-at-Ground Zero Mosque controversy. But President Obama’s recent defense of the builders’ religious liberties has made it hard to avoid. Responses by junior-grade rightbloggers were…
Rock Local: the Pitch Music Awards Ceremony
Ad Astra Arkestra was missing something. Blinking under the bright lights of the Uptown, the band accepted its award for Best Experimental Act at the Pitch Music Awards Ceremony last night; but they couldn’t find somebody they wanted to thank. Where was she? “She’s drunk!” a crowd member volunteered. “That’s the right answer!” roared Mike Tuley into the mic. “We’re…
What do we do when we can’t quit fast food?
I have a lot of trouble with the idea that fast-food chains are part of a healthy diet or can be a system for losing weight. In December of 2009, I wrote about Taco Bell’s new “Drive-Thru” Diet. What bothered me was that the campaign focused on making different choices, as long as those choices didn’t involve cutting ties with…
Bryan Bullington, Kevin Yoder the big winners during Yankee weekend
Beware the Unfamiliar Hurler! The Royals gave Bryan Bullington, a pitcher who has spent most of the year in triple-A, the task of subduing the New York Yankees on Sunday. Fans at the game, who took advantage of the 84-degree game temp, may have worried that bombers were going to treat Bullington and the Royals an Eduardo Villacis-style beatdown. Instead,…
Boris’ lean, rigid metal washed the Granada in noise
Boris is a hurricane without an eye. Be it a wall of noise or a wall of amps, the Japanese band is all wall: a punishing, relentless, fiercely creative storm that envelopes you in sustained fury. Leaving their Granada performance Sunday night, I certainly felt I had gone through a storm. I was dizzy from noxious amounts of artificial fog,…
Do not look at this post about Panaderia San Luis without a piece of pastry in your hand
Pastry can be like beautiful works of art. Beautiful, edible works of art. And Kansas City With The Russian Accent managed to capture some of the art before it was all eaten at Panaderia San Luis (2077 East Sante Fe Drive) — a relatively new Mexican bakery in Olathe. You pick what you want using a pair of tongs and…
Reliable billboard warns Obama will seize means of production, gas Jews
Barack Obama’s already taken control of the media, the corporations, health care, the Internet, and is currently working on a way to regulate your brainwaves. There are even hidden messages in this blog! Give me all your money! So a shadowy organization of true patriots is shouting the truth from the last outpost of free speech in this once great…
Behind the Velvet Ropes with Pitch Music Awards VIPs
Photos by Pitch photographer Forester Michael. For more pictures of the VIPs, check out this Flickr page.
No. 37: Apple Fritter from John’s Space Age Donuts
To whet your appetite for The Pitch’s annual Best of Kansas City issue in October, we’re counting down our favorite Top 50 dishes each weekday until October 7. Apple meets fritter batter. Fritter batter meets oil. I fall in love. It’s a classic story, told well by a classic donut shop in Overland Park. John’s Space Age Donuts has been…
A slavery documentary and three less serious activities for the week.
Today: Go to the opera. New group Lawrence Opera Works performs at KU’s Murphy Hall. Tuesday: Be a glutton. Burgers are two-for-one at 810 Zone. Wednesday: Horde some cards. Play bingo for charity at Hamburger Mary’s. Thursday: Reflect on a worse time in Missouri’s history. Negroes to Hire, a film about slaver in this state, screen at the Plaza Library….
Top Five Most Infuriating Concert Attendees
You know them well. If you’re a regular out in the beer-scented trenches of the music scene, you might even be one of them. See our list of the Top Five Most Infuriating Concert Attendees after the jump. Categories: Music
Judge strikes down deer-dogging ban
Fire up your four-wheelers and let the dogs off the leash! A judge in Poplar Bluff has ruled that Missouri Department of Conservation regulations banning the use of packs of dogs to drive deer toward hunting stands are too vague to enforce. But wait, there’s more good news for lazy hunters. Judge Robert Smith also said that a law banning…
Kansas City Star wraps papers with ad for the New York Times — WTF?
On rainy days, Kansas City Star subscribers — all three of you! — receive their morning paper wrapped in a plastic bag. Lately, those bags have been printed with advertisements for subscriptions to the New York Times. What other company would package their product in a wrapper that advertises a competing product? Isn’t that kind of like getting a Whopper…
Man tries to stab police, gets shot
On the other side of the state line, the cops were the ones doing the shooting. KCK cops called to a domestic disturbance at an apartment at 4119 Mission Road Friday afternoon. That’s when cops encountered a white guy with a knife. The guy is accused of trying to stab police, so a couple of cops shot him. Categories: News…
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