We feel entitled to ask this question, since 96.5 The Buzz brings Weezer here all the freakin’ time. Lost was hard enough to figure out on its own, dammit — why is Weezer making it more confusing?! (In case you weren’t an addict, that’s Jorge Garcia, also known as “Hurley” on the show, on the cover.) Here’s what Rivers…
There is an old joke about grocery store cashiers. I remember it only because there aren’t that may jokes involving grocery store cashiers. This is a joke that is in the telling. It’s meant to take a long time with a build up about an extensive series of items being scanned at the register. “Single, huh?” asks the cashier after…
The heart-wrenching stories about the 11-year-old boy accused of killing his father, David Paul Champ, just keep coming. The boy, accused of murder in Jackson County Juvenile Court, lived in squalor. The Jackson County Health Department taped a notice on the home’s front door, warning of “mold, raw sewage, dangerous wiring and holes in the floor.” The boy’s neighbors are…
Roth’s comeback tour with the band back in 2008 was a hugely successful cash-grab, and you know Live Nation is drooling over the potential money to be grubbed from another go-round. We’ll let you know if a Kansas City stop is announced. In other news, Roth’s isolated vocal track on “Running with the Devil” remains one of the all-time…
%{}% Back in 2008, with the country’s financial system on the brink of collapse, U.S. Rep Roy Blunt played a central role in bailing out the banks, herding votes from his fellow Republicans and even negotiating the bill’s details. But two years later, as he tries to fend off Secretary of State Robin Carnahan to become Missouri’s junior U.S. Senator,…
It appears, despite her best efforts, undocumented Kansas City resident and Rockhurst University student Yahaira Carrillo won’t be deported after all. Back in May, Carrillo was arrested for taking part in an immigration protest inside U.S. Sen. John McCain’s Tuscon office. Carrillo was advocating for the stalled DREAM Act, a law before Congress that would give undocumented immigrants who were…
%{}% Last week, Judge Vaughn Walker’s decision setting aside Prop 8 in California unleashed plenty of grumbling from rightbloggers. As it involves gay people, this was to be expected. There was also rightblogger outrage, also expected, that Michelle Obama and her daughters had a swell, privately-funded vacation in Spain, instead of maybe just going down to Wildwood, New Jersey or…
Firefighters in Blue Summit must have had a hunch they were dealing with arsonists when they were called to the same building twice in the same weekend. When they got called out a third time, they probably figured out that they were dealing with really unskilled arsonists. Categories: News Tags: arson
I’m listening to Explode! right now for the first time and can report that it’s got lots of horns, some smart lines (Don’t be so sure of things / Not even wedding rings), inviting melodies and a generally fun, ramshackle vibe to it. We’ll have a more professional review in the days ahead. In the meantime, the band’s planned two…
One of the dudes from the National says Stevens has been working on new songs, which is encouraging. Maybe he’ll play some of those songs when he comes to Kansas City this fall? Categories: Music Tags: sufjan stevens
Barbecue and India Pale Ale is peanut butter and jelly for adults. It’s the kind of combination you can eat every day, hoping your spouse has decided to pack it in your brown paper bag for lunch. The August beer tasting at Grinder’s West (415 East 18th Street) brings together barbecue from Belly-Up Bar-B-Que with five different IPAs. The five-course…
Whether you go to people watch, support local artisans or wax poetic on the virtues of the Arts (with a capital A of course), First Fridays has something for all of the hundreds of people who amble through the streets once a month. Pitch photographer Scott Spychalski took some awesome photos of this month’s First Friday. We could tell you…
Looks like everybody’s digging on the Gates mixed plate lately. Bobby Watson, local jazz sax player, is releasing his seven-part suite in September that’s also centered around the legendary barbecue establishment. It’s called The Gates BBQ Suite. Arguably, Watson’s piece was around before Tech’s: he premiered the piece at UMKC in 2008, and has been marinating on it since 2000,…
There’s something about this photo that screams Stand By Me, or any other movie chronicling a boy’s troubled passage into manhood. Maybe it’s the nostalgic lighting reminiscent of this Depression era photo. Maybe it’s the mighty Missouri river to their backs, or their knowing expressions. Something’s comin’ and it ain’t good. Categories: News Tags: Flickr, pic of the week, teenagers
I was at a barbecue restaurant Friday night where your food is brought out, but you must bus your own plastic trays. This arrangement worked fine until I got to the trash can. It was the middle of the dinner rush, so I waited in a small line to dump my tray. When I got to the front of the…
The rest of Deonta R. Taylor’s life will be spent inside a prison cell. Taylor was sentenced on Friday to life without parole for killing two men outside of troubled Independence Avenue strip club Gerry’s Silver Slipper in February 2009. In June, a jury convicted the 32-year-old of two counts of first-degree murder and two counts of armed criminal action…
Chef Paul Santaularia The Greater Kansas City Chefs Association was selected as “Chapter of the Year 2010” at the annual convention of the American Culinary Federation in Anahein, California last week. Chef Paul Santaularia — a culinary arts instructor at the Northland Career Center in Platte City and current president of the Kansas City organization — accepted the award on…
This year’s Crossroads Music Fest is going down on Saturday, September 11. Thanks to local organizer and musician Bill Sundahl, the CMFKC festival has been going strong since 2005; this year’s event is the sixth in the series. You’ll find the list of bands, venues and prices for this year after the jump. Categories: Music Tags: crossroads music festival
Kansas City’s worst pick-up artist is at it again. Kansas City police say Edward Blakley is suspected of showing his one-eyed trouser snake to three women in the past couple of weeks, and the cops are looking for others who may have gotten a peek at his joystick. Blakley, 27, is becoming a local urban legend. Last week, Blakley was…
Why get strudel from a local bakery when it can be shipped in from New York? 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 each weekday….
Large portions mean leftovers.There is no escaping the foil swan, the white box or the styrofoam cup. And yet the end of the meal is a critical time in the short existence of leftovers (unless they are forgotten in the back of the fridge). In the time between when the check arrives and is paid, leftovers are in very real…
Today: Revel in the blues. The weekly Blues Monday jam starts at 7:30 p.m. at the Mutual Musicians Foundation. Tuesday: Be Starlight’s guest. Disney’s Beauty and the Beast opens at the playhouse under the stars. Categories: News Tags: mutual musicians foundation, Mutual Musicians’ Foundation, royals, starlight theatre, Yankees
Local rapper JP (Tha Mex) died on Sunday morning. JP — whose real name was John P. Garcia — was shot and killed on Cesar Chavez and Mercier, around 4AM. According to Fox 4 KC, witnesses said that following the gunshots, the suspect vehicle raced down a dead end street and ripped through a nearby fence to escape. Police are…
