Archives: August 2010
May the best slut win: Kat Fiasco crowned Miss Riot Room 2010
Miss Riot Room 2010 was crowned Saturday night at its namesake, The Riot Room. Kat Fiasco swept the competition and judges’ hearts, scoring high marks in the competition’s categories, which included a question and answer segment, a “show us what you typically sleep in” installment, a talent (obviously) portion, and lastly, a “skank” sideshow that encouraged the contestants to be…
First Friday heats up Crossroad District
First Fridays earns its spot on our calendar every month with its mix of art and music on the streets of the Crossroad District. Pitch photographer Scott Spychalski took photos of the sights and people that make First Fridays a favorite event in the city.
Royals learn the difference between annoying and destructive
Royalsland began to breathe a little easier last week with the release of designated “hitter” José Guillén. The outburst-prone steroids user has $4 million left on his contract, which the organization will be forced to eat like a ham-salad sandwich that spent seven hours in a fanny pack during a visit to Worlds of Fun. Categories: News Tags: Dayton Moore,…
Vitaminwater lawsuit asserts that name is misleading
The days of Vitaminwater being marketed as a sports drink could be numbered. A U.S. District Court judge recently decided to allow a class-action lawsuit against Coca-Cola to proceed. The Center for Science in the Public Interest filed the lawsuit in January 2009, arguing that Coca-Cola is violating consumer-protection laws by failing to overtly acknowledge the sugar content in its…
KU Grad Juan Manual Santos now in charge of Latin America’s fourth largest economy and almost 300,000 troops
Juan Manual Santos, who graduated from the University of Kansas in 1973 with degrees in economics and business, was just elected to a four-year term as the president of the Republic of Colombia. When he’s inaugurated on August 7, South Americans will finally have the opportunity to be confused by the phrase Rock Chalk, Jayhawk. Categories: News Tags: Colombia, Juan…
Janelle Monae roundup: ‘Cold War’ video, cover of Vibe
outer-space soul-funk aesthetic is about as weird as mainstream music has been since Outkast started tinkering around Atlanta studios. She’s undeniably one of the most exciting music stories of 2010, and more and more people are noticing. She’s on the cover of the August/September “juice” issue of Vibe, with Diddy and Rick Ross, for instance. Also, her video for “Cold War”…
Son discovers father’s body; homicide detectives on the scene
%{}% Kansas City may have a fourth homicide coming out of the weekend. A man was found dead early this morning by his son, and detectives are on the scene investigating. The son found his father, described as a black man in his fifties, dead in the 3200 block of Victor around 1:06 a.m. The call to police came in…
Romar Phillips, Lance Rutter and John Garcia, KCMO homicides 64, 65 and 66
%{}% If you’re reading this, you survived another bloody weekend in Kansas City. That’s not a flip statement. Kansas City’s homicide count grew by at least three over the weekend. Sixteen-year-old Romar Phillips was the first victim, found dead in a yard in the 2600 block of Poplar around 1:43 a.m. Saturday. Categories: News Tags: homicide, John Garcia, JP (Tha…
Video of the 2010 Pitch Music Showcase
Categories: Music Tags: Jondo Records, pitch music showcase
Man’s burned body found in KCK; police hope tattoos help ID him
A man’s burned body was found in Kansas City, Kansas, on Friday, and police are asking for help identifying him. The man, whose body was discovered in the 5500 block of Kaw Drive, had at least seven tattoos, including Our Lady of Guadalupe on his upper right back and a flower on his lower right back. If the man’s tats…
Slideshow: The bands of the Pitch Music Showcase 2010
Categories: Music Tags: pitch music showcase
Bruce Willis will get back to saving the world right after this vodka rocks
The man you’d want protecting you if a gang of indeterminately accented terrorists took over your Christmas party is now working just as hard as a spirits pitchman. Meet Bruce Willis — the new face of Belvedere’s Sobieski vodka. And when the Los Angeles Times’ food blog caught up with the Die Hard star this week at a party for…
Billionaires James and Virginia Stowers to leave all their money to charity
In news that proves not every wealthy person falls in line with the Ayn Rand groupthink that’s become so fashionable these days — and which is guaranteed to infuriate the herd — billionaires James and Virginia Stowers are giving almost all of their money away to charity. “More than 99 percent of our wealth will go to philanthropy during our…
The Pitch Music Showcase 2010: The best moments (highly subjective)
If I’m not already fired for being three hours late on this post, I should be fired for the pathetic notes I took at last night’s Pitch Music Showcase. It’s not that I didn’t try, it’s just that at some point — I’m pretty sure it was the Jameson shot at McCoy’s — I swapped my ordinary notebook shorthand for some…
Glenn Wood Dickinson III lost $2.25 million in alleged Ponzi scheme
Our sister paper in St. Louis, The Riverfront Times, is running a feature this week about Martin Sigillito, an Anglican bishop accused of bilking $45 million from 50 victims who invested in his real estate scheme. According to information contained in a 2009 lawsuit filed in Johnson County, Kansas, Sigillito had ties to international financier Kevin Cooper, who was allegedly…
Ben Quayle, son of Dan, conscripts nieces for Yoder-style campaign ad
Kansas Republican Kevin Yoder likes to be seen with animals and children that aren’t in his care. Yoder, who is running for Congress, has featured a dog and nieces and nephews in campaign ads in an attempt to imply dependencies that do not exist.Ben Quayle, congressional candidate and son of the former vice president Dan Quayle, pulled a similar stunt…
Slideshow: Kansas City’s beautiful faces at the Pitch Music Showcase 2010
Here are the beautiful people of Kansas City, enjoying 35-plus bands at 2010’s Pitch Music Showcase in Westport last night. Is your drunken mug in any of these shots? You’ll just have to click through to find out! Categories: Music
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