A rare showing of touching bipartisan agreement paid off late last week, when seven senators talked the Environmental Protection Agency into nixing new rules set at reducing ozone in cities. And Missouri’s own two senators deserve much of the credit. The EPA had faced an August deadline to make the changes, which have set new standards for acceptable urban air…
It might become a lot harder to drive drunk in Kansas next year. Currently, drivers convicted of driving with a blood alcohol content of .15 or greater, along with all repeat drunk-driving offenders, spend a year with ignition interlock devices — those fancy breathalyzers that won’t let you drive if you’ve tipped a few. But the state’s DUI commission is…
As you may recall, the cover of VW’s recent album, Contra, was a photograph of an attractive woman from the ’80s wearing a yellow polo shirt. About a month ago, the story broke that the woman, whose name is Ann Kirsten Kennis, was suing the band for $2 million because she hadn’t given consent to use the photo. Categories: Music
On a hot summer day, there’s nothing like a cold beer…ice cream? Glace has been playing around with Boulevard beer-based ice creams — today, a batch of Bob’s 47 is due to be tested. Fat City checked in with Christopher Elbow to find out what led him to experiment with frosty brews. “I always had it in the back of…
%{}% Another small town is having trouble coming up with the cash to defend itself from Kris Kobach’s New American Bogeyman: illegal immigration. Fremont, Nebraska is considering raising its property tax rate to help raise the $750,000 it expects to spend on legal fees defending an ordinance, penned by Kansas Secretary of State candidate Kobach, that bans hiring and housing…
On his cakewalk to the Kansas Governor’s mansion, soon-to-be-former Senator Sam Brownback has been driving a gigantic, graphic-wrapped bus through the prairie to 32 Sunflower State towns. He’s been spending his summer road trip touting his “Road Map for Kansas,” which is light on details and heavy on soft-and-cuddly daydream goals like “decrease the percentage of Kansas’ children who live…
James Dornbrook, a reporter for the Kansas City Business Journal, covers local business news — like, say, Gov. Jay Nixon signing a tax-break bill to ensure that Ford’s Claycomo plant stays open and keeps 3,700 autoworkers employed. Too bad Dornbrook drives a Toyota Camry. Categories: News Tags: Bob King, James Dornbrook, Jay Nixon
Nectarines are pocket fruit. Wrap one in a paper towel and you’ve got nature’s version of a hot pocket. Perfect for eating on the go and with a soft, red-yellow center. The end of August is also traditionally the end of nectarine season, which means we better make the most of the next week or so. You want fruit that…
More after the jump. Categories: Music Tags: Megadeth, Slayer
Today, we bring you his video for “Stop Snitching,” my favorite track on the record. The footage was filmed and edited by Zach Hangauer, who runs Range Life. Like the music, the video is dreamlike, hazy and distant, but punctuated by moments of dazzling clarity — the type of thing you might see if your life flashed before your eyes. …
More after the jump. Categories: Music Tags: debt, Emerging adulthood, ennui, minimum wage, The New Yorker
To whet your appetite for The Pitch’s annual Best of Kansas City issue, we’re counting down our favorite Top 50 dishes each weekday until October 7. Paletas, the popsicle treats sold by Paleterias Tropicana at its flagship store on Southwest Boulevard as well as at shops across the metro, are the best kind of frozen-treat alchemy. The flat, oblong popsicles…
