%{}% The Kings are (almost) dead (in Sacramento.) Long live the Kings (in the OC.) The sports squawkers at 610 AM were trying to drum up hype this morning about the embattled Sacramento Kings franchise moving to Kansas City, after the NBA shut down its efforts to help the Kings get a new arena. It was pretty fun talk,…
Jeff Addison will be carving some ice next Saturday. Chefs from 24 different dining venues in the Kansas City metro will serve their favorite small-plate appetizers and desserts next Sunday, October 10, at a fundraising event hosted by the Greater Kansas City Chefs Association. It’s at the Marriott Muehlebach Hotel (200 West 12th Street). The event raises funds for…
Tio was tops in 2009 On the eve of The Pitch’s 2010 “Best of Kansas City” issue next week, we thought it would be entertaining and revealing to take a backward glance at some of our past winners. Who’s still on top? Which restaurants had their 15 minutes of fame and are barely remembered today? For over a decade we’ve…
Sade announced a series of tour dates for 2011, its first world tour in a decade. According to LiveNation, the U.K. group is coming to town, but there’s no date announced quite yet. Sade’s latest album, Soldier of Love, was just certified platinum. (Insert “Smooth Operator” joke here.) Check out the video for “Soldier of Love” after the jump. Categories: Music…
So we posted about this a few weeks ago when we heard word of it, but it’s officially happening tonight: The Walkmen are playing a show on the roof of Standard Style, the fancy-pants clothing store on the Plaza. There are some drawbacks. For one, it’s going to cost you $50 to get in. For two, it’s part of a…
Taking away accused webcam whacker Samuel P. Logan’s law license was pretty much a formality after a federal grand jury indicted the 45-year-old, who was a partner at big-ass Overland Park law firm Foulston Siefkin. The key word here is was because your partners likely aren’t down with you jerking off in your office while allegedly trying to convince a…
The notoriously rowdy nightclub, Club NRG, is shutting its doors. The Star reports that the former Club NV is closed for business and owner Del Hedgepath is fielding offers to sell the building at Admiral and McGee — and he has six months to dump the space. Breaking bottles, slapping patrons, urinating off of the club’s balcony and getting shot…
NBA star LeBron James is bringing his talents to Kansas City, and it turns out those talents include getting paid to party. James’s new team, the Miami Heat, plays an exhibition game at the Sprint Center next Friday night. And since James likes the club scene, promoters in the cities he visits often kick him some cash to show…
Flickr The weather or yard work are the typical indicators that fall has arrived. But if you want to know about the change in seasons, simply look at menus and grills across town to see that we’re craving autumn foods. Fat City has compiled a list of the Top 10 fall foods that we spend the rest of the…
Ken Cannon, Kansas’ most criminally charged gubernatorial candidate, has beat his first charge in court! The slippery would-be governor was found not guilty by a Salina judge of falsely impersonating a police officer during a telephone conversation … with a real police officer. The Reform Party candidate was accused of calling up Salina investigator Sean Furbeck on February 15 and…
Forget Opening Day. The time to take off work is tomorrow — the first public day of the 2010 American Royal Barbecue. More than 500 barbecue teams are arriving as you read this, to set up their smokers and gear in the hopes of walking away with an oversized $10,000 check and the title of Grand Champion. But for those…
Update V (10:36 a.m. September 30): Matt Fritzie, the 18-year-old University of Kansas freshman injured while diving into a temporary pool KU’s Phi Gamma Delta (FIJI) frat house, was moved to a rehabilitation center on Monday, according to the Lawrence Journal-World. While his condition wasn’t released, another fraternity pledge told the LJW “that Fritzie initially was paralyzed from the chest…
ardcore area record collectors might already be keyed in to this, but for the rest of you: This Sunday, there’s a massive vinyl sale going down in Waldo. Three “long-time local collectors” have raided their shelves and will be offering up thousands of LPs and 45s. You can’t wait to run your grubby, greedy fingers through those records, can you?…
The National September 29, 2010 The Uptown Theater It seems appropriate that The National is still performing at campaign rallies with President Obama. After all, both the commander-in-chief and the politically active band seem to bring out the same trait in people: divisiveness. Categories: Music Tags: Owen Pallett, The National
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. The P.E.I. mussels at Bluestem make you realize that not all bowls are created equal. Two pieces of toasty baguettes rest atop a mound of mussels. Beneath those mussels is a savory broth that…
Justin Timberlake and Jimmy Fallon’s have a lesson for late-night TV viewers: the history of rap. When Timberlake was on Fallon’s show to promote The Social Network, the two got to reminiscing about hip-hop tunes from the last thirty years. Of course, since Timberlake’s there, the duo broke into a medley that included Sugarhill Gang’s “Rapper’s Delight,” Beastie Boys’ “Paul…
A nuclear weapons plant being built in south Kansas City could be seeing protests from more than the no nukes crowd. Alien watchers claim extraterrestrials could be visiting Kansas City more regularly once the plant is built. Fox 4 is working to bring you the kooky story on the heels of seven former U.S. Air Force officers claiming they spotted…
The scariest cereals of our childhood have returned for a limited engagement. General Mills is putting Count Chocula, Franken Berry and Boo Berry back on shelves until October 31. The chocolate-, strawberry- and berry-flavored cereals all come with “spooky fun” marshmallows. Just because we’re too old to eat doesn’t mean we need to forgo candy for breakfast. Categories: Dining, Food…
Stephene Moore didn’t register StepheneMoore.com. D’oh! Stephene Moore might as well pack it in (and not just because FiveThirtyEight is projecting a 93.3 percent chance of a Kevin Yoder victory in the race for Dennis Moore’s congressional seat). Her campaign has an amateur-hour feel. Take for example not registering the Internet domain for StepheneMoore.com. A rookie blunder. Where did…
Rooftop Vigilantes are heading out on an October tour that ends in a CMJ date in New York. Score! They’ll be playing the Cake Shop on the Lower East Side during the festival. They’re also playing in Manhattan, KS, Boston, Chi-town, and for some vicious hipsters at Bard College with fellow Lawrence indie-rockers Baby Birds Don’t Drink Milk. Tour dates after…
Tommy Sowers, a Democrat hoping to represent southeast Missouri in Congress, has found a way to add pizazz to those “I’m Chauncey Haircut, and I approved this message” disclaimers at the end of campaign commercials. With a little help from his friends Smith and Wesson, Sowers says he approved a TV spot criticizing his opponent, Jo Ann Emerson, after firing…
