Well, so much for debate: Joaquin Phoenix gave the “performance of his career” in I’m Still Here — a supposed documentary about the star’s turn toward rapping — according to director Casey Affleck. (But Affleck also insists that he never meant to portray the show as anything but a hoax. Hmm. We’re not so sure about that.) Read the director’s full…
It is upon us. The Monsters of Yacht sail into Starlight on Saturday. The excitement borders on the perverse. What will they play? On our conference call, McDonald mentioned his admiration for Fagen’s solo debut, The Nightfly, which, oh my god that album is incredible. So that will be taken as a hint. But what else? I’ve compiled videos for five…
Do you think you can match a person with their crime just by looking at their face? The following seven men and women were all on the wrong end of Johnny Law’s attention within the last few weeks. Take a look at these mugs and give it a try. Eyes on your own papers. No cheating will be allowed. And…
Kansas City’s ability to top its horrific violence never disappoints. William C. Ross is our latest waste of oxygen — a man who raped a 22-year-old woman in front of her screaming children after claiming he needed help. Ross and another man showed up at the woman’s door late one January evening. They claimed they needed help; their truck was…
Hey, Fat City readers: I’ll be co-hosting The Walt Bodine Show tomorrow — Friday, September 17 — when the show airs at 10 a.m. on KCUR 89.3. The featured topic: “Eating Organic,” including finding restaurants, bistros, bruncheonettes and joints in town that cook with organically grown vegetables, organically fed beef and poultry, and other healthy ingredients. To join the…
Saharan Gazelle Boy — also known as Capybara’s Darin Seal — must have a thing for the names of feral children. (There’s no way to make that not sound über-creepy, but there it is.) After all, the new single from his side project is called “Halfhair Girl.” Sounds a bit wolfy, doesn’t it? Well, it’s a song off the band’s…
Uh-oh. Robin Carnahan’s troubled senate campaign just got slapped with a $75,000 lawsuit from Fox News for infringing on copyrights. The lesson: Don’t steal 24 seconds of apparently unedited footage from a company’s TV show, no matter how juicy it is. The fair and balanced folks claim in a federal lawsuit filed in Kansas City Wednesday that the spot “made…
Maybe try adding a sprig of parsley? There’s no Carly Sue working at the family-owned diner of the same name. It’s a fictitious name. There is a Sue, however: Sue Byrum, a former caterer and hairdresser who recently turned from perms to pancakes when she opened the neighborhood diner — it’s really more of a small-town truck stop, without…
Missouri Auditor Susan Montee is calling out Randolph, Missouri, for being a speed trap, and a greedy one at that. Montee says Randolph is violating a state law designed to prevent cities from using radar guns as a principle means of raising money. The law requires cities that derive more than 35 percent of their operating revenue from speeders on state…
The fattest, sexiest onion rings 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. A certain iconic burger joint in Kansas City makes the town’s worst onions rings: stringy onion circles covered in a crumbly, oily crust, the kind clearly deep-fried in…
Former FBI’s Most Wanted Shauntay Henderson’s freedom lasted only less than half a year. Henderson was arrested Wednesday after being involved in a car chase with police. This comes just five and a half months after Henderson completed a three-year prison stay for voluntary manslaughter (beating a second-degree murder rap) for shooting and killing DeAndre Parker in a convenience-store parking…
First air guitar; now, air sex. Yes, the 2010 Air Sex World Championship Tour is coming to Crosstown Station on Tuesday, October 12. Tickets are $10. You think you got what it takes to fuck the air? All you have to do is fire off an e-mail with your stage name, which city you’ll be competing in and an mp3…
Blink taught us that snap judgments have validity. But now Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions, wants you to consider what you might be missing when those snap judgments come into play. Lifehacker has a portion of professor Dan Ariely’s book, wherein he looks at a study conducted at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Bargoers at the…
It’s a helluva deal when you do someone a favor and they shoot and kill you. But Corey Leggs found out it doesn’t pay to do a friend a favor. Leggs, his soon-to-be killer and a witness were driving in a car when the suspected killer asked Leggs to drive him to a house on Benton Boulevard near 33rd Street….
%{}% Once we started gathering around a fire to share a meal, I have no doubt there were some cavemen everyone else hoped never to sit next to while downing hunks of woolly mammoth. We may have swapped out the ground for chairs and fine linen for matted pelt tablecloths, but boorish behavior is still with our species. And so…
Casey Brezik must not be good with faces. Brezik, the 22-year-old student accused of slashing the throat of a middle-aged Metropolitan Community College dean, planned to stab Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon and actually believed he had stabbed Nixon, according to The Kansas City Star. Fail. Finding out he (allegedly) slashed the wrong guy bummed out Brezik. Categories: News Tags: Al…
