Studies in Crap: “Fin De Scalpel,” September 9 Dr. Dad I was surprised to see my dad’s dad quoted in this week’s column. The 1909 Scalpel included a quote from Axel Isadore Anderson. It’s quite a story because his mom came from Sweden. Family lore is, she got pregnant on the ship here. She was to meet the father at…
Office hours are over There were two old Wallace Beery movies playing this morning on Turner Classic Movies, but a more local connection to the long-deceased MGM star (1885-1949) has gone off the air. Mi Oficina, the most recent tenant at 2801 Southwest Boulevard — a saloon owned in the 1900s by Beery’s father — has vacated the premises….
The adulterer and his pregnant fling were pulling out of a 7-Eleven parking lot at Independence and Garfield when his girlfriend spotted them and snapped. Fhyliss Jackson was in her car across the street from the gas station when she spied her boyfriend with the woman he knocked up seven months ago and decided to take action, according to prosecutors….
Payday lenders have some competition. Sort of. Activists have been going after the lecherous payday loan business for years, trying to get lawmakers to crack down on the high-interest short-term loan sharks that dot urban intersections across America. They’ve mostly failed, foiled by pesky capitalism. Now a Kansas City group, together with the FDIC, is taking a different tack:…
Rudy’s roll raises funds for charity Rudy Niswanger, the 27-year-old center for the Kansas City Chiefs, can add a new achievement to his resume: sushi developer. That’s right, the local publicist for the Leawood branch of the Arizona-based RA Sushi restaurant chain announced yesterday that Niswanger — a native of Monroe, Louisiana — had “developed” a new sushi roll for…
I type this, ginger ale in hand, wondering what exactly I was thinking when I embarked on the latest (and perhaps beefiest) battle of the dishes. Five months worth of advertising for the Doritos Late Night Cheeseburger worked. I caved and bought a bag of these unholy chips. In searching for a worthy opponent, I immediately thought of a true…
If there was ever a doubt that police wouldn’t bother enforcing Missouri’s new anti-strip club law, let your hope die now. They come first for the “Ultimate Vegas Experience Hunks.” Real, actual, no-fooling taxpayer money was spent on this. Categories: News Tags: strip club, Ultimate Vegas Experience Hunks
Update (12:05 p.m. September 15): No bomb was found after the search — better hope those dogs’ noses are good — and traffic is moving again on Main Street. As you were. Original Story (9:48 a.m. September 15): If you see a bunch of folks standing out in the rain near 23rd and Main near Union Station, it’s due to…
%{}% Revolution to Casey Brezik apparently meant slashing the throat of a middle-aged dean at a community college. The 22-year-old Brezik is accused of attacking 55-year-old Al Dimmitt Jr., the dean of instruction at Metropolitan Community College’s Penn Valley campus, before a scheduled press conference by Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon yesterday. Nixon, as you can imagine, canceled his presser because…
Influential post-punk act Gang of Four opportunistically reunited in 2004, shortly after every new band in the entire world started writing Gang of Four knockoffs and name-checking them as a major influence. On January 25, 2011, GO4 — which is currently singer Jon King and guitarist Andy Gill, plus replacements on drums and bass — will release Content, its first…
Just as messy as meat — and just as satisfying. 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. Popeye has spinach, Don Draper has bourbon, and vegetarians around here have the veggie burger at Room 39 (1719 West 39th Street, 816-753-3939;…
Chef Art Smith would tell that you food is love. Eat Me Daily contends that food is culture. But can food be art? Chef Grant Achatz sat down with Life magazine last week to explain the process behind molecular gastronomy and the inspiration for dishs at his restaurant Alinea in Chicago. In a series of stunning photographs (food is porn),…
The Kansas City Star went through a third round of layoffs for 2010. Shut Yer Foxhole looks at the sad state of the Star after the jump. By the way, a day or two after the layoffs, telemarketers were trying to sell me on a special subscription rate if I’d re-up. I passed. Categories: News Tags: Kansas City Star
Odor felled the Bautistas’ taco shop. Was it only six months ago that Fat City’s Jonathan Bender reported the opening of Taqueria Bautista, the casual restaurant owned by the Bautista brothers, who operate the popular Carmen’s Cafe restaurants? Taqueria Bautista is now closed. One of the reasons, according to co-owner Juan Bautista: Patrons complained about the pungent aroma of mothballs…
A KC firm is suing Girls Gone Wild’s founder. Kansas City law firm Lathrop & Gage is defending the publisher of a book about Girls Gone Wild and founder Joe Francis, who is not happy at all with the book (despite the smiling photo on the right). It’s a must-read filing, full of mudslinging and name calling. The complaint…
We are always looking for ways to size up fellow humans. Did he want to hold my baby nephew? Did she really like my dog? But it turns out the world is a much simpler place. There are only two kinds of people: those who share their fries and those who eat each and every potato wedge themselves. While one…
Any 96.5 The Buzz fan knows that former DJ Scoops has had a flirtation with the Phelps family for a long time. Between Scoops’ crib shoots at the Westboro Bapist Church compound in Topeka, and public shows of affection with his self-described “friend,” Megan Phelps-Roper, Scoops has been rubbing elbows with the famous hate-spewers for a while. The Pitch’s Mandy…
Imaginary Movie Soundtracks are just that — the soundtracks to movies that don’t exist. We pick the songs, write the story, and your mind makes the movie. Some of the greatest comedies of all time revolve around getting fucked up. You’ve got the Dude knocking back Caucasians in the Big Lebowski, the Mackenzie brothers’ quest for Elsinore beer in Strange…
