What: Scalpel ’09 Author: Junior class of the University Medical College, 909 East 10th Street Date: 1909 Discovered: at Westport estate sale for $1 Representative quote: “Whack-a-lacka! Boom-a-lacka! Zipp! Boom! Deen!” Everyone who complains about dating in Kansas City might be encouraged to know that it used to be much easier to meet a handsome young doctor. In the 1890s,…
It’s been hard for us KC-based Hold Steady zealots to stay positive these past few months, watching our favorite band announce dates all across the country, none of them in our neck of the woods. Today, relief. On Thursday, November 18, Craig Finn will be spazzing out live onstage at the Blue Note in Columbia. It’s a bit of a hike,…
Peter works in the restaurant business. That means he works late on most Friday and Saturday nights and likes to sleep late on Sunday mornings. When he wakes up, he and his wife want to go out for breakfast, but they really don’t care to dine at the chain operations like Denny’s, Perkins or, God forbid, the Cracker Barrel. “We’re…
Laurence Saunders is a sexy beast. Just look at his beautiful bearded mug. But apparently, some women are immune to his advances. Take for example, Saunders’ 64-year-old neighbor. Apparently ladies don’t like you showing up naked in their bedrooms late at night. Last night, the 62-year-old Saunders allegedly did just that, grabbed his neighbor’s arm and told her he was…
Addicted gamblers and aspiring blackjack dealers rejoice: There’s still a chance Kansas City will be home to Missouri’s Next Big Money Pit. With one of Missouri’s 13 available casino licenses up for grabs, state regulators are entertaining bids and plan to choose one lucky casino operator by year’s end. And while they rejected one developer’s proposal for a new Sugar…
Update (1:34 p.m. September 8): The man shot to death last night at the Express Mart (7007 Longview Road) has been identified as 29-year-old Darrel E. Wright Jr. of KCMO. Kansas City, Missouri’s homicide count for 2010 now stands at 78. Original Story (8:15 a.m. September 8): Just before 11 p.m. Tuesday, a 29-year-old man became Kansas City, Missouri’s 78th…
David and Rachel Finn didn’t move very far when they decided not to renew the lease on the original location of their popular Mission bakery. They’re just up the street. Four weeks ago, the Finns re-opened the former Chacko’s Bakery & Catering as Chacko’s Eatery in a smaller, more efficient storefront space at 6009 Johnson Drive. Categories: Dining, Food &…
Hi, my name is Jonathan, and I’m addicted to kettle corn. Boy, that feels good to type. It’s hard to admit it, but I’m glad it’s out in the open now. Speaking of open, you wouldn’t happen to have an open bag of kettle corn, would you? Never mind. Forget I asked. Categories: Dining, Food & Drink
Are the Scientologists outsourcing their stress tests? Portfolio.com, the site that just won’t stop cranking out city rankings, tested the stress levels of the entire nation. Thankfully, it had nothing to do with Dianetics. The site’s list names St. Louis the 5th most-stressed U.S. city. We Kansas Citians are 9th from the bottom, which is a good thing for once….
%{}%You can’t really go outside without bumping into a pumpkin-flavored menu item this time of year. Dunkin’ Donuts yesterday unveiled its pumpkin latte (I’ll admit I chickened out rather than sampling that drive-through item), and Chips Chocolate Factory in Crown Center is testing its pumpkin-pie fudge. And so with a plethora of pumpkin possibilities, I decided to pick the two…
Springfield police suspected that a prison guard named Bobbie McGhee was a serial rapist. They wanted a sample of his DNA. They got it from the utensils he used at a waffle shop. McGhee was under surveillance when he stopped into the Belgian Waffle and Pancake House near his home. The traces he left on the silverware confirmed that he…
The Mugs Up Drive-In in Independence makes its own root beer 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. For over a half-century, the orange-and-white loose-burger stand at 700 East 23rd Street in Independence — Bill and Ann’s Mugs Up Drive-In…
Did the University of Kansas force athletics director Lew Perkins into an early retirement? Sports By Brooks has a source that says the answer is a definite yes. Perkins resigned, “effective immediately,” yesterday. Has anything good ever been attached to those words? Perkins’ resignation came just days after the Turner Gill era of Jayhawk football opened with an embarrassing 6-3…
Update (10:58 a.m. September 8): Cornelius Payne turned himself into police and admitted stabbing 23-year-old Andrew M. Suttington to death. Witnesses told police that an argument between Suttington and Payne’s mother and sister preceded the stabbing. Payne, 32, is charged with second-degree murder and armed criminal action. Categories: News Tags: Andrew Suttington, Cornelius Payne, homicide, stabbing
The cold-blooded killing in this city isn’t limited to just people. Just ask Brenda Looney. Her 1-year-old Jack Russell terrier, Chico, was hanged to death in her front yard in Independence over the weekend. The Kansas City Star reports that Looney “suspects someone who has a personal vendetta against her.” I’d say. I hate to blame the victim here —…
We need to get jobs giving burger surveys. The latest ranking of grilled patties comes courtesy of Consumer Reports, which asked more than 28,000 subscribers to rank burgers at fast-food restaurants on a scale of 1 to 10, for an article set to run in its October issue. Five Guys Burgers and Fries and In-N-Out Burger topped the list of…
In a 2003 interview, Nobel prize-winning poet Seamus Heaney was asked if there was a figure in popular culture who encouraged interest in poetry and literature in the same way that Bob Dylan and John Lennon had done during the ’60s and ’70s. Heaney, an Irish author with a cultish following of his own, had an immediate answer: Eminem. Categories:…
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. In the late ’90s, it seemed like the comedic sex romp was going to make a return. In the vein of such classics as Porky’s and Revenge of the Nerds, we had flicks…
