Tech N9ne and Insane Clown Posse have collaborated before, and there seems to be some overlap amongst their fans, who tend to be fervently loyal, deeply strange and scary to me personally. ICP dropped a new video last Friday for their song “Juggalo Island,” and it is of course very terrifying. Among other things, it alludes to oral sex from…
Sonya Thomas is five foot nothing, a hundred and nothing. And she hung in there against the best competitive eaters in the land for 12 minutes. Thomas, 43, set a new record for consuming chicken wings at the ninth annual National Buffalo Wing Festival in Buffalo, New York, on Sunday. When the 12-minute contest had ended, the “Black Widow,” had…
The violence in Kansas City didn’t stop for the three-day holiday weekend. The first death came Friday around noon when 2-year-old Brandi Clemoens died two days after her mother rushed her to Children’s Mercy Hospital with “life-threatening injuries due to obvious abuse.” Categories: News Tags: Antonio Murray, Brandi Clemoens, Frederick Jones, homicide
Beloved indie mainstays Belle and Sebastian are as warm, comfortable and classic as your favorite worn-in pair of sneakers. (That is, if your sneakers comforted you through breakups, depression and most of your young adulthood angst. Ahem.) The band’s new album, Belle And Sebastian Write About Love, the follow-up to 2006’s The Life Pursuit, is due out later this year. (You…
An eyewitness account of an attempted holdup at a Bannister Road gas station has gone viral as part of the Auto-Tune the News series, which transforms news footage into plausible R&B songs. Diana Radcliff was getting coffee at a Shell Food Mart on Wednesday morning when armed men wearing hoodies entered the store. A clerk who wasn’t in the mood…
This past Fourth of July weekend, CIB and local video outfit Gnarly Enterprises traveled down to Rolla, MO and shot a video for the song “Saline” at the Lions Club Carnival. It may or may not be an homage to The Sandlot. Categories: Music Tags: cowboy indian bear, Gnarly Enterprises
College football’s new season began this week. New York-based Suckers certainly noticed — the recent leg of their current tour has been fraught with empty venues. In a college town, it’s a predictable phenomenon caused by getting too drunk during game day to last through the night. I certainly hope that’s why so few people came out to see Suckers’…
%{}% On Labor Day, you were probably thinking about picnics or sales, rather than about Joe Hill, the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire, strikes, solidarity, and such like. That’s OK. You probably enjoyed your day off — which, like any other days off you may have, was won for you long ago by union people getting their brains beat in by…
Pitch photographer Scott Spychalski captured the last First Friday of the summer.
That’s right, faithful readers: like the rest of you, we, too, will be slacking off today. The Wayward crew will be back tomorrow morning, bright and early; but until then, we’ll be enjoying hours of filled with beautiful, glorious nothing. We hope you are, too. See you tomorrow. Categories: Music
Waldorf Salad — famous enough for a Cole Porter lyric 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. There are many variations of the classic Waldorf salad, but chef-owner Cari Jo Cavalcante of the Bloomsbury Bistro — the luncheonette inside the…
The Plog action news team will bid farewell to summer and swing from a tire into one of Missouri’s funky smelling rivers on Labor Day. So no posting. In the meantime, Glen Campbell wants to share a song about performing hard, lonely work. He sings for all the toilers after the jump. Categories: News Tags: Labor Day
Are your eyes red from the chlorine, or have you been crying? This weekend will be the last for many area swimming pools, including The Jones, the rooftop oasis above Cosentino’s grocery store at 13th and Main. It’s been our everything: our escapist, beach-blanket fantasy; our bad tattoo gallery; our greasy taste of the Jersey Shore; our booze-fueled, skin cancer…
The co-owner of a $1 million painting that went missing in New York under mysterious circumstances once stole books from an art library at the University of Kansas. Tom Doyle is a central figure in the case of a Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot painting that a handler supposedly misplaced during a night of hard drinking. The handler, James Carl Haggerty, became a…
Not all chambers of commerce act alike. The Kansas Chamber of Commerce has shown an eagerness to go after politicians who do not slave to free-market principles. Before the August primary, the chamber endorsed no Democrats and targeted 11 Republican incumbents viewed as squishy on “job creation,” the right-wing euphemism for low taxes and lax regulation. Categories: News, Politics Tags:…
It’s good for desserts…and acne! ”Fragrance is very important in our culture,” says Kashif Tufial, the co-owner of the Chai Shai bistro — which serves Pakistani fare — in Brookside. “We don’t just celebrate the sensual qualities of flowers in wreaths and garlands, but in our cuisine as well.” The essence of rose, for example, in the form of rose…
This week, Missouri Attorney General Chris Koster announced that his office has reached a settlement with Smithfield Foods and Premium Standard Farms (PSF), the nation’s largest pork producers whose 11 massive, confined animal feeding operations in Northwest Missouri have tormented their neighbors and polluted state waters with pig shit. Back in March, the company was slapped with a $11 million…
Mark Church stood victorious after the fourth annual Greater Kansas City Bartending Competition at the Uptown Theater last Sunday. The bartender at Grunauer put together a Refined Austrian Cocktail that wowed the judges and let him walk away with the $1,000 first prize. Fat City has Church’s recipe, as well as three additional cocktails from the competition to help get…
