Metro Sports anchor Chris Gough is far away from his days of booking Madison Square Garden for the largest wrestling company in the world, Vince McMahon’s World Wrestling Entertainment. This Saturday, Gough will put on his second Metro Pro Wrestling show at the Turner Recreation Center (831 South 55th Street in KCK). Gough is enjoying life in the indies and…
This table is reserved for Lady Gaga, Paris Hilton and Gary Lezak The Drum Room, in the historic President Hotel, is the subject of this week’s Cafe review in The Pitch. Back in the 1940s and ’50s, when downtown Kansas City was an entertainment mecca — movie palaces! Nightclubs! Burlesque! — the Drum Room called itself a BaRestaurant and operated…
Cut my inbox into pieces! It’s the Monsters of Annihilation Tour! I think I received between five to seven e-mails this week regarding the triumphant return of Papa Roach to Kansas City. This time around they are promoting their latest album, Time for Annihilation, which drops today. The NorCal former-nu-metal-now-just-rock band will be at the Midland with Skillet, Trapt and My…
If you strive to be a cowardly criminal — truly the lowest, most despicable law breaker on the scum totem pole — your best bet is to prey on the blind. But if you’re going to prey on the blind, there is one simple thing you can remember that will enhance your chances of getting away with it: Don’t identify…
There’s so much time, so little to do. Strike that, reverse it. — Willy Wonka I’ve had some incredible meals and experiences in the past year here at Fat City. But I’ve also realized there is still a lot left to taste and see in Kansas City. As a result, I’ve put together a personal bucket list of five food…
During the Great Depression, White Castle hamburgers — founded in Wichita, Kansas, in 1921 — was one of the few culinary success stories of that troubled era. The founders, Walter A. Anderson and short-order cook Edgar Waldo “Billy Ingram,” created the perfect 5-cent square hamburger. Hungry, broke customers could buy them by the bagful. Today, White Castle — based in Columbus,…
Americans for Prosperity, a foundation that promotes unrestrained capitalism in the name of “economic freedom,” visited Overland Park on Wednesday. Ostensibly a voter-education effort, the meeting at the Ritz Charles conference center encouraged tea-party sympathizers to mobilize against Stephene Moore, the Democrat who hopes to replace her husband, Dennis, in Congress. But the troop-mustering had be done carefully, because Americans…
In fourth grade, I didn’t have much going for me. I had toirtoiseshell glasses. I favored sweatshirts with puppies. And I was quite concerned about what happened to the members of The Baby-sitter’s Club. But what I did have was a red plastic lunchbox that got AM/FM reception. And the week before I lost my hybrid boom-lunchbox, I had some…
TheCall is billed as an event centered on prayer and fasting, a place where you can wash away your sins with “nothing but the blood of Jesus.” But in the heat of mid-term election season, this weekend’s event in Sacramento — put on by Kansas City-based preacher and noted gay-hater Lou Engle — is taking on a decidedly political feel….
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. You had me at bacon, Salad. You…had…me..at…bacon. The farmer greens salad on the lunch and dinner menu at The Farmhouse in the River Market is a crunchy, salty, dastardly good way to convince you…
Lawrence school officials are so worried about dwindling coffers and stagnant teacher pay, they’re having a serious conversation about something downright odd: Getting into the housing business. School board president Rich Minder, who dabbles in co-housing development, tells the Lawrence Journal-World that the best way to attract and retain quality teachers may be to provide them with housing on the…
In this week’s Pitch: Gavon Laessig talks to the Caves about their new EP and being “post-indie,” Kyle Koch reviews the Phantom’s latest release, which is incredibly named Bohemian Seductive Grooves for the Gay Soul, plus we preview upcoming shows by Suckers, Slash, Sound Tribe Sector 9 and the Guggenheim Grotto. Categories: Music Tags: the Caves, the phantom*
I thought that was pretty cool — Taylor Swift being my girl and all — and was curious about how a project like that comes about. So I called McCormack and Cooke and we chatted about it. Nice guys. Categories: Music Tags: comic books, taylor swift
When cops responded to the America’s Best Value Inn in Independence at 2 a.m. on August 15, they found a carload of sweaty Hispanic men. The men, none of them documented, told the officers they were sweating from dancing, but witnesses told a different story. Categories: News
There is an unwritten rule that by simply purchasing a coffee you are entitled to sit for an indeterminate amount of time inside of a coffee shop. But how long is too long? When do you go from regular morning customer to approaching the legal definition of squatter. The idea of coffee campers is not a new one, but the…
Each Thursday, your Crap Archivist brings you the finest in forgotten and bewildering crap culled from basements, thrift stores, estate sales and flea markets. I do this for one reason: Knowledge is power. Secrets of Love and Marriage Author: James Parker Hendry Date: 1939 Publisher: The Social Science Press Discovered at: Second Chance Thrift, 63rd & Troost Representative Quotes: “A…
Slash can’t sing for shit, but at least he knows it. For his 2010 self-titled debut album, the legendary ex-Guns N’ Roses guitarist simply leafed through his rock-star Rolodex and called Ozzy, Iggy, Ian Astbury, Kid Rock — along with Fergie and that guy from Maroon 5 — to collaborate on his songs and provide vocals. But gathering all those…
This event is more concert than theater, but it does take something besides pure musical ability to pull off a great imitation of rock and roll legends. RAIN: A Tribute to the Beatles follows the fab four through the evolution of their sound and haircuts, incorporating archival concert footage and other multimedia elements. Tue., Sept. 7, 8 p.m.; Wed., Sept….
LA FAMILIA is a collection by Matthew Huff materialized as black-and-white iPhone pictures with white ink encoded drawings printed at 1,000 times their original size, giving them a very raw punk-like aesthetic Fri., Sept. 3, 6-9 p.m., 2010 Tags: Apple iPhone, Matthew Huff, Night & Day
A coincidental meeting reveals a mysterious, unsolved murder from the past. The ghosts gather to remember a certain night in the roaring twenties, when Kansas City was a wide-open town, and a young woman died quietly on the train. Can the passengers help the victim’s spirit reveal the killer or is it her destiny to ride the Ghost Train forever?…
Dear Mexican: I’m a naturalized citizen born in Ciudad Juarez (the most dangerous city in the world, thanks to the drug cartels), but I work for la migra. I get a lot of shit from some of my family members because they feel that I shouldn’t be doing this job. I always tell them that it’s better I got the…
The final Chiefs preseason game is usually a desultory affair, filled with the also-rans of the roster playing most of the game in an attempt to impress scouts for other teams. Not this year, though, as the rebuilding Chiefs attempt to ascertain who will and will not make a significant contribution. The ability to impress the coaching staff is critical,…
