Just when Sugar Creek thought it had a revenue source and public safety tool in one convenient package — a portable roadside speeding camera — the Missouri Department of Transportation has put some restrictions on the plan. Tired of people tearing through their town, Sugar Creek officials were all excited to start using the new automated cop (provided by the…
The basic requirement of a good partner in a Prison Break-style scheme is his willingness to get ‘er done. Unfortunately for Roy Vance, his short-term cellie in Huntsville, Missouri, was willing, but not very able. Ten years ago, Michael Tisius and Vance were cellmates in the Randolph County Jail. Tisius was only staying for 30 days; Vance was in for…
Caffeine’s the only thing the Coffee Wonk will be selling for a while. Monday was a bad day for Coffee Wonk owner Micah Riggs. At 7:30 a.m., an armed robber visited the 35th and Broadway shop and made off with everything in the register. Riggs wasn’t at work at the time, but when his employee called the cops —…
Therse was another Marrakech Cafe once…in Overland Park Fat City recently reported that the Bautista brothers, who operate the popular Carmen’s Cafe, had closed their short-lived Taqueria Bautista. The restaurant, at 4116 Broadway, succumbed to the acrid stink of mothballs wafting from the Oriental-rug business next door. Too many customers complained about the smell. The space wasn’t vacant long….
“Pledge this, Oprah!” A highway safety group came to Kansas City today to promote the findings from a study that makes absolutely no sense. The study, released by the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety*, claims that laws that ban texting while driving — including ones passed in Kansas this year and Missouri last year — don’t reduce traffic accidents,…
Bye bye, Papa Keno’s. Hello, Art of Pizza! The Art of Pizza has recently opened a second location, this time in Westport (415 Westport Road). Unlike the Crossroads location, the new shop will be open daily. But the most important change in hours? It plans to stay open late on Fridays and Saturdays to serve hungry clubgoers. Categories: Dining,…
Paris Hilton couldn’t make this Hallmark card funny. Dear world, you can keep on turning now that Paris Hilton and Hallmark have settled a lawsuit over the use of the catchphrase “that’s hot.” Hilton sued Kansas City’s greeting card maker for portraying her as a waitress in a diner handing a patron a plate and using her trademark “that’s…
The Matterhorn is a peak pastry experience. 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. The highest mountain peak in Missouri is the Taum Sauk summit in Iron County, which soars 1,765 feet above sea level. OK, so Mount Kilimanjaro, it…
%{}% Life on the open seas doesn’t sound too bad — if you can take a bottle of Black Tot Rum along. A small collection of the last stores of rum from the Royal Navy is being marketed under the name Black Tot by London-based Specialty Drinks. The bottles, which sell for $1,000, have a unique history. On July 31,…
OK, it’s official. Chiefs’ offensive coordinator Charlie Weis is football’s Six Million Dollar Man. Nothing — not surgery, injury or being forced to ride a scooter instead of walking — will deter the man from lurking on the sidelines and calling the plays. He just gets his faulty parts replaced or repaired and gets back to work. The cyborg OC’s…
Where We Pee is a weekly look at the excretory facilities of the music venues and cool-kid hangouts around town. This weekend, the Record Bar celebrates its five-year anniversary with four days of live music from some very great local and national acts. The place is so embedded in our music scene that it’s hard to imagine a time without…
Petrified of losing another business to Kansas, the Kansas City, Missouri, City Council recently awarded an organization of state insurance regulators a $1.5 million subsidy to remain at Crown Center. The council members may not have been aware, but the National Association of Insurance Commissioners is already the indirect beneficiary of a tax break. The association leases space in a…
A woman walks through a verdant corn maze. She tells a camera that sugar, whether it’s made from cane or corn, is still sugar. Our bodies don’t know the difference, she insists. At the end of the lush maze is her family, waiting to sit down to a meal of delicious products made from refined sugar. This is the newest…
This man is not a suspect in today’s McDonald’s robbery. A man was sitting in his car in the parking lot of a midtown McDonald’s (3700 block of Broadway) when two black men in black hooded sweatshirts approached his car around 9:50 a.m. The men, both in their early twenties, weren’t delivering Big Macs. They were trying to rob…
Shaun Smith feeling a Niner’s junk. Update (10:31 a.m. September 28): Kansas City Chief Shaun Smith has been accused of grabbing opposing players’ balls twice in the last two weeks. Smith denied it, but it’s pretty hard to deny video evidence. Watch the videos after the jump … Original Story (11 a.m. September 27): Cleveland Browns center Alex Mack…
A judge will decide if a young boy who killed his father will go free. Sounds like prosecutors are doing the right thing in the case of the 11-year-old boy accused of killing his father, David Paul Champ. Prosecutors have filed a motion to dismiss second-degree murder charges filed against the Independence fifth grader, according to Fox 4. The…
The Pitch’s Peter Rugg debates his loyalties on the Plog after Slayer’s Kerry King talks shit on the Chiefs in an interview with Noisecreep. I don’t normally want to reach out, but you readers should know I’m having a hard time writing today. Worlds are colliding, and I’m forced to make a terrible decision. Justin Kendall has now physically restrained…
Know what the other one is? They’re both coming to Kansas City in the next few weeks. Huzzah! Free Energy is tart little rock and roll band from Philly, and they’re at RecordBar with the infamous Foxy Shazam on October 21, whose frontman pissed himself onstage last time he was in Lawrence. (We don’t make this shit up.) Meanwhile, clean and…
The Buzz’s annual Halloweenie Roast, held outside on the Beaumont’s lawn, has a pretty awesome line-up this year. Just sayin’. For October 23, here’s who’s playing: Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros, who are a gigantic, howling, cathartic folk-rock mess live (read my review of the band’s show at the Beaumont earlier this summer here), Middle Class Rut, a two-man band that…
