Call Guinness! Monday the record for most people doing the robot is getting broken. Students at the University of Kansas City-Missouri are trying claim the world record of 429 set by London’s Whitgift Independent School in May. They’ll get together around 6 p.m. at the Stanley Durwood Soccer Stadium and Recreational Field (5100 block of Cherry). DJ JT Quick will…
Aretha Franklin’s son was severely beaten in Detroit on Monday evening at a gas station by three people. It isn’t clear why the 52 year-old was attacked, but he was taken to the hospital immediately, and was released today after undergoing an emergency oral surgery, according to CNN.com. That’s why Franklin has canceled her appearance at Power and Light tonight Sunday,…
Ten years’ worth of discovery violations committed by the Jackson County Prosecutors Office led a judge to throw out all of the state’s evidence against Richard Buchli, a Kansas City attorney facing re-trial in 2011 for allegedly killing his law partner. Richard Armitage was found beaten to death in the office of Buchli & Armitage in the Power & Light…
Hey kids, Kansas City Chief Dexter McCluster has a special message for you: “Don’t text and drive.” DMC — that’s what he calls himself — thinks texting and driving is dangerous and serious. He’s a hands-at-10-and-two man from what I can tell. He’s written a rap about it, too. Like to hear it? Here it goes … Categories: News Tags:…
First Dancing with the Stars, and now this? Kim seems to have come out of that conspiracy and perjury conviction with some unusual ideas about how to get back on top. May I suggest instead reassembling Junior M.A.F.I.A.? Just a thought. Check out the rest of her spread in Kontrol magazine here. Depressing stuff. Categories: Music Tags: lil kim, Lil’ Kim, terrifying
The RecordBar might not be Berlin’s Tempodrom, but that’s not stopping Magfuckingnificent from performing the albums Pornography (1982), Disintegration (1989) and Bloodflowers (2000) back-to-back over two nights in Westport. “It’s quite an undertaking,” says Byron Huhmann, frontman-and-Robert Smith impersonator. Categories: Music Tags: alejandro escovedo, Canned Heat, Citizen Cope, Dark Star Orchestra, EOTO, JJ Grey & Mofro, Magfuckingnificent, MC Trachiotomy, Ryan Bingham &…
Can you feel the excitement for Baja Fresh? Are you a West Coast transplant missing your favorite burrito? Or maybe you’ve craved a Baja Taco since the last Baja Fresh closed in Kansas City in 2005. Good news: The restaurant has returned. Bad news: Maybe not in the way that you were expecting. Categories: Dining, Food & Drink Tags:…
Mike Hardy has some shitty luck. Hardy was riding his bike to his girlfriend’s house on Saturday — his 27th birthday — a car plowed into him on Holmes Road around 4:10 p.m. Hardy was down in the street with both knees smashed and shredded. Three guys came over to check on him — then they turned their attention to…
%{}% 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 dilemma at Murray’s, the charming Westport ice cream shop, is which direction to take your dessert. Even if you settle on one of its homemade ice creams before get there —…
Jug bands had a pretty good run last century. But with time comes innovation, and Tuned Pale Ale, based in Philadelphia, might just have given the world what it needs to enjoy some down-home bottle-blowing tunes (hat tip to the Urban Grocer). Thanks to a clever bottle design and musically inspired labeling, Tuned Pale Ale is an instrument masquerading as…
The delicate literary genius banned photography, so here’s his book cover. Even with a spot on the bestseller list and a seat on Oprah’s couch, and even though he’s sort of a prick, I had to feel a little sorry for Jonathan Franzen last night during the author’s question and answer session at Unity Temple. Not that Franzen didn’t…
Attention shoeless potheads: Order your shoes from Finish Line online and you might end up with a blunt in your shoe box. A Finish Line store in Omaha shipped Betty James a pair of children’s shoes — sparkly Pumas! — and as a an added bonus, a marijuana cigar, according to KMBC Channel 9. Hey, it beats free shipping. But…
Drive-throughs are essentially assembly lines. And just as workers can be judged by the piece count they produce in an hour, drive-through window tellers (and franchises) can be rated on how quickly you make it in and out of the drive-through. So when a drive-through attendant asks you to pull ahead and wait by the curb or in a parking…
Wednesday night at the Brick had what every Wednesday night needs: beautiful bodies, and a little debauchery among friends. After an extended hiatus from live performances, local rockers the Beautiful Bodies re-emerged for a private, unpublicized concert. To judge by the crowd — 75 or so people who comfortably filled out the small venue with beers in-hand — the band…
Edgar Winter, scientologist, albino, brother of Johnny Winter, writer of “Frankenstein,” and jazz-gospel-blues-rocker, will be at Knuckleheads tonight. (Speaking of which: Have you read our cover story on Knuckleheads? Pshaw! Why, here it is.) You can meet and greet the experimental rocker for $50 before the show. (Ask him about his 1986 collaboration with L. Ron Hubbard, where he set Hubbard’s…
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. A haunted house story is always good for a spooky time. Be it the Haunting of Hill House, the Others, or the Orphanage, a house’s creaking floor joists can easily become the footsteps…
