Archives: October 2010
Slideshow: Deadmau5 raves at the Uptown
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The Mountain Goats transcend the Orange Ball of Hate — and everything else — at the Bottleneck
Ian Hrabe The Mountain Goats with its Orange Ball of Hate First, there was the Orange Ball of Hate (which took on the physical shape of a stage light, obstructing my vision for the thirty minutes prior). Then, John Darnielle’s head suddenly blocked its path, and there was no more hate: only pure, unrelenting joy for the next hour and…
Got $800? Costco will help you survive the apocalypse with a year’s supply of food
The four-pack is yesterday’s news. Costco is now in the business of selling you food by the year-pack (h/t Boing Boing). The superstore has a collection of dehydrated and freeze-dried food from Shelf Reliance, “your premier source for food storage and emergency preparedness.” And all it takes to equip your bomb shelter or basement with 5,011 servings of food (enough…
Antonio Grandison tells police he killed Nick Dutcher. Burglar took urn with Dutcher’s mother’s ashes
Nick Dutcher had to believe someone had it in for him. In January, Dutcher, a 30-year-old assignment editor for KSHB Channel 41 , went to Florida to visit friends. While he was enjoying his getaway, someone was breaking into his Ruskin Heights home and stealing more than $10,000 in electronics, valuables and an urn containing Dutcher’s mother’s ashes (which the…
You’ll be craving the oatmeal craisin cookie at Crossroads Coffeehouse
Crispy outside. Chewy inside. That’s the formula for an outstanding cookie. And somebody needs to steal the formula from Crossroads Coffeehouse (310 Southwest Boulevard), where the oatmeal craisin cookies are as addictive as caffeine. Categories: Dining, Food & Drink Tags: crossroads coffeehouse
14-year-old accused of sodomizing 9-year-old boy at Heartland Elementary playground
Don’t trust anyone who asks you to help find glasses behind a bush. The kids aren’t all right in Johnson County. Yesterday, we found out about the 15-year-old boy accused of trying to slide his hands up a girl’s shirt and shorts in a hallway at Blue Valley West High School. Today’s news is even sadder — and will…
Junior GOPer flies the confederate flag on jesting bicep
%{}% You know what’s funny? Confederate flags and masturbation puns. Or at least they’re funny to Dakotah Parshall, University of Missouri fraternity member and budding political strategist. Parshall is learning the campaign trade by stalking congressional candidate Stephene Moore with a video camera. Parshall works for Axiom Strategies, a sharp-elbowed shop that Moore’s opponent, Kevin Yoder, has paid $105,000. Categories:…
Kareem Rush, former Missouri basketball star, has an R&B slow jam called ‘Hold You Down (Promises)’?
Late pass, but did you know former Pembroke Hill and University of Missouri basketball star Kareem Rush is now an R&B singer? After being waived by the Los Angeles Clippers earlier this year, he’s embarked upon a solo singing career. His debut song, “Hold You Down (Promises)” — got to love that parenthetical — seems to have been creeping around…
Rasheda Perkins accused of abandoning her 3-year-old in a boarded-up apartment
Rasheda Perkins told police that she dropped her 3-year-old son off with his father at 23rd and Prospect last Thursday night. The 22-year-old was charged the next day with two counts of first-degree child-endangerment after the owner of a boarded-up apartment building at 2608 East 23rd Street called police. The building’s owner reported that a small child was abandoned in…
Man threatens to kill wife, eat her heart and then kill himself. Fails to follow through on all three
If someone stabs you, don’t stick around. There’s probably a good chance that they’ll do it again. A Kansas City woman told police Sunday that her husband had stabbed her earlier in the day and was going back for his knife. But first, he went for a hammer. The attacker — described as a 46-year-old white male — was supposedly…
No. 2: The BLT from The Peanut
Deceptively simple, delectably satisfying 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. One of the most iconic sandwiches in Kansas City is also one of the most simple, least complicated assemblages of meat, cheese and bread: the legendary BLT from The…
Tio lives to cook another day on The Next Iron Chef
%{}% Julian’s Celina Tio is still in the running to become the Food Network’s Next Iron Chef. Tio maneuvered her way through two challenges last night to comfortably advance to the second episode. Seeing a Kansas City chef succeed was nice, but it was even better to see her television portrayal line up with her actual personality. Categories: Dining, Food…
Feelin’ the Future: The Republic Tigers debut new songs at the RecordBar’s fifth anniversary
Until Saturday night, Kansas City hadn’t heard from the Republic Tigers in a while — about 8 or 9 months, as the band recounted at its show at the RecordBar. And we hadn’t heard a steady catalog of new songs in even longer: After the band debuted Keep Color in 2008 on Chop Shop Records — the source for the hit…
Waiter, there’s a ghost in my soup
Roast beef and ghost stories served this month. Sure, not everyone believes in ghosts. But the employees of the Upstairs Tea Room in Weston, Missouri, are convinced that poltergeists not only exist but are still firmly in residence in the second-floor restaurant. And why shouldn’t pharmacist Beno Hellix and his wife, Creola, continue to live in the space that was, more than…
Kansas City Royals’ season ends full of lows … (and one high)
All wrapped up in their Sluggies, the Kansas City Royals have finished another dismal season and are ready to hibernate in the American League Central cellar for yet another off-season. Although the team’s 67-95 record wasn’t too surprising, it certainly had some memorable moments. Not necessarily the good kind of memorable, but memorable nonetheless. Let’s take a grimace-filled trip through the…
Kid Cudi brings his sad-sack rap to the Midland
The perpetually high rapper is coming to the Midland on October 18 with Chip Tha Ripper. You’ll know Kid Cudi from “Day ‘N’ Nite” — the best cut off of his album Man on the Moon: The End of Day — and the gem that had frat bros digging Ratatat, “Pursuit of Happiness.” (Either that, or the surprisingly good sample…
Field Music melts faces at RecordBar
Local folk-pop act Hidden Pictures was second-on Friday for the RecordBar’s fifth anniversary party. I bumped into frontman (and former Pitch contributor) Richard Gintowt after headliner Field Music’s set. “What are you going to write about the show?” he asked me. “Probably a bunch of stuff about how ridiculously good they are,” I said. “What’d you think?” “I quit,” Gintowt said. “I…
KCUR’s Jabulani Leffall is no Walt Bodine, and that’s a good thing (updated)
Update II (12:57 p.m. October 4): The name of Jabulani Leffall’s KCUR show has been announced: Central Standard. The website says Central Standard will focus on “current events in the Metro area, the region, the nation and the world, combining discussions about economics, culture, the environment, personal and business finance, entertainment and unique, eclectic ideas.” Update (9:32 a.m. October 4):…
Breana Greathouse’s mother also accused of threatening man her daughter allegedly drove to Iowa to kill
I thought the story of the woman who drove from Kansas City to Ottumwa, Iowa, to kill a guy who posted mean shit about her on the Internets couldn’t get more embarrassing. Oh, yes. Yes it did. Susan Greathouse, the mother of Breana Danielle Greathouse, is accused of calling the guy whose life her daughter threatened and also threatening him….
Best of Kansas City: 10 years of the smokin’ best barbecue
Fiorella’s Jack Stack is still a contender On the eve of The Pitch’s 2010 “Best of Kansas City” issue next week, we thought it would be entertaining and revealing to take a backward glance at some of our past winners. Who’s still on top? Which restaurants and bakeries had their 15 minutes of fame and are barely remembered today? As…
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