Time for the real thing? After months of tending your flock in Farmville, you might start thinking you’re ready to move to the real thing. No problem. Thanks to Craigslist’s Farm and Garden listings, you can get everything you need to be an agriculture big-wig without ever leaving your office (assuming, of course, the City Council doesn’t shut you…
There’s a time and a place for trying to get to second base — and it’s not in the hallway of your high school. And it’s especially a bad time if the girl isn’t waving you in. That message didn’t get to one boy at Blue Valley West High School. The personal bubble busting 15-year-old supposedly went to hug a…
It’s hard to believe that two of Kansas City’s beverage titans have yet to collaborate on a drink. Kansas Citians have had to settle for a Tank 7 with dinner and a cup of joe with dessert. But a move to end that separation of meal and dessert is afoot. And like many consumer wish lists, it is beginning with…
In the wake of scandals revolving around shoddy workmanship, Toyota are desperately trying to present themselves as the cool guys to the next generation of young adults who will grow up and buy their cars. (Apparently, they didn’t get the memo that the kids digging on the garage rock revolution mostly work minimum wage jobs and will be driving used…
%{}% You may have noticed the controversy over last week’s Village Voice cover story, “White America Has Lost Its Mind” by Steven Thrasher. The story has drawn at this writing more than a thousand comments, many of them devoted to proving Thrasher’s proposition by example. Among the more choice reader contributions: “Of course white people have lost their minds….
I’ve spent the better part of the last year trying to convince my wife that I can safely make cheese in our basement. I’m envisioning a small cheese fridge somewhere between the laundry machine and shelves of holiday decorations. She’s not sold on the concept. And frankly, I haven’t pushed very hard because the idea of making cheese on a…
Vampire Weekend, Beach House and the Very Best Starlight Theatre Saturday, October 2 If you reside primarily in the digital world and read too much music criticism, you could be forgiven for thinking there are passionate protests outside Vampire Weekend shows — a mob of angry professorial types clutching picket signs decrying the band’s “classism” or “cultural tourism.” Here’s what…
Scion Garage Fest presented by Vice Magazine: Do. The second Scion Garage Fest descended upon Lawrence Saturday night, and while a small college town in Kansas may seem like a curious choice to hold a free festival devoted to garage, punk, and rock acts — instead of Austin or Madison — Lawrence got the jump on those more hallowed…
Gallagher is totally not gay. Today: Hear poetry read in a Chilean accent. Marjorie Argosin vists the library. Tuesday: Wear a Saran Wrap suit. Gallagher smashes watermelons and liberalism at Stanford’sComedy Club. Categories: News Tags: alice cooper, Gallagher, rob zombie, Stephen Dubner
The Scion Garage Fest basically rocked our collective faces off. Check out our reviews of the evening at Wayward and see all the pics Chance Dibben snapped while he was there.
Scion Garage Fest could have been a total clusterfuck. Four venues with more than two dozen bands from a genre notable for crazy antics and over-drinking could have turned into something terrible. People were unfailingly cool, having fun, dancing, and just generally being nice to one another — all the while getting to see a bunch of bands that were…
You may know her for cooking with more butter than a dairy cow, but chef Paula Deen could be coming to a produce section near you. In an interview with the Richmond Times-Dispatch, Deen mentioned that she is “working with farmers and other food producers to come up with a line of fresh fruits and vegetables.” Categories: Dining, Food &…
A drop in temperature and an increase in jackets and long-sleeves signals a new season settling into the city. Despite the chill, locals still made it out and about for First Fridays in the Crossroad District. Pitch photographer Scott Spychalski took pics.
A judge has given an 11-year-old boy a second chance. The “severely and chronically neglected” 11-year-old Independence boy who shot and killed his father “had no choice” but to pull the trigger. That’s what a juvenile court officer told a Jackson County Juvenile Court judge on Friday, leading the judge to throw out a second-degree murder charge against the…
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I, for one, enthusiastically accept Scion as my new corporate overlord. If they can bring the Gories, the Oblivians, King Khan and a cast of garage punks from far and wide to town in one day, they can sell me a sewage soda and I’d say thank you. That’s because Scion sponsored Garage Fest, an event that brought almost 30…
The fight started inside Balanca’s, a bar at 18th and Grand in the Crossroads district, and spilled onto the street. But a lot of fights these days don’t involve a fist fight to the finish. No, someone shot and killed 20-year-old Jeremy A. Mott in the street — the same streets that First Friday revelers had strolled hours earlier to…
Jeremy Comstock is a slippery devil. Update II (3:52 p.m. October 1): He just turned himself in. Wuss. Update (3:20 p.m. October 1): Thanks to Nick Sloan at the Kansas City Kansan, we now have Jeremy Comstock’s escape on video. Via the magic of YouTube, we learn 1) that Wyandotte County might consider cuffing inmates’ hands behind their backs…
