Of his cinematic influences, Orson Welles once remarked, “I prefer the old masters — by which I mean John Ford, John Ford and John Ford.” And while the old master’s greatest work comprises a list as long as your arm, 1956’s The Searchers is widely regarded as Ford’s definitive effort. By daring to cast John Wayne, his frequent collaborator, as…
Allan Winkler’s art process requires patience, concentration, and a careful hand. Winkler’s meticulously detailed paper cutouts include vibrant, colorful and peculiarmythological creatures, self portraits, friends and family. This solo exhibit will display the artist’s journey with the Exacto knife since graduating from the Kansas City Art Institute in 1975 and more importantly where Winkler’s obscure labor is headed. Mondays-Fridays, 9…
Celebrity chef and host of Lidia’s Italy, discusses her new children’s book as well as holiday traditions in Italy. Tue., Nov. 16, 3:30 p.m., 2010 Tags: Europe, Italy, Night & Day, Southern Europe
The sadists at the AMC Studio 30 in Olathe are screening TLC’s Sarah Plain’s Alaska tonight on their big screen. I’d rather set fire to my testicles than watch this, but we all enjoy our own tortures. So if you’d like to register for tickets, it might not be too late (click here). Categories: News, Politics Tags: sarah palin
Parents are getting ‘recession-weary’ and eating out again The restaurant industry received a glimmer of good news recently. Families, which had cut back on dining in restaurants, returned to dining out in greater numbers over the summer, reversing a three-year downward trend. In a story posted online today by Nation’s Restaurant News, the Chicago-based research organization, NPD Group reported that…
The girl was 14-years-old when her relative started sexually abusing her. She ended up pregnant with 42-year-old Ralf Moises Mondonedo’s child. The Topeka Capital-Journal has the heartbreaking story of the woman, who is now 18, and reportedly sometimes tells her mother that she wishes she were dead. Categories: News Tags: Ralf Moises Mondonedo
The list of Kansas City’s 10 most stolen vehicles of the last year came out this week. And since everyone loves lists, Police Chief Jim Corwin looked back in the KCPD’s vault and dug up the 10 most stolen vehicles in the last three years. The make and model that the guy in the hoodie hanging out in your parking…
Earlier this year, I went out to the North-East Kansas City Public Library and spent a day with Jeremy McConnell, Aaron Sutton and Roscoe Johnson, the guys who run the Hip Hop Academy. They’re doing inspiring work — read about it here. Former Pitch music editor Jason Harper works for the Kansas City Public Library these days, developing web content. Kind of…
It’s perfectly acceptable to know that you need wine to get through the holidays. Since you can’t pick your family, you might as well pick out some wines you will enjoy. Liquor stores and wine bar feel your pain and have arranged a series of holiday wine tastings that should help ease the pain of vacation stories and dry turkey….
The journey to becoming presiding commissioner of Cass County is an arduous one. Republican Herschel Young rode tsunamiwaveapocaquake into office, beating Democratic incumbent Gary Mallory. KMBC Channel 9 reported that the Cass County Democratic Party and Mallory are challenging Young’s victory, arguing that he should never have been allowed to run for the office because Missouri lawmakers passed a law…
Linda Curry died from nicotine poisoning on June 10, 1994. She didn’t smoke, and police in Orange County, California, suspected her husband, Paul Curry. But they never had enough evidence to charge him. The case was cold … until now. Paul Curry, who was living in Salina, Kansas, and working as a building official for the city, was arrested on…
Never underestimate the ingenuity of welfare recipients. In the dairy case at the Cosentino’s Market grocery store on Main Street downtown, a sign warns, “Limit 2 on the Shatto Fruit Drinks.” Policies that seem adverse to basic capitalistic tendencies — doesn’t everyone want you to buy more of everything? — provoke questions. So I pulled some unlucky shelf-stocker aside and…
We may not be known as the safest hamlet in the country or the most attractive, but entrepreneurial-minded folks looking for a place to start up a business may find a haven in Kansas City. In a Fast Company article titled, “Why You Should Start a Business in … Kansas City,” the biggest draw was the number of mentorship programs…
On occasion, we’re given the opportunity to discover our limits in life. It’s just up to us to decide whether we want to respect those limits or not. Yesterday, in the tiny park on the corner of 17th and Summit, I discovered I have an upper limit of one and a half grilled cheese sandwiches. And thanks to The Westside…
Cokeheads, it’s not snowing in Salina. And mules, you probably want to refuel your planes in another town. Salina, Kansas, police confiscated 105 pounds of cocaine from a private plane that landed at the Salina Municipal Airport on September 27, according to the Salina Journal. Street value of the blow: $2 million. Categories: News Tags: cocaine
We’ve got boat drinks for when we retire and Chinese food for when our wife is out of town. So, let’s make it official and have plane sandwiches be the official food of travel. Sean Christensen made a short video about the sandwich his sister made to sustain him on the transatlantic flight between Phoenix and London. I won’t ruin…
At 8:16 a.m. this morning — like the area code — Irv Da Phenom dropped the video for his song “Red and Yellow” — like the Chiefs colors. If you cut me I would probably bleed / Red and yellow, he raps from street corners, atop a downtown building, and on a bus with Tech N9ne. The hook is catchy…
Lidia Bastianich, the chef-owner of Lidia’s Kansas City, will spend much of next Monday on the set of The View. “I’ll be talking about my new book and cooking some Thanksgiving goodies for the ladies,” Bastianich said. “Then, later, I’ll take a 10 p.m. flight to Kansas City.” The following day will be action-packed for the restaurateur: a radio appearance…
Matt Costa is better known as the songwriter behind “Mr. Pitiful,” which wormed itself into peoples’ brain for three months in 2008 thanks to various commercials and movies. His latest album, Mobile Chateau, is reportedly a “bold step forward into the kaleidoscopic beyond,” according to a press release. Costa is mining his longtime love for ’60s psychedelic superheroes like Donovan,…
The big story of the morning is a U.S. Bank teller was reportedly abducted, beaten and forced to open up the bank branch on 119th Street near U.S. 69 Highway in Overland Park. Another employee of the bank found the teller tied to a chair this morning. No one’s sure how much money the robber got away with. Categories: News
