Justin K. Schmitt was admittedly a brazen thief, but he just wasn’t very good at it. Back in August, Schmitt, admittedly high on meth, had stolen a red Chevy pick-up truck because he was out “messing around” with a friend and needed a way home. Why not swipe a truck? But in a boneheaded move, he got the truck stuck…
Apocalypse Meow 3, the third annual event to help raise money for the Musician’s Health Care Fund for Musicians living and working in Kansas City and the surrounding areas, happened this weekend at the Riot Room and the Midwestern Musical Co.
Cooking can be as much about confidence as technique. And chef Celina Tio showed she’s not lacking either on the latest episode of The Next Iron Chef. With only five contestants left, the kitchen got a bit more testy, and Tio showed a feisty side that might just take her to Kitchen Stadium. Categories: Dining, Food & Drink
%{}% As you may have heard, President Obama has made a trip to India, and it’s costing taxpayers a bazillion dollars because he brought the entire Seventh Fleet and thousands of campaign contributors. Oops, sorry, that’s not true — it’s only $200 million a day and he only took 34 warships. Oops, that’s also not true (or as the Wall…
This weekend, Hip-Hop Is Undead paid tribute to the fallen greats of the genre at an art show at La Esquina on the West Side. Check out the slideshow here. Categories: Music Tags: Hip-Hop Is Undead
John Mellencamp The Midland Friday, November 5 There is something deeply unsettling about standing in a crowd of 2,000 middle-aged human beings all joyously singing the lyric, Life goes on / long after the thrill of living is gone. Categories: Music Tags: john mellencamp
We may need to revise the stereotypical images of meat eaters and vegetarians. Because the most bloodthirsty among us might be those who eat less meat. A psychology student at McGill University believes that his research shows that meat may actually reduce aggressive behavior. Categories: Dining, Food & Drink
In January, will we look back on the Chiefs’ overtime loss to the Raiders and see the beginning of how the AFC West was lost? The loss puts Oakland right behind the Chiefs for the AFC West division crown, and the Raiders owe it all to Sebastian Janikowski’s foot and Jacoby Ford’s spectacular plays. Ford made plays straight out of…
Visual artists paid homage to hip hop greats of the past whose lives were tragically cut short at an art space on the West Side.
%{}% Charlie the Tuna sold out his school long ago. The Chick Fil-A cows have been promoting the barnyard massacre of chickens for years. And now Mr. Peanut has finally broken his silence. Only, it’s not in protest of the yearly harvest of the finest nuts being lost to an endless battle with hunger. Instead the hour glass-shaped, monocle-wearing priss…
Today: Some people are writers. Others are writers. Joyce Carol Oates is a prolific, multiple Pulitzer Prize-nominee with a new book out. And she’ll hold court at 6:30 at the downtown library. Tuesday: Inequality sucks, and, unfortunately, this country has a long history of it. Documented Rights, an ongoing exhibition at the National Archives, traces civil rights issues in America…
UPDATE: Kansas City, Kansas, police say 50-year-old Dennis J. Day was the victim of a domestic violence homicide in the 6400 block of Parkview Avenue Saturday morning. Police took a white woman in her early forties into custody after finding a white male in his early fifties shot to death inside a home in the 6400 block of Parkview Avenue…
Terran J. Baker, Kansas City, Kansas, police are looking for you. Baker, 33, is wanted for questioning in the homicide of 36-year-old Bernard E. Love, who was killed in a double shooting in the 1500 block of North 23rd Street October 24. Baker is described as a 6-foot-2, 230-pound black male with black hair and brown eyes. Categories: News Tags:…
This one’s for the fellas: Guys, you better check your penis pills. By now, everyone has seen the Jimmy Johnson Extenze commercials and some of you have said, hey, if it’s good enough for a Super Bowl champion coach’s cock, then it’s good enough for mine. But if Jimmy Johnson’s johnson isn’t endorsing it, you need to check the package….
I’d like to be more excited about the possibility of an extra hour’s sleep when Daylight Savings Time officially ends at 2 a.m. on Sunday, November 7. But since my body has adjusted to the time change, I won’t be sleepy…I’ll be hungry. So if you can’t roll over and enjoy that extra hour for sleep, why not use those…
Just days after voters approved the so-called “Puppy Mill Cruelty Prevention Act,” Missouri lawmakers are looking for ways to weaken the law — and show those who voted for Prop B that their votes don’t matter. Lawmakers are already bowing to the will of breeders and agriculture groups — the ones on the wrong-end of the election — arguing that…
Joseph Young was a decent bank robber, but he had the least intimidating criminal nickname of all time. He was the “Plaid Shirt Robber,” so named because that’s the signature garment he had on in the security footage. Young will be trading his plaids in for a monochromatic prison jumpsuit. This morning the former midtowner was sentenced to 18 years…
This week marks the release of a much-heralded new biography of the most famous queen of Egypt: Cleopatra: A Life by Stacy Schiff which reveals much about the life of a woman who remains as famous now as she was during her lifetime. Schiff writes that Cleopatra retains one of the busiest afterlives in history” as not only a historical…
First, Folgers and now Harley-Davidson. The motorcycle maker is threatening to bolt Kansas City unless plant employees bow to wage and other concessions. KMBC Channel 9 reported that Harley-Davidson could merge the Kansas City plant’s operations with those in York, Pennsylvania, a threat that Harley-Davidson has been using in plant cities across the nation. Categories: News Tags: Harley-Davidson
I’ve never eaten a Happy Meal in my life. But that’s only because McDonald’s introduced the concept — created by Kansas City advertising mogul Bob Bernstein in 1977 — after I had graduated from college and had moved on to other sinful (and, ultimately, less happy) pleasures. But if I missed out on Bernstein’s creation of a gaily-decorated cardboard box…
So it’s come to this. You can no longer get a bachelors degree in journalism at the school U.S. News and World Report ranked the 76th best public university in the Midwest. Here at The Pitch offices, I’ve already started prying the precious metals out of the computers and the copper wiring from the walls. I’ll start on the liquor…
It’s socially acceptable to like the Chiefs again. Winning will do that for ya. So guess who gets to flip the switch at the Plaza Lighting Ceremony on Thanksgiving night? Running backs Jamaal Charles and Thomas Jones will share the honors — just like they share carries. It’s yet another frustrating development for fantasy football owners who’d prefer Charles get…
