Pitch IT guy Matt Spencer sent this photo in from a wreck at 39th and Wyoming. He writes that traffic is down to one lane, so keep that in mind on your commute home. Categories: News
When you hear that a guy’s racked up seven drunken driving convictions — three of ’em in a seven-month period — you’d think that the guy is going away for a long, long time. You’d be wrong. David Matthews has managed to collect seven of ’em in just 27 years of existence. His collection began nine years ago, but he’s…
Here in Fat City, the economy weighs heavily on our minds, particularly during election time. So, as card-carrying members of the Bull Moose Party (there aren’t many of us left, you know), we’re jumping on the beef platform, looking to cast a vote for the best steak deals in the metro. Driving south on Highway 71, we stopped in Carthage,…
Kenny G, who I hate with the white-hot fury of one thousand suns, will be appearing at the Midland, just in time for the most obnoxious holiday on the planet. (Christmas.) The dark times are upon us. Categories: Music Tags: Kenny G, Kenny G., rage, weezer
U2’s 360 Degrees Tour announced sixteen tour dates today — and none of them are in Kansas City. The good news? U2 is hitting up our neighboring city, St. Louis, on July 17, 2011. According to The Riverfront Times, capacity of the concert is expected to exceed 50,000, with 90 percent of tickets priced at under $100, according to today’s…
The next big trend in craft beer isn’t likely to come from an undiscovered flavor profile, instead brewmasters are looking to the past with the help of molecular archaeologists. The Guardian recently looked at how ingredients from several thousand years ago — wildflower honey, wormwood, juniper twigs, and bog myrtle — are being considered (and/or currently used) by brewers hoping…
Christina Nicole Devine told police, “I can’t be a mom,” and I tend to agree. If you’ve left your baby in a trash Dumpster and went out for a chocolate shake after, yep, you’re not mommy material. Devine, 24, is charged with attempted intentional first-degree murder after allegedly wrapping her newborn with a still-attached umbilical cord in a plastic bag…
We’re big fans of Continents, the hazy psych-pop project of Jim Button. We don’t get a lot of chances to see the songs performed live, though, so this weekend is special. Button & Co. are playing a show Friday down at Bridgeport, across from Grinders. (Also on the bill: Breathe Owl Breathe, Saharan Gazelle Boy and David Bennett.) To celebrate…
Categories: Music Tags: Grisly Hand, halloween, new riddim, Tut Tut
Like 215,000 other Americans this weekend, I went to Washington, D.C., for Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert’s Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear on Saturday. And like thousands of those people, I was too far away to see a damn thing. The closest I edged to the stage was half a mile, and it was a hectic scene even that…
Jazz and hip-hop seem to have a beautiful cross-flow in Kansas City these days. Mark Lowrey vs. Hip-Hop is a regular source for MCs and jazz players to team up, and Les Izmore and Diverse fused jazz and hip-hop in a tribute to Common’s Like Water for Chocolate last year. Black Friday — that’s November 26 — will unveil tributes…
%{}% The franchisee of the local TGI Friday’s restaurants in Kansas City seems to be playing a version of Ten Little Indians — or Four Little Indians, in this case — with its restaurants in the metro. The Shawnee TGI Friday’s location was closed, after a ten-year run, on September 13. We wrote about the closing of the Leawood restaurant…
The Max Weinberg Big Band made a Halloween stop at Jardine’s, in one of the jazz club’s highest profile shows in recent memory. Judging by the turnout, Weinberg’s name pulls some weight, whether it’s from his older days with Bruce Springsteen, or his more recent tenure as the bandleader with Conan O’Brien. Regardless, there wasn’t a single seat left in…
The Missouri Farm Bureau opposes the “puppy mill” question that’s on Tuesday’s ballot. The organization says the restrictions on large-scale breeding facilities will unfairly punish reputable dog farmers. But the bureau don’t stop there. In an open letter to animal lovers, Estil Fretwell, the bureau’s public affairs director with a made-up-sounding name, goes on to criticize the Humane Society of…
It’s always the quiet ones who win the reality cooking competitions. Julian’s Celina Tio continues to be all business on The Next Iron Chef where a strong set of dishes in this week’s episode earned her a trip to Las Vegas, where the second half of the show was filmed. And for the second week in a row, she demonstrated…
%{}% On Saturday in Washington Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert held their Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Keep Fear Alive. The purpose of the event, which drew more than 200,000 people, was to help Cat Stevens win support for his fatwa against Salman Rushdie. What, you didn’t know that? You must have missed the rightblogger coverage. You probably also missed…
Let’s face it: The Chiefs got lucky Sunday. Really lucky. Chiefs kicker Ryan Succop saved the day with a last-second, 35-yard field goal in overtime to escape with a 13-10 victory. Succop was nearly the goat after his first overtime kick, a 39 yarder, hooked left. What’s worse: This all came against the winless Buffalo. Categories: News Tags: kansas city…
A few weeks ago, we warned you of the lack of imagination in popular Halloween costumes. We even went so far as to say Halloween 2010 would suck balls this year, thanks to the cultural impact of Jersey Shore and Lady Gaga. Maybe it was this call to arms that got you off your asses, Kansas City. The costumed masses…
Roger Waters Presents The Wall Saturday, October 30, 2010 The Sprint Center It all began with a homeless man. Roger Waters’ magnum opus, The Wall, was unveiled in live form at the Sprint Center on Saturday night. The Pink Floyd masterpiece — one of the most commercially successful albums ever, and an irrefutable piece of pop culture history — would…
Years of travel have lowered my expectations of airport food to somewhere between ancient gas station hot dog and frozen chicken cutlet. Any choice you make is seemingly a mistake and will set you back a ten-spot. But Milwaukee County’s General Mitchell International Airport’s Terminal D let me dream for one moment yesterday that greatness can be found during a…
Floyd frontman Roger Waters brought “a monumental tour featuring a full band and a newly-mounted state-of-the-art production of his epochal masterpiece of alienation and transformation performed in its entirety” to Kansas City and the Sprint Center on October 30. All photos by Scott Spychalski.
All photos were taken by photo intern Brandon Frederick.
