The Insight Bowl just got a lot easier for the Missouri Tigers. Derrell Johnson-Koulianos, the Iowa Hawkeyes career leader in receptions and receiving yards and a first-team All-Big Ten selection, won’t be playing in the game after police searched his Iowa City home on Tuesday and found a whole lot of prescription drugs that didn’t belong to DJK along with…
UPDATE: Marion Denmon was the cousin of University of Missouri-Columbia basketball player Marcus Denmon, according to KSHB Channel 41. Kansas City, Missouri, is one homicide away from topping 100 after Marion Denmon was killed in a crossfire between two vehicles. Kansas City police give this account: On December 3, Denmon and another man were driving near Cleaver II and Elmwood…
Bad Christmas food plagues those who are naughty and nice this time of year. And before you get to put out the cookies for Santa, you may have to struggle through a meal that threatens to sap your holiday cheer. If you want to know what somebody really thinks about you, think about the food they bring you. Today we’ll…
The breakfast buffet table at Avenues Bistro in Mission Farms holds all sorts of pitfalls. Are you going to fill up on peel-your-own shrimp or bacon scones? Will you fail to grab a cinnamon roll because you’re too busy loading up on cold cuts and cheese slices? I visited the Brookside restaurant’s sister location for the first time this past…
As I sort through this year’s releases, trying to figure out what the hell I’m picking for the Village Voice’s Pazz & Jop Poll, there are a good number of tracks that keep popping up in my mind. These aren’t necessarily the “best” tracks I heard all year, but they’re the songs I enjoyed listening to the most. They’re also…
Please? We’re going to be that blog today. Yeah. Sorry. C’mon, it’s easy! Our Facebook page is right here. You’ll get the one-ups on free ticket giveaways, local music news, witty commentary, and all that good stuff. Plus, you’ll feel like a cool kid. And that’s what we both want, right? The Plog has its own Facebook page, now, too…
UPDATE: Ryan Newell, the wounded war vet accused of stalking Fred Phelps’ gay-hating, soldier-funeral-picketing Westboro Baptist Church, was released from jail yesterday. Read the update after the jump … We now know the name of the wounded Army vet accused of stalking members of the Westboro Baptist Church in Wichita. The Wichita Eagle reports that Ryan Newell, a 26-year-old double-amputee…
Butcher paper still covers the windows at The Rieger Hotel Grill & Exchange (1924 Main). But just beyond that paper, there’s a restaurant waiting to be discovered. Last night, Ryan Maybee was behind the new bar at the spot he is set to open with chef Howard Hanna. And in a twist for the man most known for cocktails in…
When My Chemical Romance’s last album, The Black Parade, came out in 2006, few fans of its gothic, theatrical rock anticipated the record’s sharp veer away from angry emo mopers, like “I’m Not Okay (I Promise).” The release of The Black Parade’s title track heralded a new era in the group’s horror-ridden, grandiose history, one that saw the band embrace…
There’s a 99.9 percent chance that the girl at Starbucks just wants to give you your latte and has no interest in seeing your penis. That .1 percent chance? Not this time. Back on October 1, Brian K. Swanson ordered a venti caramel macchiato at a Starbucks in a Platte County Target store. The 41-year-old paid with his credit card…
Restaurateurs should listen to the readers of The Pitch more often. Alan Gaylin and Glynn Roberts, the founders of BRGR Kitchen + Bar, the clever burger joint voted the best new restaurant of the year by Pitch readers, are apparently looking to expand in the Corinth Square shopping center. Joyce Smith at The Kansas City Star has the story of…
Remember back in October when we encouraged you to donate a few bucks to Sam Billen’s Kickstarter fund so that he could record an album of Christmas songs that he would then give to everybody for free? You remember! Well, Billen surpassed his $1,200 pledge goal, and, per the agreed-upon social contract, you are now free to download his Christmas…
The word “patriot” is thrown around a lot these days. But Missouri Rep. David Sater might just be the greatest patriot Missouri has ever produced. Because only David Sater has the courage to make sure that our pharmacies don’t have to sell you birth control. And by “you,” chances are I really mean you. I don’t want to tell tales…
Former Chief Kyle Turley is a pretty impressive individual. There was that time he flung his helmet a thousand feet into the air during a game. And he’s been an outspoken advocate of reforming the way the NFL handles concussions. Oh yeah, and he embarked on a music career following his retirement from the NFL, and wrote a song where…
