Doyle Byrnes, one of four students kicked out of the Johnson County Community College nursing program for posting pictures of themselves with a human placenta on Facebook, gets to go back to school, KCTV Channel 5 reports. U.S. District Judge Eric Melgren ordered JCCC to allow Byrnes and the three other students to be readmitted before classes resume January 19….
Emilie Autumn, a 31-year-old writer, violinist, self-labeled “Victoriandustrial” artist, suicide survivor, glittermonger and asexual vegan, will be gracing us with her uh, one-of-a-kind presence at the Beaumont Club on Thursday, March 10. Categories: Music Tags: Dropkick Murphys, flogging molly, loretta lynn, Sarah McLachlan, Zoom
It was news to his landlord, Diane Botwin, but femme illusionist and restaurateur John Koop announced on his Facebook page at 2:30 p.m. that he was closing Flo’s Cabaret this weekend. Botwin tells me that Koop hasn’t been returning her phone calls. Last week, Koop insisted to Fat City that he was trying to sell — but wasn’t closing —…
Former Kansas City Wizard Uche Okafor was found dead at his home in Little Elm, Texas, Thursday, having hanged himself. Okafor, 43, was a Nigerian soccer star who played with the Wizards from 1996 to 2000 and finished his career with the team. He was also on the Nigerian World Cup team in both 1994 and 1998. According to Associated…
The new Olive Cafe in midtown is reviewed in this week’s Pitch. There are many excellent dishes on its menu, but owner-chef Haron Mansi’s hummus is particularly creamy and delicious. Some historians date the chickpea spread (hummus is the Arabic word for chickpea) to pre-dynastic Egypt, 7,000 years ago. But only recently has the flavorful dip — typically made of…
Hidden Pictures’ full-length album is called Synchronized Sleeping, and it will be released early this spring. Huzzah! In other news, the Lawrence pop band is shooting a video for “Anne Apparently,” a single off the band’s EP from last year, Choosing Sides. Here are the details, according to the band’s e-mail: The video — for the song “Anne Apparently” —…
The theater has a well-known reputation for attracting the gays. The American military, on the other hand, has a history of rejecting them. But now that the “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy banning gays from serving openly in the military has been repealed, men and women in uniform can attend gay-themed theatrical events without worrying about sullying their reputations (and…
It would be really awesome if the metro had a legitimate claim on any of the artists nominated in the popular Grammy categories this year. Alas, even cheesy and puzzling candidates Lady Antebellum (Album of the Year??!!) and Michael Buble (Best Male Pop Vocal Performance) hail from hamlets other than Kansas City and its surrounding areas. Thankfully, the Recording Academy…
Astrologically, we’re in the time of Capricorn. So what do diners born under this astrological sign (December 22-January 20) like to eat? We asked our resident Fat City expert, waitress and astrologer Brenda G. Smith, to answer this question. “Well, Capricorns are very concerned about what other people think of them, so they’re frequently dieting,” Smith says. “But they do…
Remember when the Wakarusa festival, named for a Douglas County river, was held in Lawrence? Sigh. Well, if you’re ready to trek down to Arkansas, the new home of the festival for the past two years, you’ll be treated to some mighty fine music. Highlights include My Morning Jacket, Ben Harper and the Relentless 7, Mumford and Sons, Sharon Jones…
The next man scheduled for execution in Missouri is running out of options, and there are serious questions that the state will even be able to kill him humanely. Richard Clay is going to die next week. After two separate trials — the first of which was thrown out because of questions regarding the prosecution’s methods — he was convicted…
The Tur-Duck-En has escaped Thanksgiving dinner and made it onto the burger menu at Beer Kitchen in Westport. Two bites into the Tur-Duck-En and one thing is clear — this is the meatiest non-beef burger in Kansas City. Categories: Dining, Food & Drink
Kansas City state Rep. Leonard Hughes can’t afford to take his seat in the Legislature. He’s like a broke guy standing outside a club, showing his empty, out-turned pockets to the bouncer while his friends bump ‘n’ grind inside. Well, maybe it’s not exactly like that. But until Hughes, a Democrat, can scrape together the $19,090 he owes the Missouri…
The best part of waking up is sending a tweet to your coffeemaker and telling it to brew up a carafe of black gold. Lifehacker has the instructions on how to make a Twitter-controlled coffee machine that can be turned on and off 140 characters at a time. Instead of informing the world that you need your morning coffee, now…
If you’ve been waiting patiently for your best friend to offer you those Chiefs tickets you know he’s been sitting on, it may be time to buy some of your own. Your friend, it seems, already has plans for his extra ticket. Oh, what the prospect of new ass can do to a man. Categories: News Tags: kansas city chiefs
His fellow performers are rallying around magician Eric Price, who was shot outside Waldo Pizza on November 30, and now you have the chance to do the same thing. A comedy and magic show benefit is being held for Price at the Kansas City Improv Club on Saturday at 1 p.m. He will be in attendance as he continues his…
Live music will accompany your scavenging at Streetside Records this weekend. MC Reach and DJ Ataxic perform live for free on Friday, January 7, at 7 p.m., and indie-rock band Soft Reeds plays on Saturday, January 8, at 5 p.m. (That one is a freebie, too.) Categories: Music Tags: reach, soft reeds, streetside records
It’s a few minutes before 2 p.m. on a Wednesday, and chef Kelli Daniels is getting ready to close her kitchen. A middle-aged man in a stocking cap stops and looks in the window on Westport Road, saying he just wants to see what this is all about. “I see you love Jesus,” says Daniels, noting the large cross around…
In her best-selling 1985 autobiography, Elvis and Me, Priscilla Beaulieu Presley claims that her husband couldn’t stomach singers whom he thought were “all technique and no emotional feeling,” such as Mel Torme and Robert Goulet. “They were responsible for two television sets being blown away with a .357 Magnum,” she writes. Categories: Music Tags: elvis, knuckleheads
Maps for Travelers is making inroads in Kansas City’s music scene. (You can read about the band’s progress in this week’s issue of The Pitch.) We’ve got a little behind-the-scenes talk from the band about the history that lies behind Maps for Travelers’ riffs — and what the band hopes lies ahead. Categories: Music Tags: Flee the Seen, Maps for…
Is there anything in that headline that isn’t awesome? Tonight, Louder Than Bombs III goes down on the West Side, at El Pueblito Restaurant on Southwest Boulevard. Break out the pomade, kids, because one lady and one gentleman will be treated to a “Mexican feast” if they’re dressed the most like Moz. Appropriately, Brit-pop, new wave and shoegaze will spin…
When news broke last night that Stanford quarterback Andrew Luck, the consensus No. 1 pick in April’s NFL draft, would put off the NFL to stay at Stanford for another season, the story quickly commandeered local sports talk. Why? Because like Maverick was to Cougar, Missouri quarterback Blaine Gabbert was supposed to be the draft class’s No. 2 gunslinger. With…
%{}% Jerry Moran never missed an opportunity to make a villain of government spending as he campaigned for the U.S. Senate seat that Sam Brownback put up for grabs. Last year’s Republican primary was essentially a contest between Moran and fellow U.S. Rep. Todd Tiahrt to spit the word “Washington” with the most contempt. Now that he’s on the varsity…
