Darrell Pope took over the Hutchinson, Kansas, branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People in 1967, one year before Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated. In 2009, Pope was honored by the civil rights organization as its longest continuously serving branch president. And he’s still making waves. Yesterday, The Hutchinson News reported that the NAACP, through…
When it comes to dating, lunch is like coffee. Both suggest that you’re on uncertain ground and still figuring out whether you want to dive in for dinner at the American. Compounding the problem is finding the right place to take a date. It has to strike the proper balance between casual and I-spent-a-little-time-Googling-this. Unless he or she loves burgers….
Frank Hicks continues to heat January up at Knuckleheads Saloon. For the second time this month, another of New Orleans’ finest is coming on Friday, January 21: Bonerama. Categories: Music Tags: Bonerama, knuckleheads, New Orleans Soundsystem, trombones
Word on the street is that Dave’s Stagecoach’s jukebox is a thing of the past. The vending company has decided to replace the Westport dive bar’s beloved jukebox with a TouchTunes, due to troubles with service. (Apparently, Dave’s jukebox was one of the only CD boxes left.) Go visit Dave’s jukebox while you can — play us a boozy tear-jerker,…
It’s been barely a month since KC’s animal shelters were on the verge of euthanizing dozens upon dozens of sweet, gentle puppies due to overcrowding. God bless you, Kansas City. You came through and gave a lot of pooches a home for Christmas, even though you couldn’t save them all. There wouldn’t be so many red alerts from the shelter…
If you harbor dreams of one day using your Mega Millions winnings to start and populate a colony of floating humans on a space station far, far away from this ghastly planet of ours, we come bearing some unfortunate news: Space isn’t good for your baby-making parts. At least that’s what a University of Kansas researcher is predicting, based on…
Eric Price is eager to start performing magic again at Waldo Pizza. This morning, Plog reports that several local magicians have arranged for a fundraising show Saturday night at the Kansas City Improv Club in Zona Rosa. The benefit will raise funds for another area performer, Eric Z. Price, who has been a featured magician at the original Waldo Pizza…
Jonathan Bender, our Fat City food blogger, has the latest alcoholic concoctions that musicians are offering up. Ginuwine is all set to sell you Adult Chocolate Milk. According to the YBF, the singer is the alcoholic dairy drink’s new spokesman. New spirits are like restaurants — it’s cool to be a part owner these days. Even Bruce Willis has his…
This week’s issue of The Pitch features the plight of rapper DMX and his struggle to stay out of trouble and get back on the charts again. Here’s a snippet from the story, by Niki D’Andrea: Walker’s cell phone rings. It’s somebody asking what DMX wants in his dressing room, other than the items already assembled: fried chicken, Now and…
Lawrence pop-punk godfathers the Get Up Kids is releasing its brand-spankin’-new album on January 25 — its first, after a four-year hiatus from 2005 to 2009. It’s called There Are Rules. (They’re also playing a hometown show at the Bottleneck on Sunday, March 13.) You can download a new single over at RCRD LBL. Click here to download it, for…
John Yuelkenbeck, responsible for one of the best bar jukeboxes in town at Dave’s Stagecoach, is retiring from his faithful post behind the Westport dive’s beaten counter. The part-time bartender has been working at Dave’s for more than 13 years, and he’s the master behind Jukebox Roulette, too. Here’s what the bar’s Facebook page says: Its a sad day at…
Robert Gibbs, White House Press Secretary, announced this morning that he is leaving his post in early February. While this is big news for the Obama administration as the president gears up for a re-election battle, it also could signal a promotion for Kansas City, Missouri, native Josh Earnest, a Gibbs deputy since Obama took office in January 2009. Categories:…
Wired has envisioned what the grocery store of the future might look like. Only four years down the road, we’ll apparently be eating supercharged anti-bacterial yogurt, triple-irradiated spinach and a 45-hour energy drink. (Can you build up a tolerance to that stuff?) I think we can take the idea even further and talk about what actually might be coming to…
%{}% A lawsuit accuses the Kansas City Missouri School District of discriminating against older teachers and principals as it implemented its “right-sizing” plan. Filed in Jackson County on behalf of an individual named Thomas Levin, the suit hopes to bring a class-action case against the district on behalf of workers aged 40 and older “who met the school district’s legitimate…
Fresh salads, savory falafel and exotic tea… what’s not to love about the new Olive Cafe in midtown? Read Charles’ review and check out pictures taken by Pitch photographer Angela C. Bond.
There’s a new eco-sheriff in town, and he’s hungry. The New York Times introduced the world to the invasivore movement — a group of people dedicated to hunting and eating invasive species. It’s a new take on sustainable food, one wherein humans help another species remain sustainable by eating a predator. Because if you can’t eat something, you might as…
People stop being polite and start acting real before they’ve had their caffeine fix for the day. And it turns out that coffee-shop waitresses bear the brunt of diners’ boorish behavior. The SF Foodie looked at why servers in coffee shops might hate their customers. And it turns out that coffee sippers are not only rude but also, in some…
There are still very few details, but expect them to be interesting when they come from Kansas City, Kansas, where the FBI has detained several police officers and, at the behest of the police chief there, is investigating misconduct by officers in the department’s high-profile SCORE unit. It’s unclear what the officers are accused of and when they might be…
Margo May is leaving for Portland, Oregon, and she’s playing a few shows in town this week before she leaves. (One of them is tonight.) The singer-songwriter (and Pitch Best Emerging Act winner) posted this to her Facebook page a couple of days ago: I am going to live in Portland, Oregon until I finish my next album. I do…
Eric Z. Price was shot in the head outside Waldo Pizza on November 30. Amazingly, he survived and continues to recover. No mere drink and pizza slinger, Price made a name for himself before the tragedy as a magician. The Pitch even gave him an award for Best Bar Trick back in 2006 for his ability to wow with a…
The last time a man was executed in Missouri was May 2009, and now Richard Clay is set to break the streak in little more than a week. So with the Jan. 12 date looming, his family and supporters have started their last efforts to keep Clay from the executioner with a press conference begging for clemency yesterday in Jefferson…
Season of the Witch begins in a Crusade taking place after the Crusades, in a 14th-century For Dummies about as immersive and real as the Ohio State Renaissance Festival. Disillusioned, defected knights Behmen and Felson (Nicolas Cage and Ron Perlman) retreat home across hotchpotch Europe and turn off into a Hammer Film. Arriving at a plague-eaten town, our heroes are…
The dead cat to the right may or may not be the mountain lion with evil glowing eyes that was spotted in Platte County late last year. A Ray County cattleman’s coonhounds treed this young male before the cattleman shot it in the head with a .22-caliber rifle. Categories: News Tags: mountain lion
