Clay Hughes & the What is one of the newest bands signed to Sharp County Records, the brand-spankin’-new Kansas City label curated by Ha Ha Tonka’s Lennon Bone. The band’s debut, The Wrong Side of Crazy, is a chunk of sunny radio-rock peppered with hip-hop, and it boasts some ear-catching melodies. But dated scratching plagues the production, which pushes too…
The fourth album of Mr. Marco’s V7 is otherworldly, just as fans of this label-defying combo have come to expect. Though most of Sparkin’ Your Mama is a frenzied improvisation that veers toward metal and funk, it ends after seven instrumentals with a spare jazz performance featuring guest vocalist Arrika Brazil and trumpet player Chad Boydston. The Pitch sat down…
Here’s a story you don’t see every day: A 20-year-old woman is accused of possessing several videos with child porn on them. Yes, woman. Kristen Lamb turned herself in to authorities last week, the Columbia Daily Tribune reported. Last October, a Cyber Crimes Task Force in Boone County reportedly found a computer in Columbia offering child porn through a file-sharing…
Former Kansas City Royal Coco Crisp was arrested last week on suspicion of drunken driving. Crisp wasn’t exactly flying below the radar. He was cruising around Scottsdale in a black 2009 Rolls Royce around 2:15 a.m., and by cruising, he was reportedly unable to stay in his own lane. No word on whether he was wearing a monocle and a…
Folk-rock hero and genius producer John Vanderslice has been using his songs as platforms for narrative storytelling for almost 11 years. Vanderslice’s signature vocal style has been emulated by a host of singer-songwriters over the past decade, and his recording studio, Tiny Telephone, has helped produce albums for bands such as Death Cab for Cutie and Spoon. In April, Vanderslice…
Playing in the NBA is the dream of just about anyone dribbling a basketball. I dreamed of playing for the Chicago Bulls, but 6 feet and 120 pounds doesn’t get it done. I also suck at basketball. But you can damn well bet that if an NBA team booked me a flight, my ass would be at the airport five…
Elke Mermis has the details on Guy Fieri’s return to our fair city over on our music blog, Wayward. Fieri — the spiky-haired food dude from Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives — is an unabashed fan of Kansas City. (So far, the Food Network star has hit up Mama’s 39th Street Diner, Grinders, Happy Gillis, the Brick, and a whole bunch…
Guy Fieri — the spiky-haired food dude from Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives — is an unabashed fan of Kansas City. (So far, the Food Network star has hit up Mama’s 39th Street Diner, Grinders, Happy Gillis, the Brick, and a whole bunch more. For a full list, click here.) Normally, this would be fare strictly for our food blog, Fat…
Jonathan Whitworth’s lawsuit against the members of a SWAT team that shot and killed his pit bull and held his 7-year-old son at gunpoint last February is headed to mediation. The Columbia Daily Tribune reported that the case was reassigned and could be “on a fast-track to disposition pending the success of mediation.” However, a date for the mediation to…
UPDATE: Like a case of herpes, Clay Chastain just won’t go away. The wannabe write-in candidate for Kansas City mayor is planning to file another lawsuit to get on the March 22 ballot, according to KMBC. This comes just days after a judge ruled that Chastain didn’t meet the requirements to run. Chastain is now claiming that the city attorney…
UPDATE: As expected, a federal judge sentenced Brandon Simmons and Jason Jeffries to two years of probation and ordered them to repay thousands of dollars in restitution. They should both thank Cthulhu that they’re not going to federal prison.Original Story (March 3): Probation certainly beats getting locked up in a federal penitentiary. Two of the seven former University of Kansas…
Last October, Sueko the chimpanzee went on a mini-rampage near 77th and Indiana, flipping off an animal-control officer and karate kicking a police car’s windshield. The 21-year-old chimpanzee was later moved to the Kansas City Zoo. But Sueko’s owner hasn’t given up the fight for his chimp, according to the Star. The Star reported that Sueko has slimmed down since…
Margo May moved to Portland, Oregon, several months ago, sadly. But we hear that our formerly local songbird is doing quite well: Recently, the singer-songwriter found out that the song “Blue Shoes” from her Summerof will air on MTV this week. She tells us that it’s going to be featured on MTV’s Teen Moms 2, and it’ll air on Wednesday…
I love the concept of a Brazilian-style churrascaria like the Northland’s Em Chamas Brazilian Grill or the even fancier Fogo de Chao on the Country Club Plaza: an orgy of tender grilled meats and an all-you-can eat assortment of cold salads and starters. But those restaurants are expensive. And even though the experience is delicious — even sexy — it’s…
%{}% Last week it seemed no one could get enough of Charlie Sheen. Though he’d previously made the papers with his drug problems, domestic violence incidents, and hit TV series, Sheen attained internet meme status when, after his ravings derailed his show, he responded with spectacularly outsized references to himself as “an F-18” with “flaming fists” and “tiger blood” who…
America’s Next Great Restaurant premiered last nigh,t and while the dream ended for one contestant from Kansas City, bartender Sandy Digiovanni moved on to the next episode of the reality restaurant show. The show opens on a loving homage to KFC, Subway and Chipotle with graphics done in the style of Morgan Spurlock. These are the franchises that have made…
KCTV Channel 5 is still getting killed on its Facebook page for the signal switch that cut away from the end of Saturday’s Kansas-Missouri Border War showdown. There are a couple of explanations. First, blame the sun. KCTV5’s parent company (CBS) did, saying sunspots caused the game to cut away from Mizzou’s rally that ultimately came up four points short….
Food writers today often bemoan that society has forgotten that food can bring us together. Well, Rudolph Bledsoe and Chris Knitter are hoping to change that with a series of sausage-themed parties and plans for a custom grill, the likes of which has never been in Kansas City. Fat City caught up with the co-workers (both work at the…
The MidCoast Takeover Benefit Show Saturday, March 5, 2011 Crosstown Station (Not) Better than: Attending the actual MidCoast Takeover showcase at SXSW. (The two-day event in Austin is going to be pretty epic, but this benefit was still one hell of a show.) The third and final installment of the MidCoast Takeover benefit shows took both levels of Crosstown Station…
The stage was rocking on Saturday, March 5, at Crosstown Station for the Midcoast Takeover fundraiser to send Kansas City bands to Austin, Texas, for South by Southwest 2011. Photos by Allie Mason.
