Archives: March 2011
Chrissy Murderbot’s latest, Women’s Studies, is face-melting — as usual
Bass heads beware: Chrissy Murderbot has thrown down the gauntlet. Two years after releasing his self-titled debut album, the Kansas City native, whose real name is Chris Shively, has returned with another installment of window-rattling club anthems. Women’s Studies, like its predecessor, is an album built around a simple goal: getting you off your ass and onto the dance floor….
Jamaal Charles is supercharged by CiCi’s cinnamon rolls
Jamaal Charles runs faster than you or I will ever run. And you know what is fueling his game-breaking speed? CiCi’s Pizza — the pizza, salad and dessert buffet restaurant. Charles revealed that CiCi’s is his favorite pre-game meal during a chat (above) with ESPN readers yesterday . It wasn’t his only culinary stand. He also settled the debate between…
Jamaal Charles kicked Tim Tebow’s ass in Madden cover battle; next up, Maurice Jones-Drew
Jamaal Charles is one step closer to being on the cover of Madden ’12 football. The Kansas City Chiefs running back easily disposed of Denver Broncos quarterback Tim Tebow in the fan vote (64 percent to 34 percent). Charles was gracious in victory, telling ESPN: “I’m surprised, and it’s scary at the same time … it’s blowing me away. I…
Who needs friends when you’ve got comfort food?
When you get older and feel lonely, you can’t just line up your dolls and throw a tea party. But you can apparently make a meatloaf or a big bowl of macaroni and cheese. Upi.com reports that a new study from Jordan Troisi, a graduate student at the University of Buffalo, and co-author Shira Gabriel suggests that “comfort food” may…
Hipshot Killer’s debut full-length now on Bandcamp
While you might not be able to get your hands on a physical copy of Hipshot Killer’s self-titled debut until late April, it’s now available on its Bandcamp page for streaming or purchase. The melodic punk band has made a few live tracks available here and there via Midwest Music Foundation compilations over the past year or two, but these…
Where can you find this plate of cereal-encrusted french toast?
It’s not enough for french toast to merely be french toast anymore. It now needs to be stuffed with a sweet cream cheese concoction, soaked in liqueur, or dipped — after marinating in an egg-and-milk bath — in something slightly crunchy, like crushed cereal flakes. Categories: Dining, News Tags: French toast, Where am I eating?
Brendan Connors pleads guilty in staged Overland Park kidnapping to cover up a bank robbery
Make-believe kidnapper Brendan Connors pleaded guilty Monday to his role in last November’s staged kidnapping to cover up a bank robbery. Connors, 18, pleaded guilty to one count of aiding and abetting embezzlement by a bank employee. That employee is 20-year-old Michael Grace, who has a change of plea hearing scheduled for April 4. It doesn’t take Professor X-like psychic…
Kansas City’s Swope Music Program gets money from the Mockingbird Foundation
The Mockingbird Foundation, an online charitable organization dedicated to music education for children, has named Kansas City’s Swope Corridor Renaissance/Upper Room Inc. the recipient of a $5,000 grant to be used for staffing and other programing costs in its Swope Music Program. The Mockingbird Foundation was established in 1997 by avid (and generous) fans of the jam band Phish, and…
Charlie Weis left the Kansas City Chiefs because of a shitty Parkville bus company
In the fevered dreams of Kansas City sports fans, former Kansas City Chiefs offensive coordinator Charlies Weis left us because of some epic behind-the-scenes battle with head coach Todd Haley. In my version, Haley plays unrelenting punch buggy on all away games. Doesn’t Haley seem like the kind of guy who would’ve tortured people in college with punch buggy? Not…
Have you seen Eric Suarez’s penis? Overland Park police want to know
The guy on the right is named Eric Suarez. He’s accused of flashing his junk to someone through a window. Now Overland Park police are trying to figure out if Suarez is the same guy who exposed himself on five other occasions in an area from Grant to Blue Jacket between 85th and 89th streets, Fox 4 reported. Overland Park…
Ochocinco tries out for Sporting Kansas City
The soccer pitch is not the natural habitat for Cincinnati Bengals wide receiver Chad Ochocinco. Neither is the gridiron, though, which he has blazed up and down for 10 NFL seasons. Ochocinco’s real home turf isn’t on a sports field of any kind. It’s where those who write headlines can be won over by his grin and his willingness to…
Meet the winners of our 2011 MasterMind Awards
MEET OUR MASTERMINDS For the sixth time, we’re singling out four of Kc’s cultural leaders. we think they look like classics. Since the first MasterMinds, in 2006, The Pitch has given $20,000 to local artists. On April 2, four new MasterMind Award winners join a roll that includes some of Kansas City’s most fascinating and dedicated cultural forces. Each new…
KC Rep has its way with Cabaret
Former incarnations of Kander and Ebb’s legendary musical Cabaret loom so large in the public imagination that subsequent versions require justification of a kind. Nicht problem. The Kansas City Repertory’s dazzling new production acquits itself absolutely. KC Repertory Artistic Director Eric Rosen’s vision — beside the frenzied decadence of Bob Fosse’s 1972 film, which starred Liza Minnelli and Joel Grey…
The Hearers’ In Dreamlife brings the band to a new plane of sound
Bass player Darren Welch is sipping a Miller Lite at the headquarters of his band, the Hearers. He’s in the backyard of the Merriam home of guitarist and sound engineer David Moore. It’s a gently rainy day, and Moore’s garden is turning green. Though still grayed by winter, the 4-inch garlic shoots and tomato vines suggest the burst of life…
Toro Y Moi
A teenage Chaz Bundick began tweaking samples on his laptop in 2001, fueled by the ’70s and ’80s sounds of his parents’ record collection. Over the next nine years, he released a handful of demos under various monikers, eventually settling on Toro Y Moi. Then the great chillwave of 2010 washed up Toro Y Moi’s Causers of This on the…
The Strange Boys
For hailing from Austin, Texas — a town that pays tribute to the weird — the Strange Boys play surprisingly straightforward ’60s rock (with a touch of honky-tonk). Singer Ryan Sambol’s snotty delivery and the band’s jangly guitars and clean drumming result in songs belonging in sweltering dive bars and Levi’s commercials. Originally a lean punk duo made up of…
Queens of the Stone Age
Queens of the Stone Age has been going balls-to-the-wall since releasing its first album, in 1998. This spring and summer, QOTSA tours in support of its recent rerelease of that 1998 self-titled debut. Over the years, the band has splintered into various side projects, including Mini Mansions and record label Rekords Rekords. But the Queens’ ragged, who-gives-a-fuck rock will be…
Bright Eyes
Conor Oberst’s musical scope, judging from Bright Eyes’ history, is tightly tethered to the singer-songwriter’s physical location. Over 13 years, Oberst’s fret-buzzing folk left the bland stretches of suburbia and lit out for the country, expanding into the orchestral indie-Americana of two critical blockbusters: Lifted, or the Story Is in the Soil, Keep Your Ear to the Ground and I’m…
New owners save — and slightly rename — a Lee’s Summit diner
I can think of a handful of defunct Kansas City restaurants that I wish had been spared extinction: the Prospect of Westport, Mrs. Peters Fried Chicken, the Lobster Pot, Bretton’s. But it’s the rare restaurateur who jumps in and keeps an iconic restaurant from closing, particularly in this economy. That’s why young Tony Olson (best known for operating a suburban…
The viral life is kind to Foster the People
A buzz band’s popularity can wax and wane, it seems, by the time we’ve read this sentence. (Seriously, go check Pitchfork. I’ll bet that two bands just broke up.) Luckily, for Mark Foster, Cubbie Fink and Mark Pontius, Foster the People is still turning on ears across the country. The Los Angeles trio started making music in 2009. By 2010,…
Sad Jayhawk Matt Rissien had much happier times before Kansas’ loss
The Internet will help us remember University of Kansas senior Matt Rissien as the sad Jayhawk, crying after KU’s loss in the Elite Eight to 11th-seeded VCU. Though Deadspin ran the pained photo, it also tracked down Rissien, who says he didn’t have a terrible time in San Antonio (just look at the photo above). Hell, the guy even got…
A big shake-up at the unopened Zocalo Mexican Cuisine on the Plaza?
Earlier this month, Fat City reported that Zocalo Mexican Cuisine & Tequileria, a new cantina, was on its way to filling the long-vacant Mi Cocina space on the Plaza. It was to be a partnership between Victor Esquada and Ivan Marquez, of the successful Johnson County restaurant Frida’s Contemporary Mexican Cuisine, and Chris Ridler, owner of the Sol Cantina restaurant…
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