Platte County authorities have a sticky situation on their hands (ew). John Gallagher, 19, is accused of sneaking into a Platte County high school and masturbating into underwear taken from boys’ lockers. Life probably isn’t going to get much more embarrassing for Gallagher. He has peaked. Here’s what authorities say went down: Gallagher would allegedly sneak into the school early…
Earlier this year, we reminded you about Lawrence’s StimPac mini-fest, a one-night-only-style carousel of local music that squeezes three stages at The Granada in Lawrence. In January, the fifth incarnation of the event took place, and it was so successful, they’ve decided to bring you number six! And in these cash-strapped times, you really can’t beat nine bands for three…
Do you want to eat local but you aren’t exactly sure what is local? Find out at the Eat Local! Expo 2011. The Kansas City Food Circle’s 13th annual exhibition of farmers is set for Saturday at the Roger T. Sermon Community Center (Truman and Noland roads, in Independence) from 9:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. On the following Saturday, the…
Rey Cruz Sr. should never get to lay claim to being a father. The 20-year-old beat his 1-year-old son, Rey Cruz Jr., so severely over a three-day period — just because the child cried — that the boy ended up dying. Cruz was sentenced to 22 years in prison Thursday, according to the Star. He’d been charged with second-degree murder,…
Hey, Fat City readers, I’ll be co-hosting the Walt Bodine Show this morning at 10 a.m. on KCUR 89.3, and the subject will be sandwiches of all types: open-faced, on a bun, between slices of bread, toasted, grilled, pressed, meaty, meatless, messy — even the ice-cream-and-cookie sandwich from Murray’s. Categories: Dining, Food & Drink Tags: sandwiches, Walt Bodine Show
Officials at the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum have undone what they’ve come to see was a mistake. Bob Kendrick was introduced as the museum’s next president on Thursday, after being passed over for the job in 2008. Kendrick, the museum’s former marketing director, said he was thrilled to return to the “house that Buck built.” Kendrick was close to Buck…
Trashcan Sinatras can lay claim to the pretty, jangling Scottish pop of the early ’80s, a sound forged by Orange Juice and Aztec Camera. Frank Reader’s doleful voice earned the group deserved comparisons with the Smiths after its successful 1990 debut, Cake. By 1996’s third album, A Happy Pocket, the industry had moved on, and the album wasn’t even released…
EA Sports is going to crown the Madden ’12 football cover boy, which may be more of a curse than a blessing, given that whoever appears on the cover usually gets injured. The tourney is still in the first round, and the Kansas City Chiefs’ representative is Jamaal Charles. But Charles is matched up with AFC West rival Tim Tebow….
There’s nothing like an unbiased, honest opinion. Especially if it’s delivered in between swigs from a vodka bottle. Now, because we at The Pitch would know nothing about drunken critiques — ahem — we find Hidden Pictures’ YouTube video of a drunk dude’s philosophical assessment of Hidden Pictures’ debut, Synchronized Sleeping, to be particularly amusing. Check it out after the…
A former postmaster has pleaded guilty in federal court to his role in the sex-trafficking conspiracy of a young, mentally deficient woman whom the feds say was coerced into being a sex slave for several years and was tortured in a trailer home in Lebanon, Missouri. Dennis Henry, 51, pleaded guilty Thursday to conspiracy to commit sex trafficking by force,…
Spring must be upon Kansas City. This conclusion was drawn not because calenders across the region now indicate it’s spring, but because 311 has announced that it’s going to perform at Capitol Federal Park at Sandstone. Again. Like the band does almost every year. No complaints here, though. The music of 311 conjures thoughts of warm weather, cold beer and…
It’s roughly six months until a slew of bluegrass bands and fans gather in tents, trailers and trees outside Winfield, Kansas, for the annual music festival in the southern part of the state. (Technically, the festival — which turns 40 years old this year and draws about 16,000 people each year — is called the Walnut Valley Festival, but it’s…
If only all new restaurant owners had Kelly Manning’s problems. Manning opened the stylish Tavern in the Village restaurant four weeks ago at 3901 Prairie Lane, in the Prairie Village Shopping Center. The dining room has been packed almost since opening night, and it’s not unusual to find a one-hour wait for a table on a weeknight. I know, I…
UPDATE: Thursday, March 24, at 5:15 p.m.: Looks like Middle of the Map Fest enjoyed a Pitchfork plug today — though, as our writer Jenny Kratz pointed out, that’s “Margot” and the Nuclear So and So’s, not “Margaret” and the Nuclear So and So’s. (No, Wayward is not above pointing out a Pitchfork fail.) Middle of the Map Fest just…
The Kansas City Star’s Mike Hendricks has published another of his “nothing matters and what if it did” complaints, this one a column slugged “In the ‘burbs, does it matter who’s KC’s mayor?” From his soft perch on the minivan beat, he observes: “Over the past couple of months, the Kansas City mayor’s race has come up exactly zero times…
Soccer isn’t always about what you see near the ball. It’s often about what the guy is doing away from the ball that makes all the difference. And so in the crush to examine whether or not pro football star Chad Ochocinco has the on-the-ball skills to play for Sporting KC, the reality is that the rest of the parts…
UPDATE: Thursday, March 24, at 2:17 p.m.: Entercom’s press release of 1 p.m says KUDL 98.1 switches call letters to KMBZ next Wednesday.Gen X Radio 99.7 and KUDL 98.1 are no more. According to a press release on March 23 by Entercom Kansas City, Gen X Radio is now known as 99.7 the Point. The direction of the station is aimed…
Shape-shifting U.S. Rep. Kevin Yoder has come up with a new origin story. The one-time Kansas Democratic Party intern now says his transformation into a conservative began when he was a student at the University of Kansas. “My ideology changed here at KU,” said the former student-government president during a visit to his alma mater in February. Yoder told a…
UPDATE: The victim in yesterday’s murder-suicide has been identified as Leslie Price. Her estranged husband, James Price, was found dead from an self-inflicted gunshot wound inside a construction trailer at 4900 East 87th Street. The Star reported that James Price’s body was discovered by a security guard who saw a man covered in blood inside the trailer with a rifle…
The 16-year-old accused of paying his brother an extra $20 for killing Kansas City businessman Michael J. Tutera has been sentenced to 25 years in prison. Joseph Hendrix was sentenced Thursday to 25 years for second-degree murder, 15 years for first-degree burglary and 10 years for armed criminal action. The sentences will run concurrently, and Hendrix must serve 85 percent…
Seems like the guys over at the Flipside in Shawnee are fans of Adult Swim. The CD, vinyl, DVD and poster shop has a very Tim and Eric-like commercial — odd facial expressions, heavy foundation, and a criminally bad sweater — that they’ve previewed on the store’s Facebook page. I haven’t personally been down to check out this store yet…
