This is too good not to share. Pleated-Jeans put together the above infographic of masturbation facts and stats, and really, I’ll never be able to look at a kangaroo in the eye again. H/T: Buzzfeed. Categories: News Tags: masturbating
Freaky story out of Metropolitan Community College’s Penn Valley campus where a man allegedly tried to kidnap a woman with a box cutter this morning, according to KSHB. The college sent out the following alert: “MCC Police department at Penn Valley received information by phone that a young black male wearing a black shirt and yellow shorts and a box…
Sunday editions of The Kansas City Star can feel like a bit of a rip-off, what with the front-page ad and C.W. Gusewelle writing about the splendors of yellow forsythia in the metro section. Then something like Diane Stafford’s series about growing old in Kansas City comes along, and taking the paper on weekends seems worthwhile again. Stories about aging…
More pictures from the Record Store Day scene, thanks to The Pitch’s own Ashford Stamper. This time, we hit up Zebedee’s on 39th Street. Categories: Music Tags: Zebedee’s RPM Records CDs & Collectables
Have you ever met people who are absolute geniuses at one, specific thing but at the same time lack any common sense? Bruce Raisley seems like one of those guys. Raisley was sentenced today to two years in prison, ostensibly for a cyber attack against Rolling Stone. A guy who can program 100,000 computers to attack the magazine that published…
Local celebrity — and reality TV cake-design champion — Mike Elder brought in four of his friends, all national culinary reality-show heavyweights, to compete for handmade sculptural trophies yesterday at the “Icing on the Cake” sugar exposition and competition, a benefit for the local domestic-violence shelter Newhouse, at the Overland Park Sheraton Hotel; the fundraiser netted $15,000 for the organization….
Kansas City, Kansas, police say the victim of Friday’s homicide was 18-year-old Akeem Matthews. He was shot in the 1500 block of North 29th Street in KCK and pronounced dead at a local hospital. According to Matthews’ Twitter page, he was an aspiring gospel rapper. Categories: Music Tags: rip
No, we’re not promoting adultery here in Fat City. Gluttony, maybe, adultery … no. But some people, you know, are simply going to break the seventh commandment, no matter what. And once that decision has been made, the guilty parties have to meet for a drink or an intimate dinner in a dark and secluded place where there’s no chance…
Our old buddy Phill Kline has his defenders. But the ones he should be thanking the most are Kansas taxpayers. Regardless of your stance on abortion (is there any other issue in Kansas?), you’re helping pay more than $500,000 in legal fees and expenses to defend the former Attorney General of Kansas and two of his underlings in ethics hearings,…
Justin Vernon, the mastermind behind indie-folk soundscape artists Bon Iver, has been known for his bizarre style. While his music is ghostly and beautifully haunting, his descriptive, suggestive lyrics are supported by richly layered harmonies that often need entire rooms of people singing them to achieve the desired quality of sound. Bon Iver’s live performances often utilize the audiences themselves,…
Some things should be done only in the dark of night, in the shadows of streetlamps. You turn a corner and suddenly you see them. This is your chance. You reach inside your jacket and pull out … a fork? Categories: Dining, Food & Drink
As you may have noticed, Wayward is proud to be hosting videos from Lawrence’s the Heard. The latest is the collective’s interview with Reverend Horton Heat. Here’s what the Heard’s interviewer, Nicholas Stahl, has to say about the band. Every once in a while, I interview a musician before ever seeing them perform in person. With Reverend Horton Heat, it…
Kansas City, Kansas, police say the victim of Friday’s homicide was 18-year-old Akeem Matthews. He was shot in the 1500 block of North 29th Street in KCK and pronounced dead at a local hospital. According to Matthews’ Twitter page, he was an aspiring gospel rapper. Categories: News Tags: Akeem Matthews, homicide
The newest addition to Kansas City’s record-store community opened on Saturday, just in time for Record Store Day: Vinyl Renaissance at 39th Street. Here are some shots from the day’s festivities, thanks to Ashford Stamper. Categories: Music Tags: record store day, Vinyl Renassiance
There’s only one of these restaurants left in the metro — the Texas-based chain closed a couple of its other Kansas locations — but this one, in a high-traffic tourist spot, is popular for its frequent low-priced dinner specials. The current special offers an unlimited bowl of pasta (patrons can choose both the pasta and the sauce) and an all-you-can-eat…
I arrived at Love Garden Sounds a smidgen before the long-loved Lawrence record store opened its doors to record-hungry music lovers. The RSD line went back about four storefronts, and people filed into the store at 10 a.m. on the dot. Once inside the store, early birds got their shot at the exclusives table. Categories: Music Tags: Love Garden Sounds,…
Chef Jasper J. Mirabile Jr. can’t say no. “There are only two letters in the alphabet, I don’t know … it’s ‘n’ and ‘o’,” Mirabile Jr. says. So, it wasn’t hard to convince him to share the recipe for his Bolognese sauce. It’s made in the traditional style from Bologna, and it’s currently on the menu at Jasper’s Restaurant. On…
A Tribute to Michael Jackson with Diverse and Friends Friday, April 15, 2011 RecordBar Better than: Dusting off my old MJ vinyl and throwing it on the turntable (which is saying something — that’s one of my favorite pastimes). The King of Pop was alive and well Friday night when local jazz whizzes Diverse and a host of their impossibly…
Convicted rapist Andrew Greene Jr. will never be a free man again. Last week, a judge labeled Greene an aggravated habitual sex offender and sentenced him to life in prison without the possibility of parole. A jury convicted the 57-year-old homeless man in January of raping a mentally disabled woman in Olathe on March 9, 2009. The Star reported that…
Sometimes the conversation with your dinner partner can seem a bit one-sided. And sometimes you probably feel like she’s paying attention to everybody else in the room but you. And then there’s that whole drooling thing. While we can’t help make your dog a better companion, we can tell you where you won’t get looked at funny for choosing to…
Everybody hurts on Tax Day. But the pain of mailing that check might be softened by a free cinnamon roll. Cinnabon (12701 Metcalf) is offering two free Cinnabites — think bite-sized versions of the mall food-court classic — from 6 to 8 p.m. today. Categories: Dining, Food & Drink
When I arrived at Love Garden Sounds at 9 a.m. for Saturday’s Record Store Day shenanigans, it was most assuredly neither sunny nor the 70 degrees it would be later. Wind chill knocked the temp down into the 20s, and a stiff breeze was gusting down Mass Street. The line of folks was already 20 to 30 strong, with many…
