%{}% If you missed it this weekend, Star reporter Mike McGraw wrote a fascinating piece on the just-solved murder of Richard DeLeon Hill. Hill was killed in 1968, his body found at the south end of the ASB Bridge with a single gunshot wound to the side of his head. Kansas City Police, who came upon new evidence in the…
Local IHOP nutbag Lou Engle, known worldwide for hating gay folks, now is trying to make some bizarre connection between Nazis and granting gays and lesbians civil rights. Right Wing Watch reports that the video was taken at IHOP’s Prayer and Prophetic Conference. The crazy says: Can a homosexual have civil rights in America? They might. But it is not…
After a week of our temperature hovering unbearably around the 100-degree mark and with no end in sight, Portland’s rainy gloom is starting to seem like a pretty tolerable alternative. Right now, I’d take a month without sun to not have to sweat while I’m trying to sleep. Categories: Music Tags: ages and ages, blitzen trapper
Never go to a show when it’s 90 degrees (at 10 p.m. — 10 p.m.!) unless you’re watching a band that evokes thoughts of steamy beaches and glistening bodies. At least then you can rationalize the smell emitting from fans soaked in beer and their buddies’ sweat. The RX Bandits played to a pretty big crowd Saturday at the Bottleneck. Adult,…
There is a single stop sign to manage traffic in downtown Highland, Kansas. And when Highland Community College — the oldest college in Kansas — is in session, the population swells by 500 people to more than 1,000. But it’s hard to get a decent bite of pizza. Casey’s General Store sells the kind of pie you’d expect to get…
You realize fairly early on when visiting relatives in another town, that’s it not you they’re always excited to see — sometimes they just can’t wait to get ahold of what’s in your bag. Until there was a grandchild in the mix, the best part of visits with my own folks might have been the box of Christopher Elbow that…
There was no opening act for Ad Astra Arkestra’s Friday evening matinee on the Replay patio, so the band opened their set with “23 minutes of … that,” as ringleader Mike Tuley described it. It was an epic jam session that saw the band stretching out in a percussive mood, allowing the audience to work their way through the door….
Eric “Mean” Melin’s best wasn’t good enough to get out of the first round of the U.S. Air Guitar Championships in Chicago Saturday night. Melin, repping Kansas City and sporting a Freddie Mercury ‘stache, replayed his bigger-than-life, 60-second invisible guitar jam to Queen’s “Bohemian Rhapsody” that won him the KC regional. Former World Champion Hot Lixx Hulahan, a notoriously tough-but-fair…
The drama surrounding Suco the chimp continued on Friday, when Deborah Kaumans and Mark Archigo pleaded guilty to keeping a chimp in the city without a license. In May, The Pitch reported on Suco’s bizarre history as a trucking chimp and Kaumans’ and Archigo’s trial for keeping her within city limits, which is a violation of city ordinance. Kaumans and…
I repeat: Inner thigh hold. What’s summer without sports? There’s nothing quite like sitting back on a hot July night and watching some world-class athletes compete at the top of their game Of course, there’s more than one way to do that. Look, if you want to spend the waning days of summer at Kauffman Stadium watching the Royals get…
KMBC Three guys and a Geo Metro couldn’t pull off a copper theft. Try as they might, three men in Independence couldn’t win a Darwin Award this week when they tried to steal a power line. Police say they caught Anthony L. Laycock, Derek L. Rudroff and Louis C. Hauenschild ripping down a power line in order to strip the…
Need a lot of pep in your step? Tickets for the first-ever Caffeine Crawl, organized by local beverage impresario Lab 5702, go on sale Monday. The Caffeine Crawl from 10 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Saturday, September 17, is a guided tour that stops in independent Kansas City coffee and tea shops. “We’re trying to fill the gap and break down…
Surprising no one, the Westboro Baptist Church plans to picket the SlutWalk march in Kansas City on July 30. The mere mention of the word “slut” sent church officials reaching for the finger grease-stained pages of the Old Testament. Leviticus! Deuteronomy! Some other book of the Bible that only sex-obsessed fundamentalists read! SlutWalk is an international response to a Canadian…
Two weeks from the big day(s), Kanrocksas today announced set times and stages for its festival acts. Festivalgoers will have a few tough decisions to make, though not too many. Categories: Music Tags: kanrocksas
If any avid Neon Indian fans missed the band when it opened for Sleigh Bells earlier this summer, fear not! The chillwave act will be back in Kansas City at RecordBar on October 12. Com Truise and Purity Ring will support. Doors open at 9 p.m. for the 18-and-older show. Cost is $15. What else? Lots else! Categories: Music Tags:…
The summer guides are speaking, and top on the list for a new piece in Every Day With Rachael Ray are Oklahoma Joe’s and Jack Stack Barbecue. Jack Stack earned the nod for its eat-at-home burnt-ends combo while Oklahoma Joe’s was highlighted as the place to get burnt ends in person — the “crispy, fatty pieces from barbecue brisket with…
Kansas City police have released a sketch of the suspect who surprised a woman at a Waldo car wash at 6 a.m Sunday. A young woman was about to vacuum her car when a man wearing a ski mask forced her into the passenger seat, slamming her head against the dashboard. The man put a knife to the woman’s head…
The condiment bars may never be refilled. The scales could sit empty. And the frozen yogurt might never be churned again. Kansas City could be headed for FroYomaggedon — the inevitable crash in the self-serve market. We’re admittedly a few years behind in the frozen-yogurt craze, but what could be coming down the dispenser doesn’t look promising. The Orange County…
I see pico de gallo in your future. Onions and tomatoes are terrific right now, and you’ll find both in abundance at the downtown Overland Park Farmers Market (between 79th and 80th streets on Marty in Overland Park). The market starts at 6:30 a.m. every Saturday (7:30 a.m. on Wednesday) and is open until the vendors sell out. Grab a…
The Great Recession is ending for members of Local 42 of the International Association of Fire Fighters. The City Council of Kansas City, Missouri, yesterday approved a deal that will raise firefighters’ salaries by an average of 4.2 percent. A pretty tasty deal in tough economic times, no? Members of the council say their hands are tied by a previous…
