“Unemployed WWE Champion” CM Punk has a standing offer of front-row seats to Titan Fighting’s mixed-martial-arts fights at Memorial Hall on July 29. Titan Fighting extended the invitation via Twitter earlier today: “@CMPunk Hey if you are free July 29th we have 2 front row seats waiting for you for Titan FC 19..fights are @ @MemorialHallKC” Punk’s response: “@TitanFighting what…
It’s too bad that Cops is filming only in Springfield. The News-Leader is reporting that the Fox reality TV series is tagging along with officers there for the next few weeks. But I’d say their resources could be better spent going to Party Cove, the infamous party spot at the Lake of the Ozarks that former Pitch writer Ben Paynter…
The Unified Government of Wyandotte County is going to court to keep a regional office of the Environmental Protection Agency in downtown Kansas City, Kansas. Like the George Costanza girlfriend who refused to accept a breakup, the Unified Government is challenging the EPA’s decision to move to Lenexa. A lawsuit filed today in U.S. District Court argues that the relocation…
The doors to the Uptown opened at 7 p.m. last night, by which time a line had snaked west, back into the Valentine neighborhood. There were floral peasant dresses. There were daring fedoras. Haircuts so gloriously unkempt! Oh my word, the beards — the spectacular beards! Everywhere you looked: amazing hair! It was just like that movie Hair (I assume)….
Back in June, the Get Up Kids teased on Twitter that they’d been in the AV Club offices to record a song for the website’s “Undercover” series. That video went live this morning, and it was revealed that the Kansas City power pop veterans chose Blur’s catchy-as-hell “Boys and Girls.” The Get Up Kids have evidently been doing the first…
If you want to be a face in the background of ABC’s Extreme Makeover: Home Edition, then you’ll want to be at the Overland Park Convention Center (6000 College Boulevard in OP) by 6 tonight. The show is kicking off its latest local fix-up project with a pep rally. The Overland Park Convention Center issued a release today saying volunteers…
Not all presidential edicts are equal. In 1984, President Ronald Reagan declared that July was National Ice Cream Month and that the third Sunday in July would be National Ice Cream day. And lo, the children had hot fudge and whipped cream. And it was deemed good. Here we are 27 years later, and July is still hot. And it’s…
Free massages? Free mini-makeovers? And they get a free baseball cap? The Kansas City Royals will pony up for all of this but they won’t buy their players Negro Leagues uniforms? C’mon. Categories: News Tags: kansas city royals
Pho Hoa has brought its summer rolls and bowls of pho to Independence Avenue in Kansas City. Photos by Chris Mullins.
The animated show South Park has no shortage of stomach-churning moments — the gore and excessive bodily fluids are part of the cartoon’s charm. But in a promotion to announce the show’s 15th season, Comedy Central is hoping to satisfy your hunger, not destroy it. The New York Times writes about a new partnership with Frito-Lay that has resulted in…
When Frank Black — dressed in a black button-up, jeans and nondescript black sunglasses — stepped onto Knuckleheads’ carpet-covered stage promptly at 8:35 p.m., the place went silent. “You could hear a pin drop in here,” Black said, as he surveyed the crowd. “It’s like the Mormon Tabernacle.” Black considered this for a second. “I love the tour,” he admitted….
The leis have been handed out. The lines have returned to a reasonable length. After a slammed Friday and a busy weekend, Trader Joe’s is now part of our grocery landscape. So here we are on Tuesday, and the question remains: Have you actually bought anything yet at Trader Joe’s? And if so, have you discovered that the hype was…
Kansas City, Kansas, police are dealing with the black eye of three of their own — SWAT team members Jeffrey Bell, Darryl Forrest and Dustin Sillings — being indicted by a federal grand jury for allegedly stealing video games, money and other electronics while serving search warrants. KCK Police Chief Rick Armstrong responded in a prepared statement saying, in part:…
Kansas City police are investigating whether an attack at a car wash early Sunday morning is linked to last month’s rape on the Trolley Track Trail, the Star reported. The car wash is located at 80th Street and Wornall — one block from the Trolley Trail. The latest attack occurred around 6 a.m. Sunday. A woman in her 20s reported…
Chockablock with highly hummable hooks — songs like “Bang Pop” and “Dream City” have an easy way of lodging themselves into your brain — pop rockers Free Energy’s 2010 album, Stuck on Nothing, was a welcome return to the bubblegum glam pop of the late ’70s. The band plays the Riot Room tonight, Tuesday, July 19 (Fall Down Running and Delicate Steve open)….
The Jackson County Sheriff’s Office conducted a very public raid on a church in January 2010. Now the church wants its stuff back. The New Covenant Faith Center is located in an unincorporated area east of Sugar Creek. Sheriff’s Office investigators spent four days removing records, guns, cash and other items from the church and a nearby residence. At the…
Before this past weekend, country music was one of those subjects — like airplane mechanics or professional sports — about which I was abysmally ignorant. Consider me schooled, thanks to Mother Trucker 2 (at La Esquina) and Honky Tonk Angels (at the American Heartland Theatre). Both offer crash courses in the soul and guts of country. Seven years after the…
Bruce Hornsby and his band the Noisemakers play Crossroads KC at Grinders Friday along with Bela Fleck and the Flecktones. Hornsby has indirectly been on the mouths and minds of music critics lately. One of the most discussed records of 2011, Bon Iver’s Bon Iver, bears the strong mark of the soft synth work that Hornsby popularized on ’80s hits…
This time last year, Gaurav Bashyakarla was preparing to move from Lawrence to California. A week before he was set to leave, Bashyakarla got together with his friend Josh Thomas and spent a couple of afternoons recording music in Thomas’ basement. “We’d always talked about recording together,” Thomas says. “We were messing around with all this stuff I have: an…
Hunting trolls is dreary work, but someone has to do it. Left unchecked, the creatures would trample the Norwegian countryside, knocking over power lines and eating Christians. If a troll broke out of its woodland habitat, ready to behave like the big, dumb, not really malicious animal that it is, it would only be a matter of time before some…
The documentary Page One goes backstage at The New York Times. Four writers at The Pitch watched the film and shared their thoughts in an e-mail roundtable. Ben Palosaari: I’ll start by saying that I am not a fan of torture porn, which is what a large part of Page One feels like. It’s called, depending on where you look,…
A question lingers over the diminished but still regal mansion at 1016 Paseo. Those who are intimately familiar with this house — with the wrought-iron fence around it, the crumbling cut-stone terraces, the Ionic columns that hold up a lonely front porch — agree that many questions haunt this house. But a particular unknown has resonated for 33 years: Did…
