Whoever threw this out at the Quality Hill apartment complex didn’t have the heart to throw it in the Dumpster. So maybe this work of art found a new home. As for what was in the box, there were some pretty nice Blue Moon beer glasses that I should have snagged. Categories: News Tags: Dumpster finds
Full Moon in Aquarius on Saturday, August 13, at 1:59 p.m. CDT. Let the mythology begin. Leo/Leo Rising* (July 22-Aug 22): Your myth maker would be the relationship between Apollo and Cassandra. A solar god of logic, music and prophecy had his issues. Known for his connection to the oracle at Delphi, his prophetess, Cassandra was to said to spurn…
Trezo Vino has a new menu courtesy of consulting chefs, and husband and wife, Colby and Megan Garrelts. Photos by Angela C. Bond.
You might know White Flight better as Justin Roelofs, former frontman of beloved Lawrence indie-pop outfit the Anniversary. You might also know him as that one guy who used to write amazingly catchy songs, then moved to South America and possibly ingested a large number of hallucinogenic substances. Possibly. Categories: Music Tags: Justin Roelofs, kickstarter, white flight
Police are calling this man a “person of interest.” Have you seen this guy? This man was seen in the Northland last week, and he’s being sought in connection with the disappearance of an Iowa couple. Kay and Bill Wood haven’t been seen since July 30. Authorities were called to the elderly couple’s home, which was on fire. Inside, they…
Oh boy. Whitesnake never truly fit into any category or era. The band formed in the wake of showy British rockers like Led Zeppelin and T. Rex, and its genesis in the late 1970s predated hair metal. With David Coverdale in front of a rotating cast of characters, the band trudged through the ’80s in a mist of dry ice…
I loved V for Vendetta too. Remember, remember the fifth of November. Members of the hacker group Anonymous plan to destroy Facebook on November 5 — Guy Fawkes Day. Go figure, because many of Anonymous’ members wear Fawkes masks a la V for Vendetta. The video announcing the planned attack cites privacy concerns as well as the social network’s selling…
Ryan Maybee’s world is all of four city blocks — the Crossroads streets that surround the Rieger Hotel Grill & Exchange. It’s early on a Monday morning when Maybee takes a break from packing his suitcase, crosses Main Street and steps inside the restaurant that he runs with chef Howard Hanna. “When I consider a visit to Westport or the…
Take that, city of San Diego! Chiefs fan Jason Ensign has finally cleared his name. Ensign was arrested in 2009 at a Chargers-Chiefs game in San Diego after he flipped off the home crowd. Security guards then allegedly roughed up Ensign while kicking him out of Qualcomm Stadium. He was charged with battery. Earlier this year, Judge Gale Kaneshiro ruled…
Shawn Ratigan is now facing federal charges. The Kansas City-Catholic Diocese screwed up big time in moving the Rev. Shawn Ratigan to the Franciscan Sisters of the Holy Eucharist in Independence. By that time, the diocese had been alerted to questionable photos on the priest’s laptop computer. Ratigan had apparently attempted suicide and failed. A year earlier, the principal at…
Farm Aid is this weekend. You’re not too festivaled out, are you? Buck up! Neil Young is going to be there. Willie Nelson, too. But if you would prefer to sit on your ass in your living room or drive around in your car rather than fight the crowds at Livestrong Sporting Park on Saturday, you have options. Willie’s Roadhouse…
Facebook: Nica’s 320 The beignets are back. The kitchen is once again hopping at 320 Southwest Boulevard. Nica’s 320 opened last Friday in the former Crossroads space of Shiraz. “We were able to get our liquor license and open the doors. It’s really exciting,” chef and owner Bryan Merker says. Categories: Dining, Food & Drink
The Next Bar Stool The stadium dog could be in trouble. The hot dog, arguably man’s great compilation of pig and cow parts, might just be an endangered species. And the clock has started on the half-life of nacho cheese. Epicurious details the latest concession options at Safeco Field — the home of the Seattle Mariners — which is attempting…
Welcome to What I Like, our weekly chat with local musicians about their favorite things. This week: Tyler Gregory Categories: Music Tags: Ashes to Immortality, Brent Berry, Gillian Welch, Tyler Gregory
Two locals have died after competing in Warrior Dash. A second man has died after competing in the Warrior Dash extreme obstacle course. Fox 4 is reporting that Jeff Fink died Tuesday, about two weeks after collapsing with a 108-degree temperature during the two-day event held at Tiffany Springs Park. Citing the Caring Bridge website, the TV station reported that…
Police are investigating a possible murder-suicide in the Northand. Disturbing story in the Northland. Kansas City police are investigating a murder-suicide after the bodies of a man and a woman were discovered at an apartment complex. Captain Steve Young says officers discovered the bodies Sunday around 11 p.m. while conducting a welfare check in the 8300 block of North Donnelly…
Joe Miller’s experience in Kansas City was certainly unique. He moved here from Colorado in 2000 to write for The Pitch. He left the paper four years later, book contract in hand. While at The Pitch, Miller immersed himself in the lives of students at Kansas City’s Central High School. His book, Cross-X, focused on the unlikely success of the school’s debate team. The…
The parking lot is full on a hot, sticky Saturday afternoon outside B.B.’s Lawnside BBQ, at 85th Street and Troost. Inside, middle-aged folks with tattoos drink buckets of PBR bottles. Families sit at long tables. Greasy napkins pile up in serving baskets. Onstage, a couple of shaggy-haired high school boys unplug their guitars and head back to their seats, where…
Late last Wednesday afternoon, the UMB time-and-temperature sign that’s posted above I-35 downtown read 111 degrees. The next day, temperatures were down around the middle 90s. The insane heat wave of 2011 had briefly, mercifully, relented, just in time for the 2011 Pitch Music Showcase. Between 7 p.m. and 2-something — things started getting hazy around midnight — four Pitch…
The stray pit-bull puppy was in rough shape. Red mange — parasitic mites that burrow into hair follicles — had begun eating its way up the dog’s legs and across its face. The exposed raw skin was barn-colored, and it would have been clear to anyone paying attention that this was one sick puppy. But no one from the Independence…
The 2011 Pitch Music Awards The 2011 Pitch Music Showcase has come and gone, but there’s more Pitch-sanctioned fun to be had on Sunday, at the annual Pitch Music Awards. MC of this year’s ceremony is Eric “Mean” Melin, fresh off competing as Kansas City’s representative at the U.S. Air Guitar Championships. He’ll presumably treat us to some imaginary lick-shredding,…
