Kevin Yoder sure has taken a lot of money from Kansas City’s payday-loans crowd
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Archives: September 2014
Rex Zeppelin: Sinquefield-backed blimp-flying political outfit fires PR agency that hit up reporters to do their bidding
St. Louis billionaire Rex Sinquefield wants so badly to cut taxes in Missouri that one of his affiliated political groups was involved in a hilarious scheme to try and pay experienced reporters to ghostwrite its materials. Grow Missouri, which carries Sinquefield’s political water by advocating tax cuts, hired a Boston public relations firm to help figure out how to get…
Is this the Golden Age of professional sports in Kansas City?
As a general rule, when the Kansas City Chiefs are good, the Kansas City Royals are bad. And vice versa. Sometimes both teams struggle at the same time. But rarely do both franchises simultaneously field successful teams. One exception occurred in the mid-1980s, a long-ago time when the Royals were the smoking hot professional sports team in town while the…
Perfume Genius delivered a powerful set to a small crowd at Riot Room last night
Perfume Genius with Matteah Baim Riot Room, Kansas City Monday, September 29 Mike Hadreas – who performs as Perfume Genius – didn’t talk much between songs at his Riot Room show last night. When he did, his banter was a little strident, a little self-conscious – as though he was afraid to really speak directly to the audience. It makes…
Don’t panic, getting tapeworm from sushi is ‘exceedingly rare’
The Internet was practically infested last week with the story (and the ghastly X-rays) of a patient in China who arrived at the hospital (Guangzhou No. 8 People’s Hospital in Guangdong Province, to be precise) with vague complaints and was discovered to have tapeworms throughout his body. What created this hellish situation? Sushi, allegedly. (This story has since been debunked…
Report: Bishop Finn under investigation by the Vatican (updated)
The National Catholic Reporter says a Canadian archbishop traveled to Kansas City to investigate Robert Finn, bishop of the Catholic Diocese of Kansas City-St. Joseph. The Kansas City-based news outlet covering Catholicism reports that Ottawa, Ontario, Archbishop Terrence Prendergast paid a visit to Kansas City last week to ask members close to the local diocese about Finn’s leadership. The Pitch has…
Celebrate National Coffee Day today with a complimentary cuppa at select locations
It’s National Coffee Day today, and in case you missed your morning brew – or maybe it’s time for your mid-morning pick-me-up – there are a few local shops offering freebies to celebrate this essential holiday. The list isn’t that long, but we’re just grateful to anyone who is offering us complimentary caffeine. Latteland (or Kaldi’s Coffee) – Free 12 oz….
96.5 the Buzz loses $1 million lawsuit to Olathe woman, decides to raise $1 million for Hope House
In April 2012, radio hosts Afentra and Danny Boi, of the morning program “Afentra’s Big Fat Morning Buzz” on 96.5 the Buzz, went on the air and incorrectly named a local Olathe woman, Ashley Patton, as a porn star. It was a mistake – the [person who texted the tip meant local porn star Ashley Payton – but Patton’s name…
Here’s your Royals-related schedule for the next few days
Baseball’s regular season is over, and for the first time in 29 years, the Kansas City Royals have another game scheduled. The Royals are playing a postseason game — at home! — tomorrow night. Is it pathetic how tremendously excited we all are about this? Yes. But that does not change the fact that it is indeed very exciting! In case…
The Preservation Hall Jazz Band brought a little bit of New Orleans history to Harrah’s on Friday Night
Preservation Hall Jazz Band with Grand Marquis Friday, September 26 VooDoo Lounge at Harrah’s The Preservation Hall Jazz Band (PHJB) is all about joyous music. It’s all about making the couple of hundred people in the audience instinctively sway in their seats, rock their shoulders to and fro, bounce their head or a foot, and sometimes throw an arm skyward…
Lykke Li bared her heart of steel last night at the Uptown
Lykke Li with Mapei Uptown Theater, Kansas City Saturday, September 27 “This song is from my first album, it’s a long time ago,” Lykke Li announced last night at the Uptown before launching into “Dance, Dance, Dance,” the hit single off her 2008 full-length debut,Youth Novels. “The problem is that I forgot how to dance. I don’t know how to…
Dr. John brought old-school New Orleans jazz to Crossroads KC last night
Dr. John with Blue Orleans and The Honey Island Swamp Band Crossroads, Kansas City Friday, September 26, 2014 Dr. John is not just one guy. Some nights, he’s a robe-clad New Orleans dignitary, former King of the Krewe du Vieux, bearer of funk, gris-gris and deep swamp mystery. Others, he’s a Rock and Roll Hall of fame member who played…
Green Dirt Farm one-day tour tickets go on sale tomorrow
Green Dirt Farm, the award-winning sheep dairy and cheese maker based in Weston, Missouri, doesn’t offer tours of the farm very often, so the autumn tour — scheduled for Sunday, October 19 — is a big deal for fans of the popular local cheese-making facility founded by Sarah Hoffman and Jacquie Smith. Tickets cost $15 in advance for adults, and…
Rex Sinquefield-backed PAC Grow Missouri trying to pay local reporters to blog for them
Rex Sinquefield wants to grow Missouri with blimps and payola. Grow Missouri, a Sinquefield-affiliated political action committee, took to the skies of various Missouri cities this week and last with a blimp that reads “Create a Great State.” The message seems to imply that Sinquefield thinks Missouri, the state that the billionaire calls home, isn’t that great already. Sinquefield thinks…
BTK killer’s daughter upset Stephen King wrote a story about the BTK killer
Interesting piece in the Wichita Eagle today. There’s a new Stephen King movie coming out October 3, A Good Marriage. King adapted the screenplay from his 2010 novella of the same name. It’s based, he says, on the BTK killer: Dennis Rader, the Wichita serial killer who murdered 10 people between 1974 and 1991. Here’s how King describes his inspiration…
Fly Moon Royalty’s Adra Boo and Mike Illvester explain their dynamic partnership ahead of Sunday’s show at Riot Room
When Seattle’s Adra Boo and Mike Illvester first began making music together, they didn’t really have a plan. Their collaboration as Fly Moon Royalty was inspired by a mutual love for old-school hip-hop and funk more than by a drive to reach the masses. Four years later, that lack of focus has worked out just fine. Boo and Illvester’s latest…
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