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Feature
Missouri biologist Frederick vom Saal and his team exposed the dangers of bisphenol A — and earned the wrath of the plastic industry.
By Nadia Pflaum
Published: April 24, 2008
On a spring day one year ago, scientists in life vests and blue jeans invaded the bucolic slice of nature where Perche Creek empties into the Missouri River. The scientists,...
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Interview
Holsey Turner, aka Hozey-T, is Kansas City's newest unknown rapper on the rise
By Nadia Pflaum
Published: April 17, 2008
“Rise” by Hozey-T: It never hurts to be the new guy. You know the appeal — he walks in out of nowhere and steals all the attention. That's how it was when a...
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Night & Day
Made Up
By Nadia Pflaum
Published: April 3, 2008
My hypochondriac mother warned me before I went off to college that sharing makeup is unsanitary. Luckily, the guys (and gals) starring in the University of Kansas' annual...
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Night & Day
Party Like an Israeli
By Nadia Pflaum
Published: March 20, 2008
All that frightening footage out of the Middle East fails to illustrate an often-ignored fact about Israelis — they really know how to party. They aren't shy about...
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Feature
How Not to Be a Rap Star
Flying high on Ecstasy, Grey Goose and his own hype, Paul Mussan blew through 100 G's in six months.
By Nadia Pflaum
Published: March 6, 2008
Paul Mussan and Stelo X rolled into Atlanta's Freight Room for the afterparty of BET's First-Annual Hip-Hop Awards. There, someone told the Kansas City rapper and his manager...
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Night & Day
Litter Pickers
By Nadia Pflaum
Published: March 6, 2008
At last year's first-annual River Otter Day, 120 people scooped 34,000 pounds of trash from the banks of the Missouri River in just four hours. That's 17 tons of trash, or, if...
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Feature
Sex Edition
Our second-annual issue dedicated to all things sex.
By Charles Ferruzza, JUSTIN KENDALL, Berry Anderson, Nadia Pflaum and Peter Rugg
Published: February 14, 2008
In the stories that follow, and elsewhere on Pitch.com, it might seem as if we've got one thing on our mind. It's true — and we're not ashamed of it! Welcome...
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Interview
Oh, Omé: This local cage fighter turned R&B singer thinks he knows how to treat a lady.
By Nadia Pflaum
Published: February 14, 2008
“Find My Girl” by Omé As hot dates go, dinner with Omé could be pretty steamy. The tall, green-eyed R&B singer will probably ask you about your...
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Night & Day
Pubes of Enchantment
By Nadia Pflaum
Published: February 7, 2008
Here's a tip for all the gents out there this Valentine's Day: If your lady's curtains no longer match her drapes — as it were — but have instead been pruned into...
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Update
Murder Case Is Killed Again
KCPD says its officer bungled a murder case, but a disappearing witness sunk the trial.
By Nadia Pflaum
Published: February 7, 2008
Last Thursday, a press release from the Kansas City, Missouri, Police Department announced that the termination of former police officer Danny Holmes would be upheld. As this...
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Feature
Shauntay Speaks
Awaiting trial in March, Shauntay Henderson remembers her community-activist grandmother and dreams of making babies.
By Nadia Pflaum
Published: January 24, 2008
Shauntay Henderson remembers coming home from her first day of school as a little girl and telling her grandmother about all of her new friends. "You ain't got no friends,"...
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Night & Day
Toxic Topics
By Nadia Pflaum
Published: January 10, 2008
The Kansas City Plant, where non-nuclear components for nuclear bombs are made, is scaling back production and moving all the assembly from Bannister and Troost to a site near...
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Night & Day
Sounds of Success
By Nadia Pflaum
Published: December 27, 2007
The duo called Tactic had a pretty amazing 2007. Its remixes were featured on the Mad Decent record label, and the two DJs collaborated with local musical phenomena such as the...
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Night & Day
Get Sloppy
By Nadia Pflaum
Published: December 27, 2007
The song playing on DJ Mike DiLeo's MySpace page is called "Bring Enough to Spill Some," which is a pretty sexy philosophy, especially when the "some" in the equation is...
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Night & Day
Sparks Flies On
By Nadia Pflaum
Published: December 27, 2007
Usually, the traditional rules for anniversary gift-giving seem very limiting, if not completely boring. (Seriously, the sixth anniversary is "iron and sugar." Is there a cake...
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Night & Day
Still Bashin'
By Nadia Pflaum
Published: December 20, 2007
Last year, some members of KC's Jewish community were scandalized when The Pitch dared hint of the boozing, flirting and general enjoyment that attendees have at the annual...
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Feature
Pay 2 Play
Hip-hop hustlers are making off with Kansas City rappers’ hard-earned cash.
By Nadia Pflaum
Published: December 13, 2007
Twenty-six-year-old Robert Hardiman, otherwise known as Realla Rezob, stands outside the Walgreens at 39th Street and Broadway in a plain white T-shirt, the straps of a...
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State Lines
Carriage Lady Returns
Having served her time, a horse-coach operator convicted in a murder plot revisits the Plaza.
By Nadia Pflaum
Published: December 13, 2007
December has always been M.J. L'Donna's favorite time of year on the Plaza. For a long time, though, she didn't get to see the holiday lights. L'Donna was the owner of a...
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Night & Day
Reykjavik Rocks
By Nadia Pflaum
Published: November 29, 2007
It's a good thing that members of the band Sigur Rós aren't from, say, Lubbock, Texas, or that city in China where they dispose of the world's computers. Sweeping shots...
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Feature
Buried Truth
Up at the airport, under what's slated to be a private racetrack, no one's resting in peace.
By Nadia Pflaum
Published: November 15, 2007
It has been light for only an hour, but the Watkins Brothers Memorial Chapel is open for business. In the back of the Cleaver II Boulevard complex, two new coffins, still...
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