Subject: Apple iPhone

• Spoiler Alert: Harry Lives

  July 24, 2007

• Daily Briefs: Tough Day For Fetuses, Sprint's People Woes, American Stupid Idol

  January 18, 2008

• Socks and Tarantulas at the Studio

  April 14, 2008

• Sex and the Sprint Phone

  June 9, 2008

• Rockfest Backwash: Tweets, tats, tits and randomness from the show.

  We reviewed the experience, now its time to see what has washed up on the Web since hard rock hooligans took over Liberty Memorial Park this past Saturday. But first, check out this amazing and oddly MO-centric (apparent) prison tat. credit: Berry AndersonYou may have caged this bird for a time, Missouri, be he lived to rock -- shirtless -- again! Viral video-wise, I haven't found anything to compare with last year's video of a hooligan taking on the cops, but here's a quickie stitched toget

  June 1, 2009

• Don't Drink the iPhone Wine Application!

  July 15, 2008

• Bryden, Kathy and Jennifer at the American Royal Black Tie Gala

  By NADIA PFLAUMBryden Becker, Kathy Donahue and Jennifer Becker own a shop called Will Wyatt's Cowboy Couture.This explains their wild accessories -- I spotted Kathy's necklace from across the room and had to ask her about it, since she caught me staring at her. The necklace designer is Coreen Cordova, who also designed Jennifer's Buddha ring."He's very inscrutable," Bryden said of the Buddha's expression."Somebody asked me if it blinks," Jennifer said. I could probably afford a blinking Buddha

  November 25, 2008

• Running Diary: Check Please

  So I decided to keep a running diary of KCPT's new show Check, Please! Here's what happened over the 23-minute show.7:31: Drinking a beer, sitting in front of the television -- now this is the life. The theme music is a little too elevator but it's over soon enough and here's the show. Damn, it's not in hi-definition. I actually wonder if this is on purpose. As any anybody who's ever watched Lou Dobbs on CNN HD knows, the extra detail can be frightening. Food is hard enough to film, so it's prob

  January 16, 2009

• Olathe's iResQ shows its dark side, woman charges; UPDATE: case closed

  Friendly Midwestern success story iResQ, the Apple-authorized repair center in south Olathe, fixes iPhones and iPods but may have a tough time fixing its reputation in the almighty blogosphere. In the wee hours this morning, the influential Web site BoingBoing -- a kind of think tank devoted to epic geek time wasting -- linked to a Sacramento, California, blogger accusing iResQ of opinion blackmail. According to BoingBoing's post today, the disgruntled customer, who blogs as brownielinzi, se

  February 10, 2009

• Don't eat bean dip before the city council meeting!

  Flickr: Jason Wild OK, so maybe it wasn't bean dip that caused the unfortunate farting episode that disrupted a City Council meeting in the hamlet of Medina, Ohio. All kinds of foods can cause severe flatulence, including milk and milk products, fried beans and peas, cabbage, brussels sprouts and all kinds of otherwise healthy fruits and vegetables.  Jane Leaver, the mayor of Medina, Ohio insists that no one at the council meeting actually farted -- even though she needed to call

  March 12, 2009

• Dispatch from SXSW: Back home and back pain

  I'm writing this blog entry from my basement couch in Overland Park. Besides the ringing in my ears and a pain in my back and ribs that I can't remember aquiring, this seems like a world away from the aural and visual shitstorm that is Austin during South by Southwest. But I mean that in the nicest way. If anyone's looking for the expert's wrap-up of the hottest shows in Texas last week, you'll have to look elsewhere. My perspective was supposed to be different. My two friends and I (all SXSW f

  March 22, 2009

• It Was Free ’Cuz I Stole It

  December 28, 2006

• For the makers of Shatto Milk, success is cold and tasty

  September 18, 2008

• A not-independent analyst might have skewed local media coverage of Sprint

  July 31, 2008

• Cheap Show

  December 20, 2007

• The Popcorn King

  Rush Hour 3 director Brett Ratner has been called a fauxteur, a womanizer and, worse, over budget. Why you should take him seriously anyway.

  August 9, 2007

• Coverage Like ...

  How's Sprint's coverage? Cold as coleslaw.

  July 19, 2007

• Auto-Chaotic

  July 5, 2007

• Upstaged!

  An investigation turns up rejected names for Sprint’s music phone.

  April 5, 2007

• Wayward Weekender: Stay Tuned at Davey's, Fiesta Kansas City, Antennas Up and Ha Ha Tonka

  With Spring has come renewal on the Kansas City music scene. I started out this past Friday with a hearty, bolstering meal at Stroud's, followed by a quick drink at Jazz on 39th (where the full moon had its best company of the evening, I swear), and then on to Davey's Uptown Ramblers Club for the first installment of the Midwest Music Foundation's Stay Tuned series. I missed the earlier acts, Mr. Marco's V7 and the Afterparty, arriving as new-band-of-old-scenesters Hipshot Killer was bashing o

  May 11, 2009

• What does Trent Reznor do before the show?

  Why, he takes his lady to the Apple Store! Alert, iPhone-equipped Pitch contributor Rich Sharp snapped this photo of the Rez browsing for Macs earlier today in Chicago with his fiancée, Mariqueen Maandig, of the band West Indian Girl. That right there is wassup.

  May 28, 2009

• Online beer sommelier actually helpful

  True beer nerds probably won't have any use for the Internet guide Beer Sommelier. But for everyone else, it's a neat way to figure out the convoluted world or beer, where there are more than 20 distinct categories and a hundred sub-categories.The guide is compiled by Great Brewers, on a Web site started by a distribution company but run by beer bloggers. It features more than 250 beer-pairings -- from the boring, such as scrambled eggs (a Belgium wit such as Two Jokers) to the exotic, such as b

  June 8, 2009

• Hy-Vee, Osco to start grading foods

  As attentive shoppers might have noticed, one of the city's larger grocery store chains is now scoring certain food items -- on a scale of one to 100 -- based on healthiness.The dozen metro Hy-Vees have adapted the NuVal nutritional scoring system, one of several systems slowly being introduced around the country to help shoppers make more informed decisions. Each system has its own grading scale. In the fall, Osco plans to introduce Nutrition IQ, which ranks food into color categories -- i.e. f

  July 8, 2009

• Concert Review: Gomez at the Beaumont Club

  Crystal K. WiebeA barfly's eye view of Gomez at the Beaumont Club. The instruments of rock at the Beaumont Club last night consisted of more than the usual drums, guitar and bass. For its headlining set, bluesy British rockers Gomez incorporated various kinds of shakers; a keyboard blowing tube contraption (that broke by the end of the song) that I guess was a vocorder; a kazoo; and an iPhone. The stage was also dotted with multiple Apple laptops and keyboards, and the guitarists swapped out

  July 21, 2009

• Finally, a cashier that won't judge your triple cheeseburger order

  ​Guilt is a powerful factor for people looking to stay on a diet or avoid fast food -- it's hard to look another person in the eye and ask for a bucket of chicken. But that's no longer a problem at a Jack in the Box in Bellevue, Washington, where customers can order via an automated kiosk, instead of a cashier. The concept is simple. You order, swipe your card, and then pick up your order from a human. The machine allows customers to make substitutions or changes to their order, while subtly

  July 27, 2009

• Official Guide: 2009 Pitch Music Showcase and Awards

  August 6, 2009

• Behold the Coke soda dispenser of the future

  Future robots don't have to be evil -- some of them might help us have a world with more soda choices at our finger tips. Coca-Cola is currently test-marketing the Freestyle -- a soda dispenser with more than 100 choices inside a single machine -- in southern California. The first machines are in Jack-In-the-Box, where food science is likely a way of life. Fat City covered the initial rollout of the new dispensers back in February. The fountain machine uses flavored concentrates that it then mix

  August 24, 2009

• The kegerator evolves into a beer robot

  ​We couldn't let another country beat us to the moon. But we were scooped on a beer robot. The Asahi robot was part of a promotion for the Japanese brewer in 2006. The R2-D2-shaped bot would pour a tall cold one from a refrigerated compartment that could hold a six-pack and two frosty mugs -- but it was only available in Japan. Now, American ingenuity has found a way to improve upon the concept. Wired has built a robotic kegerator complete with instructions on how to make your own at home.Th

  September 8, 2009

• Breakfast Buffet: Thursday, October 14

  An essay on the importance of buying local before a recommendation of the top 10 local chain restaurants. [The Making of a Foodie]Disappointment over the fact that the Osceola Cheese Shop can't even do cheesy well. [Gone Mild]A new study suggests that our sense of smell might be tied to emotional sensitivity -- so now you know the reason you cry at the sight of a dropped cupcake. [National Geographic]If you were having trouble picking up women, this iPhone app from Pepsi promoting AMP energy dr

  October 14, 2009

• Antennas Up Tap Taps into your iPhone.

  Since music consumers these days spend more time fingering their iPhones than their wallets at the merch table at actual live shows, it's pretty dang smart for a touring regional band like our own Antennas Up to get its music on the all-powerful gadget of the day.Layne Haley​ And as of last week, iPhone and iPod touch users who download the megapopular Tap Tap Revenge 3 game from the iTunes App Store will be able to ply their digits to not one but three Antennas songs: "Don't Wait Up," "O

  October 14, 2009

• What your waiter is Tweeting about you

  ​In just a few months we've gone from a server being fired for what she wrote on a blog to a server being fired for a Tweet about a customer. Keep your eyes peeled for the waiter that is terminated following a Facebook status update or for participating in a Reddit thread about the parent company of their restaurant. Meanwhile, after the jump, there's a list of some of the weirder interactions between servers and diners that we found through a Twitter search. 

  November 11, 2009