Crack Pitch clubs editor Berry Anderson snapped this photo at Eighth Street and Walnut. She also spied another sign on Southwest Boulevard across from Manny's. Let's get this straight. The Kansas City Star's answer to falling stock prices, declining circulation and company-wide layoffs isn't providing better coverage of Kansas City -- it's bribing readers with a $25,000 grand prize?
A Kansas City connection has emerged in the sordid story of Bernie Madoff, the money manager alleged to have run a $50 billion Ponzi scheme.The Securities and Exchange Commission admitted Tuesday that it had received credible information of Madoff's misdeeds years earlier but had failed to act. Christopher Cox, the SEC chairman, announced an investigation into the commission's asleep-at-the-wheelness.According to reports, a lawyer named Eric Swanson headed one SEC investigation into Madoff's act
I hope you've all been enjoying Nikki Finke's Deadline Hollywood over the last couple of days! We don't know what's going on there. It's kind of like the Pitch blog is haunted by juicy, but very spoo-oooky Hollywood scoopage. Consequently, I wasn't going to write anything this morning. "Let Nikki Finke do it," I said to Justin, lazily scratching my stomach with one hand while shoveling a fistful of Combos Pizzeria pretzel snacks into my mouth with the other. "Is there any way to get our site
If you were sitting there during Cast Away wishing you could have a sip of coconut water instead of your 128-oz. Diet Coke -- boy are you excited about the latest potential growth market for Coke and Pepsi! As demand for bottled water has shrunk, beverage makers are trying to boost their market share by turning to new offerings, the latest of which appears to be coconut water. In the past two weeks, Pepsi has purchased Amacoco -- Brazil's largest producer of coconut water -- while Coca-Cola h
