Subject: Magazines

• Few Takers for Free Boob Job

  January 25, 2008

• Demencha Offers Free Johnny Quest Mixtape

  July 17, 2008

• Review Preview

  August 12, 2008

• Society facebook sues former KCMO councilman

  Controversy rocks the corner of the Kansas City publishing world that looks expectantly to the spring day when the city's elite mix animal prints and tuxedo wear.The owner of a society magazine has sued Chuck Eddy, a former Kansas City, Missouri, councilman and candidate for mayor, alleging that Eddy violated the terms of an employment agreement.

  December 16, 2008

• Best Used CD Selection

  January 27, 2000

• Kansas City Strip

  September 28, 2000

• Best Place to See a Platinum-Selling Act (Relatively) Up Close

  October 19, 2000

• Best Restaurant to Spot a Celebrity

  October 18, 2001

• Best Locally Produced Fanzine

  October 18, 2001

• Best Comfort Food

  October 17, 2002

• Best Library Magazine Selection

  October 17, 2002

• Eager 435 South non-bachelor identified as society-baiting middle manager

  Courtesy of 435 SouthChris CampbellThe Pitch has learned that the meaty hunk of cougar bait disqualified from magazine 435 South's "Most Eligible Bachelors" auction is 42-year-old Chris Campbell. The magazine identifies him in its February issue as a "regional manager -- Central U.S. Strategic Alliances; Red Hat Inc." The "signature monthly publication of southern Johnson County" (says the magazine's Facebook profile) punted Campbell after receiving an e-mail tip that he wasn't so eligible. Ac

  February 13, 2009

• John Dandy

  April 15, 2004

• Dandercroft Compilation

  April 22, 2004

• Best College Athlete

  October 7, 2004

• Angie Stone

  October 21, 2004

• Ryan Cabrera

  March 17, 2005

• The 'Zine Party

  May 26, 2005

• Street Jizz

  August 31, 2006

• Cool Kirby

  February 19, 2009

• Strutting For Students

  November 27, 2008

• Sold-Out Showdown

  November 27, 2008

• Lit Slam

  November 27, 2008

• Depression

  Remembering the greatness of No Depression.

  March 13, 2008

• Girly Clothes

  July 19, 2007

• Shrink Rap

  July 19, 2007

• This Week We Love...

  June 29, 2006

• Feel the Burn

  A hard rocker and 'zine master steps over the blog bog.

  November 17, 2005

• Publish or Perish

  Magazine students learn a tough lesson in the art of finance.

  April 24, 2003

• Rocket From the Crypt

  Monday, March 31, at the Bottleneck.

  March 27, 2003

• Mag Light

  Today's music magazines suck up to celebs -- and just plain suck.

  December 19, 2002

• A Dogged Man

  Mark Ulriksen illustrates the artist’s difficult path.

  November 15, 2001

• What, Them Worry?

  As Mad celebrates its 400th issue, its editors wonder how to stay funny in a world gone mad.

  November 2, 2000

• A Fan's Notes

  After Jerry Maguire, Cameron Crowe comes of age...finally

  September 14, 2000

• Two restaurants awarded best burger by Food Network Magazine

  When Food Network Magazine launched late last year I stopped by a grocery store to read it (yes, I'm that guy) and didn't notice any articles about KC. So I figured I'd check out the next issue. I waited and I waited and after two months, the same inaugural issue was still listed on the Web site and at the grocery store. What the hell? Did it fold after one issue? I was curious enough to jot down the magazine's e-mail address and try to understand what was going on.The answer is no, the Food Net

  May 4, 2009

• Kansas City somehow trails Cleveland, Houston, three other shitty cities for favorite

  Last month, I posted a piece about how Kansas City is one of the ten finalists for Travel Leisure's list of America's favorite cities. My mission was to get Kansas City voted into the top five, thus guaranteeing it a spot in the magazine. To be honest, I wasn't that worried about the voting. After all, with cities like Detroit on the list, KC looked to be a sure thing. Not anymore.

  May 14, 2009

• KC Magazine's ones to watch in '84

  This week's column involves a shopping center in Lee's Summit that's getting taxpayer assistance. Nowadays, big retail centers receive incentives as a matter of course. Curious to know what cities did (if anything) for the malls of yesterday, I went to the Missouri Valley Room at the Central Library to look at old newspaper and magazine articles. One source turned up in a 1984 edition of Kansas City Magazine. The article described the effects of Bannister Mall on Truman Corners in Grandview. The

  May 29, 2009

• Play Roy Blunt off, Keyboard Cat

  Republicans promised a health-care reform bill of their own but delivered, as Time magazine put it, "a four-page exercise in public relations that left out how many of the 47 million uninsured Americans would be covered, how it would be paid for or even how much it would cost." So courtesy of Fired Up! Missouri, we give you Missouri Congressman Roy Blunt and Keyboard Cat.

  June 18, 2009

• Lincoln Prep named one of Newsweek's top schools in the nation

  According to a Newsweek "Web Exclusive," the magazine has ranked Lincoln College Preparatory Academy, in the Kansas City, Missouri, School District, 128th out of 1,500 public high schools in the nation.  This is just the latest drop in a well-deserved shower of praise for Lincoln Prep. Six months ago U.S. News and World Report handed its Silver Medal ranking to the school for the second time in two years, according to Andre Riley, communications specialist for the district. Both rankings ar

  June 19, 2009

• Robert Olen Butler

  June 25, 2009

• Mentally ill Missourian accidentally alters the course of history

  You probably thought that headline was an exaggeration. You were wrong. If you haven't picked up Newsweek lately, this is the time to do it. Newsweek photo of John Yettaw stopped by authoritiesThey've got an amazing profile of Missourian John Yettaw. His family describes him as a troubled man, with a history of violence and personal tragedies, who takes his dreams to be premonitions sent by God. This year he took a trip to Burma, and gave the country's oppressive regime an excuse to

  June 26, 2009

• People magazine doesn't have the heart to tell Elvis Grbac that he isn't sexy

  Secret's out.Elvis Grbac isn't a sexy hunk of man. Sports Illustrated's Jeff Pearlman tells the hilarious story of how the former Kansas City Chiefs quarterback accidentally became 1998's Sexiest Athlete on his blog. Here's a snip of Pearlman's story:The magazine chose Rich Gannon as its Sexiest Athlete. At the time, Gannon was a member of the Kansas City Chiefs. Still a couple of seasons removed from his golden tenure with the Raiders, Gannon was 33, handsome and likable. In other words, a sol

  June 25, 2009

• Sherry Leedy Contemporary Art: Soft Bones by Marcus Cain

  July 2, 2009

• Titan: It's All Pop! continues to get national notice

  From the pages of The Pitch to Fricke's Picks in Rolling Stone and, most recently, to a brand-new, Minneapolis-based 'zine, locally born compilation album Titan: It's All Pop! continues to stretch its midwestern power-pop legs. Refresher: From 1977 to 1981 in Kansas City, Tom Sorrells and Mark Prellberg built a label dedicated to releasing records by Midwest acts like the Boys, the Gems, Arlis Peach, Gary Charlson and others. In 2008, the two released a double-disc compilation CD of cuts from t

  July 3, 2009

• Blanc Burgers Bottles is a trend leader

  There is a perception among culinary crowds that food trends start on the coast and move inwards. Sushi, the cupcake craze and sous vide all became trendy in New York and San Francisco before coming to Kansas City.But Blanc Burgers Bottles is making waves through the industry by being an early adopter. The influential restaurant trade magazine Fast Casual credits the burger haven with helping to popularize sweet potato fries, which it predicts will be one of the big trends of the upcoming year

  July 7, 2009

• McClatchy stock up. Feel better, Star readers?

  Second-quarter reports came in earlier this week, bringing heartening word that earnings for the Kansas City Star-owning McClatchy Co. were way up.According to the trade magazine Editor & Publisher: McClatchy posted earnings of $42.2 million, or 50 cents per share, more than double its year-ago earnings and its first-quarter 2009 results.While advertising revenue slid 30 percent, McClatchy Chairman and CEO Gary Pruitt told analysts that the rate of decline in ad revenue slowed with every mon

  July 23, 2009

• Rock of Pages: The Best of the Yellow Rake Zine

  Brian Polk's Yellow Rake 'zine is a stellar, stellar publication. This collection shows that a 'zine can be way more than a bunch of half-assed opinions, band interviews, and an excuse to get free records (although, all of those are totally legitimate reasons for putting out a 'zine). ​The Best of the Yellow Rake Zine features everything from poetry from Polk himself (including one of my favorite poems, the hilarious "You Wanna Get Stoned and Overanalyze My Nomeansno Records?") to perenni

  September 10, 2009

• Viva Radio's The Best of Me You

  The Best of Me You Vol. 1 compiles over 30 exclusive interviews and songs recorded at the Viva Radio's Brooklyn studios between 2007 and 2009 for the program, hosted by Tedward. ​The Best of Me You features interviews and songs from Andrew W.K., the Fiery Furnaces, Jay Reatard, the Homosexuals, the Black Lips, and way more. The compilation is digital-only, and you basically buy the 32 page zine documenting the behind-the-scenes shiznit, and get the compilation for free. Alternately,

  October 8, 2009

• The Book of Ruth: It's heavy, man

  Ruth Reichl says her book will be the legacy of Gourmet Magazine. If you were driving through the Country Club Plaza last night about 10 p.m. or so, you might have seen the contingent of Foodie types -- Making of a Foodie blogger Jenny Vegera, or the slight lawyer who calls himself The Ulterior Epicure -- trudging back to their cars lugging a big ol' green hardback book. The tome was newly published Gourmet Today, the five-pound (at least) Houghton Mifflin Harcourt hardback wi

  October 8, 2009

• Tomorrow: Demencha Party feat. Murderbot @ Balanca's

  Two things we love that are all too rare in this world: local zines and Murderbots. Get both tomorrow night at Balanca's (1809 Grand) when Chrissy Murderbot returns home from Chicago to beatslap KC in the face in honor of the Fall/Winter issue of hip-hop/DJ-scene 'zine Demencha Magazine.​ Demencha founder Chris Milbourn, who used to write the Spin Cycle column for The Pitch, has always been a Murderbot champion, so it's fitting that he booked the eclectic electronic killer for the show.

  November 20, 2009