| | | At Charlie Parker Square, one cop's aggressive policing has some residents crying foul – and they're calling in his past for backup BY NADIA PFLAUM  On a bone-chilling February morning, two Kansas City police officers, Tim Griddine and Albert Villafane, cruise through the low-income housing complexes near 12th Street and the Paseo with the car's heater blasting. They peer out the side windows, looking for cars to be towed from the squatty batch of apartment buildings they patrol called Charlie Parker Square. Without periodic cleanups, the parking lots here can turn into stolen-car graveyards. Griddine and Villafane patrol Parker Square both for the Kansas City, Missouri, Police Department and, when they're off-duty, for the complex's management company. This is an off-duty shift. It started just an hour ago, but they've already made on... more >>
| | | | | | | | Lords of Acid returns to the house that sleaze built BY BERRY ANDERSON  The day that Maurice Engelen — better known as Lords of Acid's Praga Khan — answers the phone in his home country of Belgium, the Low Country kingdom has marked more than eight months without a centralized government. "We seem to be very proud of it. It's working, and nobody is complaining," he says, his accent thick and guttural. Unorthodox political policies are commonplace in Wes... more >> | | | | | | | | The Rieger's got serious game BY CHARLES FERRUZZA  If you happen to have a couple of million bucks stashed away, you can purchase the old Rieger Hotel building, just south of 19th Street and Main. For considerably less, you can eat a damn good meal on the first floor, in a smart-looking sage-green dining room that was once the lobby of a three-story hotel. Was there ever a dining room at the Rieger? According to city directories of the period, p... more >> | | | | | | The Tempest BY ERNEST HARDY  In Julie Taymor's hands, Shakespeare's The Tempest becomes a listless feminist parable. The duchess Prospera (Helen Mirren) has been forced into exile, stripped of wealth and position by her scheming brother, Antonio (Chris Coo... more >> | | | | | | | | Wayward Blog There's been a lot of buzz about the upcoming new release from Kansas City's indie mainstay Republic Tigers. No Land's Man is a four-track EP that fans can get their hands on during the upcomin... Fat City A few weeks after The Pitch ran a positive review of chef Michael Peterson's menu at Hickok's Bar & Grill, the 44-year-old chef announced that he was leaving the stylish Southwest-style sal... Plog Leave it to a punter to put the NFL labor dispute into perspective. Kansas City Chiefs punter Dustin Colquitt gets it. While the NFL's owners and players argue over how many more millions of dol... | | | | |
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