KC Confidential

What did I tell you guys?

That self-excommunicated KCUR FM host Jabulani Leffall would come out of hiding eventually and likely choose the safe harbor of The Pitch to do so.

No tough questions, just a ton of references to yesterday’s KC Confidential headline challenging Leffall “to come out of hiding.”

Leffall says he went to Party Arty Saturday at the Nelson Atkins Museum, therefore “No, man, I’m not hiding at all,” he said.

Hey wildman, it doesn’t matter how many parties you go to, when you quit on the air after two years then duck multiple reporter’s calls for a week, that’s hiding. Continue reading →

He went to school with Simon & Garfunkle and Joey Ramone, was an expert witness in the O.J. Simpson trial and worked with Oliver Stone…

Now author / conspiracy theorist Robert Groden is in Kansas City preparing to blow the lid off the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. Again.

“Some years ago I worked for a company in New York and Life Magazine wanted to see if they could blow the Zapruder Film up from 8mm to 35mm for theatrical release,” Groden says. “And we had done work on Woodstock so they brought it to us and an extra copy was made and I ended up with it. And that’s what I released on national television on Geraldo Rivera‘s show.”

It was the first time the film was shown on TV, Groden says.

Now he’s working with Uptown Theater main man Larry Sells to unleash another Kennedy Assassination first. Continue reading →

In another life, Fox 4 meteorologist Mike Thompson might have had any number of careers…

Flat Earth Cartologist, Witch Doc, Bloodletter, Turner of Gay People to Straight – you get the picture.  Whatever entailed ignoring science and clinging to antiquated beliefs.

After all, we do live in Kansas – many of us anyway. You know, where the earth was created in seven days and some chick named Eve turned us all into pervs by chomping into an apple.

Forget what the vast majority of scientists say, Thompson says climate change is hocus pocus.

The latest: KSHB TV weather wonk Gary Lezak plans to clear things up February 13th. Continue reading →

Don’t look now, but the Liberty Memorial‘s eternal flame is poised for a comeback…

It’s been nearly a year since the once proud flame flickered mightily high atop the downtown landmark. The fake flame went dark last March as part of museum efforts to reduce costs and save energy. Continue reading →

Don’t shed any tears for Joe Posnanski…

Sure the former Kansas City Star sports scribe took it up the you-know-what last year for giving disgraced Penn State football coach Joe Paterno kid glove treatment in his book “Paterno.”

That after holing up with the Paterno family in State College, Pa. in the months leading up to and at the time the Jerry Sandusky scandal broke in late 2011. The rest is history as Paterno’s statue was taken down by Penn State as his sterling reputation lay in tatters.

Try finding a review that doesn’t bag on Posnanski for whitewashing Paterno’s role in covering up the scandal.

But forget all of that now…

Because movie director Brian DePalma has inked a deal for a movie about Paterno based on Posnaski’s book starring Al Pacino. Continue reading →

Do us all a favor and just bring it…

Enough with lame headlines like the Pitch‘s speculating on whether now former KCUR FM host Jabulani Leffall was on drugs. He was not the alt weekly “reported,” according to an anonymous friend.

It’s time for Leffall to come out of hiding and come clean to local listeners as to why he pulled the plug on his radio show with no warning, no explanation.

Leffall owes them that, seeing as how they wrote his paychecks the past two years. Continue reading →

I can’t take it anymore…

Not that I’m mad as hell or anything, but the only thing more ridiculous than the ridiculous tale of Notre Dame linebacker Manti Te’o is the ridiculous, lame news coverage of his fake dead girlfriend story.

Ad nauseam news coverage. Continue reading →

Think Quantrill’s Raid sans the massacre…

At this point the plans are a little sketchy, but if push comes to shove, Black & Gold Tavern owner Zach Cartwright may celebrate the 1863 burning of Lawrence by leading a band of MU Tigers to the Jayhawk capital this summer.

“August 21st of this year is the 150th anniversary of Quantrill’s excursion to Lawrence, so we will be celebrating it here at the Black & Gold Tavern” Cartwright says. “We might even take a bus load of Missouri fans over to Lawrence that night, but we’ll leave the matches at home.”

The first raid left between 185 and 200 Jayhawks dead. Continue reading →

Since when did making pizzas become a life and death struggle?

I’ll let new Dark Horse Tavern main man Bill Nigro answer that in a minute. But first let’s clear up the confusion about the whereabouts of Torres Pizza the past 10 years.

As one comments section gentleman noted, something called Torres has been available in Westport  pretty much all along since the mid 1970s.

Trouble is, after Nigro got fed up hand making pizzas in 2002 he farmed Torres out to a concern who changed the recipe and hustled the pies less scrupulously.

No mas. Continue reading →