Going Out

Pigeon Infestation Forces Kings of Leon Offstage Early in St. Louis. An infestation of pigeons living in the rafters of the Verizon Amphitheatre in St. Louis, MO, forced the Kings of Leon to walk offstage after three songs last night. Even though opening bands The Postelles and The Stills came offstage complaining of getting riddled with large amounts of pigeon excrement, the Kings of Leon decided to carry on regardless. [Read More]

Now with press release update! (see below) We always thought their music was shitty… Three songs in to their show at Verizon Wireless Amphitheater Friday night, Kings of Leon left the stage and their manager came out to announce that the show was over. It was being cancelled due to a safety issue “beyond their control” and there was no choice in the matter. As the crowd chanted “Bullshit! Bullshit! [Read More]

Update: See more posts on, what we’re calling, “Poopstock” here. We’re hearing a lot of anger towards over-rated band Kings of Leon that was scheduled to appear at the Verizon Wireless Amphitheater tonight but quickly canceled their own show after only three songs. The reason for stoping the show short? “Band safety” aka “F*ck you St. Louis Kings of Leon fans.” So what’s the real story? We’re still trying to find out all the details, but one could piece a lot of the action together by following the chatter on Twitter: [Read More]

Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeekkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk!

Zac Efron, the star of the famous High School Singy Song Show With Chicks That Are Way to Hot to be In Disney Movies Music (or whatever) movie series, is coming to St. Louis tomorrow to show his new, non-signing movie Charlie St. Cloud.

You might be asking yourself “Why would he do that?”

We don’t know.

Oh wait yes we do. Someone won a contest or something.

The 22-year-old _Charlie St. Cloud_actor will be heading to St. Louis, Missouri NEXT Wednesday, July 21 to premiere his flick with the winner of the nationwide hometown screening contest — Jerry Sanoval, 43.

Ha. No, we’re kidding. The winner’s name is Emily Johnson. Having a pervy 43 year old dude win would be far more funny though.

Other situations that would make this more funny include: Some sort of cream pie gag, several rubber chickens attending the show somehow and Zac bringing girlfriend and co-star Vanessa Hudgens over to our place to keep her company while he’s at the premiere.

The last one is funny because we would be like “Whoa that actually happened. That’s funny.” The rest of it wouldn’t be “funny” pre se.

via JustJared

Click through the jump to see Vanessa if you aren’t familiar with her talents.

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St. Louis takes a step closer to killing everyone as Hardee’s, the fast food chain known for big burgers and calls St. Louis it’s corporate home, is currently market testing that crazy but beautiful behemoth pictured above: The foot-long hamburger. The foot-long burger idea was hatched two months ago from a product development chef at Carl’s [Jr., the other half of Hardee’s], says Brad Haley, marketing chief. The chain is especially eager to create products that appeal to its core customers: young men ages 18 to 24. [Read More]

The Urban Assault Ride is coming back to St. Louis on August 15th! If you’ve heard of it, I’m sure you’re excited and if you’ve never heard of it, this bearded gentleman on the right riding a big wheel should get you sufficiently up to speed. The Urban Assault Ride™ is a truly unique cycling event…and quickly becoming one of the biggest in country! Here’s how it works: You and your teammate will set out on a city-wide quest for ‘checkpoints’ on your favorite two-wheeled steeds. [Read More]

Found via the Twitter stream of one of the bigots themselves! From our @ladygaga concert picket in St. Louis! http://twitpic.com/26aotu http://twitvid.com/PFOL9 You can really tell all the good work they are doing across the street behind their little fence. Look at all the people listening and giving a crap. Powerful stuff. Now where did my ink well and quill go? Ah! Here it is… Dear @meganphelps, Why are you so angry? [Read More]

I know you think we here at Punching Kitty spend our “down time” doing extreme things like kicking lions or swimming in the Mississippi with our mouths open, but from time to time we might sit down and enjoy the more stagnent side of life by enjoying a spot of TV. Keeping in mind the whole “kicking lions” thing we said earlier, we aren’t afraid to say we watch Project Runway. [Read More]

We saw a really crazy flick that started out just like this… More than 10,000 Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority members will be in St. Louis this week for a weeklong convention. Blah blah blah…honoring people…blah blah blah keep our clothes on. Whatever stuffy press release! …what if we had you this beer bong and pour Apple Pucker on you like this…? Oh we’ll give you a one size too small white “Punching Kitty” t-shirt too. [Read More]

Hey neighbors! It looks like Mr. Joe Edwards is getting his trolley! [T]he federal government is pitching in $25-million toward a trolley car that would run between University City and western parts of St. Louis. This $44-million total project would run trolley cars between City Hall down Delmar, then south on Debaliviere to the Missouri history museum on Debaliviere in Forest park. For a while it looked like it may never happen, but now it looks like it could be in place as soon as 2012, according to Edwards. [Read More]