Barkley associate content director Carolyn Cohen is blogging the SXSW Interactive festival for The Pitch. There are buzzwords you hear again and again at a conference like this: engagement, content, innovate, disrupt, authenticity, … I could go on. But content storytelling is something that must come through in brand activations, panels, keynotes and the content from SXSW itself as a…
Barkley associate content director Carolyn Cohen is blogging the SXSW Interactive festival for The Pitch. Day 2 started off with sunshine, a pleasant break from the typical March rain in Austin. Saturday was spent hopping in and out of sessions, and further checking out the activations. Read more about Day 2 below with my top-five ideas from Day 2. 1….
Barkley associate content director Carolyn Cohen is blogging the SXSW Interactive festival for The Pitch. Day 1 of SXSW is always a blur. Friday was especially so. Our flight inadvertently arrived within two minutes of President Obama’s, so we were delayed for his entourage. Once we arrived at the festival, we spent most of our time checking out the culture…
Louis Meyers, who co-founded the South by Southwest Music and Media Conference in 1987, and spearheaded Folk Alliance International’s 2013 relocation to Kansas City, Missouri, has died, reports the Austin American-Statesman. No cause was immediately given. This year’s edition of the Austin, Texas, event, popularly abbreviated as SXSW, kicked off today with a keynote address by President Barack Obama. Meyers,…
After months of anticipation, one of the world’s biggest pop stars, Justin Bieber, will be taking his massive Purpose World Tour to Kansas City’s The Sprint Center. The “Sorry” hitmaker is scheduled to play a show on April 6, and face value tickets are entirely sold out for the performance, forcing fans to rely on the secondary market for tickets…
When Kansas City political and civic leaders urge local voters to renew the earnings tax, they sound a similar refrain: Without the earnings tax, the city will lose lots of cops and firefighters. And that’s true. Over the last 10 years, most non-public safety departments at City Hall have lost about half their staffs because of the recession and subsequent…
Lyle Lovett and Robert Earl Keen Uptown Theater, Kansas City, Missouri March 10, 2016 As Lyle Lovett and Robert Earl Keen took the stage last night, Lovett grinned and made one thing clear: “We’re real friends, not fake, show-business friends.” For the next two and half hours, nothing could have been more clear. They weren’t playing by typical concert rules….
Bruce Springsteen and the E-Street Band are heading out on the road for a second string of US dates of The River Tour. Kicking off in Los Angeles, this run of dates will take us throughout April, and make stops at several arenas including the Sprint Center in Kansas City, Missouri on April 7. Tickets to see Bruce Springsteen in…
In a post-recession economy that remains fragile, politicians can make hay by promising new jobs. This doesn’t just happen on the federal level, where the current parade of presidential candidates, most of whom are deranged, throw out vague ideas of how to “create jobs.” It’s quite common among local politicians. Kansas City officials are looking to defend the use of…
Sporting Kansas City plays its first home game of the 2016 season against the Vancouver Whitecaps on Saturday March 12, at Children’s Mercy Park (1 Sporting Way, Kansas City, Kansas). SKC opened the season with a 1-0 victory over the Seattle Sounders. Newly signed defender Nuno Andre Coelho gave SKC the edge with a long-range shot that skipped past Seattle’s…
The Kansas City Royals needed 30 years to win their second World Series, but the players and coaches are confident that the franchise’s third World Series win won’t take nearly as long. Despite losing Johnny Cueto, Alex Rios, and Ben Zobrist in free agency, Kansas City was able to retain its leader, Alex Gordon, and add a few pitchers in…
The Economic Development Corporation of Kansas City, an agency that administers tax breaks, announced today that Cerner is wrapping up loose ends on what’s been described as the biggest tax increment financing subsidy in U.S. history. This latest bit of news isn’t really news. Everyone knows that Cerner bought up parcels at the old Bannister Mall site from Cerner executives…
Leinenkugel’s Kansas City restaurant opened Monday in the Power & Light District, taking over the space formerly occupied by Tengo Sed Cantina, at 1323 Walnut. The Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin, brewery joins a neighborhood already saturated in brews; its neighbors include the Flying Saucer, Gordon Biersch and Yard House. In the kitchen is chef Matt Livers, who had stints at J….
Thursday 3.10If Darren Aronofsky’s surreal Black Swan left you wondering just how much pressure a real-life ballerina actually faces, then tonight’s free screening of the 2010 film at the Plaza Branch of the Kansas City Public Library (4801 Main) might finally help you clear things up. It’s followed by a conversation with fifth-season Kansas City Ballet ballerina Tempe Ostergren and…
Like any lifelong Midwesterner, Cote Smith has a knack for talking about the weather. In the Lawrence writer’s first novel, Hurt People, which came out March 1, rain pours and sirens blare, creating an underlying sense of anxiety familiar to any Kansas City resident who has ever sat out a tornado warning with one eye on the television and the…
Carolyn Cohen will be blogging the SXSW Interactive festival. Look for her posts on pitch.com. Twitter handle: @carolynrcohen Hometown: Dallas, Texas. Home of big hair, high school football and Whataburger. Current neighborhood: Prairie Village. Drinking the PV Kool-Aid hard lately. What I do: Help clients build better content, attempt to read all the Internet has to offer and play with…
