In early January, Facebook announced it would be showing less news in your News Feed. The social-media behemoth now appears to have changed its mind, though. Mark Zuckerberg recently announced that, going forward, Facebook will be showing more local news stories in your feed. Here are a few steps you can take to make sure you don’t miss anything from The…
I went to the same high school as Missouri Attorney General Josh Hawley. He was a few years older than me. (I don’t remember him.) We attended an all-boys Jesuit high school in Kansas City. I can’t speak to what goes on there now, but in the late 1990s, it was — for a religious school in the midwest, at…
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The keeping up of appearances can be hard. For someone like Diana Vreeland, who herself reflected a style statement, the task could be more arduous still. In Full Gallop, at Spinning Tree Theatre, we glimpse a snapshot of the now-late trendsetter and icon, during a trying transition in a later period of her life.It is August 1971, and Vreeland has…
Jada Escue is a designer by education, advertiser by trade, and carpenter by choice. She has recently learned how to mechanic — videos are online as proof. She loves cats with every essence of her being. When not working she can be found drinking coffee in her robe on her sofa with a cat on every side. She is always…
Kelcie McKenney is a writer, editor, and artist who is passionate about feminism. She has a three-legged cat named Luna and runs Catcall in her free time. When she isn’t scheduling social media posts or managing The Pitch’s website, you can find her watching internet cat videos, eating brunch, taking photos, or reading mystery novels.
Stephanie Carey has worked in local media and marketing for nearly 20 years. A self-proclaimed local media nerd, becoming a publisher at an alternative news magazine in her home town is her dream come true! She and her husband Adam have a spoiled rotten corgi named Tyrion (yes, that Tyrion.) You might see her around with headphones at any given…
Tuesday, January 30The first in the new series of “Raven’s Nest” wine dinners at Corvino Supper Club and Tasting Room (1830 Walnut Street) is tonight. The dinners feature up to a dozen wines from selected winemakers, and chef Michael Corvino is creating a specialty five-course menu to accompany the selections. The featured winemaker for tonight’s dinner is Gramery Cellars, out of Washington…
The Pitch is a free, controlled-circulation magazine, printed the first week of each month. More than 35,000 copies are distributed in the Kansas City metro to more than 1,000 locations.Emphasizing investigative reporting and long-form journalism, The Pitch covers every aspect of local life — government and politics, performing and visual arts, music, fashion, books, movies, food and drink — in…
Dear Dan: I am a 38-year-old lesbian, very femme, very out. I have a coworker I can’t figure out. We’ve worked together for a year and gotten very close. I never want to put out the wrong signals to coworkers, and I err on the side of keeping a safe but friendly distance. This is different. We are each other’s…
John Pryor is aware that to describe his furniture as tree-to-table is to court a certain irony, or else a certain hipster preciousness. That’s OK — the phrase has started plenty of conversations since he founded his furniture company, Madison Flitch, last year, and the curious people who have come to his Crossroads workshop have often left with pieces they’re…
Until the hot breath of the FBI got close enough to singe him, Mike Sanders was the fastest talker in Jackson County.The Independence lawyer, known for his bad hair and boundless energy, convinced Jackson County voters to elect him prosecutor in 2002. Four years later, those same voters made him county executive. In that office, Sanders talked city and county…
When Sam Billen started out in commercial music production, almost a decade ago, brands and ad agencies sought the expansive, cinematic grandeur of Coldplay and Sigur Rós. Later, the Black Keys’ neo-blues style fell into favor. Then the object was to replicate the M83 sound: big drums, big synths. Twee had taken its turn for a few years: glockenspiels, whistling,…
Kansas City can count itself as one of the 300 stops that Elton John plans for his “Farewell Yellow Brick Road” tour. While it doesn’t indicate a stop to producing music or playing the occasional show, John says that this tour — purportedly a three year run — will be his last. “I want to go out with a bang,” John…
Since its formation less than two years ago, heavy music label The Company has released five vinyl LPs, two cassette tapes, and two compact discs from the heaviest of the heavy in Kansas City, including Keef Mountain, Hyborian, Youngblood Supercult, and more. This Thursday, January 25, the label kicks off 2018 with a double release party when The Company’s two…
As avid Kansas City art observers well know, this weekend marks the third annual Hot Hands live-drawing fundraiser event for the artist-run gallery Front/Space. What that means is 22 emerging and established visual artists will gather at the Drugstore, crank out a bunch of art, throw it up on the wall, and sell each piece for the flat price of…
When Gardner McKay’s Sea Marks first appeared on TV in the mid-1970s and made its off-Broadway debut a few years later, its setting of “present day” might not have seemed a stretch. The two characters in this small play, foremost a love story, court each other through the handwritten exchange of increasingly revealing letters. On paper. Sent through the mail. The…
Dave Grohl shouldn’t need a throne to prop up a broken foot this year for Foo Fighters’ just-announced stop at Sprint Center on Friday, October 12. The band is touring in support of its new album, Concrete and Gold. An AXS presale is available this Thursday, January 25 starting at 10 a.m. The band last appeared at the same venue…
Monday, January 22After the Harvest, the Linwood YMCA, and Healthy Communities Wyandotte are teaming up together tonight to present a free screening of the documentary Wasted at Cinder Block Brewing Company (110 East 18th Avenue). The film addresses food waste in the United States. A panel discussion will follow. More information and additional screening dates are available here. Today begins the…
George Brett announced from Kauffman Stadium this morning that the first concert to be held at the K in 39 years would feature Billy Joel. My expectations were out of whack – for all the fanfare around the announcement I was expecting someone who hasn’t been here lately (Joel last performed in KC at the Sprint Center in May 2015),…
It’s scary to write about Dan Bejar and his two-decades-running project, Destroyer. He’s one of our best lyricists, a magician who pulls fragments of conversation from the air and twists them into poetry. He also seems to possess what I’d consider a healthy amount of contempt for music criticism, as evidenced by cutting lyrics like I sent a message in…
Percussion, at its most elemental, involves striking an object with another object. As refined by Arx Duo, however, the art of hitting things becomes an intimate, poetic dance of tones and colors. The Arx Duo is newly local to Kansas City. Mari Yoshinaga, originally from Japan, moved here following her wedding to Kansas City Symphony concertmaster Noah Geller, and this past…
