Founded in 1980 in the basement of a Westport record shop, The Pitch is Kansas City’s source for progressive, independent, street-level coverage of news, arts, music, and culture. After more than three decades as an alternative newsweekly, we now publish monthly in print — you can find our issues at over 1,000 locations scattered across the Kansas City metropolitan area —…
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This month, we published The Pitch’s annual Best of Kansas City issue. You can browse the results of the readers’ poll here. The issue also included a list, compiled and written by our editorial staff, of some our current favorite things about Kansas City in 2018. We’ll be publishing these items online throughout October.♥You remember those Family Circus cartoons where a black dotted…
Tuesday, October 9Spanish wine enthusiasts, take note of tonight’s specialty dinner at Bluestem (900 Westport Road). Featuring wines from across Spain — including selections from Ameztoi, Avinyo, Do Ferreiro, Costers del Priorat, Remelluri and El Maistro Sierra — the meal promises to be as luxe as the wines with which it is paired. One sample course: rabbit bontifarra made with glazed kidney beans, eggplant, squash,…
Election Day is about a month out. If you’re going to vote — and we think you should! — first things first: check and make sure you are registered to vote. (If you’ve recently moved, for example, you may have to re-register.) If you live in Missouri: you can check your registration here. And do it soon — the deadline to register is…
AJJ with Kimya Dawson, Laura Stevenson, and Shellshag The Granada Saturday, October 6 Any one of the opening acts at the Granada on Saturday could have headlined their own show. The fact that the venue was packed at 7 p.m. for Shellshag was proof of that. Few left over the course of the next several hours. The crowd bore witness…
Dear Dan: Is it even possible for a couple that stopped having sex to start back up again? My girlfriend and I (we’re both women) have been together for four years, and we haven’t had sex for two. I thought the sex was good before it stopped, but apparently she was going through the motions. She’s a sex worker, and…
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One by one, the three shaggy, twentysomething members of Bummer trickle into the band’s practice space, looking every bit the part of the amps-to-11 noise-rock band that they are. The space is in a nondescript brick building just off Main Street, not far from Westport, and the setup is unglamorous. The lobby’s all torn up. I have to dance around…
After five years on local channel TV25, the late-night horror show Drive-In Movie Maniacs is poised to make the jump from public access to national syndication. Starting tomorrow, October 5, the show will be broadcast on RetroTV, ActionTV, and The Family Channel.In honor of this massive achievement, we went into the catacombs of history to hear the story of Drive-In…
Hard truth: Death Cab For Cutie has now been a band for over two decades.In that time, the Seattle act has pushed the boundaries of indie rock and emo while selling millions of albums and earning multiple Grammy nods. Death Cab’s latest, Thank You For Today, was released in August. It’s just as pretty and pleasant as much of the…
Kansas City’s had an explosion of craft breweries over the past few years, and if the number of openings slated for the rest of 2018 is any indication, we still haven’t reached Peak Beer. But let’s be honest: not every new brewery is gonna be a revelation. And as the craft beer boom spreads further out of the city and into…
For the past several years, the second floor of midtown’s miniBar (3810 Broadway) has functioned as a sort of DIY club, regularly hosting punk and rock shows in a grungy space sometimes referred to as the Disaster Room, or the “basement upstairs.” As of this weekend, it’ll also be the new Kansas City home of The Improv Shop, a comedy theater…
Tuesday, October 2Chefs Nick Goellner (the Antler Room) and Romain Monnoyeur (Westport Cafe & Bar) are collaborating tonight for a four-course, French-inspired meal at Westport Cafe & Bar (419 Westport Road), with wines selected by Leslie Goellner (also of the Antler Room). The meal is $65 a person, with wine pairings available for an additional $30 (tips and gratuity not…
