Photo by Zach Bauman. Black Dirt, the South Plaza restaurant from James Beard-nominated chef Jonathan Justus and his wife, Camille Eklof, will close November 7, according to a Facebook post today. “We want everyone to know that Black Dirt’s last day will be Thursday, November 7th,” Justus says. “The space is going to be reimagined into a new and exciting…
Photo by Zach Bauman. New construction in the Uptown Shoppes, at 36th and Broadway, has cleared out most existing businesses in the development, including Mesob, which closed recently. Good news for fans of Ethiopian and Caribbean food, though: Mesob will reopen soon at 3601 Broadway, the space recently vacated by Krokstrom. Expect live music and a Sunday brunch at the…
berkleyriverfront.com The KC Business Journal reports that, based on a development memo from Port KC, two new 10-story towers are being planned on the Berkley Riverfront near downtown KC. Who’s behind the development, though, remains a mystery to those outside Port KC. “The memo did not name the developer but said it is a Kansas City-area multifamily and office developer,”…
Young Thug. Photo by Aaron Rhodes. Though it has spawned a few potent singles (“The London” and “Hot”), the fan consensus is that Young Thug’s latest album, So Much Fun, is not his greatest work. Yet, due to the timing of its release date (on a week when there were no other major records to compete with), the success of…
Photo by Don Ipock. There was a time in my life when just hearing the word “choreopoem” would have summoned a Liz Lemon eyeroll from deep within my being. That time was last week, while I was flipping through the program before Ntozake Shange’s for colored girls who have considered suicide / when the rainbow is enuf. The show, now…
Sophia Reed Though October saw the shuttering of yet another artist-run space in Kansas City (RIP Open House), the art community presses on, and November offers a robust lineup of new exhibitions worth braving the early winter weather. Shifting Ground Vulpes Bastille Curated around a postmodern critique of objectivity, artists in this exhibition use a variety of materials to point…
Free buses would dramatically improve the lives of working people in Kansas City. // Photo by Kelcie McKenney. Our annual Best of Kansas City 2019 issue is out now. Go grab a copy. Alternatively, you can browse the results of the readers’ poll here. The issue also includes a list, compiled and written by The Pitch’s editorial staff, shouting out…
Photo by Zach Bauman I grew up in a small town without many restaurants and learned to time my appetite with the change of seasons. I’m talking about McRib season, of course—that chimerical time of year when the lighted sign beneath the fool’s-gold arches blared a saucy promise: MCRIB IS BACK. Actually, now that I’m thinking of it, the sign…
A Wednesday morning crowd outside the Wild Way Coffee truck in downtown Overland Park. // Photo by Zach Bauman. If you’re a twentysomething or thirtysomething denizen of Kansas City’s metro core, there’s something your Kansas neighbors want you to know: Johnson County, the land of cul-de-sacs and country club conservatives, is becoming cool. Wait—where are you going? Don’t laugh. This…
Raghuveer at a recent KC Tenants meeting. Gary Thomas doesn’t live in KC, and he’s not a tenant. He owns a home in Lee’s Summit. But the 38-year-old union member—United Auto Workers Local 249, Ford assembly plant, Claycomo—has been working with KC Tenants since he first encountered the housing advocacy group during the recent General Motors strike at the Fairfax…
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Photo by Zach Bauman. Things continue to look pretty grim for Metropolitan Ensemble Theatre. In early September, Actors’ Equity Association, the union of professional actors and stage managers, placed the beleaguered theatre on its Do Not Work list, barring union members from working with the company. In October, the union sent another statement to members correcting an “actually, I broke up…
MCC-NEA members crowd the community college’s board room. Metropolitan Community College’s Administration Center was a sea of red last Thursday night, when over a hundred T-shirt-wearing members of MCC-NEA—the college’s faculty union—squeezed into the boardroom and spilled out into the hallways for the monthly Board of Trustees meeting. For the first time in MCC’s history, the board appeared to be…
To the chagrin of Lawrence-based fans of classical music and Halloween, the KU School of Music’s Halloween concert hasn’t been held for four years. Good news, though: the show will make a triumphant return to Lied Center this Thursday, October 31. “When I arrived here, I asked the students what they liked about the orchestra, what they wanted to change,…
For its twelfth iteration, the annual Apocalypse Meow benefit for Midwest Music Foundation has switched things up a bit. The first night of the event to raise money for Abby’s Fund For Musicians’ Health Care will take place as usual at Mills Record Company on Friday, November 1, and will feature Chris Meck & The Second Sons and The…
(Courtesy Bibibap Asian Grill) Monday, October 28 Waldo officially welcomes its newest fast-casual restaurant today with the grand opening of Bibibop Asian Grill (505 West 75th Street). Located in the former home of Pizzeria Locale (RIP), Bibibop Asian Grill offers made-to-order bibimbap-style bowls, which you can customize with things like purple rice, Japchae, steak, tofu, sesame kale, and more. Starting…
Other cities would kill for such steady access to the performances at Park University. // Photo courtesy of Park University. Our annual Best of Kansas City 2019 issue is out now. Go grab a copy. Alternatively, you can browse the results of the readers’ poll here. The issue also includes a list, compiled and written by The Pitch’s editorial staff,…
Lawrence’s toughies performing at Brewery Emperial as part of Manor Fest. // Photo by Doug Bybee. Our annual Best of Kansas City 2019 issue is out now. Go grab a copy. Alternatively, you can browse the results of the readers’ poll here. The issue also includes a list, compiled and written by The Pitch’s editorial staff, shouting out some of…
We keep tuning into Deep Background week after week. // Photo courtesy of The Star Our Best of Kansas City 2019 issue is out now. Go grab a copy. Alternatively, you can browse the results of the readers’ poll here. The issue also includes a list, compiled and written by The Pitch’s editorial staff, shouting out some of our current…
Martin Vorel Freshly elected Councilman Brandon Ellington, who represents KCMO’s 3rd District At-Large seat, put on a bit of a show at City Hall yesterday, leading a group of his constituents from a committee meeting to the mayor’s office to protest the fact that the public hadn’t been given the opportunity to comment on an ordinance Ellington had put forward….
Hope, sweat, and good intentions are alive in Marlborough. // Photo by Chase Castor. Our annual Best of Kansas City 2019 issue is out now. Go grab a copy. Alternatively, you can browse the results of the readers’ poll here. The issue also includes a list, compiled and written by The Pitch’s editorial staff, shouting out some of our current…
The Midnight Hour // photo by Mike Miller Ali Shaheed Muhammad was one of the founding members of A Tribe Called Quest, and Adrian Younge composed scores for the likes of Black Dynamite and has produced or collaborated with Souls of Mischief, Talib Kweli, Ghostface Killah, and the Delfonics. Lately, the two have been teaming up. They’ve scored both seasons…
From left: Black, Warfel, Halliburton // Photo by Cynthia Levin. It can’t be fun to find your estranged wife of 15 years suddenly standing in your parlor. But that’s the start of the Unicorn Theatre’s A Doll’s House, Part 2, an engaging but complicated sequel of sorts to Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll’s House. Do we need a Part 2? Playwright…
The “Help restore Crum’s Heirlooms Farm” gofundme page raised over $12,000. // Photo courtesy of Crum’s gofundme. Our annual Best of Kansas City 2019 issue is out now. Go grab a copy. Alternatively, you can browse the results of the readers’ poll here. The issue also includes a list, compiled and written by The Pitch’s editorial staff, shouting out some…
