Tom Bradley Ricky Kidd pulls up a YouTube video of one of the plays he wrote, produced, and edited during the 23 years he spent in prison for a double homicide he did not commit. He tries to fast-forward the video, but he doesn’t quite know how. When Kidd went to prison in 1996, there was no such thing as…
Photo courtesy of We Are Two Different People Tour Danny Gonzalez and Drew Gooden have had very similar careers. They both started on Vine, switched over to YouTube, and now make commentary videos, often on the same subject matter. Lately, Gonzalez, who has 2.95 million followers, and Gooden, with 1.72 million, have been collaborating on videos about things like TikTok…
Quixotic is Coming to Crown Center this Fall // Photo by Ivan Belaustegui 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 favorite things…
Reading as Publishing Below, your monthly guide to impressing Tinder dates with your knowledge of art happenings in Kansas City. Go on—you got this! Reading as Publishing Capsule Here is a very special opportunity to finally mark up books from the library—albeit not a real library. The arts space Capsule will be transformed into a temporary library and reading room…
Photo credit: Esteban Galicia Last we checked in with Kenia Bautista-Mayorga and Luis Alfredo Diaz Inestroza, they were saying goodbye. ICE officials were deporting a pregnant Kenia and her young son to Honduras. It happened very late one evening in late June 2018. The event included ICE agents shoving one of Kenia’s attorneys, Andrea Martinez, to the ground, injuring her….
Photo by Adam Carey. Are holiday-themed pop-up bars becoming a thing in KC? Last December, Miracle was a hit in the Crossroads. This month, a Halloween-themed pop-up arrives in North Kansas City. Edward Schmalz (who owns the board game cafe Pawn and Pint) has teamed up with Adam Roberts and Brent Miller (who own Screenland Armour and Tapcade) for Apparition,…
Courtesy of Stroud’s A fixture in Fairway since 2008, Stroud’s on Shawnee Mission Parkway has closed, effective yesterday. The reason appears to be issues with the property itself. “Stroud’s was informed several years ago that a redevelopment was forthcoming and because of it, it entered into a short-term lease with the landlord until a firm timeline for the redevelopment was…
Gilchrist in an unnamed role. // Photo by Nicole Bissey Photography. Contra some early buzz, The Arts Asylum’s new staging of Jesus Christ Superstar—a co-production with freshman company This Happy Breed—isn’t revolutionary. It’s also not, as the promotional materials blared, “the first performance of Superstar to hit Kansas City in a generation” (Musical Theater Heritage produced the show in 2015)….
Brazilian Street Artist Alex Senna’s Mural at Manny’s // Photo by Stuart Heidmann 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 favorite things…
This October, there are just three wide release horror films hitting theaters: an animated adaptation of The Addams Family; Zombieland: Double Tap; and the app-related underdog, Countdown. You might think that means your chances of taking in some spooky cinema would be limited. Wrong! Thanks to special screenings courtesy of both local movie houses and national companies like Fathom Events, you could…
In a rare move, the Judicial Council of the Court of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit on Monday publicly reprimanded Carlos Murguia, a federal judge in the U.S. District Court of Kansas, for behavior very much unbecoming of a judge. After receiving complaints about Murguia last year, the Tenth Circuit formed a special committee to investigate the claims. Among the…
