(Courtesy Waldo Thai) Monday, November 18 Chef Pam Liberda and bartender Darrell Loo are presenting a multi-course, family-style dinner tonight at Waldo Thai (8431 Wornall Road). The meal, which includes a welcome cocktail and drink pairings, includes dishes like shrimp and lobster wonton soup, bay scallops in red curry, and beef with coconut panang curry. The four-course meal is $57…
Emily Park When Shannon Carpenter started working at Truman Medical Center 18 months ago, she noticed stark differences from her former place of employment, where she and her co-workers were represented by a union. “It was really hard for me coming into Truman after leaving a union environment,” says Carpenter, who’s a laboratory assistant in the specimen receiving department. “I…
Dear Dan: I’m a fortysomething gay male professor at a small college. I try hard not to get attracted to students, and usually succeed. But it’s tough to resist temptation when you’re surrounded by hot, smart, fun, horny young guys in a rural area with not many other options. Over the past several years, I’ve ended up having sex with…
“There’s a way the story could have been framed as a heartwarming struggle of a single mother overcoming cancer,” Boyer says. “I don’t want to read that book.” // Photo by Cara Lefebvre. Anne Boyer’s latest book, The Undying: Pain, Vulnerability, Mortality, Medicine, Art, Time, Dreams, Data, Exhaustion, Cancer and Care has earned her an excerpt in The New Yorker,…
Photo courtesy of By Design On the outside, Kansas City has a dynamic creative community. But for photographer Muenfua Lewis, there was something missing. “I’ve gone to a couple meet-ups here and there for creatives, and though I found a community on the black side, there was unfortunately a lot of exclusion in other areas,” Lewis says. So he reached…
From left: Matt Liefer, Andrew Stinson, Brett Jackson, Nate Nall, Ryan Heinlein, Andrew Ouelette, and Adam Schlozman of The Project H. // Photo courtesy of Ryan Heinlein. Ryan Heinlein’s latest album with his jazz-centric group The Project H, Everyday, Forever, didn’t win a Grammy Award. That wasn’t too much of a surprise, given that it wasn’t nominated for one. But…
Maya Strickland (left) and Jennifer Mays // Photo credit: Khalif Gillett and Spinning Tree Theatre. In the Sixties in the South (and well before), black women labored as maids in white families’ homes. They cooked, cleaned, laundered, and looked after the kids. Many idealized stories have been written and portrayed on-screen about these women’s roles. Caroline, or Change, at Spinning…
Photo by Zach Bauman. The Japanese street food stall Yaki-Ya has closed inside Parlor, the Crossroads food hall, as of the end of October. Today comes word that a replacement is on the way: Mudbugs, a concept from Louisiana native Chris Jones. The new stall will serve five different po’boys, plus sides including gumbo, jambalaya, fried okra, red beans and…
A light, savory sauce lets delicate lobster in the seafood mac shine. // Photo by Zach Bauman The pianist was bored. His wide-brimmed hat bobbed in time with the music as he peered around the restaurant, looking everywhere but the keys. Every other eye in Soirée Steak and Oyster House was on vocalist Paula Sanders, who was scat-singing over a…
Five-dollar craft cocktails, like these from Shawnee Pizza at Repeal 18, are available all week during The Pitch’s Craft Cocktail Week Monday, November 11 Today marks the beginning of The Pitch’s Craft Cocktail Week, which means $5 specialty cocktails all over town through Sunday, November 17. Pretty good, right? Participating bars include Jax Fish House & Oyster Bar, Old Shawnee…
Hampton Williams Announcing KC rock stars The Greeting Committee will be headlining a show at The Uptown Theater on January 11! Tickets go on sale…RIGHT NOW! Get them here. Categories: Culture
Missouri Department of Health & Senior Services Planned Parenthood has called for the immediate removal of Missouri Department of Health Director Dr. Randy Williams after Williams testified under oath at a state hearing that he ordered the creation of a spreadsheet that contained private health information about 67 abortion patients. “What DHSS Director Randall Williams did to scrutinize the periods…
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Clinton’s Soda Fountain // Photo by April Flemming People dump on Independence all the time. It’s the Florida of the Kansas City metro, the supposed meth capital of America. Etcetera. It ain’t right. Sure, it can get a little rough over there. But Independence is huge—120,000 people, the fifth-largest city in Missouri—and brimming with fascinating history, not least of which…
Oddly Correct Facebook As of today, the midtown coffee shop Oddly Correct, well-known for its pour-over coffee and its reluctance to serve you cream or sugar with that coffee, has implemented a new policy: No more paper or plastic cups. If you’re taking your coffee to-go, you gotta buy a $1 jar. The jars are reusable and recyclable, and they…
Behind the scenes at Transformations’ upcoming video series. // Photo by Jon Trozzolo. It’s been a rough year for the transgender community in the Kansas City metro. Brooklyn Lindsey, a transgender woman, was murdered in June. Her dead body was found on the front porch of a home near Independence Avenue and Spruce Avenue. Prior to her death, Lindsey had…
This round of elections in the Unified Government of Kansas City, Kansas and Wyandotte County aroused tremors of political insurgency, with a handful of first-time campaigns fueled by dissatisfaction with the local government’s status quo. Most of those fledgling candidates either didn’t make it through the primary round in August or fell to their incumbent opponents during last night’s general…
Photo courtesy of Sean Mawhirter This month marks the second time KKFI has put on a concert for its “sustainers,” the monthly donors keeping the community radio station afloat. About half of them turned up for last year’s event, featuring Cubanisms and The Sextet at RecordBar. KKFI is going bigger this time around, though. The show—which is open to the…
October brought a harvest of visually exciting and sonically diverse entertainment in the form of local music videos. R&B, hip hop, indie rock, gothy metal—there’s something for every taste. Roundup below. Ogechi, “Wait On Me” Born and raised in Kansas City, musician Ogechi resides in Atlanta these days. This video (shot by 1KMoments) nods to Ogechi’s roots right away, though—see…
Cheers to new the booze laws. // 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 some of our current favorite things about…
From Scandalous: The Untold Story of the National Enquirer. // Photo courtesy of Magnolia Pictures. When the Kansas International Film Festival started out 19 years ago, it was called Halfway to Hollywood. That old name would have been particularly well-suited to this year’s fest, which offers a wide spectrum of movies—narrative features, documentaries, and short films—from both the Kansas City…
Kerry Diamond, host of Radio Cherry Bombe. Photo courtesy of Radio Cherry Bombe Monday, November 4 Radio Cherry Bombe, a podcast that celebrates women in food, will host a discussion tonight at Corvino Supper Club and Tasting Room (1830 Walnut Street). Host Kerry Diamond will chat with a local panel featuring Christina Corvino, Caitlin Corcoran of Ça Va, Megan Garrelts…
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 some of our current favorite things about KC. We’ll be publishing these items online…
Construction has been going steady all year over at 1801 Grand, the Crossroads building the Church of Scientology bought in 2007, left vacant for a decade (while paying virtually no taxes), and recently decided to turn into an Ideal Org. As former Pitch staffer and relentless Scientology obsessive Tony Ortega reports on his site, The Underground Bunker, the grand opening…
