Possessor Uncut. // Courtesy NEON When you think about it, loss of identity may be the scariest form horror can take. Not in the sense of losing a job or ending a relationship that you tie your identity to, but in the sense of losing your understanding of yourself entirely. When you don’t have self-knowledge, you no longer understand the…
Today on Streetwise from The Pitch we discuss a dog escape artist, check out The Freedom Affair’s track “Move On”, and Nick chats with film director Jill Sixx about The Stylist. Streetwise is hosted by Brock Wilbur, editor in chief of The Pitch. Subscribe on iTunes or Spotify. Subscribe to the Streetwise newsletter, a weekly meditation on Kansas City news and events. Thanks to Jason Beers for…
Phillips on stage at the annual Hoolie in 2018. // Photo by Jim Nimmo On Wednesday, Kansas City lost a musical hero. One of his friends and fans, Jim Nimmo, shares with us his memories of Steve Phillips, and what it was like to document him over a decade. I went on Facebook Wednesday morning and the first post on…
Serving up spooky cocktails at Apparition. // Photo courtesy of Apparition Last year, North Kansas Citians were spooked, scared, and delighted by the premier of spookeasy Apparition. The pop-up cocktail bar gave attendees a peek of what we hope might be the afterlife, complete with pumpkins, skulls, and delicious and elaborate cocktails. Apparition disappeared a few days after Halloween, perhaps…
Wichita’s Old News played Kansas City regularly enough over the last couple years to count as local, rather than regional, so we here at The Pitch are likely not the only ones excited to see that the emo rockers release their debut full-length, Self-Acceptance Speech, via Austin label We’re Trying Records on Thursday, October 15. The band’s sound manages to…
There’s a lot of yelling in The Lie. // Courtesy Amazon Studios All month long, we’re giving away tickets to the digital premiere of a new series of Blumhouse original movies. Amazon Prime Video’s “Welcome To The Blumhouse” is a program of eight unsettling, genre movies produced by Jason Blum’s Blumhouse Television and Amazon Studios. The Lie, Black Box, Nocturnes,…
Emma Turley stands outside of The Beast. The Beast, a haunted house attraction in Kansas City, MO was holding casting auditions for the coming season. // Photo by Travis Young The spookiest time of the year is about to get a bit more spine-tingling for Kansas City, thanks to the growing presence of COVID-19. In a city with nearly 35,000…
Photo via the national campaign site for The CROWN Act. According to a study done by the CROWN Research Study, Black women are 30 percent more likely to be made aware of a formal workplace appearance policy and 1.5 times more likely to be sent home from the workplace because of their hair. Thankfully, this will soon change. Tomorrow afternoon,…
Time. // Courtesy Amazon Studios In 2019, an estimated 1,435,500 people were serving time in American prisons—but, despite mainstream conversations around the racism and dehumanization embedded within the country’s prison-industrial complex becoming more and more common, such a huge number is tough to wrap your head around. After all, since our incarcerated population is virtually invisible from society, by design…
City Utilities. // Photo by Sugarman Joe via Unsplash Since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in early March, KC Water suspended water shutoffs for the entire city in an attempt to minimize employee contact with customers in the field and ensure everyone had access to water in their homes. Today, the city’s water provider announced the temporary measure would…
Local musician, DJ, and trivia host, Max James has a big dream for Kansas City. He wants to create a rehearsal studio for musicians, devoid of distractions or irritable neighbors who don’t enjoy saxophone solos at 3 AM. A place that would recapture the nostalgic feeling of sitting in the band room after school, practicing and chatting with like-minded artists….
Photo by Jeswin Thomas on Unsplash In a recent study conducted by the survey website WalletHub.com, it found that the Missouri school system ranked 44 out of 50 in the safest states for schools to reopen. With students going back to class amid a pandemic, classrooms are now online, in person, or a hybrid of both. However, with in-person classes…
The ACLU and ACLU of Missouri filed a federal lawsuit on behalf of KC Tenants on Wednesday, challenging the Jackson County Circuit Court and the presiding judge David M. Byrn. They’re challenging the administrative order that claims to implement the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s nationwide eviction moratorium, but still permits eviction cases to move forward in violation of…
Left to right: Brock Wilbur as Rocketeer, Mother, and his sister as a hotdog. // Photo by Tom Wilbur Growing up, I fucking hated The Wolf. In my quiet neighborhood in Salina, Kansas, the bane of each Halloween season was the moment of truth when I would come to face-to-face with my arch-nemesis. And what a fearsome foe I had…
Illustration by Jack Raybuck Dear Dan: I’m a thirty-something gay man married to a thirty-something gay man. For almost two years, we’ve been seeing another pair of married gay men around our age. They were our first experience with any sexual or romantic interaction outside of our relationship. The first six months were hot and heavy. We were together constantly…
