Photo by April Fleming With the signature beef blend from Fairway Meat Market (formerly McGonigle’s), buns from Roma Bakery, and house-made sauce and pickles, the burger from Cosmo Burger is a quality Kansas City affair, in and out. And while there is no shortage of great burgers in town, Cosmo’s manages to stand out by keeping its focus on this…
KC Tenants activists march to the Jackson County Courthouse to shut down eviction court proceedings. KC Tenants also disrupted teleconference hearings delaying at least 51 evictions on the morning docket according to KC Tenants. // Photo by Chase Castor After days of protest, KC Tenants made a huge win for the cause today. After mounting pressure—that pressure being continuous protest…
Via Evergy social channels. We’ve been asking members of the KC community to submit stories about life under quarantine, protests, politics, and other subjects that require discussion. If you’ve got a story you’d like to share, please send it to brock@thepitchkc.com for consideration. Today, Henry Gamber from the Sunrise Movement shares an op-ed regarding our local electric provider and their…
The Martin Luther King Jr. Day Tour of Injustice is being hosted by the interfaith non-profit organization Justice Matters on the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday. The virtual tour will inform about three different areas of injustice in Lawrence, KS including homelessness, racial disparities within Lawrence Public Schools and the contributions to mass incarceration with the misuse of jails. “Justice is…
Editor’s note: This last semester, our intern Allison Harris wrote a lot of excellent stories you probably enjoyed, including some of our cover stories. Their work outside of The Pitch has been mostly focused on covering the best of new music from across the spectrum. When we worked together in the office, this lead to a lot of Allison, age…
Bluestem. Beignet. Poi-O. The Rieger. The toll of the COVID-19 pandemic extends all too sadly to some of Kansas City’s most adored restaurants, from burger joints to fine food establishments, which permanently closed their doors over the past 10 months amid emptied tables and bars and devastated bottom lines. The local dining industry may never be the same. Many more…
The sheer variety and number of releases offered around the region this year made putting together a list of the best albums of 2020 a real nail-biter of a task, but when it came to putting a recording in the number one slot, there was no question as to what it was going to be. When the Black Creatures released…
Today on the Streetwise podcast we discuss puppies, listen to a reading of Barb Shelly’s profile of Ehren Schwarz, check out Lily B Moonflower’s song “Midnight Song”, and chat with former Pitch music editor Jason Harper. 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. Jason…
‘Still Life’ by Jen Appell. // Courtesy the artist. Like many of us, artist Justin Border became overwhelmed by pressure to use his time wisely/productively during ‘quar. Border had been collecting numerous materials as a part of his artistic practice and finally wanted to put his collection to use. As a child, Border collected action figures and cartoon figurines. He…
How we used to get home from the Sprint Center, back when there were events and back when it was called the Sprint Center. // Courtesy of KC Streetcar Authority Add $174.1 million to the growing total of funding allocated to the KC Streetcar expansion. On Jan. 8 the Federal Transit Administration approved the federal grant agreement with Kansas City,…
Courtesy of Minnesota Children’s Museum The Flint Hills Discovery Center (315 S 3rd St, Manhattan, KS 66502) has been celebrating the history and culture of the Midwest since 2012. Now the Center is bringing a new exhibit, “Run, Jump, Fly!” to Manhattan from the Minnesota Children’s Museum. The temporary exhibit is open Jan. 16-May 2 and brings mindful activity to guests…
To predict with any level of accuracy what we’ll be seeing over the next few months in KC food and drink is a bit like driving at night without headlights on. Will we eat comfortably and guiltlessly eat food in public with other people again? Who knows! The exhausting, enduring pandemic and the lack of support for restaurants, bars, and…
Courtesy Official Princess Club Maybe you’ve seen the picture floating around the internet of a wide-eyed Aladdin figurine who appears to be on meth, according to the captions. It’s so widespread that it often doesn’t get credited, but the comic observation came from Kansas City actor Melissa Trierweiler, who has that and more than 150 other photo episodes involving her…
Gov. Mike Parson official stream. Missouri Gov. Mike Parson expressed dismay on Wednesday at news that a pro-Trump mob stormed the U.S. Capitol to derail the certification of President-elect Joe Biden’s victory. But he said people should “absolutely not” place the blame for the violence on President Donald Trump or the Republicans who were trying to block certification of the presidential election…
KC Tenants activists blockade an entrance to The Jackson County Courthouse in an attempt to shut down eviction court proceedings. KC Tenants also disrupted teleconference hearings delaying at least 51 evictions on the morning docket according to KC Tenants. // Photo by Chase Castor KC Tenants shut down both Jackson County courthouses’ eviction proceedings this week as they successfully launched…
Josh Hawley Dec. 18th speech. // Courtesy Hawley social media After a day of insurrection and deadly violence at the U.S. Capitol, Missouri Republican Sen. Josh Hawley continued his push on Wednesday to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election. But his efforts were for naught, as lawmakers early Thursday certified Electoral College votes declaring Joe Biden the winner….
Photo by Greg Rosenke We’ve been asking members of the KC community to submit stories about life under quarantine, protests, politics, and other subjects that require discussion. If you’ve got a story you’d like to share, please send it to brock@thepitchkc.com for consideration. Today, local therapist Dawna Daigneault shares with us some thoughts on balancing your life in a period…
Courtesy CSPAN feed screengrab. As Capitol rioters bashed windows and looted in glee, their neon phones raised like torches, our nation awoke for what seems the first time to our horrifying reality: Donald Trump is a mad king of the modern era. And just as any mad king requires a court of sycophants and liars, Trump needed fools like Josh…
Sound of Metal. // Amazon Studios One of the questions posed to me most frequently in 2020 (other than “How are you surviving quarantine alone with your cats?” and “You’re not sick, are you?”) was “So, do you have anything to watch right now?” Like every other business in this hellscape of a year, 2020 did a number on the…
Illustration by Jack Raybuck Dear Dan: We’re an adventurous, bisexual, non-monogamous, opposite-sex couple with a teenage kid living in Europe. We don’t really struggle with finding and trying new and interesting stuff in bed. However, we do have a problem and it’s getting worse. Having sex is, well, weird, when the kid is at home. We can’t be loud, we…
Courtesy Josh Hawley’s social media. Today, in front of America and the world, Missouri Senator Josh Hawley intends to argue that the United States election should be invalidated. That’s our Josh! In recent days, he’s also claimed that his family was attacked by Antifa, despite video evidence to the contrary, and all of his choices might lead outsiders to ask…
Los Alamos, located in the Westside neighborhood. // Photo by Zach Bauman On a sleepy Wednesday in December, I went for a walk on the Westside. It was sunny but cold, and I didn’t expect to encounter many people as I stalked past the neighborhood’s curious mix of concrete-and-glass modern homes and whitewashed brick duplexes as old as the city’s…
This post was paid for by KC CARE Health Center. Both the Pfizer and Moderna vaccines use messenger RNA (mRNA) to encourage your body to start an immune system response to COVID-19. Our bodies use mRNA every day to make different antibodies or other proteins. The ingredients used in the mRNA vaccines developed by Pfizer and Moderna are simple. They…
Illustrated by Katelyn Betz We’re starting off 2021 properly, with a series of videos whose musical messages walk a fine line between backward reflections and looking forward to a new year with new goals. While there might be some brutalist black-and-white imagery within this collection, our first Cine Local of the year also presents you with some brightly-colored eye candy,…
