Image courtesy of Corissa Enneking // Photo by Hallie Sigwing Corissa Enneking has been creating content online for years. What started out as a blog on Tumblr quickly turned into a website, an Instagram account with over 218k followers, a successful merch line, and features on websites including Huffington Post and Nylon. What makes Enneking special is that they are…
Courtesy of the Kansas Housing Resources Corporation. Yesterday, the Kansas City Board of Public Utilities (BPU) and the Kansas Housing Resources Corporation (KHRC) announced a new program to assist Kansas renters experiencing hardship due to the pandemic with rent, utilities, and internet access. The Kansas Emergency Rental Assistance (KERA) is now accepting applications. The program covers up to a year of…
A new Thai restaurant is coming to the heart of Leawood’s Park Place. // Image courtesy of Bamboo Penny’s The Park Place shopping center in Leawood will soon be home to new Thai restaurant Bamboo Penny’s. Bamboo Penny’s, soon to be housed this spring at 5270 W. 116th Place, was coined by husband and wife Penny and Doug Mufaka. Thai…
Boulevardia circa 2019 (I’m not crying, you are). // Photo by Kelby Reck Boulevardia 2021 is yet another festival to bite the dust due to COVID-19. In a social media post and statement on their website this morning, Boulevardia announced the festival is postponed for another year. The food, the sips, the makers and the music are what make @BLVDIA…
We’ve teamed up with KC Pet Project to host a weekly “creature feature” on a lovable and adoptable animal here in the KC Metro. This week’s local Adopt an Animal features Galaxy, a 1-year-old American Bulldog Mix. She resides at the Kansas City Campus for Animal Care at 7077 Elmwood Avenue in Kansas City, MO. Where you can adopt her, she’s been there since…
A 3.9 magnitude earthquake near Wichita.// Courtesy Kansas Geological Survey Eight earthquakes struck Kansas near Wichita this weekend. The first, around 6:30 a.m. March 14 had a magnitude of 3.5. Four more earthquakes hit that day. The second earthquake struck only minutes after the first, with a magnitude of 3.7. The next happened at 7:02 a.m. and had a magnitude…
Frozen Arrowhead Stadium from last February. // Photo by Travis Young The Chiefs signed a 5-year deal with Joe Thuney, a guard that played for the New England Patriots for the past five years. Thuney’s contract is worth $80 million, including $32.5 million guaranteed for the first two years. As well, Thuney will receive an injury guarantee that will convert…
Photo by Adrian Korte Kansas Citians took home some hardware at the 63rd annual Grammy Awards last night. These winners and nominees had a variety of roles in the awards roster including producing, singing, playing saxophone, and more. Winners: David Frost (Producer of the Year, Classical) Frost won the music industry’s highest honor for his role in seven recordings including…
The Giving Grove in action // Photo courtesy The Giving Grove The Giving Grove, a Kansas City-based nonprofit, is equipping partner nonprofits around the country with the necessary skills and techniques to help food-insecure neighborhoods grow their own food. This week, The Giving Grove will be hosting its first national conference to achieve this goal. Organizations from Cincinnati, OH, Louisville,…
A counterfeit Dolce & Gabana bag. // Courtesy CBP From Feb. 15-March 15, the U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) conducted Operation Stop the Flow at the Kansas City Port of Entry to “interrupt the flood of counterfeits that threaten public safety.” During the operation, CBP officers inspected selected shipments for potential violations. The primary focus of the search was…
Emanuel Cleaver on a call with Mayor Quinton Lucas in March 2020 // Photo courtesy official Emanuel Cleaver II Facebook Just a few days removed from the gut-punch of being told a Missouri man was indicted for threatening to lynch him, U.S. Rep. Emanuel Cleaver said he’s now been told the man may eventually be released on bail. Cleaver, a Kansas…
Back in 2005, a video game was released to the original Xbox system called Stubbs the Zombie in Rebel Without a Pulse. Built by some of the people behind Halo, the indie title was a comedic action game based in classic horror tropes that, similar to its cult film-inspired roots, also managed to only find a small but dedicated following….
The Pitch has partnered with a local political awareness organization called Loud Light. Their goal is to engage and empower individuals from underrepresented populations to build community power. And impact decision-makers. Each week of the year that the Kansas statehouse is in session, they release a short video recapping what the legislature is up to. Knowing the nitty-gritty of what’s happening with your…
Photo by April Fleming Some nights are Hamm’s Sandwich kind of nights. The Hamm’s Sandwich, we recently learned, is a special from Dodson’s Bar & Commons: two cans of Hamm’s beer, four ounces of whiskey, and a bottle of pickle juice. And sure, sometimes this is all you need (or it is the thing you didn’t know you needed?) But…
Illustrations by Caitlyn Crites Compiled by the Electronic Frontier Foundation and MuckRock News The day after the 2021 inauguration, Sen. Chris Murphy of Connecticut took to Twitter to declare: “Biden is making transparency cool again.” This was a head-scratcher for many journalists and transparency advocates. Freedom of Information—the concept that government documents belong to and must be accessible to the…
U.S. Capitol Building.// Photo courtesy of quickps on Unsplash After Roy Blunt announced that he would not run for reelection for Missouri’s seat in the U.S. Senate, a crowded 2022 race is all but guaranteed. The Senate race will be crowded on both sides of the Aisle, as many GOP politicians are fighting for a spot in the Senate, and…
A mass vaccination site at Memorial Stadium in Columbia, Mo.// Photo courtesy of MU Health Care Under the American Rescue Plan—the next COVID-19 relief-related stimulus package that President Biden signed into law Thursday afternoon—Kansas City, Missouri stands to receive $195 million in aid. The plan offers $195.3 billion in aid to states, which governors must redistribute to local governments, and…
Courtesy Alibi’s Facebook page Alibi: a true crime bar, is a pop-up coming to Westport for the summer. Located next to Yard Bar, the pop-up will open in May and provide a space for true-crime enthusiasts to have some boozy fun. The crime-themed bar will provide appropriately themed cocktails, crime headline-related art, true crime trivia, and table games. Alibi is…
KU’s basketball team withdrew from the Big 12 tournament early March 12 after a player on the team tested positive for COVID-19 Friday morning. The positive case comes from a member who played in KU’s Thursday game against Oklahoma according to Matt Norlander, who broke the news. BREAKING—Kansas has a player who’s tested positive for COVID and has been removed…
Sol Anzorena with her art on display at Roeland Park City Hall // Photo courtesy Sol Anzorena Sol Anzorena uses art to raise awareness about animals’ lives being compromised by rising pollution and loss of habitat. “Now is the time to passionately address all environmental problems,” says Anzorena on her website. “It is time to fight for the necessary changes…
Chris Sevier testifies during a House Committee on General Laws hearing on Monday, Feb. 22, 2021.// Screenshot via Missouri House livestream During a recent hearing on his bill to establish the “Stop Social Media CensorshiTep Act,” state Rep. Jeff Coleman repeatedly referenced experts sitting behind him in the audience who would be better able to address questions about the legislation’s…
This week on the Streetwise podcast we discuss people in person, enjoy a reading of Abby Olcese’s piece on pandemic cinema, check out The Norman Three-Sixty’s track “Sonic”, and chat with Joel A. Clark about his work on the internet splort of Blaseball. Fresh breath, here we come! Streetwise is hosted by Brock Wilbur, editor in chief of The Pitch. Subscribe on iTunes or Spotify. Subscribe to…
Bowman in her new store. // Bek Shackelford You know the phrase, ‘Jack-of-all-trades’? Yeah, well for the purpose of this story, we’re changing it to ‘Alesha-of-all-trades’, because Alesha Bowman, she can do it all. And Bowman doesn’t just dip her toes in here and there—she dives all the way in; nearly drowning herself in the task at hand. But in,…
Photo by Geert Pieters Park International Center for Music, which was featured as a part of The Pitch Best of KC 2019, is hosting a free piano concert devoted to piano lovers. Six students will be performing in the virtual concert which will be broadcast from the 1900 building on March 24 at 7 p.m. “It is extremely important for…
