Alamo Drafthouse’s Mainstreet Kansas City location. // Photo by Travis Young After eight years in Kansas City, Alamo Drafthouse Mainstreet is closing. Like other theaters in the chain, it shut down in March of 2020 with hopes to reopen. Today, permanent closure was announced. The Austin-based theater chain filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy as part of an asset purchase agreement…
Photo courtesy Georg Arthur Pflueger The vaccine rollout is working as nursing homes in the U.S. are seeing the lowest number of new COVID-19 cases since May. Data from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services shows almost 11,000 cases were reported the week of May 31, 2020, while cases reached the highest level of over 33,000 the week of…
Jared Nally. // Courtesy of Gary Rohman of FIRE Jared Nally, editor-in-chief of the student-run publication, The Indian Leader, is fighting for his basic journalistic rights after being silenced by his campus president for 90 days. The Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE) filed a federal lawsuit against Haskell Indian Nations University and its president, Ronald Graham on behalf of Nally….
Map of the average daily COVID-19 case rates in the U.S.// Courtesy CDC According to the most recent CDC data, Missouri has the second-lowest number of COVID-19 cases per 100,000 people in the U.S. Missouri has 6.7 cases per 100,000 people in the past seven days. Our case numbers are low compared to New York City, which has the highest…
Human remains were found in a wooded area near W 34th Street and Roanoke Road.// Courtesy Google Maps Kansas City Police are investing after unidentified human remains were found near Midtown on March 2. A woman reported the remains to police Tuesday after finding what she believed to be human bones in a wooded area near W 34th Street and…
Chef Patrick LeBeau’s Clam “Chowder,” from the Stilwell. Photo Courtesy of the Loews Kansas City/the Stilwell. Opening Thursday: the Stilwell at Loews Kansas City The past year has been—to be generous—a bumpy year for hospitality. Hotels have been among the hardest-hit businesses throughout the pandemic, and it was in this abysmal context that the years-in-the-making, brand-new 800-room Loews Convention Center…
Taylor Lenz // photo by Jason Puma Pop singer Taylor Lenz’s debut single, “Tease,” came out of left field when it release last July, garnering an impressive amount of airplay across the country, including spins on Mix 93.3. Given that Lenz grew up in the Kansas City area, attending Park Hill South High School, it was a dream come true…
Construction on Waddell & Reed’s new 18-story headquarters will continue, but the firm won’t be using the finished product. // Image courtesy of nextkansas.city In 2019, financial planning firm Waddell & Reed proposed a relocation of its headquarters into an 18-story downtown Kansas City tower that would cost $140 million to construct. The tower at 14th Street and Baltimore is…
Following previous attempts including Gov. Laura Kelly’s push for medical marijuana to go toward Medicaid expansion, Kansas lawmakers are pushing legislation to legalize medical marijuana with strict regulations. // Image courtesy of Gov. Laura Kelly After previously unsuccessful efforts, Kansas lawmakers have introduced a new bill in hopes that the state will follow through with medical marijuana legalization. Under the…
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 Ace, a 6-year-old Pit Bull mix. He resides at the Kansas City Campus for Animal Care at 7077 Elmwood Avenue in Kansas City, MO. Where you can adopt him. He’s been there since…
Photo by April Fleming When Sura Eats was in its infancy, its pop-ups would inspire Instagram frenzy. Chef Keeyoung Kim’s street food-inspired dishes, including bibimbap surrounded with colorful veg and pickles, crispy flash-fried dumplings, and bright orange kimchi fried rice, were beautiful and even novel in a city with distressingly few Korean options. Importantly, they were richly flavorful and decadent,…
After losing her parents to COVID-19, city interpreter Michelle DeMartino doesn’t want any other Kansas Citians to go through what her family has. // Photo via State of the City livestream Sign language interpreters are trained to remain neutral in their message delivery. When Mayor Quinton Lucas paused during his State of the City address to acknowledge and honor interpreter…
Tornado sirens sounded across Missouri and Kansas this morning and many cell phone users received emergency alerts urging them to seek shelter. If you didn’t watch the news this morning you might have been concerned, like many on social media are. https://twitter.com/TheKamdyman/status/1366780606189875204 Not to worry, it was just a scheduled drill. The sirens and weather alerts were part of multi-statewide…
Have you been following the newest podcast on The Pitch Podcast Network? Did you know that we have a podcast network? Right, so many things are happening all at once! KC Top 5 podcast is a weekly show about the best of our great city, as decided by a battle to the death. Maybe not to the death—but blood…
Tristan, left, and Austin, right. // Photo by Lennon Photography It’s only been open for just over a year, but KC Tiny Greenhouse has become a destination for plant lovers in the city. Austin Mosier and Tristan Carlson are life partners turned business partners and have a dream of making everyone they meet fellow crazy plant people. The tiny greenhouse…
Photo by Steven Cornfield The COVID-19 vaccination clinic in Price Chopper at 75th Street and Metcalf Avenue is set to administer approximately 1,200 vaccine doses this week. Within 15 minutes, the first 96 vaccination slots filled up according to Amanda Applegate, clinical services coordinator for Balls Foods, which owns Price Chopper and Hen House. All available time slots through March…
Charlie Hustle is debuting a new collection dedicated to the KC Monarchs // Photo courtesy Charlie Hustle The heritage and history of the Kansas City Monarchs baseball team inspired Charlie Hustle’s newest collection. With 10 league championships before integration, the Monarchs were truly baseball royalty,” says Chase McAnulty, founder and CEO of Charlie Hustle. ‘We wanted to create a collection…
We’re running a limited series of articles here at The Pitch called “One Year Out.” A few of us spoke to the last bands that we saw play live… on the one-year anniversary of that concert. Your friendly neighborhood editor Brock Wilbur saw Murder By Death in Lawrence. And then the world shutdown. Now, a year out, I sat down…
Today is the first day of Women’s History Month. And if you work anywhere around media (or spend any time on Twitter) you probably know exactly what this means: The Brands are out in full force. Our inbox is full of press releases about how some grocery chain or insurance company is doing an empty, performative version of “lifting women…
Photo by Bermix Studio The Kansas City Board of Public Utilities (BPU) is warning customers to be aware of utility scammers ordering payment or else services will be terminated. Multiple reports have been made about calls stating if payment is not made services will be shut off within 30 minutes. The scammers claim to represent a local utility company using…
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 Colton Sturgeon All Professional Building Lofts residents were said to be displaced and told to find new homes by March 5 after power outages Saturday. The Alexander Company, an out-of-town landlord, displaced these residents. The owner is paying for a hotel but tenants’ leases are still terminated. As of today, the Housing Authority of Kansas City confirmed they have…
Brock and Captain Trips I am often surprised that Kansas City has made me host to an entire menagerie of pets. Certainly, my background did not prime me for it. My mother informed us from the start that we couldn’t have pets because she was allergic, and therefore we were allergic. Every dog or cat I’d ever encountered leading up…
