Roberta Gumbel. // Photo courtesy of Gail Wein In 2017, the NAACP issued a travel advisory in Missouri warning Black people not to drive because of racial discrimination and attacks. A year later composer Susan Kander, a Kansas City-native that now lives in New York, and librettist Roberta Gumbel, also a KC native and a professor of voice at the…
Photo by April Fleming Several new restaurants open despite staffing challenges It’s like the restaurant gods flipped a switch. In the past few weeks, restaurants and bars have suddenly become busy (related: everyone is also hiring). And though the public is clearly ready to get out to eat and drink, it doesn’t mean that locations are open the way that…
Illustrated by Katelyn Betz Anyone else finding it difficult to get back into the swing of being social in public settings? The first week I started going out, it was always a plan to have a drink or two and head home. The reality is that I’d run into people, they’d be all excited and want to buy a round,…
Eddy Guillen with his students. // Courtesy of Eddy Guillen Eddy Guillen has been boxing for 12 years and has been teaching and mentoring the youth of Kansas City since 2015. In that time he’s fought and won the Golden Gloves four separate times and touched the lives of many children that have stepped into the ring with him. While…
Photo by K. Mitch Hodge Not sure if you have unclaimed property? Well now is the time to find out. Starting today, the names of more than 112,000 individuals, small businesses, and non-profit organizations with unclaimed property will be listed in 100 publications across Missouri. For the first time, people can also search and view the list by county on…
Limp Bizkit. // Courtesy KC Pet Project We have teamed up with KC Pet Project to host a weekly “creature feature” on a loveable and adoptable animal here in the KC Metro. This week’s local Adopt an Animal features Limp Bizkit, a 1-year-old Domestic Shorthair. He resides at the Kansas City Campus for Animal Care at 7077 Elmwood Avenue in Kansas City,…
Photo courtesy of Tiki Huna In the wrong hands, a tiki cocktail is a sickly sweet, instant headache in a glass. But in skilled ones, a tiki cocktail is basically as great as a cocktail can get. Fresh-squeezed juice, good rum, and spices in the right proportions can pack in the flavor. A good garnish (or, if you’re in a…
S’il Vous Plaît, by and Dionne Holt. // Photo by Chris Ortiz On June 12, West 18th Street between Baltimore and Wyandotte was transformed into an interactive fashion experience. It was a living, breathing, psychedelic, neon-go-go boot-wearing, socially conscious and self-aware, kink-friendly, and full of fantasy experience. In short, it was a spectacle to behold. The “West 18th Street Fashion…
Writer Adam Gnade’s book, The Do-It-Yourself Guide to Fighting the Big Motherfuckin’ Sad, is probably the most-gifted thing in our household. My wife and I have definitely given copies to a dozen people, and it’s the sort of thing to which you can keep coming back again and again. Thus, it was with some delight that I discovered that the…
Former Gov. Eric Greitens speaks earlier this year at the Macon County Lincoln Days dinner // Andrew Murphy photo It was the year’s biggest gathering of Missouri Republicans, but the party’s putative frontrunner to replace retiring U.S. Sen. Roy Blunt was nowhere to be found. Over the weekend, nearly everyone angling for the Senate seat flocked to the Missouri Republican…
Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt. // Photo courtesy of the Missouri Attorney General’s Office Attorney General Eric Schmitt has determined his office cannot investigate an alleged violation of Missouri’s open records laws by the governor’s office, an interpretation of state law that has transparency advocates alarmed. Missouri’s attorney general’s office is in charge of enforcing the Sunshine Law, which requires…
Superdeep is not particularly deep but it is noteworthy for being super—at checking the boxes on everything it wants to be. And what it wants to be is every modern horror video game that you might have brushed up against. That’s not the worst thing. The Kola Superdeep Borehole was a real-world Russian tunneling project. In 1984, inexplicable sounds like…
A scoop of Brown Butter Pecan at Betty Rae’s. // Photo by April Flemming Buried in the tidal wave of 2020’s terrible news was the fact that Kansas City had lost Betty Rae’s Ice Cream. Conflict between the store’s ownership and its staff had made the beloved shop’s future impossible. The whole story was a giant, disappointing turd in an…
Before the Fashion Honors Autism’s black-tie masquerade charity fashion show, I had an idea of the cause. As soon as I left, I felt the impact this organization has on the children and teens diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder. The fashion show took place at The Grand Hall KC and there was a heartfelt sense of joy throughout. Kansascityfashion’s Jordan…
Researchers work to detect remnants of the virus that causes COVID-19 in samples of wastewater collected from across Missouri. // Courtesy of University of Missouri Southwest Missouri’s most popular tourist areas are the epicenter of a COVID-19 outbreak linked to the Delta variant that is responsible for making India second to the United States in coronavirus cases. All eight counties along…
OK Go perform live at MTC in 2018. // Courtesy of Midwest Trust Center More live music and performances are coming and we’re ecstatic. The Midwest Trust Center has announced its 2021 fall schedule and it’s a delightful list. The series will feature a wide variety of artists and will be a welcome fixture as summer winds down and fades…
Mary, Rob, and Julian Pope on stage before a Spoon show in Boston, 2018. // Courtesy Rob Pope The Get Up Kids will be playing their first live show post-pandemic on September 17 at Lemonade Park. They’ve also got a new five-song EP is in the works. The Pitch got on a call with Rob Pope, the bass player for…
This week on the Streetwise podcast we discuss obsession regression, jam to Liam Kazar’s track “Frank Bacon”, and chat with Savannah Hawley—the newest edition to The Pitch’s editorial team. Our episode this week is brought to you by Worlds of Fun. 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…
In an open 2022 Missouri U.S. Senate seat piling high with candidates both seasoned and bizarre, as is often the case with high-profile offices, a 20,000-member Facebook group “Joe Biden for Missouri” is working to clear the air with open conversations. Facing a wide-open Missouri U.S. Senate race that seems to attract new candidates by the day, the group is launching…
Plug Gallery and its organizers. //Chase Castor for The Pitch In the face of rising rents and gentrification, amplified by disconnection and strained resources during a pandemic, Kansas City lost some vital arts spaces. But one is being reborn. Plug—formerly known as Plug Projects—has been around since 2011, originally in a space in the West Bottoms. After a complete turnover…
Loki on Disney+. // Courtesy Disney+ The third MCU TV series has landed at Disney+. Following in the footsteps of its predecessors, Loki is trying something shockingly—but necessarily—experimental. Having seen the first few episodes of the show, we can easily confirm that this new show has the most intriguing and accessible kick-off of any of the serialized Marvel properties to this…
Bad Brains. // Photo credit Steven Hanner Over the next couple years, hardcore legends Bad Brains will release remastered editions of their seminal albums through the newly-established Bad Brains Records, an imprint of Org Music. After decades, the band has reacquired the rights and the masters to many of their recordings, from their first single, “Pay to Cum,” along with…
The 2017 Norton from Stone Hill. // Courtesy of Stone Hill Missouri: home of a national award-winning winery? Yep, that’s correct. We rarely get to celebrate such a thing, but here we are. Missourians looking to imbibe with a bit of class and sophistication have a new option as Stone Hill Winery, based in Hermann, was awarded Best Native Wine…
North Kansas City-based IT health firm Cerner Corp., the city’s largest private employer, is reducing its numbers today with a mass layoff. Misti Preston, the director of external communications and public relations for Cerner, told KCTV that the number of people laid off was in the hundreds, but she did not give the exact amount. She told KMBC 9 News…
