Saturday, Aug. 28 was the 58th anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr’s “I Have a Dream” speech. In Kansas City, that memory was celebrated with the opening of the new Martin Luther King, Jr. Square Park just east of the Country Club Plaza. The fact that Kansas City has had a park named after the civil rights icon since 1978…
Brisket from Zarda. // Corutersy Zarda Bar-B-Q One of Kansas City’s most famous culinary marvels is getting more national attention. The American Royal and Zarda Bar-B-Q partnered to make September 1, 2021 the inaugural National Burnt Ends Day. “This is the beginning of what we hope becomes a delicious and beloved tradition in Kansas City and across the country,” says…
Leyla wants you to play fetch with her. // Courtesy KCPP We teamed up with KC Pet Project to host a weekly “creature feature” on loveable and adoptable animals here in the KC Metro. This week, KCPP wants you to meet Leyla, a 3-year-old pit bull, and Baby shark, a 3-year-old domestic shorthair. Both lovable animals currently reside at the Kansas…
Barry Meitler Photography Over the weekend, Beartooth hit up The Truman with opening acts Wage War and Dragged Under. Here’s a photo set from Barry Meitler, who you can find on Instagram at @bootlegbearphoto and on Facebook at Barry Meitler Photography. Setlist from Beartooth: Below Devastation Hated Sick of Me Fed Up Dominate The Lines Beaten in Lips Body Bag…
Head Consul Alfonso Navarro-Bernachi (L) and Sergio Garcia Hoffer (R), Consul of Documentation, at the Mexican Consulate. // Photo by Chris Ortiz Over the past several years, tension has been growing between the U.S. and Mexico as it pertains to Mexican nationals and Citizens who live in the United States. The Trump Administration questioned if an executive order could be…
An empty ICU bed waits for a patient to arrive on Sunday, Nov. 23, at SSM Health St. Joseph Hospital in Lake Saint Louis, Mo. St. Joseph has had to expand their COVID-19 unit to other branches of the hospital since their ICU hit its capacity. // Photo by Armond Feffer Gov. Mike Parson on Friday revoked his broad-based declaration…
There have been a rash of excellent Airbnb-based horror films in recent years. Dave Franco’s directorial debut The Rental is a delightfully horrific must-watch from 2020. 2019’s The Cabin House is a frightfully grotesque twist on cabin in the woods overnights. And adding to the genre now is the much more modernly self-aware Superhost. Written and directed by Brandon Christensen,…
Photo by Barry Meitler Photography Last night, Moon Taxi hit up The Truman with opening act Sparkle City Disco. Here’s a photo set from Barry Meitler, who you can find on Instagram at @bootlegbearphoto and on Facebook at Barry Meitler Photography. Moon Taxi’s Setlist: Let the Record Play Make Your Mind Up Mercury Not Too Late Who’s to Say? Run…
Cori Smith outside her bookstore, BLK + BRWN. // Photo by AJ McIntosh (We Are Here Studios) It doesn’t take a well-read historian to know the complex and ugly history of the Black community’s relationship with America and the erasure of Black history. As a Black person who came up through the U.S education system, the format always seems to…
The Descendents at Liberty Hall, 2021. // Photo by Aaron Rhodes America is in an awkward and confusing stage right now, so who better equipped to deal with awkward and confusing situations than a group of dad-aged nerds? On August 26, Lawrence, Kansas welcomed a group of visiting dad-aged nerds originally from Los Angeles, California called The Descendents. This show…
Long-running electronic indie project namelessnumberheadman will release their latest album, Plot the Points, September 24 and celebrating with an album release show at Record Bar Friday, October 1, opening for a reunited Elevator Division. Ahead of all that, we’re happy to premiere the video for “Mt Analogue St,” the album’s first single and second track. It’s a hallucinatory blend of vintage…
In an effort to keep you all abreast of the latest local music that’s not album or music video related, we present the latest installment of our irregular feature, Single Sentence Singles. We take a listen to the latest local singles to hit Soundcloud, Spotify, Bandcamp, et al, and sum them up in one sentence. Simple enough? Here we go….
The historic Strawberry Hill neighborhood in Kansas City, Kansas. // Courtesy Strawberry Hill Neighborhood Association The Strawberry Hill Ethnic Cultural Society was established in 1988 as a means of promoting and preserving the heritage of Strawberry Hill in Kansas City, Kansas. Housed in an 1887 Victorian Queen Anne style mansion, the Strawberry Hill Ethnic Museum and Cultural Center displays exhibits from…
Kansas Sen. Roger Marshall on the campaign trail in 2019. He frequently touts his credentials as a medical doctor in cable news appearances and visits back to Kansas. // Photo Stephan Bisaha / Kansas News Service Sen. Roger Marshall keeps telling Kansans to talk to their doctors about being vaccinated, but the advice he gives from his partisan platform as…
Elliot doing a run. // Photo courtesy Elliott Lee Scott The sun blazed overhead. My slow, measured running pace deteriorated to a painful walk by the time I reached Hill City, South Dakota. The aid station, picturesquely placed by a 19th-century train, represented mile 35 out of 50. But for me, it was the end of a road eight months in…
Candyman 2021. // Courtesy Universal Pictures Candyman is one of those horror icons that transcend the material. The original 1992 film is excellent, but Tony Todd was only given two more sequels in the ’90s—both of which are best left unremarked upon. It is sort of impressive that the hook-wielding character of Daniel Robitaille, his bees, and his “sweets for…
Courtesy facebook.com/DougCosmoClifford When I speak with Doug Clifford, drummer for the legendary rock band Creedence Clearwater Revival, he’s had what he calls “a little nerve-wracking night around here.” Clifford lives at 6000 feet in the mountains near Tahoe, and he’d spent the night before surrounded by major wildfires watching helicopters fly overhead and 50 firefighters in the area of his…
A student in a lecture hall. // Photo by Philippe Bout on Unsplash The University of Kansas recently announced that researcher Sheida Raley, Ph.D, was awarded a grant to test a new model of education instruction, which is designed to “enhance self-determination in community-based settings for adolescents with autism.” Raley is both assistant professor of special education and assistant research…
David Barklage pled guilty on Aug. 25, 2021, to one felony count of federal tax fraud. David Barklage, a veteran Missouri political consultant and lobbyist, pled guilty to a felony tax charge in U.S. District Court Wednesday afternoon. Barklage, who has been a fixture in Missouri Republican politics for decades, was indicted in April for failing to pay more than…
Check it out: Transit Coffee opens in Midtown With Oddly Correct moving to 4141 Troost Avenue (opening this fall), there was a coffee bean-shaped hole left at the intersection of 40th and Main Streets. That prominent space didn’t remain vacant for long, though. As of this week, Transit Coffee is now welcoming customers from 7 a.m. to 4 p.m. every…
We must protect the Kansas sunflowers. // Photo by Kate Torline on Unsplash. On August 25, the University of Kansas unveiled its 2021-22 guest lecture series with an emphasis on humanity’s relationship with the environment. The series, titled “In Search of Harmony: The Humanities and Our Natural World,” takes a closer look at environmental sustainability in an era of climate…
Ope. // Screengrab from Corpse Killer The 1994 video game Corpse Killer is a relic of its time. And like any good mad scientist in an awful B-movie, we’ve chosen to fuck around with the haunted relic, without any great explanation for why we’ve done what we’ve done. That’s why we find ourselves touched by a 25th anniversary re-release…
Dear Dan: I’m a woman who recently went out on a third date with a man. I invited him back to my place and we started making out, which led to him going down on me. Moments later he took off his pants and to my surprise, he had a micropenis. I was shocked and turned off. I did not…
Can’t you just smell it in the air? It’s time for The Pitch’s Fall Scavenger Hunt! Get ready to unlock your inner super sleuth and solve clues leading you to some of the most iconic landmarks and beloved institutions in Kansas City. Assemble your dream team quickly, because we’ve got a special treat. All teams of one to four people…
