Photo courtesy of Heartland Chamber Music The Heartland Chamber Music will host the second annual Stringfest Oct. 4 from 5:30-7:30 p.m. at the Golden Ox Patio behind the Historic Livestock Exchange Building. The jazz charity event and kick-off party will seek to raise $25,000 to purchase 100 violins for String Sprouts—a musical education program for underserved children ranging in age from…
Photo courtesy of King G Check it out: A King comes to the Crossroads At first glance, King G (500 East 18th Street) appears to be a solid spot for a bite. Its menu features an enviable craft beer and natural wine selection and a fun, approachable menu of sandwiches and snacks inspired by deli classics created by James Beard-nominated…
Photo courtesy of The Rino KC The Rino has established a Patreon page offering a trio of donation-based membership levels at $5, $10, and $50, each coming with a set of perks and access to live-stream events. “It’s always been important to us that we’re not asking for handouts. We’re a business and we feel like we need to earn…
A letter-writing night from August 19 at Wise Blood Booksellers. // Photo by Jim Nimmo Liberation Lit started last fall as a simple pandemic project. Spurred on by the ways that incarceration has touched our own families, we aimed to build relationships with our local incarcerated community through sharing books and literature. Our mission is straightforward: We work alongside inmates…
Mary Roach. // Photo credit Jen Siska When author Mary Roach releases one of her pop-science books, you find yourself getting answers to questions you’d never thought of. Whether it’s the way Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal explains rectal feeding or how Packing for Mars: The Curious Science of Life in the Void explains how one might bone in…
The Mint Condition from Drastic Measures. // Photo by April Fleming No matter where you live in the metro, you should make the effort to visit Jay Sanders’ Shawnee cocktail bar, Drastic Measures. Perhaps you’re thinking ‘But I live . Why would I go to Shawnee?’ Maybe this is a fair question. (I’m kidding, Shawnee. I live in South KC,…
Courtesy Power & Light District. The Power and Light District has announced its fall event schedule and concert series lineup, revealing the return of signature annual events such as Oktoberfest (Oct. 9), Cornucopia (Oct 15-17), the CarnEVIL Halloween Party Bar Crawl (Oct. 30), and the Wicked Wine Walk (Nov. 6). The district’s concert series’ “Friday Night Live” and Saturday staple…
Prep underway for the grand opening on Thursday. // Photo courtesy of ReRoll A new table-top board game venue, ReRoll Tavern (2368 Armour Rd), opens to the public Sept. 16 from 6-11 p.m. The North Kansas City project shattered its initial goal of raising $9,001 through its Kickstarter campaign and wrapped its fundraising round with 251 backers—pledging a combined $43,539 towards…
Illustration by Katelyn Betz In June 2021, the Kansas City Public Library announced a new staff position that reimagines the “traditional” librarian role with a digital twist: the Wikipedian in Residence. Miranda Pratt, who graduated from the Kansas City Art Institute in 2019, is filling the post for the inaugural year-long tenure. Wikipedia is a crowd-sourced and open-source digital encyclopedia,…
The Danieley siblings, Lucy, 10, Teddy, 5, and Ruby, 9, hug on their first day back to school on Sept. 7, 2021. // Courtesy Teresa Danieley Teddy Danieley was devastated. Three weeks ago tears streamed down the five-year-old’s face when he learned he couldn’t attend the first-day of school in St. Louis because his dad had tested positive for COVID-19….
Elwood loves to talk. // Courtesy of 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 is happy to feature Coralie, a 2-year-old pit bull, and Elwood, a 3-year-old domestic shorthair. Both furry friends currently reside at the Kansas City Campus for Animal…
Josiah Hesse, author of Runner’s High. // Courtesy Hesse “I took some Tylenol and weed this morning,” said a man who looked like Santa Claus—if Kris Kringle weighed 140 pounds and had 8% body fat—to the person sitting next to him. “I’ll probably do the same after the race.” I likely wouldn’t have noticed the exchange, which happened on the…
Jason Kander and his co-author, True Kander. // Photo courtesy Jason Kander Veteran, politician, and activist Jason Kander has a new book on shelves September 13. It’s something of a departure from his previous title—Outside the Wire—which dealt with the lessons he learned from serving in Afghanistan. The new release is a children’s book with a slightly less weighty subject…
I am doing my best to chill. It has not been going well. If you subscribe to the Streetwise newsletter or podcast, you might be aware that I’m fairly high-strung—yet always in search of a way to take this whole stressful life-thing down a notch or two. Video games have helped in the last year, but not in the way…
Courtesy TIFF Audiences, critics, and filmmakers have been navigating a strange space for the last year, one that’s only gotten weirder as theaters have cautiously (and desperately) started reopening their doors. Access to titles for review has been a consistently frustrating moving target as studios decide whether they’ll allow online or theatrical-only screenings of films, as well as who gets…
Photo by Jim Nimmo The 19th annual Kansas City Irish Fest took place over Labor Day weekend. After a one-night “virtual” festival last year, organizers felt it was important to get back as close to normal as possible in the middle of a pandemic. This was not an easy task. Travel restrictions limited many of the bands that travel from…
Photo courtesy of Starlight. A Sept. 7 showing of On Your Feet! at the Starlight Theater served as the launch pad for the 70-year old, Swope Park-based venue to announce its 2022 AdventHealth Broadway Series lineup. The five-show season will officially be underway with the musical Waitress, running May 17-22, 2022, and followed by the Tony-Award winning Hairspray June 7-12….
Cheery’s Katlyn Conryor // photo credit John Clayton Katlyn Conroy, formerly of La Guerre and Cowboy Indian Bear, debuted not one, but two new projects this year. They’re both superb. One, called Dooms, pairs her with Orion Dollar, who’d worked with Conroy on La Guerre, while Cheery sees the musician in more of a traditional band lineup. We’ve shared a…
This week on the Streetwise podcast we discuss playdates, enjoy a reading of Cameron Capers’ story on BLK + BRWN, vibe to LK Ultra’s track “I’m Doing This Because I Love You,” and chat with KC boys Scores about their debut full-length album. 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…
The whole cauliflower from Extra Virgin. // Photo by April Fleming When James Beard award-winning chef Michael Smith announced a revamp of the menu at Extra Virgin after 13 years, he could have moved in any direction. A frequent traveler, Smith has featured ingredients and preparations from all over the world in his three restaurants throughout the years. In 2021…
A photo from the film. // Courtesy Ailey The first time filmmaker Jamila Wignot saw Alvin Ailey’s choreography performed, she was in college. Her campus’ Black student group got tickets to see a performance of the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater in Boston, and she had no idea what she was in for. “I had no expectations. I didn’t know…
Missouri Capitol. // Courtesy of the Missouri Department of Public Safety If an LGBTQ history exhibit was removed from the Missouri Capitol because it didn’t get pre-approval from a specific board, then every exhibit on display that didn’t get approved must also be removed, House Minority Leader Crystal Quade argued in a letter to state officials on Wednesday. That would…
I’m a gay man. After a decade together and five years of marriage, my husband informed me he wasn’t really interested in sex anymore. That was a year ago and we haven’t had sex since. He told me I should leave him, if regular sex was “really that important” to me, but if I chose to stay, I had to…
Photo courtesy of Kemper Museum The Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art recently announced the upcoming Contemporary Art and the Missouri Bicentennial exhibition, set to kick off at a limited capacity event from 6-8 p.m., next Thursday, Sept. 16, and remain on view through Feb. 20, 2022. “Kemper Museum has engaged an advisory group of 13 civic partners comprising curators, educators,…
