Flights of Fancy Mega Kite Festival. // Photo by Jim Nimmo The phrase, “Go fly a kite,” took on a whole new meaning this Sunday in Lee’s Summit as thousands of local residents flocked to the hilltop campus of Metropolitan Community College- Longview to do exactly that—fly a kite. Starting in 2006, MCC Longview campus began hosting the annual Flights…
Chef Pyet DeSpain. // Photo by Mark Mendoza Born and raised in Kansas City, Kansas, Chef Pyet DeSpain took the first-place title in Gordon Ramsay’s latest cooking competition, The Next Level Chef. Through the trials and tribulations of constant kitchen shifts, ingredient changes, and time restrictions, DeSpain came to conquer. Next Level Chef debuted in 2021, with the concept of…
This story ran last weekend in Editor-in-Chief Brock Wilbur’s weekly newsletter Streetwise, which you can subscribe to here. We all had a great time at Planet Comicon here in KC, so thought we’d share a little personal nerdy journey from the vault. In grade school, Tuesdays were my days for Grandpa Adventure. My mother’s parents lived across the street from…
Snoop Dogg. // Photo by Barry Meitler For those who attended Friday night’s Dogg Dayz of Blaze tour at Azura Amphitheater, things seemed to be a little bit of a shit show. We’re sure Justin Champagne and Warren G were amazing. The view from standstill traffic on the roadway showed a sea full of lit cell phones accompanied by the…
Jon Spencer & the HITmakers (clockwise from upper left: Bob Bert, Sam Coomes, Janet Weiss, Jon Spencer). // Photo by Bob Coscarelli Musician Jon Spencer has been making music for decades in a slew of rock and roll-adjacent genres. The noise-punk of Pussy Galore, the punk blues of the Blues Explosion, and the jittery rockabilly of Heavy Trash are just…
The Greeting Committee. // Photo by Archana Sundar The Greeting Committee The Uptown Saturday, April 9 All photos by Archana Sundar. The Greeting Committee Raffaella Categories: Music Tags: concert photos, photo gallery, the greeting committee
Musicians perform during an April 9 fundraiser for the Midwest Music Foundation, a Kansas City nonprofit providing wellness resources and connects musicians with venues. // Photo by Amber Hulet/Midwest Music Foundation Just under 15 years ago, a group of people banded together hoping to play some music and do some good. Kansas City musician Abigail Henderson, 31, had just been…
Elliott Lee Scott on the run. // Courtesy of the sprinter As a reader kindly reminded me this week, it’s been a while since my last column. A busy winter turned into a hectic spring with a 50km trail race in February and a 50-mile ultramarathon in March. Look for new entries “Mud and masochism in the Wyandotte woods” and…
Local young adult (YA) author Stephanie Hansen doesn’t just live in the Kansas City area—she bleeds her surroundings onto every page she writes. From authoring the soon-to-be-animated Altered Helix to becoming an agent with Metamorphosis Literary Agency, Hansen is always looking to have an impact on the town’s writing scene. This weekend, she and a number of her fellow authors are…
This week on the Streetwise podcast we talk about hosting out-of-towners, chat with musician Nate Bergman, bop to Jason Buice’s track “When I Die,” and interview Rep. Ashley Bland Manlove. 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 news and events. Jason Klamm read our magazine story. Thanks to Jason Beers for our…
Alexander Skarsgård stars as Amleth and Anya Taylor-Joy as Olga in director Robert Eggers’ Viking epic The Northman, a Focus Features release. // Courtesy Focus Features Since his 2015 debut, Robert Eggers has marked himself as a director with a deep interest in themes of social and cultural artifice. In his first film, The Witch, piety and religious dogma separate…
Abe is full of sass. // Courtesy HSGKC This week’s “Creature Feature” is all thanks to the help of Scott Poore from Mission Driven. Abe is a 4-year-old adventure seeking Labrador retriever mix brought to you by the Humane Society of Greater Kansas City. He’s as athletic as he is handsome. Abe loves to go hiking and jogging. He doesn’t…
Attorney General Eric Schmitt, who is running for the U.S. Senate, ramped up his fight against local COVID-19 restrictions after a November ruling from Cole County Circuit Judge Daniel Green that local health orders are unconstitutional. // Photo courtesy of Missouri Attorney General’s Office A Southwest Missouri Republican upset with Attorney General Eric Schmitt’s aggressive campaign of lawsuits against local…
Cannabis cultivation. // Photo by Ryan Lange When I was 19, I was back in Kansas City from KU for winter break. My friends and I decided to meet up at our old high school so that we could all get in one car and smoke weed. In hindsight, what a brilliant idea. There was no way to know this…
WITS Travel Creator + Brand Summit. // Courtesy Wanderful Women and gender-diverse entrepreneurs, creatives, influencers, and marketing badasses are to be lifted up and celebrated when the WITS Travel Creator + Brand Summit comes to Kansas City on May 13-15, 2022. Sponsored by Wanderful, the summit will take place at the Kansas City Marriott Downtown and facilitate conversations to help…
Breakaway Music Festival. // Courtesy Prime Social Group Breakaway Music Festival is coming to Kansas City with live jams from The Chainsmokers, Illenium, Alison Wonderland, and more. The traveling two-day event begins Aug. 5 at Azura Amphitheater. Joining the already stellar lineup of artists are NGHTMRE, Cordae, Sidepiece, San Holo, Bryce Vine, Chris Lorenzo, Yung Bae, Rossy, Surf Mesa, Trivecta,…
Primus. // Photo courtesy the artist While the long-running band Primus is known to the music-listening world at large for their string of bass-heavy, novelty-adjacent ’90s tracks like “Jerry Was A Race Car Driver,” “My Name is Mud,” and “Wynona’s Big Brown Beaver,” the band’s discography is full of wildly inventive music. Primus frontman and bassist Les Claypool was influenced…
The seafood pasta to be served at Deep Roots for the murder mystery dinner. // Courtesy of Deep Roots Enjoy a deathly good dinner and a show at Deep Roots next Tuesday Do you crave your meals with a side of murder-laden comedy? Deep Roots in Kansas City, Kansas has the event for you. The sister eatery of the Homesteader…
J.D. Vance, who won Ohio’s GOP Senate primary, calls neoreactionist Curtis Yarvin a friend. Photo Credit: Joshua A. Bickel/Ohio Debate Commission. A state representative from Georgia has thrown a wrench into what was supposed to be something of a coronation for Republican U.S. Senate candidate J.D. Vance. After securing former President Trump’s endorsement last week, Vance was set to campaign…
Still from The Long Slow Exhale episode 103. // Photo by Boris Martin Early in his career, former Kansas City Chiefs tight end and pro football Hall of Famer Tony Gonzalez knew that eventually he would have to do something besides play football. While the average career in the National Football League is 3.3 years, according to the NFL Players’…
Cardboard Corner. // Photo by Madeline Davis TableTop Game and Hobby has been a shining star in the metro area, providing a fun and welcoming gaming environment to all who need it. Phil Kilgore, the owner and founder of TableTop, has run the shop since its beginning and has been closely involved in the shop’s day-to-day activities while interacting with…
Kristen Thomas. // Photo by Nicole Bissey In my 20s, I found that cannabis made sex more erotic for me—definitely a pleasant discovery. I was able to get out of my head, simply focus on the experience I was having, and unleash my orgasm way easier. By the time I was around 35, I had a group of friends whose…
A park in Liberty, MO. // Photo by Shane Immelt Make Music Day is an international summer solstice celebration that encourages folks to commemorate the season change and find harmony with their community through music of all genres. The festival debuted in France in 1982 and now exists in 700 cities across the world. Missouri is hosting its seventh…
State Sen. Greg Razer, D-Kansas City. // Photo by Tim Bommel/Missouri House Communications On one end of the Missouri Capitol last week, Sen. Greg Razer was making yet another unsuccessful attempt to convince his colleagues to enact legal protections in state law for LGBTQ Missourians. “I’m still perceived as controversial,” Razer, a Kansas City Democrat who is one of just…
