An entrance to William Jewell College featuring Jewell Hall. The SMJP research group found that it was built using enslaved labor. // Photo by Catherine Dema At William Jewell College’s annual undergraduate research colloquium April 22, three students involved with the Slavery, Memory, and Justice Project presented the group’s findings since beginning research in the fall of 2020, reactions to…
This past Friday and Saturday saw what ESPN once called “…baseball, but it’s also part circus and part professional wrestling, with cruise-like entertainment and Harlem Globetrotter sensibilities.” The Savannah Bananas wrapped up their 2022 Summer World Tour as they faced the Kansas City Monarchs at Legends Field. This two-day event showed exactly what an entertaining sports event should be. The…
The Chamber of Terror. // Courtesy Shocking Dark Inc. and Panic Button Films The Creeping As one of several films making big screen debuts at Panic Fest, The Creeping puts a modern spin on what is essentially a classic ghost story. It’s even set in the English countryside, which it uses to wring familial melodrama and spooky jump scares out…
The KC Irish Man from Brady & Fox. // Photo by Kala Elkinton Traditional Irish food is all about comfort. Who can say no to a thick cottage pie? As a fan of the bygone Brady’s Irish Pub that used to occupy the cozy interior on 55th and Troost, I was thrilled to see the brand new Brady & Fox…
Photos by Travis Young. Studio courtesy of Travis Carroll. For Asian American Pacific Islander (AAPI) Heritage Month, we teamed up with Catcall Magazine to highlight the AAPI team members who make Kansas City’s first Vietnamese coffee shop Cafe Cà Phê possible. The run of this week’s profiles include: Bety Le Shackelford Chad Barnes Jessica Nguyen Madoka Koguchi Maddy Best Travis…
Missouri lawmakers have until Friday at 6 p.m. to complete their work before adjourning for the year. // Photo by Tim Bommel/Missouri House Communications Missouri lawmakers enter the final week of the legislative session Monday with a laundry list of unfinished business and long-simmering tensions threatening to derail any hope of progress. After finishing work on the largest state budget…
Midnight. // Courtesy DREAD / Epic Pictures People spend a lot of time running in Midnight—the feature debut from writer/director Kwon Oh-Seung. I mean a lot. The film Run, Lola, Run had less running than this movie. Keeping all those high-speed foot chases thrilling is a difficult trick, but Kwon pulls it off with aplomb. Rather than trying to constantly…
Jeremy “The Monarch” Wyatt wearing Daingersnake Designs. // Photo by Chris Manning Dio’s “Rainbow in the Dark” pumps through the speakers as a figure steps into view. He’s draped in a glimmering turquoise and violet floor-length coat with tights in the same color scheme, and holding the Gateway Heritage Championship belt. The costume is Chris Estell’s creation come to life…
KC Bier Co.’s Elizabeth Belden. // Photo by Chase Castor Elizabeth Belden stands amid the gleaming cylindro-conical fermentation tanks at Kansas City Bier Company. The last date they were chemically cleaned is written in blue ink on a whiteboard. Nearby, an industrial centrifuge whirs out the last bits of sediment from an IPL, KC Bier Co.’s German take on an…
Alex Heffes. // Photo by AnnaMariaFotograf Composer Alex Heffes is best known for his work with director Kevin Macdonald on films such as The Last King of Scotland and Touching the Void or his Golden Globe-nominated score for Justin Chadwick’s Mandela: The Long Walk to Freedom. With a career stretching back over 20 years, the British musician’s filmography even encompasses…
State Sen. Sandy Crawford speaks at the Missouri Bankers Association Convention on July 15, 2021. // Photo courtesy of the Missouri Governor’s Office An expansive set of proposed changes to Missouri’s open records law backed by Gov. Mike Parson has transparency advocates alarmed that legislators may be poised to undermine the law. The changes touch on everything from narrowing the…
Courtesy KC2026 There is no bigger sporting event than the World Cup. The soccer tournament that takes place every four years almost transcends the idea of a sport. It’s a global phenomenon shared by billions of people. Four years from now, Kansas City may be one of the cities at the foreground of the tournament, as North America is set…
Reproductive rights rally at the Jackson County Courthouse. // Photo by Kristen Thomas Late in the evening on May 2, phones everywhere lit up with alerts from Twitter to the New York Times regarding Politico’s publishing of a leaked SCOTUS memo. “Time to schedule that vasectomy. A leaked memo shows the Supreme Court is likely going to overturn Roe v…
Frozen Arrowhead Stadium from last February. // Photo by Travis Young The Chiefs and Royals want to ask you for a billion dollars. That’s what all the chatter around the stadiums boils down to. The Chiefs are listening to offers from KCK developers while the Royals are seriously eyeing a move downtown. Honestly, if taxpayers subsidize two stadiums, a billion…
Xochitl Gomez as America Chavez, Benedict Wong as Wong, and Benedict Cumberbatch as Doctor Strange/Stephen Strange. // Courtesy Marvel Studios In a universe that includes talking trees, ageless beings, and literal gods, Stephen Strange may be the MCU’s weirdest character. Specifically, I mean that he’s the one the series has never been able to make work on his own. The…
The Hu. // Photo by Chris Ortiz The Hu with the Haunt The Truman Wednesday, May 4 Mongolian heavy metal band The Hu brought their mix of traditional folk and heavy rock to the Truman last night, touring in support of their 2019 debut The Gereg, as well as playing new tracks from their as-yet-unreleased sophomore album. Florida rockers the…
Co-owner Mike Valverde After more than a decade on 39th Street, Sunday, May 8, 2022 is the last call at Mud Pie Vegan Bakery and Coffeehouse. An update on Mud Pie’s Instagram account announced the decision to close its doors, with the team providing a statement in an attempt to clear things up. ” has been our second home since…
Dorothy .// photo credit Courtney Dellafioria The story behind hard-rockers Dorothy’s new album, Gifts from the Holy Ghost, is intense, even for a band of road dogs such as them: After her guitar technician had taken an overdose, Dorothy instinctively began praying for his survival. While he may have temporarily died, the technician was astonishingly, miraculously restored back to life….
Morgan Wallen. // Photo by David Lehr Music fans have been loud and clear about their distaste for country star Morgan Wallen. Despite all four of his first album’s singles having gone platinum, most Americans were unfamiliar with the Sneedville, Tennessee-born singer-songwriter until he made headlines in February 2021 after he was filmed using the N-word with a friend in…
Brad and Scott just being two regular guys. // Photo by Scott Poore This week’s “Creature Feature” is thanks to the help of Scott Poore from Mission Driven. Meet Brad, a six-year-old retriever mix. Brad is a regular dog who just loves to run, play, and hang out with his best friend. He doesn’t ask a lot out of life….
Tatted arm preparing some winning barbecue. // Courtesy Cook for Courage Are the next thirty days of your calendar looking a bit, well, sparse? Check out these three upcoming nonprofit events that demand to be on your social roster. It’s a boxing, barbecue, and building tour bonanza. Cook for Courage: A benefit for Child Protection Center – May 15 Bring…
The Pitch collaborates with All Forked-up for Q on these beautiful ribs // Photo by Brock Wilbur The Kansas City BBQ Society (KCBS) paired up competition pros with media amateurs in a barbeque competition to mark the start of National BBQ Month. May has been National BBQ Month since 1963, so when you see that Justin Timberlake meme, roll out the smoker and…
The 501st Legion Star Wars cosplayers. // Photos by Jim Thayne and Angela Stokes In St. Louis, there was a horrific car accident. A 12-year-old boy survived. The crash killed his parents and his brother was left in critical condition. His grandfather had only one plan for how to provide a spark of joy that would distract the shell-shocked kid…
Supporters of reproductive rights gather outside the U.S. Supreme Court on May 3, 2022, in protest of a leaked draft ruling that shows the court plans to overturn Roe v. Wade. // Photo by Jane Norman/States Newsroom If a draft U.S. Supreme Court opinion overturning Roe v. Wade holds true, nearly all abortions in Missouri would become illegal. But anti-abortion…
