Shania Twain. // photo by Chris Ortiz On a night where the Midwest humidity would predict the hot and steaminess of what the show inside of the T-Mobile Center in Kansas City would be, Shania Twain and her special guest Mickey Guyton took to the stage for a night of excitement as well as entertainment. Guyton took the stage first…
Courtesy Sarah Elizabeth Larson Chicago-based comedian and actor Victoria Montalbano’s The Princess Strikes Back: One Woman’s Search for the Space Cowboy of her Dreams will make its Missouri debut at the KC Fringe Festival tomorrow. Since the show’s premiere in 2021, Montalbano has taken her Star Wars-inspired, autobiographical comedy across the Chicagoland area and Fringe Festival circuit. Having studied theater in…
Kansas City Monarchs catcher Chris Herrmann takes a swing during the 2023 American Association Home Run Derby from Franklin Field in Franklin, Wisconsin. // Courtesy American Association of Professional Baseball KC Monarchs Update is our weekly look at what’s happening with hometown baseball heroes, both at Legends Field and on the road. Check out their season schedule here. CLEBURNE, Texas…
The Music Issue. // Photo by Maura Dayton That face when you’re in the most recent issue of The Pitch and you’ve just got a lot of feels about it. Read their story from the July issue here. Categories: Music Tags: cat f!ght, cat fight, eat the pitch
Art by Cassondra Jones Looking for delicious plans? Whether you want to impress a date, show your fam the best of KC, or just get out of the house, we’ve got you covered… all while supporting local. Here is your weekly roundup of the best food and drink offerings around Kansas City. Cheers! Something New Burger Week: Our most popular…
Kansas-City-based comedian and slam poet Abby Bland will debut her second Fringe show, Godzilla’s Not a Dinosaur, this Friday at Westport Fleamarket’s Sparkle Room. After starting slam poetry competitions in 2018, Bland landed herself on the first-ever team that the Kansas City poetry slam sent to a national competition in Chicago that same year. Her natural career progression led her to…
Photo by Warner Bros. Leave it to Warner Bros, a studio notorious for thinking it’s giving audiences what they want while simultaneously eating their tail, to produce two commercial works of sublime counterculture entertainment in the same decade. The Lego Movie surprised audiences by taking simple building blocks and turned spun them into a thrilling adventure that spoke to the…
Celia Krampien. // Photograph by Jamie Nadalin Out this week from Simon & Schuster Children’s Publishing, writer/illustrator Celia Krampien’s debut novel, The Bellwoods Game, is “more than just a Halloween story, and at its core, it’s about friendship with a crew reminiscent of the Mystery Inc. folks from Scooby-Doo.” It’s a young adult novel liberally peppered with Krampien’s own illustrations,…
Oppenheimer. // Courtesy of Universal Pictures If Christopher Nolan’s staggering Oppenheimer has a unifying theme (it has many), it’s that the human tendency toward destruction—of self and of others—is unstoppable. The questions then follow: what is our responsibility in stopping human destruction on a grand scale? Is it acceptable to respond with additional catastrophic annihilation? And, if you’re responsible for…
Chef Riley Klemencic. // Courtesy photo Chef Riley Klemencic will be the first to admit he’s always had a thing for seafood—going back as far as his father’s weekly perch fry. From the lakes of Wisconsin to international seas, Klemencic’s culinary passion for creating memorable fish dishes helped shape his career. Now, as the executive chef at Jax Fish House…
Shredded Chicken Chimichanga at Calaveras. // Photo by Lauren Textor Calaveras plays with its theme unexpectedly and refreshingly When you hear “Day of the Dead-themed restaurant,” you probably picture an explosion of brightly colored sugar skulls, candles, flowers, altars, and down-to-earth Mexican street food. That’s not Calaveras. Calaveras is located in a century-old building that seats 200 underneath vaulted ceilings…
Photo by Brooke Tramel Before last weekend, the most recent time I had been to a festival of Breakaway-level gravity, I was still mentally recovering from middle school and had just passed my driver’s permit test. I thought my rave girl days were behind me—that was until I decided to give Breakaway Fest a try. Unlike Coachella or Lollapalooza, Breakaway…
Foreigner. // image courtesy the artist Classic rock legends Foreigner is performing their Historic Farewell Tour in Kansas City tonight at the Starlight Theatre. This will be the band’s penultimate summer tour, with Foreigner disbanding at the end of 2024. When this tour is over, it will also mark the 20th anniversary of bassist Jeff Pilson’s time in Foreigner. When…
Courtesy Jessica Ebelhar 2020 Louisville-based comedian Mandee McKelvey cares about more than punchlines. Her day-to-day is filled with stand-up comedy gigs at bars and venues—along with her full-time job at a psychiatric hospital. But her one-woman shows—including Exes and Embryos, which comes to Kansas City July 21 for KC Fringe Fest—give her the freedom to “mine the depth for funny,”…
LGBTQ flags were positioned on Capitol desks of Kansas House members during the 2023 debate on legislation targeting rights of transgender Kansans. Attorney General Kris Kobach, in wake of Senate Bill 180’s passage, is challenging a federal court order allowing gender changes to birth certificates. His views clash with civil rights organizations, including Lambda Legal. (Rachel Mipro/Kansas Reflector) TOPEKA —…
Courtesy photo Believe it or not, Mike Elder never intended to become a cake guy. This despite the fact that his mom was a famous baker and his dad was “an equally famous Corvette restorer,” says Elder. “I swore I’d never do either.” Well, fast forward a few decades, and it seems Mike has made the elder Elders quite proud….
A containment cell covered with rock holds the debris from a demolished uranium processing facility in Weldon Spring and radioactive waste from the Cold War (Allison Kite/Missouri Independent). Missouri environmental regulators warned the federal government in 2021 that radioactive contamination of groundwater from a uranium processing site near St. Louis wasn’t improving despite cleanup efforts, according to documents reviewed by…
Missouri Executive Order 44 after too much root beer. // Photo by Aaron Rhodes Dressed in the iconic dark slacks and white shirts of door-to-door evangelists, the “bike-helmet hardcore” band Missouri Executive Order 44 is taking a new look at Missouri’s history and identity. The group’s namesake, as well as the inspiration for their lyrics, comes from a law passed…
Andrew McMahon in the Wilderness. // photo by Daniel Fuchs Andrew McMahon In The Wilderness with flor KC Live! Friday, July 14 Andrew McMahon In The Wilderness hit KC Live! on Friday, July 14, in support of this year’s Tilt At The Wind No More, his latest album. Over the course of his set, he featured solo originals alongside fan…
Courtesy of City of Lenexa After the severe storms that rolled through the metro area on Friday afternoon left many citizens without power, trees uprooted from sidewalks, and debris scattered through the streets, the city is now announcing its plan to clean up all of the mess left behind. For Kansas City residents with debris to dispose of, a 10-bag…
Breakaway Festival 2023. // Photo by Brooke Tramel Breakaway Festival Azura Amphitheater July 14-15, 2023 The Breakaway Festival rolled through Kansas City once again this past weekend, bringing a slew of EDM to sweaty fans at Azura Amphitheater in Bonner Springs on Friday and Saturday. Our photographer Brooke Tramel (@sentimentalsnaps) was there to capture the experience. Categories: Music Tags: Azura…
One major program of the Front Porch Alliance is its Minor Home Repairs team, staffed by volunteers. // Courtesy photo Since its start 24 years ago, with a handful of volunteers asking residents what help they’d like to have, Front Porch Alliance has become a robust program that aids its neighborhoods on multiple levels. Though they’re centered in the Ivanhoe…
Custom bottle designs at Wild Child. // Photo by Sarah Sipple Even before the announcement of Drastic Measures being nominated for a James Beard Award for Outstanding Bar, buzz was building for Wild Child. Public-facing co-owner of both establishments, Jay Sanders has a way of cultivating radical and artful spaces irrespective of trends but that showcase authenticity and care. Those…
Joel Nanos. // Photo by Jeff Thomason Walking into Element Recording Studios in Strawberry Hill, one would have absolutely no clue that owner/producer/head engineer Joel Nanos has only been in this location for a little over a year. It’s the fourth incarnation for Nanos (if you count starting in his basement years ago), with the two previous archetypes on the West…
