Artwork featuring a uterus appears outside of the Planned Parenthood Great Plains office in Overland Park. (Rachel Mipro/Kansas Reflector) OVERLAND PARK — One mirrored building wall of the Planned Parenthood Great Plains office is covered with a painted uterus, with flowers drawn on the side and and a fist in the middle, punching up at a sunflower. Next to it…
PCourtesy Charlotte Street Foundation In partnership with Charlotte Street Foundation, Mid-America Arts Alliance has selected 25 artists to take part in their Artist INC program. The Artist INC program is an eight-week course that helps artists build their confidence in their decision making and professional judgment. Throughout the program, artists can expect to build and expand on skills ranging from…
Weyes Blood. // Photo by Isabella Galvan Weyes Blood with Nick Hakim The Truman Friday, August 25 In a sea of babydoll dresses, Doc Martens, basic t-shirts, and rave-wear, hipsters and boomers congregated at The Truman on Friday night to sway in time with chamber rock goddess Weyes Blood. Without the confining drudgery of dogma, the group delivered a love-struck,…
Nathan Jackson // Photo courtesy of the Nathan Jackson GoFundMe Screenwriter, producer, and award-winning Playwright Nathan Louis Jackson, passed away last Tuesday, Aug. 22 at the age of 44. Friends of Jackson have set up a GoFundMe link to support his loved ones in their time of grieving. The Kansas City native’s passing was announced by his family on Saturday….
Courtesy Paper Planes Zine Fest After a successful festival last year, the Paper Plains Zine Fest is making a return to Lawrence this Saturday and Sunday. For those who are unfamiliar, a zine, short for a fanzine or magazine, is a self-published pamphlet that serves as a form of self-expression and identity. The creation and portrayal of zine culture is…
Photo by Chris Ortiz. Art by Cassondra Jones Ongoing/Multiple: September 2 – October 15 Kansas City Renaissance Festival, Bonner Springs, KS September 4-11 Dancefestopia Music & Camping Festival 2023, Wildwood Outdoor Education Center September 7 – October 1 Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812, The Black Box September 14-23 Terra Luna | A Light & Sound Experience, Overland…
School buses wait in 2021 outside Thomas Hart Benton Elementary School in Columbia. (Rudi Keller/Missouri Independent) A recent survey found growing displeasure with Missouri schools. A majority of respondents — 56% — rated their local schools as only fair or poor, and 71% said that about public schools generally in the state, according to SLU You/Gov poll results released last…
Sponge Bar cocktails // Photo by Tyler Schneider I can hear it now: “Let’s take Bikini Bottom and push it somewhere else.” This, in my mind, was surely how the pitch for “SpongeBar”‚the Apparition/Vignettes crew’s latest foray in fantasy pop up drinkeries that’s set to run through Sept. 16—went down. Though unconfirmed, I am fairly confident that this suggestion was…
Taking Back Sunday. // photo by Alex Dodderidge After a shorter 14-song setlist a year ago at Starlight Theater (opening for the great Third Eye Blind), the gents from Long Island (well, now Charlotte) were back at KC Live! in the Power & Light District for their fourth affair last night. And still with no new album, much of the…
Turnpike Troubadours. // photo by Nick Spacek Turnpike Troubadours with The Avett Brothers, Old 97’s, and Kaitlin Butts Azura Amphitheater Saturday, August 26 What with the lovely weather Saturday night, it’s tempting to make some comment like, “The air may have been cool, but it was hot onstage at Azura,” but no. It’d be a disservice to just how amazing it…
DuckTales via Bit Brigade at recordBar. // Photo by Brock Wilbur Thursday night saw a rollicking good time at recordBar, as Athens, GA act Bit Brigade rolled through town. One of the biggest names in video game soundtrack cover bands—alongside peers like The Protomen and The Minibosses—BB brought a headlining set that was a one-two punch of the score to…
Members of LGBTQ advocacy organization PROMO and others following legislation imposing restrictions on health care and sports participation by transgender minors watch a January legislative hearing from an overflow room. A judge on Friday denied a request to block enforcement of a ban on medical treatments for transgender minors that takes effect Monday.(Annelise Hanshaw/Missouri Independent) A St. Louis judge ruled…
Rep. Patrick Penn, a Wichita Republican, rejected the assertion of Democrats that his interest in a legislative audit of the Kansas African American Affairs Commission resulted in a conflict of interest because his wife serves on the state commission. (Tim Carpenter/Kansas Reflector) TOPEKA — Senate Democrats on the Kansas Legislature’s audit committee questioned justification for examination of the Kansas African…
Kansas City Monarchs starter Brandon Finnegan pitches during the Monarchs’ game with the Winnipeg Goldeyes on Friday, August 25, 2023 at Shaw Park in Winnipeg, Manitoba. Photo: David Mahussier / Winnipeg Goldeyes 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….
At the It’s Always Sunny pop-up bar, recreating the yarn wall. From the whole team at The Pitch we have a bit of personal programming news to share. Today marks the departure from the metro area of one of our favorite longtime reporters, Tyler Schneider. Tyler’s first cover story, the day it was on stands. Schneids started with us a…
Cat F!ght. // Photo by Maura Dayton On August 24th, KJHK hosted a fundraiser show at Replay Lounge with the most stacked lineup of local Lawrence bands. The lineup included The Jackoffs, Cat F!ght, and Sarkatha. The Jackoffs kicked off the show and played a perfect blend of old and new material along with a Talking Heads cover. Cat F!ght…
Social media post of Pepper Cave stand previous at Overland Park Farmers Market. Pepper Cave, an Olathe-based pepper distributor, has been indefinitely suspended from the Overland Park Farmers Market following antisemitic and hate-filled rampage on social media over the last 48 hours. Pepper Cave owner Justin Bale’s last eight months of Facebook activity relating strictly to growing the business and…
The instant we heard ASPN’s brand-new single, “In This Dream,” we were hooked and rocking about the office like we’d had too much coffee (we’d also had too much coffee). The first track from their debut album of the same name sees ASPN “effortlessly blends the nostalgia of ’80s synth with the contemporary flair of modern indie-pop, resulting in a…
Fans line a barricade at the 2021 Roots N Blues music festival at Stephens Lake Park. Tickets for the 2022 festival are on sale on the festival’s website. // Cleo Norman/Missourian So you’re heading to the Evolution Festival this weekend in St. Louis, and you picked up a “music festival fanny pack” stuffed with pre-rolled joints, vapes, THC-infused mints, and…
Donald J. Trump, former president of the United States, accused of leading a scheme to undermine the 2020 election results, in his Fulton County, Georgia, mugshot taken Aug. 24, 2023. Donald J. Trump, former president of the United States, accused of leading a scheme to undermine the 2020 election results, in his Fulton County, Georgia, mugshot taken Aug. 24, 2023….
Chloe Elise of Deeper Than Money // Photo by Joelle Elizabeth Photography Girl dinner, meet girl finances. According to Chloe Elise of Deeper Than Money, girl finances include having a high-yield savings account, ditching shame, and building a holistic spending plan that aligns with your unique values. In the process of paying off $36k of debt at age 19, a…
Marion County Record reporter Phyllis Zorn and Sheriff Jeff Soyez stand outside the evidence room where an undersheriff signs over newspaper property to a forensic expert. (Sherman Smith/Kansas Reflector) TOPEKA — The Marion County Sheriff’s Office agreed Thursday to destroy digital files it copied from computers seized during the raid on the Marion County Record. Bernie Rhodes, an attorney for…
Joe Posnanski. // Courtesy photo One of the most celebrated sports columnists of our time, former Kansas City Star writer Joe Posnanski, will be making a stop in Kansas City on Friday, Sept. 8, as part of the signing tour for his new book, Why We Love Baseball: A History in 50 Moments. When this 363-page hardcover from Penguin imprint…
Sylvan Esso. // photo by Jack Howland Ahead of her electrifying 45-minute set at The Midland on Friday night, Indigo De Souza told The Pitch this tour opening for dancehall behemoths Sylvan Esso has made for an amusing combination. Her music is so dark—her first two albums, especially, were like embittered, head-banging cries into the void—it could be jarring for…
