A statue representing justice stands at the Kansas Judicial Center, where the Kansas Supreme Court is located, on Feb. 4, 2022. (Sherman Smith/Kansas Reflector) It has been just more than a month since a “security incident” shut down online operations for most of the state’s courts. On Oct. 12, the Kansas Judicial Branch announced in a news release that clerks…
Maria Elena Silva during the “Eros” sessions at BIG EGO. // photo by Devin O’Brien. When producer Chris Schlarb asked Maria Elena Silva which guitarists she might want to work with for her new record, the singer/songwriter had one name ready: Marc Ribot. Silva, whose work mixes elements of folk, jazz and rock, had long admired the similarly eclectic and…
Indie-folk outfit The Head and the Heart are out on the road, rapping up a long year of touring which featured a co-headlining tour with Father John Misty, and a stop in our area both earlier in 2023 and again later this week in Lawrence, with a sold out show at Liberty Hall. The Head and the Heart have kept…
CPKC Stadium. // Photo by Zach Bauman This month, we published The Pitch’s annual Best of Kansas City issue. You can browse the results of the readers’ poll here. The issue also included a list, compiled and written by our editorial staff, of some of our current favorite things about Kansas City in 2023. We’ll be publishing these items online throughout November. …
Records with Merritt is Marion Merritt’s vinyl store in Westport with partner Ann Stewart. As a staple in our community for nearly a decade, we’ve partnered with Merritt for a monthly column, where the tastemaker shares her picks for the best wax releases to look forward to grabbing, divided by release date. Here’s Marion Merritt’s rundown of the most exciting offerings for…
Adventure Is Nigh Group Photo. // Courtesy Second Wind Second Wind is a new worker-owned video-focused organization built—and operated—entirely by the former video staff at entertainment publication The Escapist. For a team of international creators, Kansas City serves as a launching pad for their next act. On the surface, Second Wind’s mission is to produce gaming, movie, and TV content…
Courtesy Jacqueline Crain Content warning: This piece features the subject matter of depression and suicide. Recently, The Culture House put on The Care and Feeding of Baby Birds, a one-act, one-woman play starring London-based, American actress, Jacqueline Crain. The plot of the piece centers around Connie, a down-on-her-luck poet who is quite literally taking care of baby birds. Connie is contemplating suicide,…
Photo by Pilsen Photo Co-op This month, we published The Pitch’s annual Best of Kansas City issue. You can browse the results of the readers’ poll here. The issue also included a list, compiled and written by our editorial staff, of some of our current favorite things about Kansas City in 2023. We’ll be publishing these items online throughout November. Missouri took…
Courtesy photo If Michelle Davidson had her way, Missouri would be an even bigger mecca for filmmaking than it already is. As the recent president of Film In MO, Davidson helped successfully advocate for the reinstatement of the Missouri film incentive to attract film and television series to the Show Me state. In 2022, she helped form Inclusivity Media, a…
Joe Bonamassa. // photo by Mike Dotson Joe Bonamassa The Midland Friday, November 10 Touring in support of his 16th solo album, Blues Deluxe Vol. 2, released just last month, blues rocker Joe Bonamassa took to the stage of the Midland to play a blistering set which showed off his guitar skills. Our photographer, Mike Dotson, was there to capture…
Slaughter Beach, Dog. // photo by Nick Spacek Slaughter Beach, Dog with Bonny Doon The Granada Thursday, November 9 Philadelphia indie rockers Slaughter Beach, Dog took to the stage at the Granada in Lawrence on Thursday night on tour in support of this year’s Crying, Laughing, Waving, Smiling. Detroit indie folk duo Bonny Doon opened. All photos by Nick Spacek….
Ready for a line change. // Photo by Erin Woodiel This month, we published The Pitch’s annual Best of Kansas City issue. You can browse the results of the readers’ poll here. The issue also included a list, compiled and written by our editorial staff, of some of our current favorite things about Kansas City in 2023. We’ll be publishing these items…
America Mobilizes // Photo by Zoe Strohm The WWI Museum and Memorial unveiled new additions to the main gallery on Nov. 7 ahead of Veterans Day. This phase of construction follows the recent renovation to the lower level that opened in May, featuring the Berman Family Gallery and Open Storage Center, and precedes additional upgrades to the Main Gallery that…
Vinyl Renaissance & Audio begins the long process of winding down. // Photo by Brock Wilbur Vinyl Renaissance & Audio is set to close on New Year’s Eve of this year, after decades of presence across the metro serving as a hub for music lovers and the greater scene. Dan & Eva Phillips started selling records out of a Johnson…
Transparent Brewing Company’s Expansion Building in Progress. // Photo by Joe Ellett Creative juices and entrepreneurial expertise run deep within the Brown family. In 2015, Mark Brown, retired CEO of Burger and Brown Engineering, nudged his wife Michelle and son Nolan to put their hustler hats on when word spread that Grandview was looking to land a microbrewery. The idea…
Residents along the south edge of Kansas City have organized to block a proposed landfill that they say could erode their property values and threaten their health. (Chase Castor / The Beacon) Subdivisions, restaurants and retail shops pop up around Lee’s Summit and Raymore amid rising property values as single-family homes spread across what was farmland just a few years…
Courtesy Emma Jo In our series No Skips, we sit down with an artist or band and go track by track through their latest release. For some of us, the banter in a concert where a song gets explained is our favorite thing in the world, and we’d just like to keep living in that. Every song has a story, and…
Rod Jetton during his tenure as Missouri House speaker (Tim Bommel/Missouri House Communications). Missouri House Speaker Dean Plocher’s new chief of staff is a former legislative leader whose political career was upended more than a decade ago by a federal bribery investigation and allegations of violent sexual assault. On Thursday, Plocher announced to a closed-door Republican caucus that Rod Jetton…
Courtesy photo We love us some Manor Records here at The Pitch, so we’re exceptionally excited to be premiering the latest single the label’s releasing. From KCK hip-hop artist Scabb comes “Nice & Young.” The cut features Scabb’s brother The new track features Scabb’s brother, Quincy Bones, on vocals and is a stand-alone single off of an upcoming album called…
Nostalgia Room owner Emily Kate Johnson. // Photo by Zach Bauman This month, we published The Pitch’s annual Best of Kansas City issue. You can browse the results of the readers’ poll here. The issue also included a list, compiled and written by our editorial staff, of some of our current favorite things about Kansas City in 2023. We’ll be publishing these…
The Roseline. // Photo by Fally Afani “Aloneness” is the lead single off The Roseline’s forthcoming album, Keystone of the Heart, which drops February 2 of next year. Featuring the lineup of Colin Halliburton on lead vocals and acoustic guitar, Bradley McKellip on electric guitar, Colin Jones on bass, Jim Piller on drums, and Heidi Gluck on keys and background…
Fresh off a busy year, including the release of his new album BLISS, a recent tour with the rap-rock group Hollywood Undead, and a special performance at the Chiefs Super Bowl LVII victory parade, Tech N9ne will perform the honored tradition of flipping the switch at this year’s Evergy Plaza Lighting Ceremony. Via a tweet this morning, N9ne announced: “So…
Courtesy image This month, we published The Pitch’s annual Best of Kansas City issue. You can browse the results of the readers’ poll here. The issue also included a list, compiled and written by our editorial staff, of some of our current favorite things about Kansas City in 2023. We’ll be publishing these items online throughout November. In February, thanks to a…
Courtesy of Kansas City Public Library The Kansas City Public Library and Strawberry Week have teamed up once again. Throughout the month of November, all library locations are accepting boxes of liners, pads, tampons, and menstrual cups, as well as individual items in their wrappers, in designated bins for Flowvember. Flowvember is a yearly campaign to raise awareness about the…
