Archives: October 2024

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Politics

Opponents of Missouri Abortion Rights Amendment turn to anti-trans messaging and misinformation

Facing poll numbers showing support for a proposed amendment that would ensure reproductive rights in the state, abortion opponents have poured more than $1 million into a last-minute campaign to undermine support leading up to the election.
Jeremy Kohler, ProPublica,

Billboards undermining support for an abortion rights amendment and asking people to “vote no” have popped up around Missouri. // Photo illustration by ProPublica. Source image: Jeremy Kohler/ProPublica. The billboards have popped up along both Interstates 55 and 170 around St. Louis. They’re along I-70 between Columbia and St. Charles, in central Missouri. And there’s one across from a shopping…

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Politics

Kansas voters signal measured support of abortion rights ahead of fall election in new survey

A plurality of Kansas voters say it’s a good thing that the state is a regional abortion access point, according to a survey by the Midwest Newsroom and Emerson College Polling Center.
Rose Conlon,

Rose Conlon/Kansas News Service In the two years since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, tens of thousands of women have traveled to Kansas seeking abortions that have become banned in their home states, according to estimates by multiple research groups. Missouri and Oklahoma banned the procedure with few exceptions, as did nearby Texas, Arkansas and Louisiana. A…

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Politics

Statewide candidates in Missouri run cheap campaigns while ballot measures spend heavily

Just about $1.2 million has been spent since the primary by candidates seeking offices from governor to attorney general.
Rudi Keller,

Lt. Gov. Mike Kehoe, left, and state Rep. Crystal Quade, the Republican and Democratic candidates for Missouri governor. As ballot measure campaigns fill the airwaves with seven-figure ad wars alongside Missouri’s U.S. Senate race, the state seems about to experience the cheapest campaign in years for other statewide offices. On Tuesday, Lt. Gov. Mike Kehoe, the Republican nominee for governor,…

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Culture

The past, present, and future of cassette tapes from Maxell’s Kyle McCord

Nick Spacek,

Photo Courtesy of Maxell A recent New York Times article, Marc Hogan’s “As Cassettes Come Back, the Dilemma Is Finding a Tape Deck,” makes the point that, “If Spotify killed the iTunes star, and vinyl is increasingly a high-priced luxury item — never mind CDs for the moment — then cassettes could be the cockroaches that outlive them all.” Last…

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Music

Photos: Nilüfer Yanya brings more than method acting to the Bottleneck

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Nilüfer Yanya. // photo by Whitney Young Nilüfer Yanya with Angélica Garcia and Lutalo The Bottleneck Sunday, October 13 Touring in support of her new album, My Method Actor, released last month via Ninja Tune, singer-songwriter/guitarist Nilüfer Yanya made a stop at the Bottleneck Sunday night. Richmond singer-songwriter Angélica Garcia and indie rocker Lutalo, touring in support of their Gemelo…

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Culture

A Rare Medium: An ode to the late and highly-acclaimed spiritualist Steffany Barton

Michael Mackie,

Photo Courtesy of Steffany Barton Kansas City’s white light community—a tight-knit group of healers, energy practitioners, and intuitives—found themselves in mourning in late June when Steffany Barton passed away unexpectedly. Based in Leawood, Barton, 50, was a revered medium who had made a name for herself throughout the Midwest with hundreds of thousands of social media followers in her celestial…

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Politics

Kansas City Super Bowl rally shooting victims pick up pieces, but gun violence haunts their lives

“So I have a machete now.”
Peggy Lowe, Bram Sable-Smith,

Twenty-four minutes before the mass shooting at the Kansas City Chiefs Super Bowl parade in February, Jenipher Cabrera felt a bullet pierce her right thigh. She was heading to the parade and was only four blocks away at the time (Christopher Smith for KFF Health News) Twenty-four minutes before the mass shooting at the Kansas City Chiefs Super Bowl victory…

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Culture

Creature Feature: Meet good old Gloria

Scott Poore,

Photo Courtesy of Scott Poore Creature Feature is The Pitch’s weekly profile on a local animal looking for adoption. Shelters and support in Kansas City and the surrounding region are often pushed to the breaking point, so picking one future companion to highlight is how we want to put them on your radar. But there are far more than we…

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Music

At Midland gig, Underoath prove they’re still not chasing safety after 20 years on the grind

Emily Jacobs,

They’re Only Chasing Safety remains one of the most iconic post-hardcore albums of the 2000s from one of the most iconic post-hardcore bands, Underoath. Underoath’s sound has generally verged on metalcore with more unclean vocals—featuring more clean vocals from drummer Aaron Gillespie, They’re Only Chasing Safety has had the ability to attract a wider fanbase. For me, the album served…

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Music

Photos: Atmosphere at VooDoo Lounge with Reverie and NOFUN!

Allison Scavo,

Atmosphere. // photo by Allison Scavo Atmosphere with Reverie and NOFUN! VooDoo Lounge Saturday, October 12 Touring in support of last year’s Talk Talk EP, Minneapolis rappers Ant and Slug, better known as Atmosphere took to the stage at Harrah’s VooDoo Lounge on Saturday for a career-spanning set. Los Angeles-based rapper, singer, and songwriter Reverie — known for her raw…

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Music

Hembree and friends turned The Bottleneck into a Saturday night pizza party

Nick Spacek,

Hembree // Photo by Nick Spacek Hembree w/ The Creature Comforts and Flash Floods The Bottleneck Saturday, Oct. 12 Saturday’s night’s Hembree show was one for the books. On one hand, the band was playing sans Garrett Childers, but on the other, they ordered Pizza Shuttle from the stage during their show. That’s like, the wildest thing I’ve seen in…

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Culture

KC staple counterculture shop 7th Heaven set to close after 50 years

Lane Rozin,

7th Heaven, a record store located at 7621 Troost Avenue, is set to close after 50 years of serving the Kansas City community. // Photo by Lane Rozin After serving the Kansas City community for half a century, record store 7th Heaven has announced that it will be closing its doors by the end of the year.  On Sept. 30,…

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Music

Briston Maroney proves that he is worth keeping an eye on at Truman show last Wednesday

Zoe Strohm, Haley Mullenix,

Briston Maroney // Photo by Haley Mullenix Briston Maroney w/ Annie DiRusso The Truman Wednesday, Oct. 9 Briston Maroney played his first Kansas City show ever with Wednesday night’s stop of the Ultrapure Part 2 Tour at The Truman. The Knoxville alt-rocker showed us what we’ve been missing and left us craving more. Fellow Tennessee based rocker Annie DiRusso joined Maroney,…

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Culture

Newhouse KC is an ‘innovative, empathetic disrupter’ combatting local domestic violence

Shannon Carpenter,

Photo Courtesy of Newhouse KC’s Website The building that holds Newhouse KC—the area’s longest-serving domestic violence shelter—is ordinary. It’s brown, square, and melts into the background. Its nondescript features turn no heads. The building doesn’t even show up on Google Maps, so most of the public wouldn’t be able to find it. This is how you know that the people…

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Politics

Josh Hawley draws rebuke over use of private jets for Missouri Senate campaign

The first-term Republican’s campaign spent more than $132,000 on chartered flights between mid-December and June.
Jason Hancock,

U.S. Senator Josh Hawley speaks to reporters aat the governor’s ham breakfast at the Missouri State Fair in Sedalia on Aug. 15 (Annelise Hanshaw/Missouri Independent) One of Josh Hawley’s favorite lines of attack during his first run for U.S. Senate in 2018 was to lambaste his Democratic opponent for using a private jet to travel the state. “I say, ‘Look,…

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Culture

Four Inane Questions with The Boulet Brothers’ Dragula contestant Jaharia

Michael Mackie,

Photo Courtesy of Evening Star Photography When the new season of The Boulet Brothers’ Dragula was announced in September, the Kansas City drag community was shaken. Turns out, one of the creepy-kooky, spooky-kooky contestants hails from the metro. Introducing Jaharia, who’s been turning some ghoulish looks week after week as she battles for the title of World’s Next Drag Supermonster. The horror-themed drag…

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Art

Nelson-Atkins Museum unveils podcast Art Bytes to deep dive history, context, and conversation behind featured works

Lane Rozin,

Samantha Koslow chats alongside Kathleen Leighton, host of the podcast Art Bytes, in the fifth episode of the audio series. A new podcast, Art Bytes, has launched at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City. Art Bytes is a series geared towards listeners who are interested in art and want to learn more.  Hosted by Kathleen Leighton, Media Relations…

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Politics

Meet the disrupter who is about to become Missouri’s next lieutenant governor

Barbara Shelly,

Dave Wasinger (photo submitted) For more evidence of Missouri’s drift to the far side of MAGA madness, look no further than the race for lieutenant governor. In the primary election, Republican voters turned aside Lincoln Hough, the veteran senator and state budget expert. They rejected Holly Thompson Rehder, a state senator with a compelling biography and rock-solid conservative values. They…