Archives: October 2024

Photos: Wild Rivers bring Never Better to The Truman

Wild Rivers. // photo by Tommy Vean Wild Rivers w/ Lily Meola The Truman Saturday, Sept. 28 Saturday night, Sept. 28, Canadian indie folkers Wild Rivers played The Truman ahead of the release of their new album, Better Now, due out Oct. 18. That record serves as a companion to their latest, Never Better, released this past July, and songs from…

Fantastic Fest 2024: Queens of Drama brings the tunes, the camp and the pathos

Fans of Gregg Araki and early Todd Haynes will find plenty to enjoy in Alexis Langlois’ musical satire.

Courtesy Fantastic Fest This is part of our coverage from Fantastic Fest 2024 in Austin, TX where genre films are debuting before they get wider release. Check out all of our coverage here.  Imagine if Kaboom-era Gregg Araki made Velvet Goldmine, but set in the early aughts and focused on pop divas. If that sounds like your jam, the brazenly queer…

Dish & Drink KC: Black Feast Week and flavor-packed aguachiles

Matties Food // Photo By Tiffany Watts Mattie’s Foods for Black Feast Week As Kansas City celebrates its first-ever inaugural KC Black Feast Week, hosted by The Kansas City Defender, there’s no better time to spotlight the city’s extraordinary Black culinary talent. From October 1st to October 14th, Black Feast Week highlights nearly every major Black-owned restaurant in Kansas City….

Recs with Merritt turns through some of hottest vinyl releases of October 2024, including Leon Bridges, Samara Joy, and more

Recs With Merritt. // Art by Cassondra Jones 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…

Ferocious feline felony body-horror flick Booger marks the revenge of childless cat ladies

If you like piña coladas and gettin' cat in your brain...

The cat is outta the bag on this year’s most slept-on indie horror flick. I’d apologize for the terrible pun, but I’m fairly certain its right in line with what the filmmakers set out to achieve here. Booger follows Anna (Grace Glowicki) from NYC, whose best friend and roommate Izzy unexpectedly shakes off this mortal coil. Anna’s attempts to regain…

Exclusive: A Kansas tale from Paul Koudounaris’ new book Faithful Unto Death

Private Scott and Laddie. // photo from the collection of Paul Koudounaris Out this week from Thames & Hudson, author Paul Koudounaris’ new book, Faithful Unto Death, tells the history of “Pet cemeteries, animal graves, and eternal devotion” with emotional heft and an eye for detail. From Mr. Winbridge’s burial of a dog named Cherry at London’s Hyde Park to…

Letter from the Editor: Diagrams and charts mending broken hearts

Art by Cassondra Jones Welcome, dearest readers, into the fold of the October 2024 issue of The Pitch—a product homegrown right here in KC. As you can tell from our cover story, homegrown is certainly a theme for this month’s issue. The narratives you’ll find us tackling in these pages all share a common thread of who in the metro…

Photos: M. Ward brought soothing soul (and Leslie Stevens) to The Madrid

M. Ward. // photo by Whitney Young M. Ward with Leslie Stevens The Madrid Tuesday, September 24 Last Tuesday, indie rocker M. Ward came to Madrid in support of last year’s Anti Records release, Supernatural Thing, with fellow singer-songwriter Leslie Stevens in tow. Our photographer, Whitney Young, was there to capture it all. M. Ward M. Ward setlist Never Had…

Hitchcockian thriller The Wasp turns a muder-for-hire thriller into a crooked extrapolation of how the body keeps score

The Wasp. // Courtesy Shout Factory The Wasp, out on VOD today, stars Naomie Harris (Moonlight) and Natalie Dormer (Game of Thrones) in a twisty, turny thriller that plays out better (and meaner) than an audience could expect. Director Guillem Morales takes a tale of crisscrossed plans for malice and delivers on a tight, tumultuous turnabout without fair play. The Wasp….