Photo Courtesy of Kim Kramer There’s plenty of girl power inside the walls of Square Peg Marketing & Branding. In fact, CEO and Owner Kim Kramer wouldn’t want it any other way at her agency. “My all-female team is a powerhouse of talent,” she says. “We deliver killer branding, digital marketing, and design solutions that actually move the needle.” Kramer says her specialty is helping…
Courtesy Hallmark It’s finally here! Holiday Touchdown: A Chiefs Love Story, the long-awaited Chiefs-centric, regionally-shot Hallmark Christmas movie, premiered November 30. In the interest of letting you all draw your own conclusions about this deeply silly bit of holiday entertainment, we decided to wait until after it aired to run our thoughts. So, now that we’ve seen it, what do…
Welcome, dearest reader. This is the December 2024 print issue of The Pitch, dispatched regularly from your home hub here in KC. Due to time constraints for the turnaround on getting these issues through the printing press, today’s ‘Letter from the Editor’ has been typed up too close to the election to possibly unpack all the important, bizarre, and confounding…
Photo Courtesy of KC Pet Project Earlier this month, we published The Pitch’s annual Best of Kansas City issue. You can take a peek at the results of the readers’ poll here. The issue also included a list, compiled and written by our editorial staff, of some local people, places, and things that we thought clearly won 2024. We’ll be…
Kansas City Mavericks versus Tulsa Oilers on Nov. 30, 2024. // Photo by Eli Ralls On Saturday, Nov. 30, the Kansas Mavericks took a disappointing 4-2 home loss to the Tulsa Oilers, despite having 13 more shots on net. The Oilers got going early with a goal about ten minutes into the first period, and KC answered back with their…
Kansas and Missouri lawmakers could consider voluntary do-not-sell lists for guns. Credit: Scott Canon / The Beacon Donna Nathan loved two-stepping and The Beatles. The radio was always on at her house. That love of music easily translated to dancing in parades. Nathan and her daughter, Katrina Brees, even worked together at a studio making sculptures for Mardi Gras parades….
Dr. Betsy Wickstrom, a high-risk obstetrician who works in the Kansas City metro, is a lifelong Republican who was outspoken in her support for Missouri’s Amendment 3, which lifted the state’s near-total abortion ban (Anna Spoerre/Missouri Independent) Dr. Betsy Wickstrom understands where some of the voices opposed to abortion are coming from. She used to be one of them. The…
Tom Mardikes // Photo by Ellen Beshuk Earlier this month, we published The Pitch’s annual Best of Kansas City issue. You can take a peek at the results of the readers’ poll here. The issue also included a list, compiled and written by our editorial staff, of some local people, places, and things that we thought clearly won 2024. We’ll…
Photo by Don Ipock Kansas City does not lack for annual holiday traditions. It can probably be said double so for the theater community, where each season brings with it a handful of recurring shows that are consistently excellent. The thing of it is, there’s apparently always space for more. Productions like Milking Christmas and Electric Poe have carved out their high…
Photo by Lane Rozin Three years ago, Regan Virnoche moved to Lawrence with a dream to create and share music with others. Before the end of her freshman year, Virnoche and a few new instrumentalist friends had formed Lavender Bride. Lavender Bride, also known as “LB,” is an indie-pop group that fuses elements of jazz and alternative music into their…
