Brock Wilbur

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Brock Wilbur is a writer/comedian who is married to political journalist Vivian Kane and cohabitates with three terrible cats. He works in games, podcasts, and is Editor-in-Chief of Kansas City’s The Pitch. Buy his book “Postal” from Boss Fight Books wherever books are sold.

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Spinal Tap II: The End Continues is the rare legacy comedy sequel that is subtle, organic, and worth the wait

Reanimated Linkin Park brought a career-spanning remix circus to T-Mobile

Chris DeVille remixes 21st century indie rock’s rise with new book, upcoming KC Library event

David Mackenzie’s Relay adds a new face to the understated neo-spy scene

Guinevere Turner slashes through Screenland tonight for 25th anniversary of American Psycho

Letter from the Editor: True optimism’s co-conspirators walk into a bar

Letter from the Editor: On cleanliness, patriotism, and settling scores

Danny Boyle and Alex Garland return to U.K. rage for wildly ambitious 28 Years Later

What I wanted from this movie is not what the filmmakers wanted from this movie. Whether that's dead on arrival or a glorious playful mess is up to you.

Missouri governor activates National Guard for Kansas City, St. Louis in “proactive state of emergency” ahead of future anti-ICE demonstrations

"Unnecessary escalation from our nation’s capital and state capitals undermines local law enforcement and makes all less safe," Mayor Lucas said in a response statement.

Darren Canady’s for…girls murders ‘Death of the Author’ in cold blood

Letter from the Editor: Pride or die

Unicorn Theatre brings Shakespearian tragedy to a backyard BBQ in Fat Ham

Funko factory juggernaut Rick and Morty faces a ‘Ship of Theseus’ problem in season 8

Australian horror flick The Moogai uses Indigenous trauma to fuel a new boogeyman

"I just need to feel this way until I don't feel this way anymore."

Letter from the Editor: Caught in the undertow

In its only twist, Another Simple Favor asks absolutely nothing from you

Spinning Tree Theatre’s First Generation skewers American limitations on refugee narratives

Hypothesis Theatre Lab’s time-looper Exit 16 sees Jamie Lin Pratt rewinding more than just time

Whim’s 9th year of Alphabet Soup is another round of LGBTQ+ playwrights wrangling intimacy and immediacy

Kansas City FilmFest International announces 2025 winners from features, shorts, and homegrown cinema

Letter from the Editor: More Heisenberg, less Hindenburg

Unicorn Theatre’s fire work stages dystopian collision between Charles Schulz and child labor

Pulling from Mad Max, Oliver Twist, and Disco Elysium equally, you'd be remiss to not catch one of the final performances of "You're a Good Comrade, Charlie Brown!"

A24’s Death of a Unicorn stars Jenna Ortega in a fantasy that’s less Lisa Frank, more Jurassic Park

KCAT delivers dogmatic Doubt staged inside United Church of Christ

Clever and heartwarming, MTH’s musical Little Women allows Alcott’s prose to fly

KC Rep’s Broke-ology is a graduate course in chemistry, not finance

Late playwright Nathan Louis Jackson's KC-based play serves as staging ground for a stellar cast but falters in its own themes.

Loud Light Kansas Politics Recap: More anti-trans bills, the missing budget, and fake election conspiracies

Training A.I. to replace us takes centerstage in Unicorn’s world premiere of Doctor Moloch

Letter from the Editor: Touched starved on Mars

Loud Light Kansas Politics Recap: Kobach’s strange opinion, election bills, and ‘midnight rule’ abolished

In this tender French art film, the server shutdown of a multiplayer videogame sparks a criminal romance

Altered Innocence's Eat the Night has a limited screening this week at Screenland Armour.

Kansas City Film Critics Circle announce 59th James Loutzenhiser awards for cinematic excellence

KCFCC celebrated the best of 2024 including The Substance, I Saw the TV Glow, David Dastmalchian, and more.

Letter from the Editor: A simple plan

ChiefsAholic: A Wolf in Chief’s Clothing follows devastating addiction framed as football fandom

"Does America love bank robbers? Well, they love a good story."

Lyric Opera’s The Barber of Seville stages a pitch-perfect rendition of the genre’s touchstone

Letter from the Editor: Return the gift

The Unicorn offers up Ebenezer Scrooge’s Big KC MO Christmas Show as holiday hooliganism on your way to the bar

Billie Eilish escapes containment at T-Mobile with sick day scrappiness

’90s basic cable late-night thrillers get raunchy resurrection in Dream Team

Daisy Ridley’s mean little neo-noir Magpie forgets to give its characters any character