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.

Articles

Turnout to KC Restaurant Week could save some brick-and-mortars from shuttering

Zak Hilditch’s We Bury the Dead brings clever contributions to fourth wave zombie cinema

Hazing thriller The Plague is a deranged witch hunt set against teen water polo

KC Film Critics announce 60th James Loutzenhiser Awards for year’s best cinema

Big wins for Weapons, Sinners, and One Battle After Another.

KC film critics announce year-end nominations for 60th annual awards ceremony

Julia Jackman’s 100 Nights of Hero is fantasy romance like they don’t make ’em anymore

Digging deep in the record crate with DJ Thundercutz

Unicorn’s genre-bending Magic Valley Community Theatre’s Little Women is beguiling yet baffling

Go Indigo cultivates signature sound of ’00s revitalization with new AVEC AMOR EP

Cutting fat, coloring with sonic crayons, and playing in the sandbox of pop

Letter from the Editor: The best is yet to come

Unicorn’s The JonBenét Game dares to ask “What if true crime garbage is good, actually?”

Halloween 2025 film recommendations for a very bad, bad time

Suzanne Jones on Indigenous narratives ahead of storytelling event at the Mid-Continental Public Library

Comedy experiment “Judgement Day with ‘Mike’s Got This’ DiPasquale” delivers for standing room only Ship crowd

Indie animated feature Boys Go to Jupiter brings cozy game aesthetics to the big screen

KC Current’s Lo’eau LaBonta takes a celebratory lap on bringing home the NWSL shield

Supernatural thriller Good Boy does daring drama from a dog’s perspective

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