Gov't Mule at Uptown was messy in all the right ways Gov’t Mule. // photo by Allison Scavo Gov’t Mule with Larkin Poe Uptown Theater Tuesday, April 14 Jammy Southern rockers Gov’t Mule came out with “Bad Little Doggie” and immediately set the tone for a...

Gov’t Mule at Uptown was messy in all the right ways
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Panic Fest: Hokum is Irish filmmaker Damian McCarthy's latest 'must watch' nightmare Courtesy Panic Fest/NEON Panic Fest 2026 just wrapped up at Screenland Armour in KC. The yearly homegrown genre festival is a delightful cavalcade of feature films hitting theaters soon, and some with...

Panic Fest: Hokum is Irish filmmaker Damian McCarthy’s latest ‘must watch’ nightmare
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Panic Fest: Obsession ushers in a new powerhouse voice in horror Courtesy NEON Panic Fest 2026 just wrapped up at Screenland Armour in KC. The yearly homegrown genre festival is a delightful cavalcade of feature films hitting theaters soon, and some with releases f...

Panic Fest: Obsession ushers in a new powerhouse voice in horror
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Michael Jackson's sanitized, distorted biopic Michael exists in theaters this weekend. Steer clear. Courtesy Lionsgate At the screening I attended of Michael, the Jackson family/estate-produced, Antoine Fuqua-directed, first-of-perhaps-more-sequels(?) threatening Michael Jackson biopic, there were t...

Michael Jackson's sanitized, distorted biopic MICHAEL exists in theaters this weekend. Steer clear. www.thepitchkc.com/michael-jack...

Author Mary Roach brings Replaceable You to Liberty Hall on April 23 Mary Roach. // photo credit Jen Siska Mary Roach appears at Liberty Hall on Thursday, April 23, for the 2026 Ross and Marianna Beach Author talk, presented by the Lawrence Public Library, to discuss h...

Author Mary Roach brings Replaceable You to Liberty Hall on April 23
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ÈLU by Èlon previews new couture wedding dress collection ILLUMINÈ at The Bardot ÈLU by Èlon’s ILLUMINÈ collection // Photos by Alex Todd Èlon Kebede stands poised beside four wedding dresses she will debut on April 26 at The Bardot , aiming for each bride’s face to radiate with i...

ÈLU by Èlon previews new couture wedding dress collection ILLUMINÈ at The Bardot
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Chatime's new cilantro-based boba and flight series battle barriers in Overland Park Chatime’s Signature Flight, with brown sugar milk tea, peach green tea, and a mango refresher // Photo by Kylie Volavongsa Among the Kansas City metro’s sea of strip malls, there’s an ever-present qua...

Chatime’s new cilantro-based boba and flight series battle barriers in Overland Park
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One week from tonight, we'll be celebrating 10 years of Analog Sunday with a very special screening! And to mark the occasion, I sat down with @elijahlafollette.bsky.social and several Analog regulars to discuss how we got here, and what comes next over at @thepitch.bsky.social.

A Royals stadium ordinance just steamrolled through city government. The public has a few small critiques. The Missouri Workers Center brings an anti-stadium protest to the city council meeting // Photo by Kylie Volavongsa At the beginning of Kansas City’s April 26 city council meeting, Pastor David McDani...

"You want to give these billionaire clowns $600 million. Where's our bailout? Where's the working class bailout? Where's the urgency? It's a damn shame."
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Casita de lil Chingu: A reinvention of Chingu in a new neighborhood, service model KeeYoung Kim // 2023 photo by Zach Bauman The closure of Chingu in May of 2025 was a surprising hit to our city’s dining scene. Fans haven’t been completely without Chef KeeYoung Kim’s food, though. K...

Casita de lil Chingu: A reinvention of Chingu in a new neighborhood, service model
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Panic Fest: Dead Media is a loving ode to physical media, low-budget filmmaking and so much more Dead Media. // Courtesy Panic Fest Panic Fest 2026 just wrapped up at Screenland Armour in KC. The yearly homegrown genre festival is a delightful cavalcade of feature films hitting theaters soon, and...

Panic Fest: Dead Media is a loving ode to physical media, low-budget filmmaking and so much more
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The past teaches pure perseverance with debut of Spinning Tree Theatre's The Signer Photo by Brandon Parigo/Spinning Tree Theatre The Signer is a new play by Sarah Aptilon about intergenerational connection, brought to life by an intergenerational cast. It opened Friday and runs thro...

The past teaches pure perseverance with debut of Spinning Tree Theatre’s The Signer.
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we've got a few tickets tomorrow for the new michael jackson biopic, if you're in KC and want a pair click here: www.lionsgatescreenings.com/YekGV31188

Once you know that we're the only major city in America that doesn't control its own police department, a lot more things fall into place haha

A Royals stadium ordinance just steamrolled through city government. The public has a few small critiques. The Missouri Workers Center brings an anti-stadium protest to the city council meeting // Photo by Kylie Volavongsa At the beginning of Kansas City’s April 26 city council meeting, Pastor David McDani...

"You want to give these billionaire clowns $600 million. Where's our bailout? Where's the working class bailout? Where's the urgency? It's a damn shame."
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Casita de lil Chingu: A reinvention of Chingu in a new neighborhood, service model KeeYoung Kim // 2023 photo by Zach Bauman The closure of Chingu in May of 2025 was a surprising hit to our city’s dining scene. Fans haven’t been completely without Chef KeeYoung Kim’s food, though. K...

Casita de lil Chingu: A reinvention of Chingu in a new neighborhood, service model
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Dish & Drink KC: A Brunched discovery and Chef J's BBQ Dish & Drink KC logo by Theodore Rosen I finally made it out to Brunched, The Pitch’s annual boozy breakfast club thrown at The Guild on April 12, and I’m so happy I did. If you’ve never been, here’s ...

Dish & Drink KC: A Brunched discovery and Chef J’s BBQ
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Twen’s Fate Euphoric tour stop summons their riotous crowd to recordBar Twen. // photo by Alex Agueros Twen are fiercely independent. They run their own label, book their own shows, design their own visuals, and produce their own music. About eight years ago, the duo fash...

Twen’s Fate Euphoric tour stop summons their riotous crowd to recordBar
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Panic Fest: Dead Media is a loving ode to physical media, low-budget filmmaking and so much more Dead Media. // Courtesy Panic Fest Panic Fest 2026 just wrapped up at Screenland Armour in KC. The yearly homegrown genre festival is a delightful cavalcade of feature films hitting theaters soon, and...

Panic Fest: Dead Media is a loving ode to physical media, low-budget filmmaking and so much more
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Panic Fest: Find Your Friends is a joyless collage of better revenge movies Courtesy Panic Fest Panic Fest 2026 just wrapped up at Screenland Armour in KC. The yearly homegrown genre festival is a delightful cavalcade of feature films hitting theaters soon, and some with rele...

Panic Fest: Find Your Friends is a joyless collage of better revenge movies
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Rejoice! The concert lineup for the KC2026 FIFA World Cup Fan Fest is here Courtesy of Populous I’m thanking my lucky stars, this morning, that Jelly Roll won’t be coming to town. For context, his contribution to official 2026 FIFA World Cup soundtrack, “Lighter,” received a...

Rejoice! The concert lineup for the KC2026 FIFA World Cup Fan Fest is here
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Musician Patrick Hawn wants you to remix his debut EP to your heart's content Hawnest. // image courtesy the artist Musician Patrick Hawn’s debut release under the name Hawnest, the You Come Here Often? EP, is a fine example of “genre bending soundscapes inspired by early 2000s...

Musician Patrick Hawn wants you to remix his debut EP to your heart’s content
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Eggs, set, go: Travel the world through Kansas City’s deviled and dressed eggs Extra Virgin // Photo by Marley Kay Lowe What southern U.S. cookout staple can trace its origins back to ancient Rome? The humble yet beloved deviled egg. Now, deviled eggs are found at many family ga...

Eggs, set, go: Travel the world through Kansas City’s deviled and dressed eggs
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Twen’s Fate Euphoric tour stop summons their riotous crowd to recordBar Twen. // photo by Alex Agueros Twen are fiercely independent. They run their own label, book their own shows, design their own visuals, and produce their own music. About eight years ago, the duo fash...

Twen’s Fate Euphoric tour stop summons their riotous crowd to recordBar
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Guitarist Nili Brosh on earning a signature Ibanez and how to survive Dethklok Nili Brosh. // photo credit Christina Russo Nili Brosh’s Eventide is out now, and she appears as part of Dethklok when they play the Midland with Amon Amarth on Tuesday, April 21. Details on that show...

Guitarist Nili Brosh on earning a signature Ibanez and how to survive Dethklok
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Eat This Now: Reuben sandwich at Scimeca’s Deli Scimeca’s Deli Reuben // Photo by Alexander Omorodion As summer draws near and the pool covers are pulled back, one thing that will surely return to my meal rotation is a good sandwich and chips. I sh...

Eat This Now: Reuben sandwich at Scimeca’s Deli
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10 years of Magnetic Magic celebrated at the church of Analog Sunday Courtesy Elijah LaFollette Ten years ago, in the back-room theater of the now-defunct Tapcade on Kansas City’s McGee Street, a bunch of friends and strangers gathered to watch Super Dragon’s Dynamo (1...

10 years of Magnetic Magic celebrated at the church of Analog Sunday
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Photos: Royals beat Chicago White Sox 2-0 [April 11, 2026] Photo by Tarik Sykes Michael Wacha struck out seven while pitching four-hit ball through eight innings, Maikel Garcia homered and the Kansas City Royals beat the White Sox 2-0 on Saturday as Chicago’s...

Our photographer Tarik Sykes was there to capture the action:
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Photos: Teal Rising Cup doubleheader sees KC Current victory over Corinthians SC, SE Palmeiras topple Club América Photo by Tarik Sykes The Kansas City Current advanced to the championship match of the 2026 Teal Rising Cup, presented by Visit Missouri, with a 2-1 victory over Corinthians SC on Thursday night at CP...

Photos: Teal Rising Cup doubleheader sees KC Current victory over Corinthians SC, SE Palmeiras topple Club América
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Fleetwood cipher Stereophonic at Kauffman Center is a dizzying work of artistic collapse Photo by Julieta Cervantes “It’s a torture to need people,” Holly (Emilie Kouatchou) sighs in the fourth act of David Adjmi’s 1970s-set play Stereophonic. It’s not a cynical statement, but a weary one...

Fleetwood cipher Stereophonic at Kauffman Center is a dizzying work of artistic collapse
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