Brock Wilbur
Articles
Letter from the Editor: Paint you in silver, wrap you in cold
It’s a Wonderful Knife is queer as hell Christmas horror packed with cleavers and clever twists
Interfaith vigil calling for Gaza ceasefire set for Thursday afternoon at Mill Creek Park
KU’s production of Milking Christmas goes full-tilt merry for anti-capitalist holiday musical
U.S. Rep. Emanuel Cleaver II shifts position to join call for Israel-Gaza “ceasefire”
Not Just A Phase Fest brings Yellowcard, Bayside, 30H!3, Hoobastank, Secondhand Serenade, and Emery to Legends in 2024
The reason is you, apparently.
THUNDERGONG! 2023 raises nearly $900k for Steps of Faith foundation via beard trimming and Tom Petty covers
Billy Brimblecom and Jason Sudeikis' 7th staging of the annual fundraiser reaps big rewards for charity.
We Are Blood takes Missouri family drama and salts the earth with its stains
The Head and the Heart invite audiences to share in their collective sober vibes on current tour
The band rocks Liberty Hall on Nov. 13 with support from Yoke Lore (and Hop Water.)
Vinyl Renaissance & Audio in Overland Park to close at year’s end
Tech N9ne will flip the switch for the Plaza lights this Christmas
Letter from the Editor: High Scores Ahead with The Pitch’s Best of Kansas City 2023
Five Nights at Freddy’s skips scares for melodrama and slowly sucks the power from a punchy property
David Slade’s Dark Harvest is a trick-or-treat Hunger Games with a pumpkinman full of candy and bloodlust
The long shelved slasher flick unceremoniously drops in time for Halloween, and it got *this close* to being A Thing.
Shudder’s V/H/S/85 tackles Satanic Panic, VR, and TV news in its strongest installment yet
The Mars Volta’s first KC show in 14 years goes full barnburner at Uptown
KC Current trounce Chicago Red Stars in final home match at Children’s Mercy
Demián Rugna’s When Evil Lurks is the splatterhouse possession nightmare by which all others will be judged
Rugna is an Argentine angel of death and When Evil Lurks is cinema dripping with delightful poison.
311 closes out the Grinders concert year in style with sold out evening of greatest hits in an amber haze
With support from Blame My Youth and AWOLNATION.
Letter from the Editor: Our special place and the joy of human weakness
Netflix’s Fair Play over-delivers in its throwback to ’90s erotic thrillers
311’s S.A. Martinez talks 30 years of Omaha adventures, rock cruises, and the glory of Turnstile ahead of Oct. 1 Grinders KC gig
Mister Organ is David Farrier’s latest rabbit hole fever dream and a journalist’s best nightmare
The documentarian behind Tickled returns with another story that should have been quirky but instead ends up quantum.
James Chen of The Walking Dead on starring in KCRep’s Cyrano de Bergerac and his first KC burnt ends
"It hammers home what an outlier of a character he is across the spectrum and shows the audience how fast and dangerous his mind can be."
Janelle Monáe’s blistering musical boot camp topples the Midland
The Age of Pleasure returns to KC, with support from Jidenna, Nana Kwabena, and Flyana Boss.
Jason Klamm’s We’re Not Worthy charts an oral history of ’90s TV sketch comedy from the biggest names in the biz
Letter from the Editor: A Fever You Can’t Sweat Out
A welcome to the latest print issue and a First Fridays photo spread.
Bit Brigade speedrun DuckTales & Zelda in speed-metal form at recordBar
Some Personal News: An adios to Pitch longtime reporter Tyler Schneider
Queens of the Stone Age’s Michael Shuman talks about catastrophic art ahead of KC show
"For some reason, all of our records are really hard to make? I'm not sure why. Some catastrophic thing is happening in our lives and we need the album process to sort it out."
Jagged Little Pill skewers suburbia with a one-two punch of Diablo Cody dialogue and Alanis Morissette hits
Letter from the Editor: Dead trees and the dirty ground
Radiohead side-project The Smile brought space station jazz to Midland
The new Barbie movie through the eyes of Sarah Davis, local Barbie historian
This Barbie is watching it all come together.
Jury Duty is a transcendent docu-sitcom that gives us The Office by way of Nathan Fielder
An interview with cast member Ross Kimball—sorry, EMMY NOMINEE Ross Kimball.
Sparks was the other eras-based time-hop bop in KC over the weekend
While Arrowhead was packed to the brim with Taylor Swift fans, eccentric electronic duo Sparks raided the Midland.
Letter from the Editor: Down with the Sickness
Mockumentary Maximum Truth lets Ike Barinholtz pull Jacob Wohl over your eyes
For the terminally online, the new comedy is a chance to relive the dumbest of Trump-era grifters.
