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Loud Light Kansas Politics Recap: Trans Kansan licenses, untrained ICE officers, and state budget

The Pitch has partnered with a local political awareness organization called Loud Light. Their goal is to engage and empower individuals from underrepresented populations to build community power. And ...
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Photos: Dejan Joveljic scores twice in Sporting KC’s 2-2 draw with Columbus

Photo by Tarik Sykes Sporting Kansas City rallied from a halftime deficit to earn a 2-2 draw on Saturday against Columbus ...
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Bad Omens and friends brought beauty and brutality to T-Mobile

Bad Omens. // photo by Jason Colvin Bad Omens with Beartooth and President T-Mobile Center Thursday, February 26 On Thursday, February 26, Bad Omens brought their Do You Feel Love tour to the T-Mobile ...
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Opinion: Damning paper trail reveals scope of Andrew Bailey’s anti-trans crusade in Missouri

Art by Teddy Rosen This opinion investigation draws on input from LGBTQ+ activists and trans and gender-expansive sensitivity ...
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Lilico’s Taverna offers a social atmosphere for snacks, sangria & sobremesa

Shawn McClenny of Lilico’s Taverna // Photo by Shawn McClenny has had quite the journey in the Kansas City hospitality scene.
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Desperately seeking spines at the Kansas Statehouse as lawmakers flee accountability

Tylosaurus, the state marine fossil, on display Feb. 24, 2026, at the Statehouse. (Photo by Sherman Smith/Kansas Reflector) Another day, another message conveyed via whisper or discreet note. Did you ...
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The World Oddities Expo: wonderfully weird and deletcably disturbing for local vendors

Large doll head by WOE “Weirdo,” an insult that gets thrown around like a frisbee on playgrounds and forums. Can people not ...
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Sniffing out the perfect pairing at Audrey’s Wine + Bourbon

Audrey’s Wine + Bourbon // Photo by For many people, the quarantines of the COVID pandemic brought about some interesting hobbies. Some of us got really into sourdough. Some of us indulged our green ...
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Pop is Black wraps up BHM with genre-blending concert in the Vine

Courtesy of Malek Azrael Local performer Tim Githumbi’s (or, DJ Skeme’s) music taste is all over the place—literally.  The son of a preacher, Githumbi grew up in Kenya listening mostly to Christian ...
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Single Sentence Singles from Stephonne, Shay Lyriq, Hello Biplane, and more

Photo by Travis Young We take a listen to the latest local singles to hit Soundcloud, Spotify, Bandcamp, et al, and sum them ...
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clipping. executes a viceral performance at the Warehouse

Open Mike Eagle and Cooling Prongs Feb. 21, 2026 Warehouse on Broadway Cooling Prongs The show started, as most concerts do, with a video of Ice-T smashing a MacBook with a hammer. This four-minute, ...
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Bill Hutson of clipping. admits their brand of unrelenting nightmare rap is a plot to destroy Daveed Diggs

You can’t put words on clipping. and it is a fool’s errand to try. The three-piece exists somewhere between wildly disparate spheres of influence. Early on, critics tried to lump them into the rarely ...