The Pitch (Kansas City)

5 days ago | thepitchkc.com | Abby Olcese

Andrew Ahn's The Wedding Banquet is about two gay couples (one pair female, the other male) who enter into a messy straight-presenting marriage arrangement to please the strict, traditional grandparents of one of their group. In most versions of this story - and indeed the 1993 Ang Lee movie of the same name on which Ahn's film is based - keeping the charade going would make up most of the movie, with everything falling apart at the end of the second act, followed by hard-won reconciliation.

1 week ago | thepitchkc.com | Joe Ellett

On April 14, the Department of Health and Senior Services (DHSS) Division of Cannabis Regulation (DCR) announced that they've revoked 25 of the 32 licenses that were under notice of pending revocation from the second round of the Missouri microbusiness license lottery. One of the 25 revoked licenses is connected to MO Microbusiness Partner David Brodsky, who has an agreement with Ceiran Dillard, a microbusiness license second-round dispensary winner in Congressional District 3.

1 week ago | thepitchkc.com | Michael Mackie

LaVon Colhour is-for lack of a better term-a philanthropic mover and shaker. Since 2009, she's been a touchstone at the Greater Kansas City Community Foundation  and Greater Horizons. As the organization's vice president of community engagement, Colhour leads a team that works with over two hundred national corporations to build each company's unique giving program. For Colhour, she's well aware of the importance of giving back.

1 week ago | thepitchkc.com | Beth Lipoff

It began as a search for a sustainable solution to provide healthy food to those in need. Now, 12 years after The Giving Grove's first planting, more than 250 urban orchards dot the metro area. Even more are growing in other cities across the country via programs that have found their roots with a little help from The Giving Grove. Each orchard has volunteer stewards from the community who oversee and maintain it. Many of the orchards used to be vacant lots.

1 week ago | thepitchkc.com | Nick Spacek

Poison the Wellwith Better Lovers, Teenage Wrist, and Missouri Executive Order 44Liberty HallSunday, April 13Touring in celebration of their 1999 album, The Opposite of December, hardcore vets Poison the Well took to the stage of Liberty Hall to run through the album (although not in order), along with some longtime favorites.