Pitch

The secret ingredient at KC restaurants: ink

• by Anthonia Akitunde and Forester Michael
• Tags: Feature, Editorial Feature, Cesar Reyes, Kansas City, The Television Food Network GP, Quillan Glynn

Seized: Inside the brutal world of America's kidnapping capital

• by Monica Alonzo
• Tags: Immigration, Phoenix (Arizona), Mexico, North America, Jaime Andrade

The Pitch Music Showcase roundup

• by Elke Mermis
• Tags: Music Showcase, Feature, Kansas City, Westport, Lawrence (New York), Lauren Krum

Tech N9ne

Tech N9ne Collabos: The Gates Mixed Plate
(Strange Music)

• by Kyle Koch
• Tags: The Beatbox, Columns, LeBron James, Tech N9ne, Bron Bron, Cleveland Cavaliers

We Are Scientists

• by Robert Bishop
• Tags: Critics' Choices, Show Preview, We Are Scientists, RecordBar

William Elliott Whitmore

• by Gavon Laessig
• Tags: Critics' Choices, Show Preview, William Elliott Whitmore, Ray Charles, Tom Waits, Iowa, The Bottleneck

Boris

• by Chance Dibben
• Tags: Critics' Choices, Show Preview, Sonic Youth, Asia, East Asia, Japan, The Granada

The Watson Twins

• by Elke Mermis
• Tags: Critics' Choices, Show Preview, Jenny Lewis, Leigh Watson, The Watson Twins, Laurel Canyon, Crosstown Station

Dishing a Platte City couple's delicious secret

• by Charles Ferruzza
• Tags: Restaurant Reviews, Dining Review, Martha Mary, DeDe Shields, Max Shields, Alaska, Shields Manor Bistro

Scott Pilgrim vs. the World

• by Robert Wilonsky
• Tags: Film, Film Review, Scott Pilgrim vs. The World, Edgar Wright, Michael Cera, Bryan Lee O'Malley

Countdown to Zero

• by Vadim Rizov
• Tags: Film, Film Review, Lucy Walker, Reykjavik, Mikhail Gorbachev, Valerie Plame

Eat Pray Love

• by Karina Longworth
• Tags: Film, Film Review, Texas, Robert Richardson, Academy Awards, Eat, Pray, Love

The Expendables

• by Nick Pinkerton
• Tags: Film, Film Review, Barney Ross, Sylvester Stallone, Dolph Lundgren, Jason Statham

Ky Anderson's deceptively simple paintings at the Dolphin

• by Chris Packham
• Tags: Art, Columns, Ky Anderson, Peregrine Honig, John Updike, Brooklyn (New York City), Dolphin Gallery

Cooler Than It Sounds

• Tags: Night & Day, Night & Day, Overland Park, Santa Fe, Crystal Wiebe, St. Mark's United Methodist Church

Save the Gulf

• by Pitch Staff
• Tags: Night & Day, Night & Day, Phil Shafer, Dan Padavic, Daniel Bartle, Matt Hawkins

What Would Hef Do?

• by Berry Anderson
• Tags: Night & Day, Night & Day, Mutual Musicians Foundation, Cole Bar, New York City, San Francisco

Spell It Out

• Tags: Night & Day, Night & Day, Kansas City, Valerie Versace, Hamburger Mary's International LLC

You're with the Band

• Tags: Night & Day, Night & Day, David Wayne Reed, Crystal Wiebe, Grammy Awards

Public Works

• Tags: Night & Day, Night & Day, Lawrence (New York), Murphy Hall, Prairie Village, Asbury United Methodist Church

New York State of Mind

• by Chris Rasmussen
• Tags: Night & Day, Night & Day, AL East, American League (MLB), Major League Baseball, New York Yankees

Smell the Flowers

• by Crystal K. Wiebe
• Tags: Night & Day, Night & Day, Overland Park, Crystal Wiebe, Lance Armstrong Foundation, University of Kansas Medical Center

Game Grub

• Tags: Night & Day, Night & Day, AL Central, American League (MLB), Kansas City Royals, Major League Baseball

set it in stone

• Tags: Night & Day, Night & Day, Israel, Jerusalem, Middle East, Sam Nachum

Troost Rooster

• Tags: Night & Day, Night & Day, Thomas Pynchon, Kansas City, David Paisius Altschul, Missouri

exercise in restriction

• Tags: Night & Day, Night & Day, Kansas City, Jack White, The White Stripes, Pablo Picasso

Flood Feature

• by Chris Packham
• Tags: Night & Day, Night & Day, Kimberly Rivers Roberts, New Orleans, Academy Awards, Hurricane Katrina

You Know You Want to Laugh

• Tags: Night & Day, Night & Day, Jay Leno, Bill Cosby, David Cross, Ed Parker

SIGHT, SOUND AND FURY

• Tags: Night & Day, Night & Day, David Lean, Stanley Kubrick, Brent Shepherd, Washington, DC

Kansas City's seldom-seen ethics commission is looking more and more like a broken institution

• by David Martin
• Tags: Martin, Columns, Lajuana Counts, Marsha Campbell, Kansas City, Dan Porrevecchio

Special comida edition: New Yorkers and coffee drinkers find their inner Mexican

• by Gustavo Arellano
• Tags: Ask a Mexican®, Columns, Robb Walsh, Texas, McDonald's Corporation, Chicago