The Pitch lampoons the Mayor; brilliant! The Pitch fires Ferruzza; what the....?

The year-in-review issue of The Pitch is out and the cover is ... well, stunning. I'm not going to bogart TKC's photo since he was kind enough to post it online before the Pitch did ... go see it and read his writeup, too.

Unfortunately, there's bad news over at 17th and Walnut, too. Charles Ferruzza, the Pitch's best writer, has been shown the door along with Jen Chen, Chris Packham and Lorna Perry, according to BlogKC.

It could be worse -- the Pitch could be ceasing print publication entirely, like the Kansan next week. But no matter how you look at it, I'm not getting that tingly leaf-turning-over feeling I normally associate with Jan. 1. (I see Packham agrees.)