Arts & Culture

Families enjoying the afternoon on the museum's lawn.

The Biggest Picnic in KC, the Amelia Earhart Festival, & Other Weekend Possibilities

Kansas City’s Big Picnic is here.

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First-Annual KC Taco Fest, African Dream Cuisine & Other Weekend Possibilities

Kansas City’s first taco fest, brand-new West African family recipes, county fair classics and more highlight the second week of July’s weekend possibilities.

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the paddle wheel at the front of the arabia museum

Steamboat Arabia Seeks New Quay

curiousKC tapped David Hawley, founder of Steamboat Arabia to help answer a question about the museum’s future.

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juneteenth spoken word

The Importance of Juneteenth – Past and Present – As Told Through Spoken Word

A spoken word performance by JP Hayley on the importance of Juneteenth – past and present.

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Free hugs at Juneteenth

Kansas Citians Share What Juneteenth Means To Them

On Saturday, vendors transformed 18th Street in Kansas City, Missouri’s, historic Jazz District into a hub of black-owned businesses, doing business to the booming bass pumped out by a DJ spinning a mix of ‘70s funk and ‘90s R&B. The occasion was the city’s JuneteenthKC Heritage Festival, which commemorated Gen. Gordon Granger’s post-Civil War ride…

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