Arts & Culture
Work in Progress | Preview Our New Arts Series
Get inside the minds of four diverse Kansas City-based artists as we explore the inner-workings of their creative souls. Work in Progress celebrates the process of art — its creation and its creator — rather than the finished project. There are those who are driven by purpose and those who are driven by chaos, and…
Dive-In Movie & Other Weekend Possibilities
A new food truck season kicks off at Farm to Market Bread Co. (100 E. 20th St.) from 6 to 9 p.m. Friday. Flatland contributor Jill Silva hosts a gathering of trucks with Food Truck Friday in the bakery’s Crossroads parking lot. Magnolia’s on the Move, Cirque du Sucre, Beauty of the Bistro, Crave, and El Tenedor…
The Art of (Street Art)
Get lost* in our new photography series, “The Art of (KC)”, where we bring you beautiful, thought-provoking and compelling images of our city and surrounding areas every other week. Swipe through the slideshow for some creative street art. Then, get out your phone, your camera, your sketchbook — whatever — and let us see your…
Hello Atelier | Hunter, Gatherer, Storyteller
I discovered this week’s guest Jillian Youngbird and her work on Instagram. I was fascinated by the many different forms her art took – one day she would post a stunning piece of embroidery, another day it would be an image of a 7-foot bear sculpture. I like how her artistic style manifests itself across…
Sympathetic Vibrations | Counterpoint: Who Wants Boring Kids?
A week ago Ed Fugit, the best man at my wedding and my brother-from-another-mother, emailed me a link to an article chastising hipster parents who insist on bringing their kids to concerts. “Would read your take on this in Flatland…,” Fugit said of the story, written by Steven Hyden. OK, I’ll bite. We’ve all seen…