Arts & Culture

Jarvis Jones (center) watches a rap battle

Sympathetic Vibrations | Voice of a Forgotten Art

If you turn on commercial radio or check the pop Billboard charts, you’ll see any number of performers who represent themselves as hip-hop artists. But many of them offer only a carefully-crafted street image and a few stanzas mumbled over (usually poorly produced) beats. If you look a bit closer, you may find that the…

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The Waffle Iron pop-up

Pop-Up Waffles & Other Weekend Possibilities

Channel your inner Eleven this weekend and eat…all…the…waffles. Hammerhand Coffee (22 North Main St., Liberty, Missouri) is hosting a Pop-Up Waffle Shop with The Waffle Iron from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday and Sunday. We’re talking sweet and savory options. The Ainsworth (11653 Ash St., Leawood, Kansas) opens today in the Park Place development….

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Hello Atelier | A Sunny Outlook

Seth Smith is a landlocked Midwesterner. The only sea surrounding him is a majestic ocean of gently waving green fields. But that is just where he is physically. Mentally, he has time-traveled back 50 years, to a rosy-colored mid-century hotel with a deep turquoise pool. That is the magic of his paintings – they aren’t…

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Nashville Eats & Other Weekend Possibilities

If you don’t want to root for the Tennessee Titans, the first round opponent of the Kansas City Chiefs, that’s completely understandable. But that doesn’t mean you have to shun the foods of Nashville. We’ve got plenty of the top Nashville hits right here in KC. You can check out a meat and three concept…

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the gallery hosted a trunk show on Nov. 30

How Do Real Estate and Art Overlap?

Despite the popularity of Kansas City’s gallery-saturated Crossroads Arts District and its First Fridays mania, the cultural hub retains some of its image as a starving artists colony. Kim Weinberger, owner of Weinberger Fine Art, is challenging that perception with a business model that is decidedly unromantic, though what came before has the underpinnings of…

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