Arts & Culture
Sympathetic Vibrations | Run DMCA
Last week, more than 180 artists and record labels ran a petition in a number of Washington, D.C., publications aimed at convincing Congress to amend the Digital Millennium Copyright Act – a body of law that regulates copyrighted material on the Internet. The open letter petition suggests that the DMCA is outdated and allows tech…
The Weekend Starts Today
Sure, you can celebrate Independence Day the old fashioned way – by eating fried foods and blowing stuff up. As well you should. In addition to that, why not check out some of the great things happening around town. Flatland has the rundown on the best of KC culture, high and pop. Baseball, of course,…
FLOAT & other weekend possibilities
FLOAT is from 1 to 4 p.m. Saturday in KC Bier Co.’s biergarten (310 W. 79th St.). The summer festival, put on by Flatland and Recommended Daily, is an ode to the classic ice cream creation with a fun twist. We’ll be pairing The Sundry’s homemade sodas, Second Best Coffee’s nitro cold brew coffee and…
The Weekend Starts Today
This one’s tricky — it has to bridge a gap between the loose-limbed charm of Father’s Day and the balls-to-the-wall blowout known as the Fourth of July. Not to worry. There’s still plenty to do. It might start with a short road trip 40 miles west to Downtown Lawrence. There you can see what the…
The Power of Play
To make a paper doll you need paper, utensils used for drawing and/or coloring, an imagination, and illustrated clothing for the doll. Now, go back 150 years and make that paper doll black. To the previous list of materials, add a hidden agenda, hatred and cruelty toward a certain people, and a narrow definition of…