Arts & Culture

Three dogs sit on a deck at Bar K

Weekend Possibilities | KC’s Puppy Bowl, Valentine’s Date Spots, plus Star Wars and STOMP at the Kauffman Center

Live entertainment, a local music Mardi Gras Masquerade Ball and plenty of Valentine’s date options make this weekend a busy one in KC.

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Jesse James Jr., son of outlaw Jesse James, is second from left in the front row in this family picture taken at the family farm in the early 1900s.

Clay County’s Colorful History Left Some (Land)marks

In 2019 restoration crews began work on a 200-year-old Clay County cabin. They daubed the cabin’s interior walls and stabilized its foundation, inspecting and replacing deteriorated hand-hewn logs. On one of them they noticed a charred spot where flames once had left their signature in the wood. The scorch mark was not a total surprise. …

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Nelson-Atkins Museum, Lunar New Year Celebration in 2015.

Weekend Possibilities | Lunar New Year at Nelson-Atkins Museum, ‘Let Me Explain My Blackness’ Comedy Show, Valentine’s Pop-Up

Pounce into the Year of the Tiger with a Lunar New Year celebration at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art.

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Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes

The 10 (OK, 12) Most Significant Chiefs Games of All Time

Here is Flatland’s list of the most significant games in Kansas City Chiefs history. So what do you say, Chiefs Kingdom? Did we miss anything?

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Dave Eames is the founder and co-owner of Fossil Forge.

Signs of the Times, Past and Present

Fossil Forge sign shop has been a force in bringing back neon signs in Lee’s Summit and the rest of the Kansas City area.

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