KC Performs | Park ICM’s Kenny Broberg Plays a Nikolai Medtner “Fairy Tale”
KC Performs | Park ICM’s Kenny Broberg plays a Nikolai Medtner “Fairy Tale.”
In South Kansas City, Death of Newspapers is Greatly Exaggerated
The Martin City Telegraph is an anomaly in the newspaper business – startup print publication that is growing.
KC Performs | Big Musicals in Small Spaces
In our latest, Musical Theater Heritage produces a dazzling version of “This Nearly Was Mine,” from “South Pacific.”
St. Joe Brewer Opening Pub in River Market
By Kevin Collison River Bluff Brewing, a St. Joseph microbrewery, is opening a location in the River Market in the historic City Water Department building this spring at 201 Second St. “Kansas City has such a great beer scene,” said Chris Lanman, founder of River Bluff. “There are so many great brewers and we always…
Tap List | Beers for the Special People in Your Life During the Holidays
Have you ever wondered what local beers you should get for your beer-loving family and friends during the Holidays? Well, we have some that Cassie reviews and gives you an idea of who would be the perfect person in your life to give that beer to, who knows, maybe it’s you? These aren’t all Holiday…
curiousKC | Parkville Reckons With Its Storied Past
In 1956, Pearl Spencer was one of the first Black students to enroll in Parkville’s newly integrated high school. Spencer and her siblings still vividly remember their experiences growing up Black in Parkville – the good, the bad and the ugly. A reader asked curiousKC to look into who lives in what was once the…
Covid Forces Developers to Shift Historic Scarritt, Uptown Plans
By Kevin Collison Covid has forced two developers to check out of their hotel proposals and pivot to welcoming apartment residents instead. The developer of the Scarritt office tower at 818 Grand and its adjoining Arcade now plans to redevelop the historic buildings as a 126-unit apartment project that would include a first level grocery…
KC Performs | Choreographing Transition From Stage to Film
Independent choreographer Helen Pickett collaborated with the Kansas City Ballet to create a dance film for “KC Performs.”
Nick’s Picks | Rescheduling Vaccines, Stimulus Check Update
Here’s what you need to know this Christmas week.
Stories of 2020 | Think J.C. Nichols Was Racist? Meet Kroh Brothers
Flatland is counting down our top 10 stories of the year on weekdays between Dec. 21, 2020 and Jan. 1, 2021.
Fresh Karma Going Big on Midtown Marijuana Dispensary
By Kevin Collison A long-neglected property at 240 E. Linwood across from Costco and Home Depot is slated to be the home of one of the city’s larger medical marijuana dispensaries. Construction is underway for a 5,500 square-foot dispensary operated by Fresh Karma. It’s one of three dispensaries the firm is planning. The others are…
Art House Extra | How ‘Queer Eye’ Came to KC
Kansas City Film Commissioner Steph Scupham shares the inside story about how the producers of “Queer Eye” chose Kansas City as a locale, and how the city opened its arms to greet them.
Surviving Today: Landlords and Tenants Square Off as Eviction Moratorium Expires
Evictions continue despite a pandemic and despite a moratorium. Here’s what it’s like.
St. Louis Developer Pursuing 228-Unit Apartment Project in Crossroads
By Kevin Collison A St. Louis developer with deep urban chops has picked up the quest to build an apartment project on the site of the vacant Faultless Linen building at 1923 Broadway in the Crossroads. Lux Living is pursuing a $50 million, 228-unit development at the northeast corner of 20th street and Broadway, the…
KC Performs | A Sneak Peek at KC Rep’s ‘A Christmas Carol’
Here’s a sneak peek at the Kansas City Repertory Theatre’s reimagined “A Christmas Carol,” which will air on Kansas City PBS at 7 p.m. on Dec. 17, 2020,