Arts & Culture

Stories and videos about music, dance, visual and performing arts and film in the Kansas City metro.

Weekend Possibilities | Royals Welcome Fans, Competitive Rocket League and Sporting KC’s Egg Scramble

By Clarence Dennis | April 1, 2021

Limited-capacity Royals games, concert livestreams and Easter eggs are in the cards for April’s opening weekend.

Rex Hudler making a call in the press box.

Opening Day Q&A: Royals Announcer Rex Hudler Gives Predictions, Players to Watch, June Bug-Barbecue Advice

By Clarence Dennis | April 1, 2021

Flatland caught up with “Hud” to talk about the 2021 Royals, a bit about his time as a big leaguer, what it takes to win over an audience ahead of Opening Day.

"Our goal as a coffee shop and our goal as Asian Americans is to have unity with Asian people here and people of other colors to unify everybody," said Cafe manager Madoka Koguchi. (Nicole Dolan | Flatland)

Kansas City’s Asian, Asian American and Pacific Islander Community Makes Itself Heard

By Nicole Dolan, Cody Boston | March 31, 2021

Kansas City’s vigil at Cafe Cà Phê to grieve the victims of the Atlanta shooting sought to create the intimacy and the reverence of an at-home vigil in a space large enough to fit the whole Asian American-Pacific Islander community.

A scene from "46 Years," a new film directed by Catherine Hoffman.

Art House Extra | A Grandfather’s Death, A Granddaughter’s Reckoning

By John G. McGrath | March 26, 2021

The new film “46 Years” delves deeply into frayed family dynamics and internecine conflict within the Nation of Islam, and how a granddaughter attempts to process those losses nearly a half-century later.

Jackie Nguyen, owner of Cafe Cà Phê, says she's taking a stand for the Asian American and Pacific Islander community in Kansas City. "If I plan to be part of this city, I want the city to feel like home. And if I can't live in a place and I can't feel like I'm at home, if the Asian community is being erased like that," said Jackie Nguyen, owner of Cafe Cà Phê. That's why she agreed to sponsor a vigil on Sunday. (Contributed photo)

Sunday’s ‘Stop Asian Hate KC’ Vigil Offers a Safe Space for Healing

By Vicky Diaz-Camacho | March 25, 2021

Jackie Nguyen, owner of Cafe Cà Phê, says she’s taking a stand for the Asian American and Pacific Islander community in Kansas City. The vigil she is sponsoring on Sunday is a way for the community to find support and healing.