Arts & Culture
Stories and videos about music, dance, visual and performing arts and film in the Kansas City metro.
Helzberg Has No Plans to Walk Away From Landmark, Despite Webster House Closing
Despite closing the Webster House, the Helzberg family will retain ownership of the building and is considering options for after the COVID-19 stay-at-home order is lifted.
A Flatland Flight of Fancy for 420 Day
Some may be celebrating an unofficial holiday right about now. So Flatland has decided to take some fictionalized creative liberties to mark 420 Day.
Proposed Freight House District Apartment Project Backtracks Size
(Updated May 7: The developer of the planned Tracks 215 apartment deal lost his national partner this week but did obtain local tax incentives in his quest to build the $52.4 million project in the Freight House District. Vince Bryant of 3-D development told the Planned Industrial Expansion Authority board today that Greystar, a major…
Art House Extra: John McGrath Recommends ‘McCabe and Mrs. Miller’
Flatland producer John McGrath recommends “McCabe and Mrs. Miller,” an idiosyncratic Western directed by Kansas City native Robert Altman.
Primetime for Puzzles? A Global Pandemic
Forget toilet paper, the world is running low on jigsaw puzzles. In a recent interview with NPR, Carol Glazer, president of Massachusetts puzzle and family game company Ceaco, shared details about the company’s spike in sales that she never saw coming. “Around the second week of March, we noticed sales at one of our largest…