Arts & Culture

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

Dancers on stage performing "The Nutcracker."

Weekend Possibilities | ‘The Nutcracker,’ Holiday Shopping and Jazz  

As the calendar flips to December, celebrate the season with the Sugar Plum Fairy in “The Nutcracker,” swinging jazz and, of course, holiday shopping.

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This home at 10th and Bales in Kansas City’s northeast now houses the Phap Hoa Buddhist Temple.

Buddhism: Religion, Philosophy or Way of Life?

Many spiritual seekers are drawn to Buddhism, whose followers debate whether its a religion, a philosophy or just a way of life.

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New hunter Antonette Coffee of Topeka posed with her guide, Mike Ellenwood, and the results of her first-ever hunting trip, an antelope buck.

New Hunter Learns to Thrive in the Wild

Growing up in Chicago, Antonette Coffee associated guns with violence. Then she learned to be a hunter. Now she eats what she kills, and gives thanks.

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Country Club Plaza holiday lights

Weekend Possibilities | Plaza Lights, Mariah Carey and Cats  

Just like that, the holiday season is here. Enjoy your turkey dinner and set the weekend itinerary around Thursday night’s Plaza Lighting Ceremony, Mariah Carey at T-Mobile Center, Black Friday Record Store Day and Sunday’s big Sporting KC match.  Thursday, Nov. 23  5 – 8 p.m. Get your Thanksgiving nap in and head to The 94th…

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Bobby J. Coleman in a scene from "Vengeful."

Art House | Vengeance is Yours in ‘Vengeful’

Chuck Browne grounds his movies in grim realities of life in America. In “Vengeful,” he takes on the topic of Black men accused of crimes they didn’t commit.

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