Arts & Culture

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

Halloween pumpkin head oozing purple smoke.

Weekend Possibilities | Halloween Haunt, P!NK and Taylor Swift

Do the “Monster Mash.” It’s Halloween weekend. Treat yourself to a costume contest in the Crossroads, Howl-o-Ween at KC Wine Co. or a dose of dark blues in the West Bottoms.  Friday, Oct. 27  4 p.m. – 9 p.m. It’s Howl-o-Ween Weekend at the KC Wine Co. Vineyard & Winery, 13875 Gardner Road. Bring your…

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A graphite drawing that is part of artist Bruce McClain's "The Elder Leaf Collection."

KC Artist Finds Eternal Beauty in a Dead Leaf

Artist Bruce McClain strives to merge plants and people in an effort to evoke the elegiac process of aging and dying for all living things.

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East Crossroads Apartment Plan With Affordable Units Moving Forward

By Kevin Collison Design work has begun on a 190-unit apartment project in the East Crossroads that will include affordable housing and a fitness center open to the public. Developer Michael Collins has acquired the 1.2-acre site southeast of Truman Road and Holmes from the city and is anticipates beginning construction on his ‘Mohawk at…

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Isaac Tapia (right) and Rodrigo Alvarez are partners in ITRA, which has created more than 45 murals and other artworks in recent years.

We Are Latinos II | Partners in Art at ITRA

Isaac Tapia and Rodrigo Alvarez are partners in ITRA, which has created more than 45 murals and other artworks. Their story is part of “We Are Latinos II.”

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Filmmakers C.J. Janovy and Kevin Willmott discuss "No Place Like Home: The Struggle Against Hate in Kansas" with Art House host John McGrath.

Art House | ‘No Place Like Home’ Grapples With Hate

Our relationship with home is complicated. Just ask Kevin Willmott and C.J. Janovy, filmmakers behind “No Place Like Home: The Struggle Against Hate in Kansas.”

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