Arts & Culture
Stories and videos about music, dance, visual and performing arts and film in the Kansas City metro.
How Kansas City Is | Grammy Awards
We’re asking the question: How “Kansas City” is… for all the good stuff going on in our world. Up today? The genre-mixing celebration of all things music, the 58th annual Grammy Awards. We’ll see a few Kansas Citians walk the red carpet at the Los Angeles Staples Center on Monday evening, and a few more hidden local gems throughout the show. Check out…
Back Into the ‘Underground’
During dress rehearsal Wednesday night, co-choreographer Tobin James of Storling Dance Theater’s “Underground” at the Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts struggled to speak. Sick, exhausted, her voice shot, she breathed deep as she watched the final rehearsal from a dark corner offstage. Twenty rows back in the sixteen hundred seat auditorium, co-choreographer Mona Enna…
The Weekend Starts Today
Ah, Valentine’s Day. For single people, it’s a festival of loneliness. For anyone in a relationship, it’s a Hallmark-hyped minefield of unreasonable expectations. The holiday is especially hard for men. The best any guy can do is put enough thought and money into the holiday to avoid getting in trouble. Then again, you may not…
Commentary | The Super Bowl is Better From Home
For years, I went to The Big Game. Whether it was in Dallas, New Orleans or New York City, wherever the NFL decided to hold their annual orgy of self-promotion, I was there. Not this year. Just like roughly 114 million other Americans, this Super Sunday will find me enjoying the game the way it’s meant to…
Sympathetic Vibrations | The Right Way Through Wrong Turns
Taryn Miller has enjoyed a speedy rise to national recognition in the last three years, due in large part to simply not overthinking things. And to hear her describe the sequence of events that led her from Winfield, Kansas to a major label release, you almost feel sorry for all the bands out there meticulously…