Arts & Culture
Stories and videos about music, dance, visual and performing arts and film in the Kansas City metro.
Focus on ‘Spotlight’ Film Recalls Local Church Crisis
On Dec. 10, 2004, a few months before Robert W. Finn became bishop of the Catholic Diocese of Kansas City-St. Joseph, I interviewed him for The Kansas City Star about the challenges he might face when he replaced the much-loved Bishop Raymond Boland. Finn was coadjutor bishop at the time. Neither Finn nor I, of…
The Weekend Starts Today
Last week, the Chiefs won their first playoff game in, like, forever. This weekend, they’ll try to keep their playoff hopes alive against the mighty, Super Bowl champion New England Patriots. If you want to watch the game along with your fellow fanatics get down to Power & Light. Outside, under the canopy, the team…
A Field Guide to Sneaking Your Pet Into Arrowhead
A laundry list of restrictions await every football fan wanting entry into Arrowhead, but after an image of a man cuddled with an orange cat in his stadium seat went viral earlier this week we couldn’t help but wonder what other kinds of loving pets we can get into the home of the Chiefs. [FLEX-CONTENT]
The Weekender
EDITOR’S NOTE: This is the Weekender’s last hurrah on Thursday. Starting next week, we’ll be appearing on Wednesday afternoon — just to give you a little extra head start on making plans. You’re welcome. This weekend is all about football. The red hot Chiefs are going for their first playoff win since the Clinton administration began, and the city is…
Sympathetic Vibrations | RecordBar’s Last Song
Halfway through Making Movies’ farewell set at RecordBar on Saturday, lead singer/guitarist Enrique Chi quipped, “We’re trying to play long because we don’t want to leave this place.” Chi’s joke resonated with the sold-out crowd, and likely the larger Kansas City music community, that reluctantly bid farewell to the space that has housed an institution…