Arts & Culture
Stories and videos about music, dance, visual and performing arts and film in the Kansas City metro.
“Spotlight on the Spoken Word” Coming as Digital Series
We’re taking a moment to recognize Kansas City’s wordsmiths in a new weekly digital series, “Spotlight on the Spoken Word.” Taken from KCPT’s “Arts Upload,” which has amassed an impressive collection of local poets reading their own works, “Spotlight” gives us a chance to catch up with the artists. We find out what they’re up to and get their…
Kansas City and the Space-less Shuttle
In 1972, only 3 years removed from man’s first stroll on the moon, NASA set a new direction in space exploration. A reusable Low Earth Orbit Vehicle to be known as the Space Shuttle. A vehicle that could be launched like a rocket but land like an airplane. The “Orbiter Vehicle #101” was originally to be called…
The Weekender
This might be the last normal weekend of 2015. Soon, the holidays will be upon us. That means heavily-scheduled merriment and occasionally forced gaiety. While your schedule is still your own, and mercifully absent of Yuletide cheer, why not explore all the non-holiday stuff around town? CLEANING First, though, clean up. The holidays mean all…
Sympathetic Vibrations | Nice To Meet You
What were you doing when you were 16 years old? If you were like me, you were insecure, acne-ridden, and mostly consumed with keeping teachers and parents off your back long enough to make it to the weekend. You had no idea what you wanted to do with your life and you planned on kicking…
Negro Leagues Baseball Museum Celebrates 25 Years
At a fundraising gala Saturday night, home run king and baseball legend Hank Aaron was joined by fellow members of baseball’s Hall of Fame, slugger Dave Winfield, and pitching great Ferguson Jenkins, to celebrate 25 years of the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum in Kansas City, Missouri. Of his short time of the Negro Leagues, Aaron…