Arts & Culture
Stories and videos about music, dance, visual and performing arts and film in the Kansas City metro.
Crown: Clenched
NEW YORK (AP) — The Kansas City Royals won their first World Series crown since 1985, rallying in the ninth inning when Eric Hosmer scrambled home to tie it and then breaking away in the 12th to beat the New York Mets 7-2 in Game 5 Sunday night. The daring Royals capped their postseason full…
The Weekender | Halloween Edition
If you hate fun, this will be a terrible weekend. Kansas City is in rare form right now. The weather is crisp. The leaves are changing. And – oh, yeah – our favorite local baseball team is playing in some kind of postseason contest. World Series games 3, 4 and 5 (if necessary) are Friday, Saturday and Sunday night, respectively….
Letting art instill pride
When the school closed in 2011, Scarritt Elementary in the historic Northeast became a magnet for vandalism. With 76 boarded-up windows and 12 doorways, the vacant building takes up an entire city block. Facing an uphill battle against graffiti, Kansas City Public Schools turned to Héctor Casanova, an instructor in the Illustration Department at the Kansas City Art…
‘Baseball isn’t like this’
As a long-suffering Kansas City Royals fan, I was all-in, in 2014. The Royals’ playoff run was one of the most exciting stories in baseball in recent years. But, of course, the Royals fell 90 feet short of tying Game 7 of the World Series, and had to go home with just a pennant. I was…
Sympathetic Vibrations | A Well-Oiled Machine
The music business has stood on rather volatile ground for the past two decades. Piracy — and a momentous shift in the way people consume music — shook the foundations of what had become something of a predictable business model. The major labels are still reeling from the blows, largely spending the last 15 years…