Arts & Culture
Stories and videos about music, dance, visual and performing arts and film in the Kansas City metro.
Sympathetic Vibrations
I’ve been tasked by this venerable publication with writing about music every other week. And I will be using my precious few pixels here to keep you in the know about local and regional music, including reviews of shows, introductions to up-and-coming bands, and some interviews with the artists who are breathing new, much-needed life…
The Royals just won the Division. Where are you going to go?
Last year, first baseman Eric Hosmer made national headlines after the Royals won the wild card game. He threw a huge party at McFadden’s in the Kansas City Power & Light District, paying everyone’s tab after tweeting out an invite to fans. Now that the Royals are heading back to the playoffs after clinching their…
Weekending
Parking Live theater has an excitement that no other form of entertainment can match. We have a world-class company right here in KC with the Kansas City Repertory Theatre. What we don’t have – not yet, anyway – is a world-class theater facility to match. That, however, is about to change. Spencer Theatre, the KC…
Music | 7 questions with…
Every Tuesday at 6pm on The Bridge, local music writer and Middle of the Map Fest organizer Chris Haghirian and The Bridge’s Sarah Bradshaw shine a light on the people, music, and events in the 816 area code during “Eight One Sixty”. A regular feature, 7 Questions, gets to the heart of a musician’s passion, past, and… purchase history. This week, to kick-off the 7…
News you can use: Rap’s delightfully good week
Rap is having a good week. The Associated Press reports that today in 1979, the Sugarhill Gang released “Rapper’s Delight,” considered to be the first rap record. Honoring the first rap single to become a Top 40 hit on the Billboard Hot 100 means we can re-watch last Wednesday’s broadcast of The Tonight Show, where…