Arts & Culture
Stories and videos about music, dance, visual and performing arts and film in the Kansas City metro.
A City of Pop-Ups
If Joe West was ever going to have his own restaurant, he knew he had to get out of the kitchen. The chef, formerly of Bluestem and 801 Fish, has spent the past several months cooking his way across the city in a series of pop-up dinners that he hopes leads to a more permanent…
Bringing Jazz Back to the Heartland
Daniel and Ebony Edwards have a dream; to ignite a passion for jazz and community right here in Kansas City. The couple are reimagining a future for the abandoned Public Works Building, located at 20th and Vine streets near Kansas City’s historic “Jazz District,” with the hopes of converting the space into the world’s top jazz…
Death And Dying: Expanding Palliative Care
A milestone multi-year study published in 1995 startled the medical world when it revealed that about half the hospital doctors treating terminally ill people were unaware when their patients had not wanted aggressive, life-extending treatments and that about half those who died in their care had pain that might have been abated. Equally shocking, the…
A “Campground” in the heart of the city
Most people see a shed in their backyard and think about storing garden tools or a lawnmower. But Chris Ceisel and his wife Cristin Llewellyn had a very different vision in 2011. They saw a bar. “It was this intimate space where people keep repeating to us that it ‘felt like they were no longer…
The making of colorful canvases
Kwanza Humphrey is an emerging artist whose colorful canvases and insightful drawings have been featured in shows at the Kansas City Artist Coalition and the Albrecht-Kemper Museum of Art. Humphrey says he tries to tell a deeper story about the people he captures in his art — a story he believes we’ll all recognize. On…