Arts & Culture
Stories and videos about music, dance, visual and performing arts and film in the Kansas City metro.
‘Jam’ on 18th & Vine
LaShonda Katrice Barnett’s debut novel, “Jam on the Vine,” was published in February to praise from the Wall Street Journal, O Magazine, Publisher’s Weekly and more. The novel follows Ivoe Williams as she establishes the first female-published black newspaper in the U.S. Ivoe’s fictional newspaper, Jam on the Vine, is inspired by Kansas City’s own…
Rob Riggle brings homegrown Big Slick strategy to Middle of the Map
America may know comedian and actor Rob Riggle from his work on “Saturday Night Live” and “The Daily Show” or from roles in movies like “The Hangover” and “21 Jump Street.” But Kansas City knows Riggle from Big Slick, his celebrity-packed weekend fundraiser for Children’s Mercy Hospital. Riggle spoke yesterday at Middle of the Map…
An artist-chef, in reverse: Ferran Adrià at the Nelson
“Ferran Adrià: Notes on Creativity,” on view at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art through Aug. 2, successfully showcases the process of a master chef, but may leave you questioning the unfamiliar taste.
Define Yourself: The Iway Family, Part 4:
Doctors Olivia and Belino Iway came to the United States in 1974 from the Philippines on student visas, carrying $200 in their pockets and three young children to care for. After Belino completed his medical residency in New York City, where their fourth child was born, the family was invited to move to Elkhart, Kansas, to staff the small town’s fledgling hospital, where they spent over 30 years building its present capacity of several hundred employees with specialized units that serve patients from many of the larger surrounding communities.
New live/work artist space may come to KC
Artspace, a nonprofit real estate organization that aims to develop affordable live/work spaces for artists of all kinds, is in the midst of a preliminary feasibility study to determine if and how development could happen in KC. Megan Crigger, the director of creative services for KCMO, said the city is interested in the ways expanding…