Arts & Culture
Stories and videos about music, dance, visual and performing arts and film in the Kansas City metro.
Discover KC with Made in the Middle
Graphic designer Tad Carpenter grew up in Kansas City, and he said he can’t remember a time that felt quite like this. “I’ve lived here my entire life,” he said, “and I can’t remember the feeling I feel in the city right now. There’s an electricity happening. On a national level, people are recognizing Kansas…
Your Fellow Americans producer’s perspective: the Crouser family
Gaylene Crouser says she is 50 percent Lakota, 50 percent unknown lineage and 100 percent Indian. So much pain and trouble surrounds her identity that, when our production team at Your Fellow Americans asked her for her name, she cried. Just knowing that someone had approached her, wanting to learn about her and the way she is…
A non-traditional funding plan for a non-traditional farmer
When Kate Johnson stepped out of the car on the property in Easton, Kansas, that would become her farm, she knew she was home. After a yearlong search for the perfect land, this was it. “Even just the feeling driving up felt different than all of the other places I had seen,” she said. Johnson…
KC celebrates release of Boulevard’s Crown Town Ale
Boulevard Beer’s Crown Town Ale, which honors the Royals’ record-breaking season, was released today. Liquor stores across the metro did brisk business, some selling out well before noon. Jeremy Ragonese, Boulevard’s director of marketing, said it was important to make space in the tight brewing schedule for this ale after the Royals had such a…
There’s a little Scrooge — and Tiny Tim — in all of us
Tom Averill and his family are avid fans of Charles Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol.” You know: Scrooge, “bah humbug!,” Tiny Tim Cratchit and the Ghost of Christmas Past? The family has such a love for the Dickens’ work that it is incorporated into holiday celebrations: Averill, his wife and children have read the book aloud…