Arts & Culture
Stories and videos about music, dance, visual and performing arts and film in the Kansas City metro.
KC Week in Review: Royals Fever infects thousands in metro. Ebola infects none.
There have been rumors and concerns, front page stories and team coverage on radio and TV stations over Ebola in the metro. Yet, there are no confirmed cases of the deadly disease in Kansas City and a man being treated at KU Hospital was actually suffering from a different medical condition. The alarm has not…
How do you define the American Dream?
When interviewing people for the Your Fellow Americans (YFA) project, defining the “American Dream” has been a central theme in our discussions. Sometimes the people we interview are passers-by who pause and give us a moment of their time. Sometimes the people have a full lights-n-camera setup surrounding them and are meeting us for a second…
Kansas City celebrates: Royals advance to World Series
Last night, the Kansas City Royals won game four of the ALCS at Kauffman Stadium, sweeping the Baltimore Orioles and securing a spot in next week’s World Series. The team hasn’t played in the World Series since 1985, when they won against the St. Louis Cardinals in the “I-70 World Series.” [View the story…
KC nonprofit spotlights women in media
The 2014-2015 season of Community Cinema kicks off this Saturday with “MAKERS: Women in Hollywood.” As part of the MAKERS series, which celebrates trailblazing women, “Women in Hollywood” spotlights the roles ladies have played in front of and behind the camera. Kansas City Women in Film and Television is co-sponsoring the screening, and some its…
The Real McCoy: Harris-Kearney House holds artifacts of KC’s founding father
Today’s Kansas Citians owe a lot to the clothesline. In February of 1835, John Calvin McCoy submitted the first map of Westport, which he measured out using his wife’s clothesline. McCoy is commonly thought of as the father of Westport and, by extension, Kansas City. “We are the keepers of history of Westport and early…