Arts & Culture

Stories and videos about music, dance, visual and performing arts and film in the Kansas City metro.

Documentary filmmaker Ken Burns.

‘I Don’t Have Favorite Films’: Ken Burns Keeps It Real

Ken Burns, the ‘Hemingway’ filmmaker, gives his take on movies, music and slinging records in Ann Arbor.

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Waldo Pizza's Tap Room hosted Listyn KC events for several years prior to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Listyn KC Plots Comeback as Part of New Center for Recorded Music

A group of passionate local music lovers are working to establish the Center for Recorded Music, a temple of sorts to the vinyl art form, with the Listyning Room for serious contemplation at its heart.

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Damien Daniels in action for Abilene Christian.

Bracket Buster: Hogan Prep Grad Reflects on March Madness, KC Roots

Flatland caught up with Abilene Christian University guard Damien Daniels, who looks back on his time in the NCAA Tournament and Hogan Prep Academy in Kansas City.

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Art House Extra | The Return of Panic Film Festival

The Panic Film Festival returns with a hybrid approach of socially distant in-person screenings along with online screenings and related events.

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Ernest Hemingway at his home in Cuba, late 1940s.

Ernest Hemingway: PBS Documentary Grapples With Both Man and Myth

A new PBS documentary by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick passes through Kansas City on its way around the world to tell the sweeping story of Nobel Prize-winning author Ernest Hemingway.

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