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Flatland Favorites: Editor’s Edition
I haven’t been the digital managing editor at Kansas City PBS for very long, but there’s a reason why I pursued this job. I’m at home in the heartland. It’s where I’m from. People understand me here. Below are my favorite stories from Flatland in 2018 that reflect my love of America’s #flatland, keeping in…
Flatland Favorites: curiousKC Edition
Jonathan Bender, food content editor Jumping on E-Scooters on The Fly? Think Twice As a dad, I tell people to slow down more than I ever expected. A small part of me always worries when I see someone hopping on an electric scooter. They go faster than you think. The streets are uneven. Where’s your…
Work in Progress | The Miniaturist
As young as 5 years old, Wolfe Brack used mud, rocks and plants to create imaginary, miniature worlds. Now, as an adult, he creates miniature works of art to explore and learn more about the world around him. “With small things, the closer you get, the more complexities you see,” he said. Brack, a self-described…
Work in Progress | The Watercolorist
Don Gore’s paintings allow him to combine his architecture background with the free flowing unknown of watercolor. Treating watercolor as his therapy, Gore says the art transports him to a simpler time and place. “I have so many different things on the inside, and that’s my way of getting whatever is in my head out,…
Work in Progress | The Painter
With every brush stroke, Warren “Stylez” Harvey combats the anxiety and self doubt he’s dealt with since childhood. Through his artwork, he’s able to embrace the feelings that once held him back. “I’m grateful for my fear,” he said. “It has brought me to understand who I am. I am light. I am consciousness. I’m a…
Work in Progress | The Ceramicist
As a child, Angelica Sandoval associated darkness with fear and the unknown. As an adult, she taps into her love of ceramics to combat those fears. She creates porcelain “creatures of light” as a therapeutic means to address the uncertainty she feels. “For me, light is comfort, light is this sense of hope, light is…
Work in Progress | Preview Our New Arts Series
Get inside the minds of four diverse Kansas City-based artists as we explore the inner-workings of their creative souls. Work in Progress celebrates the process of art — its creation and its creator — rather than the finished project. There are those who are driven by purpose and those who are driven by chaos, and…
Exploring Frank Lloyd Wright’s Naturalistic Legacy
By Christopher G. Olszewski Our area certainly has some distinctive architecture, including the art deco Power & Light Building in downtown Kansas City and the massive new Church of the Resurrection sanctuary in Leawood, Kansas. Before those bricks were laid, one of the world’s most famous architects left his mark on Kansas City. During a…
What’s In Our Tap Water?
By Lauren Langdon As the “Big Muddy” winds its way through Kansas City, it might be hard to believe that approximately 660,000 residents rely on the Missouri River for their drinking water — after it has been treated, of course. But, did you know that the treatment process itself can introduce potentially hazardous contaminants to…
Where Are Those 20-Somethings Living?
Where do young Kansas Citians live? The traditional Midtown haunts? High-end urban apartments? The large rental complexes in suburbia? CuriousKC delved into the topic after receiving this inquiry: “Who ARE all these people who can afford to live in all this new development? Where are young, 20-somethings finding places to live?” We couldn’t reach the…