Arts & Culture

A scene from "Dear Larry: A Letter to Home."

Art House Extra | Filmmaker Creates an Ode to Lawrence, Kansas

Lawrence filmmaker Marc Havener passed the pandemic creating a love letter to his hometown rendered in film and song.

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Demolition this month of the former Entercom radio complex in Westwood revealed the original KMBC tower transmitter facility, built in 1933 and later hidden within the more contemporary facility added decades later.

Signing Off: Demolition of Old Radio Station Triggers Nostalgia in Westwood

In Westwood, Kansas, demolition of an old radio station has triggered a wave of nostalgia.

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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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Kansas City jazz drummer Tyree Johnson in Kansas City’s 18th & Vine District.

Without Live Gigs, Kansas City Jazz Musicians get Creative

Local jazz musicians have lost a large part of their income to the continued spread of COVID-19, which has pummeled the live music industry, leaving them to look to new ways of making money.

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Watch pianist Anastasia Vorotnaya's moving performance for Park International Center of Music.

KC Performs | A Moving Piece by Pianist Anastasia Vorotnaya

Watch Anastasia Vorotnaya’s moving performance of “Sonata No. 2.” Vorotnaya is one of 30 students at Park International Center of Music.

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Singer Melinda MacDonald performs Stephen Sondheim's "Send In The Clowns."

KC Performs | Creating Performance Spaces Outside

Enjoy Musical Theater Heritage’s production of “Send in the Clowns” from Stephen Sondheim’s “A Little Night Music” performed by Melinda MacDonald.

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Dacer Whitney Huell poses, arms outstretched diagonally, for her performance of "What Angel Wakes Me" from a Midsummer Night’s Dream, Act III, Scene I.

KC Performs | This Ballet Number is Bound to Mesmerize

Get swept away in Whitney Huell’s magical performance of “What Angel Wakes Me” from a Midsummer Night’s Dream, Act III, Scene I.

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KC Performs | Park ICM - Kenny Broberg plays "Nikolai Medtner, Fairytale"

KC Performs | Park ICM’s Kenny Broberg Plays a Nikolai Medtner “Fairy Tale”

KC Performs | Park ICM’s Kenny Broberg plays a Nikolai Medtner “Fairy Tale.”

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Ballet Street Project performance.

KC Performs | Ballet Street Project Gives Us a Lift

The Ballet Street Project was created by local ballet dancers pushed off their normal stage by the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Violinist Igor Khukhua performs

KC Performs | Park ICM Provides Precious Training Ground for World-Class Soloists

A performing arts treasure can be found at the Park International Center for Music, a renowned program at Park University.

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