Kansas City Royals
A Free Farewell to Summer, the 40th Ethnic Enrichment Festival, And Other Weekend Possibilities
There are about 48 hours between leaving work on Friday and the time you start thinking about work once again on Sunday night. Weekend Possibilities is your roadmap for food, drinks and fun for the perfect Kansas City weekend. Friday August 16 6 – 10 p.m. Billed to ensure you feel the beat of the…
How Are Stadiums Cleaned After Games?
When baseball season ends this month, Kauffman Stadium will have hosted 83 Royals home games. That’s 83 days of hot dogs, popcorn and beer. And each night, someone has to clean it all up. A reader asked curiousKC about that process: How do Kansas City’s professional sports venues get cleaned after games? We couldn’t connect…
Sympathetic Vibrations | The Beats Behind the Brawn
Labor Day has come and gone, which means the holy season of NFL football is upon us. And while the Chiefs season will kick off with a pair of away games in Los Angeles and Pittsburgh, most Chiefs fans are ramping up for the home opener on Sept. 23 against San Francisco. And if you’re lucky…
Mike Moustakas Breaks Royals 32-Year Home Run Record
Mike Moustakas Breaks Royals 32-Year Home Run Record
Third Base: Fielder’s Choice
The sandlot of yore has disappeared, and we’re uncovering why. See what it takes to keep a game going in today’s age and the impact of the $19 million investment Kansas City and the Royals are making with the Urban Youth Academy. Call of The Sandlot takes you back to the time when kids played…
First Base: Get Your Glove
Call of The Sandlot takes you back to the time when kids played until their mothers called them in for dinner. Flatland looks back into the city’s baseball history to tell you why sandlots disappeared and how Sam and Ana Beckett, a Kansas City couple, and the Kansas City Royals are looking to bring the tradition…
Five Things to Do This Weekend
Get Crafty Generally, it’s a good idea to be suspicious of anything that adds an extra “e” to the word “fair.” That pseudo-Olde Englishness just reeks of pretension. Make an exception, however, for the Kansas City Maker Faire at Union Station. In an age when most of us are surrounded by technology we don’t understand,…
The Weekend Starts Today
Memorial Day is, most importantly, for remembering those who served. It also means a three-day weekend. Unless, that is, you happen to be self-employed or work in the gig economy. In that case, you don’t get “official” days off. Either way, though, the holiday weekend is the unofficial start of summer and a terrific time…
The Weekend Starts Today
Sunday is National Honesty Day. Really. It is. The holiday was created expressly to encourage truthful communication, especially in personal relationships and politics. Which, pretty obviously, is a total pipe dream. Nevertheless, we at least promise to tell you the truth about what’s happening around town this weekend. Like the Royals. Their offense, honestly, stinks…
Sympathetic Vibrations | Make Your Royals Tailgate Turnt
The Royals season is back in full swing. And following last week’s fanfare-laden home opener, baseball fever has once again descended upon our fair city. While the boys in blue are still working out some of the kinks on field left by both voluntary and (tear) involuntary roster holes, Opening Day saw yet another stellar…