Arts & Culture
Stories and videos about music, dance, visual and performing arts and film in the Kansas City metro.
Jazz History Tour & Other Weekend Possibilities
The Jazz History Tour ($25) begins at 9:30 a.m. Saturday. Chuck Haddix leads the walking tour in two parts that revolve around spots that were instrumental in jazz icon Charlie Parker’s life. There’s also a 2 p.m. chicken feed featuring fried chicken, Parker’s favorite food, at the Bruce R. Watkins Cultural Heritage Center. The Lawrence Beer Co. (826 Pennsylvania…
Sympathetic Vibrations | Direction Through Flux
Inertia, solitude and change are consistent themes throughout “Summer.Snow,” the new album by local indie rock band, The Slowdown. And that’s fitting. Those words accurately describe the band itself and the unusual path its members have strode on the way to self-releasing their third album. In many ways, The Slowdown is the tale of two…
Drawn Home: A KC Artist Sets Out To Find Home While On the Road
Recently, local artist Charlie Mylie ventured out from here in KC’s geographic middle to explore our country — its countrysides and city-sides — and understand the parts of it he doesn’t normally get to see. He’s set out (without a car we might add) also to challenge himself as an artist. Here at Flatland we asked Mylie: Can…
Ethnic Enrichment Festival & Other Weekend Possibilities
Eat your way around the world at the Ethnic Enrichment Festival, today through Sunday. Whether you’re craving crepes or sticky rice, there’s a host of food booths that’ll make you feel like Epcot Center got transplanted to Swope Park for a weekend. There’s a host of live acts, including traditional dancing and music performances. The EEF…
Donuts & Coffee-Infused Beers & Other Weekend Possibilities
Maybe you’d like a donut with your beer? Tapcade NKC (1735 Swift Avenue, North Kansas City, Missouri) is hosting a Donuts and Coffee-Infused Beers event with Cinder Block Brewery on Saturday from 12 to 3 p.m. Cinder Block will be randalling (a device that allows beer to be infused with a given spice, herb, or…
Sympathetic Vibrations | Going Back in Mind
When you think of chamber music composed hundreds of years ago, “cutting edge” is probably not the first phrase that comes to mind. Trilla Ray-Carter is hoping to change that. Ray-Carter is the executive and artistic director of the Kansas City Baroque Consortium, a group of local musicians dedicated to performing and educating the public…
Tomato Tasting, BLT Challenge & Other Weekend Possibilities
Give summer a proper sendoff with a pair of tomato-focused events. The ninth annual tomato tasting is at Local Pig (2618 Guinotte Ave) from 9 to 11 a.m. Saturday. Think of it as a tomato potluck — bring a tomato dish or ripe tomatoes from your garden — and then dive into the bounty of fruit. Later…
KC Cocktail Club at Lifted Spirits & Other Weekend Possibilities
Wine and cheese, please. Discover how to pair wine and cheese with The Better Cheddar’s Wine & Cheese 101 class ($50). Wine sommelier Matthew David and Lincoln Broadbrooks lead a lesson and tasting on from 7 to 9 p.m. Sunday at The Better Cheddar (604 W. 48th St.). [FLEX-CONTENT] Learn to make cocktails and tour a…
Sympathetic Vibrations | Poolin’ It Local
August is just around the corner. If your response to that statement was an audible and disgruntled “ugh,” you likely know what the dreaded month has in store around these parts. August in Kansas City is a mixed bag of feelings. Chiefs pre-season will begin and if the Royals continue their hot streak (please God),…
It’s Time to Rebrand the Block
Not to get remotely biblical, but for me, it all started with a rib bone. OK, there was more than one rib — a couple of side dishes might have been involved, too. That’s how I discovered my new favorite block near downtown Kansas City, Kansas: Fifth and Central Avenue in Wyandotte County. Before the…