Arts & Culture
Stories and videos about music, dance, visual and performing arts and film in the Kansas City metro.
Lawrence Farmers Market and Other Weekend Possibilities
The Lawrence Farmers Market (824 New Hampshire) returns from its winter hibernation this Saturday from 7 to 11 a.m. The market is celebrating its 40th year and it’s a beauty. All of the produce and products are produced within 50 miles of Lawrence and there’s a host of local honey, vegetables, fruit, baked goods. Keep your eye…
Sympathetic Vibrations | Record Store Day 2016
On Saturday, April 16th, many of Kansas City’s finest purveyors of vinyl will celebrate the ninth annual Record Store Day – an international music holiday of sorts, aimed at promoting and encouraging the music-buying public to purchase said music from local, independent, brick-and-mortar retailers. The revered music nerd festivus began in 2007, not long after traditional retail…
The Weekend Starts Today
Granted, it’s time for spring cleaning. You could be excused for being productive, and spend the next several days scrubbing your place from top to bottom. Do so, and you’ll certainly have a fine sense of accomplishment. You will also, however, miss out on tons of cool stuff happening around town. For instance, baseball. The…
Five Things the Royals Must do to Repeat
The Royals begin their World Series defense on Sunday night. Flatland has five things the team needs to do to repeat as champs. Solidify the Rotation Over these past two, pennant-winning seasons, the Royals bullpen has been ridiculously dominant. Historically so. Despite the loss of All-Star closer Greg Holland and free agent Ryan Madson, the pen could…
Royals Trade Hosmer, Perez to Toronto
KANSAS CITY, MISSOURI— The Kansas City Royals completed a blockbuster trade today, sending two of the team’s best-known players to Toronto. Coming just days before the start of the 2016 season, the surprising deal sent fan favorites Eric Hosmer and Salvador Perez to the Blue Jays in return for slugger José Bautista and a player…
Food Truck Friday and Other Weekend Possibilities
Dinner is getting ready to take to the streets. With spring in swing, food trucks are officially out and about across the metro. The unofficial kickoff is Food Truck Friday — the six-year-old series from The Kansas City Star. Over the next six First Fridays, food trucks will gather in the downtown parking lot of The…
Hashtags For The Month Of MARCH
At the end of each month, we share four hashtags that trended locally, nationally, or simply caught our eye. Here’s the list for March, and they all happen to be relevant to Kansas City. What four would you choose? Share with us on Twitter @FlatlandKC.
The Weekend Starts Today
Forget what astronomers tell you. The true start of spring has nothing to do with the vernal equinox. Spring actually starts when baseball season begins. In other words, the sneeziest season starts in earnest this weekend when our world champion Royals play Sunday night. The game, a World Series rematch with the Mets, will be nationally televised on ESPN….
Crafts & Drafts and Other Weekend Possibilities
Shopping is always better with beer. The Pitch’s Crafts & Drafts — a mash-up of local artists, crafters, and beers — is Saturday from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. at the Uptown Shoppes (3600 Broadway). Check out DarkHumorGirl’s knit drink koozies (pictured above, some are in the shape of kitties) and 928 Woodworks’ nail head bottle openers…
Sympathetic Vibrations | Remembering Phife Dawg
It was a rough Wednesday morning for hip-hop enthusiasts like me, who learned that Malik Taylor, aka Phife Dawg, aka The Five Foot Assassin, had passed away at age 45. The MC was best known for his work with A Tribe Called Quest – a Queens-based hip-hop trio featuring Phife, Q-Tip, and Ali Shaheed Muhammed,…