Arts & Culture
Stories and videos about music, dance, visual and performing arts and film in the Kansas City metro.
Hashtags For The Month Of FEBRUARY
At the end of each month we share four hashtags that trended locally, nationally, or simply caught our eye. February was full of announcements, conversations, and events on social media and it was hard to decide which to include. But there can only be four and here they are! What four would you pick? Let…
Sympathetic Vibrations | Five Things I Learned at FAI
I should come clean. This was the third year of the Folk Alliance International Conference’s residency in Kansas City and it was my first time attending. I know, I know. I’m awful. Stain on me. I have to admit I didn’t know what I was missing. Looking back, last weekend was a whirlwind, complete with…
The Weekend Starts Today
This remarkably mild February of 2016 is almost over. While you’re preparing for the big, quadrennial Leap Day parties on Monday, we’ve got a few other things to do around town. The Harriman-Jewell Series is like a trusted Yelp reviewer. If they bring a performer to KC, you can trust that it’ll be top-notch show….
5 Reasons to See “Swan Lake”
Tonight, the Kansas City Ballet premieres “Swan Lake.” There are a lot of good reasons to see the show, which runs through Feb. 28. For instance, going means you’ll be able to post selfies from the Kauffman Center. Which will make you look cultured and sophisticated. If you need more than that, we have five…
Sympathetic Vibrations | The Price of Doing What You Love
This weekend, a sizable chunk of the international folk music community will descend upon our fair city for the Folk Alliance International conference, which organizers describe as “the world’s largest gathering of the folk music industry and community.” To those attending as industry insiders, the five-day conference will serve as a pooling of ideas and…
The Weekend Starts Today
We’ll have unseasonably warm weather this weekend. Call it a false spring. Because of it, there’s no excuse to stay home, especially since we’ve rounded up for you the world-class entertainment coming to town. Sports fans, sadly, are living in a lull. Football is over. Baseball is yet to begin. KU and UMKC basketball are…
How Kansas City Is | Grammy Awards
We’re asking the question: How “Kansas City” is… for all the good stuff going on in our world. Up today? The genre-mixing celebration of all things music, the 58th annual Grammy Awards. We’ll see a few Kansas Citians walk the red carpet at the Los Angeles Staples Center on Monday evening, and a few more hidden local gems throughout the show. Check out…
Back Into the ‘Underground’
During dress rehearsal Wednesday night, co-choreographer Tobin James of Storling Dance Theater’s “Underground” at the Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts struggled to speak. Sick, exhausted, her voice shot, she breathed deep as she watched the final rehearsal from a dark corner offstage. Twenty rows back in the sixteen hundred seat auditorium, co-choreographer Mona Enna…
The Weekend Starts Today
Ah, Valentine’s Day. For single people, it’s a festival of loneliness. For anyone in a relationship, it’s a Hallmark-hyped minefield of unreasonable expectations. The holiday is especially hard for men. The best any guy can do is put enough thought and money into the holiday to avoid getting in trouble. Then again, you may not…
Commentary | The Super Bowl is Better From Home
For years, I went to The Big Game. Whether it was in Dallas, New Orleans or New York City, wherever the NFL decided to hold their annual orgy of self-promotion, I was there. Not this year. Just like roughly 114 million other Americans, this Super Sunday will find me enjoying the game the way it’s meant to…