Arts & Culture
Stories and videos about music, dance, visual and performing arts and film in the Kansas City metro.
Middle of the Map 2015, local bands cover the headliners
Fans from around the region are flocking to Kansas City’s Westport neighborhood for Ink’s fifth annual Middle of the Map Music Fest, with 120-plus bands playing on several stages. The Bridge, 90.9 FM in Kansas City, has created a Storify featuring highlights from the festival, also featuring four exclusive covers done by local bands of this year’s festival…
‘Jam’ on 18th & Vine
LaShonda Katrice Barnett’s debut novel, “Jam on the Vine,” was published in February to praise from the Wall Street Journal, O Magazine, Publisher’s Weekly and more. The novel follows Ivoe Williams as she establishes the first female-published black newspaper in the U.S. Ivoe’s fictional newspaper, Jam on the Vine, is inspired by Kansas City’s own…
Rob Riggle brings homegrown Big Slick strategy to Middle of the Map
America may know comedian and actor Rob Riggle from his work on “Saturday Night Live” and “The Daily Show” or from roles in movies like “The Hangover” and “21 Jump Street.” But Kansas City knows Riggle from Big Slick, his celebrity-packed weekend fundraiser for Children’s Mercy Hospital. Riggle spoke yesterday at Middle of the Map…
An artist-chef, in reverse: Ferran Adrià at the Nelson
“Ferran Adrià: Notes on Creativity,” on view at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art through Aug. 2, successfully showcases the process of a master chef, but may leave you questioning the unfamiliar taste.
Define Yourself: The Iway Family, Part 4:
Doctors Olivia and Belino Iway came to the United States in 1974 from the Philippines on student visas, carrying $200 in their pockets and three young children to care for. After Belino completed his medical residency in New York City, where their fourth child was born, the family was invited to move to Elkhart, Kansas, to staff the small town’s fledgling hospital, where they spent over 30 years building its present capacity of several hundred employees with specialized units that serve patients from many of the larger surrounding communities.
New live/work artist space may come to KC
Artspace, a nonprofit real estate organization that aims to develop affordable live/work spaces for artists of all kinds, is in the midst of a preliminary feasibility study to determine if and how development could happen in KC. Megan Crigger, the director of creative services for KCMO, said the city is interested in the ways expanding…
Transitioning in KC: 5 questions with Transgender Institute founder Caroline Gibbs
One of the first questions gender therapist and coach Caroline Gibbs asks people who are considering transitioning from male to female or from female to male is if they want to “blend into society.” Gibbs said that nearly everyone she has worked with at the Transgender Institute answers that question with an emphatic yes. It…
Being Filipino: The Iway Family, Part 3
In this edition of Your Fellow Americans, the Iway family discusses what their Filipino culture means to them as the talk about dance, education, and finally understanding their parents. How does the American Dream look different for children and adults? Why does the United States put such an emphasis on doing what makes you happy? Is discipline undervalued as a means to ‘the good life?’ We want to know your thoughts.
American League Champs, let’s eat
There is no spring training for eaters. You – the hot dog aficianados and ice cream helmet-scooping public – will have to go in and not know exactly whether your appetite (and intestinal fortitude) is going to show up for Opening Day at Kauffman Stadium. The Kansas City Royals, the reigning American League Champions, will…
Young patients unite around ‘stupid cancer’
Matthew Zachary has a problem with how cancer is branded in this country. “The history of cancer has been largely broken down into sick children and dying grandparents,” he said. “We’ve all seen them. We’ve all had them. They pervade television and the Internet. “The notion of cancer actually happening in age groups that are…