Arts & Culture
Stories and videos about music, dance, visual and performing arts and film in the Kansas City metro.
There’s a little Scrooge — and Tiny Tim — in all of us
Tom Averill and his family are avid fans of Charles Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol.” You know: Scrooge, “bah humbug!,” Tiny Tim Cratchit and the Ghost of Christmas Past? The family has such a love for the Dickens’ work that it is incorporated into holiday celebrations: Averill, his wife and children have read the book aloud…
Bite-sized tales of Thanksgiving from Tell KC
Tell KC, a reporting and engagement collaboration with KCPT and KCUR, asked folks to distill Turkey Day down to just six words. More than 30 people, including Swihart, accepted the challenge.
Tell us about your Thanksgiving, in six words
Share your insights and experiences with KCPT and KCUR.
Personal historians preserve our own stories
Some people’s lives are chronicled by professional writers in their biographies. Some people write their own memoirs. And then, some people hire The Story Scribe. This Kansas City memoir writing business, founded by Amy Butler, is part of the personal history industry. The Association of Personal Historians, the industry’s professional organization, has more than 600…
Found Footage Fest returns with VHS gold, including a KC find
Growing up in a really small town in Wisconsin, Joe Pickett and Nick Prueher found their fun at nearby thrift stores. “I remember we used to buy answering machines, eject the tapes and listen to people’s incoming and outgoing messages,” Prueher said. Everything changed for Pickett and Prueher when VHS tapes started showing up at…
‘The last piece of the puzzle’: Long-term gay couples make their commitments legal in KC
Donna Botts and Terri Guillott are used to waiting. The women have been a couple for 14 years, committed themselves to each other in 2007 and, now, minutes before making that commitment legal, they’re waiting for the photographer from their small town’s local paper to document the wedding. The couple stands in the lobby of…
Self-published crime writer sells novels all over the world from KC home
FBI agent Jack Davis fights for good in Kansas City from the Plaza to the KCK neighborhood of Argentine. Davis has investigated a mass murder, a serial killer hiding in plain sight and a shootout at a gun show. If you’re wondering why you haven’t heard about Davis or any of these crimes, it’s because…
In the Midwest, yarn goes local
Northwestern Colorado has a rich heritage of raising sheep – either for their meat or for wool. But for decades the sheep herd has been slipping in numbers, both nationally and in Colorado, often outcompeted by countries like New Zealand and Australia. Where there’s been a resurgence, though, has been in local, niche markets. Some…
Still one heck of a season — Royals fans dance loss away at watch party
Fans watching game 7 of the World Series at the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum on Wednesday night were disappointed by the Royals loss, but still very supportive of the home team. The Hale Center for Journalism’s Todd Feeback captured reactions from the crowd as they watched the San Francisco Giants defeat the Royals 3-2.
Royals take it to the limit
The Kansas City Royals have stretched the World Series to the limit, forcing a seventh game by erupting Tuesday night for seven runs in the second inning of a 10-0 rout of the San Francisco Giants.