Arts & Culture
Stories and videos about music, dance, visual and performing arts and film in the Kansas City metro.
Weekend Possibilities | Adam Doleac at Knuckleheads, Slow Art Day and a RuPaul Drag Race Watch Party
There are plenty of ways to dodge April showers this weekend with a variety of live music, eating options and sports watch parties.
‘I Don’t Have Favorite Films’: Ken Burns Keeps It Real
Ken Burns, the ‘Hemingway’ filmmaker, gives his take on movies, music and slinging records in Ann Arbor.
Listyn KC Plots Comeback as Part of New Center for Recorded Music
A group of passionate local music lovers are working to establish the Center for Recorded Music, a temple of sorts to the vinyl art form, with the Listyning Room for serious contemplation at its heart.
Bracket Buster: Hogan Prep Grad Reflects on March Madness, KC Roots
Flatland caught up with Abilene Christian University guard Damien Daniels, who looks back on his time in the NCAA Tournament and Hogan Prep Academy in Kansas City.
Art House Extra | The Return of Panic Film Festival
The Panic Film Festival returns with a hybrid approach of socially distant in-person screenings along with online screenings and related events.
Ernest Hemingway: PBS Documentary Grapples With Both Man and Myth
A new PBS documentary by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick passes through Kansas City on its way around the world to tell the sweeping story of Nobel Prize-winning author Ernest Hemingway.
Weekend Possibilities | Royals Welcome Fans, Competitive Rocket League and Sporting KC’s Egg Scramble
Limited-capacity Royals games, concert livestreams and Easter eggs are in the cards for April’s opening weekend.
Opening Day Q&A: Royals Announcer Rex Hudler Gives Predictions, Players to Watch, June Bug-Barbecue Advice
Flatland caught up with “Hud” to talk about the 2021 Royals, a bit about his time as a big leaguer, what it takes to win over an audience ahead of Opening Day.
Kansas City’s Asian, Asian American and Pacific Islander Community Makes Itself Heard
Kansas City’s vigil at Cafe Cà Phê to grieve the victims of the Atlanta shooting sought to create the intimacy and the reverence of an at-home vigil in a space large enough to fit the whole Asian American-Pacific Islander community.
Art House Extra | A Grandfather’s Death, A Granddaughter’s Reckoning
The new film “46 Years” delves deeply into frayed family dynamics and internecine conflict within the Nation of Islam, and how a granddaughter attempts to process those losses nearly a half-century later.