Kansas City artists have the power to engage the community in thought and conversation. So, the KC Streetcar Authority is calling on local talent to be the focal point of inspiring conversation…
Arts
The Kansas City FilmFest International (KCFFI) has something extra special for us this year with the announcement of a partnership with the Critics Choice Association’s Celebration of Black Cinema and the Boone…
It’s basically a Kansas City requirement to snap at least one photo of yourself posing in front of the shuttlecocks on the lawn of The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, right? The museum…
Music
Live music returned to Kansas City and the rest of the world in 2021, but not with the same force and volume we were accustomed to before the pandemic. Things appear to…
On any given weekend, you can likely find 26-year-old Luke Harbur performing as musicbyskippy somewhere around town. Just this last weekend, musicbyskippy performed at events tied to Missie B’s and Cafe Cà…
In October, Ray Velasquez returned to the radio airwaves for the first time in almost 20 years. Nocturnal Transmission, the radio show he started in 1983 at KLZR-FM—“the Lazer”—in Lawrence while attending…
Theater
Kristin Hensley and Jen Smedley of #IMOMSOHARD may be raising their kids in Los Angeles, but they’re doing it Midwest style—and they’ll be sharing their parenting realities with a Kansas City audience…
The Kansas City Actors Theatre (KCAT) is bringing up the lights in its first full-fledged production since the start of the pandemic with The Pests, a new translation of Molière’s Les Fâcheux…
Wicked’s Allison Bailey may be a Southern belle from Florida, but Kansas City holds a special place in her heart. In 2015, Bailey sat with Kansas Citians at the Kansas City Music…
Nightlife
J. Rieger & Co. announced today it’s opening Electric Park Garden Bar at their famed distillery this fall. The 11,000-square-foot Electric Park Garden Bar will offer two distinct spaces—a completely open-air patio…
If you’ve ever been on a dating site, you know how utterly daunting it can be. Well, now NY-based comedian Lane Moore has created a show that turns the swipe-left community on…
The annual Guns N Hoses boxing event makes a triumphant return after being out of commission in 2020 due to Covid. The Kansas City Metropolitan Crime Commission announced today it will host…