Film

Shawnee Mission School District nurses have been tasked with contact tracing to mitigate the spread of COVID-19, and a new documentary follows the lives of four Johnson County, Kansas, transgender children and their families.

Kansas' candidates for a U.S. Senate seat squared off, a film festival that normally happens in March ends up outdoors in October, and a Kansas City theatre brings Halloween to the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art.

All the spooky tales in "13 Midnights" are based on conversations the filmmaker had with the people who experienced them.

Aaron Coleman's electoral success highlights the dangers of a "boys will be boys" mentality, the Kansas City Chiefs kick off their season tonight in a home opener unlike any other, and the Labor Day box office numbers are in from cinemas around the country.

Why the Johnson County health department has not endorsed in-person learning, the process to review and update Kansas City's master plan for development, and, even after six months of pandemic life, there is still online programming worth streaming.

An indie movie theater in North Kansas City explores new possibilities to stay in business, including outdoor eating and drinking, and showing films outside.

The lasting effects of COVID-19 and how the coronavirus is affecting schools reopening, celebrating the first organized professional Black baseball league, and how prescient past movies have been when compared to current protests and the pandemic.

"Da Five Bloods" focuses on the journey of five Black veterans. Though they returned home from the war with their lives, they were met with discrimination and racism.

Spike Lee and Kevin Wilmott's latest film shows the struggles of Black men who fought in the Vietnam War, a central Kansas town weathers the pandemic while facing challenges to reopening, and the health benefits of spending time in nature is exemplified by forest bathing.

Cedar Cove Feline Conservation and Education Center in Louisburg, Kansas, is home to 28 apex predators, and falls within a gray area of oversight.

Kansas City Star columnist Melinda Henneberger talks about being a Pulitzer Prize finalist, screenwriter Kevin Wilmott shares recommendations on what to stream while stuck at home, how and whether to do romance and dating in the age of COVID-19, and one Kansas City neighborhood salutes health care workers.

Bored to death? Missing local culture? Great news: Starting Monday, you can attend a grassroots film festival showcasing 90 films — about two dozen of…