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Down a winding road in Swope Park, on the other end of a short walk through the grass, there's an old, abandoned pool where, in the days before…
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Segment 1: Will Kansas City's new months-long arts festival draw a crowd and make a buck?An ongoing, grand-scale arts festival could prove to be just what…
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There's a new sign glowing on the side of the Boone Theater at the corner of East 18th Street and Highland Avenue, next door to the Gem Theater in the…
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Kansas City artist Allan Winkler's work is full of whimsy. It's often found in unexpected places: a mural in a school cafeteria, colorful mosaics in the…
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For a while now, much of Kansas City's arts community has been abuzz about Open Spaces, the 62-day arts festival that's giving a platform to local,…
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Mary Lou Williams only spent a dozen years in Kansas City during its first jazz heyday, but this is where she solidified her professional reputation,…
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Kansas City's first biennial Open Spaces launches this week. And, like the metropolitan area itself, Open Spaces is sprawling. It stretches 62 days, from…
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Sculptor Jacob Burmood stood on a high ladder beneath a large elm tree. The sound of his buffing tool mingled with the late-afternoon chorus of cicadas at…
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Through late spring and into early summer, Kansas City artist Dylan Mortimer searched the trees in Swope Park for signs of death. He found a 40-footer…
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When the director of Open Spaces, the upcoming city-wide arts festival, came to Kansas City to explore the selected hub location, all he saw was something…
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Segment 1: Swope Park is over twice the size of Central Park. Are we using it as well as we could?Swope Park is one of the largest municipal parks in the…
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The historic Savoy Hotel in downtown Kansas City, Missouri, re-opened Tuesday with a new name: 21c Museum Hotel Kansas City.“We never dreamed that there’d…