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A weekly open mic event for Kansas City musicians and poets is boosting careers and fostering the live music scene at 18th and Vine.
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The extent of white supremacist groups in Missouri, and a venue in the historic 18th and Vine district is giving artists a live audience for their music and poetry.
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"I don't like sanitized spaces," says artist Harold Smith, whose house in Kansas City, Kansas, doubles as his studio.It's about a mile from where he grew…
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Segment 1: A shuttered charter school in Kansas City leaves some families in the lurch.The closing of Kansas City's Benjamin Banneker Charter Academy…
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Monique Gabrielle Salazar is a writer, artist and musician. A member of the Latino Writers Collective, she’s also a self-described “collector of…
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Creative and commercial writer Lisa Stewart has traveled thousands of miles as a long-distance horseback rider, through the Rockies and the Midwest. In…
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Spoken word artist and poet Jeanette Powers started writing at the age of 9. "I realized that in my imagination, I was completely free. There were no…
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Sometimes it just takes one teacher to change everything. For Seann Weir, who studies English and creative writing at the University of Missouri-Kansas…
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Glenn North describes spoken word poetry as "in your face," using word play and slang. And he's gained a reputation as a performance poet, sharing the…
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Throughout the 1990s, Mark Hennessy was the frontman for the hard rock Lawrence band PAW. After the band broke up in 2000, Hennessy turned his focus to…
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When Glenn North read a poem at the grand opening for the American Jazz Museum in 1997, something clicked. From that moment on, the poet and the museum…
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Let’s play a word association game. What’s do you think when I say, “Kansas City?” Barbecue? The Royals? How about jazz? Now what about when I say “Jazz,”…