Actor Harrison Ford plays Branch Rickey in "42," the movie on baseball Hall of Famer Jackie Robinson to be released next month. Rickey is the former general manager who signed Robinson to break the color line in Major League Baseball. Ford will be in Kansas City next month for a special screening.
In January, the Mayor’s Task Force for the Arts launched a series of meetings - at community centers, nature centers, libraries and other venues - to try to map out a vision for Kansas City’s arts and cultural policy.
Six years ago, cook and guitarist Mark Vick got tired of spending St. Patrick’s Day working behind the bar instead of jamming onstage. So he and a few of his musician friends started the band, Blarney Stoned.
Former book review editor for The Kansas City Star, poet, and regular "Book Doctor" on KCUR, John Mark Eberhart, died Tuesday, March 19, after a fight with cancer. He was 52.
Dublin-born Irish musician Eddie Delahunt, has lived in Kansas City since 1989. His first St. Patrick's Day celebration in Kansas City took him by surprise. "The Kelly green was everywhere and I went, 'Oh my gosh, what is this?' I was in shock." Delahunt said.
St. Patrick's Day is a cultural and religious holiday that takes place every March 17 – and it’s been embraced widely in America by descendants of Irish immigrants. Kansas City's celebration began early this year with the annual St. Pat’s Senior Ball.
Rodgers and Hammerstein’s musical Carousel is revered by many for its artfully woven tapestry of story, song and dance - including Time magazine, which in 1999 named it the best musical of the 20th century. Currently at Kansas City Repertory Theatre is a re-creation of a production that premiered nearly two years ago at a downtown performance space, where Carousel was viscerally staged in a way that both respected the material and deconstructed it to pieces.
Tickets for a few of the films on offer this year at True/False.
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Following the showing of "The Act of Killing" Joshua Oppenheimer answered questions from the audience via Skype.
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Playing Balkan tunes Jeremy Barnes and Heather Trost, of A Hawk and a Hacksaw, warm up the crowd before a showing of "Which Way Is the Front Line from Here? The Life and Time of Tim Hetherington."
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Syrhea Conaway, of Syna So Pro, layered voice and rhythm before a showing of "The Act of Killing."
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Director and author Sebastian Junger answered questions from the audience after a screening of "Which Way Is the Front Line from Here? The Life and Time of Tim Hetherington."
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St. Louis band The Thin Dimes plays on a sidewalk between drifts of snow on the streets of Columbia, Missouri.
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The short film "Dear Valued Guests" directed by Jarred Alterman and Paul Sturtz documented the demise of the Regency Hotel in downtown Columbia, Missouri.
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Director Zachary Heinzerling answers questions from the audience after a showing of "Cutie and the Boxer" at the majestic Missouri Theatre Center for the Arts.
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Director Zachary Heinzerling introduces Ushio Shinohara tp the gathered crowd.
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Artist Ushio Shinohara demonstrates his distictive "boxing painting" following a screening of "Cutie and the Boxer."
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Artist Ushio Shinohara walks away from his completed painting.
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After the painting demonstration, Artist Ushio Shinohara used his boxing gloves to "paint" shirts.
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Audience members stepped up to have Artist Ushio Shinohara paint their t-shirts, coats, and sweaters.
True/False Film Fest celebrated its tenth year, February 28 - March 3, 2013, presenting forty-two full-length documentaries and sixteen short films from around the globe. In addition to the films, the Columbia, Mo. festival hosts musicians, art installations, and events.
KBIA interviewed filmmakers whose work screened at this year's True/False. Read or listen to the interviews here.
"The Flying Dutchman" is an early opera by Richard Wagner. And, like many of Wagner's later works, it's rooted in myth. The Lyric Opera of Kansas City presents this tale of a ghost captain, cursed to roam the high seas. Every seven years, the captain goes ashore – and if he finds true love, he’ll be released from the curse.
The Tivoli in Westport will be a Francophile’s dream for the next ten days with its annual showcase Rendez-Vous with French Cinema. Nine different films will be screened before its conclusion.
Composer Paul Rudy's favorite moments in music are accidents. His new work, Martian Chronicles, will have a different sound each time it is played. Rudy takes gleeful pleasure in allowing musicians so much freedom.
With the growth of the local food movement and a rise in urban farming, Kansas City diners are increasingly discriminating about what goes on their plates. Yet a good number of people don't delve any more deeply into their meal other than what's tasty and convenient.
In the first of a series called Tools of the Trade, we take a look inside KC Strings. It’s a workshop owned by Anton Krutz in downtown Merriam, Kan., where luthiers hand-build 50 concert-level instruments each year. A cellist and a violinist discuss the “Krutz” sound.
