Last chance to visit Toy and Miniature Museum before renovation
The Toy and Miniature Museum is reminding folks that it is closing for renovation on January 6, so this is a good time to make a last visit before the upgrade starts.
The museum will be closed until early 2015.
Meantime, though, the museum has ...
Coming soon to your block: little free libraries
A library from the Little Free Library website. Photo courtesy Bookbinder.
The Little Free Library movement, which officially started in 2009, is catching fire in Kansas City, and as the temperatures rise this year, expect to see the dollhouse-like ...
Tivoli Theater reaches fundraising goal to stay open
There’s good news from the Save the Tivoli campaign.
As you may remember, the Westport independent movie theater was in danger of going out of business this month, needing to convert its projection system to digital.
The theater appealed to ...
Jazz club to open on Broadway
By Joe Lambe
A jazz club opens this week on Broadway, infusing more music, martinis and high cuisine into modern Midtown.
The Broadway Jazz Club at 3601 Broadway officially opens Friday and will offer live music five nights a week.
Appropriately ...
Westport Center for the Arts presents holiday performance
If your taste in Christmas stories runs to James Thurber and Truman Capote, Westport Center for the Arts has a holiday program for you.
“American Christmas, Too,” Dec. 14 and 16 at Prospero’s Uptown Books, 3600 Broadway, features actors ...
City gets headquarters of national arts group
This image from the recent arts report shows arts activities in Downtown Kansas City.
The National Storytelling Network headquarters will move to Kansas City next year, adding to what Mayor Sly James calls the city’s creative economy.
The ...
Phantoms of KC aims to cure city’s inferiority complex
Brian Noland and Kemet Coleman, who met working on the mayor’s campaign, are hoping to turn around Kansas City’s inferiority complex.
Kemet Coleman and Brian Noland are tired of what they call Kansas City’s inferiority complex ...
Duke Ellington’s biographer presents a flawed genius
Ellington biographer Terry Teachout and library director Crosby Kemper.
By Joe Lambe
Duke Ellington was a jazz genius who lived an image and hid his private life so much his autobiography never even mentioned his marriage or any lover, his biographer ...
Exhibit showcases artists’ reactions to civil rights movement
Photo courtesy Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art. Danny Lyon, American , b. 1942 SNCC workers outside the funeral for girls killed at the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church: Emma Bell, Dorie Ladner, Dona Richards, Sam Shirah and Doris Derby, Birmingham, ...
Victorian illusion toys a Midtown option on Black Friday
Before movies, there was the magic lantern.
If a family wants to do something besides shop on Black Friday, it can take in optical illusions at the Toy and Miniature Museum in Midtown.
The world of Victorian optical illusion toys will be the ...
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