Thomas Hart Benton home getting ready for artist’s 125 birthday
Photo courtesy Thomas Hart Benton home website.
A couple of events coming up at the Thomas Hart Benton home at 3616 Belleview in Roanoke offer us a chance to take a look back at the history of that site. First, the Missouri Department of Natural ...
Benton Home remembers artist’s work during WW II
If you’re looking for a unique – and Midtown-centric – way to celebrate Veterans Day, how about a trip to the Thomas Hart Benton Home in Roanoke?
The Benton Home has posted a Facebook item encouraging people to look at paintings Benton ...
Dance in the Park brings together neighborhoods this weekend
For fifteen years, Midtown neighborhoods have been promoting togetherness through Dance in the Park.
The event takes place in Roanoke Park each year, and brings together the Volker, Roanoke, Valentine, Coleman Highlands, and West Plaza neighborhoods. ...
Midtown neighborhoods will sparkle tonight
Photo courtesy Scott Burnett.
Tonight at sunset, neighbors in the Valentine, Roanoke and Coleman Highlands neighborhoods with be lighting festival holiday candles along their curbs.
The lighting of the luminerias is a tradition in these three ...
Volunteers make progress toward master vision in Roanoke Park
The Valentine Slope of the park, with steps leading down from Southwest Trafficway to the park, was planted with a mixture of shade-tolerant native grasses last weekend.
About four dozen volunteers from the nearby neighborhoods showed up Saturday ...
Irish musician Eddie Delahunt looks back over past Irish Fests
Roanoke resident and Midtown business owner Eddie Delahunt will perform at the Kansas City Irish Fest this weekend. He recently talked about the Fest and how he got to Kansas City at his coffee shop, Café &, at 4448 Bell St.
Posted by Joe ...
Dance in the Park brings neighborhoods together
When Dance in the Park was created 14 years ago, the idea was to use local dance companies in the tranquil setting of Roanoke Park to bring together people from the neighborhoods surrounding the park. Since then, volunteers from the neighborhoods ...
A second neighborhood has qualified for Google Fiber
And it’s Roanoke. Google announced a few minutes ago that Roanoke has gotten enough pre-registrations to qualify for the installation of Google Fiber this fall.
Remember back to the All-Star Game?
Midtowners and friends at the All-Star Game July 10: Roger Kamps, Brookside neighborhood; Mark Kamps, Dubuque, Iowa; Kevin Carr, Dubuque, Iowa; Paul Kamps, Roanoke neighborhood; Kelly Thompson, Roanoke neighborhood; Josh and Elia Sitzer, Roanoke ...
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