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December 6, 2022

Kansas City Author’s New Book of Prose and Poetry Brings Urgency and Insight to Our Troubled Times

Andrew Michael Johnson’s enthralling “The Thread” is two books in one: a poetry collection and a series of prose pieces.
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December 5, 2022

Young Kansas Pianist Spreads Goodwill from Kansas City to India

Aaram Salam was 11 when he figured out that he could not only connect with strangers through playing the piano but make their lives brighter.
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December 5, 2022

Lawrence artist launches NFT project addressing the future of art

Richard Klocke always gravitated to the conceptual aspects of art making. “I see how artists work with ideas,” Klocke explained from his tidy North Lawrence studio.
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November 30, 2022

Lewis Morrow: Masterful Portraits of Black Life

In the Kansas City playwright's trilogy of the intense family dramas, Blackness is something active.
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November 30, 2022

KC Rep’s “A Christmas Carol” Is a Solid Burst of Seasonal Nostalgia

What KC Rep has created for audiences both new and decades-returning is a beautiful tradition.
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November 30, 2022

“Cirque du Wiener Dog” at Midwest Trust Center, December 7-10

Come one, come all to the most WIENERFUL show on earth! The Midwest Trust Center joyfully welcomes back What If Puppets (formerly Paul Mesner Puppets) as their Arts Education Artists-in-Residence for the 2022-2023 season. 
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November 29, 2022

Remembering Kansas City’s Homes to Literary Dreams and Dreamers

"In 2019, I took my pickup to haul from the building that had housed The Writers Place — a grassroots literary organization at 36th Street and Pennsylvania Avenue..."
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November 28, 2022

Artist Pages: Reimagining the Holiday Wreath

The tradition of holiday wreaths dates back some 500 years, when Germans would trim their trees and fashion the excess greenery into wreaths.
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