Author: Brian McTavish

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September 21, 2022

‘West Bottoms’: ‘We have a good little movie’

KC filmmaker Greg Sheffer makes the most of the evocative local setting in his first original short film, now on the international film festival circuit.
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August 31, 2022

Celebrate AMERI’KANA Music & Arts Festival: Bringing Communities Together

The eighth Celebrate AMERI’KANA Music & Arts Festival, scheduled for Sept. 10 at Crossroads KC at Grinder’s, looks to be the most ambitious yet in support of Black, Indigenous, immigrant and Latino music and culture in Kansas City.
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May 9, 2022

Coping with the Pandemic

Any serious collector will tell you: Keep the collection going. But that clarion call has become more of a sanity-saving song during the two-year COVID-19 pandemic.
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May 9, 2022

Brad Austin: ‘A Million Stories in His Head’

The great Kansas City stories keep coming from documentary filmmaker Brad Austin, if only because he cares so much about finding the next hometown tale.
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March 8, 2022

Envisioning KC as an Animation Hub

Cross-pollinating between film, television and video games, the next animation revolution is coming soon to a screen — virtually any screen — near you.
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January 24, 2022

Where Price, Imagination and Art Converge

Wrenches are turning, shop cloths are buffing, and feelings of well-earned pride are profound at a meeting last fall of the Olathe Leadership Lowrider Bike Club at the Olathe Advanced Technical Center.
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November 22, 2021

The Bottom Line is Self-Expression

It’s about more than the art for those who take part in the Johnson County Developmental Supports Emerging Artists Program.
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September 30, 2021

Artist to Watch: Enrique Chi

The official music video for Making Movies’ powerful 2019 song, “Tired of Giving In,” begins with the Kansas City Latinx band perfunctorily performing onstage while literally handcuffed to their instruments. But the band’s seething front man, Enrique Chi, can play nice for only so long.
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March 8, 2021

‘I Can’t Describe How Lucky I Feel’

He likes to call it his “little music show.” Even so, Robert Moore’s “Sonic Spectrum” has spanned more than 19 years at three successive Kansas City radio stations.
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