Author: Brian McTavish

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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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July 27, 2020

‘Adapt or Die’

Meghann Henry, Mesner Puppets’ new producing artistic director, realized in mid-March that her pre-pandemic plans to retool the venerable puppet theater might not be enough to save it from the unanticipated peril of COVID-19.
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May 19, 2020

HEAR Now ONLINE Festival Celebrates the Power of the Human Voice

Creators in the diverse world of audio storytelling will coalesce to celebrate the distinctive appeal of the human voice when the HEAR Now Festival returns as the HEAR Now ONLINE Festival June 11 – 14.
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March 4, 2020

Kansas City Underground Film Festival Debuts in Westport

Seen any unseen films lately? That unusual opportunity will be presented to probing cinephiles at the inaugural Kansas City Underground and Unseen Film Festival running March 12 – 22 at the Westport Coffeehouse Theatre.
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January 22, 2020

Arts News: KC Comics Master Launches New Miniseries

David Dastmalchian grew up in Overland Park devouring superhero comic books and dreaming of being in the sort of fantasy, science-fiction and horror movies that enraptured him.
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January 9, 2020

Arts News: Works of Puppeteers from KC Featured in New ‘Mister Rogers’ Film

It was an expectant moment when Spencer Lott first slid his hand into an old puppet once used by Fred Rogers on the beloved children’s TV series “Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood.”
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December 11, 2019

Arts News: Anatomy of a Paleo Artist

In his new art book, “Lost Anatomies: The Evolution of the Human Form,” esteemed paleo artist and Kansas City area native John Gurche presents a captivating cache of 189 images steeped in both science and imagination.
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