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May 16, 2017

Kansas City Jazz & Heritage Festival Boasts a Star-Studded Memorial Day Weekend

The Kansas City Jazz & Heritage Festival will feature a one-of-a-kind lineup of today’s greatest jazz and music performers. The festival celebrates Jazz and Kansas..

May 12, 2017

The Gift of Travel Keeps on Giving

You remember that feeling. The awe of seeing something you’ve never seen before. The thrill of trying something you’ve never done before. The joy of..

May 10, 2017

Good Neighbors and “The Realistic Joneses”

How well do you know your neighbors? When asked recently about the best thing they’d learned from talking to someone in their neighborhood, local actors..

April 28, 2017

Join Us at Boulevard Brewing, May 9 for GOAT

If you are a millennial – roughly 21 to 45 years of age — and like to travel, then have we got an event for..

Community News

March 21, 2017

New National World War I Museum and Memorial Outdoor Exhibition: Fields of Battle, Lands of Peace: The Doughboys 1917-1918 Opens March 31

Fields of Battle, Lands of Peace: The Doughboys 1917-1918 tells of the healed scars of the Great War through our only remaining living witness: the..

Community News

March 15, 2017

WWI Era French Children Artwork Debuts in National World War I Museum and Memorial Exhibition

When the Great War started in the summer of 1914, a school teacher in the Montmartre district of Paris asked his students, boys ages 8-13,..

Articles

March 10, 2017

Arts News: Calling All Sleuths!

Here’s the scenario: It was Miss Scarlet, with a candlestick in the library. Using these pieces of information — from the board game “Clue” —..

March 8, 2017

Springtime at the Conservatory

Springtime is always an exciting time of year, and the UMKC Conservatory of Music and Dance has a wealth of performances scheduled in our Conservatory..