Live Venues Shuttered by Pandemic Could Start Getting Grants
Live Venues Shuttered by Pandemic Could Start Getting Grants
$16 Billion in the balance Share this story Published 1 hour ago Above image credit: Wick and The Tricks at Lemonad(e) Park (Courtesy | Todd Zimmer)
On a Friday night in Kansas City’s West Bottoms, comfortably distanced members of the crowd at Lemonad(e) Park tapped their toes and took in an evening of in-person live music.
Then, the skies opened up.
The night’s headliner, a local group called True Lions, didn’t even hit the stage. But if you asked a member of the medium-sized crowd shuffling to the exit in the downpour, they likely would have been happy to have seen any live music at all.
9 Kansas City Residents Share What Being Asian Means to Them
9 Kansas City Residents Share What Being Asian Means to Them
Community, solidarity and joy are at the forefront Published 1 hour ago
The past year of pandemic and rising racial tension has shaken many to their core. For Asians, Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders in Kansas City, this year has been particularly challenging.
AAPI residents make up 3% of the population in the Kansas City metropolitan area and 12% of the Midwest, according to Census Reporter and the Pew Research Center. What’s not seen in the data are the multifaceted ways in which they have helped shape the U.S. historically and culturally. Between the years 2000 and 2019, the Asian population nationwide more than doubled.
Faith writer Bill Tammeus ponders the “Auschwitz: Not Long Ago, Not Far Away” exhibit that opens June 14 at Union Station, sponsored by the Midwest Center for Holocaust Education and Union Station.