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Arts reporter at KCUR 89.3FM

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Julie Denesha handle.invalid · Aug 30, 2025
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A new Kansas City monument tells how ‘Wyandot women warriors’ defended a tribal burial ground

A new art installation at the Wyandotte County Museum commemorates three Native American sisters who barricaded themselves in a tribal burial ground in what is now downtown Kansas City, Kansas. “Tresp...

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Julie Denesha handle.invalid · Aug 10, 2025
Former Kansas City Star photographer Raymond Corey captured behind-the-scenes images and everyday rural life in the Midwest for decades. A new exhibition of his work highlights 50,000 negatives donated to the State Historical Society of Missouri by his family. www.kcur.org/history/2025...
Thousands of Kansas City images from the tumultuous 1960s and '70s find a new home

Former Kansas City Star photographer Raymond Corey captured behind-the-scenes images and everyday rural life in the Midwest for decades. A new exhibition of his work highlights 50,000 negatives donate...

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Julie Denesha handle.invalid · Jul 14, 2025
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Kansas City is building a skate park under the Buck O'Neil Bridge, and looking for new art to include

Local artists can have a hand in creating public art to accompany a planned skate park between River Market and the West Bottoms. Riders in the area hope the site becomes a hub for the local skateboar...

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Julie Denesha handle.invalid · Jul 8, 2025
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Immigration crackdown hurts small businesses in Kansas dependent on migrant customers

Mom-and-pop stores in Kansas City catering to recent immigrants are facing a sharp downturn, with sales falling since Trump took office. Owners say customers are scared and holding onto their cash.

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Julie Denesha handle.invalid · Jul 8, 2025
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Kansas City jazz singer Erin Keller dies at 44 after a long battle with cancer

The multi-genre vocalist and musician was known for her expansive vocal range, and was a longtime presence in the Kansas City music scene. Keller performed with the Grammy Award-winning Kansas City Ch...

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Julie Denesha handle.invalid · Jul 3, 2025
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A Lee’s Summit artist illustrated his daily life for the last 45 years. See what he drew

Professional artist and sign maker Dave Eames says diligent journaling has helped him download and remember important moments, cringeworthy mishaps and the mundanity of life. His work has garnered mil...

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Julie Denesha handle.invalid · May 25, 2025
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A Kansas City historian collected Vietnam War stories. Trump's cuts almost canceled the project

When President Trump made deep cuts to the National Endowment for the Humanities earlier this year, grants were cancelled and programs across the country were suspended. In Kansas City, one oral histo...

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Julie Denesha handle.invalid · May 17, 2025
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Kansas City music stores feel 'paralyzed' as Trump's tariffs threaten instruments

Buying a new band or orchestra instrument could get a lot more expensive. Kansas City business owners who import musical instruments have been hit hard by on-again, off-again tariffs with Europe and C...

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Julie Denesha handle.invalid · May 3, 2025
“I don't have an exact number, but I'm somewhere between 150,000 and 200,000 different items that I've been collecting since the beginning,” Collector Duncan Jenkins says. www.kcur.org/arts-life/20...
Kansas City is home to one of the most complete 'Star Wars' collections in the galaxy

Die-hard "Star Wars" fans celebrate the fourth day of May this weekend, while the National Museum of Toys and Miniatures highlights action figures from the famous movies. For one super-fan, it's a cha...

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KCUR (Kansas City's best news source) kcur.org · Apr 18, 2025
Several U.S. regional climate centers shut down Thursday — including those in the Midwest, Great Plains and South — after their federal funding from NOAA ran out. Here's why you should care:
Regional Climate Centers shut down abruptly this week. Here's why it matters

The closure of four of the six Regional Climate Centers across the U.S. occurred after funding from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration ran out. A recent report stated that the Trump a...

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Julie Denesha handle.invalid · Apr 11, 2025
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Birger Sandzén was the ‘Van Gogh of the Plains.’ His art revealed the beauty of Kansas

The Swedish painter shaped how the rest of the world viewed the hills and streams of Kansas, and the mountains of Colorado. The largest collection of his paintings, prints, and drawings is in the smal...

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I remember it being unpleasant & a lot less fudge-y.

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Julie Denesha handle.invalid · Mar 13, 2025
“We want a museum that is more transparent, a museum that feels more welcoming, a museum that you can make it your own,” director and CEO Julián Zugazagoitia said about his hopes for the project. “It has to be both respectful and at the same time innovative.” bit.ly/3DuYbIm
Kansas City gets first look at 6 competing visions for the future of Nelson-Atkins art museum

The six architecture firms competing to reimagine Kansas City’s premier museum had three months to dream up plans that will remake its Midtown campus. A new exhibit unveils the designs and will give t...

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Julie Denesha handle.invalid · Mar 7, 2025
Ray Elder has been on a mission to update and register the deaths of firefighters who died in the line of duty. His goal is to make sure every single person who perished in the department's 157-year history is honored on the city’s stately memorial to fallen firefighters. bit.ly/43rhi0b
A retired Kansas City fire captain wants to ensure every fallen firefighter is remembered

The Kansas City Fire Department has responded to all kinds of emergencies since 1868, but some firefighters who died doing this dangerous work have been forgotten. Ray Elder is making certain all of t...

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Julie Denesha handle.invalid · Feb 15, 2025
“I think theater is one of those last bastions of the potential for strangers to come together, have a shared experience,” Actor Melvin Abston says. “They're all sitting in the dark next to each other, feeling things.” www.kcur.org/arts-life/20...
2 years after Kansas City playwright’s death, KC Rep revives his hometown tribute

Nathan Louis Jackson’s untimely death at the age of 44 left a void in Kansas City theater. A new Kansas City Repertory Theatre production of his play “Broke-ology” could prove the writer's power to in...

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Julie Denesha handle.invalid · Jan 24, 2025
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This rare bookshop in Kansas quietly preserves the state’s ‘firsthand history’

Watermark West Rare Bookstore has overcome challenges for 40 years, including the internet upending the book business and a drop in rare book collecting. Owner Philip McComish doesn't know what the fu...

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Julie Denesha handle.invalid · Jan 23, 2025
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A giant butt appeared on the Nelson-Atkins' snowy lawn. This cheeky artist is behind it

The huge new snow sculpture can be seen on the south lawn of the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, not far from the museum’s iconic “Shuttlecocks.” It’s the latest cold collaboration from former Kansas Cit...

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Julie Denesha handle.invalid · Jan 23, 2025
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7 Kansas City area restaurants and bars were named James Beard Award semifinalists

Many of Kansas City's best-regarded culinary luminaries are represented in the nominations, including The Town Company and Chewology. But the list also includes some restaurants off the beaten path.

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Julie Denesha handle.invalid · Dec 14, 2024
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If Scrooge came to Kansas City, it might look like the Unicorn Theatre's campy 'Christmas Carol'

"Ebenezer Scrooge’s Big KC MO Christmas Show” imagines that Scrooge left London and moved to Kansas City to seek his fortune. It’s a new spin on Charles Dickens’ classic Christmas tale of redemption.

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Julie Denesha handle.invalid · Dec 14, 2024
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Nelson-Atkins narrows museum expansion design to 6 finalists. Here’s what to know

Kansas City's crown-jewel museum launched in October a global competition to find an architectural firm for a $160 million expansion that would transform its Midtown campus. This week, museum visitors...

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