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Italian Heritage Day: Kansas City Royals vs Toronto Blue Jays
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Celebrate your Italian roots with us on Sunday, September 21 when the Royals take on the Toronto Blue Jays. This year, we’ve created a special Italian Heritage Sluggerrr Bobblehead. Just purchase a theme ticket to the game to get your bobblehead!
Lobster Fridays
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Come out and enjoy our Friday Lobster Specials!
Try our brown-butter lobster roll topped with champagne butter and chives, served with our house made coleslaw and a mini side of our belgian fries, or our delicious mac and cheese topped with lobster! Gluten Free options available for an additional $2. Special available all day until sold out!
Shelf Life: A Big Read Storytelling Event
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As part of Big Read 2025, a free, city-wide reading and public engagement initiative of the National Endowment for the Arts, a popular show-and-tell storytelling event hosted by writer and director David Wayne Reed returns with a focus on soma, or the body, exploring how we live in our bodies, how we relate to our physical selves, and how our bodies carry us through the world.
Throughout its five-year run, the stories at each event were sparked by an object and followed a theme, such as winning, time, and unwanted gifts.
Built on Bread and Beef: The West Bottoms and Kansas City’s Culinary Heritage
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From its inception, Kansas City has been intricately tied to provisioning, hospitality, and good food – first as an outfitter for pioneers heading west, and later as a provider of meat and wheat for large swaths of the United States The West Bottoms has played a major role in the city’s legacy as the nation’s hospitality crossroads.
Sheltering the Unsheltered
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The most innovative public policies are often created at the local level, rather than in the courts. This is especially true when it comes to finding a way to shelter a city’s unhoused population.
As part of the Making a Great City series, Mandy Chapman Semple talks about designing and co-managing the transformation of Houston, Texas’s homeless system, which resulted in a 60 percent reduction in homelessness over four years. She discusses the project and a similarly successful effort in New Orleans, explaining how and why they worked.
Yappy Hour
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Dog owners and dog lovers join us for a fun happy hour as Shawnee Town turns into an Off–Leash Dog Park for the night!
Pups will get to run and play in our fully-fenced 1920s downtown square while humans can enjoy the live music and atmosphere Thursday, April 10 from 5:30 pm to 7:30 pm. Our partners Transport Brewery and Scotty C’s will also have drinks and gourmet hot dogs for purchase! Dog-friendly water fountain and splash pools (weather permitting) included.
Ångström Brass Concert
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Ångström Brass returns to Rainbow Mennonite Church for a one-hour concert. The program will feature Ångström's signature blend of music that is both approachable for the first-time concertgoer and satisfying for the seasoned connoisseur.
J.S. Bach and Company--Baroque Consortium
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Composer and musician Johann Sebastian Bach’s circle of friends and family included some of the most influential voices of the German Baroque era.
The Kansas City Baroque Consortium offers a free Mother’s Day concert, exploring the music of J.S. Bach and his world – from his early sojourn to visit the great composer and organist Dietrich Buxtehude, to his friendships with composers Telemann, Hasse, and Abel, as well as the influence of his composer-sons.
Restorative Yoga
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Join us at Surya Yoga for Restorative Yoga—a gentle, deeply relaxing class designed to calm your nervous system, release tension, and replenish your energy.
Perfect for all levels, this practice uses props and long-held poses to support your body as you fully unwind. Whether you're feeling stressed, overwhelmed, or simply craving stillness, this is your invitation to come home to yourself.
🧘♀️ When: 2nd Sunday of every month
📍 Where: Surya Yoga, Olathe, KS
💛 Bring: Yourself and a mat. We’ll provide everything else.
The Survivor Wants to Die at the End
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For Adam Silvera, writing books provides a way to create a safe space he wishes he’d had as a gay teen growing up in the South Bronx. His latest young adult novel, The Survivor Wants to Die at the End, is his most personal work to date.
The third installment in Silvera’s They Both Die at the End series revisits a world featuring Death-Cast, a service that notifies people on the day they are going to die. The story follows two young men, one of whom is the conflicted heir to the Death-Cast fortune, brought together by chance.