Cultural shorts
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Discussions about the artistic impulse and creative drive, these interviews and features bring a local focus on the global art community of artists, authors and musicians.
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6M ago
Wichita's Haymakers have a new album, Live At Art Church, which was recorded live in Iowa. The band's Dustin Arbuckle and Tom Page recently spoke with KMUW's Jedd Beaudoin about the record ..read more
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Guitarist Greg Skaff's latest album, Polaris, finds the former Wichitan and longtime New York City resident accompanied by two of the greatest living jazz players: bassist Ron Carter and drummer Albert "Tootie" Heath ..read more
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The documentary "The Truffle Hunters" follows a small group of secretive old men in the Piedmont region of Italy, who've spent their lives digging up the rare, and exceedingly expensive, white truffle. The movie looks at their quiet, quirky lives as they deal with a changing economic and global climate, and revel in the companionship of their truffle-sniffing dogs ..read more
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The Wichita Orpheum Theatre reopens its doors this evening with a special performance from Wichita musician Jenny Wood ..read more
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Journalist Sian-Pierre Regis and his mother, Rebecca Danigelis, became something of a minor sensation in 2017 when word got out that, following Rebecca’s sudden firing from her decades-long hotel housekeeping job, Sian-Pierre came up with a novel way to help her cope: He asked her to create a bucket list of things she’d always wanted to do, but that her job had kept her from trying ..read more
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When Katie Jo Oberthaler interned at KMUW as a high school student, she says she never expected to end up on the air ..read more
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The Sundance Film Festival has helped launch some of the biggest names in filmmaking over the last three decades, including Quentin Tarantino, Steven Soderbergh, and Paul Thomas Anderson ..read more
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Self-Acceptance Speech, the new album from Old News, arrives Oct. 15 via We're Trying Records ..read more
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Oct. 9 sees the release of Forest Standards Vol.2, the new album from guitarist David Lord and his second collaboration with the BIG EGO label ..read more
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Matt Wilson's 2018 LP Honey and Salt: Music Inspired by the Poetry of Carl Sandburg earned the veteran musician a Musician of the Year from the Jazz Journalist Association while the LP itself was named Record of the Year ..read more