Kansas City’s filmmaking heyday was in the ’90s, and it looks like a sequel might be in the works. We sat down with five local movie-making veterans and asked them what it was like.

Kansas City was Hollywood’s new production sweetheart in the 1990s. Local producer Patti Broyles (né Watkins), who had moved to Los Angeles from Kansas City to work on feature films, got a call from then-mayor Emanuel Cleaver’s office to come home and set up a film commission office. It was 1994. “I flew back and… Continue reading Kansas City’s filmmaking heyday was in the ’90s, and it looks like a sequel might be in the works. We sat down with five local movie-making veterans and asked them what it was like.

A Cocktail With Heart

Photography by Elements Studio.

Kansas City’s Parade of Hearts has once again transformed the metro into an open-air art gallery, and Loews Kansas City Hotel is raising a glass to the celebration with a cocktail inspired by one of this year’s most eye-catching installations. Greeting visitors in the hotel’s front drive is “There’s No Place Like Chrome,” a monumental… Continue reading A Cocktail With Heart