The Local Show Podcast: Recent Episodes
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The Local Show is designed to highlight artists and entrepreneurs, leaders and overachievers from all walks of life – and in the process, help Kansas Citians discover substantially more about this place we call home.
This week on The Local Show, we take a look at the performance many people missed at the grand opening of the Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts. We attend a Mental Health First Aid class at the Bert Nash Center. We see an excerpt from the documentary Voces del Pasado. We speak with . . . → Read More: KCPT The Local Show – October 6, 2011
In October, Thomas Hoenig retires after working twenty years for the Federal Reserve Bank. Crosby Kemper III sits down with Hoenig in an on location, special edition of The Local Show to get a unique perspective on the banking industry and the current economic struggles.
Thomas M. Hoenig is president and chief executive officer . . . → Read More: The Money Man: The Federal Reserve Bank’s Thomas Hoenig
Janet Williams, founder of communityworks, inc., shares her experiences working with traumatic brain injury sufferers, The Local Show highlights how the blind and visually impaired can now experience The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art on a guided, tactile tour, concert promoter Chris Fritz talks about the many years of planning and organizing which culminates this . . . → Read More: The Local Show – August 4, 2011
Cynthia Wheeler-Linden sits down with Art Fillmore to discuss his role in local veteran’s causes. Randy Mason welcomes Michael Stern to The Local Show to discuss this year’s Celebration at the Station, the new Kauffman Performing Arts Center and what’s in store for the Kansas City Symphony. We present a look at last year’s . . . → Read More: The Local Show: Art Fillmore, Michael Stern, Symphony in the Flint Hills & Local Biz Kid
KCPT marks the 50th anniversary of the Freedom Rides with a landmark documentary that retells their story. Monday night, May 16 at 8 p.m. on KCPT, veteran filmmaker Stanley Nelson presents the Freedom Riders, the first feature length film about this courageous band of citizens.
Recently, KCPT gathered almost two hundred people at Kansas . . . → Read More: The Local Show: Freedom Riders, Samaritan’s Shoes & a Roxy Paine update
The Greater Kansas City Chamber of Commerce President and CEO, Jim Heeter, and the Kansas City Area Development Council President and CEO, Bob Marcusse, sit down with Nick Haines to discuss the efforts being made to market Kansas City to other parts of the country to attract business and conventions to the metro. KCPT . . . → Read More: The Local Show: Jim Heeter & Bob Marcusse, Danny O’Neill in Costa Rica, & 12th Street Jump
If you’re not familiar with George Caleb Bingham, his work Order Number 11 is considered one of Missouri’s most famous paintings. Valued in the millions of dollars, it depicts the Civil War-era plundering of a porticoed Missouri mansion. KCPT’s cameras were there when it was taken from its permanent home at the University of . . . → Read More: The Local Show – April 14, 2011
Play Ball! March 31 marks another Opening Day at the K. To mark the occasion, The Local Show presents this “Crown Minute” which takes a look at how the Kansas City Royal’s logo, a crown atop a shield with the letters “KC” inside the shield, was created.
George Guastello was named President and Chief . . . → Read More: The Local Show – Royals Logo, Union Station, Rainy Day Books, Turning Point
Actress Cinnamon Schultz has been featured in dozens of local theatre productions on just about every stage in town as well as appearances on film and television.
This week, Randy Mason welcomes her to The Local Show to discuss her recent role in the Oscar nominated film, Winter’s Bone. In the movie, she plays . . . → Read More: Actress Cinnamon Schultz, The WWI Museum, Steamboat Arabia, Barbershop Quartet
Christopher Elbow landed his first cooking job at the Lincoln Country Club in 1992, while attending the University of Nebraska. After graduating in ’96 with a Bachelor of Science degree in Restaurant and Business Administration, he returned to Kansas City to head up Shiraz Restaurant.
Three years later Christopher landed in Las Vegas to . . . → Read More: Christopher Elbow, Nicodemus, KS, Bob Peterson of the American Royal, Ramsey Mohsen