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Big 5 Champion: Leo Morton

Nick Haines welcomes Leo Morton, the Champion for the arts campus initiative, to The Local Show to discuss the progress on this Big 5 idea.

Last year the Greater Kansas City Chamber of Commerce released with great fanfare their 5 big ideas for moving the metro forward. They didn’t want to just talk about 5 ideas. They wanted to make 5 things happen that would make a difference in the metro.

After months of task forces and meetings and shrinking down its list from close to 200 big ideas, they decided to roll up their sleeves and propose relocating the UMKC Conservatory of Music and Dance to Downtown, develop a strategic plan to improve urban neighborhoods, make Kansas City a nationally recognized center for medical research, hold a world symposium on animal health, and transform Kansas City into “America’s Most Entrepreneurial City.”

Lots of groups come up with bold plans and ideas to improve the city, but do those noble visions just end up gathering dust on a shelf? On KCPT, we’re going to to track the Big 5 to see how these ideas progress.

In one area, momentum is already building. Over the holiday, UMKC was announcing plans to expand its concept of a new downtown arts campus. While initial reports were that UMKC was considering moving just its Conservatory of Music and Dance to a new site, possibly to the now vacant Lyric Theater, the university is now hiring firms to conduct a feasibility study into moving other arts programs such as the Kansas City Repertory Theater, KCUR Radio and the UMKC Theater program. This could potentially bring as many as a thousand students and faculty to a new arts campus downtown.

Nick Haines welcomes Leo Morton, the Champion for the arts campus initiative, to The Local Show to discuss the progress on this big idea.

Graphic giving thanks to Big 5 underwriters Burns & McDonnnell, UMB and Swope Community Enterprises

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Inside the Box: The Box Gallery

Randy Mason gives you a quick tour of the current exhibit at The Box Gallery which showcases the work of graduate students in the UMKC Theater Department.

It’s always fun to find the unexpected around our town. And The Box Gallery certainly qualifies. It’s a small space literally tucked inside the Commerce Bank Tower downtown at 10th and Walnut. They’ve had three shows already, and Randy Mason gives you a quick tour of the current exhibit, which showcases the work of graduate students in the UMKC Theater Department.

“Form Follows Function” will continue at the Box Gallery inside Commerce Bank at 10th and Walnut through February 24th.

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Kansas City’s History Detective: Candice Millard

Destiny of the Republic, which tells the tale of the madness and murder of President James Garfield, started the year in the number 15 spot on the New York Times nonfiction list. Randy Mason caught up with Candice Millard.

Kansas City authors with a national reach are just the kind of thing that we love to showcase on The Local Show. This week, meet Candice Millard, a Leawood based author whose new book about the life and death of one America’s least known Presidents has remarkably propelled her to the New York Times bestseller list. Destiny of the Republic, which tells the tale of the madness and murder of President James Garfield, started the year in the number 15 spot on the New York Times nonfiction list.

Candice Millard is a former writer and editor for National Geographic magazine. Her first book, The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt’s Darkest Journey, was a New York Times bestseller and was named one of the best books of the year by, among others, the New York Times, Washington Post, San Francisco Chronicle, Christian Science Monitor, and Kansas City Star. The River of Doubt was a Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers selection and a Book Sense Pick, was a finalist for the Quill Awards, and won the William Rockhill Nelson Award. It has been printed in Portugese, Mandarin, and Korean, as well as a British edition. Millard’s work has also appeared in Time Magazine, Washington Post Book World, and the New York Times Book Review. Millard’s second book, The Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine & the Murder of a President, rose to number five on The New York Times bestseller list and has been named a best book of the year by, among others, The New York Times, Washington Post, Kirkus Reviews, The Kansas City Star, Amazon, and Barnes & Noble. Millard lives in Kansas City with her husband and three children.

Here is a brief look at Destiny of the Republic:

Who’s the metro area author making this big splash? Randy Mason caught up with her.

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Fifty Years of KCPT: What Does KCPT Mean to You?

What does KCPT mean to you? To celebrate KCPT's 50th Birthday, we have asked viewers to share what KCPT means to them.

You may not be aware of it, but KCPT is 50 years old. The official birthday year began last spring. You could be forgiven for not knowing. Perhaps because of the poor economy and so many other things going on, we haven’t been making a big splash of it. Some of our pledge drives featured a 50th anniversary t-shirt. Certainly we didn’t do any birthday cakes or parties. You may have seen a couple of spots on the air that mentioned our history, but that’s been about it.

At the end of last year here on The Local Show, in the spirit of turning 50, we invited 50 viewers to tell us what KCPT means to them. After all, this station is about you. Starting today and over the next couple of weeks, you’ll see what people had to say and we invite you to join them.

What does KCPT mean to you? Can you tell us in five words or less on a sign or in some other creative way? Send a link to your video or email us a photo to The Local Show website. We’ll show you more of these on next week’s program.

Here is a look back to 1961…

For more glimpses into the past of KCPT, click here.

You can email images and video clips to thelocalshow@kcpt.org or share them with us on Facebook or Twitter.

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