THE TKC SATURDAY NIGHT PLAYLIST!!! PLAZA ART FAIR 2018: CRIME THREATENS KANSAS CITY CREATIVE CLASS!!!
Tonight we offer a quick update from Kansas City's favorite fall artsy event.
The Plaza was packed with middle-class denizens who pretended to look at art when, in fact, people watching and foodie goodness was the order of the night.
Quick observations . . .
What's up with women in floppy hats looking like Scarecrow???
Guys continue to smoke cigars in public but don't seemed to have accomplished anything important.
Dogs in crowds are never as cute as their owners think.
But most importantly . . .
Check this example of a local artist hit by crime amid thousands of bystanders . . .
The teaching moment in this instance of felony art theft . . .
More than anything, the creative class are vulnerable to higher crime and even in the midst of a mostly safe event . . . Creatives put themselves out there and risk a lot to make KCMO a somewhat nicer place.
Nevermind all of the minor car break-ins and mobile phone theft that marks pretty much any plaza gathering.
And all of this inspires our artsy playlist tonight . . .
As always, thanks for reading this week and have a safe and fun Saturday night.
Art is in the eye of the beholder, I'm sure that was priced at thousands but in reality, when factoring materials. We're talking about maybe a $20 theft.
ReplyDeleteToo many damn hipsters at the freaking artsfest I mean it's not people who are really into art just seen stairs it's worse than tkc is making out. Like a damn nightclub. It used to be that you could talk to the artist and find out important details like the materials they used or some of their influences. Now it's just a drunk Festival of clowns trying to act important for each other. Funny about the floppy hats though I noticed that too
DeleteHoly crap you guys are negative. I have never seen people complain so much about everything under the sun or under the moon my gosh lighten up it's Saturday night hopefully you weren't working and can relax just a little bit. But from what I've seen this blog and its readers provide negativity about my city night and day. That's a damn shame because Kansas City is actually a very great place.
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Delete10:09 = Gopher’s Lover
Deletewhy no damn bathrooms for this festival. bad planning throughout.
ReplyDeleteIf you mix alcohol with anything else all you end up with is alcohol.
ReplyDeleteHave a beer fest, or an art fest, but you can't have both at the same time.
Your real problem is that you haven't figured out how to have a public event, on public streets, without the public.
"Too many damn hipsters..." What would you do? Ban them? Isn't the problem too many people who hate hipsters, punks, blacks, browns, whites, the rich, the poor, the middle class, the old, the young, Republicans, Democrats?
The only events that have any success are the ones that limit, not by covenant but interest, the number of tribes that attend.
You're trying to have a community event when you aren't a community, just a bunch of tribes who don't like each other.
^^^^^ this is 1000% correct. It has been a long time since I've seen such a collection of stupid as tonight. It was on par with the damn Chiefs game. Big collection of stupid out there and I think that alcohol is the only real excuse for what's going on. Really need to think about public Festival licensing and enforcing halfway decent conduct. Kansas City really needs to show some class.
DeleteGreat event for watching people and picking up a hot young slut. There is cunt everywhere down there.
ReplyDeleteCrime isn’t ruining the art fair, colored people are
ReplyDeleteSaw many drunk women tripping and falling over , several drunk pozer guys puking after trying to smoke some shitty cheap cigars that smelled like burning cow shit ( most likely from the HOMO TRANNY BITCHES hang out Diebels queers hangout ) , quite a few inner city youth scholar's scouting out potential targets , never felt safe , never GUNNA to this cluster ever again !
ReplyDeleteI would like to see the art fair start charging admission. That would very quickly distinguish those that really want to see the fair from those that are like (drunk) moths around any flame. The money raised could be donated to art-centered causes in the city. To accommodate people that couldn’t afford the admission, have free admission during a specific time frame on Sat/Sun mornings.
ReplyDeleteTotally CORRECT information from the above two posts , saw TOO much wasted people THERE that want wacked off to choke and puke From spoiled food , shitty cheap cigars , too MUCH booze overpriced junk and too many metrosexual TRANNY BITCHES !¡!¡
ReplyDeletewhere's the floppy hat
ReplyDeleteThe lawless Killa city will always bring sorrow.
ReplyDeleteJust be glad it wasn't a trigger-happy cop shooting you in the back.
ha, u understand nothing
ReplyDeleteMore streetcar will solve all of these problems!
ReplyDeleteHairy palms???? Now dat shit was funny!
ReplyDeleteMy hatred of others is a projection of my deep hatred of myself. When I see others having fun I lose my freakin mind because I haven't had fun since the 5th grade. I hope for armageddon every day and that everyone, including myself, dies a painful death.
ReplyDeleteIf being stumbling drunk is your idea of “fun,” the art fair is probably not your best hangout.
DeleteI think the problem is the new plaza owners they are mall people and have lowered the class of people the plaza is attracting
ReplyDeleteThat’s for sure. We drove through the Plaza a few weekends ago and there was trash, black and white, EVERYWHERE. Tattoos, muffin tops, mullets and dreadlocks galore. No wonder the upper end retailers are closing down shop.
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ReplyDeleteIt's just another cheap, low rent and noisy carnival now.
I want to make a Jane Goodall documentary of the plaza and call it “running of the chimps in the concrete jungle”. It’s about the annual seasonal migration to the plaza of the primate. Showing their group tactics of howling, hollering, and running through knocking things over and showing aggressive behavior.
ReplyDelete9:12 haha, I get it bc they're monkeys and you're descended from what exactly? Aliens, a rib, "God"? Do a self check next time you get on your high horse, retard.
ReplyDelete"Guys continue to smoke cigars in public but don't seemed to have accomplished anything important."
ReplyDeleteTony, you don't smoke cigars.
@ 6:06 am, I feel sorry for your public embarrassment!
ReplyDeleteIt mush be hell to try to post something as sarcasm, only to re-read it and discover to your horror you've written down the truth about yourself just after you've hit the "publish" key.
Look at the hysterical responses to a blog post about a piece of art stolen...
ReplyDeleteGeezer hater just might be on to something.
Stolen piece of art = "Killa City!"
Maybe some actually do need a diaper change.