Ladies and gentlemen, the weekend.
🎉 13 things to do this weekend
🐰 The Rabbit hOle to host the Lucky Rabbit Literature Festival
🏠 House Hunch
📲 This week’s most-clicked stories
Events
Weekend Roundup
Ethnic Enrichment Festival
Happy Friday! Here are 13 things to do around town this weekend:
All Weekend Long
🐦⬛ The Pigeon Comes to Kansas City - Laugh, play, and explore at The Pigeon Comes to Kansas City: A Mo Willems Exhibit, FREE at Crown Center!*
🏠 Artisan Home Tour - It’s the final weekend of the 2026 Artisan Home Tour, which showcases 20+ of KC's finest custom-built luxury homes open for tours across the metro.
🌍 47th Annual Ethnic Enrichment Festival - Kansas City's flagship celebration of global diversity returns to Swope Park all weekend. 60+ ethnic communities share authentic food, folk dance, music, costume, and craft.
⛳ AdventHealth Championship - KC's only PGA TOUR-sanctioned event on the Korn Ferry Tour takes over Blue Hills Country Club, with 156 golfers competing for $1,000,000 and a ticket to the PGA TOUR.
🎭 Jesus Christ Superstar - It’s the opening weekend of the groundbreaking rock opera at Music Theater Heritage at Crown Center! On stage through September 13th, with three shows this weekend.
🎡 Parkville Days - English Landing Park hosts live music, the Evans Midland Empire Carnival, a parade Saturday morning, helicopter rides over the Missouri River, arts & crafts, and food vendors lining Main Street.
🎭 Bluey's Big Play - The beloved Heeler family from down under comes to life with impressive puppetry in this official stage show of the hit animated series. Five performances throughout the weekend at the Muriel Kauffman Theatre.
Friday
🎶 KC Symphony: European Tour Send-Off Concert - Send the Symphony off to Europe in style, as they perform the program they'll take to Europe's top concert halls. The performance includes Copland's Appalachian Spring Suite and Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto, featuring Blake Pouliot.
⚾️ Royals vs. Tigers - The Royals host the Detroit Tigers at Kauffman Stadium at 7:10pm, with the first 10,000 fans receiving a City Connect Crossbody Giveaway Bag, a postgame concert from TobyMac, and Fireworks Friday!
Saturday
🌭 Hot Dog Festival - The Negro Leagues Baseball Museum’s annual celebration of baseball's favorite food returns to the National WWI Museum and Memorial with live performances, ballpark foods, food trucks, and drinks from 3–11pm. All proceeds benefit the NLBM.
🍷 Uncorked: KC Wine Festival - Hundreds of wines, bubblies, and cocktails from across the globe at Union Station, along with DJs spinning all night, a photo booth, food trucks, and exclusive VIP access to Science City.
⚽️ Current vs. Reign - The Current welcome Seattle Reign FC to CPKC Stadium for Teal Out Night, with kickoff at 5:30pm.
Sunday
🏃 Head for the Cure 5K - KC’s largest charitable 5K returns to Corporate Woods in Overland Park with thousands of participants raising funds for brain tumor research at KU Cancer Center, Children's Mercy, and more. Race starts at 8am.
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Events
Lucky Rabbit Literature Festival is Coming to The Rabbit hOle This Fall
KC Daily
The Lucky Rabbit Literature Festival brings an all-star lineup of children's book authors, illustrators, cartoonists, and editors to Kansas City for a multi-day celebration, October 1-3.
Brains Behind the Books: The multi-day festival features creators who have earned some of the highest honors in children's literature: the Caldecott Medal, Newbery Honor, Eisner Award, Theodor Seuss Geisel Award, and more. A free meet-and-greet with all the presenters is scheduled for Friday (10/2) at 4:30pm; RSVPs are encouraged.
Kids and Adults: The weekend kicks off with a ticketed dinner and opening reception at Green Dirt on Oak on Thursday night. Friday is Kids’ Day at The Rabbit hOle with a book signing, and Saturday is Adult Conference Day at the National WWI Museum & Memorial.
All proceeds support the museum’s mission to strengthen the culture of reading. Find everything you need to know about the festival HERE.
Real Estate
House Hunch 🏠
Listing by Betsy O’Brien - Compass Realty Group
Can you guess the price of this Kansas City area home based on just one photo?
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This Week’s Top Stories 📲
A Lloch Lloyd custom home from Helm Construction has one of the coolest backyards we’ve seen in KC. The 11,000-square-foot home is on this year’s Artisan Home Tour.
Applications have been submitted for a massive redevelopment of Overland Park’s Corporate Woods. See the renderings.
Sugar Hollow Crossing, a historic winery and event space, celebrates its grand opening this Saturday from 3-7 with complimentary pizza and drinks for purchase!
The New York Times released its list of 41 of the Greatest Mexican Restaurants in the U.S., and KCK’s El Pollo Rey made the list!
The Vine Boutique Collective, a multi-vendor boutique marketplace, is coming soon to the former Rock & Brews space in Overland Park’s Prariefire.
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